Robin Lumsden

WWWWHHHHHOOOOOAAAAAHHHHH !!!!!

Halloween's on the way.

Robin, could you post some more scans of your goblet? Maybe it's the Grateful Dead connection, but I've got a thing for skulls too.

Tom.

I'll be able to post more pix of the goblet next week. It's engraved from fellow officers to a Rittmeister of the 1st Leibhusaren, so I'm hoping someone here will be able to give me his background details.

In the meantime, here's one of my other 'skull' awards......just for you.

It's the other side of the goblet I like best, though.......

Not really an award, but.......well, you see what I mean. Wagner made in 750 silver.

......if anyone's interested.

http://cgi.ebay.de/GERMAN-WW1-IMPERIAL-FRE...1QQcmdZViewItem

The link seems to be U/S, but you can find the catalogue if you search on 'Freicorps' - yes, with a 'C'.

This is what his signature should look like.

If original, it would be worth a few hundred ?s.

The NSDAPS should be : 25, 15, 10, not 10, 15, 25. Red Cross/Volkspflege awards wander all over-- precedence seems never to have been either followed nor understood--then. The position of that one doesn't bother me.

I am always dubious of bars with NS 25s-- they are rarer than hen's teeth. This needs to be "fine tooth combed" including back, but from the error in the precedence, I wouldn't say it's worth the risk.

Rick.

Of course - you are right about the NSDAPs being back to front.

I couldn't see the wood for the trees.

That doesn't look like the Anschluss ribbon to me.

Isn't it the Social Welfare Medal/Cross?

The dark edges are the edges of the adjacent ribbons.

That would put the ribbons in the correct order.

Another Wehrwolf standard-bearer, but without a gorget.

The gorget is typical imperial style, in nickeled and fire-gilded bronze, with four screw posts holding the centre fitting in place.

The quality is fantastic.

I've never seen another one in 35 years.

This is a similar one being worn, I think (the photo is very small).

Anyone ever seen one of these before?

That is a pheonminal piece, Robin! Did the awardees have their names inscribed? If so, who did it belong to?

Very respectfully

Paul Reck

The ring belonged to Georg Simetsreiter, who served with the Munich SS, the SS Welfare Dept., and latterly with the Hunyadi Division of the Waffen-SS.

now that his little box has arrived in the post today......

Call me old fashioned but I fail to see any humour in anyone vandalising a monument and taking "their" chunk home with them.

I find Robin's actions offensive and his attitude even more so.

Rather than preserving things for others for the long term, he seems to support the destruction of it for his own personal short term satisfaction.  What if everyone that visited took a sample, Robin?  Would that be ok with you?

The fact that you also claim to be a police officer only makes the whole thing worse.  One wonders what would happen if he saw someone taking a piece of a monument from his beat.

Enough said.

bj

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Brad.

Having just seen you post, I can assure you I did not 'vandalise' anything - and would never consider doing so.

The ruin is literally in bits, with loose stonework all over the place.

I took a piece of loose stone, about the size of a chess piece.

I don't think that's vandalism.

To my mind, it's preservation.

I have no doubt that, given time, that particular 'monument' will be obliterated.

They're continually destroying old Third Reich ruins - even the Platterhof Hotel was demolished a couple of years back, and that was entirely serviceable.

Why Robin    & you a member of the constabulary as well 

Cheers

Don

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Not for too much longer though! Retirement gets nearer every day. Then the fun REALLY begins!!

Iwas there last week, and came back with a little chunk of the base of one of the ehrentempeln.

As they say, the best things in life are free!

No - on second thoughts I don't think so.

Ehrentempel in Munich??

Joe.

THIS is what I call aesthetically pleasing.........

The single row of teeth become clearer in this (earlier) version of the totenkopf.

This design has always struck me as blatantly weird-- there being no jawbone, there was nothing to hold those lower teeth "on!" 

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Rick.

There is only one set of teeth.

What looks like the top set is in fact meant to be the skull cavities into which the teeth fit - if you get my drift.

Looks like two rows of teeth - but only one.

Here's my Reichswehr 1921 setup.........

Here it is in wear......

Here's one of mine.