Posted on 05/05/2022 12:19:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Read a FReeper comment about the Amber Room a while back offering the theory that it was aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff when it was sunk in January, 1945 while evacuating Germans and documents from the Baltic States.
Don’t recall the name of the poster.
It was you! See #21.
And a LOT more than a measly $35. I kept waiting to read the Germans were going to reward her for her actions, but silence. That is disgraceful.
Lord knows how much pirated treasure the Nazis took from all over Russian, Europe, and North Africa still lies in private collections.
Is that Trumps living room?
Highly plausible an American GI brought it home from Europe and it sat in his house for 70+ years. He passed and the heirs disposing of the estate took it to the thrift store.
Naked Gun.
Leslie Nelson and George Kennedy are cops.
She asks, “Is this some kind of bust?”
Nelson replies, “Yes very impressive, but we still need to ask you some questions.”
Ah! Yes, one of my favorites...:)
Why do the Germans get the statue? Shouldn’t it go back to Rome from which it was stolen?
F— the Germans. She should never have made it public. Could have made a pretty penny selling to a private buyer.
Rick from Pawn Stars would offer you $350 CASH.
Excellent question. But I guess there were lots of Romans in Germany at that time but this could be a case of ancient cultural appropriation.
“He passed and the heirs disposing of the estate took it to the thrift store.”
It’s a common story that the kids of WW2 veterans hated “dad’s war trophies” and had no idea of their value when they ‘got rid of’ them.
Over the course of the years I’ve attended a few estate sales in Sacramento and at absurdly low prices I’ve picked up:
1. A German Cross in Gold
2. A Victoria’s Cross
3. A signed collection of the Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell (lithographs)
4. A old copy of Mein Kampf signed by the author
5. Twenty British sovereigns (cost me the princely sum of $10)
6. A Norden bombsight
7. A small collection of Kriegsmarine Lugers
8. A pair of gray Luftwaffe gloves (very small)
9. Assorted currency, coins, and stamps
10. A Lithuanian passport with a transit visa signed by Chiune Sugihara (I sent it to the Yad Vashem)
etc.
It stuns me sometimes the dripping contempt these kids have for their fathers and grandfathers. Which makes it easier for me to all but steal these things from them.
This is a great story.
Sad to hear about kids. I googled the luger, since I have owned a few. Is it the Brandenburg eagle over the “M” that makes it Kriegsmarine?
‘Ancient Bust’-—?
You can do Better.
But Thanks!
Jerry,
You Magnificent Bastard!
I just watched His;
‘Bee Movie’-—
.
What a Shame.
Well nobody really wants to see an ancient bust.
Note to Self-—
Estate Sales!
So what. I picked up the wallet size Mona Lisa in Paris. Guy selling it really needed the Euros. Big payday coming.
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