Robin Lumsden Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 And again ............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant 08 Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 And don't forget the Wehrwolf! They used similar tabs sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant 08 Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 It could be nice Neusilber skulls on the tabs in photo #1157. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 And don't forget the Wehrwolf! They used similar tabs sometimes. But ............... the Erlangen/Bruessow photos are dated '1919' on the back ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 Just received this. Carved oak, gilded. The photo makes it look grey, but it's nicely aged oak with a worn gold paint. Probably from a memorial. c. 1750 - 1800. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant 08 Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 But ............... the Erlangen/Bruessow photos are dated '1919' on the back ! Yes, I know. I did not mean it is a Wehrwolf in your photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 Yes, I know. I did not mean it is a Wehrwolf in your photos. OK! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 Another recent 'TK' pick-up. Original hand-coloured lithograph from the mid-19th Century . 'Dance of Death' series. 'Death and the Jester'. Death always has the last laugh! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 Also found these ............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 And ............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 Another thing in the 'stuff' category ..................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 (edited) Back to German skulls .................... Edited February 27, 2012 by Robin Lumsden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 Last one for now. Original Erler print. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 FK Bruessow group ...................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naxos Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Another recent 'TK' pick-up. Original hand-coloured lithograph from the mid-19th Century . 'Dance of Death' series. 'Death and the Jester'. Death always has the last laugh! That reminds me, Robin; I read this book in University - one of the few I kept Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naxos Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 (edited) On the wall of City Hall in my hometown Edited February 29, 2012 by Naxos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 Great image of the war memorial. 'The Dance of Death' always reminds me of ................................ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M3AQMHRufY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas W Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Robin: It's a reproduction photo, but... http://www.ebay.de/itm/Gruppenfoto-Totenkopf-Pioniere-Flammenwerfer-Truppe-1-WK-Kaiser-Wilhelm-3-/170794438494?pt=Militaria&hash=item27c4244f5e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 (edited) Probably has oil on it! Also, notice the gray collar Litzen on the Blusen. Chip Edited March 2, 2012 by Chip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 Robin: It's a reproduction photo, but... http://www.ebay.de/i...=item27c4244f5e Thanks! One day, the black skull will be vindicated. I stake my collection on it! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 Probably has oil on it! Oh, ye of little faith! The black skull is definitely good, IMHO ................ I just don't know what it is !!!!! :banger: Could be nothing to do with FW troops at all. Several FK units 'adopted' standard badges as their emblems. If you had it in hand, you would be convinced ! BTW ................... no other ones have turned up in years now. Just the two from the estate sale, found at the same time. Oh, well. The search continues. Now I know how the Knights of the Grail must have felt! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas W Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 (edited) Thanks! One day, the black skull will be vindicated. I stake my collection on it! Stranger things have happened... The Director of the Deutsches Feuerwehr-Museum Fulda confirmed to me today that the officer on the right of this photo is Dr. Bernhard Reddemann, commander of the flamethrower regiment. The writing on the back of the photo says, "Meeting of the Black Hand in the pleasure garden in Chauny. (signed) Straube." (Tagung der schwarzen Hand im Lustgarten zu Chauny. Straube.) Chauny is in the Aisne, Picardy. "Black Hand" was a German tobacco brand. Note the NCO holding the Totenkopf over the head of Reddemann. This photo is dated June 1, 1916; the flamethrower regiment wasn't awarded the Totenkopf until July 28, 1916. This is the second photo that shows flamethrower pioneers identifiying themselves with the Totenkopf prior to the official awarding of the badge, so now it's pretty clear that the Crown Prince didn't come up with the idea himself. I was sure that he had, based on everything I'd read and based on what I thought I knew about German symbolism, but I was clearly wrong. The flamethrower pioneers associated themselves with the Totenkopf first, and then the Crown Prince recommended to the Kaiser that he make that symbol official, in the form of a traditional Prussian Totenkopf. More proof that one can't be proprietary or pedantic about historical knowledge. Edited March 2, 2012 by Thomas W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant 08 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Die schwarze Hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted March 3, 2012 Author Share Posted March 3, 2012 Stranger things have happened... The Director of the Deutsches Feuerwehr-Museum Fulda confirmed to me today that the officer on the right of this photo is Dr. Bernhard Reddemann, commander of the flamethrower regiment. The writing on the back of the photo says, "Meeting of the Black Hand in the pleasure garden in Chauny. (signed) Straube." (Tagung der schwarzen Hand im Lustgarten zu Chauny. Straube.) Chauny is in the Aisne, Picardy. "Black Hand" was a German tobacco brand. Note the NCO holding the Totenkopf over the head of Reddemann. This photo is dated June 1, 1916; the flamethrower regiment wasn't awarded the Totenkopf until July 28, 1916. This is the second photo that shows flamethrower pioneers identifiying themselves with the Totenkopf prior to the official awarding of the badge, so now it's pretty clear that the Crown Prince didn't come up with the idea himself. I was sure that he had, based on everything I'd read and based on what I thought I knew about German symbolism, but I was clearly wrong. The flamethrower pioneers associated themselves with the Totenkopf first, and then the Crown Prince recommended to the Kaiser that he make that symbol official, in the form of a traditional Prussian Totenkopf. More proof that one can't be proprietary or pedantic about historical knowledge. Fascinating! Thanks, Thomas. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted March 3, 2012 Author Share Posted March 3, 2012 Die schwarze Hand. Lieber tot als Sklave! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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