Prices of top quality albums?

[mongobongo]

What are top quality personal albums worth for leading Nazis, Himmler, Goering, Hess, kind of level?. I know its a bit of an odd question but just trying to get a rough idea of price ranges.

[smershagent]

Obviously it would depend on the number of photographs in a given album and, of course, on the exact subject matter.

I'd say easily 5 figures for what you're describing.

[mongobongo]

Thanks kindly

[Gran Sasso]

What are top quality personal albums worth for leading Nazis, Himmler, Goering, Hess, kind of level?. I know its a bit of an odd question but just trying to get a rough idea of price ranges.

An album from SS-panzer leader and oakleaf-holder Max Wünsche sold for app. 15.000,-U$, and he was "just" a soldier, so an album from one of the top nazis...

I know an album of the personal room-maid of Eva Braun (her sister was personal room-maid of Hitler) at the Berghof, but the son would not part with it...

[Mark C. Yerger]

An album from SS-panzer leader and oakleaf-holder Max Wünsche sold for app. 15.000,-U$, and he was "just" a soldier, so an album from one of the top nazis...

I know an album of the personal room-maid of Eva Braun (her sister was personal room-maid of Hitler) at the Berghof, but the son would not part with it...

I think any collector with minimal history knowledge would see Wünsche's photo album of considerably higher interest and desirability than Hitler or Goring photo material. Tons of photos of Fatty or the Corporal abound, to the point of boredom overkill to some degree.

"Just" a soldier isn't anything I'd use to describe Max Wünsche.

But maybe I'm wrong as stupid money is paid for Himmler material, a moron with minimal IQ to match his personality as a bureaucrat.

I'd pay a lot more for a Waffen-SS Oakleaves winner's material than for equal type "top Nazi" material. Same for equivalent Oakleaves holders from other services, though in Waffen-SS most collectors know Peiper, Dietrich and Wittmann only (and what they know isn't much).

[smershagent]

Mark, I agree with you that insofar as actual historical value, a photo album of a significant, highly decorated combat leader most likely trumps Nazi bigwigs. But like you say, there are plenty of people out there willing to pay huge sums for memorabalia associated with the inner circle.

If someone tried to sell an album of ~50-100 unpublished private photos of Goebbels/Himmler/Hess (and provenance was solid), I'd be highly surprised if it didn't go for > $20K

[Gran Sasso]

I think any collector with minimal history knowledge would see Wünsche's photo album of considerably higher interest and desirability than Hitler or Goring photo material. Tons of photos of Fatty or the Corporal abound, to the point of boredom overkill to some degree.

"Just" a soldier isn't anything I'd use to describe Max Wünsche.

But maybe I'm wrong as stupid money is paid for Himmler material, a moron with minimal IQ to match his personality as a bureaucrat.

I'd pay a lot more for a Waffen-SS Oakleaves winner's material than for equal type "top Nazi" material. Same for equivalent Oakleaves holders from other services, though in Waffen-SS most collectors know Peiper, Dietrich and Wittmann only (and what they know isn't much).

Mark, you got me totally wrong:- ME would pay much much more for any combat soldiers fotos, too - but the market shows that unknown fotos of high ranking nazis fetch top $. So imagiine what a complete album would bring. And I mean an album containing private and good quality fotos, not those snapshots everybody took form distance when they were passing by in their vehicles or so.

And the "just" at Wünsche was to show is lower ranking position, thats all.