Führer Ritterkreuzurkunden Collector Alert!

Hitler's Personal Knight's Cross Presentation Document

27.8.05

Collector Alert!

None of the following is for the faint of heart.  Each day replicas get better and better.  Here is PRIME example!  These will be filtering into the auction houses and the hands of various dealers of "original" items in the next few months.  I have my hands on the set shown here.  I have never handled a real one, but with a bit of work these could be really "Hitler Diary's" stuff!  The price is prohibitive enough to keep these out of the hands of most collectors who'd "never pay that much for a replica" but it is nothing to someone smelling a huge profit.   Tell your collecting friends to look here for information and any updates.  Note the names listed as available now and NOTE custom documents are going to be made.  Run away!

The Story

Hitler considered these Ritterkreuzurkunden to be of great importance. He assembled a team of artisans to manufacture the award documents and leather folders.   Supervised by Professor Gerdy Troost, lettering was performed by Franziska Kobell and leather work by Frieda Thiersch.  Gold work was done by Franz and Hermann Wandinger.

These exacting replicas are antiqued burgundy Moroccan goat skin leather folder and the aged vellum document which completes this presentation set.  They are available named either to: Erwin Rommel, Michael Wittmann, Sepp Dietrich, Adolf Galland, Hans Ulrich Rudel or Erich Topp. For more detailed information on the documents themselves, please see the document section at the end of this section.

• Like the originals, the folder is handcrafted from genuine burgundy Moroccan goat’s leather, the finest hide’s money can buy.
• The eagle on the cover was scanned from an original folder and burned onto a copper block so the eagle may be embossed in 24K gold leaf, remaining faithful to the original design.

• The original artist’s name, Frieda Thiersch, is embossed in small gold, block letters on the back inside cover, true to the original.

• The document itself is made of modern vellum material and is the same exact size as the originals which has been aged to resemble original samplings.
• Color of the original ink sampled and aged to the correct reddish brown tone that the originals have now assumed.
• The original Hitler signatures were in black fountain pen and did not show aging to the same extend as the printing. They remained black but slightly faded. The Hitler signatures on these documents are in black ink and like all original signatures exhibit the “overlapping” or “layering” where the ink lines cross over each other. Facsimile signatures are mono toned.
• The inside covers of the folders are finished in the off-white moiré silk fabric like the originals.
• The inside features a burgundy leather loop in the spine designed to hold the double-paged vellum document in place.
• The burgundy Moroccan leather folder, vellum document and moiré is all gracefully aged by skilled craftsman to perfection.
• The exact measurements of the originals have been respected and faithfully replicated.
• The fonts used for the rank title and date names have been “sampled” from originals to ensure total accuracy.
• The Knight’s Cross winners name is embossed in gold leaf exactly as the originals were.