Vierville's collection of war objects scattered at auction

Three hundred pieces and lots from a collection of war objects collected in the Omaha Beach area were sold on a Sunday in Vierville. After the closure of a private exhibition in 1993, the municipality had bought the whole in the hope of opening a museum. Since the project was not successful, the municipal council had chosen the auction.

The party hall turned out to be too small for collectors from all over France. Under the hammer of Me Régis Bailleul, all the lots are gone. Expert Gaëtan Brunel judged the pieces to be unexceptional individually, but representative of the region, the period and their histories.

The auctions cited were four thousand francs for the uniform of a soldier of the 29th division; 2,050 francs for a paratrooper gas mask; two thousand francs for a French outfit; two thousand for a batch of signs in German; 3,800 for an aviator parachute; 3,500 for a German regulatory bicycle; and 280 francs for a pack of cigarettes. The collection was thus scattered, while the report highlighted the persistence of the memory of the Landing.

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