Hitlers Silverware, Too Far?

[RobertCOUTTS]

Hi,
well my family thinks I have done it that I finally lost lost my marbles. I saw some of Hitlers silverware on the Ruptured Duck. About $1200 a piece on average for knives, forks, spoons etc. Rock solid provenance. I had to have some so I scored 3 pieces. Some relos dropped by for my youngest sons birthday I showed them the pieces and they didnt see them as an investment but further proof I am a neo nazi crazy dude. Come on who here wouldnt appreciate these items. Even comes with copies of photographs of the soldiers who took them and a letter explaining how. Too good. Check them out from a distance nothing special

[RobertCOUTTS]

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but a closer inspection.

[RobertCOUTTS]

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at the moment Bill has a bit of this stuff but it wont last long as soon as I get some more funds I will add some more pieces.

[RobertCOUTTS]

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the markings to the rear of the pieces.

[RobertCOUTTS]

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This is what this soldier brought back, his share of the Silverware found in a safe at the Berghof.

[RobertCOUTTS]

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Some of the pictures copies of period photographs. Check out what this paratrooper is wearing.

[RobertCOUTTS]

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The berghof as they found it in early May 1945.

[RobertCOUTTS]

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Actually this isnt what I normally collect but the 100% proof of who owned it just clinched it for me. This isnt the usual run of the mill SS or Army knives and forks you see on estand but the formal dinnerware silver thay was used by who knows who. Now I am using what I have as as soon as I kick off it will be at the pawnshop.
cheers Robert

[Military]

nice pieces with solid provenance. ive seen them at bill's site but just way beyond my means. i wish i had that budget to purchase a set and have them nicely framed up.

[ErichS]

Very nice and I think they're unique pieces of history. As far as price, on the higher end side but I think that's okay given the Vet connection and taken from the Berghof.

[ErichS]

One cool fact was that Gerdy Troost designed the so called formal pattern AH silverware. Gerdy was the wife of Paul Ludwig Troost who designed the FHH Mahnmal and Ehrentempels just to name a few. Gerdy was left to finish the work on Temples after Paul's death. Just another fun TR fact!

[BLANKEWAFFEN]

They seem to be selling well on Bill's site. There are a couple of items which are completly sold out including the luncheon knife of which I bought one. I don't think the price is too high considering that with these you know exactly where they came from and the history of how they were "liberated". Most of us have thought about what it would have been like to have been one of the first troops to enter one of these historic buildings in this case Hitler's Kehlsteinhaus with most of it's treasures still intact. Buying one of the items from this lot is about as close as you can get to having done that, just a little imigination required. Also it is unlikely that an opportunity to purchase something like this will ever happen again. I noticed that Tom Wittmann had several pieces of formal pattern AH silverware on his web site that were not from this vetern's lot so no story attached and they were priced about the same and they all sold out. A very historical offering not to be repeated. Mike

[Military]

actually its a bit sad to see the whole lot the vet brought back being split. i wish i had the money to purchase the full set. onces its split, the set's not gonna come back together.

[BLANKEWAFFEN]

There were 109 pieces in this lot that this vetern bought back. All together the Kehlsteinhaus service was a total of 500 or 600 pieces that were split up between the five GI's. It is estimated that the total amount of this formal pattern that were produced was 3000 pieces. That would be five complete sets of 600 or possibly 6 sets of 500. Probally the largest set of silverware ever produced for anyone. To have purchased the 109 pieces in this hoard at retail would most likely have been close to $150,000. It would have made a very interesting table setting for a very well heeled collector. Mike

[ErichS]

Not being a collector of silverware, I have to confess that I also picked up two pieces from Bill as well. Being a Political guy I couldn't resist.