Smoking Gear...

[Luciusdegeer]

Very nice! I like the brand's name ('Hermann Löns'), and how the Germans named everyday products to famous writers and leaders (Bismarck etc.). This guy is really one of my favorite Germans: nationalist poet and writer, intellectual, schlagender Student, ladies' man (lived with women that were at least 20 years younger), gentleman, and last but not least one of the first war volunteers in 1914 at 48 years of age(!)... He died on the battlefield some weeks later, near Reims in the Champagne region. His body was discovered by a farmer almost 20 years later, and Hitler wanted to make a martyr out of him. The SA buried him on the Lüneburg heath, not far from the later Panzertruppenschüle at Munster, but the rivalling Reichswehr reburied him one year later near Walsrode. I accidentally stumbled upon his grave and monument when i was returning from the Panzer Museum some years ago. I actually was looking for traces of the enormous production plant of Franz Brehme in the city of Walsrode (leather equipment), when I discovered a sort of modern 'cult' around this poet (who was never -because of the anachronism- a 'nazi' or a Jew-hater). Seems that modern Germans honour him because of this ecological ideas and his timeless poems...
Sorry, just couldn't resist to teach...

P.S. WILL post my collection of personal equipment later on (lots of smoker's stuff)

Lucius

[M98CZ]

It´s mine

[boyouLaGleize.]

Hello Gentlemen,
already showed here.

[derka]

derka

[boyouLaGleize.]

derka

You should stop to smoke my friend.

[Bond]

My small contribution to the smoking collection.


Jerry

[Theoderich]

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[SMP]

How about this pack ? Is it really Army issued ?

[Theoderich]

No, the stamp is a fake! But the cigarettes are period.

[Luciusdegeer]

Unfortunately this very stamp appears too many times in the otherwise very nice book of Augustin Saiz....


Lucius

[djpool]

Hi Guys,

Very nice thread. I just wanted to let you know that Tom Bock, Thomas Salazar and I are teaming up for another book project with the draft title of: Ruhetag-The Day to Day Life of the German Soldier in WWII. It will essentially be a expanded personal items book. We are looking at using the same style we used on the ration book; that is a mix of wartime intelligence reports, wartime pictures blended with photos from items in contemperary collections. We also hope to add manufacturer info as well. We have a rough outline but thats about it right now. We figure it will take 2-3 years to get it to print. Just to give you a heads up I will probably be asking many of you for your help. Warm regards Jim

PS Here is one of the photos we'll use in the book.

[grndevil44]

have a pipe that was dug up in Russia, I cleaned out the dirt and to my suprise I could smell burnt tobacco, quite strongly,

really like the luftwaffe lighter by the way

[unorosso]

cooooooooool.

[Bond]

And my another smoking related item, though I am not certain of its date, probably 30-40's, but the Rosenthaal backstamp is hard to narrow down precisely.

Same company as the trop cigarette tin I posted earlier. I have compared it with a luft bowl by the same maker.

Jerry

[kevinpre45]

New Book

Jim
Let me know when you need pics I have LOTS of small personal type items!
Kevin