tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533651942397782565.post5515977880962035539..comments2024-03-29T07:56:55.214-07:00Comments on daily timewaster: A poignant relic from a time of true sacrifice.c w swansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735507642689652780noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533651942397782565.post-25205954117273832332018-01-26T18:50:00.767-08:002018-01-26T18:50:00.767-08:00Hear, hear! He's not trying to sell it, he...Hear, hear! He's not trying to sell it, he's not even claiming it's his, so to loudly proclaim it's a fraud based on no evidence whatsoever except that there are some frauds out there is premature, to say the leadt.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13296988746956477216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533651942397782565.post-46307897827058014042018-01-26T13:36:52.629-08:002018-01-26T13:36:52.629-08:00Since I have no reason to assume that this pistol ...Since I have no reason to assume that this pistol is a "fake," as Ray seems to think, I will continue to respect it as a relic of a terrible WWII event, that killed a great many young men and destroyed a lot of property. That destruction certainly included pistols, rifles and all the other equipment that a soldier would carry.<br /><br />Fakes can and always have been made, by people without honor for their own profit. Personally, I don't hang around such types myself, though I know they exist. This pistol isn't being offered for sale, only shown to serve as a memorial to the hell that Bastoign was, so I won't ask for proof of its provenance.Eskymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15947922645001422523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533651942397782565.post-81528428746810044622018-01-26T09:07:44.518-08:002018-01-26T09:07:44.518-08:00Again "anon" that is just emotional bull...Again "anon" that is just emotional bullshit. I know that those marks could have been made by a gunsmith because I have seen it done. SHOW ME THE PAPERWORK. Or that is just one of the 25 fake "relic" firearms I have seen in the last five years. It always was a common scam to use emotion to part people from there money. NO PAPERWORK=FAKE--Ray--- P.S. Sign your name unless you are the criminal scammer making these.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533651942397782565.post-30075446346295223602018-01-26T06:36:15.845-08:002018-01-26T06:36:15.845-08:00As a person with metal working experience, I can g...As a person with metal working experience, I can guarantee that no drill press made those marks. <br />C. W., I thank you for sharing these moving photos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533651942397782565.post-69563509337231275542018-01-26T03:29:51.184-08:002018-01-26T03:29:51.184-08:00Yeh well... Nice fake. And unless that "relic...Yeh well... Nice fake. And unless that "relic" has verifiable USGI paperwork that all it will ever be. The "shrapnel" scars on that 1911 look more like drill press marks to me. I know of at least three gunsmith/"antiquie" dealers who make crap like that to sell at gun show's. The one in Riverside Cal. and the One just outside Shelbyville Ky. who both regularly sell "rare and collectable" fakes at 10X the market spring to mind. There are hundreds more. Like I said. Show me verifiable USGI paper on that. Until then there is no proof that that Colt went any closer to the ETO than Waddy Kentucky. All else is emotional bullshit.---RayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533651942397782565.post-2138915329142892432018-01-25T20:15:13.912-08:002018-01-25T20:15:13.912-08:00I hope that it makes its way to a museum that can ...I hope that it makes its way to a museum that can display it for all to see.LLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538854359365988863noreply@blogger.com