strange Tk in photo album

[Anders S]

I would never have it in my collection whether it was good or not as it is one stupid looking skull.

Amen to that!

[McCulloh]

It looks 'arty" to me. Did you blacklight that photo?

Try pming Robin Lumsden. He knows all about skulls.

[Arran]

Could it have been made commercially at the time not as a cap skull but specifically for photo albums/memorial plaques etc? I've seen Wehrmacht eagles and profiles of helmets that were made for similar purposes...just a thought...

[Michael Fay]

strange skull

Hello and thanks to all who have contributed, I appreciate it. Here is what the Militaria dealer wrote about it :
" ...There is an unusual metal skull attached to the page above the portrait that is different than any I've seen, but in my opinion is 100% period. It may have been for the cover of an SS photo album, or for an award, but it's a beauty!..." As an aside the photo is said to be SS Gruppenfuhrer Siegfried von Gummann; a leader of the Unterfuhrer school in Stuttgart.

Thanks .
-MF

[Michael Fay]

strange tk

It looks 'arty" to me. Did you blacklight that photo?

Try pming Robin Lumsden. He knows all about skulls.

Hello McCulloh, I just checked the photo of the Gruppenfuhrer and it did not glow.

[Michael Fay]

I agree, it would be boring if we always thought the same. (But I do like Hot Rod's btw) (Yes, they exists here in Sweden too)
Back to the insignia, I found the thread with the similar skull I was talking about earlier; http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ight=edelweiss
I'm still convinced this is a fantasy product. (Can't prove it though, so it's just my own opinion)

Hello Anders, thanks for this link--it does look like that -with different color.
Maybe it's a fake?


Thanks, MF

[Gaspare]

if that other skull is bogus then so is this one,,even with different angles of the photos they both look the same.............

[rexmundi]

Could we see more pictures from the album?

[rexmundi]

I can't find any reference to a Gruppenfuhrer with that last name .....

[Michael Fay]

more photos

Could we see more pictures from the album?

Hello Rexmundi 1. album cover

[Michael Fay]

photos

Could we see more pictures from the album?

2. photo

[Michael Fay]

photo

Could we see more pictures from the album?

This is an autographed photo of, I believe, Fritz Weitzel

[Michael Fay]

photos

Could we see more pictures from the album?

last photos for now.

[Robin Lumsden]

I've never seen a TK like that either.

It LOOKS postwar..............but it COULD conceivably have been made as a decoration for the album.

It is obviously NOT 'pretending' to be a cap skull...............the design is too different.........but it is well made and executed detail-wise. As has already been said, it looks 'arty'.

There are many examples of 'unofficial' and odd-looking (but nevertheless original) skulls being used for decorative purposes by the SS.

[Chris_Werner]

for example the TK stamp found on "SS" P-38s.