What: Summer Sale - Session 1Where: Alexander Historical Auctions LLC, 98 Bohemia Avenue Chesapeake City, MD, USWhen: July 31, 10:00 AM ESTTop Lots of the Sale:- "Watercolor Painting By Adolf Hitler" - Original watercolor painting on heavy rag paper, 6 3/4" x 8 1/2", executed by future dictator Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and with the best provenance obtainable. The work depicts the "Heiligenkreuzerhof". Estimated Price: $30,000 - $40,000- "Kriegsmarine Dagger Owned By U-Boat Captain Karl-Friedrich Merten, Knights Cross With Oak Leaves Recipient" - An extraordinary item with impeccable provenance, the Kriegsmarine dagger owned by German U-boat Capt. Karl-Friedrich Merten (1905–1993). Estimated Price: $12,000 - $15,000- "Adolf Hitler Presentation Photograph To His Housekeeper, Anni Winter" - "To My Beloved Frau Winter" Superlative, fine association inscribed signed photograph, 15 1/4" x 12" overall, black and white, showing Hitler in his pre-war party uniform, defiantly staring at the camera with one hand on his hip, his World War I Iron Cross visible on his chest and a swastika armband wrapped around his left arm. Estimated Price: $10,000 - $15,000- "Hitler Writes His Suspected Lover, The Distraught Wife Of Robert Ley" - Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945); Excessively rare, fine association A.L.S. on his personal correspondence card with his gold-embossed name and national eagle, 1p. 7 3/4" x 5". Estimated Price: $7,000 - $9,000- "Adolf Hitler Early Signed Copy of "Mein Kampf"" - Most desirable inscribed and signed book, his political treatise: "Mein Kampf" (Munich: Verlag Franz Eher), 1926. Estimated Price: $7,000 - $9,000- "Jews Not Allowed" - A most iconic item, a wrought iron signed decorated with flowers and declaring in ornate lettering: "Juden nicht erwunscht" ("Jews not allowed"). The sturdily-built sign measures 30" x 22 1/2" and bears cross braces fitted into a frame made of welded double bars of steel. Estimated Price: $7,000 - $9,000- "Captured Japanese Map Of Iwo Jima, Used By Marines To Take The Island" - A historic map of Iwo Jima captured during an assault by Marines who in turn used the map to plot attacks on Japanese positions based on information contained in the document. The 41" x 32" map, printed in Japanese. Estimated Price: $6,000 - $8,000- "Battle Flag of the American Submarine U.S.S. Dace" - A unique and important relic of the American submarine war against Japan, the "battle flag" of the U.S.S. DACE (SS-247), which with U.S.S. DARTER made a daring and memorable attack against Japanese ships in the Palawan Passage, at the outset of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Estimated Price: $5,000 - $7,000For details, visit: https://www.invaluable.comClick on the slideshow for the highlights of the sale.https://www.blouinartinfo.comFounder: Louise Blouin
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