NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 26 APRIL 2010

Hi and welcome everyone to this week’s newletter.

This week after a cool week, Miliblog ventured out to the town of Stafford, just 30 miles North of Birmingham to visit the new Ex-Mil show. Held at the Stafford County Showground, just North of the town and close to RAF Stafford, which is famous for it’s huge underground stores and famed as still holding stocks of wartime motorcycles and other wartime goodies.  Organised by Amanda and Graham Lycett of Jeeparts fame, who also are behind the successful Militaria Convention at Malvern. This was their first show at this location and we wanted to see how it was going. Initially it was disappointing from the number of people visiting the show and by lunchtime when we arrived, many of the stallholders were just chatting to themselves. However they were all most enthusiastic and agreed with us that it has the makings of a great show. For a full show visit and further photos, have a look at our show report under Show and Museum visits. I’ve just popped on a few samples below. It was interesting to see examples for sale of both the Soviet and German machine guns that are featured so much in our Eastern Front Collection. In fact it was quite spooky !

We did try and have a chat with Amanda herself to see how it was going, but I think we were seen as the Paperazzi, as she was surrounded by security guards !!! See the picture below !!!

Still we wish them both success for the next show and we ask our fellow military enthusiasts to visit the  show and support them. The stands were excellent and we could have spent a fortune on some rare and interesting militaria.

So have a good week and we’ll see you soon !

Cheerio ! 

Simon

Amanda being protected from the Paparazzi !

British WW2 Vickers Machine Gun For Sale

Pair of German WW2 MG34 Machine Guns For Sale

Soviet WW2 Machine Gun

Some Pocket Sized Ammunition