Chris Boonzaier

I seem to remember reading about German planes in WW2 being shot down over switzerland. I assume they were not ambushed but had the choice of land or be shot down....

And this is pretty col as well...

First off, this is a very unusual Regimental number!!!

Not a retort aimed at you.... I just find it hilarious that a neutral country can do a mega series of books on their part in a war they did not take part in.... it really has more volumes than the German history!

Yeah... should be!... I was sitting at work and the title made me hungry ;-)

The Swiss actually have a mega-multi volume history of the war, bigger than the Germans.... go figure... :-)

:-( I thopught this would be about cake :-(

Very nice indeed!! I have a ragged document group for CdG and MM somewhere.

An americanisation of "Rocking Horse Sht" ? :-)

I love the first one!!!!! Does the Costes Group still have the documents?

Hi, Nice tag, very unusual to find that kind of tag for an officer !!!!!

Those could be anything from exceptionally boring to fantastically interesting!!!!

haha if ever I just happened to find one.... I maaaay just extend my collection to 1918... :-)

Hi, unfortunately I cannot help on these, but would love to see the different examples if you have them, best, chris

Hi Chip, in such cases questions are indeed justified.... many an old lady has been lowballed in such cases. I dont think anyone minds your questions. Best Chris

It ejects down... He will get them down the collar

Does anyone know if its true that Bavarian frogs were different?

Paul is correct, different sections of the collection were sold in different ways, either at fair market value direct sale, or on other platforms to maximize return. A German auction house is probably a better way for maximum return, ditto was German eBay for documents. I assume if he had collected WW2 German, an American platform would have been better. a sale like this is somewhat a damned if you do... Damned no matter what you do... I think the market is not great... I had 2 document/paper sales on US eBay... In one I sold 5 Irin Cross docs with soldbuch... 16$ for the lot... Then a nice 1870 ek studio photo... Got 1$ ! its a tough call to find the best way...

Hi, do you have any info on him? Prussian? Bavarian? Best Chris

Hi, unfortunately not that rare.... more interesting if the unit he was visiting was interesting.... he was a very photographed guy....

This is very intereasting.... http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/1.640997

Hi, geht nur darum ganz oben nicht zu blockieren... sobald geposted wird kommen die sowieso wieder nach oben. lG Chris

I think from the same officer...

Hi, They may have Gold and jewellry listed as their products but the following thoughts... 1) The 50cal on our APC was made by "General Motors spark plugs division".... just showing that wartime production of a company can be rather flexible... there seems to have been many companies involved with making awards that had nothing to do with them prewar. 2) As the company Kling was supplying to the military (it seems) and not commercially, there would probably have been little need to add medals to their label 3) As precious metals were at a premium, and people were giving in "Gold for Eisen" it seems logical that such jeweller firms looked elsewhere in other fields to earn their money 4) The KO, even if K&Q is a very unclear thing.... Maybe K&Q subcontracted out, having other companies do assembling for them under the KO name... I doubt Kling WAS actually KO... too many crosses for an unknown firm.... but what if KO was actually a cooprative, with a number of firms involved in the making and assembly. Trevor points out they all have the same rims, but there are core variations.... Maybe one company made rims, 4 made cores and 6 soldered them and finished them, and KQ was the Dachorganisation that coordinated... Once again, just musing... but it would be wrong to dismiss this because it rocks the current theory...

Interesting article... http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/survival-and-death-in-a-faraway-war/?ref=world&_r=3#