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ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s or World War II sleeve eagle in silver bullion for the NSKK (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps), or the German National Socialist Motor Corps. A Nazi Party organization, the NSKK was organized primarily for the...

ARTIFACT: This is a hardcover copy of "German Airborne Troops 1936-45" by Roger Edwards with its original dust jacket. The book is a World War II history with information on what the troops wore and fought with, how they got around and what...

ARTIFACT: This is an out-of-print paperback version of the reference book "5th Parachute Division (Fallschirmjäger) Gefreiter" Pictorial Guide Volume 4 by Bill Costley. Bill Costley, a World War II veteran of the 80th Division, was a infantry...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Deutsches Reich worker employment book, or Arbeitsbuch. This book was issued in 1940 and comes with a plate block of (4) Hitler stamps. Germany began issuing these passport-like booklets containing worker information...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare lot of seventeen candid period photographs of Luftwaffe Captain and eventual Major, Walter Nowotny. Nowotny, a native of Austria, trained during 1939 and 1940 to become a Luftwaffe fighter pilot. In 1941 he was sent to the...

ARTIFACT: This is a copy of the album "LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin: nach 15 Originalphotographien vom Bau des Luftschiffes". This was compiled to commemorate the round-the-world flight of the German airship LZ-127 "Graf Zeppelin", a craft...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare circa July 1938 photograph of a German-American Bund rally at Camp Nordland in Andover Township, New Jersey. This gathering is a celebration of the camp's one year anniversary. The photo appears to have been used in January of...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1938 publication put out by the NSDAP, or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' or Nazi Party). It is entitled "Deutsche Uniformen", a two-dozen page color illustrated booklet of the...

ARTIFACT: This is an attic-fresh World War I Imperial German pickelhaube, or spiked helmet. The helmet hails from Württemberg, and the ornate front "wappen" (plate) is the Wurttemberg coat of arms: a lion rampant and a deer bearing a banner...

ARTIFACT: Early WWI Prussian Artillery Enlisted Picklehaube M1895 (spiked helmet) with original owner's initials and unit markings. The helmet is hardened black leather with reinforced with brass trim, helmet plate, and spike at the crown. The brass...

ARTIFACT: WWI Imperial German M1916 Stahlhelm. As found in a barn in Northern NH. The Stahlhelm replaced the Pickelhaube during WWI in 191The term Stahlhelm refers both to a generic steel helmet, and more specifically to the distinctive (and iconic)...

ARTIFACT: Beautiful WWII Imperial German Army Air Services Flight Helmet in canvas wrapped cork with a leather chin strap and painted steel buckle. This example is unit marked to Flieger Battalion 1 and dated 191The inside of the helmet features leather...