Hi all,
I wish show you this very surprising walking stick just purchased. I have absolultly no doubt about its originality.
The seller wasn't a collector, he found it when he cleared out an house in a small village in Moselle ( France ) and didn't know what it was exactly. His knew only the owner was a german parachutist.
The markings are :
- a dead skull
- Kraljevo ( the seller did a mistake in the name and wrote Krajevo )
- dates :9 II + 7 IV + 16 IV ( with additionnal marking 2X ) + 17 IV + 18 IV 44
- a parachute
- a snake
The stick is ended by a cartridge for flare pistol.
All these markings made me curious, and apparently I was alone on the ball.
The puzzle completed, the answer was clear and incredible : the owner of this stick was a SS-fallschirmjäger from the Batt. 500 : the Fallschirmschulle 3 was at Kraljevo ( Serbia ), at this time occuped by the SS-FJ batt. 500 and the date are the dates of qualifying jumps. This explains the skull.
I don't know how this stick came in France : with a french soldier came back from Germany, from the Ardennes with one of the 180 SS-FJ of the SS-Panzerbrigade 150 )
Here are the pics :
I wish show you this very surprising walking stick just purchased. I have absolultly no doubt about its originality.
The seller wasn't a collector, he found it when he cleared out an house in a small village in Moselle ( France ) and didn't know what it was exactly. His knew only the owner was a german parachutist.
The markings are :
- a dead skull
- Kraljevo ( the seller did a mistake in the name and wrote Krajevo )
- dates :9 II + 7 IV + 16 IV ( with additionnal marking 2X ) + 17 IV + 18 IV 44
- a parachute
- a snake
The stick is ended by a cartridge for flare pistol.
All these markings made me curious, and apparently I was alone on the ball.
The puzzle completed, the answer was clear and incredible : the owner of this stick was a SS-fallschirmjäger from the Batt. 500 : the Fallschirmschulle 3 was at Kraljevo ( Serbia ), at this time occuped by the SS-FJ batt. 500 and the date are the dates of qualifying jumps. This explains the skull.
I don't know how this stick came in France : with a french soldier came back from Germany, from the Ardennes with one of the 180 SS-FJ of the SS-Panzerbrigade 150 )
Here are the pics :