High ranking SS personalities items!

[Thorsten B.]

If this can make an END to the " chair intrusion " :

No difference in picture quality or lighting could hide this major screwup in the Germania International chair - the decorations around the central flower ornament .
In the B&W picture they are carved LEFT OVER RIGHT , in the colour picture RIGHT OVER LEFT .. !

NOT the same chair , end of discussion , on with this thread , please ..

YES - it is the same chair, end of discussion, on with this thread, please..

http://www.buchenwald.de/fileadmin/b...nventarnr=1330

[COLLECT36]

Same uniform, but now in a color photo

Last year at the MAX show Gottlieb had this tunic for sale at $250,000 if i am not correct please advise!I will not comment on the price and if any member would like to comment,please do.CDR

[tgn]

The two uniforms in the pics are different mate - different rank tabs to start with.
The 'presentation' is part of the hoard of Von Ribbentrop's personal items discovered in a hotel in Umhausen, Austria by an American officer called Goldsmith.
While the US army confiscated all the documents Goldsmith was allowed to keep the personal items.

Who got the girl?

[panzer wittman]

Have to admit she's a lot easier on the eye than some hairy assed GI! Goldsmith was probably too busy high-fiving anyone in the room.
Yes thorsten it was Craig and it still appears to be for sale:
http://www.craiggottlieb.com/engine/...rman+Militaria

[salt*creek]

Hi to all! I got a respond from my friend about the provenance of Wolff's pistols, and he told me that he found those photos in an auction of "Palm Beach Classics" (some sort of auction house in the US).

In fact, he told me that the pistols were part of an even bigger grouping attributed to Karl Wolff, and the asking price was $185.000!

Here the rest of the photos.

Let me know what you think

I saw this tunic in around 1998? It was on a manequin in a collection in Seattle, Washington. My fiend knew the owner. An older guy (80 or so) named Josh....
I don't remember the pistols, but he had so much stuff on display my memory is really foggy!
Both those guys are now dead, so I can't ask about the pistols. I'm really sure about the uniform though. It was a legend in the day!

[Sepp45]

Not SS, but SA; someone knows the names or reason for the dagger? High ranking officials here?

Regards,
Sepp.

[jimt]

wolff

I saw this tunic in around 1998? It was on a manequin in a collection in Seattle, Washington. My fiend knew the owner. An older guy (80 or so) named Josh....
I don't remember the pistols, but he had so much stuff on display my memory is really foggy!
Both those guys are now dead, so I can't ask about the pistols. I'm really sure about the uniform though. It was a legend in the day!

Bob Joshlin uniforms and the Palm Beach garbage are not the same tunic, I bought the three Wolff tunics/medals ,hat etc. from Joshlin before he passed away, a lot of these original Wolff items are pictured in Beavers outstanding reference books for those with a interest in such things ............
the only original pistol is the gold washed PP pistol in the West point museum which originally came with the 3 tunics from the same Colonel in the 88th div. , this Colonel was in the group that arrested Wollf at his home in Italy . The story of this PP in the West Point museum is not quite correct also but I'll leave that for another time.
jimtoncar

[Badto666]

Not SS, but SA; someone knows the names or reason for the dagger? High ranking officials here?

Regards,
Sepp.

It´s a Feldherrnhalle dagger. I think there was about 50-55 of them "awarded". To high SA officers.
I don´t remember the reason why they were awarded but someone else can probably answer that question. Or do a search on "Feldherrnhalle dagger" .


/Mike

[salt*creek]

Jim,
Glad you bought those Wolff items. Never saw the Florida
Auction. I'm glad to hear there wasn't any gold pistols I forgot
About!
Mark

[Sepp45]

Engraved Walther PPK to SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Fiehler (Reichsleiter).

Photo credits to Hermann Historica.

[jimt]

where are you Joe

I will await Joe Woktka blessing on the above Pistol ..

[Dr. Strangelove]

White Smoke or Black?

I will await Joe Woktka blessing on the above Pistol ..

Genau, my thoughts exactly.

[tanker]

Hello
Does anybody know who owns the Bittrich soldbuch or location of it?Thanks, Ron

SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich

(Posted by WAF member kuratorium on my "Famous Soldbuchs" thread)

[Luciusdegeer]

Engraved Walther PPK to SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Fiehler (Reichsleiter).

Photo credits to Hermann Historica.

Actually, this pistol was not offered TO Karl Fiehler, but BY him. It's an 'honour trophy' from the Reichsleiter and Oberbürgermeister of Munich KF for the winner of the SA ski-championship in Garmisch-Partenkirche ("GaPa").
Could have been won by a humble SA-Scharführer... or perhaps Lutze was a ski-champion?

L

[Sepp45]

Actually, this pistol was not offered TO Karl Fiehler, but BY him. It's an 'honour trophy' from the Reichsleiter and Oberbürgermeister of Munich KF for the winner of the SA ski-championship in Garmisch-Partenkirche ("GaPa").
Could have been won by a humble SA-Scharführer... or perhaps Lutze was a ski-champion?

L

Great, great information here Lucius, many thanks