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October 2002 - From Ed DeLong, LCDR USN (Ret.)
I am a new member of SCI whose stein collection has its roots in the
1950s
during my military service. The two photos below show some of the
steins in my
collection.
The stein second from left above was presented by a captain in the
Dutch Navy.
His family had owned the stein since 1930. The six steins to the right
of that
one were all presented to me by members of the German navy in 1950 when
we were
recommissioning German wooden coal-burning minesweepers for the Labor
Service
Unit which was in response to East Germany's People's Navy. The skull
was
purchased in Heidelberg, again in 1950.
The steins shown below are more recent acquisitions, as I try to add
one or two
steins to my collection with each trip to Germany.
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