When one is letting the collecting borderline  hoarding one can quicly accumulate stacks of boxes filled with relics. That way no one ever gets to see or touch them, so one day I was adding more relics to the piles I decided to begin making displays of them so that they can be shown rather than being forgotten about. Making displays of relics can also be a way to sneak some war memoribila into spaces sometimes controlled by the better half.
​Here is some of what I ve made so far, and more will be added as I make them:)

Relics placed on wooden plinths or bases:
​Red Army mortar tail fins found in Kurland:

K98 round,found in Northern Norway:

Shrapnel from a large Katyusha rocket found in Kurland:

Floor plating possibly from a PZIV found in Kurland.

Helmet fragments mounted in frames. All these were found in Stalingrad:

Relics placed in frames:

Eagles from supply bags,barnfinds from Northern Norway:

K98 barrell and bullet found in Kurland:

PPS barrell,oiler and rounds,found in Kurland:

Red Army 76mm powder charge bag and two 76mm shells,found in Kurland:

German toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes,found in Northern Norway:

Nivea tins found while metal detecting:

German Red Cross award,found near Berlin:

The lock was found in Stalingrad and the tie down ring in a Gebirgsjäger stable in Northern Norway:

Badges,awards and a Finnish coin found in a Gebirgsjäger capitulation site in Northern Norway:

EKMs and a EK found in Geb.Jägers capitulation site in Northern Norway:

EKM found in Kurland:

Relics found in different sites in Northern Norway:

Display boxes from Ikea:
​Messkits and canteen found in Kurland:

A couple of the many bottles I ve dug out this season. These were the ones that made it to my displays:)

I cleaned up the helmet I dug out a few weeks ago. It revealed alot of paint, some whitewash and the rest of a Heer decal. Very happy with this helmet as it is the only one I ve dug out in Norway so far. It ll get a special place on my shelves.

Last week I was digging in a Heer / Org.Todt camp and found the back part of a vehicles Notek lght. It was very rusted but a few baths in oxalic acid revealed some of the original paint. In a barn a few years ago I had ound the front on a Notek light so I put them both together. I might put a couple of lights inside it and have it by the workbench:)

I had this relic T.Mi.43 laying around, and a part of it was quite damaged. I decided to make something kool with it rather than get rid of it so I made it into a sectioned mine. It was cut with a angle grinder and stripped of paint. Next I filled some deep pitting with car body filler,sanded it smooth and attached the bottom part. When the glue had cured I primed the thing and then filled the insides with some foam and then painted it the colors I wanted. I copied the text from a complete mine and cut a stencil which I then sprayed onto the cut-away piece.
Hope you like it :)

From my collection here is three heavily battledamaged beltbuckles. We can only imagine what caused these damages. The HJ and Heer buckle were found in the Kurland Kessel, while the SS buckle found in SS Nord positions in Karelia. None of the buckles shown were found with soldiers remains.

Some of my denazified belt buckles, often referred to as "Partizan buckles". Often Red Army soldiers and Partizans took such buckles,scraped off the swastika and wore them on their belt.
Belt buckles are a great collectible as they tell a story , comes from many different producers and they dont take much place.

A small selection of German wartime lamps and torches. These came in a wide variety and from many producers which make them interesting collectibles. Some were fuelled with parafin or kerosene, some with karbid and some used battery.