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JAPANESE ARMY OFFICER'S DRESS SWORD Japanese Army Officer's Dress Sword, 1920-1940, featuring a black horn grip wrapped with brass wire, the brass hand guard is decorated with cherry blossoms and flowers. Bears a slightly damaged gold bullion Japanese sword knot. The nickle-plated 30.75 in. blade is in nice condition and quite clean. This company grade Type 19 sword is also known as a Kyu-Gunto sword. Nickle-steel scabbard present, with one top suspension ring mount. Overall, very good.
A superlative Adolf Hitler relic, a fine 25 x 25 in. linen napkin in the 'floral and ribbon' pattern, with a stunning, raised and embroidered national eagle and swastika flanked on either side by Hitler's initials 'A H', the embroidered eagle measuring 1 3/8 x 1 in. overall. The floral and ribbon pattern is discreetly woven into napkin, which in all is a very high-quality piece of table linen, the finest that Hitler used. Very fine condition. This important relic was discovered at Hitler's private office in Munich (the 'Fuhrerbau') by Lt. John L. McConn, Jr. in the spring of 1945. McConn was in command of a detachment of soldiers ordered to occupy and guard the building, and McConn himself slept only a few doors from Hitler's office, where the Munich Pact had been signed seven years earlier. In exploring the building, McConn's men found a trove of Hitler's personal effects in the basement of the building, stored there to prevent damage from the incessant bombing by Allied forces. Among the items uncovered were mother of pearl and gold inlaid presentation lugers, an enormous gold and ruby ring, and most importantly, a huge collection of Hitler's purchased and stolen art intended for display in the never-constructed Fuhrermuseum. As did all soldiers, McConn wanted to return home with souvenirs from his service in Europe, and he found this napkin in the Fuhrerbau where it would have been used by Hitler and only a very small group of his closest advisors and top generals. McConn also mailed home the famous Munich Pact Desk Set - offered by us elsewhere in this sale. Sold with a copy of McConn's May 6, 1945 letter home to his parents, written on Hitler's private stationery found in his office.
SS STRASSBURG SOCCER TEAM TROPHY A rare and most interesting relic, the 1942 first place Alsace Provincial Championship soccer competition trophy awarded to the SS team from Strassburg (now Strasbourg, France). This incredible trophy stands 11.5 in. tall and 8 in. wide. It displays a wide ring of laurel leaves banded at the bottom, upon which rests a soccer ball bearing a gold-colored mobile swastika. This assemblage rests upon a base of concentric silver rings which in turn is affixed to a black painted metal base. The base bears a silver plate at front with eagle and swastika, engraved: 'GAUMEISTERSCHAFT-ELSASS 1942 1 PLATZ SS-SPORTGEMEINSCHAFT STRASSBURG'. Silver is tarnished a bit, the base scratched, else very good. One of the most unusual SS pieces we've ever seen. The SS Strassburg team was a regional first division team approved by Himmler himself and established in Elsass. Al members were from the SS, and in 1942 they took part in the Tschammerpokal tournament , predecessor to today's German Cup and went as far as the third round. With research information.
WORLD WAR I ACES (23) Good lot of 23 items signed by various aces and others, almost all American aces. Includes: JAMES NORMAN HALL, served in Lafayette Escadrille, co-author with Charles B. Nordhoff of 'The Lafayette Flying Corps and 'Mutiny on the Bounty', T.L.S., Tahiti, [n.d.]: 'Arué is quite a distance from Paea in these days of gasoline rationing & poor transportation...'; WILLIAM T. BADHAM, ace with five kills, A.L.S., 1966: '...Putnam, Luke, Rickenbacker, Fonck, Richthofen ... all were great pilots and Bishop (Canadian) very good. Putnam if he had lived longer undoubtedly would have been very great...'; DAVID E. PUTNAM 13 Kills. DFC. KIA, Sept. 18, 1918, cut signature affixed to card with a magazine photo; EDWARD M. HAIGHT A.L.S., Jan. 4. 1967, vivid, first hand descriptions of combat experience: '...I attacked a single-seater Fokker and it spun to a grand crack-up. Suddenly I was attacked by 4 or 5 Fokkers... fought down to land behind German lines... Ground troops tried to attack my SPAD and at last minute managed to take off and slip away... bullet holes in my ship...[I] sat on an iron stove cover which stopped several bullets from coming up through my seat mat... I consider Lt. David E. Putnam of 139 Sqdn. 2nd Pursuit Group, AEF, the greatest...', with signed photo; LEO KIMBALL Pioneer pilot, member Lafayette Escadrille, A.L.S., 1971 about a photo taken in 1912; RICHARD CHAMBERS I.S.P. in RFC uniform with many decorations; EDWARD P. CURTIS D.S.C., Croix de Guerre. Major General in WW II, T.L.S. March 22, 1966, mentions top pilots, Rickenbacker, Fonck, Richthofen and Billy Bishop; HILBERT L. BAIR T.L.S., 1967 '... first time I got into a 'dog fight' with the Germans at between 19,000 and 20,000 feet I fainted.... open cockpits... I came to after spinning to 9,000 ft.... hit by an incendiary bullet, I dove for about 10,000 ft.'; J. P. EDGERLY A.L.S., Feb. 15, 1917 about training pilots during WW I and a 'falling leaf' landing he made with a British pilot; FRANK R. HAYS. 13th Pursuit Squadron, S.P. in RAF uniform, 1919, A.L.S. 1986; JAMES R. KEATING snapshot photo signed on verso, with A.L.S. Aug. 22, 1966 '... As for my pick of the top pilot in WW I...we all have our bias...This goes for our side or the enemy... I would have to vote for Lieut. Luke, KIA, but not before...ample victories...'; HOWARD BURDICK seven kills, signed card: 'Howard Burdick Lieut. of Air Service. US Army 17th Aero Sqdn.'; SUMNER SEWALL signature; JAMES KNOWLES A.L.S., [n.p, n.d.] about 'articles by WW I aces including me by myself'; CHARLES G. GREY five kills, signature on gold-trimmed card; DOUGLAS CAMPBELL six kills, member Rickenbacker's 94th 'Hat-in-the-Ring' Squadron, A.L.S. June 4, 1986 about book 'Let's Go Where the Action Is': '...which contains the letters I wrote my parents from France in 1917/18....'; GEORGE A. VAUGHN, JR. 13 kills., ace in both RAF and U.S. Air Service, S.P. in uniform signed adding '1st Lieut. USAF 17th Squadron AEF 1918'; CLINTON JONES eight kills, signature cut from check; HARRY D. COPLAND T.L.S., April 2, 1971: '... I made my 1st solo...1911. In WW I, I served... with the RFC & the RFA...I am a member, past pres. of the Early Birds of Aviation, the OX-5 Club, Quiet Birdmen, War Birds of the RAF, WWI Overseas Flyers Assoc., etc.'; J.J. SMITH 'Researcher, WW I Aviation Personnel', T.L.S., May 3, 1971, mentions ace Frederick Lord, meetings with German aces, aerial combat Sept. 16, 1918 near Metz; GERALD E. NASH Canadian ace, T.L.S., Feb. 14, 1968: 'On June 25, 1917, Mel Alexander, Raymond Collishaw [2nd ranking Canadian Ace]...were flying about 4,000 ft. over enemy territory through cloud. I looked down and saw two Ger. Albatross planes attacking two British R.E.8's... I found myself fighting Manfred Richthofen and Allenroder...I had had many encounters with the Red Circus prior to this dogfight. I was in a dogfight with the two Ger. aces. One would engage me in gun fight and the other would climb and shoot at me from above... one of the rudder control wires of my machine was shot... my machine gave out ...' Overall very good. 23 pieces.
IRON CROSS RING WITH MOTTOES A fine German enameled iron ring, bears a black enameled Iron Cross at the front with oak leaves on both sides. Either side of the ring bears a deeply-cast motto, one reading: 'True loyalty to the old Fatherland', the other side of the ring reading: 'I with great effort give him gold for this iron'. The inside of the band is stamped: 'PAT. NOV. 24 1914' Some corrosion to the inside of the band, else very good.
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