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Re: The SS price list ca. late 1934, details on cap insignia, or "dead heads and more...."
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Re: The SS price list ca. late 1934, details on cap insignia, or "dead heads and more...."
The prices varied from time to time, and I did not make an extract of same. I can tell you that such items did not cost what they cost today. They were a few pfennigs.
My point here, unless it is too subtle, is that there is no mention of what these things were made of...whereas for other metal insignia here there is some description of the Werkstoff, as well as a "heavy" or "light" badge.
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Re: The SS price list ca. late 1934, details on cap insignia, or "dead heads and more...."
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Friedrich-Berthold
The prices varied from time to time, and I did not make an extract of same. I can tell you that such items did not cost what they cost today. They were a few pfennigs.
My point here, unless it is too subtle, is that there is no mention of what these things were made of...whereas for other metal insignia here there is some description of the Werkstoff, as well as a "heavy" or "light" badge.
I understand, I was just curious about the prices in particular.
Why do you suppose the metal was not listed?
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Re: The SS price list ca. late 1934, details on cap insignia, or "dead heads and more...."
Thank you, Adrian. Here are some more extracts as concern a cap I own of the SS Gruppe West, that is, SS entities circumventing the RZM to contract their own material, and the extract for the introduction of the alu piping on the Oberfuehrermuetze. These extracts are from mid to late 1934.
I think that the Totenschaedel badge cost about 10 or so pfennigs in 1938 but we are dealing with the formative period a bit earlier here.
The price list in the Mitteilungsblaetter (versus the separately published fold out edition) had the selectio of articles and their respective prices separately listed. Apparently in the period 1934-1935 that I have at hand, the prices were subject to fluctuations, which is also borne out by the data in the UM. What is pretty overwhelming, and which is not at all captured by the English language sources (esp coffee table books), is the effort by the RFSS to standardize and regularize the uniform in 1934, even before the Roehm Putsch, ie. once the SS got free of the SA--not at all, in fact; plainly, the SS was growing beforehand at a great clip, and such explains further the motivation for Himmler and Heydrich to bump off their boss, One can read same between the lines the energy of bureaucratic friction, as well as the attempt to separate the regalia from the rest of the overall SA.
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 07-22-2011 at 03:08 AM.
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Re: The SS price list ca. late 1934, details on cap insignia, or "dead heads and more...."
here are the prices for the items above early in 1935...
Item 5 on said list is the Totenschaedel, and it cost the same as in 1938, Pfg. .15.
Think about it, and why, on God's green earth, would some lunatic pay USD 5,000 for such a thing, even with some odd mark on the back from Pforzheim? For this money, you could go to Pforzheim and have the local show you a good time, nicht wahr?
I mean, a few years ago, said monies could buy a very nice SS officer's cap....
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 07-22-2011 at 01:03 AM.
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Re: The SS price list ca. late 1934, details on cap insignia, or "dead heads and more...."
Another data point as concerns collector lore and legend versus the record of the past is contained herein. As you know, SS insignia went through a major revision in late 1934 as concerns collar patches and cuff titles. The new insignia, however, did not all appear in use overnight, but underwent a process of transition, which stretched well into 1935, as nicely described in this excerpt which portrays the reality of this regalia, and not ahistorical fantasies proffered by persons scarcely with a secondary education who have never set foot on the continent of Europe.
Thanks to Robert H for his nice images. We wish him well in his new home, too.
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