Featured Finds Thread

I LOVE that Sterling silver Book of Common Prayer Davey!!!! You're getting a GREAT HAUL from this clean out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

My (British!)uncle's brother was captured by the Jap's, even a Chinese restaurant was a "no go zone" to him....

 

Where I worked for 10 years there were two guys in the cutting room with tattoos on their arms....& they didn't get them because they were ' toughs ' !!

The company sent me to Germany to learn at a weaving mill that had been stolen from the owners by the Nazis.
The manager placed there by the Germans eventually bought the mill after the war...and in time payed off the owners whom he kept in touch with after the war , as they had fled to other countries.
The displaced Jewish owners, & the Manager became life long friends !

When I was living in Germany, and met older folks, I always wondered....where were you...what did you do.....but after a few beers I stayed focused on the here and now !

 

Yeah! The idea crossed my mind on different occasions too!
But you better "don't mention the war"! (cfr Basil!)

 

Beautiful jewelry, Marko!

 

My dad was in the merchant navy, on oil tankers on the N. Atlantic run. His ship went down and he inhaled a lot of oil and burnt his arm. He was picked up by a passing American ship. Not many people realised that when an oil tanker went down, no other ship could stop to pick up survivors. They had to keep steaming to the UK wth their precious cargo of oil. He died in 1948, shortly after I was born with lung disease caused by the oil on his lungs. Many times I was asked what my father did in the war and when I replied "he was in the merchant navy" people would often reply "so he did nothing" including my father in law who spent a cushy war in Canada in the RAF as a technician. Quite recently I was asked the same question and the questioner, when answered, said "that sevice does'nt count" That attitude still makes me angry.

 

How strange. I was an Anderson. My grandparents were Swedish. My sisters brother in law was on the ship carrying the Russian gold that went down. He was quite young. He said that was the day he stopped believing in god. He had to listen to his young fellow seaman dying. He said none of them shouted to god, but shouted for their mothers.Very very sad story. He was awarded a medal by the Russians,sometime in the 70's I believe, but it was stolen in a robbery from my nephews house when he was burgled.

 

I remember you speaking of that.

 

@daveydempsey, did you get to work out that these are the markings on that NEAT SS Book?? Other than the initials, I see an anchor, an animal (lion?) facing left and what looks like a "g"........

 

Something like that happened to me too.
I got a Junker Ju 87E Stuka bomber made by Dinky toys.
My grandfather who lived with us, who did both wars, took it of my hands and made it fly one last time ....against the wall! I was 8 or 9 and couldn't understand ....

 

Hi Marko,
Really nice jewelry find. Also wanted to say I LOVE your new avatar!!! She looks like my favorite oil portrait of Mrs. Robert Taylor. I had that painting for 15 years until I found the family that it belonged to. It was stolen 10 years before I found it in a flea market. The family was nice in that they gave me a tidy sum for it's recovery. I kinda wished that it was still mine.
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Just spent 1/2 hr learning about "Exercise Tiger."
Yikes.

 

maybe Green & Cadbury http://www.chineseargent.com/home/birmingham-g-1

 

My father joined the Royal Navy at the age of 15yrs, he served during WW2 also. He was on the HMS Ardent and then transfered to another ship .. the Ardent went down shortly thereafter with a tremendous loss of lives. My father said the same thing .. men cried for their Mothers. I went to school in 1947 and we were inundated with war news, we watched old film on huge reels and cheered loudly when a German ship was sunk .. it was quite alright with the teachers that we did so too !. My father NEVER had a kind word to say regarding the enemy .. he died at the age of 91 yrs old and rarely spoke about the war years. Life goes on but one must never forget the past and the tremendous loss of lives .. heartbreaking. ... Joy.

 

My Dad was a sapper, & I was told spent the war years here up in Petawawa, and other than dropping a large outboard engine in the middle of a northern lake, he never talked about his service.
Still....he was my hero !!

 

I was looking for info on the AEI pin. Didn't find any info but I found this pin for sale.

Mine was $75 worth of scrap 14K so I bought this one for 16. Turns out it's on a base metal back.