N.s.d.a.p spoon !!

[madbutcher]

Hi,
Here are N.S.D.A.P spoons... i meet someone who did an expertise about these cause i was not 100% sure of its originality !!
Then he told me it's original without doubt !!
What are your opinions please ?
I'd like to know !!
Thanks !!

[Vid]

Hi,

I think the box is fake and the silver adorned post war, stuff is all over the place and have an early set of fakes here that quite frankly make those look pretty bad.

But sure there will be more opinions.

Kris

[Military]

The engraving looks very clean cut and fresh. Red flags for me.

Mil

[Br. James]

Hi, and welcome among us! Thanks for sharing your cased set of silver-plated spoons with us. Such sets were usually custom-made for presentation to some high-ranking individual for a special occasion -- birthday, Christmas, New Year's, etc. The giver of the gift, then as now, would locate a suitable set of tableware pieces at a jeweler's shop such as these, which were manufactured by the Wellner firm that also made silver serving pieces and associated objects for Hitler's table, and have the jeweler engrave a design or logo onto them to personalize them to the receiver of the gift. Often these designs were themselves custom-made and varied from standard logo designs. (Perhaps the most often-seen examples bear a version of the family crest of Hermann Göring, most slightly different from the others, applied to sets of spoons, knives, forks, serving pieces of all sorts, and most having different handle shapes than others. These were clearly custom-made pieces not designed to actually be used but given as expressions of thoughtful respect.) Having checked through the books on Third Reich tableware and silver objects written by Jim Yannes, I cannot find any design combining the handle shape and the eagle style among his three books on the subject. But that is not to say that your set was not created during the Third Reich and presented to a Nazi leader on some occasion; as I said above, such sets were custom-made and there may not have been any other examples like these created. It would be of interest to learn more about these pieces from the person who wrote the expertise for you; that person must have found some solid reason to state that these spoons were in some way connected with the NSDAP. But without provenance of some kind which links such pieces/sets back to a wartime source, I don't believe it is possible to know for certain the origin of this set of spoons. For myself, I like them, too!

Br. James

[madbutcher]

Hi, and welcome among us! Thanks for sharing your cased set of silver-plated spoons with us. Such sets were usually custom-made for presentation to some high-ranking individual for a special occasion -- birthday, Christmas, New Year's, etc. The giver of the gift, then as now, would locate a suitable set of tableware pieces at a jeweler's shop such as these, which were manufactured by the Wellner firm that also made silver serving pieces and associated objects for Hitler's table, and have the jeweler engrave a design or logo onto them to personalize them to the receiver of the gift. Often these designs were themselves custom-made and varied from standard logo designs. (Perhaps the most often-seen examples bear a version of the family crest of Hermann Göring, most slightly different from the others, applied to sets of spoons, knives, forks, serving pieces of all sorts, and most having different handle shapes than others. These were clearly custom-made pieces not designed to actually be used but given as expressions of thoughtful respect.) Having checked through the books on Third Reich tableware and silver objects written by Jim Yannes, I cannot find any design combining the handle shape and the eagle style among his three books on the subject. But that is not to say that your set was not created during the Third Reich and presented to a Nazi leader on some occasion; as I said above, such sets were custom-made and there may not have been any other examples like these created. It would be of interest to learn more about these pieces from the person who wrote the expertise for you; that person must have found some solid reason to state that these spoons were in some way connected with the NSDAP. But without provenance of some kind which links such pieces/sets back to a wartime source, I don't believe it is possible to know for certain the origin of this set of spoons. For myself, I like them, too!

Br. James

Hi,
Thanks for your informations about those !!
I think it was a special gift for a high rank officier too !
Many persons told me there were fakes, but so many differents third reich eagles exist that is impossible to know them all...
Your informations help me a lot...THANKS !!!