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November 14, 2015, 10:08 AM | #1 |
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British army dump - Very rare Besa find
HI all
I paid a visit to my British army dump site permission last week and had some great finds again. The majority I already have examples of but I did find one or two 'new' pieces for my collection. As I already had plenty of examples of a lot of the stuff, I decided to keep my eye in with full restoration and take some back to shiny brass. I don't do this with many relics as I like to keep the aged patina, but the odd one or two shiny items are fine. It also shows that, just because something has been in the ground for 70+ years and is covered in corrosion, it doesn't mean it can't be saved!! I have also described how I clean the relics in the below video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0QpawytOjs Here are the finds. If you want to know what they looked like before being cleaned, you'll need to watch the vid! 303 drill rounds. No percussion caps present in any of these and the headstamp show them to be 'dummy' rounds. Connectors to fit the condenser pipe to the steam jacket of a Browning M1917 water cooled MG. Same thing, but this is a Mk I Vickers MG connector. And these are the more familiar Mk II Vickers elbow connectors .....more........ |
November 14, 2015, 10:10 AM | #2 |
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November 14, 2015, 11:02 AM | #5 |
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Guess there weren't too many Stens thrown in those dumps.
Oh well.
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November 14, 2015, 01:38 PM | #6 |
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Far from it. I have hundreds of Sten parts from this dump. I just wasn't digging in the 'Sten area'
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November 28, 2015, 12:09 AM | #7 |
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We used to did pit Ft Olgelthorpe, Ga., back in the 1980's, found some Civil War mixed in with WWI, a lot of coins, mostly pennies, 100s of buttons, it was fun.
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