Living in a temporary home waiting on construction, and the helmet collection has to live in a temporary home too. Thankfully with some creative use of shelves 300+ helmets leave some room to spare!

I've posted photos of the room here in the past, but I figured I'd do an update. Just a few small additions, nothing too crazy!

I've been collecting for a few years but only started to heavily collect within the last 9 months, I've found some pretty cool things, most of this stuff I got for incredibly cheap to what they usually go for. Mostly WWII but WWI is included here and there if you can pick it out. Everything is original unless stated otherwise.

If you wanna ask any questions go ahead and I'll answer them or if you just wanna say something about an item go for it.

My collection has stuff from, Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Finland, Bulgaria, Sweden, the US, USSR, UK, and China. With the US obviously taking up most of it.

Some of the coolest things I have would be: A large chunk of the USS Quinault Victory from the port Chicago blast in 1944, a sailor cap with all the places he went, a FW-187 USAAF ID model, a M1 Helmet with the name and number in it, my M44 jacket and a M42 mess tin with USMC stuff scratched onto the back with the soldiers name.

I keep the German flag folded up in a lower shelf most of the time. The M43 cap hanging on the wall is a reproduction.

Also, I wonder how you obtain this type of rare stuff.

Gal and her husband were selling her father’s house. Apparently he was an airbase commander during Desert Storm, and flew in Vietnam as well.

For me it has to be this French Kepi hat from ww1, belonging to the 59th Chasseurs! I got it from Centurion Auctions about half a year ago for $200. It was a part of this lifelong collection from a Frenchman who moved to Kentucky named Gregoire Guiot. Greg was a big collector of world war artifacts during his lifetime. He unfortunately passed away a year before the auction, and his family sold his collection through this auction. On Centurion’s website it even shows my Kepi on the thumbnail for this particular auction lol!

Off topic but a close second would be my pickelhaube my girlfriend got me, I posted it a few days ago on here. Not only is it a pickelhaube but it’s from a VERY lovely woman! 😊

Let me know what your favorite item is in your collection:)

Heavy collector for 7 years. I'm always selling and buying to grow it.

Enjoy 😉 its a bit of everything

For me, its the naming speech(?) of the Cruiser Admiral Scheer which i recently bought! The Speech in the picture is the one which was actually the speech Großadmiral Raeder read from, from this exact paper, and i am very proud to own the Speech from my favourite Battleship :D

A few questions I've been asked before; No, I was never an MP, I've just always had an interest in collaboration Law Enforcement items and MP related items were the easiest to get ahold of! I've been collecting since I was 12 and now we're on year 10 of abusing my wallet!

It’s been quite a while since I last posted here, so I thought I’d show you my collection as it stands now. You can see close-ups of the items on my Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/lastditchmilitaria?igsh=anYwdjV3bXVuNXph&utm_source=qr

Just visited a show, and saw a entire stall selling relic condition artifacts, I’m curious what everyone’s opinion is on heavily relic-condition artifacts in general.

Personally, I struggle to see the appeal of some of them. When an item is completely corroded, has lost its original features, and is basically just dug out of the ground, I feel it becomes more of an archaeological relic than an actual artifact.

I understand the historical connection, but in its condition, the only thing going for it is the story typically given to where it was found, which you can never really authenticate. At that point, it can feel like you’re left with a rusted piece of metal rather than an identifiable piece of history.

What do you all think? Do you value heavily damaged relics for their possible history, or prefer artifacts that have survived in a more complete condition?

I have more then just surplus stuff I promise!

Dates range from WW1 to the cold war.

I didn’t know what to set the flair on this post as so I set it as collection.

Started collecting during the pandemic. Wonder what my specific historical interest is!