post your earliest tinnie

[John Bart]

Fred.

These are very nice. There are plenty of non-Nazi tinnies (Stahlhelm etc.) from the 1920s, but NSDAP ones like yours are very rare.

Robin is absolutely right! Those are incredibly rare pieces
They would command a high premium. You should post them in "The Great Tinnie War" thread.

Robin/John,
Thanks for the comments - how rich am I?
Here's a 1930 one that came in the same lot. (I already had one of the 1929 Thuringen Gautag ones, so I figured that one was common?).
Regards,
Fred

John - will post these in the great tinnie war thread.

[John Bart]

Robin/John,
Thanks for the comments - how rich am I?
Here's a 1930 one that came in the same lot. (I already had one of the 1929 Thuringen Gautag ones, so I figured that one was common?).
Regards,
Fred

John - will post these in the great tinnie war thread.

Fred,
Another scarce beauty! Truely nice stuff. Anything prior to 1932
is fairly hard to come by. You lucked out on the 1929 Thuringen.

[Ssteve]

Hello,

Here's one more tinnie that I have. Though it doesn't have a date it may be Weimar era, but I'm not sure. Maybe someone can ballpark a date? Any information would be great! Thanks

Steve

[Ssteve]

reverse...............

[ben baars]

In general.....The topic title is "post your earliest tinnie", so who knows........

Steve, here's a link to compare your tinnie.
http://www.germanmilitaria.com/Imper...os/G00654.html

cheers,
ben baars

[Mike P.]

Here's one from 1925

Mike,
Very nice and very early - so far you are in the lead! (for earliest Nazi one).
Regards,
Fred

[Mike P.]

I'm not sure what it's for ..I know that "Tannenberg" and "Sedan" were huge German Victories ...Hindenburg was even in command for the Tannenberg battle. Hindenburg was sworn in as Chancellor in 1925 . The only thing I can think of is that this was made by the Nazi's in an attempt to get the Veterans support for the Party (and Hindenburg's attention) and used at (maybe?) the ground-breaking ceremony when they built the Tannenberg Monument (just a guess) ...another possibility is the Ludendorf connection, he started the Tannenberg Bund ..but this pin has "Sedan" and the dates so , I don't think it's a Bund pin.
Then I thought maybe it's not Party related but ..I don't think anyone in Germany would be using the Swastika as a good luck symbol in 1925 because of the connection with the Party ..so I ruled that out

I forget when Hitler was released from Prison (24 or 25??) ..could it be one of the first tinnies produced while he was re building the Party , after he was released? ..(nice to dream huh?)

[Mike P.]

Thanks Fred ...maybe I'll get lucky and someone will be able to ID it