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Month: January 2018

Newsletter 278 January 26, 2018

Newsletter 278 January 26, 2018

From: balclava@gmail.com To: adroyster@hotmail.com Subject: Alexander Auctions Date: Fri, 26 September 2018 09:16:26 –0600   Dear Mr. Royster:   In your most excellent columns, I have been following, with admitted sinking feelings, comments about so-called “paper whiteners” and the rather distressing news that they were not used in paper until 1951.   In another posting, I note several articles about the Alexander Auctions that are certainly of a somewhat negative nature.   My unhappiness lies in the fact that I…

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Newsletter 277 January 16, 2018

Newsletter 277 January 16, 2018

At one point in time, there was a plan to issue a new dagger for the SS. One prototype was made for official approval  and photographed but the project was shelved and throughout, the SS wore the standard M-36 dagger, during the war, with silver knot. Here are pictures of both the original, appearing in the Atwood book that served as a catalog of his own fakes, and a newly-created “prototype” fake. A prominent auction house shoved this one off…

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