Spanish Volunteer from the Blue Division Personal Effects.

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buchinsky
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Spanish Volunteer from the Blue Division Personal Effects.

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Hi Everyone !
I been working in a Spanish Volunteer 1941-42 impression for some months and although my uniform is not finished yet I can, at last, show some photos of the personal effects of my impression, any thoughts and tips are welcome ! :)
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PERSONAL EFFECTS:

1- Reproduction German Army WW2 personal Photo Album.
2-Original Postcard of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, chief of the “Falange” (Spanish Fascist party )
3- Original Postcard of Franco. (Spanish Dictator.)
4- Original WW2 German Comb.
5-Exact Pattern German WW2 Shaving Razor w/Box-Unissued,
6- Orig. German WW2 Shaving Mirror.
7-Repro German WW2 Military hand Towel, Heer.
8-Repro German WW2 Matchbook cover and Matches.
9-Orig. German WW2 Bakelite Soap Dish W/ 4711 Soap, Set
10- Repro WW2 German Sewing kit
11-Original Esbit field stove
12-Original Esbit Fuel tablets box.
13-Original photos from magazines showing the champion of the 1940-41 Football league (Atlético Aviación ) and the Spanish national team from 1941 in a game against Portugal. (Spain 2, Portugal 2. )
14- Reproduction German WW2 Soldier Butterdish Orange.
15- Repro WW2 German red Cross Chocolate tin.
16- Orig. German WW2 Cigarello Box.
17- 1938 Original Kodak in working condition.
18-Repro letter
19-Original German-Spanish dictionary (1940 )
20- Repro Wermacht WW2 Shoe Polish Tins.
21-Leather and glass bottle to carry liquor (see book, Deutsche Soldaten: Uniforms, Equipment and Personal Items of the German Soldier 1939-1945 by Agustin Sainz just exact as the one shown there. )
22-Heer Soldbuch
23- Original 1941 ticket of a shoe shop in Spain. (Shoe Repair, our soldier is going to pick up the boots he left there as soon as he comes back from Russia )
24- Repro Tickets.
25- Original wedding photo from the 40´s ( See details. )
26-Metal yoke-and-arrows badge of the “Falange” Spanish Fascist party (I think is Repro but Exact Pattern as the one given to the Blue Division Volunteers as part of their Crhistmas gift )
27-Orig. German WW2 Money,
28-Original “Comprimidos del Doctor Torrens “ Pills containing Cocaine. (I get the idea from the book “Deutsche Soldaten: Uniforms, Equipment and Personal Items of the German Soldier 1939-1945 by Agustin Sainz “where anti-fear pills containing cocaine are shown.
29- Original Photo from the 40´s showing some Bullfighters and military officers.
30-Fork and spoon
31-German WW2 Pin Up Girl´s Collector´s Cards
32- Reproduction German ww2 “KAT” Pocket Knive.
33-Religious badge.
34- Under the original Money is a repro wallet. (See details )

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Great amount of nice details for your Spanish volunteer impression, for sure you have put a great effort in it. A nice detail typical from that time can be a “Chisquero” and “picadura” tobacco.

Cheers! :)

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yeah ! no stone unturned eh ?
awesome kamerade ! truly awesome ! :wink:
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Many thanks guys I tried to do my best!! :D
Good idea the "Chisquero" and the "picadura" !
There was one mistake in the personal effects , The Soldbuch, (It was not issue to the Blue Division although it is shown in the Almena´s Book LENINGRADO 1941-1944. LA DIVISIÓN AZUL EN COMBATE what made me commit the mistake ) but it is already been solved, and Now I have a correct Personalausweis for the 250 division :D
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They didn't use the Soldbuch? Or they have it in the company with the Spiess and use the Personalausweis for the day to day?

Can you post a pic. from your Personalausweis please? :)
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As far as I know they only had the Personalausweis , (That would explain why I haven´t saw a single Blue Division Solbuch till now...they have none :) ) in "DAS HEER, uniformes y distintivos PG. 120 Ricardo Recio Cardona Y Antonio González Sánchez and in "El Servicio de intendencia de la División Azul also from Ricardo Recio Cardona Pag 160 two examples or original Personalausweis can be seen but none from Soldbuch.

Heres mine (Repro )..I would like to have it a little whiter in colour but at the moment is the best I colud get (Also I been told that they were in origin light green as mine fading then to white with the years. )

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Hi everybody !
Here are some improvements of my impression (Im trying step by step to make it better :D )

A new Esbit Stove (first one was postwar..as soon as discover I changed it for a original period one. :P ), a original bakelite coffe grinder etc..

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greetings from Spain.


I hope to post in some weeks new photos !
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Hi ! new items, all original:
-ATA Cleaning packet.
-Matches
-1940 first aid bandage.
-one Spanish Pamphlet of a 1942´s Adolf Hitler Speech.
-One Spanish Pamphlet dated 1942 about the friendship between III Reich and catholic church.
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Here are a new item for my Blue Division impression ,personal effects:

It is a shaving set:
Here you have an original one from Ostfront, personal purchase:
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Here´s mine, quite close isn´t it ? I belive it be from the 40´s

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Genosse Stalin grüsst euch!
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Thanks for sharing it ! Nice Belt buclke
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Pity i've found this link so late! :( Cracking collection! I'm planning on putting a similar uniform together, you've got my inspiration back :D
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HexxenHammer wrote:Pity i've found this link so late! :( Cracking collection! I'm planning on putting a similar uniform together, you've got my inspiration back :D

Thanks HexxenHammer ! Im glad you liked my stuff. Here I have posted some photos of my impression:
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Just send me a PM whenever you need, Im glad to help.:-)
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