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LOT 1563
Collector’s Group of Five Goering Regiment Cuff Titles, Including a Pre-Luftwaffe Landespolizei Gruppe General Goering Cuff - One of the first ground combat formations put together by the Luftwaffe, the unit that would become the Fallschirm-Panzer- Division 1 Herman Goering started life as a paramilitary police formation assembled in the 1930s by Goering during his tenure as Prussian Minister of the Interior, and came with him after he moved to the Luftwaffe. A flagship unit of the Luftwaffe integrating infantry, armor and paratroopers, the Division served in Africa and both the Eastern and Western Fronts, ending the war in Soviet captivity in May of 1945. One cuff, silver bullion on hunter green with silver piping, is marked for “L.P.G. General Goring”; Landespolizei Gruppe General Goering was the pre- Luftwaffe incarnation of the unit, which became the Regiment General Goering in 1935. The other four cuffs bear the “General Goring” title, one in white on black, another in white on deep blue, and two in silver bullion on black with silver trim. Individual notes are included, with three cuffs (the two white thread and one of the silver thread General Goering cuffs) attributed to collector George Petersen, whose cuffs can be seen in “Field Uniforms of Germany’s Panzer Elite” by Robert Edwards Jr. and Michael Pruett. CONDITION: Very good overall. The white-on-blue cuff shows mils staining, and the silver thread cuffs show mild wear, particularly on one of the black cuffs. Provenance: The Putnam Green/Sycamore Collection. Estimate: 4,500 - 6,500
LOT 1564
Collector’s Grouping of Cloth Uniform Items for an Enlisted Soldier in the Hermann Goering Division - Having started life as a uniformed police unit that worked under Goering in his pre-Luftwaffe days, the namesake unit of Hermann Goering went through a series of evolutions, starting as just a regiment and ending the war as the 1st Fallschirm-Panzerdivision, and held a reputation as the Luftwaffe’s top ground combat formation. This set of items would be appropriate for a ‘flieger’ (comparable to the USAF’s Airman) in the unit. The set includes two cuff titles, two shoulder boards (plain Luftwaffe gray with white trim), a close-trimmed Luftwaffe eagle patch on similar cloth, and a pair of white collar tabs with red waffenfarbe piping and single metal “bird” emblems. One cuff title is embroidered “General Goring” in white script on a blue background), while the other is block lettered “HERMANN GORING” on twill cloth, with an included note attributing
it as being Dutch in origin.
CONDITION: Good overall. The “General Goring” cuff shows staining on the embroidery and a few small moth holes, the “HERMAN GORING” cuff shows some rust spots and traces of what appears to be glue and backing material on the interior. Provenance: The Putnam Green/Sycamore Collection.
Estimate: 1,500 - 2,000
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