Militaria Auction Spring 2016

IDENTITY PAPERS FOR A GUARD AT SACHSENHAUSEN AND THE V-ROCKET FACTORIES Wehrpass issued to 37 year old Wilhelm Schroter at Sangerhausen on Apr. 1, 193

STAMMBUCH OF SS-TOTENKOPF MEMBER SERVING AT DACHAU AND IN A SONDERKOMMANDO UNIT Service record of SS-Totenkopf Rottenfuhrer Horst Guse, 50pp. 8vo., se

J. A. TOPF & SONS SIGN - MANUFACTURERS OF CREMATORIA Chilling relic of a company as complicit in the Holocaust as any individual, an aluminum si...

AUSCHWITZ PRISONER PHOTO Auschwitz prisoner's file photo, three images on one 4 3/4" x 2" strip. Prisoner 35239 is a political prisone...

SACHSENHAUSEN PRISONER'S LETTER Sachsenhausen prisoner's letter, 4pp. 8vo., May 2, 1943. Jakob Smol writes a woman, presumably his wife. In ...

SIGNAL CORPS PHOTOS OF GERMAN ATROCITIES Lot of thirteen printed photos with captions, each 5" x 7" overall, April, 1945, images from seve...

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE GARDELEGEN MASSACRE The Gardelegen massacre was perpetrated by Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe troops during World War II on April 13, 1945

OHRDRUF CONCENTRATION CAMP PHOTOS The Ohrdruf camp was a subcamp of Buchenwald was and the first camp liberated by U.S. troops. Created in November 19

HOLOCAUST PHOTO GROUPING Lot of 13 photographs, a few commercial, the balance printed on postcard paper and likely second generation, all about 3 1/...

HOLOCAUST PHOTOGRAPHS Lot of nine second-generation but undoubtedly contemporary photographs of Holocaust victims, survivor, crematoria, etc., each ...

HOLOCAUST PHOTOGRAPHS Set of 14 original photographs, 3 1/2" x 2 1/2" b/w, depicting the scene when American soldiers arrived to liberate ...

HOLOCAUST VICTIMS IN MASS GRAVES Lot of three original photographs, each 3" x 3" b/w, two showing lines of naked bodies within a deep tren...

"AMERICAN ACES OF THE FIRST AIR WAR" SIGNED SET OF PRINTS Excellent lot of four signed and limited color lithographs, each 24 1/2" x ...

ALVIN C. YORK (1887 - 1964) American soldier of World War I who single-handedly captured 132 German prisoners and was awarded a Medal of Honor. Signat

ALVIN C. YORK (1887 - 1964) American soldier of World War I who single-handedly captured 132 German prisoners and was awarded a Medal of Honor. Signat

JOHANN HEINRICH VON BERNSTORFF (1862 - 1939) German politician and the ambassador to the United States and Mexico from 1908 to 1917. Believed to have

PAUL VON HINDENBURG (1847 - 1934) German general and politician, crushed the Russians at Tannenburg and in Poland, forced to yield the Chancellor...

RICHARD C. B. HAKING (1862 - 1945) British general, who commanded XI Corps in the First World War, perhaps unfairly remembered for the high casualties

ROBERT HILL British Vice Admiral and naval surgeon, the principal surgeon of the Grand Fleet during World War I. Fine oversize S.P., 14" x 19&q...

WILLIAM A. "BILLY" BISHOP (1894-1956) Canadian aviator of World War I, officially credited with bringing down 72 enemy aircraft. S.P. 7&qu...

WORLD WAR I PERSONALITIES Group of three World War I-related signed items. Includes: FELIX VON LUCKNER (1881-1966), commander of the German commerce r

MAPS USED BY GEN. JOHN PERSHING IN THE PLANNING OF THE ST. MIHIEL OFFENSIVE Historic group of four maps used by A.E.F. Gen. John J. Pershing in the pl

GEN. ROBERT C. RICHARDSON, JR. WORLD WAR I DIARY TRANSCRIPT Revealing T.Ms. (unsigned), 47pp. [n.p., n.d., ca. 1940], being then-Major Richardson...

WORLD WAR I SOLDIERS' LETTERS Large lot of 39 letters and two post cards, most one to two pages, 4to., written by Allied soldiers at the Western...

(CHINA) ANTI-JAPANESE ORIGINAL POSTER ART Original ink and ink wash poster by noted Philadelphia newspaper political artist GILBERT ALLAN GEIST (1895-

WORLD WAR I BLACK SOLDIER RECRUITING POSTER Rare color recruiting poster used to attract black American men to join the Army, a 16" x 20" ...

SUBMARINE "DEUTSCHLAND" GROUPING The Deutschland was a blockade-running German merchant submarine in action during World War I. She was on...

"STARS AND STRIPES" REPRINTED ISSUES OF WORLD WAR I Bound collection of reprinted, full-size and complete issues of "Stars and Stripe...

CAPTURE AND SINKING OF U-58 BY THE SS FANNING Scarce lithograph of a photograph of the crew of the German submarine U-58 and an American boarding crew

WORLD WAR I COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHS Lot of 12 5" x 4" second-generation (period) combat photographs, includes dead in the trenches, American as...

EARLY NAVY BUGLER'S PHOTOS Lot of about 80 original photographs owned by a Navy bugler, ca. 1920s, various subjects including images taken at se...

ITALIAN "MILITARY SUPPLIES" SIGN Enamel-coated iron sign, 9" x 10 3/4", advertising a supplier of military uniforms and equipmen...

LUSITANIA AND CUNARD LINE PROMOTIONAL EPHEMERA Lot of two items includes a 14pp. 8vo. photo illustrated brochure issued by Cunard showing their variou

WORLD WAR I ARTILLERY SPOTTER'S RANGE FINDING DRAWINGS Excellent grouping of nine different original pencil drawings of an artilleryman's vi...

WORLD WAR I ARTILLERY SPOTTER'S RANGE FINDING DRAWINGS Excellent grouping of nine different original pencil drawings of an artilleryman's vi...

WORLD WAR I FRAMED PHOTOGRAPH OF SOLDIER Photograph, 3" x 5" b/w showing a self-assured American soldier leaning against a railing in a st...

WORLD WAR I GERMAN SOLDIERS Group of about 55 original photographs contained within a single album, almost all about 3" x 5", most subject...

WORLD WAR I LANTERN SLIDES Wooden box containing 46 b/w 3 1/4" x 3 1/4" glass lantern slides. Photographs depict soldiers in trenches, bat...

WORLD WAR I PROPAGANDA POSTER American propaganda poster from World War I, 20" x 30", shows a soldier returning home to his family with a ...

WORLD WAR I PROPAGANDA POSTER Rare American propaganda poster from World War I, 22" x 28", shows an infant in a bassinette "saying&qu...

WORLD WAR I PROPAGANDA POSTER Scarce American propaganda poster from World War I, 28" x 41", shows a group of soldiers in a snowy forest e...

WORLD WAR I PROPAGANDA POSTER American propaganda poster from World War I, 28" x 42", shows three smiling servicemen with the caption: &qu...

WORLD WAR I PROPAGANDA POSTER World War I propaganda poster, 26" x 32", marked Babcock. Colorful image of an American sailor riding a torp...

WORLD WAR I PROPAGANDA POSTER American propaganda poster, 21" x 28", by Palenske. Poster features Uncle Sam selling a sheet of War Savings...

WORLD WAR I PROPAGANDA POSTER American propaganda poster, 20" x 30", by H. DeWitt. This poster features several large crosses marking grav...

WORLD WAR I PROPAGANDA POSTER American propaganda poster, 21" x 32", features Uncle Sam with his arms around the shoulders of an American ...

FRENCH PROPAGANDA POSTER World War I French propaganda poster, 31" x 45", Jules-Abel Faivre's famous 1915 image of a French poilu quot...

WORLD WAR I GERMAN MILITARY AVIATOR'S VISOR CAP World War I-era German military aviator's visor cap, black wool side panel and wool peaked u...

WORLD WAR I ROYAL NAVY OFFICER'S COCKED HAT AND EPAULETTES Pair of epaulettes, each approx. 7 1/2" x 5", and a black velvet cocked hat...

AMERICAN WORLD WAR I HELMET WITH U.S. 3RD INFANTRY INSIGNIA M1917 helmet which retains most of its original finish of crushed cork, as well as the ent