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Postby Hydealfred » Sun Mar 17, 2013 9:18 pm

A further visit to Chilbolton today turned up this item -

It is the remains of a china bowl with Luftwaffe Insignia made by Villeroy & Boch Mettlach in 1942

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Postby Jigsaw » Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:29 am

That's great. Be nice if it was a complete one :ymapplause:
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Postby Xplumberlives » Mon Mar 18, 2013 2:55 pm

I wonder what the story is behind that? :-o
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Re: Chilbolton

Postby Hydealfred » Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:38 pm

Xplumberlives wrote:I wonder what the story is behind that? :-o


All I can think is that it was brought back from Germany by returning air or ground crew. It was a nice find :)
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