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Soldier's Album in Beautiful Condition (Item WEHR 7-1) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is possibly the best-condition soldier's album we have seen out of hundreds. Even the little black, white, and red retaining cord is in mint condition. The size is 16 ½ x 8 inches and a little over an inch thick. This is a completely full album. It documents with 123 photos the career of one soldier of the Reich from his RAD-Labor service through his early Wehrmacht training and camp experiences up to 1939, when he is in action in Poland. Most of the pictures-85 percent-are Wehrmacht connected and only a few are of landscapes, girlfriends, mascot, hiking in the mountain, hunting, etc. All in all this is a very nice Soldaten Dienstbuch.
PRICE: $275.00 SOLD |
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Rare Wehrmacht Portfolios of Wartime Prints (Item WEHR 7-2) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is possibly one of the most important items historically that we have ever offered on this page or, for that matter, no one else has ever offered anything like it that we have ever taken notice of. This would be called a Bilderfolge or picture portfolio. It is incredibly complete with 135 beautiful, (astoundingly) beautiful prints on heavy print paper stock of the early campaigns in France, Holland, and Belgium. The title of this portfolio is "The Way of the Army Group von Küchler" in the West. It is in two separate folders-first volume and second volume. It says 68 prints per folder on count. We noticed that there might be (one print) missing or we counted wrong and perhaps they are all there. The folders are in rather rough shape, but they are at least there. However, the prints are all in 100 percent excellent + condition. General Field Marshal Georg von Küchler, Commander of the Third Army (Armee von Küchler) led his troops to victory after victory in the early warfare on the eastern front and this is the photo-documentary history of this victorious path. The pictures are phenomenal; taken by war photographers during the Third Reich. Here is the record. Here is the glory. An archival treasure chest. Here is a chance for some entrepreneur to publish this in book form. To our knowledge no one has done this with this portfolio set. The pictures seem to be unique. We have never seen any of them published before and we have purchased practically every Third Reich and Wehrmacht book published in the last 35 years or more.
PRICE: $595.00; a bargain! |
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Souvenir of Heldengedanktag 16 March 1941 (Item WEHR 7-3) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a little souvenir photo folder put together as a remembrance of Heroes Day held in the little town of Gadenstedt in the war year of 1941. It consists of 15 photos of a remembrance ceremony to honor the fallen of this town in WWI. There is a gathering of townspeople and also a troop of Wehrmacht soldiers who carry on the remembrance ceremony at the memorial to the heroes of the Great War. This is a fine collection of original unpublished photos and a fine archival collection worthy of preservation.
PRICE: SOLD |
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German Africa Corps Ring (Item WEHR 7-4) |
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| DESCRIPTION: The title is almost a misnomer as there was no official Africa Corps (AC) ring. The ones that turn up are usually made by native Moroccans and were sold to the men of the AC as souvenirs of the great desert conflict.
There were several types of these and hitherto they have been considered quite rare and of course highly sought after. Now, because of a find in Germany, it is now possible for collectors to have one of these very scarce rings. As you know, if you have read about some of our other rings and jewelry, we were able to procure several years back a large group of some of the finest rings, brooches, pins, and amulets produced in some of the famous workshops of the Third Reich. This fabulous purchase was made at the Stuttgart, Germany Waffenborse, or arms show, which we faithfully attend each year. An elderly gentleman was there a few years ago with his son and we were informed that he is an ex-jewelry finisher and designer and that he had worked for several of the companies. We were also told by his son, who spoke English, that the father had a vast collection of jewelry that he had stored away and had also liberated in the true sense of the word from the workshops just before looting by the Russians. The story of how he got into these sealed-off areas is fascinating and intriguing on its own. Some of the companies that he carted away things from are Wilm-Berlin, Wagner-Berlin, Godet, and others. One of the companies he worked for was a specialty company doing orders on demand for other companies and also for individuals and groups. The small company that he worked directly for was Paul Kramer in Ludenscheid, where he designed tinnies, plaques, insignia, rings, and other NS jewelry. He also worked with Joseph Baver and Söhne in Zell Thuringen and Steinlauer and Lück. He told us that after the Africa Corps returned to the Heimatland (Germany) at the end of its noble battles, many of the men, because of their particular deployment, never got a chance to purchase one of these native-made rings that were so coveted. Realizing this and being able to borrow one or two of these rings from AC veterans, our man decided that he would produce the very same ring while in the employ of Kramer in Ludenscheid. The ring he produced is exactly the same as the ones made by the Moroccans except that German requirements mandated that the silver content shows within the ring. The 835 is stamped in the interior of the shank. This ring is a fairly elaborate piece with construction in silver with an overlay in gold that seems to be separate pieces of silver soldered on with a palm tree and mosque on the sides in gold. The top has a palm tree with swastika and "DAK" (Deutsche Afrika Korps) all in a group in gold. The ring is German made, but except for the 835 mark, it looks exactly like the Moroccan ones. This item is an extremely historically important and beautiful relic of the desert war and the brave men who fought it. PRICE: $385.00 |
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German Africa Corps Ring (Item WEHR 7-5) |
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| DESCRIPTION: The title is almost a misnomer as there was no official Africa Corps (AC) ring. The ones that turn up are usually made by native Moroccans and were sold to the men of the AC as souvenirs of the great desert conflict.
There were several types of these and hitherto they have been considered quite rare and of course highly sought after. Now, because of a find in Germany, it is now possible for collectors to have one of these very scarce rings. As you know, if you have read about some of our other rings and jewelry, we were able to procure several years back a large group of some of the finest rings, brooches, pins, and amulets produced in some of the famous workshops of the Third Reich. This fabulous purchase was made at the Stuttgart, Germany Waffenborse, or arms show, which we faithfully attend each year. An elderly gentleman was there a few years ago with his son and we were informed that he is an ex-jewelry finisher and designer and that he had worked for several of the companies. We were also told by his son, who spoke English, that the father had a vast collection of jewelry that he had stored away and had also liberated in the true sense of the word from the workshops just before looting by the Russians. The story of how he got into these sealed-off areas is fascinating and intriguing on its own. Some of the companies that he carted away things from are Wilm-Berlin, Wagner-Berlin, Godet, and others. One of the companies he worked for was a specialty company doing orders on demand for other companies and also for individuals and groups. The small company that he worked directly for was Paul Kramer in Ludenscheid, where he designed tinnies, plaques, insignia, rings, and other NS jewelry. He also worked with Joseph Baver and Söhne in Zell Thuringen and Steinlauer and Lück. He told us that after the Africa Corps returned to the Heimatland (Germany) at the end of its noble battles, many of the men, because of their particular deployment, never got a chance to purchase one of these native-made rings that were so coveted. Realizing this and being able to borrow one or two of these rings from AC veterans, our man decided that he would produce the very same ring while in the employ of Kramer in Ludenscheid. The ring he produced is exactly the same as the ones made by the Moroccans except that German requirements mandated that the silver content shows within the ring. The 835 is stamped in the interior of the shank. This is fairly simple ring and is the style that was sold by the Moroccans for a far cheaper price. It is the type most encountered in war-relic collections. It certainly was the ring most distributed in Africa. Our man faithfully produced some of these as well to every single specification of the native-made rings. The top is done in the Toledo gold overlay with the palm tree and “DAK” for Deutsche Afrika Korps 1941 with the swastika in the center of the tree. There is an inscription in Arabic above and below the palm. On the right side is a depiction of a camel and on the left a palm, again. A handsome ring and an important relic of the desert war. PRICE: $225.00 |
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