Looking through some stuff, I may have something valuable

[Rule3]

Take it to the Gold and Silver pawnshop in Las Vegas.

Or his good friend down the street.

 

[charlie sherrill]

Google Rebecca Romney. She does appraisals on Pawn Stars.

 

[Hair Trigger]

Many years ago, I bought some 1930's/40's German propaganda books from a person in Germany just after the Berlin wall came down. Most of them are hardback, and some nice condition than others. All are written in German with the standard rah-rah pictures of all the Nazis and their armies and how great they thought they were.

I found these recently in a storage tote that I had almost forgotten about and I think one of them is personally signed by Herman Goering. The book is a 260 page hardback book published in 1941 called "Luftmacht Deutschland". It is mainly Luftwaffe fighters of the day and all written in German. However, the first few pages in there is an inscription which looks like an actual signature of Goering. I compared it on Google images and it is near identical. I was going to just send this stuff to auction, but I might get this one appraised.

In the front of the book, it looks like it came from a personal library of some German named "Hans Joachim Mann"...A simple google search reveals someone of that name that was in charge of Germany's post war Navy and was born in 1935? It may have been in the family or someone else with the same name?

I wonder if PSA/DNA who authenticates baseball cards and autographs would do this and how much?

Nazi militaria is pretty sensitive stuff, given what they represented, but as historic material I think it has a worthwhile place. I would contact someone in a military museum who can properly curate it as wartime historic material and see who they might recommend to evaluate it. The picture in the book is most definitely Goering, but I don't speak or read German.

I have a similar collection of Nazi wartime militaria. I obtained an SA dagger, along with the SA membership documents of the dagger's original owner. They include his application to join the SA (the Sturmabteilung, or Brownshirts), his pay book and permits to be on Reich property plus some other papers, all dating to the late 1930's, prior to the outbreak of the war. I see it all as a tiny, focused view into a piece of regrettable history that changed the world.

 

[DWalt]

I’d like to find Hitler’s .22 Ladysmith.

 

[soFlaNative]

I’d like to find Hitler’s .22 Ladysmith.

Why?






(need 10)

 

[moosedog]

Politics aside, that is a part of history and will have value. Only a fool would say destroy all related items and try to make like it didn't happen.
Throughout history the winners of wars always take War Trophies home.
If that is Goering's signature, there will be collectable value to it. I agree that you contact Tom at Legacy Collectibles as a start.