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    Erich you need lot 3169 in the HH sale to go with your coburg pieces
    I'm sure Jon will post the pics,I can't work that out !

    The Golden book of honour of the city of Coburg
    from the years between 1935 and 1939
    Handmade paper, light brown leather cover with the city's coat of arms in gold and black (as used in the Third Reich) as well as the embossed title "Stadt Coburg", the endsheets with cream coloured linen lining, the binding of the first and last page restored.
    The autographs in ink, including: on the first page "Adolf Hitler Koburg 19/October 1935", "Carl Eduard Duke of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha SA Gruppenführer honorary citizen of Coburg" and his wife Duchess "Victoria Adelheid" with the addition "found in his house", Hans "v. Tschammer und Osten SA Gruppenführer, Reichssportführer", "Franz Schwede Coburg - Gauleiter and Senior President of Pommern", "Dr. Lammers State secretary and Chief of the Reich Chancellery", Otto "Meissner State Secretary", the state secretary in the Reich Ministry of the Interior Hans "Pfundtner", "Ewald Hecker Director of the Reich Economic Chamber", Professor Ludwig Noé (managing director of the Danzig dockyard), "Dr. Hans Gottstein, Stettin" (managing director, member of the German Gentlemen's Club), "A. Hühnlein, Korpsführer", Reichsminister "Hanns Kerrl", Hitler's personal chief adjutant "Julius Schaub", Vice President of the Reich Media Chamber, SS Gruppenführer "Dr. Otto Dietrich", Gen. Lt. a.D. Karl Hoefer (Freikorpsführer Upper Silesia), and "Sven Hedin 13.III.1936" with his wife "Alma Hedin".
    Also on the occasion of the 1. German "Dichterfahrt" 1936 the writers and members of the Bamberg poets' circle: Hans Brandenburg, Heinrich Zerkaulen, Hans Franck, Ernst Ludwig Schellenberg, Stefan Andres, Roland Betsch, and Hans Christoph Kaergel. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the German singers alliance 1937 a.o. Bundesführer Albert Meister and Heinrich Vetter, representative Gauleiter of South Westfalia.
    On the occasion of the "15th anniversary of the Führer's invasion of Coburg on 14th and 15th October 1937 ... the bearers of the Coburg badge of honour" with nearly 70 signatures of the approx. 400 bearers of the decoration, among them Duke Carl Eduard, former Gauleiter of the Deutsche Völkische Schutz- und Trutzbund Hans Dietrich et al. Also several participants from Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia who attended the "Congress of International Front Fighters" 1938.
    On the occasion of the inauguration of Lord Mayor August Grein 1938 a.o. Gauleiter "Fritz Wächtler", "Freiherr von Schacky", Commander of the IR 95 and other members of the armed forces as well as politicians. The members of the German gymnastics team with the national champions Eugen Göggel, Kurt Krötzsch, Alfred Müller, and Innozenz Stangl. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the election of the Coburg city council 1939 Franz Schwede Coburg, Duke Carl Eduard, Herbert Grempel (SA Oberführer and 2nd Mayor of Coburg), SA Standartenführer August Gerspacher et al.
    Approx. 40 signatures of the "Führerkorps of the SA Group Bayerische Ostmark" on the occasion of a meeting held in July 1939. The last entry after ca. one third of the book with signatures of Italian visitors attending the "reception of the Fascist youth" in August 1939.
    The history of the NSDAP in Northern Bavaria is closely related to "March to Coburg" in October 1922. As Gauleiter of the Deutsch-Völkische Schutzbund Hans Dietrich had invited the NSDAP to attend the "German Day" in Coburg under the condition that Hitler appeared in person. Coburg subsequently became a bastion of National Socialism: it was the first German city in which the NSDAP won absolute majority in the city council elections in 1929 and which granted Hitler honorary citizenship in 1932. In commemoration of the "March to Coburg" Hitler introduced the Coburg badge of honour in 1932, one of the highest distinctions awarded to party members.
    Historically significant document.

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      Jon, all that I can say is AMAZING and very historic to the earliest days of the Movement. Thanks for posting, Erich

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        Here are the photos of the amazing book:

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                  Gosh! A book of true history. Erich, will you be bidding on it?

                  Mil

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                    Originally posted by Military View Post
                    Gosh! A book of true history. Erich, will you be bidding on it?

                    Mil
                    Thanks for posting the photos of the book to this thread Jon.
                    No Mil, I would love to have it but it's a little out of my price range at this time.

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                      Once again for fans of the Coburg Badge and it's history, here's a photo from the Anniversary of the Battle in 1937, of the NSDAP House in Coburg. Hitler attended the Anniversary in Coburg in Oct. of that year.
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                        That book alone will go for upwards of 25,000.USD IMO. Looks like a guest book.

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                          Originally posted by juoneen View Post
                          That book alone will go for upwards of 25,000.USD IMO. Looks like a guest book.
                          I agree, a guest book for a very important anniversary and with lots of important signatures.

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                            This one would have deserved to end up in your collection Erich!

                            I was thinking about bidding on it myself, but as said, it will most likely go very high so i'll rather bid on some Göring stuff

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                              Originally posted by Jon-Olav Holden View Post
                              This one would have deserved to end up in your collection Erich!

                              I was thinking about bidding on it myself, but as said, it will most likely go very high so i'll rather bid on some Göring stuff
                              If money only grew on trees!

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                                i would go for himmler's fishing license.

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