Willyslancs Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 (edited) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jeep-Ww2-Willys-Artifact-Mb-/190551264612?pt=UK_Cars_Parts_Vehicles_Other_Vehicle_Parts_Accessories_ET&hash=item2c5dbd8d64 :wow: im sure i can find some nearer home (just off out to the garage , then to plant some in the garden ) Edited July 5, 2011 by Willyslancs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Drake Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jeep-Ww2-Willys-Artifact-Mb-/190551264612?pt=UK_Cars_Parts_Vehicles_Other_Vehicle_Parts_Accessories_ET&hash=item2c5dbd8d64 :wow: im sure i can find some nearer home (just off out to the garage , then to plant some in the garden ) Yes, things like that do sell, I have seen a lot of stalls selling dug up items, some from WW1, some later. I myself have some Minie ball rounds dug up from an American Civil War battlefield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 when in Normandy in 2004 I used a metal detector a bit (not on a beach) and turned up a few bits and bobs...some spent shell cases and lots of bits of shrapnel but the best I found was a GI issue pocket knife...complete but a bit rusty and crusty...I took it along to the museum thats in the 'middle' of Omaha and one of the fella's there instantly recognised it and took me to see one they had in a cabinet on display...asked me where I found it and got reasonably excited... I gotta say though......not excited enough to offer to swap it for the rather nice Sherman parked outside though..tsk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
croc Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jeep-Ww2-Willys-Artifact-Mb-/190551264612?pt=UK_Cars_Parts_Vehicles_Other_Vehicle_Parts_Accessories_ET&hash=item2c5dbd8d64 :wow: im sure i can find some nearer home (just off out to the garage , then to plant some in the garden ) Just the thing to bolt onto a Hotchkiss to justify the star on the bonnet :whistle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMS Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 crikey, i best have a dig up in my shed i got loads of them! could make a fortune!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferrettkitt Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 crikey, i best have a dig up in my shed i got loads of them! could make a fortune!! Take them to Normandy drop them in the sand have a friend find them you're onto a winner. Just don't mention when you come to sell them when you 'dropped' them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 You dig em up, and I'll print a certificate of authenticity.... Got the printer switched on ready............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormin Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Are dug up items like this really selling ? Well with no bids as yet it isn't selling. Question for me is how has it come to be for sale in the first place? Is there no restriction on what you can dig up and sell? Where's the limit or does it depend on where you actually dig things up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Daymond Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 thank god for ebay, where else would we be able to buy all these 'rare' things? Funny how the term rare is used to term just about everything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxy Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Antique dealers burry things for a period of time "distressing" to enhance the valuation .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 It's all about timing - today's scrap is tomorrow's artefact...that's waht I'm hoping anyway..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormin Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Antique dealers burry things for a period of time "distressing" to enhance the valuation .. Damn! You mean I've wasted lots of time and money removing a lot of the distressed look from my Vehicles :cry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 All my vehicles are a bit tatty, but they are not distressed...quite frankly they don't give a shyte how they look and are relaxed about the whole situation...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woa2 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Antique dealers burry things for a period of time "distressing" to enhance the valuation .. I seem to remember a 'Time Team' episode where this had happened. It was a few years ago, and I remember that they weren't very happy finding out it wasn't a real find, just planted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike65 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 You dig em up, and I'll print a certificate of authenticity.... Got the printer switched on ready............ Why bother you can probably save paper and ink money by buying them on ebay. Now have a cunning plan. Remove knackered bonnet. Paint olive drab and add a star. shoot a few holes in it. Bury it in a pile of farmyard manure for a few months (should age it nicely) Take to normandy and bury on beach. With a few jeep bits. Get a friendly metal detectorist to discover it, print certificate of authenticity. Sell on ebay as "extremely rare" bonnet recoverd from site of the Normandy D-Day landings. Some idiot will buy it. As it is on ebay and everything on the internet is correct there is the added bonus that not only was every jeep ever built on the beaches there would have been atleast one (evidence above) Land Rover and that would make mine eligble for A&E:D Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 The was also a Heinkel Bubble car on the Normandy beaches....someone was exhibiting it at Bloxham one year, complete with Bridge plate..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 There is one smaaaaal problem! The Gendarme's carry BIG guns, and have major sense of humour faliure over un licensed metal detectors. As for getting said licence, easier to walk back acros sthe Channel. :-D Mind you go digging in some of the lcocal barns! Oddles of lovley stuff, including my two 1943 dated jerry cans that are sand colourd (And always have been) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike65 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 There is one smaaaaal problem! The Gendarme's carry BIG guns, and have major sense of humour faliure over un licensed metal detectors. As for getting said licence, easier to walk back acros sthe Channel. :-D Mind you go digging in some of the lcocal barns! Oddles of lovley stuff, including my two 1943 dated jerry cans that are sand colourd (And always have been) OK so we have 2 options here. Option 1 Take a bigger gun (probably get in even more trouble). Option 2 Bury it on a beach near Karachi (I am sure they don't mind you hiding there) i and get a farmer from Normandy with a metal detector to find it. You can then describe it a "Shot up bonnet found buried on French Beach by a Normandy Farmer" You would not be lying. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CornishMade Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 OK so we have 2 options here. Option 1 Take a bigger gun (probably get in even more trouble). Option 2 Bury it on a beach near Karachi (I am sure they don't mind you hiding there) i and get a farmer from Normandy with a metal detector to find it. You can then describe it a "Shot up bonnet found buried on French Beach by a Normandy Farmer" You would not be lying. Mike :-D If you go looking under waste tips, you never know what you might find, sand preserves things quite well, see enclosed all the better if the firm removes the sand for you saves a lot of work!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashley Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 There is one smaaaaal problem! The Gendarme's carry BIG guns, and have major sense of humour faliure over un licensed metal detectors. As for getting said licence, easier to walk back acros sthe Channel. :-D Mind you go digging in some of the lcocal barns! Oddles of lovley stuff, including my two 1943 dated jerry cans that are sand colourd (And always have been) Also when they catch you they will confiscate your car and any artefacts fine you etc. when released you have to make your own way home.......on foot. Many years ago tried to warn a guy as he was dragging a vickers on its stand back to his car in full view of the local police as soon as he managed to get it into his van they pounced. Ashley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike65 Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Just remembered at Old Warden Sunday was a stall with a bloke selling framed bits of crashed aircraft with a picture of what it was from. Although it would be hard to tell if the bolt or whatever was actually from a Wellington/Dornier/Sabre or a Land Rover They were priced from about £40 upwards so must be a market for this sort of stuff. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diver99 Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Did any of you spot the bloke selling 'Somme' artefacts at the Overlord show? Supposedly found field walking, except for the photo's of the big holes he had dug getting artefacts out. I can always authenticate it for you, I'm an archaeologist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 There was a guy round here at bootsales a couple of years ago claiming to sell Great War helmets, with remains still in them. There are some sad****** out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 yes true there was once someone selling little tubs of sand off omaha beach on ebay ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Rimmer Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Bits of mashed metal and tubs of sand are the thin end of the wedge,I have seen a number of dog tags from MIA's,both American and German WWI and 2 offered on ebay,one of the worst was a seller in Eastern Europe who was very openly digging up graves of German soldiers and selling everything he found with the exception of the bones(though he included photos of those too in his listings). There are some sick ****ers out there:mad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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