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| allejager | Large collection W.W.1 to sell. | 0 | Apr 1 2009, 10:47 AM EDT by allejager | ||
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Thread started: Apr 1 2009, 10:47 AM EDT
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Very large collection W.W.1 items to sell.Including very rare items like the only left WEST Spring Gun. No uniforms.
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| Christopher_T_George | U.S. Army "C Company" soccer team | 2 | Feb 27 2009, 10:16 AM EST by Christopher_T_George | ||
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Thread started: Feb 20 2009, 2:31 PM EST
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Just purchased on ebay a postcard showing a group portrait of a World War I U.S. Army company soccer team. There is insufficient information to identify the unit or the place (I assume at a Stateside U.S. Army base, but I may be wrong) . . . yet perhaps someone may be able to help, I hope. Inscription on the address side merely says, "From Willie To My Dearest Girl with best of love. This is our Company football team." On the soccer ball held by the player in the center of the front row, is painted the lettering "C Coy." Since there are nine players in soccer kit and two soldiers in Army uniform either side, which would make up the eleven needed for the football (soccer) team, one has to assume the guys in uniform were players as well.
Chris
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| Franzmaximilian | A piece of History: an unbelievably lucky finding | 3 | Nov 18 2008, 10:54 AM EST by Christopher_T_George | ||
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Thread started: Nov 6 2008, 7:59 AM EST
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A few days ago I finally decided to remove the dirt that covered a wooden plate I found a couple of years ago over a glacier, in an area rich with WW1 debris. I collected it as it seemed there was something printed on the wood, but for many reasons it remained buried in a box together with some unimportant findings.
As soon as water washed away the dirt, the plate showed the word "GIPFELSTOLLEN", which I learned means "Gallery to the Mountain Top" in German. It made sense, as the mountain overhanging the glacier was known to have hosted a system of Austrian galleries excavated int to the steep ice mountain side. I posted a picture of the plate on an Italian forum where many collectors and field researchers discuss their militaria collections and findings. Only minutes later, a contributor posted a wartime picture showing the very same plate in it's original position inside an Austrian ice gallery on that mountain!!! I wanted to share with you the emotion for such a lucky identification and I'm therefore posting the two pictures in the Photo Gallery section. Franz |
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