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Silver Skull for the 17th Infantry Regiment (Item WEHR 19-4)
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| DESCRIPTION: This was another project that our elderly German jeweler was commissioned for. See “About Our Rings” for details on how we were able to purchase these various silver ‘gems’ form him at the Stuttgart Waffenborse (military show). It is a fascinating and true story. These skulls in genuine fine silver are highly detailed and marked clearly (‘800). The designation number can be found stamped at the edge of the right cross-bone extensions. The badge was to be worn between the National Service Eagle and the wreath with cockade on the officer’s cap of the 17 the Infantry Regiment. This a traditions badge death’s head. The 17th was an elite group of Sturmtruppen (Storm Troops in WWI) and their legend went on in WWII. The insignia of the 17th as elite front-line, tough combatants was the skull on their flags during the Freikorps period as well. The badge is scarce even in zinc or white metal and the silver version was made only by our famed jeweler of the bygone Reich. It is bout 1 inch tall and 1 inch across the cross bones. This is a very fine and scarce insignia of elite troops of both wars.
PRICE: $125.00
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German Army Sport Shirt Patch (Item WEHR 19-5)
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| DESCRIPTION: Always impressive this is the official sport-shirt patch for the German (Das Heer). It is edge sewn and ready for application to the shirt. It’s in very fine condition. It measure 9 inches long and 5 inches top to bottom.
PRICE: $58.00
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Wound Badge in Silver (Item WEHR 19-7)
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is the silver Wound Badge in very good condition. Adolf Hitler ordered the reinstitution of the Verwundeten Abzeichen for German volunteers who received combat–related wounds in the Spanish Civil War and then with the outbreak of European hostilities on September 1, 1939, Hitler again reinstituted the Wound Badge effective that same date. The award in black metal was for one or two wounds, silver for three or four wounds, and gold for 5 or more. In this case the one we offer is in silver metal (not genuine silver). It measures 1 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches.
PRICE: $135.00
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1944 Wound Badge Stickpin (Item WEHR 19-8; AH 16-3; PINS 4-25)
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is a miniature 1944 Wound Badge in the form of a stickpin. It you read the section called “About Our Rings,” you will see a synopsis of how we bought a fabulous collection of jewelry, insignia, etc., in Stuttgart, Germany a few years ago. This stickpin in multiples was found in the huge grouping. The reason there were so many of these found is that our elderly jeweler made these up soon after the 1944 badge was authorized. BIG MISTAKE. He had thought that the stickpin would be highly thought of and could be proudly worn by people who would seek to honor their leader’s escape from death at the hands of the vile traitors of July 20, 1944. But, after making them and perhaps selling a few to clients, he was visited by the Geheimefeldpolizei, (German Military Secret Police) and cautioned to refrain from producing anymore of these pins for public consumption. At the time, he turned over about 100 of the pins to the officials and we would guess that actual recipients did end up owning one of these. The problem as it was explained to him was that this was almost a sacred item (the actual badge) and regardless of the patriot’s intent, this badge (or any semblance of it) could only be worn by the actual recipients. The actual badge was struck by the C.E. Junker firm in Berlin and only 47 badges were known to have been awarded. The miniature was intended to be sold to Junker, but this intervention by the Army Police curtailed any thoughts of marketing these miniatures at all. So we are told by this jeweler’s son that possibly 200 were made by his father. The dies were destroyed or turned over to the police, but the ones we managed to buy were all that were left. The detail is astounding and the letters on the front of the badge stand right out and could be read in Braille. They are so perfect the ‘800’ for silver content is clearly stamped on the back. We believe the Germans who bought 1/3 of the grouping have a couple struck in genuine gold, but we have only the silver version at this time.
PRICE: $179.00
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Book Mit dem K durch Frankreich, With K through France
(Item WEHR 19-9)
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a really great book for those interested in the glory days of the Third Reich. The book is a photographic synopsis of the early WWII exploits of General of Cavalry Ewald von Kleist and others, such as Guderian and Hoeppner and their valiant soldiers as they stormed across France The book consists of 243 pages, 98 percent of which contain 8 x 5 1/2-inch size pictures of all the action, the leaders, the battles, the guns, and the enemy prisoners; some of them quite ludicrous looking compared with the dashing Heerssoldaten of the Wehrmacht.
PRICE: $225.00
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(Bilderfulge) Mappe, Folio of Art Prints, Presentation (Item WEHR 19-10)
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is what I perceive to be an absolutely great assemblage of fantastic art prints--21 in all—assembled in a decorative folder made to accommodate them. The prints measure about 8 1/4 x 6 inches and are individually mounted on heavy vellum paper stock. Some are in color, but everyone of them is a masterful and realistic depiction of the war in the east. The name of the folio is Panzergrenadiere and the subjects covered in the drawings are depictions of tanks, armored vehicles, and grenadiers (soldiers) in their battle for Europe. The cover to me is most interesting as it shows a grenadier of the era of Frederick the Great as he advances with bayonet and musket, while directly underneath is the Panzer halftrack rushing to battle carrying the new grenadiers. The folio, or Mappe, is presented to the company chief and captain at Gleiwitz in the War Christmas in 1943, by the Stamm.-Komp. Panzer Grenadier Regt 110. The presentation is accomplished by hand calligraphy. There is some wear to the cover’s edges, but the prints are all in perfect shape. Gleiwitz, the place where this presentation was made, is possibly the place where WWII started. This is where the German radio station was attacked by Polish troops killing the radio operators. The usual liberal anti-German writers say this was staged by SS officers Alfred Naujocks, Heinrich Müller, and Reinhard Heydrich. The announcement to the Poles living in Silesia was to strike against the Germans; and strike they did. There were terrible massacres against the German minority all through Poland. Yes, on all the web sites you will see the information that it was an elaborate Nazi plan to have an excuse to invade Poland, but there is another side, and if you are interested enough possibly you should look into it. Usually, the winners write the history at for the next 100 years after a war.
PRICE: $295.00; a real bargain
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Book Deutsche Ringen um den Osten, German Struggle for the East (Item WEHR 19-11; POL 1-16)
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is one great book that spells out the German agenda of Lebenstraum. There are 163 fine black-and-white pictures and text tracing Germany’s expansionist aims from the time of the Teutonic knights at Marienburg to the Russo-German Pact of 1939. The book was presented as a congratulatory prize from the teachers and classmates to a student they wished to honor. The school is the First Police School Class C of 1942-43 at the protectorate police establishment in Moravia. The signatures are all Czechs, who worked as policemen for the German liberators in the 1940s. The chief policeman and Reich protector of Bohemia and Moravia in former Czechoslovakia was none other than Obergruppenführer-SS Reinhard Tristan Heydrich. He was murdered by British-trained assassins on May 27, 1942. Many Czechs served in the German police formations fighting against the Czech communist resistance movement. The book has 355 pages and measures 9 x 11 1/2 inches and is in very good condition. This is an extremely important historically and considered rare, even in Germany.
PRICE: $350.00
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Skull Ring (Item WEHR 19-12; WAF 5-12)
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a ring that may well be a “West Wall ring.” This style, among other motifs, was commonly worn by soldiers of the West Wall (Siegfried Line). The angle of the skull, unlike so many skull-decorated rings of the German services, looks to the left when viewed. This is why we feel that it might be the style for the alt="Wehrmacht". Note in our pictures that the SS skulls of the second type look to the left and are very definitely not looking straight at you. This ring was designed by the jeweler that we have noted in our narrative found at “About Our Rings”. We were told that by his son after the father passed on. The floral design at the sides is usual on West Wall rings. The ring probably was not exclusive for the SS, but there is a probability that because of its design it may well have been favored by them. This is a good-looking elite-forces ring, in any case.
PRICE: $235.00
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West Wall Ring (Siegfried Line) (Item WEHR 19-13)
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| DESCRIPTION: The West Wall was what the Germans commonly called the Siegfried Line. It, of course, played a crucial role in the bitter fighting of 1944 and 1945 in northwest Europe. It was constructed in the period immediately after the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936. The wall stretched for 300 miles from Cleve in the north to the Swiss border and consisted of some 14,000 pillboxes. The wall initially blunted the U.S. assault and Adolf Hitler used it as a foundation from which to launch the Ardennes offensive. Many thousands of German soldiers served at one time or another on ‘The Wall.’ It is easy to understand that they needed something other than the Defense Wall Medal to commemorate their service there. The answer?—a “ring.” There were many designs for these rings, but the most favored of all was the leering skull that had been the symbol of Germany’s crack military formations down through the ages. These soldiers of the West Wall were doubly proud because they were under the command of the illustrious and beloved Field Marshal Rommel, who was in charge of West Wall defenses. Another pattern of this type ring can be seen at Item WEHR 3-2. The one at Item WEHR 3-2, in our opinion, is a better-looking model, but this is also a rare edition, as well. There are markings inside the ring, but not too clearly defined ‘835’ and a tiny logo contained in a rectangular formation. The skull is ugly, but doubtlessly is meant to be.
PRICE: $195.00
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