It was an extremly lucky week for me. I got one of the most scarce ID tags.
A replacement POW tag for female Armia Krajowa officer from Warsaw Uprising. There were only perhaps 2-3 hundred of these issued to female officers and senior NCOs transported from Stalag 318 Lamsdorf to IV B Muhlberg and later Molsdorf. Due to shortage of tags in Stalag 318 this very POW transport was issued replacemnt card tag made of pink cartonboard cut from file binders. Actually they never received proper metal id tags until end of the war. As these are made of thick paper and do not look very spectacular very very few survived until now.
I was looking for one of these since many years and yes
yes yes! I got it for as much as 5 Euro this week!
Intrestingly owner of this tag became a member of 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade when released from the camp by the allies.
Al
A replacement POW tag for female Armia Krajowa officer from Warsaw Uprising. There were only perhaps 2-3 hundred of these issued to female officers and senior NCOs transported from Stalag 318 Lamsdorf to IV B Muhlberg and later Molsdorf. Due to shortage of tags in Stalag 318 this very POW transport was issued replacemnt card tag made of pink cartonboard cut from file binders. Actually they never received proper metal id tags until end of the war. As these are made of thick paper and do not look very spectacular very very few survived until now.
I was looking for one of these since many years and yes
yes yes! I got it for as much as 5 Euro this week!Intrestingly owner of this tag became a member of 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade when released from the camp by the allies.
Al
Something I haven't seen.
Always nice when you have something and you know the personal history behind the item.
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