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Hello all I’m new here. I was referred from another forum to try and find some answers. My grandfather died a few days ago and we found these old pictures of him in the Polish military. None of us knew he served except my grandmother and she does not know any of the details.

He was born in 1932. So I believe he served sometime in the 1950’s. He moved to the US in 1962. He grew up in Oswiecim and lived there during WW2. The stories he had from the war were amazing.

He is here on the right

I have another picture but I am unable to upload it for some reason. Of course it is the one with the most detail.

Thank you all ahead of time.

Dear Friends, Are you able to give me any advice form this one picture? I have requested more and will post if and when I get them. I did a little comparison with some pictures on this site. Any help you can give will be greaty appreciated.

Thanks,

William

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Friends, I just found this item, but before I buy I would like to know more information about it. The photos are from the seller.

Thanks,

Paulo Sergio

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Wondering what the board thinks of this medal. It looks like maker marked 8. I believe these are not faked a lot.

John

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Gentlemen, I have one idea. Even we haven’t real dagger belonging Roehm, we can research it. Unfortunately we can do it only by original photos, period newspapers and archive documents. Lets try to solve together. Any help is welcome!

We can identify time of awarding the dagger to Roehm. By having good photographs it’s possible to research the dagger more carefully. Not all archives, have photo in digital formats and in open sources, that case someone personally has to order and visit archive. But for now it is enough what we have in open sources and collections of community members.
The dagger has a lot of differences from standard SA Services dagger. The dagger had a lot of custom work, which includes relief shell of scabbards and ornaments guards on grip. One interesting thing is that wood of handle had two insignias “SA” and “SS”. Besides “SA” insignia is located on top, showing domination of SA over SS.
It is interesting that eagle on handgrip has new shape. Behind the head we can clearly see flat area. On photo with Meyer-Quade (with Christmas dagger) eagle head has carvings. So his dagger was produced when final details design was approved. And it couldn`t be from the same consignment as Christmas dagger.

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We all seemed to enjoy the "Let’s your mintiest items" thread so I thought this
might be interesting. So show us your rare treasures. Military related would be
great but not required. It could be the bronze age axe found on the farm or maybe
the Rembrandt hanging in the basement.

I don’t have much to offer but to start this off I show this.

A rough looking 1914 Eisernes Kreuz 1st. class. Made by A.Werner and Sohns.
The backside is pillowbacked, with a cruciform backplate and two screw posts.
In ten years of posting on 4 different forums, we have only seen two others posted
and and one in a book.

It may not be pretty or even valuable but it is most certainly rare.

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Seller is offering these e prong skull tabs. Here is the sellers description. ~

They measure 15/16” wide by 13/16” tall plus the prongs. Stamped nickel construction. For an enlisted man.
Any help would be great. They seem to have food detail.

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Seller is offering these e prong skull tabs. Here is the sellers description. ~

They measure 15/16” wide by 13/16” tall plus the prongs. Stamped nickel construction. For an enlisted man.
Any help would be great. They seem to have food detail.

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Hello,

thats also find on fair :

The anodized silver finish is to 95 % obtain .

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