While going through my meager collection of Third Reich items, I came across the following Should Board.  It is Black with dark blue piping and would like to know the following: I believe the piping signifies Medical (but not sure) What Branch of the German Army it belongs to What the Silver stripe at the bottom signifies   Thank you in advance

Postcard-size portrait photo of young Kriegsmarine sailor (in his "monkey suit") and his wife (in her white wedding dress), deeply embossed with the logo of a photographer's studio in Goslar, dated September 1936 on the reverse = $12 Postcard-size COLOR image of WW1 Austrian (!) sailor and the warship POLA, fully filled-out on the reverse side, but postage stamp removed = $12 Postcard-size photo of the pocket battleship SCHARNHORST being launched at Wilhelmshaven, dated January 1938 on the reverse = $12 Original and unpublished photograph depicting two KM vessels painted with impressive "shark mouth" artwork, a very cool-looking and particularly rare image! $20 Original photograph of the Aviso Grille (Hitler's personal yacht) = $20  

ALSO AVAILABLE: this rare issue of the MARINE REGATTA VEREIN's 1938 yearbook in totally excellent condition, soft-cover format, in 6" x 8" configuration, 235 pages, packed with information, lists, charts and dozens of black-n-white photographs depicting sailboats in competition! $75 PPD (domestic) - book only!  $200 PPD (domestic) - book and the unmounted Ehrenpreis plaque shown below.   (NB - the last/final photo shows a similar brass plaque in a private local collection. It has already been mounted on a wooden base and has been engraved with the date of the competition and the name of the winner! It is NOT INCLUDED and is for illustrative purposes only.)  

I acquired this booklet in a grouping to Polish Expat pilot Jan Falkowski, a 9 victory ace.  The inscription is in Polish, which I unfortunately I don't speak.  But It's apparently an inscription to Jan Falkowski from an officer friend in the 1st Polish Armoured Division.  It is a commorative booklet of sorts and is the history of the Division's liberation of the Netherlands.  Interestingly the inscription is dated December 10, 1944.  Since the Division liberated Breda on October 29, 1944, this booklet must have been printed in Breda shortly after the liberation.  It measures 6" X 12" and contains 38 pages and approximately 70 photos.  Guessing this might be fairly scarce.  I found one for sale on the internet but it was marked as "Sold" and the selling price was not shown.  So I haven't any Idea of value.  Any thoughts, help or opinions welcome.  Thanks for looking.

Thanks guys! Thanks for sharing your example Leigh, torn but a great one all the same. 👍

James,   A very nice OT armband. I have one that is of similar material but mine is torn...   Leigh 

Thanks. 

Yes, it appears to be a WaA marking of inspector group 221.    

A very nice OT armband IMHO.  I like it.  

Nice!  

I will point out that the wooden scabbard, grip, and associated fittings are storage for the blade.  The blade is considered to be the sword and any wording such as blade length is secondary to the blade.     I hope this is helpful.  

“heaving and rolling, but we are as happy as Larry,”      MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia’s coast.   The Brown family found the Schweppes-brand bottle just above the waterline at Wharton Beach near Esperance in Western Australia state on Oct. 9, Deb Brown said on Tuesday.   WWI soldiers’ messages in a bottle found on Australian beach more than 100 years later