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18 June 2020

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№ 850

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18 June 2020

Hammer Price:
£750

An Afrika Korps Photograph Album. A modern photograph album containing 102 mainly press photographs of the campaign in North Africa. Nearly all of the images are of large format 18 x 13cms or larger. All are of the highest quality. Many images of Field Marshal Rommel, men in the field, combat situations, superb close-ups of the Afrika Korps uniform detail, tanks, trucks, guns, motorcycles, aircraft, both Army and Luftwaffe close-ups, captured British vehicles used by German forces, German halftracks, German armoured cars, many images of the classic Afrika Korps visored field cap being worn, conferences of officers in the field. Most of the images are from a Brussels photo agency taken by German war reporters with the images of German prisoners being from British picture libraries; together with a selection of approximately 300 very good press images, the majority come from a French photographic archive with mixed others, mainly of Afrika Korps, Grossdeutschland, and SS, with a huge amount of close-ups. Ideal for the researcher collector, Panzer uniform detail, Assault Gunners, close-ups of Afrika Korps white bleached hats. Some have been published before, other from the B. L. Davies collection, others Imperial War Museum, the majority are of large glossy format, very good condition (lot) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of German Militaria.

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