Last week I had a great experience. Together with a collector friend of mine I went to the militaria city of Germany: Hamburg. This city is only five hours away from my home. We visited three dealers there: Detlev Niemann, Jörgen Kalies and Helmut Weitze.
We managed to visit Detlev one and a half hour before his new update went online. We had al the time to choose from the new items. My friend bought a very nice EKI. I bought a Luftschutz medal and buntmetall EKII spange (see attached picture).
At Kalies we only looked. But at Weitze we spent more that 2 and half hours. I planned to buy an uniform or a cap. Unfortunatley there was no piece that I was looking for. I checked all his offerings and finally bought an IAB in silver (which I needed to put on a uniform) and a SA Treffen Braunschweig. Besides that I also bought 8 copies of IMM, the best militaria magazine IMO.
The next day we visited some flea markets and I was just too late! Someone bought a visor cap for €9,-. Yes you read it correct, €9,-. The officers cord was missing, the eagle was a bit loose and the waffen farbe was for animal doctors or something but I think it was a good cap!
The only thing I bought was a feldpost letter from 1944.
It was a great weekend and Hamburg is a city I will visit more often!!!
