Mud and forest

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Inside this issue

1. Location
2. Fryšava 1945
3. Dog tags

Historical introduction: prices, events and dates refer to the original publication.

Dear readers,

The fourth issue of Detektor Revue has finally been printed and is currently on its way to your letterboxes. As usual, for those of you who do not have a subscription to the magazine, we are providing a small taster. To begin with, our colleague Pupajz will introduce you to a hoard of silver coins which he managed to find in a forgotten, overgrown field. Below is UCe’s report from his festive treasure-hunting expedition. In Michael Kročák’s competition entry, you can read about his first encounter with the world of metal detecting. A collector of dog tags, our colleague Kočičák, has written a lovely essay for you on an interesting field of collecting – the collecting of dog tags. This time, Lišák has set you the task of restoring a railway police breastplate. Acci’s personal experience of the exhumation of German graves from the end of the war in Fryšava is chilling proof of the proverbial skeletons in the cupboard, which heavily taint our understanding of modern history. This is followed by an introduction to the Teknetics Alpha 2000 metal detector, a detailed study by researcher Jan Škarka on the 15 cm heavy cannon model 15/16, and the ‘Snippets’ section, which we introduced in the previous issue. At a foreign auction, we discovered a gem in the form of Reinhard Heydrich’s Dagger of Honour and decided it was worth sharing. This loose continuation of Antonín Gibiš’s research, which charts the Czechoslovak Legions and the period of the First World War, will introduce us to the story of a forgotten general, followed by a description of the discovery of interesting badges in the Sudetenland. To round things off, we’ve prepared a short story by our colleague Kim, who always manages to surprise us whenever he puts pen to paper. Following his own, now legendary, treasure-hunting horror story, he came up with a new genre: the treasure-hunting-erotic.

As a new feature – and certainly a welcome bonus – we are introducing a video gallery to complement some of the articles. With UC, you can experience authentic moments when discovering breastplates, and accompanying the Accim article on Fryšava is an exclusive video of the exhumation work carried out in 1994. Further videos will be added over time.

You can find the videos at www.detektorykovu.cz/video