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| Quiz #486 Results |
| Answer to Quiz #486- July 26, 2015 |
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How Malissa Solved the Puzzle |
| So this one was great because I saw the A H on the pot and knew it was Hitler but I googled “Hitler Teapot” and forgot about the JC Penney debacle! Haha So I typed in, “Teapot with monogram A H and Nazi emblem”. Found it on invaluable.com and it sold at sworders on 04/20/10…then I made sure that was last auction by looking at other sites in search results and it was not. Found it auctioned at www.alexautographs. com on 09/27/2012. Searched archives on this site and it sold on 09/27/2012 sale 48 Lot 463. Malissa Smith |
| Otto Skorzeny’s Arabic Teapot – He was a Nazi officer and Hitler’s chief. He rescued Mussolini, he put his English speaking soldiers in American uniforms to trick the American forces in the Bulge. This makes me think of the Trojan Horse from the tale of the Trojan War! After the war Skorzeny headed the organization that helped hundreds of ex-SS officers flee Germany.. Somehow his was charged after the war but was acquitted. He died in Madrid Spain in 1975. auctions.alexautographs.com/ |
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Ida's Solution |
| Well, for question 1 I don't think anybody needed any searches. The swastika and the initials pretty much gave it away (just like my phone number did when my husband was wondering who had sent that birthday present). However, this was no easy quiz, and knowing who it had belonged was only the first part of the quest. Thanks to JCPenney, the searching was saturated with pretty teapots that had a long black line in the middle. And all because it occurred to someone that such a design reminded him of AH's face and mustache (with a lot of imagination and I assume some LSD help), so the narrowing became a hard task. Finally, something like "Hitler teapot auction -jc" and a lot of scrolling down managed to show an image of this teapot. That led me to know that it was for sale in Conneticut on September 2012, but not how much it had actually gathered. So, being much more specific this time, I searched for "hitler teapot auction conneticut" and that took me to the catalog of such auction, name of the piece, picture and opening bid. Still no final sale price (auctions.alexautographs.com/auction-catalog/ADOLF-HITLER-FORK&sale_no=48+++++&st=D&ps=25 &pg=19). Searching for "ADOLF HITLER TEAPOT - Hammer Price: $3,250.00" did show the results of that specific sale (48) and by matching the lot (463), got the answers for both questions 2 and 3. Ida Sanchez |
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Carol's Solution |
| The obvious clues were the initials AH and the swastika on the side of the pot. I could guess it had belonged to Adolph Hitler, but was it a teapot or a coffee pot? Did Adolph Hitler drink tea or coffee? I put the question to Google. He was a tea drinker. Now I had my search terms. And good grief did I get a lot of hitsfor the teapot that JC Penneys once sold. Boy, was that a marketing mistake. Feeling confident that there was no connection between Hitler and Penneys, I moved on. I do not know how I got there, but I found an article with a picture of the teapot and the name of the auction house, Alexander Historical Auctions, which was going to auction off the teapot. They held a two-day auction on September 27 & 28, 2012. The article mentioned a three-pronged fork and several pieces of Allach porcelain that were also going up for auction. The teapot went for $3,250 which was more than the $1,500 estimate. In all, the auction house web site listed 22 items with Hitlers name attached, not all of which sold. If the teapot was subsequently sold again, I'm not aware of it. I googled the address for the auction house. It looks like a charming little street along the shore of a creek, Back Creek, the type of place for a lovely afternoon stroll. Did the neighbors know what was going on in that auction house? Besides Nazi memorabilia, one could have picked up items with the names of other charmers attached to them, such as: John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis, Meyer Lansky, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and others. Oh, yuk. This type of auction is simply not my cup of tea. Carol Gene Farrat |
A rare Adolf Hitler relic, a silver teapot from one of his formal services, maker-marked
by Bruckmann, .800, bearing a Greek key-bordered rim and embossed national eagle
and swastika emblem above his initials "A H". The teapot measures 7" tall and 8 1/2"
wide, from a collection of which part was sold at Sworders Auction, Sudbury,
England, April 20, 2010. Fine condition. Hitler was an avid tea drinker, and rarely if
ever drank coffee.
by Bruckmann, .800, bearing a Greek key-bordered rim and embossed national eagle
and swastika emblem above his initials "A H". The teapot measures 7" tall and 8 1/2"
wide, from a collection of which part was sold at Sworders Auction, Sudbury,
England, April 20, 2010. Fine condition. Hitler was an avid tea drinker, and rarely if
ever drank coffee.
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| Other Items Up for Auction |
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| ADOLF HITLER FORK Sterling silver table dessert fork once owned by Adolf Hitler. The delicate fork bears three tines, 5 3/4" long overall with a beaded edge, very carefully and finely engraved "A H" at the end of the handle and hallmarked "BSF 90" on verso. Very good. From a complete collection of samples of all of Hitler's, Himmler's, Braun's and Goring's silverware owned by a noted private Gettysburg historical museum. Estimate $ 300-400 auctions.alexautographs.com/ |
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| ADOLF HITLER ALLACH SERVING BOWL WITH LID A rare piece of Allach porcelain dinnerware manufactured exclusively for Adolf Hitler in the SS-operated Allach porcelain factory at the notorious concentration camp at Dachau. This set measures 8" diameter, with a gold Nazi eagle on the side and an 3-D acorn as the handle. Hallmarked on the bottom with the green Allach SS stamp. In fine condition. Estimate $ 800-1,200. auctions.alexautographs.com/ |
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| A LOCK OF ADOLF HITLER'S HAIR An excessively rare relic, four very small strands of Adolf Hitler's black hair, removed from his personal monogrammed hair brush which was recovered by an American soldier at Berchtesgaden. The hair brush was part of a four-piece personal grooming set looted by 1st Lt. D. C. Watts of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne. According to Snyder's Treasure Trove: The Looting of the Third Reich |
(copies of relevant pages included), the 506th arrived at Hitler's retreat one day after it
was taken by the elements of the 7th Infantry. While surface looting was undertaken,
Watts found a way into the system of tunnels and bunkers beneath the Berghof, where
he apparently found this set. Sold with a color image of the complete set. De-accessed
from an East Coast museum. Estimate $ 1,000-1,500. auctions.alexautographs.com/
was taken by the elements of the 7th Infantry. While surface looting was undertaken,
Watts found a way into the system of tunnels and bunkers beneath the Berghof, where
he apparently found this set. Sold with a color image of the complete set. De-accessed
from an East Coast museum. Estimate $ 1,000-1,500. auctions.alexautographs.com/
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| EVA BRAUN (1912 - 1945) German mistress and later wife of Nazi fuhrer Adolf Hitler, she later committed suicide with him in the basement of the Chancellery. Rare A.L.S. on the verso of a somewhat unsettling postcard showing elves riding a caterpillar towards a pair of anthropomorphic mushrooms, 1p. 8vo., Munich, Dec. 18, 1937, to her sister Ilse Hochstetter in Berlin. Braun is asking her sister to purchase a pair of evening overshoes for her and not spend more than 25 RM and draws a side view of the shoe to illustrate her request. Matted with a photo of Braun and brass biographical plaque, ex: Don Boyle. Estimate $ 1,000-1,500 auctions.alexautographs.com/ |
