ORIGINAL GERMAN WW2 SIGN w. SKULL & CROSSBONES
ORIGINAL GERMAN WW2 SIGN with SKULL and CROSSBONES: ACHTUNG MINEN
Original, not reproduction. From real old collection! The item is for historic museum or private collection.
SIZE: diameter 220 mm (8 1/2 inches). Very collectible item. Please note: last image is for sample only.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $450 - $500.
HISTORY of SALES: Recently the same sign was sold on eBay for $965 - please see the screenshot.
OFFER: If an item is NOT SOLD, you can still give us a reasonable offer - please save the link of this page.
PAYMENT: Credit Card payment, Wire transfer, Check or Money Order payment are also available. International bidder can use PayPal for payment.
PAY in PARTS: You can pay for any item during 2 - 3 months. Just make a deposit 10% and the item will wait for you.
SHIPPING: Let us Handle Your Shipping. We are one of the few places that offer full service shipping. For your convenience we will ship your item - shipping costs will be included in the invoice. Combined shipping is available - next item will be ONE DOLLAR for shipping. Shipping for this particular item in USA is $9.85.
NEW: Returning customer will have 2% DISCOUNT on the buyers premium.
WIKIPEDIA: Totenkopf (i.e. skull, literally dead's head) is the German word for the skull and crossBONES and death's head symbols. The Totenkopf symbol is an old international symbol for death, the defiance of death, danger, or the dead, as well as piracy. It consists usually of the human skull with or without the mandible and often includes two crossed long-BONES (femurs), most often depicted with the crossBONES being behind some part of the skull. It is commonly associated with 19th- and 20th-century German military use. In the early days of the NSDAP, Julius Schreck, the leader of the Stabswache (Adolf Hitler's bodyguard unit), resurrected the use of the Totenkopf as the unit's insignia. This unit grew into the Schutzstaffel (SS), which continued to use the Totenkopf as insignia throughout its history. According to a writing by Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler the Totenkopf had the following meaning: The Skull is the reminder that you shall always be willing to put your self at stake for the life of the whole community. The Totenkopf was also used as the unit insignia of the Panzer forces of the German Heer (Army), and also by the Panzer units of the Luftwaffe, including those of the elite Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Goring. Both the 3rd SS Panzer Division of the Waffen-SS, and the World War II era Luftwaffe's 54th Bomber Wing Kampfgeschwader 54 were given the unit name 'Totenkopf', and used a strikingly similar-looking graphic skull-crossBONES insignia as the SS units of the same name. The 3rd SS Panzer Division also had skull patches on their uniform collars instead of the SS sieg rune.
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ORIGINAL GERMAN WW2 SIGN with SKULL and CROSSBONES: ACHTUNG MINEN
Original, not reproduction. From real old collection! The item is for historic museum or private collection.
SIZE: diameter 220 mm (8 1/2 inches). Very collectible item. Please note: last image is for sample only.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $450 - $500.
HISTORY of SALES: Recently the same sign was sold on eBay for $965 - please see the screenshot.
OFFER: If an item is NOT SOLD, you can still give us a reasonable offer - please save the link of this page.
PAYMENT: Credit Card payment, Wire transfer, Check or Money Order payment are also available. International bidder can use PayPal for payment.
PAY in PARTS: You can pay for any item during 2 - 3 months. Just make a deposit 10% and the item will wait for you.
SHIPPING: Let us Handle Your Shipping. We are one of the few places that offer full service shipping. For your convenience we will ship your item - shipping costs will be included in the invoice. Combined shipping is available - next item will be ONE DOLLAR for shipping. Shipping for this particular item in USA is $9.85.
NEW: Returning customer will have 2% DISCOUNT on the buyers premium.
WIKIPEDIA: Totenkopf (i.e. skull, literally dead's head) is the German word for the skull and crossBONES and death's head symbols. The Totenkopf symbol is an old international symbol for death, the defiance of death, danger, or the dead, as well as piracy. It consists usually of the human skull with or without the mandible and often includes two crossed long-BONES (femurs), most often depicted with the crossBONES being behind some part of the skull. It is commonly associated with 19th- and 20th-century German military use. In the early days of the NSDAP, Julius Schreck, the leader of the Stabswache (Adolf Hitler's bodyguard unit), resurrected the use of the Totenkopf as the unit's insignia. This unit grew into the Schutzstaffel (SS), which continued to use the Totenkopf as insignia throughout its history. According to a writing by Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler the Totenkopf had the following meaning: The Skull is the reminder that you shall always be willing to put your self at stake for the life of the whole community. The Totenkopf was also used as the unit insignia of the Panzer forces of the German Heer (Army), and also by the Panzer units of the Luftwaffe, including those of the elite Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Goring. Both the 3rd SS Panzer Division of the Waffen-SS, and the World War II era Luftwaffe's 54th Bomber Wing Kampfgeschwader 54 were given the unit name 'Totenkopf', and used a strikingly similar-looking graphic skull-crossBONES insignia as the SS units of the same name. The 3rd SS Panzer Division also had skull patches on their uniform collars instead of the SS sieg rune.
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