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Well guys.. A slow year for rings... Honor rings,, Andy had 3 nice ones I believe. No photos because he always has a crowd at his table.. Maybe 3 other authentic HRs there! There were 2 HRs that they were asking a fortune for,,but honestly,,, I didn't like them.. I heard some 'tall' stories about them. Now I say all the time,,I'm not into HRs.. But these 2 rings looks bad to me. I had a couple others see them,,and they said the same,,something wrong with them.. And, these were HRs $10,000!

Private Purchase was also dismal.. Maybe 6 authentic PP rings... Many US rings and not problems with originality. Saw rings from DAKs collection and I thank him for showing me/us!

German rings were just not there. Only a few as I mentioned.. For years I've been telling people,,there are only a finite amount of these things.. Not many real German rings survived.. When they are gone they are gone.. So you see something authentic,,grab it!

I really liked this Italian made ring! Problem was,,it wasn't for sale..

. Photos of the show got moved to the Community Forum. Some good stuff,, have a look !

rare pattern silver ring.. dug condition,,,so hard to find in good condition.. More photos tomorrow..............

IK understand this smashed skull ring traveled around the world,,then changed hands again and then made this appearance at the MAX!!! yes small world!

And here he is the mighty Don Boyle,, love him or hate him,,he is the Honor ring pioneer

Guys,, there just wasn't many PP rings at the show,,and even less HRs then previous years..

Also,, many didn't want photos taken of their wares.. To me its free advertising,,,but I guess some have things to worry about.. Here the last or the rings.. Wish I had more to post.. Mike has some. IF they are on the other topic,,please repost here for our hard cores that on;y come here. Thanks,,,and please anyone else have a photo,, put it on up no matter what it is!

And,,, here he is ,,our fearless enforcer!! Dave H.,,, we were equal on the draw here

yeah yeah I know they aren't rings... But these had to be my favorite display at the show.. I wanted one so bad,,,but average price range was $700 to $1500.. I heard rare one are even higher.. Freakin cool! and over 100 years old!!

Gaspare
Great pics and thanks for the report. Glad to see Don.
Ron

hi ron
this years max show started out wednesday set up day was exciting people running all over the place looking for the sleeper of the show sold a few things that day then thursday was also decent selling so was friday then saterday came and it completly slowed down to a snail guess it was the jewish holidays friday saterday then it was over not much street people it has beenm a dealers show for the last eight years i did better last year but still was great getting to see old friends and have dinner well have to get ready to go to las vegas and you all know what happens in vegas stays in vegas then back to new york for my sixty aniversery ask me how i did it when kids get married in todays world maybe a month back to mommy whats wrong with this picture ok guys smile and dave will snap your picture god bless andy militarynut

... found a few more ,,might as well add.

love that Sicilian ring!!!!

Not a bad show really.. Just one of the worst years for Rings of any type.. Most prevalent,,was US campaign / field made rings,,,and they were selling!..
Oh well, lets see what next years brings,,or the SOS [which I no longer go to] .... still a site to see if you never have been. A museum you can buy at!!

n

So, there were very few HRs and PP rings at the show.. They are very hard to find.. You've got to look through row after row, table after table,,you got to look in the corners of a case, they are small and hard to find. Some partially covered by something else.. Even worse was CuffLinks! I don't think I saw one pair of German cufflinks at all!

When you really think about it we should be very glad for what we have. These rings were small, valuable, easy to carry around,,easy to hide.. And directly after the war a tiny bit of silver like a ring could feed you for a days meal! I find it amazing that these what we have survived! I'm grateful for what I have and do my best to take care of them...

OK guys,,until next year ,,,hope you enjoyed the photos.. Anyone else with photos please feel free to add them on here or on the Community Forum..

Here's 2 old friends,,I promised to post their photo,,here you go guys!!!

Who are the old friends, Gaz ?

Don't know Dave.. They saw me with the camera,,I asked if I could take a shot of his table,,,and he yes but to take a shot of his old friend ,,that they don't get to see much of each other anymore.. told them it would be on GDC, do they know what that is,,,the guy on left seemed to know and was explaining to the other guy when I was walking away..

Seemed to hear a lot of that this year.. Guys saying 'yeah we only get together at the MAX and SOS,,we know each other 30 years, etc. etc. - Same with me. I only see Vinny at the MAX, and Mike K. from here , Andy too some years only at the show sometimes too, auctioneer Bill, etc,, ,and a few others..
We get out at nite,,talk about the past year,if we got anything for our collections,,,have many drinks,, curse,, oogle the pretty girls, , all the stuff we can't do at home

Overall, it was a pretty good show. No worse or better than the last couple years. Hopefully it will start to pick up..., G.

Here?s a couple more. Bill combs always lets me take a photo or two of his Philippines uprising and spam am items, not big movers but I think really cool. And some guns that were next to us, could not load the rifles pic but they were nice. Wish the guy from Hungary would let us post his Feldlazarette ss pz div wiking banner - i would love to know if it was real -but he gave G the third degree about his pictures so that?s that. Still overall the best of the shows imho. I enjoyed it much more than the sos, but to each their own.

hi mike
i believe the reason the european dealer wouldnt let gaspare take a picture of his panzer flag is if some one gets this picture to the right party overseas it could be trouble for him and he cant take that chance also most people including myself dont want any more pictures of our booths or me n family i didnt mind years ago but in the last few years its going toward being politicaly correct we used to be more openly selling and collecting this history but times has changed the free for all is over i could tell you incidents that hapned to me at gun shows military shows over the years not a nice thing but i still stick to my american born rights and i will never change i love my country and i will defend my rights till the cows come home some people they just dont get it snapping a picture of any one that was just told no pictures and he finds out wont be a nice day for some one who doesnt respect outher peoples rights no is no hope i explained it loud n clear this is my honest opinion on what is takeing place at our military n gun shows here in america god bless andy militarynut

Gaspare - thanks for the photos and info. The rings are great to see, even the US Military rings

One last thing I forgot to report on... what the heck was up with all the fake Super Bowl rings?? I was waiting in line on Friday and there was a guy wearing a placard hawking them up and down the line flashing 10 rings on his fingers waving them around like Im in some weird bazaar, reminded me of stuff I saw wandering around Istanbul in the 90s - weird stuff!!

yeah don't get the Super Bowl ring thing,,,and I saw like 3 dealers with them!!

Photo credit WAF:


Everyone emails me ..how big can the show really be!! OK, this photo is of the main room.. It is only about a 1/3 of the one room. Plenty left just in this room alone..

There are 2 other rooms packet with tables/dealers...

Finding a ring in a corner of a dealers case is like finding a needle in a haystack.. Tough. You really got to look. It's very hard.. But you do the best you can do and hopefully you'll find something.. OK guys,,,until next year!!!!!!!!!