Germany, Kriegsmarine. A 1941 Birthday Greeting from AH to Admiral Otto Schniewind, with Photographs Auction Archive to Lance Corporal Joseph Sanford

to Lance Corporal Joseph Sanford Barteaux

the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering flattened pinback meeting a flat wire catch

weighs 409 grams

one maker marked on the reverse “R

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A 1941 Birthday Greeting from AH to Admiral Otto Schniewind, with Photographs Auction Archive to Lance Corporal Joseph Sanford(Reichspost Geburtstagsgru von AH). A rare personalized birthday greeting from AH, transmitted via Reichspost telegram, featuring a brief message from the Fhrer to Admiral Otto Schniewind (Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, 20 April 1940), dated 14 December 1941 and issued to Schniewind in the field, measuring 21 cm (w) x 15 cm (h), demonstrating minor creasing, a superb example of correspondence from the highest echelons of the Third Reich to a noted