My Collection

[Trenchwarfare]

It's the other way around Mike. Gus has an awsome collection, but nobody has anything, on JPS! Gus, you have only 24 square feet more than me. I can't imagine, having fifteen maniquins, in my tiny room!oh:

 

[Gustaf]

I am lucky, 8 of my maniquins are in storage (read, I have loaned them to my local museum to make more space in the collections room)
BW
Gus

 

[Gustaf]

I have a new addition to the collection, I do not collect artillery shells, (I even gave away a very nice 37mm to a friend who has a couple of WWI vintage tanks, he takes one out into the woods from time to time to fire the cannon, and I thought he could use it better than me) and almost passed up the trench art 75 case a couple of years ago, but it was too cheap for even me to pass up (free) I now have the uniform of a local man who served in the artillery, so I figured that I should have a 75 to display with it, as a side arm would not be apporpriate. A friend sent me a nice projectile that was recovered from a firing range here in the US. I have been banging on the fuse with a hammer trying to get it of for a couple of days now with little success... Now that I have gotten the attention of the safety minded, I must tell you that it arrived at my door, totally disasembled, by an EOD. It has the Scovill model 1907M fuse.
Next to the projectile, is a pomagranit, I figured that since I was collecting grenades, I would borrow one from my wife, as it shares some background with hand grenades, as does the stone granite, but since our country is made of basalt, I do nto have a bit of granite to ad to the collection.