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Thanks to Nova Scotia. I do not mean to hijack Aldo's fine thread of his superb collection, but let me remind all of you to pause, and to honor the memory of my dear friend, Bob Coleman,
whose...

Thanks for the kind thought. The persons who act out on line would never breathe a peep to me
if they met me in person, of that you can be certain. But there is no accounting for manners and...

Closed eyes or open is the question. Sadly, many "collectors'" eyes are as closed as are their minds.....12512021251203

hoard, or horde.....

Very nice. At least you did not blow USD 1600 on a zinc Overhoff badge. That is pretty silly, it seems to me, but then I always overspend.

The pleasure of this thing is to watch people build their collections. The others use this medium to stultify and intimidate people like Aldo. Our goal is to enhance the
capacity of collectors to...

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They are not plentiful. Think of how big the SS was in the period where the RZM instituted the first regime of marking and the phase out of the badge.
You tell me. Not a very long time, ergo, this...

Well done. That is the most desirable one, in my view.

Which is a lot, and bravo. The unknown unknowns with all of this are pretty staggering. The digital thing means that the same thing is repeated
a thousand or ten thousand times, and the fact of its...

and, of course, I cannot swallow the group think statements about what is rare and what is common, and what is desirable and what is below the salt.
These things are subjective. I am very taken with...

Well done. By breaking from the pack and the dogma, you have something of merit of which you can rightly be proud and content.
The online peanut gallery allows no one any contentment.

My image is the 1942 SS clothing works price list.

The little buggers had an inventory or article number and a pretty generic description, if that.....

And I have no idea how many vendors made the Danzig badge, where, how and when....?

Do you?...

I also am unaware of a classification for these prior to 1945, other than Danzig or Hussar skull.
The contemporary collector baby talk labels for these are preposterous.
Why do I write this? ...

Use, indeed. Happy dead heads. For a fraction of the price of these Deschler spectaculars, you can have a real collection. Very sound choice, indeed.120336212033631203364

My friend, my aid to you, such as it is, rests on the condition that you refrain from cute names in my company.

There is nothing cute, really, about any of it.

My collages have the point to...

It is a pity he does not post, he had a good sense of humor over and beyond his great knowledge. And he writes well, too.

1195433 Lumsden's menagerie of "sculls," an image from long, long ago.

My Germans understood how to take these things and make them into pieces of metal in a very compelling manner, maybe because their story was so filled
with dreams and delusions. Now other countries,...

Dreams, nightmares, hopes, fears, and.........delusions!11953151195316119531711953181195319119532011953211195322119532311953241195325

I am glad. Good luck. Telesmanich does the world a great favor with his on line archive, as does Whammond.

That is, we know about Steinhauer und Lueck, but who, what and where else....?

And what of the firms in the Prussian cosmos that were or were not in the vicinity of the garrison and so on?

Or...

And God only knows who made these, when, how, where and so on....but they have their poetry. Just as much for me, truth be told, than the kind of sorry assed

one of the late war made out of the...

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a noble ambition and very commendable.118848911884901188491118849211884931188494