Two nice examples. Keep collecting and handle as many originals as you can. Shopping is learning.
@donaldfischer14286 күн бұрын
I have collected visor caps over the last 30 plus years. My collection would rival most.
@willmorrison53416 күн бұрын
I'm always looking for visor caps... Any that you're looking to get rid of???
@donaldfischer14286 күн бұрын
@@willmorrison5341 Hi Will. No I'm still collecting. I collect by the color of the piping. I also have an extensive collection of German army uniforms, parade tunics, overcoats and forrestry uniforms. I'm 71 now and can tell you alot about what to look out for.
@willmorrison53416 күн бұрын
@@donaldfischer1428 Completely understandable, collecting is a life long addiction for most of us. As someone with 30+ years' experience, you think I provided an accurate overview of basic visor cap features?
@donaldfischer14286 күн бұрын
@@willmorrison5341 you were fine. I know so much more as have 15 of the known 21 piping colors. I would glady share my knowledge with you if possible.
@willmorrison53416 күн бұрын
@@donaldfischer1428 Would really appreciate the wisdom, you can email me at [email protected]
@Nick_B_Bad14 күн бұрын
Eventually I’d like to get into visor caps. So far it’s been mostly side caps and helmets.
@willmorrison534113 күн бұрын
Side caps and helmets are great to collect and close to the price point of visor caps. Stick with it, but be patient - They are becoming very hard to find with many repros circulating. Do your homework and don't make any quick decisions - I was lucky enough to buy these both in-person so I could check out all the important features myself
@KoriH-rj6ch15 күн бұрын
Those are awesome
@willmorrison534113 күн бұрын
Thank you very much!
@clashofbandss124719 күн бұрын
Sheeesh
@willmorrison534113 күн бұрын
Sheesh indeed! Thanks for the comment!
@jimmylight4866Ай бұрын
Hobby is rocking. Totally on fire.
@MG_militariaАй бұрын
You can hang your Luftwaffe dagger on the wall.
@MG_militariaАй бұрын
Scammers, prices, and crappy repros are all killing military collecting. I hope it gets better for the younger people who still want to collect and reenact.
@SDewwАй бұрын
in europe it is already dead in many countries because it is illegal to trade in nazi items by law... even world war 2 german stamps are no longer publicly traded because of this law.
@WabbitWay2 ай бұрын
since the 1980s and speaking from personal experience, nothing really changes. Everything as adjusted for inflation, all prices have kept steadily in pace with inflation. If you think things are "expensive," everything has always been expensive. The market rules and speaks the truth. God Bless your pops because he is smiling down from heaven that you are appreciating the stuff that he loved. Buy the best and buy what you like. We are just care takers of history. God bless!
@bloodhound502 ай бұрын
Great stuff!
@user-ft3qs9to6w2 ай бұрын
This is Thailand
@Rowehouse18192 ай бұрын
So you're telling me the 18 - to mid late twenty's really care about this stuff? Look at them... trying to deface monuments, free Palestine. They would burn this stuff on social media, let alone paying thousands of dollars for something
@RobertRobinson-dy3rj3 ай бұрын
Collect fakes before you collect the real thing 👍
@victortriolo36273 ай бұрын
Good evening , u certainly have a beautiful array of military edge pieces . Those blues , and plums are beautiful. I would like to know if any are 4 sale ? Thanks . Victor .
@xfirehurican3 ай бұрын
Cute rifle. Step up to the SKS for all the right reasons.
@ww2collecting8813 ай бұрын
AMAZING STUFF MAN!
@Tenjirou3 ай бұрын
Cool
@Joe-bx4wn3 ай бұрын
Better HIDE that stuff
@Civilwar.relics3 ай бұрын
I wish i could of kept going collecting WW2 Germany relics but 80% of stuff are fakes you go to a war relics show bring your relics identifying books, i couldn't believe how much stuff wasn't real, then the ss stuff is highly priced so it's not worth it.
@tomsimpson53173 ай бұрын
Wish I had the money
@BadMuflon3 ай бұрын
European colector here No its not going to die since there is a lot of demand worldwide but the prices of items are crazy... last 10 years its going up more then gold so people see it as an investment also... Im 35 and my grandfather was a fighter pilot in ww2, so the topic of ww2 was around as far as I can remember, I even managed to infect my wife with it... Geopoliticaly the topic is still hot because as we all can see - the topic was never adressed properly and now we have what we have
@petercollingwood5224 ай бұрын
I'm sorry for youngsters interested in this hobby. I'm 56 and a member of a collecting and researching organization. I'm at the point that I'm almost completely uninterested in anything to do with Third Reich stuff because of the sheer greed that affects the hobby. Which results in batshitcrazy prices for anything with a swastika on it and a staggering industry of fakes and forgeries. Fifty years ago it might have been better but now if you are starting out you are competing against boomers who made their money (lots of it) in past times and a different world and have happily pushed prices to stratospherically stupid levels. Even if I had the money I don't think I'd be prepared to pay it. And this now permeates every aspect of German collecting, even Imperial and stuff going back to the early 1800's. And not just German. It also applies to a lot of British victorian era stuff which is also a major interest of mine. Basically. If theres money to be made with this stuff it will be faked and the fakes are now so good I no longer put much faith in the authoritiy of "experts" on the subject. Sad but I don't see any realistic way for things to get better.
@bobjim92464 ай бұрын
Don't do it you have so much to live for
@inout35134 ай бұрын
I have two youth daggers 19 42 I would be interested in a trade for the carbine
@tompage19414 ай бұрын
That 1st class is ood😊
@CharlesStevenage4 ай бұрын
Wmc x4 original. Did you manage to check the floch ek1s you showed ?
@theodoreyoung79464 ай бұрын
My little brother did re enactment years ago. I had a Iron cross that I gave to a friend of his to give to him. He never got it, and I never saw that creep again to find out what happened to it. It peeves me that I bought it with money I didnt really have and wanted my brother to have it, and some shmuck took it!
@tompage19414 ай бұрын
That sucks
@willmorrison53414 ай бұрын
what a shame... there are tons of them out there, but when it has a personal connection like that, its invaluable and i'd be pretty salty too
@andyeveritt90034 ай бұрын
nice wound badge set and medals great miniature set liked them thanks for sharing all the best from England
@willmorrison53414 ай бұрын
thank you my friend!
@CharlesStevenage4 ай бұрын
Go online and research floch iron cross 1st classes ! It’s possible you have two there
@CharlesStevenage4 ай бұрын
By the way it’s great your building up a collection there! Also check the gold wound badge!
@Purpmaster4 ай бұрын
Collecting isn’t dead, but the prices make me want to kms…lol jk. Nice early nickel silver 1st model Luft!
@paulanthonydadd40224 ай бұрын
Hello , interesting, I am a collector too and will keep watching and lissening.
@jamesstfelix24084 ай бұрын
Phuck sticks...want to much for your repo crap
@billlombard99114 ай бұрын
Lots of fakes around
@gabecollins55854 ай бұрын
Got to get them from reputable sources and make sure they are legit.
@TSD40274 ай бұрын
Prices too high, and now too many fakes from places like China.
@chahh18664 ай бұрын
Garbage, LOL no these items have significant value, your father would be proud that you have kept his passion alive. I've been involved since childhood, but don't share that passion to collect. Will, perhaps you can travel to the Max show in Sept. If I was you, I would not collect Nazi items, the market is flooded with reproductions, get a blue light to inspect anything fabric. I would have the Infantry office cap looked at, I question if it's authentic. The white color band at the top noting infantry is far to wide and the eagle looks incorrect.
@StratBurst924 ай бұрын
Outstanding M1 Carbine, who would think that a company that made typewriters would make military rifles but that was the war effort. My Wifes mother worked at the Springfield Armory in the war years and worked on M1 Garands, we still have some blueprints of the Garand that she gave us. Is the luger all matching? My Dad was a WW2 combat vet and took an artillery model luger off of a German officer, some other GI liked it more and stole it from him. My jaw dropped when he told me, those are pretty expensive now.
@aquabone81184 ай бұрын
It is garbage. Garbage from the past garbage generation. Who's children 🖕 over all other generations forever. 🖕🇺🇸
@Luftwaffe19354 ай бұрын
As a dealer/collector I see people taking repro's and aging them. This hurts collecting more than anything. Repros should say repro stamped in! To stop this.
@chahh18664 ай бұрын
Lots of the repros were featured in books that were written to validate the repros they were pumping out. I know of a collector that would take a standard stalenhelm and modify it, camo chicken wire new stickers sand treatment he had a factory line..
@billb89Ай бұрын
The Max Show and SOS are loaded with fakes and dealers with promotors don't care. It's sad and unfortunate but there will always be fakes.
@bigdamon62914 ай бұрын
I use to collect in the 70s and 80s when you could find good stuff at flea markets, garage sales and the penny packet(not sure if thats the correct name, it was a newspaper that was ads to sell anything)..when you would go hunting for items you were limited to what was in your area or word of mouth..I have a WW1 US uniform that i bought at a garage sale in the late 70s or early 80s from the man who wore it, no joke..Today you have Ebay and all kinds of sites selling..what drove up prices in my opinion is the internet you have heavy hitters driving the price up setting the the new price..But the great thing about the internet is you can now do great research on items and can maybe not get fooled by fakes..
@StratBurst924 ай бұрын
A lot of my buys were from wanted ads I placed in local papers, mostly from veterans and I always paid them a fair price.
@ClancyWoodard-yw6tg4 ай бұрын
Exactly ill be 30 next month and my love for history came from my grandpa when I was little and I love this stuff
@123456789271644 ай бұрын
Lucky. My father…well I never knew him.
@siroyal20404 ай бұрын
You have a good collection there, great video thank you for sharing with us 🎉🎉🎉🎉
@siroyal20404 ай бұрын
Great video, clear and good communication, I find there's 2 types of k98 bayonets 1st one had a wooden handle, 2nd had the backalike plastic handle hope the information helps I ground dug my k98 bayonets in the ardennes, where the battle of the bulge took place near Belgium happy hunting 🎉🎉🎉
@siroyal20404 ай бұрын
Great video thank you, lovely dagger 🎉🎉
@davidwatts81664 ай бұрын
That visor is a beauty
@HistoryMajor4 ай бұрын
Ive seen those postcards before, definitely original and beautiful pieces. Good luck finding a pair of hangers I see them all the time in the $100 range so shouldn’t be too much of a hassle
@HistoryMajor4 ай бұрын
Beautiful collection, Im 19 and started from scratch collecting about 13 or 14. Its definitely been hard to be buy the pieces im more interested in but I have learned overtime its better to put more time into research so you know what to look for and keep yourself from getting burned. Also I rarely buy things over the internet and keep most my of my purchases to in person at military shows or antique shops this has allowed me to be able to look over the item and get some amazing deals I wouldn’t get anywhere else especially on armbands and helmets. Some of the stuff I have bought is selling for 3x the price online its crazy plus they charge tax and shipping. I love dealing with vets the most because they are often able to tell me how they acquired the item or the story behind it. They also don’t mind helping out a younger generation collector by throwing in a thing or two. I have had very positive experiences with this community and my passion has only grown since then. I look forward to be able to helping the future generations out one day and teaching them to love this hobby!
@ARGCDG4 ай бұрын
What a great collection
@CookiesAllotmentDevon5 ай бұрын
Its fakes that will eventually kill the hobby , people like kanzler
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Two nice examples. Keep collecting and handle as many originals as you can. Shopping is learning.
I have collected visor caps over the last 30 plus years. My collection would rival most.
I'm always looking for visor caps... Any that you're looking to get rid of???
@@willmorrison5341 Hi Will. No I'm still collecting. I collect by the color of the piping. I also have an extensive collection of German army uniforms, parade tunics, overcoats and forrestry uniforms. I'm 71 now and can tell you alot about what to look out for.
@@donaldfischer1428 Completely understandable, collecting is a life long addiction for most of us. As someone with 30+ years' experience, you think I provided an accurate overview of basic visor cap features?
@@willmorrison5341 you were fine. I know so much more as have 15 of the known 21 piping colors. I would glady share my knowledge with you if possible.
@@donaldfischer1428 Would really appreciate the wisdom, you can email me at [email protected]
Eventually I’d like to get into visor caps. So far it’s been mostly side caps and helmets.
Side caps and helmets are great to collect and close to the price point of visor caps. Stick with it, but be patient - They are becoming very hard to find with many repros circulating. Do your homework and don't make any quick decisions - I was lucky enough to buy these both in-person so I could check out all the important features myself
Those are awesome
Thank you very much!
Sheeesh
Sheesh indeed! Thanks for the comment!
Hobby is rocking. Totally on fire.
You can hang your Luftwaffe dagger on the wall.
Scammers, prices, and crappy repros are all killing military collecting. I hope it gets better for the younger people who still want to collect and reenact.
in europe it is already dead in many countries because it is illegal to trade in nazi items by law... even world war 2 german stamps are no longer publicly traded because of this law.
since the 1980s and speaking from personal experience, nothing really changes. Everything as adjusted for inflation, all prices have kept steadily in pace with inflation. If you think things are "expensive," everything has always been expensive. The market rules and speaks the truth. God Bless your pops because he is smiling down from heaven that you are appreciating the stuff that he loved. Buy the best and buy what you like. We are just care takers of history. God bless!
Great stuff!
This is Thailand
So you're telling me the 18 - to mid late twenty's really care about this stuff? Look at them... trying to deface monuments, free Palestine. They would burn this stuff on social media, let alone paying thousands of dollars for something
Collect fakes before you collect the real thing 👍
Good evening , u certainly have a beautiful array of military edge pieces . Those blues , and plums are beautiful. I would like to know if any are 4 sale ? Thanks . Victor .
Cute rifle. Step up to the SKS for all the right reasons.
AMAZING STUFF MAN!
Cool
Better HIDE that stuff
I wish i could of kept going collecting WW2 Germany relics but 80% of stuff are fakes you go to a war relics show bring your relics identifying books, i couldn't believe how much stuff wasn't real, then the ss stuff is highly priced so it's not worth it.
Wish I had the money
European colector here No its not going to die since there is a lot of demand worldwide but the prices of items are crazy... last 10 years its going up more then gold so people see it as an investment also... Im 35 and my grandfather was a fighter pilot in ww2, so the topic of ww2 was around as far as I can remember, I even managed to infect my wife with it... Geopoliticaly the topic is still hot because as we all can see - the topic was never adressed properly and now we have what we have
I'm sorry for youngsters interested in this hobby. I'm 56 and a member of a collecting and researching organization. I'm at the point that I'm almost completely uninterested in anything to do with Third Reich stuff because of the sheer greed that affects the hobby. Which results in batshitcrazy prices for anything with a swastika on it and a staggering industry of fakes and forgeries. Fifty years ago it might have been better but now if you are starting out you are competing against boomers who made their money (lots of it) in past times and a different world and have happily pushed prices to stratospherically stupid levels. Even if I had the money I don't think I'd be prepared to pay it. And this now permeates every aspect of German collecting, even Imperial and stuff going back to the early 1800's. And not just German. It also applies to a lot of British victorian era stuff which is also a major interest of mine. Basically. If theres money to be made with this stuff it will be faked and the fakes are now so good I no longer put much faith in the authoritiy of "experts" on the subject. Sad but I don't see any realistic way for things to get better.
Don't do it you have so much to live for
I have two youth daggers 19 42 I would be interested in a trade for the carbine
That 1st class is ood😊
Wmc x4 original. Did you manage to check the floch ek1s you showed ?
My little brother did re enactment years ago. I had a Iron cross that I gave to a friend of his to give to him. He never got it, and I never saw that creep again to find out what happened to it. It peeves me that I bought it with money I didnt really have and wanted my brother to have it, and some shmuck took it!
That sucks
what a shame... there are tons of them out there, but when it has a personal connection like that, its invaluable and i'd be pretty salty too
nice wound badge set and medals great miniature set liked them thanks for sharing all the best from England
thank you my friend!
Go online and research floch iron cross 1st classes ! It’s possible you have two there
By the way it’s great your building up a collection there! Also check the gold wound badge!
Collecting isn’t dead, but the prices make me want to kms…lol jk. Nice early nickel silver 1st model Luft!
Hello , interesting, I am a collector too and will keep watching and lissening.
Phuck sticks...want to much for your repo crap
Lots of fakes around
Got to get them from reputable sources and make sure they are legit.
Prices too high, and now too many fakes from places like China.
Garbage, LOL no these items have significant value, your father would be proud that you have kept his passion alive. I've been involved since childhood, but don't share that passion to collect. Will, perhaps you can travel to the Max show in Sept. If I was you, I would not collect Nazi items, the market is flooded with reproductions, get a blue light to inspect anything fabric. I would have the Infantry office cap looked at, I question if it's authentic. The white color band at the top noting infantry is far to wide and the eagle looks incorrect.
Outstanding M1 Carbine, who would think that a company that made typewriters would make military rifles but that was the war effort. My Wifes mother worked at the Springfield Armory in the war years and worked on M1 Garands, we still have some blueprints of the Garand that she gave us. Is the luger all matching? My Dad was a WW2 combat vet and took an artillery model luger off of a German officer, some other GI liked it more and stole it from him. My jaw dropped when he told me, those are pretty expensive now.
It is garbage. Garbage from the past garbage generation. Who's children 🖕 over all other generations forever. 🖕🇺🇸
As a dealer/collector I see people taking repro's and aging them. This hurts collecting more than anything. Repros should say repro stamped in! To stop this.
Lots of the repros were featured in books that were written to validate the repros they were pumping out. I know of a collector that would take a standard stalenhelm and modify it, camo chicken wire new stickers sand treatment he had a factory line..
The Max Show and SOS are loaded with fakes and dealers with promotors don't care. It's sad and unfortunate but there will always be fakes.
I use to collect in the 70s and 80s when you could find good stuff at flea markets, garage sales and the penny packet(not sure if thats the correct name, it was a newspaper that was ads to sell anything)..when you would go hunting for items you were limited to what was in your area or word of mouth..I have a WW1 US uniform that i bought at a garage sale in the late 70s or early 80s from the man who wore it, no joke..Today you have Ebay and all kinds of sites selling..what drove up prices in my opinion is the internet you have heavy hitters driving the price up setting the the new price..But the great thing about the internet is you can now do great research on items and can maybe not get fooled by fakes..
A lot of my buys were from wanted ads I placed in local papers, mostly from veterans and I always paid them a fair price.
Exactly ill be 30 next month and my love for history came from my grandpa when I was little and I love this stuff
Lucky. My father…well I never knew him.
You have a good collection there, great video thank you for sharing with us 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Great video, clear and good communication, I find there's 2 types of k98 bayonets 1st one had a wooden handle, 2nd had the backalike plastic handle hope the information helps I ground dug my k98 bayonets in the ardennes, where the battle of the bulge took place near Belgium happy hunting 🎉🎉🎉
Great video thank you, lovely dagger 🎉🎉
That visor is a beauty
Ive seen those postcards before, definitely original and beautiful pieces. Good luck finding a pair of hangers I see them all the time in the $100 range so shouldn’t be too much of a hassle
Beautiful collection, Im 19 and started from scratch collecting about 13 or 14. Its definitely been hard to be buy the pieces im more interested in but I have learned overtime its better to put more time into research so you know what to look for and keep yourself from getting burned. Also I rarely buy things over the internet and keep most my of my purchases to in person at military shows or antique shops this has allowed me to be able to look over the item and get some amazing deals I wouldn’t get anywhere else especially on armbands and helmets. Some of the stuff I have bought is selling for 3x the price online its crazy plus they charge tax and shipping. I love dealing with vets the most because they are often able to tell me how they acquired the item or the story behind it. They also don’t mind helping out a younger generation collector by throwing in a thing or two. I have had very positive experiences with this community and my passion has only grown since then. I look forward to be able to helping the future generations out one day and teaching them to love this hobby!
What a great collection
Its fakes that will eventually kill the hobby , people like kanzler