Historic and Military Autographs, & Militaria

First day postal cover signed by four of the U.S.'s top sub commanders of World War II, including LAWSON P. RAMAGE, RICHARD H. O'KANE, GEORG...

Lot of three signed items, includes: WILLIAM H. SIMPSON (1888-1980) Commander of the Ninth Army, insignia of the Ninth Army on an octavo sheet, signed

Good lot of six signed items, includes: WALTER KRUEGER (1881-1967) Commanded the Sixth Army in the South Pacific and directed the landing in the Phili

Lot of five signed photographs of prominent American generals, includes: JONATHAN WAINWRIGHT (1883 - 1953) "Skinny", American general who ...

Lot of three items signed by American generals, includes: J. LAWTON COLLINS (1896-1987) Commanded the 25th Infantry Div. in operations on Guadalcanal

Lot of four signed items, includes: FREDERICK C. SHERMAN (1888-1957) Admiral who commanded Carrier Divisions I and II, led aerial attacks on Rabual,

Lot of two signatures, includes: HAROLD ALEXANDER (1891 - 1969) British military commander and field marshal who served with distinction in both worl

India five rupee bank note signed in 1945 by eight military men, three identified by us including: CLAUDE JOHN AUCHINLECK (1884-1981) Commander of Bri

A grouping of eight items by members of the "Grunherz" (Greenheart) fighter group, includes: HANNES TRAUTLOFT, Knights Cross winner with 5...

A group of nine items by Flying Tiger aces, in various formats (noted), includes: CHARLES H. OLDER, credited with 18 "kills" and 5 probabl...

A group of 18 items by acclaimed aces, in various formats such as letters and signed photos and with some duplication, includes: ROBERT L. SCOTT, C. L

Commemorative postal cover honoring the first long distance air race and picturing a Blenheim bomber, June 18, 1961, signed on the face by aces ADOLF

Lot of two signed photos of U-boat commanders awarded Knights Crosses, includes ERICH TOPP (1914-2005) third largest tonnage holder, 3" x 4&quo...

Seven items, the first HERBERT KAISER, ace with 68 victories. S.P. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" b/w, shows him in uniform and signed with fair contrast...

A group of five items by Knight's Cross holders, includes: HERMANN GRAFF, awarded Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds with over 200 victories, fine ...

Lot of two signed photos, each 8" x 10" b/w includes PAUL TIBBETS waving from his seat aboard the Enola Gay, with CHUCK YEAGER standing be...

Good lot of 13 signed items, includes LUCIUS TRUSCOTT, T.L.S. 1p. 4to., Third Army Headquarters, Nov. 7, 1945, sends his autograph; Admiral THOMAS C.

Good lot of nine signed items, includes: British Field Marshal ALAN BROOKE, signature on a card; General WALTON H. WALKER, signature and rank on a car

A group of five postal covers: two covers canceled aboard the U.S.S. Nevada, postmarked Nov. 11, 1932 and Dec. 7, 1941 respectively, signed by DONALD

Presentation document, 4pp. 16mo., untranslated but a military presentation of some type with a small pin, boldly signed by PAVEL BATOV (1897-1985) wh

A great, rare group of handsome limited edition posters honoring four acclaimed squadrons of America's first Black military airmen, each of whic...

Excellent limited edition color print "Red Tail Fury" by artist A. Ric Druet, 24" x 19", no. 1233/1500, depicts five American Mu...

Excellent limited edition color print "Button Up Time" by artist A. Ric Druet, 24" x 19", no. 1230/1500, depicts four American M...

A group lot of 150 signed photos of U.S. aces A huge dealers lot of over 150 S.P.s of U.S. aces, most in small format and many of which show them in

A group of 23 items by highly decorated aces of World War II and the Korean War, in various formats including S.P.s and letters, includes: GUY P. BORD

A group of 17 pieces by decorated aces of World War II Vietnam, in various formats such as letters and S.P.s, includes: STEVEN RITCHIE, JOHN F. BAKER,

A group of 26 items by Medals of Honor winners, in various formats but mostly signed photos, includes: KENNETH A. WALSH, MELVIN E. BIDDLE, CHARLES W.

"Traditionsbuch der Marineschule Wesermuende"("Tradition Book of the German Navy School Wesermuende"), 373pp., 12" x 16 1/2...

The first signatures of Nazi war criminals, gathered as they underwent psychiatric examinations in Luxembourg…with their comments made upon the surren

A fine pair of items evidencing the damage done to the city of Landshut, Germany by an Allied bombing raid (likely American) on Apr. 11, 1945. The gro

Document from the Volksbund of the Germans in Hungary, Local Group Jaad, certifying a Romanian soldier, formerly active in the Romanian army with the

Large grouping of ephemera from World War II B-17 pilot Capt. Charles F. Hanselman, includes: Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot's Log Book, showing...

An original press photo from World War II 10" x 8" b/w, showing a group of Black Coast Guard servicemen relaxing on board a ship. The lege...

Oversize volume titled Die Jugend des Fuhrers Adolf Hitler ("The Youth of the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler"), 1942, 10" x 12" hardbound i...

Rare recruiting pamphlet printed by the SS in order to attract French volunteers of German descent into their ranks, 4pp. 8vo. on heavy stock, Douai,

Broadside 24" x 19", printed in German and Russian, Pozarevac, Serbia, Nov. 19, 1942, notifying the public: "...despite the request m...

A fine archive of letters by "Anna", a British farmer residing in Sellindge, Kent, during the Blitz, 1940-1942, each penned to Eleanor Wig...

A later printing of Adolf Hitler's seminal volume Mein Kampf, 781pp. 8vo., with dustjacket, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1942. Dustjacket bears a ch...

Panzer soldier's military identification book, issued to private Kurt Kruger whose photo is stapled and tied with an ink seal to the inside fron...

Printed safe conduct pass distributed to Russian soldiers 2pp. legal folio, one side bearing photographs of Russian prisoners apparently being well-tr

Navy sailor's letter sent from the South Pacific to a friend who happened to be a major, 2pp. 4to., "South Pacific", Nov. 28, 1943. &q...

SS soldier's identity card, 3 1/2" x 4 3/4", issued in Munich to Gustav Mueller of Pr. Holland May 7, 1934. Mueller would be assigned ...

Partly-printed D.S., 1p. sm. folio, Reichenberg, Jan. 19, 1943, the appointment of Wilhelm Zenker to serve as a salaried governmental inspector, issue

Typed D.S. 1p. legal folio, Oct. 8, 1946, a memo titled: "GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED FORCES INTERNATIONAL PROSECUTIO...

ERWIN VON WITZLEBEN (1881 - 1944) German general whose forces broke the Maginot Line forcing the surrender of three French divisions. A major plotter

Freed by the American army under "Operation Paperclip" Complete file concerning the life of Dr. Horst Kedesky, an electron microscope res...

A fascinating archive of material pertaining to a 1931 U.S. Army study: "Studies in Bullet Efficiency", 29pp. 4to., carbon copy, its main ...

Lot of four items pertaining to the labor service of Else Frehsmann, an 18 year old girl undertaking service in the Reich Labor Service. Included is:

Grouping of 12 war-date letters and covers from Pvt. Girard H. Harris, 593rd Engineers Amphibious Reg., covering his training at Camp Carrabelle (near

Hundreds of Poles, Jews, and Catholic clergymen are transported by rail to Auschwitz, June 14, 1940 On June 14, 1940, German occupying authorities in

Excessively rare uniform of an SS-Aufseherin (prison matron), the gray-green wool jacket and skirt once owned by Ravenbruck dog-handler Gertrud Rabest

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

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 re...

A vile piece of Nazi propaganda, the "instructional" children's book Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jud auf seinem ...

Very rare book Der Giftpilz ("The Poison Mushroom"), by Ernst Hiemer with illustrations by Philipp Rupprecht, published by Streicher's...

"The best way to educate youth in our current and future fight for the total rejection of Jewry..." Propagandistic anti-Semitic German hi...

Teaching aids used to further "race classification" Lot of three items used by the Nazi party to indoctrinate the German youth into their...

Collection of geo-political maps and texts showing the "movement" of Jews since the time of the Roman Empire until the present time, from ...

ROBERT LEY (1890-1945) Nazi politician, virulent anti-Semite, and head of the German Labor Front. Ley ruthlessly enforced slave labor policies, and co

Anti-Semitic booklet Jewry and Social Democracy, ("Judentum und Sozialdemkratie"), by Karl Paumgartten, (Graz: Heimatverlag Leopold Stocke...

Jud Suss ("Jew Süss") is an antisemitic propaganda film, possibly the most offensive of all time, produced in 1940 by Terra Filmkunst...

Magazine advertisement for Joseph Goebbels' anti-Semitic film Jud Suss, a full page ad on the back cover of Der Adler, a weekly magazine publish...

ROBERT LEY (1890-1945) Nazi politician, virulent anti-Semite, and head of the German Labor Front. Ley ruthlessly enforced slave labor policies, and co

Anti-Semitic tract The Circumcised Moses, by Dr. Wilhelm Matthiessen (1891 - 1965), Ludendorffs Verlag, Munich, 1939. 48pp., 8vo.. The author, who usu

Anti-semitic publication "Jews in the USA", by Dr. Hans Diebow, printed by Nazi-affiliated printers Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Berlin, 1943,...

A truly awful anti-Semitic children's book, the excessively rare Das Lied vom Levi ("The Song of Levi") by Dr. Eduard Schwechten, 1933...

A disturbing tract resurrecting the "blood libel" accusation made against Jews, Die Wahrheit ueber die juedischen Ritual Morde ("The ...

Broadside, 13" x 16 3/4", hand-colored engraving Le Juif-Errant ("The Wandering Jew"), printed by Gangel and P. Didion, Metz, Fr...

Anti-Semitic publication, Arbeiter, auf ein Wort! ("Worker, Let's Have a Word!"), by Karl Paumgartten, Heimatverlag Leopold Stocker, G...

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 ...

Lot of four obsolete 1,000 reichsmark Series 1922 banknotes overprinted on the verso with anti-Semitic messages meant to blame Jews for Germany'...

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

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...

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

Rare broadside advertising virulent anti-Semite propagandist Julius Streicher's newspaper Der Sturmer, 9" x 12", the page bearing a ca...

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...

Crude, field-printed broadside, 8 1/2" x 10 1/4", , 1943, signed in type by a German "commissar", an order that: "...all m...

"Mission of camp: An extermination factory...starvation complicated by hard work...typhus rampant…" On April 4, 1945, the U.S. 89th Infan...

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

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

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

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

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,

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,

Partly-printed document 1p. 4to., Mannheim, Nov. 12, 1941, a marriage certificate between one Fritz Kaufmann and Amanda Hasslinger, and noting at bott

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,

"Kennkarte", or identification papers of a Jewish Polish woman who was given "protected" status. The definition of "ethnic ...

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

Lot of four obsolete 1,000 Reichsmark Series 1922 banknotes overprinted on the verso with anti-Semitic messages meant to blame Jews for Germany'...

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...

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...

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 ...

Ornate double-sided rayon French flag assembled in three pieces, 23" x 23" with gold fringe, bearing printed gilt lettering (translated): ...

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

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...

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 ...

A striking and rare color Nazi propaganda poster featuring a photograph of a painting of prominent recipients of the Knight's Cross with Joseph ...

Fine German World War II advertisement for the Nazi publication Die Werhmacht with Hermann Göring, "Die Reichsmarshall des Grossdeutschen ...

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

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...