The Essential DDR Collection

[jon m.]

Genosse Kozlov DRIVES the duty car... (Of course this is only true when the duty car is not broken down = sabotaged by aggressive imperialists)
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And when it is broken down it is out of action for some time.......those capitalists know that the SSSR Kent lacks the appropriate spare parts......

[Kozlov]

Has Genosse Kozlov invoked the capitalist "laws" of supply and demand? Shocking!

Genosse, "the Capitalists shall sell us the rope with which we shall hang them" - Lenin

[iannima]

WHICH reference book to buy (remember that there are THREE editions of the Keubke Kunz book alone).

Today I finally received my copy of the first edition of the Keubke Kunz book. Until now I had used the second, limited run, edition acquired at great expense from Dresden in 2003. As you can see the format of the older book (on the right) is slightly smaller...



But the big difference is in the illustrations inside:



In the newer edition it appears that illustrations have been scanned and fitted six to a page, whilst only three were to be found in any one page of the old edition. Aside from oddities like corners cut etc., the end result is a much smaller figure... There are obviously some mistakes: e.g. the officer in the centre is wrongly identified as the Unteroffizier on the right ( an obvious case of mismatched labels). But in general, the older edition appears to have many more illustrations than the newer one. There is a bound to be quite a bit of repetition, and because these are illustrations with mistakes, they cannot be taken as evidence in the same way that a photograph can... but on the whole, given the choice, I prefer the older edition. But that is probably because I don't care that much about the KVP, and what they proposed to do with the uniforms in 1990 is best not referred to in polite society...

[robertdmountfor]

I am sure that many have seen or heard of the "essential" collections and compilations in regards to recording artists and in literature and film. If a collector were to limit himself due to space and economic restraints knowing that he cannot have it all what would be include in the essential DDR collection? Let's say for instance that one limited him or herself to 100 items - what would such a collection contain?

Is there any value in a DDR sign, I picked it up in 91, Berlin. 'Halt Staatsgrenze Passieren Verboten' Cream with red border, and the awful DDR emblem in middle. About 2 foot by 1 and a half.

[Katze Felix]

Is there any value in a DDR sign, I picked it up in 91, Berlin. 'Halt Staatsgrenze Passieren Verboten' Cream with red border, and the awful DDR emblem in middle. About 2 foot by 1 and a half.

Yes such a sign, if original has some value, many members of this forum have
purchased such things on ebay.de and elsewhere. I do not have a sign like that but would probably purchase one if the price were justifiable. Such things
as signs are true ephemera and were never intended to be saved or collected,
this is the great allure to those of us infected with the "bug". I think it was Voltaire who said "There is nothing more necessary than the un-necessary."
Viewed by the outsider we who collect seem to be rather taken by what seems
to be marginal and trivial.