picked this up yesterday, looks like the jewish Ark of the Covenant with Hebrew writting on the the item?Can anybody tell me what ths is?
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is from WHW Gau MünchenComment
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Like Guy says it is from a series of 12 pieces from Gau Munich. The series is titled "Tag der Deutschen Kunst". Your piece is called 'Sonnenwagen'...or 'sun wagon'.<small>
The series was actually based off of the parade of the same name that was held in Munich in 1938/38-1939.
Hope any of this helps.
Chrys
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Thanks for the help on the item, id never seen one before and man i got it from broke the sun rays, is that hebrew writting on the side?Comment
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Your Right, the more i look at it
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I don't see here anything related to the WHW.
It is from a collection:
Festzug "Zweitausend Jahre Deutsche Kultur" in 1938
http://www.hermann-historica.de/aukt...c_a_GB&co=1296
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/5827179
No. 9754:
http://www.auktionshaus-loesch.de/cg...=9&page=5&ops=
UweComment
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I am sorry but in my opinion this is just not correct. One of these links has way more pieces in it than the original WHW series (12 pieces) ever had...and the colors just do not look right either. The last link with all of these 'Festzug' boxed sets is worrisome as these pieces are fairly rare to encounter. It may be possible that there were other series of these parade figures during the TR period...but the 'Sun Wagon' that started this thread is 100% from the WHW's GSS drive in Munich.
The prices that these guys are asking is laughable as well.
Originally posted by speedytop View PostLast edited by CM Alexander; 03-13-2012, 10:51 AM.Comment
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I wonder whether Uwe and Chrys could both be right on this question? A visit to Ray Cowdery's website will provide photos from the parade and bound program titled "Tag der Deutschen Kunst 1939" in Munich, and among those photos appears to be a full-scale example of the subject of this thread -- or at least the sunwheel top of it. Is it possible that the WHW released a series of tokens based upon this parade and huge event in Munich? It appears that this parade was well-covered all across Germany, and that would have created an interest in providing WHW contribution tokens depicting the floats and characters enacted in the parade...in my opinion.
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Hey Br. James,
I think that you are right. It certainly would appear that there are many more pieces that were sold at some point in time than just the 12 that the Winterhilfswerk produced.
I still think it odd that there are so many in these links yet you would be hard pressed to find the 'Sun Wheel' right now on any dealer site. I think that right now I have about 6 pieces of the 12 in my inventory for my site...and we specialize in WHW.
I wonder if anyone (Guy perhaps) can shed any light on these different pieces. It would be good information for a future book project.
Anyways...Uwe thanks for bringing this to light. I think that we sometimes can be drones and just assume that what is in a book is correct!
All the best,
ChrysComment
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Hello
It is a series WHW is divided by 2
First: The Day Has 6 badges
Sun Chariot
Prestressed
Rider before
Bronze wife
Germanic seeress
viking
Second : the night
Moon Chariot
Prestressed
Rider before
Torchbearers
Female torchbearer
Evening women
were sold on the badge, 4 and January 5, 1941 whw from the day of German art sold the others badge from your link not belong to but they were also on the Day of German Art sold (1937) but not for the WHW
sorry my englich is bad
ragards
GuyLast edited by Winterhilfswerk; 03-13-2012, 02:28 PM.Comment
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Thanks to Chrys and Guy. As there were major Munich parades celebrating the Day of German Art in 1937, 1938 and 1939, I have wondered whether each parade was a self-contained event -- meaning that the displays, floats and costumes used for that particular parade were never used at any of the other parade(s) -- or perhaps some of the material used at one of the earlier parades was re-used at one or more of the later ones? Since the displays and costumes were so elaborate and apparently expensive to create, would they have only been used once and only once? Maybe this is the cheapskate in me, but it would have saved much money to use them over again!
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