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A challenge

smle2009

smle2009

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Ok, a bit of a challenge here to all members!

What is the your most favorite piece in your collection? no groups or 2nd/3rd choices and no this or this(if you do it means you are boring:bigsmile:) and ordnance only please
You know the one piece you would keep if,god forbid, you had to sell off your collection!

I was in this position a few days ago and had to seriously consider selling up(panic over now and sorted) and just could not decide which one piece I would keep,mind you the unopend box of .303" MkIII ball was a close contender:crossedlips:.


Cheers
Tony
 
That's a tough one. I suppose if I had to pick just one as a souvenir of my collecting days, it would have to be one with which I have some personal connection. There are a couple of those, but my choice would be the 6.5x25 CBJ saboted ball round. It was given to me by the designer when I visited him in Sweden, during which visit I fired off quite a few of those rounds in a couple of different weapons, one of them being a modified B&T MP9 PDW. The sigificance of that is that he had got the idea to convert that gun to fire his cartridge after reading one of my web articles in which I suggested it could be a good combination - and it is!
 
What?! CHOOSE??!! ANXIETY ATTACK!!!! Even with my comparatively limited collection, it's still a hard choice. I'll have to think on that VERY hard. Cheers, Y'all, Bruce.
 
That's easy my 105MM M1 HE it was the seed to the collection The first one I bought. So could I replant?
 
Thats easy my aden 30/20 no question, thanks dave
 
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Here is an odd one,years ago (in the 70s)when I first started in aviation archeology,I located a P47C that had crashed near Atcham airfield,during the recovery I found a .05 case with the head stamp DM 42,which were my initials and year of birth,from then I started collecting ordnance as well as lumps of aircraft,
Regards,
Don,
 
It would have to be my MkI Buckingham incendiary, it's not it's value it was because of how I got it. Not many people left in this world like the man I bought it from.

Richard.
 
Probably the start of my collecting interest...

Yeh ,mine must be a ratty ,squashed .50 cal case i found in my primary school garden,the site of a former US marine camp.
I no longer have that ,but my nephew went to the same school 30 years later and found another one for me!

Cheers,
Bob
 
Well a very difficult question to answer, but i would have to say after a fair amount of thought it would have to be my Mills gren. Odd really as i don't collect grens and this is my only one but it was given to me by a old man i met when i was about 14 on holiday in Cornwall and is the one item that started my real interest in ordnance.
Best Weasel.

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This is my favorite one. A British No1 Mk3 with its original paint, markings, cloth streamers and string pin pullers.:tinysmile_grin_t:
Cheers, Paul.
 

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Good thread.

Its got to be my 4.2cm German squeezebore round.

Dave.

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Probably my No 8, although if push comes to shove it would have up against some stiff competition. Cheers
 
Mine would be an SD2 - this one, it was the first in my collection!!
Though I have to say I still have the baseplate from a no36 Mills which got me started on collecting in the first place - when I was about 10 years old. The Mills sadly is long gone, but the baseplate remains through thick and thin .......never really figured out why -like many sentimental I guess!!

However SD2 it would be !!!

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