Militaria Auction Spring 2016

THEATER-MADE METAL PLANE MODELS Lot of four theater-made models of U.S. Navy carrier fighter planes, each with wing spans about 4-5". Three of ...

THEATER-MADE CRUISER AND DESTROYER DESK MODELS Good lot of seven theater-made desk top models of cruisers and destroyers, varying levels of quality an

TROOP SHIP "QUEEN MARY" LIFE VEST Rare war-date life vest from perhaps the most famous troop ship, the QUEEN MARY. This simple vest, 40&qu...

THEATER-MADE AIRPLANE DESK MODELS (4) Fine lot of four theater-made metal airplane models, most about 4-6" long and made of brass and cast alum...

ST. NAZAIRE PRISONER-MADE SUBMARINE WALL PLAQUE A brass half-hull model of a German U-boat, undoubtedly made by a U-boat crewman or yard employee bein

THEATER-MADE U-BOAT HULL MODELS Pair of plaque-mounted hull models of German U-boats, theater-made either onboard a U-boat or at a machine ship on sho

THEATER-MADE U-BOAT HULL PLAQUES Pair of plaque-mounted hull models of German U-boats, theater-made either onboard a U-boat or at a machine ship on sh

THEATER-MADE U-BOAT HULL PLAQUES Pair of plaque-mounted hull models of German U-boats, theater-made either onboard a U-boat or at a machine ship on sh

SOUTH PACIFIC NAVY SAILOR'S CARVED PIPE A museum-quality carved American sailor's pipe from the island of Santu Spirito, northeast of Austra...

TRENCH ART HAND-MADE RIFLE AND MACHINE GUN MODELS (4) Extraordinary grouping of trench art, four scale models of commonly used British weapons exactin

TRENCH ART RIFLE MODELS Lot of five trench art-type rifles, various types, average about 11" long and composed of various metals, some cast but...

SS FELDGENDARMERIE "HALT" HAND SIGN A rare hand-held signed used by the SS Feldgendarmerie, 24" long overall with a 8" Bakelite ...

SS TOTENKOPFVERBANDE "OSTMARK" SCHNAPPS CUP Small sterling silver schnapps cup, 2" tall, engraved with the Berlin "bear" em...

SEPP DIETRICH L.S.A.H. RECORDED BATTLE REPORTS PRESENTED TO HITLER, CHRISTMAS, 1940 A very rare set recordings of a battle report from the western fro

U.S. BUREAU OF SHIPS TELESCOPE Cased metal-bodied telescope, 31" long, black with rubber-coated end and adjustable eyepiece, the entire body ha...

U.S. FLEET SUBMARINE WITH "TSUNAMI" WAVES Beautiful full-body waterline model of a U.S. World War II fleet submarine with expertly-cut bla...

U.S. M3 CAMILLUS FIGHTING KNIFE M3 Camillus fighting knife typically issued to American paratroopers, 11 ?" long overall with leather grip and ...

U.S. MERCHANT MARINE LIFE VEST War-dated life jacket of the exact type used by the U.S. Merchant Marine, white duck fabric with several kapok-filled c

U.S. NAVY DIVER PLAQUES (2) Two cast metal plaques, likely theater-made, associated with U.S. Navy divers. Included is a cast aluminum plaque depictin

U.S. NAVY RING Private purchase WWII vintage U.S. Navy-themed ring, apparently heavy silver plate with bronze eagle at center,nicely detailed. About s

U.S. NAVY SEXTANT Cased U.S. Navy Mark II sextant by maker Ajax, black painted finish, set into a 11 1/4" x 11 1/4" x 5" wood case. U...

U.S.C.G. CAMPBELL COMMANDER'S MEDAL GROUP AND TELEGRAPH KEY Excellent grouping of items associated with the Coast Guard Cutter CAMBELL which val...

U.S.M.C. AVIATOR'S TRENCH ART ASHTRAY MADE OF A JAPANESE SHELL U.S. Marine Corps aviator's trench art ashtray, assembled from the 3 5/8"...

U.S.N. AIRCRAFT BOMB AND DEPTH CHARGE RACK Relic from a war-time Navy aircraft, a bomb rack from which was suspended a bomb or depth charge while the

U.S.N. SUBMARINER'S "SWEETHEART" BRACELET Attractive and quite rare silver bracelet bearing the emblem of the American submarine servi...

U.S.S. ARIZONA LAUNCHING MEDAL...MADE OF METAL FROM THE U.S.S. MAINE! Small 1" x 1 1/2" brass medal presented to guests attending the laun...

U.S.S. GILMORE "HOMEWARD BOUND" FLAG RELIC AND SAILOR'S GROUPING A fine grouping of material from Navy Sound Operator 2nd Class John K...

U.S.S. TIRU DESK MODEL AND TABLE COVER Pair of items related to the USS TIRU, includes a bronze chrome-plated model of the vessel showing her in Guppi

WARTIME GERMAN-MADE SHIP IN A BOTTLE German-made ship in a bottle, possibly constructed by a P.O.W., a model of the three-masted training ship "...

WEHRMACHT BACKPACK Cloth and horsehide backpack, 12" x 15" x 5" deep, green canvas with multiple pockets and leather straps, all appa...

WORLD WAR II GAS MASK AND MISCELLANY Group of World War II equipment, includes "Army Lightweight Service Mask", a gas mask, canister and c...

WR1/P "RUDI" GERMAN FRONT LINE RADIO A desirable display piece, a German WR1/P "Rudi" front line radio. The radio, enclosed with...

YULEFEST 1944/45 WINTERHILFSWERK PINS IN ORIGINAL BOX A complete and untouched set of 100 Winterhilfswerk donation pins from the Christmas, 1944/45 se

"FLICK YOUR ASHES ON HITLER'S HEARTH" A curious Hitler relic, a solid brass ashtray, 6" x 5 1/2" x 1" tall being a repl...

V-E DAY SOUVENIRS Lot of three items manufactured and sold in celebration of the end of the war in Europe. Included is a color printed coarse linen ba

"THE LONGEST DAY" FILM PROP NSDAP FLAG N.S.D.A.P. flag used in the blockbuster World II film "The Longest Day" (1962). The flag ...

"EDELWEISS" WEHRMACHT ISSUED TOILET PAPER Quite a find, a roll of Wehrmacht toilet paper, approved for use by the German armed forces! The...

COURT ARCHIVE OF DUTCH "JEW-HUNTER" HENDRIKUS KLINKENBIJL AND THE "HENNEICKE COLUMN" HENDRIKUS KLINKENBIJL (a/k/a "Henk Kl...

JULIUS STREICHER'S ANTI-SEMITIC CHILDREN'S BOOK "THE POODLE-PUG-DACHSHUND-PINSCHER" The excessively rare third of Julius Streicher...

JULIUS STREICHER'S ANTI-SEMITIC CHILDREN'S BOOK "DO NOT TRUST A FOX IN A GREEN PASTURE OR A JEW UPON HIS OATH!" A vile piece of Na...

BERGEN-BELSEN CAMP PRISONERS' CAPS Lot of two caps recovered from the notorious German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Lower Saxony by a Bri...

CONCENTRATION CAMP PRISONER'S DRAWING OF MAUTHAUSEN GUARD GEORG BACHMAYER Original concentration camp inmate's drawing of brutal SS-Hauptstu...

"ANTISEMITISM OF THE WORLD IN WORD AND PICTURE" German anti-Semitic publication: "Antisemitismus der Welt in Wort und Bild" (&qu...

"BOLSHEVISM AND JUDAISM" Anti-Semitic and anti-Communist book, "Bolschewismus und Judentum: Das Judische Element in der Fuhrerschaft ...

1935 HITLER YOUTH CALENDAR WITH RACE AND ANTI-SEMITIC TEXT Frightening content Hitler Youth-oriented publication: "Calendar of the German Youth...

ANTI-SEMITIC ASHTRAY "FOR ASCHE(R)" Anti-Semitic silver metal ashtray, 7 1/4" tall, 5" wide, a caricature of an Orthodox Jew wit...

ANTI-SEMITIC GERMAN PROPAGANDA POSTER Very large German pre-World War II propaganda poster, 33" x 48". The poster reprints a satirical pas...

PHOTO ARCHIVE OF I. G. FARBEN PRESIDENT AND WAR CRIMINAL HERMANN SCHMITZ HERMANN SCHMITZ (1881-1960) German industrialist and Nazi war criminal. Schmi

POLISH "HOME ARMY" RESISTANCE FIGHTER'S GROUP Polish "Home Army" resistance fighter's grouping, the unknown soldier pos...

"DER UNTERMENSCH" A disturbing and quite rare publication entitled Der Untermensch ("The Sub-Human"), (Berlin: Norland Verlag, [...

"JEWS ARE PEOPLE TOO" Rare Flemish anti-Semitic book "Joden Zijn Ook Menschen"("Jews Are People Too") by Belgian fasci...

"THE JEW BEISATTI HAS BEEN ARRESTED..." Fine content retained copy of a high Austrian official's T.L.S., 1p. 4to., [Vienna, post-1938]...

ANTI-SEMITIC "GEOPOLITICS IN MAPS" BOOK Heavily-illustrated anti-Semitic book, "Geopolitik im Kartenbild: Die Juden" ("Geop...

ANTI-SEMITIC FRENCH PUBLICATION 19th-century French satirical magazine, "Le Sifflet" ("The Whistle"), [Paris: Le Sifflet], Mar. ...

ANTI-SEMITIC TERRACOTTA BUST Odd reddish-orange clay sculpture, 5 1/2" tall, depicts a stereotypical caricature of a Jewish man, with exaggerat...

LIST OF JEWISH PARTISAN DOCTORS KILLED OR MURDERED IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS An amazing pair of documents evidencing the valiant efforts of Jewish doctor

"DER STURMER" ADVERTISING POSTER Poster advertising the Nazi tabloid "Der Sturmer", 9" x 12 1/2", the paper best known...

"DER STURMER" AND OTHER GERMAN NEWSPAPERS Lot of five German newspapers, includes two copies (1941 and 1944) of Julius Streicher's ant...

"DER STURMER" ANTI-SEMITIC NEWSPAPER REPUBLISHED IN ENGLISH Vile anti-Semitic newspaper "Der Sturmer" issue originally published...

"NAZI HELL" Dutch photo-book "Nazi Hel" ("Nazi Hell"), by Willem van de Poll [Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendorf],...

A. BLIEBERNICHT BREWERY BOTTLE One half liter beer bottle from the A.Bliebernicht brewery in Pernau, Estonia. The maker, proud of his religion, used a

ANTI-SEMITIC PUBLICATIONS Group of two German anti-Semitic items, includes: "Juden Und Lords Hand in Hand", Feb. 1940, 48pp. 8vo., which p...

AUSCHWITZ SLAVE LABORER'S WORK BOOK An "arbeitsbuch", or work history book issued to Polish slave laborer Stanislaus Loj, born in 1892...

BUCHENWALD CAMP CANTINE SCRIP Lot of two SS-issued one Reichsmark "Kantine" notes from Buchenwald concentration camp, each 4" x 3&quo...

CONCENTRATION CAMP LETTER FROM GROSS-ROSEN TO LITZMANNSTADT Gross-Rosen prisoner's letter on official camp letter form, 2pp. 8vo., postmarked at...

CONCENTRATION CAMP PHOTOGRAPHS Gruesome souvenir recovered at the German concentration camp at Nordhausen, a camp used to eliminate prisoners too weak

CONCENTRATION CAMP PHOTOGRAPHS Lot of 14 photographs, likely second generation, taken at unknown concentration camps, show survivors, heaps of the dea

DUTCH "JOOD" STAR OF DAVID Dutch "Jood" yellow cotton Star of David, worn by Dutch Jews on their clothing to identify them by th...

EARLY GERMAN ANTI-SEMITIC FLYERS Lot of two anti-Semitic flyers issued by the German "Bund of the 48s", a left-wing social democrat group ...

FLYER FOR BOOK PROMOTING DEPORTATION OF JEWS TO MADAGASCAR Small flyer, 4pp. 3" x 4", promoting a book: "The Aryan Race, Christian Cu...

FRENCH ANTI-SEMITIC ANTI-BOLSHEVIK PAMPHLET Pre-war French pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic, anti-Bolshevik fold-out pamphlet, "25 Years of Bolshevism Sc...

FRENCH JEWS MUST REPORT TO CITY HALL FOR IDENTIFICATION Frightening broadside issued by Mayor Gaston Chardin of the Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marn

GERMAN CARICATURE OF A JEW Insulting original caricature profile of a Jewish man, black ink on a 4" x 3 1/2" piece of gray heavy stock, ca...

GESTAPO LISTS OF JEWS WHO HAVE FLED GERMANY AND TO BE RE-ARRESTED ON THEIR RETURN A bound list of dozens of war-date copies of typed transcripts of co

HITLER YOUTH FILM STRIP ON "HEREDITARILY-DISEASED OFFSPRING" Rare, horrific propaganda film strip aimed at German youth: "HEREDITARIL...

I. G. FARBEN 75TH ANNIVERSARY PORCELAIN PRESENTATION Chilling commemorative souvenir from the creator of Zyklon B, the gas used to kill millions of Je

JEWS ARE FORCED TO WORK BY GERMAN SOLDIERS Graphic candid photo, 2 1/4" x 3 1/2", shows three Jews under German guard as they are forced t...

LIST OF A PRISONER'S EFFECTS FROM BOTH DACHAU AND MAUTHAUSEN Inventories of the personal property of a prisoner held at both Mauthausen and Dach...

NAZI VICTIM'S RATION CARD A ration card issued by the "Organization of Victims of National Socialist Suppression", 6pp. 12mo., Innsbru...

PRO-NAZI ANTI-FREEMASON LITERATURE Lot of four publications attacking Freemasonry and indirectly supporting Nazi efforts to destroy the fraternal orga

DR. KARL GEBHARDT (1897 - 1948) Personal physician to Himmler and president of the German Red Cross. Conducted bone and muscle experiments on prisoner

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

WERNER BLANKENBURG (1905 - 1957) Head of Section IIa in the Chancellery and thus one of the principal planners and implementers of the Nazi T-4 &quo...

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...