They Don't Make 'em Like the Used To

[Tom Y]

There didn't seem to be anyplace else to post this, so I'll dump it here

Tike was, when you said Auf Wiedersehen to the barracks square and put your uniform in mothballs they gave you one of these.

At 13x16 plus inches it's bigger than an Illustrierte Zeitung. I had to "stitch" six scans together to get the whole thing.

[Tom Y]

And if you were GdC you got one with an official (now missing) wax seal

[Tom Y]

folded, with a little history on the inside.

[Tom Y]

Even your humdrum Militair-Pa? was embellished with the typographical equivalent of ormolu.

[Guest Rick Research]

Yegods!!!! Amazing to think of papers that large surviving until now-- got walls big enough to have them framed on?

[Stogieman]

All the Garde groups were considered "special"...

[Stogieman]

more of the Garde Group