Not your typical flea market find; I set up at the Raleigh this past weekend selling all the estate sale/auction finds I could not sell locally doing my picking, plus garage debris, toys, and even beanie babies.
Fortunately, at the last minute I decided to make up a couple of flyers “I buy war relics”. Under the hot sun as I stand baking a nice young man with 2 young children who states he may want to sell his Grandfathers WW2 trophy. He says that his GrandPa had this sword surrendered to him. Very interested, I tell him to bring it by as I’ll be here all weekend and sure enough he does return.
” Wow, love the chain….., you say you’ve never had the handle off?”, I tell him if there is no arsenal mark it’s a nice WW2 sword for any collector.
He also tells me that Grandpa is still alive and coming back from Florida next week, I pose a question about this flea market deal, to make sure that Grandpa won’t get upset, and if not do you think he’d do an interview for my website. He assures me affirmative in both aspects, then we work on the stuck handle in the back of my van. I get it off with a little persuading and see no arsenal mark and hand drilled hole. I make a fair deal for the both of us as a blade with a living storyboard are relics I cannot pass on, and hopefully Grandpa has an interesting story to share here soon. Came back with less than a half full van so that was a success too!
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