Post your SS-Poster

[TonyS]

piand - those are nice posters.

They could do with some TLC though.

[TonyS]

These might have been posted before but I found them in a 2009 auction on a French website.

[Max Wünsche]

Double Post....

[Max Wünsche]

Im looking into purchasing the bottom one at the moment...

These might have been posted before but I found them in a 2009 auction on a French website.

[Thorsten B.]

That is a very significant and beautiful poster.

[TonyS]

Im looking into purchasing the bottom one at the moment...

That exact same poster or a different copy? This particular copy only sold for 700 euro in the 2009 auction.

The one I see currently for sale is now 5 times that...... but it is a very rare poster.

Or maybe there is another one out there for sale?



Here is the one currently for sale - not in as good condition as the one above but not bad:

[Max Wünsche]

No, you were spot on... the one with the tape clearly visable at the top is the one I was referring to.

Yes, this is a fair bit more than 700 Euro.

[Thorsten B.]

Whatever the price is now - 700 Euros was a ridiculous price.

So someone made a nice bargain.

[TonyS]

Whatever the price is now - 700 Euros was a ridiculous price.

So someone made a nice bargain.

Yes it was a crazy price. The Anton went for 900 Euros and a few more really nice French WW2 posters went for even less.

I assume they just did not get many bidders which is what you want when you are buying. I wonder if the sellers were disappointed......

[Max Wünsche]

Hi Tony

Was this an Auction you were going to bid in? Or was it just the results that you saw afterwards... What Auction house was it? That is very low prices for those particular posters.

Yes it was a crazy price. The Anton went for 900 Euros and a few more really nice French WW2 posters went for even less.

I assume they just did not get many bidders which is what you want when you are buying. I wonder if the sellers were disappointed......

[TonyS]

Hi Tony

Was this an Auction you were going to bid in? Or was it just the results that you saw afterwards... What Auction house was it? That is very low prices for those particular posters.

Just one I came across surfing the web. I wish I had of bid on it. Those were mighty cheap prices even for 2009.

I didn't keep a note of the auction house - it was some place in France. When I looked at their other auctions going back to 2010 it was all antique furniture and sculptures and other stuff I was not interested in. Guess they don't do many poster auctions.....

[TonyS]

This is not exactly the right thread for this but it has a lot of members viewing it.

I have a question for everyone on a poster that I cannot figure out. A poster house has asked me to see if I can authenticate this but it's a tough one from just photos, although from the evidence so far it does not look good.

I'll list out the for and against reasons we have so far but maybe someone has seen this version somewhere else. It was sold by a well known dealer - if anyone knows who it is I would ask they keep it quiet at this point out of respect for all concerned.

Any help would be appreciated.

Against
The poster house has done a microscope examination of the printing style and say it is not one that was used in the 1940's.

It has no white border with the SS Head Office printing details like other originals have.

the poster house also believes the paper is not from the 1940's.


For
The artwork appears to be an exact duplicate of the original



This first one is an original with the printers details on the white border.





This is the suspect one.

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi Tony,

a few veterans and sons of veterans in France have amazing collections of posters and documents about the Waffen-SS.
For example famous writer Jean Mabire (the one who wrote - or "rewrote" may i say... - "history" of various SS divisions - but also other units and not only from the Axis) worked with Eric Lefèvre who was his documentalist. Lefèvre is a son of a milician if i'm right, and he owns a lot of artefacts (including one of the very few SS jackets that survived the war - the one of M. Soulat, W-Rottenführer, translator at the "Charlemagne" Brigade headquarters). Lefèvre was able to have access to various documents to illustrate the famous trilogy (quadralogy may i say) about the French SS (Frankreich brigade, Charlemagne "Division", Sturmbatallion Berlin, Fight in Danzig). One of the guys that had some posters was René Bail, a veteran.
The three books Frankreich /Charlemagne / Berlin (the last one is a smaller one) were re-released over the years, each time with a different iconography. Some french posters are shown from various veterans or collectors on the various books.
I will try to have more infos on the various collections, but french collectors usually don't like to talk a lot ^_^

To my (recent) knowledge, i never saw an original H'o'ch with an other SS-Ersatzkommando address on it. The Nancy poster (pictured in a few books, including the one on the SS-Ausbildungslager Sennheim by JL Liandier / Mounine) seemed to be quite good, and in the possession of a veteran.

But you are right, we need more evidence. It is always possible that the owner was sold a fake between 1945 and 1974-75 (date of publication of the Mabire's books).

Here are the french SS posters (wih french text) i know of :
- Anton / SS + tarnjacke pointing his finger / "Toi aussi !"
- Anton / 2 SS men + tarnjacke + MP40 / "Coude à coude"
- Anton / SS man + worker / "La Waffen-SS t'appelle"
- ?? (don't remember) / SS parade march / "Sous le signe SS tu vaincras !"
- Anton / Panzer IV / "Si tu veux que la France vive"
- ?? / Young SS without helmet + tarnjacke / "Engage toi" (small poster)
- H'o'ch / SS with cap / at least one with Nancy address ???

- ?? / informative poster / "Des volontaires SS de race germanique" - probably not for France but Belgium ? The translation in french is really poor... Done by a flemish SS ?

- 3 french booklets
* "Unités Françaises de la Waffen-SS"
* "La SS t'appelle"
* speech of Degrelle in Paris 1944

- 1 SS propaganda flyer is known to exist "J'accuse les hommes de la Waffen-SS"

- at least 1 propaganda postcard (SS man + worker) exist in french (not including the "Unsere Waffen-SS" serie that was published in french too).

See You

Vince

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi,

SS propaganda poster in french, with a strange translation...

"Des volontaires SS de race germanique luttent contre le bolchevisme"
("SS volunteers of germanic race are fighting against bolchevism")



Made for Belgium ? For France ? Somewhere else ?

The poster seemed to be real, as the pictures of the SS-Ausbildungslager Sennheim are uncropped or different from the ones available !

See You

Vince

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi,

a short info, i was able to have another copy of the H'O'CH poster from central europe, and i can confirm that the posters of Henrik Rask were originals ^_^

See You

Vince