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ALFRED VON TIRPITZ

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
ALFRED VON TIRPITZ
(1849 - 1930) German admiral, Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office. Tirpitz took the modest imperial navy and starting in the 1890s turned it into a world-class force that could threaten the British Royal Navy. Typed D.S. on his State Secretary of the Reichsmarine letterhead, 2pp. legal folio, Berlin, Mar. 21, 1908 to the Chief of Staff of the Admiralty discussing which type of compass markings would be used on admiralty maps as German nautical charts use a compass rose using degrees while other charts used degrees and lines. Tirpitz asks that one uniform compass rose be used for the entire High Fleet. Very good.

Estimate: $200 - 300.

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