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

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

1. A wartime postcard extract featuring Kapitänleutnant Georg-Heinrich Schonder (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, 19 August 1942), the lower edge overlaid by Schonder’s handwritten signature, measuring 7.5 cm (w) x 10.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

2. A postcard featuring Korvettenkapitän Peter-Erich Cremer (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, 5 June 1942), the lower edge overlaid by Cremer’s handwritten signature, measuring 9 cm (w) x 14.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

3. A wartime postcard extract featuring Korvettenkapitän Günther Müller-Stockheim (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 27 November 1942), the lower edge overlaid by Müller-Stockheim’s handwritten signature, measuring 7.5 cm (w) x 10.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

4. A photo of Korvettenkapitän Otto von Bülow (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, 20 October 1942; with Oak Leaves, 26 April 1943), the lower right corner overlaid by von Bülow’s handwritten signature, measuring 6 cm (w) x 9 cm (h), demonstrating a small tear to the signature corner, in near extremely fine condition.

5. A photo of Fregatttenkapitän Robert-Richard Zapp (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, 23 April 1942), the lower half of the image overlaid by Zapp’s handwritten signature, measuring 7.5 cm (w) x 11.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

6. A photo of Kapitän zur See Theodor Detmers (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 4 December 1941), the lower half overlaid by Detmer’s handwritten signature, measuring 8.5 cm (w) x 12 cm (h), accompanied by a death card, constructed of off-white paper stock with black ink, measuring 15 cm (w) x 9.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

7. A photo of Kapitän zur See Kurt Thoma (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, 6 October 1940), the reverse bearing a handwritten inscription with birth and death dates, measuring 7.5 cm (w) x 10.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

8. A pair of photos of Oberleutnant zur See Gerd-Dietrich Schneider (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, 3 October 1944), one measuring 9 cm (w) x 12.5 cm (h), the other measuring 7 cm (w) x 10 cm (h), the small photo bearing Schneider’s handwritten signature, in overall extremely fine condition.