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The Cobbs Auctioneers
Documenting the Holocaust and WWII (Lifetime collection of David Cheney)
March 13th 2010 at 11AM,
at Historic Noone Falls Mill, 50 Jaffrey Road,  Peterborough NH
 


 

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11      First Class, Order of the German Eagle.  Rare lot, includes  First class cross (8 pointed silver star marked "900" and "21" on clasp of the badge) with a smaller version without the star points suspended from sash (suspension ring on the smaller cross is also marked "900".  Believe this to be the 1939 version.   All in excellent condition.  Estimate $4000 to $6000

12      Iron Cross 2nd class.  2 Iron Crosses both 2nd class in excellent unissued condition in original tissue wrap and paper presentation packets.  Brown paper envelopes are marked "Eisernes Kreuz - 2 Klasse - 1939" on front and marked on back in oval circle "Josef Feix Sohne, Gablonz a.d.N”.  Complete with unissued ribbons (one attached).  Estimate $125 to $175
17      WWI Iron Cross 1st class.  1914 pin back in original lined presentation case.  Estimate $125 to $175
21      WWI Iron Cross 1st class, pin back.  Estimate $100 to $125.
25      German War Merit Cross with Swords for Combatants First Class.  In case.  Slight damage (bending).  Estimate $100 to $150
36      German "Mother's Cross" medals.   Includes one each in gold, silver and bronze (Gold in original case) and a miniature silver cross.  Estimate $75 to $125

52      German medals.  4 pieces.  Includes Commemorative medal for the return of the "Memellands, 22nd Marz 1939" and 2 SS 4 and 8 year service medals (including a matching miniature 8 year service medal.  The 4 year and 8 year service medals are unissued in original tissue paper with blue ribbons.  Estimate $250 to $300

75      German badges and ribbon bars.  8 pieces total.  Includes SA sports badges in varying conditions.  2 nice ribbon bars (one is for WW1 service) and the other has 2nd award clasp for iron cross on it and the other has long service in the army. Both for WWII period.  Frosted gold Wounded Badge in case and other pin.   Estimate $100 to $150

76      German Silver party pin identical to one Hitler wore on his tie made of .800 silver.  With RZM mark.  Estimate $75 to $100

77    3 different party pins/membership pins.  One for TENO.  One for the "D.V.G. Westmark (LOTHR.)" area which is western region of the east and more scare piece.  Dutch Nazi party pin with blue swastika made in Holland by marked on back "Kruyt" might be silver. Estimate $100 to $200
78      German Nazi party pins.  Nice assortment of 7 items including party pins in different sizes and a couple of gold Nazi patriotic pins. $200 to 300
79      German Nazi shooting pins.5 shooting related pins including 2 for Hitler youth in different ranks.  Estimate $250 to 350
85      SA Gorget, also worn by SS early on. Nicely marked (RZM, M1/83) pre war Gorget.  Nickel plated, tear dropped shaped with guilt brass fittings.  Chain hung with olive drab wool/felt backing.  Estimate $500 to $750 
86      Early Third Reich pins.   5 pieces total including a pin from the Saar region of Czechoslovakia from 1935, Nurnberg 1929 partei tag tinnie, Treffen 1931, Nurnberg 1933, Tagderarbeit 1934.  Estimate $150 to $200.
87      German Army Field police Gorget (Feldgendarmie) with tritium radioactive painted accents so as to seen at night (Eagle and Swastika and lettering and 2 large buttons).  With original chain.  Estimate   $400 to $500
168      Soldbuch, photographs, medals and ID tag belonging to Franz Rupp.  Includes his Soldbuch with stamps for different service, his ID tag ,  photographs of graves and scenes from the Russian front and a plaque for Christmas in the Field, 1939 (with 71st artillery), Medal for  war merit cross with swords, iron cross first class and the Russian front medals.  Estimate $250 to $350
169      Lot of 4 Nazi party political and donation items.  Includes Hitler table medal in rectangular stand in original box, Medallion in original box from 1933 showing the Nazi breaking the chain of the Weimar Republic, Commemorative medallion with Bavarian makers mark on the rim in presentation box, 1939 Winter Help plaque with "x" and "g" (meaning you gave) intended to put outside your door so people would not come by for more donations till next year, Adolph Hitler commemorative medallion 1938/39 with cross on reverse made of aluminum slightly corroded. Estimate $200 to $300
172      Silver Close Combat Clasp/Badge.  Hallmarked "F & BL".   Estimate $100 to $200
249      German WWII Insignia including Mountain Troop patch and Hitler Youth.  Lot also includes  Nazi party Schlageter 1923 pin and a 1933 Party pin.  Estimate $250 to $350

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