AD Royster Militaria

Note: We are presenting in this posting an article by Christian Jürs.. Mr. Jürs has a large collection of original German military decorations and is in the process of preparing a manuscript on the subject. ADR The Jung-Kosaken-Abzeichen This badge was instituted on 9. June, 1944 by the Commanding Officer of the XV Kavallerie Korps. There are extant two other badges, one for the Siberian Kosaken units and another for the 5. Don-Kosaken cavalry units but these are unit badges…

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Note: We are presenting in this posting an article by Christian Jürs.. Mr. Jürs has a large collection of original German military decoration documents and is currently preparing a heavily illustrated book on the subject. ADR Wehrmacht and SS Orders and Decoration documents by Christian Jürs Called by the Germans ‘Verleihungs-urkunden’ or Presentation documents, when a member of the German military was presented with a decoration, he received a document attesting to this. These documents were printed on paper and…

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Note: We are presenting in this posting an article by Christian Jürs.. Mr. Jürs has a large collection of original German military decoration documents and is currently preparing a heavily illustrated book on the subject. ADR Wehrmacht and SS Orders and Decoration documents by Christian Jürs Called by the Germans ‘Verleihungs-urkunden’ or Presentation documents, when a member of the German military was presented with a decoration, he received a document attesting to this. These documents were printed on paper and…

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Note: Here is an article by Mr. Stump, who is an expert on many aspects of German militaria fraud. This concerns a Knights Cross document for a German paratrooper general in specific but in general, it gives a great deal of valuable background on how fakes are created, advertised and sold. Names are mentioned. Mr. Stump has a number of such articles which we will be very pleased to publish for our readership. –ed   THE CONRATH DOCUMENTS SCAM PRELUDE…

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ANOTHER NAZI SCAM: RUDOLF HESS’S PROTOTYPICAL BLOOD ORDER     Sold by the German auction house for €7,600, the above badge has variously been described as the prototypical Blood Order or the Stoßtruppe Adolf Hitler Badge. The catalogue description stated: “Heß’s personal example, Hitler’s present to the 9 November 1933. Silver, hollow-stamped, fineness mark “990”, maker’s mark “Jos. Fuess München”. Obverse Feldherrnhalle surmounted by an eagle, lateral laurel branches with year ciphers “1923” and “1933”. Reverse dedicatory engraving “PG R….

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