The Colonel Farnes Collection

A selection of Wartime magazines from the Wehrmacht 1939-45, including five copies of Der Adler, the Luftwaffe’s pictorial wartime magazine, covering the dates 30 September 1941 to 14 June 1943 and 7 March to 27 July 1944, all in good condition with many excellent and heroic photographs depicting the Luftwaffe’s battles on all fronts; eleven editions of Signal, the popular Werhmacht pictorial magazine, covering the years 1940 to late 1944, many with torn covers but the contents in good condition; together with a copy of post-War Paris Match magazine commemorating the 10th Anniversary of ‘The Fall of Berlin, April to May 1945’, containing many photographs that had never before been published; and two post-War hardback books covering various editions of Signal magazine throughout the Second World War but in English, generally fair condition

An ‘Ehren Chronik’ (Honour Chronicle) photograph album, in almost new condition, unused, full of photographs and nazi propaganda, with pages for personal entries of family, military service &c., with silver blocked Iron Cross to the exterior, very good condition

A large tribute Book to Adolf Hitler 1935-36, commemorating the first 4 years of the Third Reich, profusely illustrated with affixed black and white photographs on every page, the spine damaged and some pages loose; together with approximately 100 photograph cards from the same period (and in many cases identical to those depicted in the book) of the type collected and swapped by the German youth.

Two modern books on the ‘Uniforms, Organisation and History of the Legion Condor,’ by Roger James Bender, containing an original coloured postcard for the Legion Condor’s Victory Parade on its return to Berlin in 1939, stamped and franked 6 June 1939; and ‘Orders, Decorations, Medals, and Badges of the Third Reich’, by David Littlejohn and Colonel C. M. Dodkins, generally good condition

A personal snapshot photograph of Goring inspecting Luftwaffe aircrew during the Battle of Britain, in glazed display frame; and a framed image of the Famous Paratrooper General Kurt Student, the famed leader of the Crete assault, with Hoffmann size image of Student with a now faded signature of Student in the white panel below the image, with an original post war visit card, reasonable condition

A Selection of Second World War Combat Sketches. A collection of approximately 20 black on white and coloured sketches of combat situations with the German Forces, plus some landscapes, apparently all drawn on the Eastern Front, contained in a large folder entitled ‘Wie Die Pflicht Es Befiehlt’, by the renowned War artist SS Kriegsberichter Erich Pakmowski, of which two, both 1943 coloured sketches of German soldiers in the field, have been glazed and framed, good condition (lot) £150-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Colonel Farnes Collection.

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