Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Mixed Lot of Postwar Photographs and Signatures of Knight’s Cross Recipients, from the Roger Bender Collection

(Kriegsmarine Ritterkreuzträger Fotos und Unterschriften). A mixed lot of postwar signed photographs of Kriegsmarine Knight’s Cross recipients, including:

1. A Feldpost postcard of Kapitänleutnant (later-Bundesmarine Kapitän zur See) Siegfried Wuppermann (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 3 August 1941; with Oak Leaves, 14 April 1943), the lower edge overlaid by Wuppmann’s handwritten signature, the reverse unused, measuring 9 cm (w) x 15 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

2. A photo of Kapitän zur See Friedrich Böhme (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 26 August 1944), the reverse bearing a handwritten signature, measuring 10.5 cm (w) x 14.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

3. A photo of Korvettenkapitän Gerd Suhren (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 21 October 1940), the lower half overlaid by Suhren’s handwritten signature, unmarked, measuring 10.5 cm (w) x 14.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

4. A postcard of Konteradmiral Hans Bütow (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 12 March 1941), the reverse bearing a handwritten inscription, measuring 9 cm (w) x 14 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

5. Two signed photos of Generaladmiral Hermann Boehm, the lower right corner of each overlaid by Boehm’s handwritten signature, both measuring 10.5 cm (w) x 14.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.