Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Lot of Postwar Signed Knight’s Cross Recipient Photographs and Postcards, from the Roger Bender Collection

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

1. A photo of Korvettenkapitän (later-Bundesmarine Kapitän zur See) Werner Winter (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 5 June 1942), situated above Winter’s handwritten dedication, measuring 9.5 cm (w) x 14.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

2. A photo of Korvettenkapitän Helmut Witte (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 22 October 1942), situated above Witte’s handwritten dedication, measuring 9.5 cm (w) x 14 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

3. A photo of Korvettenkapitän (later-Bundesmarine Flottenadmiral) Robert Gysae (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 31 December 1941; with Oak Leaves, 31 May 1943), the lower half of the image overlaid by Gysae’s handwritten signature, measuring 10 cm (w) x 15 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

4. A photo of Kapitän zur See Klaus Scholtz (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 26 December 1941; with Oak Leaves, 10 September 1942), the lower half of the image overlaid by Scholtz’s handwritten signature, measuring 10 cm (w) x 14.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

5. A photo of Kapitän zur See Fritz Poske (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 6 November 1942), flanked by a handwritten signature, the reverse bearing a date stamp of “17. 1. 75”, measuring 9 cm (w) x 12.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

6. A postcard of Korvettenkapitän (later-Bundesmarine Kapitän zur See) Herbert Schultze (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, 1 March 1940; with Oak Leaves, 12 June 1941), the lower edge overlaid by Schultze’s handwritten signature, the reverse bearing a brief typewritten inscription, measuring 10 cm (w) x 15 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.