Post your favorite acquisitions of 2012

[Admiraal]

Very nice Soldbücher guys!

[Admiraal]

My favorite acquisition of 2012:

Soldbuch, photo album and post-war driver licence to a Stug soldier.
I showed this soldbuch before in the panzer soldbuch thread.
He was in Sturmgeschütz-Abt. 191 from the beginning and later on went to Sturmgeschütz-Abt. 259.
Last rank was Stabswachtmeister. Highest medal the EKI.
The album shows many Stug photo's.

[Admiraal]

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[Panzer Rob]

Very nice acquisitions, gentlemen

Best,
Rob

[Panzer Rob]

Rob,

I do hope that post # 14 shows "your most favorite acquisition of 2012" and not only for 2012 but for the coming years too.

Best regards

Eric-Jan

EJ-

Nothing in the world could even remotely compare to the joy and happiness she brings us

Best,
Rob

[Ian Jewison]

Rob,

Yes, post 14 is the only one that counts.....you can tell who'se daughter she is and she has your dress sense as well

Perhaps this is a new line of collecting? I have three children

I can not even remember what I have bought this year let alone had the time to research......perhaps in the new year I can add to this thread on collection wise.......

Cheers!
Ian

[Panzer Rob]

Rob,

Yes, post 14 is the only one that counts.....you can tell who'se daughter she is and she has your dress sense as well

Perhaps this is a new line of collecting? I have three children

I can not even remember what I have bought this year let alone had the time to research......

Cheers!
Ian

Tell me about it I don't have the free time to visit the forums much anymore, never mind find a few hours to preform any solid research. Maybe someday!

Best,
Rob

[Cole Bush]

It is my acquistion in 2012. very rare EM soldier awarded high award.
Beobachter in einem Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment.

[desiro]

One of my favourite pickups this year is this soldbuch to a Stalingrad fighter,he served in AR29 , he was wounded at the end of December 42 and must have been flown out of the kessel late in the battle.I like it so much for obvious reasons
few Soldbuchs for Stalingrad fighters survive.

[desiro]

A well decorated soldier too.

[WJW]

Wp

It may have been in 2011 instead of 2012 but still worth including in this post.
WJW

[Erwin L]

2012 was a quite a good year for me. Thanks to some very good friends i was able to get some nice very items. So a big thanks to them. I was able to finish my research about a Wehrpass i have and with a very good friend we arranged our first exhibition this year.

I have been able to add some nice Soldbucher and Wehrpasser to my collection but here are three of the highlights. I'm not posting full size pictures because i'm still researching them, sorry.

First a soldbuch group from a Dutch SS volunteer who served in the SS Westland Regiment from the beginning of the war till the end. He earned the following medals:

Infanterie SturmAbzeichen in Bronze
Winterschlacht im Osten
Kriegsverdienste Kreuz II Klasse mit Schwerten
Eiseren Kreuze II Klasse
Verwundeten Abzeichen in Schwarz
Verwundeten Abzeichen in Silber
Verwundeten Abzeichen in Gold

All the documents regarding his wound badges did come with the group.

Regards

Erwin

[mr.dogtag]

Here is a couple of my nicer aquisitions from 2012 including one that arrived just today - A set of dogtags and 2 docs from Leutnant Zimmermann, DKiG in Pz.Gren. Rgt 73. Also RKT Korvettenkapitan Pinkepank's set was a great buy - I've paid for his dogtag as much as 19 Euro!





Enjoy!
Al

[Erwin L]

Thanks to a very good friend i got a soldbuch group from a soldier who fought with ss StuG Abteilung 5 and ss Pz. Jg. Abt 5. A big thanks to him. The soldbuch came with his wound badge in black document, some documents regarding his PAB in Silver award and promotions. It's fitts nicely with the Westland group. I'm almost sure that the name from Untersturmfuhrer Hans Havik is written in the soldbuch. For me as a Dutchman this is a big extra, because Hans Havik was next to Gerardus Mooyman, Casper Sporck and Derk Eelko Bruins one of the Dutch Ritterkreuztragers.

He earned the following medals:

Verwundeten Abzeichen in Schwarz
Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber
Eiseren Kreuz II Klasse

Regards

Erwin