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[kimchi_pizza]

Ok folks! Need some feedback, MODS invited.

Now I've been reading and researching the Korean War for over a decade
now and it's taken me every where. And while it's been grand and great and
I hope to compile and publish all that I've learned, but now, for me to continue,
I need help.

Based on time, energy and resources spent it's been a lot. Time and energy I
still have but not the resources so I'm now at the point of thinking of selling the
relics that I've collected just to help finance further travels and research.

Just so that you know, I've got the "ok" from Korean military officials to do what I do with
some "conditions" and I turn in/report any and all objects related to exploded
ordinance and human remains. I even help out Korean and U.S. agencies, but
with only a "job well done" and a handshake. I make NO earnings/profit from
what I do and that's fine.

So I possess NOTHING hazardous or related to the remains of honorable soldiers
that gave their lives.

Share your opinions, debate on the ethics of selling war relics. Spare no
opinion!

p.s. it's either I sell them online or turn them in for scrap metal which I'm willing
to do. Yes, I am THAT destitute!

[sojukettle]

Nothing wrong with selling war relics.
Heck, you can even buy military medals at coin dealers or auctions.

I'd be interested in what you have.

sk.

[kimchi_pizza]

That's right and I agree. I know if you go on a DMZ tour, they sell snipets of
the barbed wire for an hefty price. I come across that all the time.
The objects I have that I'm willing to sell because I have too many are things
like M-1 Garand clips, Chinese/N.K. stripper clips, casings (already primed and
harmless) and slugs out the yinyang, Chinese uniform buttons, discarded food
cans and packs, etc....
Some of the more rare objects are things like Chinese rice bowls and old asian tobacco pipes.
I know I can sell the brass casings and copper coated slugs for scrap but...
I just would hate to do that.

[sojukettle]

I am curious about how you go about this - do you use a metal detector?
Just wander around and fossick with a trowel at likely spots?

I have watched some of the documentaries about the Korean War, and with the ebb and flow of the battles up and down the peninsula, there must be a lot of stuff still lying around in many places.

Very interesting.

I would, of course, want the rarer things that you have found

cheers
sk.

[kimchi_pizza]

I do use a metal detector and like you said, the Korean War flowed back
and forth several times and it covered the width of the penninsula. If you
practically walk 50 feet from your front door with a metal detector, you're
apt to find something!
BUT you may also find something you may not wish to mess with. Just a
kilometer away from my apt and school I found and unexploded mortar
shell so...best to be careful and be sure of what you're doing. Please.

Alas my good man, the more rare and special objects are under a case for
public display~!

[ZIFA]

[kimchi_pizza]