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

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

1. A photo of Korvettenkapitän Georg-Wilhelm Schulz (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, 4 April 1941), the lower half overlaid by Schulz’s handwritten signature, measuring 9 cm (w) x 13 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

2. A photo of Kapitän zur See (later-Bundesmarine Flottenadmiral) Max-Eckart Wolff (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 4 August 1940), the lower half overlaid by Wolff’s handwritten signature, the reverse in postcard format and bearing an additional handwritten inscription, measuring 9 cm (w) x 14 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

3. A photo of Kapitänleutnant Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 27 January 1942), the lower edge overlaid by von Tiesenhausen’s handwritten signature, measuring 8.5 cm (w) x 13 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

4. A photo of Kapitän zur See Alfred Schulze-Hinrichs (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, 15 June 1943), the reverse bearing handwritten birth and death dates, measuring 9 cm (w) x 14 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

5. A photo of Kapitän zur See Horst Gerlach, the reverse bearing a handwritten inscription, measuring 9.5 cm (w) x 15.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

6. A wartime patriotic card depicting Fregattenkapitän Fritz Frauenheim, measuring 10.5 cm (w) x 15 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.