Sergeant 08

Hi Sergeant 08,

it is a member's badge, based on Heering/Hüsken 1997 Nr. 4117 c)

Uwe

Thanks! In the meantime I have already found it in the HH, but I'm not sure it is really a member badge.

Where I can find informations about a German organization which was called "Nationale Front" pre 1945?

We have already discussed it in another forum. Nobody had more informations.....

I read Gaunz...

But where is the "u"? Look at the word "zu". They used a small mark over the "u".

Maybe this is a sarcastic German joke photo commenting about the war?

I agree. A sarcastic photo. Only for fun!

It is a possible interpretation for this photo, I think.

I wonder what the story of this postcard is...?

Really interesting photo! I would like to know the story, too.

The board with the German inscription "Die Schwarze Hand GmbH"?

GmbH = Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung = Ltd.

A kind of fun photo?

Who can tell me more about this tinnie?

Thanks for help!

If it arrives safely from Germany, I'll be glad to. I've lost so many cards now that I think I have only about a 65 percent chance of receiving it.

Let us know when it arrived!

Thanks!

I did. I had to have it. I'm sorry if you bid on it, but it was unique. It shows the 1.4m kleine Strahlrohr M.1914 very clearly.

I've let other flamethrower postcards go, but I had to have this one. Please don't make me feel bad for buying it!!!!!!!!

Hello Thomas,

no I did not place a bid.

I asked, because I hoped that you can show us a close-up of the man on the far right?

Just sold on eBay... Look at the man standing on the far right, Robin. That looks suspiciously like a very dark Totenkopf sleeve badge.

Thomas, did you get it?

I just found it pretty cool with 2 kinds of skull...

I have seen it, too. Nice photo! Here is another one which shows different skulls in wear. It was not unusual to see different skulls (Prussia, Brunswick and sometimes other rarer skull patterns) on caps after the war. Freikorps, Wehrverband Wehrwolf, etc.

True but some of those "others" came with something else that adds to their credibility...

I agree, it gives the collector a better feeling. But let me continue the thinking of very critical collectors.

It is not an evidence for a 100% real item. Everybody can put a lot together. As you said, it gives the item a better credibility....

Workmanship did not die in 1918... everytime I am in Norhtern Ontario I visit an old lady who belongs to a patchwork circle... a bunch of old ladies who sit around doinf neddlework... any one of them makes stuff more complicated than this.

We all know the dark skills of grannies! Handmade items. You can produce everything with the right materials and a grandmother. That is correct. In most cases you can never be sure, that handmade items are 100% real.

PS: The black skulls are not the only handmade items in collections out there........

PS - Still only two of these blackies have ever appeared on the market.............not the 'deluge' that was expected. Both from the same source.

The only other black skull which I have seen during last months is that one.

Here is another soldier with Braunschweig skull and Gibraltar cufftitle!

So that means the black TK that started it all is definitely flammenwerfer, after all!

Correct!

PS: The period photo will appear.

Thomas!

I thought, that you could be interested to see this photo....

The background was always very dark....

Merry Christmas to all members!

PS: Next year I hope we will find the final answer about the thread starter black skull!

One mystery solved...

I posted a photo of this guy somewhere in this massive thread. Turns out he was a 1920s circus performer named Gabdin Brons, who had a "Game of Death" and performed "death jumps" (high dives). That's why he wore Totenkopfen on his flying helmet and chest:

http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item58825219b9

The guy who sold me the photo said it depicted some kind military man. Oh well... Let the buyer beware.

Sometimes it takes a little bit of time.

But it shows us, that there is always a chance to find a final answer!

I'm a believer too...

Leibhusaren badges are very popular.

Here is another expensive badge, but that type is easier to get...

Here is my unusual skull item of the week.

A Danziger Leibhusaren badge with oak leave and a number for 25 years (very rare!).

But with an added golden lettering for 15 years?

I have never seen it before!

Looks like it's on a von Epp raute...............

I have seen it! Did you notice? I looks similar like this skull, with gaps between the bones...

It would be boring to know all answers....

"Der Weg ist das Ziel."

That is why the black skull and other things are interesting!

I wonder what the back is like?

I'm not sure that it will be a big surprise.

I think, I will buy one for a comparison.

PS: I found a first mistake. Count the teeth!