SA Schiesbuch

[Alexjager]

Hello.

I tried a search on the forum and the internet and could not find another example like it. Are these books hard to come by?

Thanks.

[Alexjager]

Inside cover:

[Erich B.]

Usually they're unused when you find them, and unused they're not overly common but not really scarce either. I don't remember seeing one with much in it--can you read the stamp on the man's photo? It's not a usual SA stamp but I can't make out the lettering.
Is there much inside the book showing his shooting practice?
Erich

[Wallace]

It does have a nice photo in it.You don't see that too often

[Alexjager]

Thanks for all the replies. The book itself has no other entries written in it.

The only word I think I can make out on the stamp is the word "Reichsbahn", which doesn't make any sense to me. Did the SA do some railway protection for the Reichsbahn?

[Erich B.]

Not directly, although a Reichsbahn employee could be a member of the SA--the rank and file of the SA were unpaid volunteers, so at the lower ranks they had regular jobs. But this seems odd--looking at the cover, it seems a photo had been taken off the inner cover--can you tell if this one is a replacement that someone may have overstamped with a Reichsbahn stamp?
Erich

[Alexjager]

Not directly, although a Reichsbahn employee could be a member of the SA--the rank and file of the SA were unpaid volunteers, so at the lower ranks they had regular jobs. But this seems odd--looking at the cover, it seems a photo had been taken off the inner cover--can you tell if this one is a replacement that someone may have overstamped with a Reichsbahn stamp?
Erich

I can't tell if the picture has been replaced by looking at the inside. But a picture replacement would probably explain the damage to the front cover.
Were pictures normally stapled in instead of glued?


Thanks.

[Erich B.]

Judging by other similar booklets, they could be pasted, stapled, or riveted.
Erich