I recently listed a rare Romanian W-SS Soldbuch for sale in E-Stands paper section.
I had e-mails from several parties expressing interest & asking to see further scans.
These I supplied. One member apparently didn’t like what he saw in the scans. Instead of e-mailing me personally to express his reservations, he choose to publicly post his views in the same section as the solbuch was listed for sale, instread of a discussion forum elsewhere on the site. This may well have destroyed any chance of a sale.
His comments are hard to understand since he appears unable to put together a coherent sentence. One of his points of contention seems to be that the solbuch number, dog tag number and unit number are all the same number-70.
If he had taken a few minutes to do a little research before damming it as a fake, he might have been able to come up with the following;-
Emilie Caldwell Steward’s book ‘A Collecters Guide to WW2 German Wehrpasses and Soldbuchs’.
Page 107 shows a Luftwaffe Soldbuch. This has a soldbuch number of 142, and a Erkennungsmarke number of 142,
MORE IMPORTANTLY SHE STATES ON PAGE 50 THE FOLLOWING:
The number of the soldbuch appeared at the top of the first page. IT COULD ALSO HAVE BEEN THE HOLDER’S IDENTITY DISC NUMBER OR HIS UNIT PAYROLL NUMBER. In other words all 3 numbers could be the same.
He also claimed the stampings look post war.
I might also add that I have had this soldbuch since the late 1960’s. Back then soldbuchs were not worth much money, not that many people collected them & as a result they were not yet being faked.
So after a few seconds of examining the scans I sent him, this so called expert declares the soldbuch a fake & posts it undernearth the item I have for sale.
This soldbuch is an excellent example of a small obscure unit that was still forming up in the last months of the war, & as such does not have that many entries in it. I stand by this piece unconditionally.
I thank the moderator for correctly stating that this was not the correct venue for discussing it’s merits.
Would other members care to comment?
I think Mr. SpanischeSS of somewhere USA ows me an apology.
Sincerely,
DWG
I had e-mails from several parties expressing interest & asking to see further scans.
These I supplied. One member apparently didn’t like what he saw in the scans. Instead of e-mailing me personally to express his reservations, he choose to publicly post his views in the same section as the solbuch was listed for sale, instread of a discussion forum elsewhere on the site. This may well have destroyed any chance of a sale.
His comments are hard to understand since he appears unable to put together a coherent sentence. One of his points of contention seems to be that the solbuch number, dog tag number and unit number are all the same number-70.
If he had taken a few minutes to do a little research before damming it as a fake, he might have been able to come up with the following;-
Emilie Caldwell Steward’s book ‘A Collecters Guide to WW2 German Wehrpasses and Soldbuchs’.
Page 107 shows a Luftwaffe Soldbuch. This has a soldbuch number of 142, and a Erkennungsmarke number of 142,
MORE IMPORTANTLY SHE STATES ON PAGE 50 THE FOLLOWING:
The number of the soldbuch appeared at the top of the first page. IT COULD ALSO HAVE BEEN THE HOLDER’S IDENTITY DISC NUMBER OR HIS UNIT PAYROLL NUMBER. In other words all 3 numbers could be the same.
He also claimed the stampings look post war.
I might also add that I have had this soldbuch since the late 1960’s. Back then soldbuchs were not worth much money, not that many people collected them & as a result they were not yet being faked.
So after a few seconds of examining the scans I sent him, this so called expert declares the soldbuch a fake & posts it undernearth the item I have for sale.
This soldbuch is an excellent example of a small obscure unit that was still forming up in the last months of the war, & as such does not have that many entries in it. I stand by this piece unconditionally.
I thank the moderator for correctly stating that this was not the correct venue for discussing it’s merits.
Would other members care to comment?
I think Mr. SpanischeSS of somewhere USA ows me an apology.
Sincerely,
DWG
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