Sold Gallery
These pages display a number of the rare items that I have had the pleasure of selling. To view more details and a larger photograph please click on the thumbnail picture.
WWII GERMAN INFANTRY SS-OBERSTURMBANNFUHRER'S SH
Slip on shoulder board in interwoven matte, silver/aluminum Russian braid with white rayon waffenfarbe mounted on a black wool base. Comes with certificate from Bill Shea of The Ruptured Duck.
WWI GERMAN TWO PLACE MEDAL BAR
Group consists of an EK2 and a Hindenburg Cross w/swords complete with pin back device.
WWII GERMAN RUSSIAN FRONT MEDAL 110
Nice medal with ribbon, ring is marked 110 and ribbon is sewn across the top.110 is for Otto Zappe, Gablonz a.d.N.
WWII GERMAN TWENTY-FIVE YEAR FAITHFUL SERVICE DEC
A second class, die struck alloy decoration with nickel-silver plated highlights, a frosted white finish and a black enamel swastika. The decoration is in the form of a cross Pattée with a circular oak-leaf wreath extending between the arms of the cross. The center of the cross has a square plate with a black enameled static swastika to the obverse, and the embossed Gothic script to the reverse, "Für treue Dienste" (For Loyal Service). The arms of the cross have a slightly textured background field with a smooth, dual stepped, raised outer edge. Complete with original ribbon with pin-back device.
WWII GERMAN NSRL/DRL BRONZE SPORTS BADGE IN CLOTH
This cloth version of the award, which would have been sewn to an athletic uniform, has, machine woven in bronze-colored threads to its black rayon base, an eagle with down-swept wings and a black, mobile swastika to its breast. The eagle is encircled by a bronze-colored, 60mm diameter ring. Excellent condition.
WWII GERMAN MADE HUNGARIAN VOLUNTEER SHIELD
This is a nice example of the colorful, 'BeVo-woven' armshield, as intended for a Hungarian volunteers within the 'Wehrmacht', depicting the interwoven 'BeVo - Wuppertal' makers'-mark, in very nice mint, unissued condition. The shield comes unfolded and complete: A nice and 100% original example intended for a volunteer in the 'Hungarian Legion'!
WWII GERMAN NEBELTRUPPEN EM/NCO VISOR CAP SMOKE
This is a beautiful example of a private purchase Em/Nco peaked cap piped Bordeaux Red for “Smoke Troops” Nice quality, private purchase, field-grey, wool construction cap with blue/green badge cloth centerband and Bordeaux Red wool waffenfarbe to crown edge and top and bottom of centerband. Don't miss this one, you always see the officers .
WWII GERMAN CLOSE COMBAT BADGE S&L
Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade – S & L - unmarked clasp by maker Steinhauer & Luck, Lüdenscheid, in silvered zinc, slightly vaulted, good quality clasp with good details and plating, with missing plate, in unworn condition.
WWII GERMAN HEIM INS REICH PENNANT
This is 8 x 12 inches and signed by many soldiers. The Heim ins Reich “back home to the Reich” was a foreign policy beginning in 1938. The aim of Hitler’s initiative was to convince all Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) who were living outside Nazi Germany (Austria, Czechoslovakia and the western districts of Poland) that they should strive to bring these regions “home” into Greater Germany, but also, relocate from territories that were not under German control, following the conquest of Poland in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet pact.
WWII GERMAN PANZER MARKSMANSHIP LANYARD BADGE
Constructed of aluminum, with four original reverse attachment prongs intact, unmarked.