Flea Market Finds

[Heavington]

Hello everyone, I am a vintage military collector who spends quite a bit of time go around to flea markets, that being said, here are my finds! 90% of the stuff came from a seller who bought a bunch of WWII items from a family. I found a few live rounds in the container, that were in as good of a condition as the rest of the stuff, so they went right into the garbage. Only spent 54 USD on everything!

The finds thread seemed to be for guns, so my apologies if this should be there.

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[browningautorifle]

There really is a little of everything in there...

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Nice Haul

[Sarge]

Why did you throw the live ammo away???
Sarge

[browningautorifle]

Why did you throw the live ammo away

I wondered about that but thought I'd just leave it...

[Doco overboard]

Went to one the other day and found a clean 1903MK1 action, I'm going to go more often!

[Heavington]

Why did you throw the live ammo away???

My personal ideology is: if a dealer won't accept them, probably should do away with it. Long story shot, not even the military dealers wanted the live rounds, for free mind you! The flea market I was in also had a strict regulation against live rounds/guns, rather not get a conversation with their local security force .

[gustav1901]

Hey thanks for sharing. that lot of old silver coins would last about a minute at my local flea market. too bad about the live ammo rules. my flea market here in New Hampshire has vendors selling rifles, ammo etc. I've bought 3 German K98s just this year. (2 Russian capture and a matching but sportized) ... Jeff

[Heavington]

Hey thanks for sharing. that lot of old silver coins would last about a minute at my local flea market. too bad about the live ammo rules. my flea market here in New Hampshire has vendors selling rifles, ammo etc. I've bought 3 German K98s just this year. (2 Russian capture and a matching but sportized) ... Jeff

Wish I would see things like that, but I live in one of the strictest gun control areas of the U.S.

I am quite surprised I got all of those carbine clips and garand clips for that cheap, I would have assumed they would have been scooped up by someone else, guess people just don't see the value behind them. Same with the silver.

[browningautorifle]

I'm betting they didn't even see what was in the container. With those canvas goods stuffed inside and the metal goods rattling around they didn't look further.