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 FRONT-LEITSTELLE ARMBAND
This is a nice armband (Armbinde), as worn by personnel working in the 'Frontleitstelle' (front control center). The armband shows an interwoven yellow coloured script 'Frontleitstelle' on a light-blue linnen-based background and is executed in a technique similar to the 'BeVo'- weave technique. These armbands are very scarce and almost impossible to find. Nice original armband in very good condition! sold 250
WWII GERMAN FLAK ARTILLERY EM/NCO'S VISOR CAP
Nice quality, privately purchased, Luftwaffe blue/grey, wool/rayon blend construction visor cap features a black, horizontally ribbed, interwoven, mohair centerband, and bright red wool waffenfarbe piping to the crown edge and both the top and bottom edges of the centerband. Original, 2nd pattern, Luftwaffe insignia is complete. Marked under liner to unit. sold 475
WWII GERMAN MARKSMAN'S LANYARD NATIONAL EAGLE SH
First pattern, (circa June 1936-January 1939), national eagle shield for grades one to four marksmen’s lanyards. The insignia consists of a die stamped, matte aluminum, vertical shield shaped base with a pebbled background field and raised outer lip with a high relief, embossed, Wehrmacht style eagle with down swept wings to the center. The reverse of the shield is a mirror image of the obverse and all three original, soldered attachment prongs are intact.
WWII GERMAN RUSSIAN FRONT MEDAL 1941/42
Die struck, alloy construction, medal with a silver washed outer rim and helmet, and a blued center. Nice example.
WWII GERMAN FOUR PLACE MEDAL BAR
Nicely parade mounted Iron Cross 2nd class, KVK with swords, Russian Front Medal and long service medals
WWII GERMAN GOLD WOUND BADGE
Wound Badge in Gold 1939, unmarked, solid backed, thin vertical pin, catch and hinge are separately applied, strong gold finish, excellent condition, These are really getting hard to come by.
WWII GERMAN POLIZEI DOLMETSCHER ARMBAND
Police Interpreter armband. Green cotton/rayon construction with black printed script "Polizei Dolmetscher". Scarce. Looks un unused. sold 235
WWII GERMAN AUXILIARY & SECURITY POLIZEI SCHUMA I
Green cotton construction armband with black printed, Latin script in two lines to the obverse, "Im Dienst der Sicherheitspolizei", (In Service of the Security Police). Unused! sold 230
WWII GERMAN FRENCH OCCUPATION ARMBAND
French occupation DP (Defense Passive) armband. French and nazi stamps, named on the back. No damage. Civil defense. sold 180
WWII GERMAN SILVER WOUND BADGE 107
Roughly, 1 3/4", (4.4 cm), tall, 1 3/8", (3.5cm), wide, vertically oval, standard, 1939 pattern, die struck, solid backed, alloy construction badge with a silver washed finish features an embossed M35 pattern helmet with a high relief, canted, swastika to the center, superimposed over crossed swords on a pebbled base encompassed by an oval laurel leaf wreath. The silver wash is only retained about 25% . The solid reverse has a crimped, soldered, hinge on a rectangular base plate, inset into a rectangular recess, a thin, round, vertical, pin and a soldered, oval base plate, inset into an oval recess, intended for the catch . The reverse of the badge is well marked with the embossed manufacturers formally approved numerical code within an elongated, oval cartouche, "107", indicating manufacture by Carl Wild of Hamburg.