oh that's bad :-) Do you know the best place to ask for some this info pls?  

Many times I get no comments.

Can you find an obituary?

Some nice items, is the Navy aviator named?

Anyone know the direct contact details for Richard at Vintage War Collectors in Mechanicsville, Virginia? I can't find it. Direct message of course. Thanks.  

Thanks for posting that badge, EE87. Interesting how the numbers on the bottom, front are just a hair off center. Then when you look at the reverse the pin is also just a hair off center. I guess badge makers have bad days, too.

. Hi mikie,   It's sad and hard to see when you are wet and cold to have to plead on your knees at the door to be let in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 😂 😹   Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, June 14  2O25.    ….

. Hi earlymb.   We spent most of the day around the outside of the church at Ste Marie du Mont, afterwards I led friends around a few notable spots, Brecourt manor and the BoB memorial , the site of the German prison camp at Foucarville, the Marmion farm and Ravenoville, it was a wet day !!!!   ( around 40,000 German prisoners were kept at this camp till 1947 )     Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, June 14  2O25.    ….

thx for the comments. Forum isn't that active anymore? 

Thank you for the letters, always interesting to read information from the original source. They had a number of trial sabres purchased in 1839, 500 from France, 500 from England and 600 from Germany, the German trial sabres were from S&K, this was followed by an 1840 contract with S&K for 2000. These would coincide with the date of the letters. I believe that Gebruder of Solingen used a Rooster marking, this is one of the companies selling sabres to the United states during the Civil War, they are one of the less common imported sabres.