Paul Reed Posted 19 January , 2005 Share Posted 19 January , 2005 I have seen it all now: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...6146946863&rd=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen White Posted 19 January , 2005 Share Posted 19 January , 2005 Hmmmmm,think i'll pass on that one.It'll be interesting to see if they recieve any bids !!. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchwalker Posted 19 January , 2005 Share Posted 19 January , 2005 well if albert can sell dirt in the museum whats next fragment of bone found at the but de warlencourt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkristof Posted 19 January , 2005 Share Posted 19 January , 2005 For sale: Passchendaele mud ! original!!! only 1£ for 1 pound Broodseinde ridge soil!! 1,5£ a pound (with 1 shrapnell lead ball included) On request we can get more Salient soil. the Salient souvenir soil compagny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Posted 19 January , 2005 Share Posted 19 January , 2005 Pual, Did you not hear the news item recently? someone one was selling Tsunami(?) water by the phall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 19 January , 2005 Share Posted 19 January , 2005 What's so unusual about this item? After the war, the French sold "Sacred Soil", I think it was called, from various battlefields that where in neat pottery containers copying those markers with the helmets on that still can be found today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkristof Posted 19 January , 2005 Share Posted 19 January , 2005 Andrew, you are my sales manager! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Poilu Posted 19 January , 2005 Share Posted 19 January , 2005 Andrew is absolutely right, see this thread for some pictures: http://1914-1918.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=9188&hl=earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkristof Posted 19 January , 2005 Share Posted 19 January , 2005 Gilles, that is true. BUT the sacred soil was sold to help war veterans and war invalids. The "jar" were it is in was a collectable to. It was more a symbolic buy. I think this sale is completely different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDick Posted 19 January , 2005 Share Posted 19 January , 2005 Damn! I was after a tablespoonful of Loose soil for my garden. Ho, hum! Maybe next time. Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbie Posted 19 January , 2005 Share Posted 19 January , 2005 It's rather difficult to see from the picture whether the soil comes with a nice container. Robbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIGEL Posted 19 January , 2005 Share Posted 19 January , 2005 On a serious point ( me ). Laugh while you can, because it wont be long before someone will start to offer more sinister battlefied substances for sale on ebay. Maybe one of a long lost relative, kind of aint funny any more is it ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted 20 January , 2005 Share Posted 20 January , 2005 A year or so ago the RSL (Returned & Services League)in Australia was selling beach sand from Gallipoli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Beckett Posted 20 January , 2005 Share Posted 20 January , 2005 Links to the sand that Andrew mentioned http://www.militaryshop.com.au/hersun300304b.htm http://www.militaryshop.com.au/cantime190304.htm Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harribobs Posted 20 January , 2005 Share Posted 20 January , 2005 In the Russo-Japanese war, the battle for Port Arthur was a particularly bloody affair in which the Japanese won by the sheer weight of numbers thrown at the russian defenses. Hill 203 was the scene of the worst of the battle. Afterwards the Japanese scraped the (blood-soaked) topsoil off the hill, transported it back to Japan and made sake cups and flasks in commemoration of the dead, it's not clear whether these were made for the NOK or just sold chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CGI Posted 21 January , 2005 Share Posted 21 January , 2005 Have a look at this beauty : a "Sand of Gallipoli Display Unit". http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V...7127505535&rd=1 Unf***ing believable. CGI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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