Wasn't sure where to ask,
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Posted 15 April 2019 - 0920 AM
Wasn't sure where to ask,
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Posted 15 April 2019 - 0929 AM
If I remember rightly from After the Battles superb article on wartime Berlin, they are boxes for Iron Crosses. I presume they got a job lot in for the glorious last stand of the 3rd Reich. Although on reflection they dont look like Iron crosses. Wound badges maybe?
Ive a feeling they said that this is the Reich's Chancellery, but I wont swear to it.
Edited by Stuart Galbraith, 15 April 2019 - 0930 AM.
Posted 15 April 2019 - 0946 AM
Medal boxes yes. Decorations were presented with a nice cardboard box and a deed (instrument? document? certificate? Urkunde) of ownership.
Those dumb red army soldiers seem to have just taken the medals inside inside instead of the complete sets. Sheesh, no clue about collector value.
Posted 15 April 2019 - 0948 AM
Thanks guys.
Posted 15 April 2019 - 1020 AM
have a few hundred of those . . . . with boxes
Posted 15 April 2019 - 1021 AM
well DDR actually
like everything I have collected not worth anything but silly ebay crap prices
Posted 15 April 2019 - 1043 AM
They appear to be Faithful service medals
http://quanonline.co...ful_service.php
Small wonder there were so many left over, since the Fuhrer discovered at the 11th hour that the Germans were unworthy of him...
Posted 16 April 2019 - 0315 AM
Yeah looks like that to me. Good find.
Supposedly around the same time he asked the LSSAH to hand in their cuff titles. So they handed them in, in a latrine bucket. Ungrateful bugger.
well DDR actually
like everything I have collected not worth anything but silly ebay crap prices
Ive a collection of Soviet badges. Tanker 1st class, arm of service cuffs, that kind of thing. I keep meaning to get more, but the market at the militaria shows seems to have dried up of them.
I did get a DDR Helmet for about 30 quid about 15 years ago. Im still pretty pleased about that.
Posted 16 April 2019 - 0633 AM
Yeah looks like that to me. Good find.
Supposedly around the same time he asked the LSSAH to hand in their cuff titles. So they handed them in, in a latrine bucket. Ungrateful bugger.
well DDR actually
like everything I have collected not worth anything but silly ebay crap prices
Ive a collection of Soviet badges. Tanker 1st class, arm of service cuffs, that kind of thing. I keep meaning to get more, but the market at the militaria shows seems to have dried up of them.
I did get a DDR Helmet for about 30 quid about 15 years ago. Im still pretty pleased about that.
you want some ?
you want some ?
cheap !
Posted 16 April 2019 - 0645 AM
Genuine genuine, or Genuine my Mum knocked some of these up in the back room earlier? I might be interested in any Soviet Airforce stuff thats available.
Strikes me its a curious thing we have never had a thread for the the exchange and mart of militaria.
Posted 16 April 2019 - 1539 PM
Yeah looks like that to me. Good find.
Supposedly around the same time he asked the LSSAH to hand in their cuff titles. So they handed them in, in a latrine bucket. Ungrateful bugger.
There's another story, possibly apocryphal, that they sent one back with the arm still attached.
Posted 16 April 2019 - 1915 PM
Yeah looks like that to me. Good find.
Supposedly around the same time he asked the LSSAH to hand in their cuff titles. So they handed them in, in a latrine bucket. Ungrateful bugger.
There's another story, possibly apocryphal, that they sent one back with the arm still attached.
Bearing the name of Götz von Berlinchingen
ETA:
I guess this could be the reason both for the severed arm, and the armband of the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division.
Edited by sunday, 16 April 2019 - 1924 PM.
Posted 17 April 2019 - 0228 AM
And the narrative is that Germans have a limited sense of humour.
Edited by Stuart Galbraith, 17 April 2019 - 0229 AM.
Posted 18 April 2019 - 0640 AM
And the narrative is that Germans have a limited sense of humour.
Really 1st SS Panzer Division was all about the lulz.
Edited by Adam_S, 18 April 2019 - 0640 AM.
Posted 18 April 2019 - 0858 AM
Yeah, its a wonder they didnt have a smiley as a cuff title really.