field marshal batons

[martinc]

i often wonder what ever became of the field marshal batons we often see in photos??? they would be worth mega money if one ever came out,
i was reading on some web page somewhere that a ex tommy had one and sent it off to be valued and got a fake back in return!!! any of you guys read that??

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Martin, I have never heard of that story before?

These items would fetch a huge amount of money on the open market.

Cheers, Ade.

[stuka f]

yes, I heard that story ; but it seems a "urban myth " to me ...
I had one in my hands once, but it was a 19 th century French one.
I believed we had one in the old Royal Military Museum, but I am not sure!
The museum Nick recently showed some pictures from.

[colt45]

you can see this one in the West Point museum

[colt45]

wonder how much it would take for them to sell it?

[Paul D]

Whose is it ?

[Scout]

I seem to remember seeing a baton in the Munster museum years ago.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Whose is it ?

Hi Paul, look closely at the name around the base of the baton

Cheers, Ade.

[colt45]

Whose is it ?

the fat Luft General -H. G.

[Bob Hritz]

That is not a Field Marshal baton but it is THE Reich's Marshal baton of Hermann Goering, conqueror of Poland and France.

Bob Hritz