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Being one were gone, and all that was left just wasn’t that exciting. of those guys who has been collecting since he could walk and say, “Can I have your medals?”, I have changed paths many WISDOM FROM AN OLD SAGE? times. It hasn’t been without regret, however. Well, as all military show conversations go, someone who actually was going to buy something interrupted ours. As the IS AN INTEREST LIFE-LONG? young man conducted his potential sale with a cash-carrying I just returned from a show and got to thinking. customer, I returned to my table. I sat down and began thinking During a lull in the show, I noticed a small U.S. medal group about the medals, and the young man’s situation. consisting of an Indian Campaign, Spanish Campaign and His mother was quick to lean over to tell me how much she Philippine Campaign medals. All were numbered, and all traced admired her son’s interest, and how he funds the collecting all back to the same guy: A Minnesotan serving in the 21st Infantry. by himself. She even mentioned the dilemma he was facing with I was hooked. I wanted to add this set to my collection. As I the medals. “That’s a lot of money, but he doesn’t have anything paged through the research, we talked about the group. He said invested,” she divulged. “He found them in a box of trinkets he had put a price tag of $4,000 on it, thinking no one would he had bought at a (cid:3) ea market.” Wow! Some guys have all the pay that outlandish amount. To his surprise (but not mine), luck! someone had offered him $3,800, and “was probably going to Old habits die hard, and “money for nothing” is one of my come back.” My heart sank a little — for two reasons. First, toughest habits to break. My (cid:2) rst thoughts were, “In the medals I couldn’t divert that amount from my main collecting focus: for nothing and walk away for $4k? Where’s the debate?” I WWI AEF Tank Corps stuff. That kind of money could land didn’t offer any advice though, I sat there thinking about it as me a nice of(cid:2) cer’s group with a Model 1911 pistol (something people came up to my table to talk about the magazine or (cid:2) ll I have been offered and have been saving funds to purchase). out a raf(cid:3) e ticket (we were giving away free subscriptions and Second, I recognized something I used to do as a young collec- books). tor that has left me with a regret or two. Eventually, I tried to picture myself in his shoes. If I were 18 and just (cid:2) nding my collecting path, I would consider myself SMART TOO LATE pretty lucky to have found the medals, but I wouldn’t appreci- One of my very (cid:2) rst “focused” collecting efforts was when I ate how lucky I had been. Having put on a lot of miles since bought all the Hitler Youth (“HJ” or “Hitler Jugend”) material I I was 18, I now know, named, pre-WWI medal groups (or could (cid:2) nd back when I was 17 and 18 years old. When I set up identi(cid:2) ed HJ Leader badges, for that matter) don’t pop up too my goods at a show, I also took my Riker mounts (cid:2) lled with HJ often. One thing I did know, whatever the amount, the mon- material, including an HJ Skiing Badge and a numbered, cased ey will go…and be replaced, repeating the pattern many times. leader badge complete with the kid’s award document (“Sport- When we were able to chat again, I commented on just how buch des HJ Fuehrers”) and membership card with photo. In special the group was, adding, “You may not be interested in the realm of Third Reich material, not great items, but for an pre-WWI stuff right now, but your collecting ‘palate’ is still de- 18-year-old kid, pretty darn good things! veloping.” I advised, “You are into these medals for very little. Of course, I had to show off those items. Not having You can only sell them once. You probably won’t have a chance anywhere to do that other than a show (no club or local col- at something like this again unless you are prepared to pay lectors where this could be done), I displayed the items on my retail.” I concluded by suggesting, “You might just want to put table with that all-but-genuinely-detested sticker, “NFS” (“Not them away, take them home and keep them in your collection For Sale”). Well, that sticker wasn’t much of a defense. When for a few months. If they are worth $4K today, they will still be some old, seasoned collector started laying hundred dollar worth that much six months from now.” bills in front of me, my “NFS” attitude eroded to “WMFS” (“Well, Maybe For Sale”) until it reached inside the adobe walls DIFFERENT MOTIVATIONS of my mental Alamo: “WTF!” (“Well, That’s Fine”…or a close When I returned home after the show, I shared the story variation of that). I took the money, and the cornerstone of my about the young man and his medals with my partner. Before I HJ collection was gone. Within a few weeks, so was the money. could tell her what I had advised, she blurted out, “I hope you I decided to switch my collecting focus to 1950s Bundeswehr told him, ‘TAKE THE MONEY!’” Wow. Didn’t see that one Paratrooper material. coming. I forget, though, she has never — ever — been bitten By the time I was 22, my paratrooper collection had grown by the collecting bug. She doesn’t appreciate the sense of con- to include several named insignia sets that included gorgeous nection to history one gets from holding a man’s set of medals bullion paratrooper wings and a couple of (cid:2) ne helmets. What or gazing at the uniform he wore at the Somme in 1918. She became of the collection, you ask? Well, same pattern as the does, however, have an innate appreciation for the value of a HJ collection: I took the stuff to a show. I didn’t really want to dollar and how many of them a young person will need to pay sell it, but rather, show it off. 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