Robert
My time of late has been at a premium with fighting our federal customs in court and on import restrictions they change daily as well as family health issues etc and collecting .
When i am older and sillier I will endevour to write it up but many collectors frequent the collection and if anythng happened to me they would be queing up to recover their favourite part of the collection . We do not really ever own an item and are merely custodians for future ,the history of an item is there if one researches it diligantly as i have done as you have seen
My close freinds and wife have relatively good idea of whats in the collection and this is not just artillery it covers uniforms equiptment , small arms,odrnance , ammunition medals etc and has many identified historic items to name but a few below just to give you an idea as they dont have a militaria link here and there is a limit to what time i can spend on such sites but these are records of my collection as well
significant items in collectio of militaria are for example , Adolf hitlers car pennant his early one off his mercedes ,parts of his summer house dining service , Field Marshal von kleists summer panzer tunic,Doenitz's command flag , letters and notes from Rommel , Goering , Skorzeny and Hitler as well as knights cross and oak leaves to General Florke and many africa korps items on the allied side i have trooper Charles Edward Wiliams nr55 of the first VMR (Victorian mounted rifles ) complete uniform as well as button off the tunic he wore when killed at battle of pink hill2/1900 letter from oc to mother , souvnineer booklets of first contingent to Boer war 1900 and his other related items and stored bag all numbered to him . another Boer war generals uniform, another Boer war early pre 1RAR A uniform before they came 1RAR , usual ww1 and ww2 uniforms including light horse , z force and tunnel company items , japanese General Akinagahs sword, blade by suke hiro and various other japanese rankers swords from chain of command on bouganville as well as many items related to other countries thats just some that could fill many books or posts here
In artillery there are about 40 pieces plus , then about same in mortars and approx 400 small arms from mgs to pistols and tons of stores . so you can see it takes up a lot of my day just completing items and restoring them many will have to wait for next owner hence i have been parting out spares so they go to a good home my priority was to get the good gear while it was around and ensure its preservation in best possible form that our federal powers seem intent on destroying to justify a supposed threat and high pay in their departments especially in ACS weapons so i am busy there too .
so rcecording of such is really not an issue i am currently logging 2500 documnts ready for an intended civil court case on customs as it seems the only way to possibly get justice and common sense a thng i have tried hard to avoid but can see no other way once my last few avenues are exhausted but i doubt anyone else but me will do it and will cost about five years out my life and many thousands of dollars some people already have ear marked items in the collection if i sell them to help fund the action such is the interest in it .Others get upset when i part out an item like my sale of a lee tank a few years back i did to cover the cost of moving 480 tons and building sheds across state lol as they also see the collection as theirs as well and many help make it grow and work on items as they see it as more than oen persons collection .
For now these threads and others on another site will have to do sadly as only so many hours in day and many irons in the fire . i am stil down with back issues so wil have so,e time to maybe do a few more threads later in week as i am becoming a little more mobile
regards
Rod
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