Historic and Military Autographs, & Militaria

Auction Details

Our Fall, 2012 Auction is a two-part auction: Day One will offer important military documents and militaria; Day Two has a fine selection of historic letters, documents and manuscripts in other fields of collecting.
SS UNIFORM OF RAVENSBRUCK CAMP GUARD GERTRUD RABESTEIN353SS UNIFORM OF RAVENSBRUCK CAMP GUARD GERTRUD RABESTEIN
Excessively rare uniform of an SS-Aufseherin (prison matron), the gray-green wool jacket and skirt once owned by Ravenbruck dog-handler Gertrud Rabest
Start Price : 2,000.00 | Estimates : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
Sold for (2,750.00 + 618.75) x 1 = 3,368.75
J. A. TOPF & SONS CREMATORIA MANUFACTURERS' PORCELAIN SIGN354J. A. TOPF & SONS CREMATORIA MANUFACTURERS' PORCELAIN SIGN
Chilling relic of a company as complicit in the Holocaust as any individual, a porcelain sign once suspended at the Erfurt manufacturing facility of T
Start Price : 1,500.00 | Estimates : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
"ARYAN GERMAN BUSINESS" PORCELAIN SIGN355"ARYAN GERMAN BUSINESS" PORCELAIN SIGN
An evocative symbol of Nazi Germany's race laws, a 12 1/2" x 4 3/4" porcelain sign with two swastikas and slightly raised lettering readin...
Start Price : 750.00 | Estimates : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
Sold for (1,600.00 + 360.00) x 1 = 1,960.00
JULIUS STRTEICHER'S ANTI-SEMITIC CHILDREN'S BOOK "DO NOT TRUST A FOX IN A GREEN PASTURE OR A JEW UPO356JULIUS STRTEICHER'S ANTI-SEMITIC CHILDREN'S BOOK "DO NOT TRUST A FOX IN A GREEN PASTURE OR A JEW UPO
A vile piece of Nazi propaganda, the "instructional" children's book Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jud auf seinem Eid,...
Start Price : 1,000.00 | Estimates : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
JULIUS STREICHER'S ANTI-SEMITIC CHILDREN'S BOOK, "DER GIFTPILZ"357JULIUS STREICHER'S ANTI-SEMITIC CHILDREN'S BOOK, "DER GIFTPILZ"
Very rare book Der Giftpilz ("The Poison Mushroom"), by Ernst Hiemer with illustrations by Philipp Rupprecht, published by Streicher's Ber...
Start Price : 1,000.00 | Estimates : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
GERMAN ANTI-SEMITIC RACE AND HEREDITY TEACHING AID358GERMAN ANTI-SEMITIC RACE AND HEREDITY TEACHING AID
"The best way to educate youth in our current and future fight for the total rejection of Jewry..." Propagandistic anti-Semitic German hi...
Start Price : 1,000.00 | Estimates : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
Sold for (2,500.00 + 562.50) x 1 = 3,062.50
HITLER YOUTH RACIAL IDENTIFICATION POSTERS AND CORRESPONDING 1935 HANDBOOK359HITLER YOUTH RACIAL IDENTIFICATION POSTERS AND CORRESPONDING 1935 HANDBOOK
Teaching aids used to further "race classification" Lot of three items used by the Nazi party to indoctrinate the German youth into their...
Start Price : 1,000.00 | Estimates : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
Sold for (1,600.00 + 360.00) x 1 = 1,960.00
"GEOPOLITICS IN MAPS"360"GEOPOLITICS IN MAPS"
Collection of geo-political maps and texts showing the "movement" of Jews since the time of the Roman Empire until the present time, from ...
Start Price : 50.00 | Estimates : 100.00 - 150.00
"INTERNATION RACE MELANGE", BY DR. ROBERT LEY361"INTERNATION RACE MELANGE", BY DR. ROBERT LEY
ROBERT LEY (1890-1945) Nazi politician, virulent anti-Semite, and head of the German Labor Front. Ley ruthlessly enforced slave labor policies, and co
Start Price : 100.00 | Estimates : 200.00 - 300.00
"JEWRY AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY"362"JEWRY AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY"
Anti-Semitic booklet Jewry and Social Democracy, ("Judentum und Sozialdemkratie"), by Karl Paumgartten, (Graz: Heimatverlag Leopold Stocke...
Start Price : 150.00 | Estimates : 300.00 - 400.00
"JUD SUSS" NOVEL WITH FILM ILLUSTRATION363"JUD SUSS" NOVEL WITH FILM ILLUSTRATION
Jud Suss ("Jew Süss") is an antisemitic propaganda film, possibly the most offensive of all time, produced in 1940 by Terra Filmkunst...
Start Price : 75.00 | Estimates : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold for (80.00 + 18.00) x 1 = 98.00
"JUD SUSS"364"JUD SUSS"
Magazine advertisement for Joseph Goebbels' anti-Semitic film Jud Suss, a full page ad on the back cover of Der Adler, a weekly magazine published by
Start Price : 37.50 | Estimates : 75.00 - 100.00
Sold for (100.00 + 22.50) x 1 = 122.50
"ROOSEVELT BETRAYS AMERICA", BY DR. ROBERT LEY365"ROOSEVELT BETRAYS AMERICA", BY DR. ROBERT LEY
ROBERT LEY (1890-1945) Nazi politician, virulent anti-Semite, and head of the German Labor Front. Ley ruthlessly enforced slave labor policies, and co
Start Price : 100.00 | Estimates : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold for (220.00 + 49.50) x 1 = 269.50
"THE CIRCUMCISED MOSES"366"THE CIRCUMCISED MOSES"
Anti-Semitic tract The Circumcised Moses, by Dr. Wilhelm Matthiessen (1891 - 1965), Ludendorffs Verlag, Munich, 1939. 48pp., 8vo.. The author, who usu
Start Price : 150.00 | Estimates : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold for (340.00 + 76.50) x 1 = 416.50
"THE JEWS IN THE USA"367"THE JEWS IN THE USA"
Anti-semitic publication "Jews in the USA", by Dr. Hans Diebow, printed by Nazi-affiliated printers Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Berlin, 1943,...
Start Price : 100.00 | Estimates : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold for (220.00 + 49.50) x 1 = 269.50
"THE SONG OF LEVI"368"THE SONG OF LEVI"
A truly awful anti-Semitic children's book, the excessively rare Das Lied vom Levi ("The Song of Levi") by Dr. Eduard Schwechten, 1933 edi...
Start Price : 250.00 | Estimates : 500.00 - 700.00
"THE TRUTH ABOUT JEWISH RITUAL KILLINGS"369"THE TRUTH ABOUT JEWISH RITUAL KILLINGS"
A disturbing tract resurrecting the "blood libel" accusation made against Jews, Die Wahrheit ueber die juedischen Ritual Morde ("The ...
Start Price : 150.00 | Estimates : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold for (260.00 + 58.50) x 1 = 318.50
"THE WANDERING JEW"370"THE WANDERING JEW"
Broadside, 13" x 16 3/4", hand-colored engraving Le Juif-Errant ("The Wandering Jew"), printed by Gangel and P. Didion, Metz, Fr...
Start Price : 100.00 | Estimates : 200.00 - 300.00
"WORKER, LET'S HAVE A WORD!"371"WORKER, LET'S HAVE A WORD!"
Anti-Semitic publication, Arbeiter, auf ein Wort! ("Worker, Let's Have a Word!"), by Karl Paumgartten, Heimatverlag Leopold Stocker, Graz ...
Start Price : 100.00 | Estimates : 200.00 - 300.00
ANTI-SEMITIC HANDBILL372ANTI-SEMITIC HANDBILL
Anti-Semitic handbill, 6 1/4" x 3", black ink on light green paper, shows a Star of David with the legend: "Who wears this symbol is ...
Start Price : 75.00 | Estimates : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold for (120.00 + 27.00) x 1 = 147.00
ANTI-SEMITIC OVERPRINTED BANKNOTES373ANTI-SEMITIC OVERPRINTED BANKNOTES
Lot of four obsolete 1,000 reichsmark Series 1922 banknotes overprinted on the verso with anti-Semitic messages meant to blame Jews for Germany's poor
Start Price : 50.00 | Estimates : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold for (90.00 + 20.25) x 1 = 110.25
"DER JUDEN IN NEDERLAND"374"DER JUDEN IN NEDERLAND"
Scarce publication, The Jews in Holland, by Hans Graf von Monts, (no other publishing data noted), 63pp. 8vo., clearly a war-date Nazi propaganda piec
Start Price : 50.00 | Estimates : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold for (90.00 + 20.25) x 1 = 110.25
FRENCH ANTI-SEMITIC PROPAGANDA375FRENCH ANTI-SEMITIC PROPAGANDA
An especially rare piece of French anti-American, anti-Semitic propaganda, a 12 1/4" x 2 5/8" which bears printing on one side of either s...
Start Price : 125.00 | Estimates : 250.00 - 350.00
Sold for (260.00 + 58.50) x 1 = 318.50
UKRAINIAN ANTI-STALIN, ANTI-SEMITIC NEWSPAPER376UKRAINIAN ANTI-STALIN, ANTI-SEMITIC NEWSPAPER
An interesting Ukrainian anti-Stalin, anti-Semitic and pro-German World War II date newspaper, 4pp. large 4to., [n.p., n.d.], with articles and editor
Start Price : 125.00 | Estimates : 250.00 - 350.00
DER STURMER BROADSIDE377DER STURMER BROADSIDE
Rare broadside advertising virulent anti-Semite propagandist Julius Streicher's newspaper Der Sturmer, 9" x 12", the page bearing a carica...
Start Price : 100.00 | Estimates : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold for (180.00 + 40.50) x 1 = 220.50
NSDAP ANTI-SEMITIC POSTER378NSDAP ANTI-SEMITIC POSTER
NSDAP anti-Semitic poster quoting Joseph Goebbels, 9 1/2" x 13 3/4", printed in gray and red, in full: "Jews invented Marxism, Jews a...
Start Price : 75.00 | Estimates : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold for (120.00 + 27.00) x 1 = 147.00
UKRAINIAN FORCED LABOR BROADSIDE379UKRAINIAN FORCED LABOR BROADSIDE
Crude, field-printed broadside, 8 1/2" x 10 1/4", , 1943, signed in type by a German "commissar", an order that: "...all me...
Start Price : 125.00 | Estimates : 250.00 - 350.00
Sold for (240.00 + 54.00) x 1 = 294.00
FIRST REPORT BY AMERICAN OFFICERS ON CONDITIONS AT BUCHENWALD380FIRST REPORT BY AMERICAN OFFICERS ON CONDITIONS AT BUCHENWALD
"Mission of camp: An extermination factory...starvation complicated by hard work...typhus rampant…" On April 4, 1945, the U.S. 89th Infan...
Start Price : 500.00 | Estimates : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
Sold for (1,100.00 + 247.50) x 1 = 1,347.50
PRINTED RULES FOR A WEHRMACHT BORDELLO - LOCATED NEAR A JEWISH DEATH CAMP381PRINTED RULES FOR A WEHRMACHT BORDELLO - LOCATED NEAR A JEWISH DEATH CAMP
Very rare and provocative poster, the printed rules for a bordello operated by the Wehrmacht, located very close to a notorious Jewish camp in Nazi-sy
Start Price : 750.00 | Estimates : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
Sold for (1,100.00 + 247.50) x 1 = 1,347.50
CERTIFICATE OF ARYAN HERITAGE382CERTIFICATE OF ARYAN HERITAGE
Chilling D.S., 2pp. sm. folio, Vienna, Feb. 17, 1942, an NSDAP-issued certificate tracing the religious ancestry of the holder, one Franz Wilhelm Jose
Start Price : 100.00 | Estimates : 200.00 - 300.00
CERTIFICATION DOCUMENTS SWEARING NON-JEWISH NATIONALITY383CERTIFICATION DOCUMENTS SWEARING NON-JEWISH NATIONALITY
Printed documents 2pp. 8vo. each, [n.p., n.d.] printed in German, Polish and Russian, to be signed under oath certifying non-Jewish heritage. Toning t
Start Price : 50.00 | Estimates : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold for (100.00 + 22.50) x 1 = 122.50
FORCED LABOR CAMPS - POSTAL HISTORY384FORCED LABOR CAMPS - POSTAL HISTORY
Lot of three items includes a postal cover addressed to an individual in Warsaw, canceled at Hofgeismar, site of a forced labor camp and later a DP ca
Start Price : 50.00 | Estimates : 100.00 - 150.00
FORCED LABOR CAMPS - POSTAL HISTORY385FORCED LABOR CAMPS - POSTAL HISTORY
Good lot of three postal covers, two originating from forced labor camps within Poland. Included are two 1940-41 covers from the Directorate of Radon,
Start Price : 50.00 | Estimates : 100.00 - 150.00
GERMAN FORCED LABOR CAMPS - POSTAL HISTORY386GERMAN FORCED LABOR CAMPS - POSTAL HISTORY
Lot of two very rare items sent postally from small forced labor camps within Germany. Included is a postcard sent from Anuschka work camp, near Bonn,
Start Price : 50.00 | Estimates : 100.00 - 150.00
NAZI MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE FOR A JEW387NAZI MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE FOR A JEW
Partly-printed document 1p. 4to., Mannheim, Nov. 12, 1941, a marriage certificate between one Fritz Kaufmann and Amanda Hasslinger, and noting at bott
Start Price : 50.00 | Estimates : 100.00 - 150.00
POLISH JEWISH GHETTO AND FORCED LABOR CAMP NEU SANDEZ388POLISH JEWISH GHETTO AND FORCED LABOR CAMP NEU SANDEZ
Lot of two rare postal covers originating from the Polish ghetto and 150-person forced labor camp site of Nowy Sacz (Neu Sandez), a city of around 20,
Start Price : 50.00 | Estimates : 100.00 - 150.00
POLISH JEWISH WOMAN'S IDENTIFICATION389POLISH JEWISH WOMAN'S IDENTIFICATION
"Kennkarte", or identification papers of a Jewish Polish woman who was given "protected" status. The definition of "ethnic ...
Start Price : 200.00 | Estimates : 400.00 - 600.00
RECEIPTS FROM DACHAU390RECEIPTS FROM DACHAU
A pair of carbon-copy receipts from the Commandant of Dachau, dated Aug. 8, 1944 and Sept. 30, 1944 respectively. One orders covers costing 8 Reichsma
Start Price : 50.00 | Estimates : 100.00 - 150.00
OVERPRINTED ANTI-SEMITIC REICHSMARK BANKNOTES391OVERPRINTED ANTI-SEMITIC REICHSMARK BANKNOTES
Lot of four obsolete 1,000 Reichsmark Series 1922 banknotes overprinted on the verso with anti-Semitic messages meant to blame Jews for Germany's poor
Start Price : 75.00 | Estimates : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold for (180.00 + 40.50) x 1 = 220.50
NORDHAUSEN VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS PHOTOGRAPHS392NORDHAUSEN VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS PHOTOGRAPHS
Chilling collection of eight 9" x 7" b/w photographs released by the U.S. Army Information Service shortly after the liberation of the ext...
Start Price : 150.00 | Estimates : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold for (280.00 + 63.00) x 1 = 343.00
"GERMAN BUSINESS" PLACARD393"GERMAN BUSINESS" PLACARD
Paper placard, 9 1/2" x 7", black printing on an ochre background, shows a German eagle full length with a rising sun in the background, t...
Start Price : 150.00 | Estimates : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold for (320.00 + 72.00) x 1 = 392.00
CONCENTRATION CAMP POLITICAL PRISONER'S RED "TRIANGLE"394CONCENTRATION CAMP POLITICAL PRISONER'S RED "TRIANGLE"
Red cloth triangle once affixed to a political prisoner's uniform while he was held a prisoner in either a prison camp or concentration camp in Nazi G
Start Price : 250.00 | Estimates : 500.00 - 700.00
FRENCH LABOR DEPORTEES' FLAG395FRENCH LABOR DEPORTEES' FLAG
Ornate double-sided rayon French flag assembled in three pieces, 23" x 23" with gold fringe, bearing printed gilt lettering (translated): ...
Start Price : 100.00 | Estimates : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold for (260.00 + 58.50) x 1 = 318.50
METAL DOCUMENT HANDSTAMP OF CONCENTRATION CAMP OVERSEER OSWALD POHL396METAL DOCUMENT HANDSTAMP OF CONCENTRATION CAMP OVERSEER OSWALD POHL
OSWALD POHL (1892 - 1951) Head of the Economic Office of the SS and ultimate overseer of the concentration camp system. It was Pohl who turned his vic
Start Price : 350.00 | Estimates : 700.00 - 900.00
POLISH SLAVE LABORER SHIRT BADGES397POLISH SLAVE LABORER SHIRT BADGES
Lot of six shirt badges (uncut), 7" x 5" overall, each bearing a "P" intended to be sewn to the shirt of a Polish "guest wo...
Start Price : 75.00 | Estimates : 150.00 - 200.00
SILVER CIGARETTE CASE WITH STAR OF DAVID398SILVER CIGARETTE CASE WITH STAR OF DAVID
An interesting silver cigarette case, 3 1/4" x 3 1/2" curved, with raised Star of David and Hebrew characters riveted to the lid probably ...
Start Price : 100.00 | Estimates : 200.00 - 300.00
KNIGHTS CROSS WINNERS PROPAGANDA POSTER*399KNIGHTS CROSS WINNERS PROPAGANDA POSTER*
A striking and rare color Nazi propaganda poster featuring a photograph of a painting of prominent recipients of the Knight's Cross with Joseph &quo...
Start Price : 400.00 | Estimates : 800.00 - 1,200.00
Sold for (300.00 + 67.50) x 1 = 367.50
HERMAN GÖRING DIE WERMACHT BROADSIDE*400HERMAN GĂ–RING DIE WERMACHT BROADSIDE*
Fine German World War II advertisement for the Nazi publication Die Werhmacht with Hermann Göring, "Die Reichsmarshall des Grossdeutschen ...
Start Price : 150.00 | Estimates : 300.00 - 400.00
ADOLF HITLER PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM401ADOLF HITLER PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
Superb photo album bearing over 40 period photo postcards of which all but two depict Adolf Hitler in a variety of poses, some casual, some in the mos
Start Price : 150.00 | Estimates : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold for (400.00 + 90.00) x 1 = 490.00
IWO JIMA FLAG RAISING402IWO JIMA FLAG RAISING
The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wa., Feb. 27, 1945, 10 pp. "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" is a historic photograph taken on Feb. 23, 19...
Start Price : 75.00 | Estimates : 150.00 - 200.00