neglus
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posted on June 12, 2007 06:50:15 AM new
This postcard looks like an inspection of some kind. The back of the postcard looks like it was printed circa 1900. Does any one know if these are Germans or Prussians or the rank of the head guy (or his identity?) I found this with a bunch of Hitler real photo postcards - is my date wrong? Also, can I list the Hitler cards as postal history on ebay or do you think das ist verboten? TIA
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neglus
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posted on June 12, 2007 07:06:38 AM new
Here are close-ups:
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[ edited by neglus on Jun 12, 2007 07:06 AM ]
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roadsmith
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posted on June 12, 2007 08:29:57 AM new
The guy in the front of the bigwigs looks like Kaiser Wilhelm himself, which might be why this photo was taken. This card definitely looks late 1800s, early 1900s and is probably WWI.
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roadsmith
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posted on June 12, 2007 08:31:47 AM new
I'd double-list the card under Collectibles/Militaria/WWI and Postcards. . . . Not sure about using Hitler in the titles of military items, but you don't want Hitler for this card, for sure, right?
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pixiamom
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posted on June 12, 2007 08:34:46 AM new
You should be able to list the Hitler cards. There are plenty on them listed. I'd avoid the word Nazi.
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alldings
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posted on June 12, 2007 04:11:08 PM new
Kaiser Wilhelm for sure! I've been trying to come up with that name all day.
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NEGLUS
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posted on June 12, 2007 10:08:06 PM new
Thanks all! I am pretty sure it's Kaiser Wilhelm II - found this about him:
"Traumatic breech birth left him with a withered left arm due to Erb's palsy, which he tried with some success to conceal. In many photos he carries a pair of white gloves in his left hand to make the arm seem longer" and it sure looks like he has white gloves in his left hand!
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pixiamom
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posted on June 13, 2007 03:20:40 AM new
For a minute, I wa excited our g-grsndfather might be in the photo as a bodyguard - until I realized the dates are wrong- Grandpa was born in the US in 1899. I'm as bad as my son. Proofed his "autobiography" of a whitesmith in 1765. He wrote: "My father died on the Mayflower..." Check your dates, son.
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neglus
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posted on June 13, 2007 04:49:06 AM new
Jane, Great Grandpa S was a bodyguard for Wilhelm I (who died in 1888). I think he immigrated in the 1880's. Grandpa S was born in 1890 in Chicago. Even so, I spent a lot of time on Google last night trying to find more information about the bodyguards.
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roadsmith
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posted on June 13, 2007 07:45:26 AM new
One of the reasons I love selling older collectibles is how much I learn about history! I'd forgotten about the Kaiser's withered arm until you mention it, but, yes, it's very obvious in the photo that the gloves are lengthening the look of the arm.
Sure beats selling the same gadget over and over. I'm sure that's lucrative, but it would be deadening to my soul.
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otteropp
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posted on June 14, 2007 11:08:06 AM new
Roadsmith...I could not agree more!
I have learnt so much over the years about so many things that I previously had no knowledge of.
I love threads like this and now have stored in my 'memory bank' the fact that Kaiser Wilhelm 11 had a withered arm. Fascinating stuff!
Thanks Neglus for posting this really interesting thread. Go find more neat stuff so we can all learn some more!
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profe51
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posted on June 14, 2007 04:01:23 PM new
I like his boots. Them are some FINE boots I tell you what. Mule ear pull straps and all. Dang.
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profe51
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posted on June 14, 2007 04:09:28 PM new
Meant to add, I sold a bunch of Nazi junk a couple of years ago, an Afrika corps pith helmet, an SS helmet and a bunch of insignia. It did extremely well. Kinda creepy dealing with the buyers, ID's like "HerrSkinhead" and "WhiteRight" and such, but they all paid quick. I had to go in to each picture and blur out the swastikas and offer to send "additional pictures showing more detail", and I got LOTS of requests for more photos. Under no circumstances should you use the words nazi, Hitler, swastika, etc. You'll get pulled in a heartbeat. Kinda fun going in under the radar that one time, but I don't believe I'd do it again.
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classicrock000
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posted on June 14, 2007 06:01:18 PM new
well if ya all checked-theres 36 PAGES of items with the word "nazi" in it.
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vintagepostcardsdotorg
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posted on June 14, 2007 06:49:48 PM new
burn them
http://www.vintagepostcards.org/
http://vintage-postcards.blogspot.com/
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LtRay
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posted on June 14, 2007 09:44:41 PM new
When I had my shop, one of my regulars consigned a decent size collection of Nazi items. I didn't think much about it because war memorabilia is just another collecting category as far as I was converned. Helmets, insignia, daggers and such, no big deal, but the death guard buttons really got to me.
All it took was a few complaints from my other customers to get me to send the whole collection back where it came from.
On the other hand, there always seemed something romantic about the lifes of the Royal Prussians before WW1 but I would not have wanted to be a peasant in those days.
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