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Offline mthrockmor

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Look what $15 got me...
« on: February 27, 2012, 05:52:31 AM »

Shot at 2012-02-27


Shot at 2012-02-27

I have a small collection of WW2 newspapers. One announcing VE-Day, now this. True to form, no one had ever heard of Pearl Harbor so simply announced as US Bases. Pretty happy about this. Don't dare crack it open to read the rest of the paper.

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Offline Shane

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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2012, 06:12:12 AM »
Might want to get those clips off it and seal with/under  something?
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2012, 08:34:19 AM »
Wow, that is my hometown newspaper.
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2012, 09:16:35 AM »
Very cool.  I suggest to get them covered with something, I'm no guru when it comes to preserving newspaper prints, but almost anything is better than the open air.
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2012, 10:32:39 AM »
Very Cool!

Its actually a rather inexpensive (depending on the subject) way to collect WW2 stuff....... Ive framed them and hung them on the wall in my home office (out of any possible sunlight)








I have anotherone I just purchased reporting on the Battle of Leyte Gulf, should make a nice addition.Ill post photos when it arrives this week.
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2012, 05:37:44 AM »
very cool, wish I could find something like that.  I have found newspapers from late 1800s under clapboards on some houses before, but withouth stripping of a buch I have never been able to get a whole paper
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2012, 05:56:47 AM »
Sunlight too. Keep them away from sunlight
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2012, 07:34:16 AM »
Whoa, I had no idea you could get such a great find for that little money! Very nice! I will have to make some purchases in the near future.  :)
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2012, 08:11:36 AM »
Quote from: lmxar on February 28, 2012, 07:34:16 AM
Whoa, I had no idea you could get such a great find for that little money! Very nice! I will have to make some purchases in the near future.  :)

Yep, funny thing is the framing usually costs more than the newspaper itself, depending on how fancy you get.
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2012, 09:03:50 AM »
I've got a sweet scan of a VE paper we did at my shop for a guy.  Some of the little blurbs are what's the most interesting...

RUSS PLANES ATTACK DANISH ISLE
COPENHAGEN, May 8 (INS) -- Russian air forces renewed their attacks today on German ships in the harbors of Roenne and Nekos, on the Danish Island of Bornholm, in the Baltic Sea.


Wait?!  I thought it was VE day?!  Why are the Russians still attacking?  :devil
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2012, 12:23:38 PM »
Quote from: wil3ur on February 28, 2012, 09:03:50 AM
I've got a sweet scan of a VE paper we did at my shop for a guy.  Some of the little blurbs are what's the most interesting...

RUSS PLANES ATTACK DANISH ISLE
COPENHAGEN, May 8 (INS) -- Russian air forces renewed their attacks today on German ships in the harbors of Roenne and Nekos, on the Danish Island of Bornholm, in the Baltic Sea.


Wait?!  I thought it was VE day?!  Why are the Russians still attacking?  :devil

were they still fighting Finland?
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2012, 01:09:12 PM »
Wow, what a collection.
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2012, 05:16:25 PM »
Quote from: Rob52240 on February 28, 2012, 12:23:38 PM
were they still fighting Finland?
No.  Finland sued for peace well before VE day.
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2012, 06:11:09 PM »
 :O Wow! Lucky!
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Re: Look what $15 got me...
« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2012, 07:52:39 PM »
Quote from: Rob52240 on February 28, 2012, 12:23:38 PM
were they still fighting Finland?

Russia fighting Finland would have very little to do with them dropping bombs on the German Navy.
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