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Originally Posted by Frank Kelley
the market is being driven and has been for sometime, the Dutch are largely responsible for it
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Not sure I can completely agree with that. To my knowledge only a handful of Dutch are interested in British Airborne, because they played an important role in our liberation, and most of them are forum members here.
The real reason behind the price hike are in my humble opinion the former German SS collectors who find either originals too expensive or can't discern between originals and fakes anymore, and switch to collecting British Airborne because they consider it equally 'sexy' but still relatively unspoiled and affordable. Now some of those may be Dutch as well, I'm afraid, but certainly not the majority.
Rgds, Thomas.