This ring has been posted before in my relic SS thread and I am now on the hunt for further information. It has been mentioned that the ring is from the late 1920’s and has been documented in catalogues of the period.
I would like to obtain a scan of the catalogue page where the ring is listed, hopefully with a price and image to go along with it. Does anyone have access to such a catalogue or have any information on file? Member Paul E has been very helpful but unfortunately cannot find his catalogue example.

I’ve searched through the forum archives for over 2 hours now and have found nothing except a headache.

Its a long shot I know but if you don’t ask, you don’t get.

Thanks in advance. Glenn

Found on the HKL (main defense line) of 6.Rgt SS-TV in North Karelia. These early type rings (sometimes referred to as the ‘1st type’) date from the late twenties so if that’s correct, the owner must have been a very early SS member which might explain the path taken into the Totenkopfverbände and from there via the camp system into the combat formation of the 6th Standarte.

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Well, first off I’m going to be honest. Reading your digging posts makes me a very unhappy camper. Why? Because us fellows from this side of the ocean don’t have any dig locations! It just seems so thrilling to make that find. If I took a day trip to a battleground and found a mess kit I would be overjoyed, and you guys dig up wheelbarrows full of relics! I would very much like to take place in these things, but how can I go about that cheaply? A trip to Europe is expensive, and . I really don’t want to sell my finds to pay for these trips, but it kind of seems like that’s what I’d have to do, and what is the point of that?

So, is there any way to get to mainland Europe with little money or time? Or are there any places in the United States to dig? Not really interested in the Civil War, but I have heard of guys digging on old artillery ranges.

And, how much is there really left to find? I mean, if I wait three more years until I graduate high school, am I gonna be able to dig up fair numbers of items like you guys, or am I just gonna find bits of shrapnel?

Sorry that I sound so new to this. Sort of my introduction to digging. I do a bit of metal detecting at local river low point, but generally get soda cans, spent cartridges left by hunters, and rusty junk.

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Looking at this lid and would like opinions on it thanks in advance.

Eric
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This is my representation of Tiger 314, the mount of SS-Unterscharfuhrer Georg Diers. Very few photographs exist of s.SS-Pz.Abt 503 Tiger IIs during the last weeks of the war, so a degree of artistic license has been applied. What we do know is that the ‘ambush’ paint scheme is correct for this vehicle. The model is as Tiger 314 may have been as it sat in the tree line observing the T-34s near Straussberg.

Straussberg, East of Berlin, 19th April 1945.
Tiger II 314 of Unterscharfurher Georg Diers supported by Oberscharfurher Bootsman of s.SS-Pz.Abt 503, knocked out 13 Soviet T-34s in 19 minutes.

Berlin, 30th April 1945.
Unterscharfuhrer Georg Diers with his Tiger 314 was ordered to take up a defensive position at the Reichstag buildings. The crew of Tiger 314 comprised commander Georg Diers, gunner Wolf-Dieter Kothe, loader Alex Sommer and radio operator Bodo Harms. This was one of only two remaining Tiger IIs belonging to s.SS-Pz.Abt 503 in Berlin. By that evening they had knocked out about 30 T-34s, and the following day led a successful counterattack against the Kroll Opera House directly opposite the Reichstag. Their efforts though, merely postponed the inevitable and by the end of the day the order was given to abandon the position and prepare to break out of Berlin to the west. In Georg Diers’ own written account, at the end of April the unit’s strength was 6 Tiger IIs. These were attached to the ‘Nordland’ Division and by April 30th only 2 of the Tigers remained, these being Georg Diers’ Tiger and that of Karl Korner, whose kill total was over 100 Soviet tanks and 29 field pieces. Georg Diers states that on May 1st they successfully counter attacked and temporarily re-captured the Kroll Opera House but withdrew at 7pm. Diers is credited with a total of 39 Soviet tanks destroyed, plus many others during the last days in the defence of Berlin. During the Soviet attacks, Diers was faced with a large number of Soviet tanks and infantry had entered and were fighting within the Reichstag itself. Diers’ crew destroyed their Tiger with mines near the Schonhaussee Allee. Georg Diers certainly would have been decorated for his actions but at such a late stage his heroism went unrewarded.

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