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teecrooz , I'm curious to know if you started out as a militaria buff who found out they used several WWI and WWII items in Star Wars and became a Star Wars fan, or if you started out as a Star Wars buff who found out they used several WWI and WWII items and became a militaria buff?
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halliwax , in the States? I thought they lived in Great Britain?
To afford all these grenades and balance pipes, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they had summer homes in the English countryside! HA! If they're finding them at gun and knife shows I'm going to have to start paying attention to the tables of old stuff I normally walk past! The last several days of Googling variations of "Hales, Cotton Powder Co, No3 Mk1, Grenade Patent, and now Roburite and Ammonal, etc." has led mostly back to The RPF, but there have been several UK based Militaria forums, some even have on line sales catalogs. I know there must be several collectors out there with all sorts of Hales grenades in their militaria collections (especially in the UK), but I have yet to see anyone (in my limited time looking online) with as vast a volume of a these as what I'm hearing teecrooz has. I'm super-hoarder jealous! I'm also highly impressed by the willingness of members here at The RPF to help one another acquire these difficult to find items! Somebody needs a ______ (fill in the blank), and VOILA! they get one! or are led to one! or are sold one! It's amazing. Even if it's just an answer to what seems to be a daunting question to the poser, someone here quickly, almost casually replies "Oh that's a _____ ."
So here's a question... Does anyone know anyone at Bapty that might be privy to their record keeping department? Finding the lineage of the Tunisia Lightsaber(s) would be phenomenal! I know, I know, some of you are thinking "We've been looking for years for information like that!" but, posing the question again may spark some old memory, inspire some new crusade to find the answer, or who knows what. I'm affraid that the longer it takes to find the answer...the people with the knowledge may pass-on before they can pass it on, or the company with the warehouse full of goods, machinery, paper trail, etc. is bought, sold, burned down, or sent to the dump. Imagine if you contacted the Singer Corporation or the Toyo Corporation and inquired about the tooling for the original G R A F L E X 3-cells, and they found it! So there it is. Good Luck to us all!
