dano1917
RIP
I'm glad you asked!! In my mind (or what's left of it) what I collect first and foremost is history. When I get a relic, along with it comes a true sense that it was there, and in some cases you can also find out WHERE. My first pic is an m1917 egg and 15cm German nose cone with Dopp Z 92 fuze that I was told by the sellers that they were from the Somme. I believe it because I choose to. The second is of 2 German WW1 fuzes that recently came to me from a collector friend that found them at Verdun. There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that that is true. I can hold these pieces and truly feel a sense of history and there is no way in hell that I would ever alter these pieces (may clean fuzes a bit). Now I do from time to time alter WW1 pieces, but these are things I get incomplete and things on those lines. When I do alter a piece it is only for display and never for deception. Glad I got that off my chest as that's my story and i'm a stickin' to it...Dano