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    2 nice desk ornaments ;-)

    I would like to share 2 of my beauties, I love this style much. They are manufactured by the maker "HB" which produced much of such desk decorations. I sold a AH bust on estand with the same finish recently.
    My question is, if one knows the same pattern, but looking to the other side. A facing pair would be a great display, like Nürnberg
    I sold one of them recently to a good friend, and would like to buy a left looking one instead.
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    Two beauties, my friend! And it looks as though the wreathed swaz on the statue at the right of your photo has been done in openwork -- unusual, as the Schmid-Ehmen original did not have that feature. As to the two Hoheitsadlern at the Luitpoldhain, each looking toward the center of the rostrum and therefore toward each other, I have wondered why almost all of the desk eagle renditions of these unique statues seems to have been of the one which stood at the left end of the rostrum (facing from the field)? While each was the mirror-image of the other, the eagle most often seen featured on post cards where only one of the two is shown is the one on the right end of the rostrum... Any idea why that was so? It would be great to have a matched, mirror-image pair of these birds, but I can't recall ever seeing such a set before.

    Br. James

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      Yes, the right one's swaz is done in openwork, it was electricified inside the hollow eagle, and the glowing lamp would have displayed the swaz very nice. Unfortunately the finder removed this stuff because it was rotten and the isolating of the cables was broken and partitionally missed. Uhghhhhh

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        Hello M.E.H.T,
        I agree with everything Br. James says, nice HB eagles. Yes the postcards often show the Right Hand Luitpold Arena eagle facing left but the 'HB' eagles always face right- unlike the wall eagles which are often the other way around. There are plenty of left-facing political eagles though- a quick search of the forums revealed many. Here are some of them,
        Best Regards,
        Michael
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          We have probably come to believe that 'standardization' was a hallmark of the Third Reich era, but sometimes it becomes quite evident that that is an often-unfounded impression. The eagle/wreathed swaz is certainly a case in point. Except for the short-lived PL M-1936 cap eagle, which was in effect for the period of 1936-38, all of the major political uniform cap eagles (PL, SA, SS, NSKK) include a bird looking toward its left; the eagle of the M-36 design looked to its right. All of the Das Heer and Kriegsmarine uniform eagles also look to their left. But an interesting exception is found in the eagles used for certain badges representing major national events. For example, the eagles on the RPT tinnies for 1936 through 1938 face to their right, as did political cap eagles of that period, but the eagle on the tinnie for Labor Day (1 May) for 1936 looks to its left, not its right, while the eagles on the Labor Day tinnies for 1937 and 1938 look to their right. Perhaps this tells us that the decision to implement the M-36 design featuring an eagle looking to its right came sometime between May 1st and mid-August, when the RPT designs were 'set in stone?!' As for printed material of all sorts, it appears that there was no formal standardization for this medium regarding the direction in which an eagle faced, and publications and other printed pieces include eagles looking to their left as well as to their right. Just some random thoughts...

          Br. James

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            Another great thread on desk eagles!

            Mil

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