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Light ammunitions (In construction)
It is frequent to find empty casings, bullets having fly and sometimes deformed, or even intact rifle ammunitions. Be careful, these last ones are still filled with powder and thus dangerous... The ammunitions were often used by the ‘Poilus’ for their craft manufacturing, intended for their own souvenir or for selling. It is not rare to discover these memory pieces in secondhand trades.
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Artillery fuses and shells
A pile of unexploded shells, rusted or still marked with painting, laid along a plowed field, waiting for the mine-clearance service, is an extremely traditional vision in the landscapes of the old front line. It goes without saying that it is excessively dangerous to touch them. Sometimes, you will find fragments of shell, or empty cylinders, much more inoffensive. The fuses, devices intended to make the shell explode at the right time, are precision mechanisms. They are so various, that they could be the subject of a entirely independent study.
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Bayonets and fire weapons (In construction)
You will see quite often on the old frontline fragments of bayonets, sleeves, or more seldom rifle guns. Secondhand trades or some museums make it possible to acquire much more easily this kind of objects in far better quality.
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Helmets and personal equipment
War spoils brought back by grandfathers, very beautiful helmets from that period can be bought to the collectors or second-hand dealers. Those that one can sometimes see on the ancient battlefields ground are now in a very bad condition. As for the personal equipment, these pieces are always very moving to me, because they recall that behind the military facts and the official monuments, those who suffered under the steel rain were also simple men...
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Various (In construction)
an abandoned battle field is also an immense dumping ground sometimes filled with horrible wastes… ! I also present to you some small-scale models...
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Enigmas... (In construction)
Some discovered pieces, obviously coming from the same period, remain as an enigma for me... Will you help me to identify them ? Return at the top of page
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