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[Robert H]

Hello Forum,

please keep me in touch when this photo shows up anywhere for sale. It was stolen from a german auction house in week 3 january 2005.

my contact: robert_hassler@hotmail.com

[HunterSS]

Will do Robert. Was it yours?

[Robert H]

Hello Bob,

it was in a german auction house, I got the highest bid and they called me that someone has stolen now the picture.

[Michael Miller]

Wish you all the best in recovering it, Robert. A fine photo of an apparent Dachau guard (SS-Totenkopfstandarte "Oberbayern") and Altekaempfer.

~ Mike

[Robert Noss]

Robert, so it was not a loss for You, but for the auction house.

I have had such trouble twice. One time I bidded on a smaller lot of portraits, 40 portraits and after I had won the auction and after I got the photos, I discovered that 2 of the better portraits were missing. As these were not all exposed in the auctions catalog, it was hard to proove that 2 photos had been exchanged. Had to pay the whole sum for a less interesting lot anyway ( or could have cancelled the whole deal, but I wanted the other photos too ).

The other case was much more annoying. It was a lot of paper stuff from one soldier which I had given to an auction house. The auction ended without a bid and after I got the papers back, half of them were missing. The auction house gave a refund on the fees from my other auctions, but it was a loss anyway.

I will keep my eyes open for that one.

Kind regards
Robert

[Robert H]

Hello Rob,

thank you for your reply.
It is just so bad because ir would fit very nice together with a cufftitle from my collection. But for sure it is better when the auction house loose the picture and not me. We will see ... Yesterday I received the book SS-Steel from Mr.Hicks, I see Robert has given a top suport for pictures. Realy outstanding ones !