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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...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified World War I era flare gun(?) with German hallmarks. It is numbered on the trigger, and has a locking stud inside the barrel. VINTAGE: Circa World War I. SIZE: Approximately 3-1/16" in width and 3-3/4" in...

ARTIFACT: Great WWI Imperial German patriotic aviation 'Eindecker' pin made into a brooch or charm. The Eindecker was developed in April of 1915 by a Danish engineer Anthony Fokker and aided German troops during WWI. This example shows what appears to...

ARTIFACT: Extremely rare 1920's German Aerial Victors Association Member stick pin, one of two known. Stick pin depicts a flying eagle hovering above a fallen eagle on its back, in gilt brass set atop an aqua and white enameled disc. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: WWI Imperial German 171st Artillery Regiment soldier's match safe. The front features a framed, decorated celluloid embellishment that depicts a wreath of laurel and oak leaves joined by a yellow ribbon and the center of the wreath shows the...