SS- Reich plate. Good? or Bad?

[torstenbel]

I personally think it good, but I have never seen anything like it before to compare?? What do you think? Cheers, Torsten.

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Underside

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close up

what do you think ...?

[Lassi]

Nice plate all original
cheers
lars

[torstenbel]

Lars, thank you for your comments. Glad to hear that the plate is good Would the designation SS - Reich refer to the Division Das Reich or something else? Cheers, Torsten.

[Lassi]

Lars, thank you for your comments. Glad to hear that the plate is good Would the designation SS - Reich refer to the Division Das Reich or something else? Cheers, Torsten.

Hi Torsten
No it has nothing to do with the Das Reich division. I think it was used in canteens where the units were stationed etc.

Here is a LW marked mug. It was used at the airfield near the town Aalborg in Denmark and also a bowel from the DAF this I found last week

All the best
Lars

[torstenbel]

Hi Lars, your DAF plate was made by the same manufacturer is my SS plate ... I guess that Reich in my case here might then refer to a home based unit, rather than one based in the occupied territories?? Cannot explain it any other way if it was to be a geographical place rather than a unit designation? Cheers, Torsten.

[CWP]

I think the designation has to do with the organizational structure of the SS at the time the plate was made. By 1940 the SS had two distinct branches, the Allgemeine-SS and the Waffen-SS. I have always believed that SS-Reich tableware was for A-SS use. I believe I read this somewhere at some time but I am sure some more research on the SS organization would shed some more light on this marking.

[torstenbel]

Hi Chris, sounds like another strong possibility ... Cheers, Torsten.