Seeking advice on a photograph WWII militaria

[taylor_memorial]

I will soon be listing a German language book issued by the Democratic Socialists who hosted the 1936 Olympiad. Cool book, with pasted down silver pictures of various events.

Laid into the book were a number of personal affects of the previous owner whose child or grandchild donated it to us. Some report cards, a couple of photos, and a copy of the obituary.

So I'm almost positive that graduation picture of this squad of infantry folks is of his class. Or something.

He was a glider sargeant (the air corps was part of the army at that point). Three bronze stars and a purple heart. I'm pretty sure I can find out something more about is service records, most of them are not classified from that war. Not still.

Do I include it with the photograph? It's just a print out from the funeral home's "memory" page.

[1786davycrockett · Accepted solution]

As a courtesy, I would include the obituary notice with the photograph, in case your potential buyer may be interested in doing any further research.

Are you sure that it wasn't the National Socialists (rather than the Democratic Socialists) who sponsored the 1936 Olympiad?  Since Hitler became the German leader in 1933, it would make more sense that the National Socialists would have sponsored the 1936 Olympiad, rather than the Democratic Socialists, many of whom Hitler had imprisoned in the early concentration camps.

If you list this book on eBay, and the book has Nazi markings on the covers, make sure that you exclude Austria, France, Germany and Italy from your buyer base, or eBay may pull it from your listings, and send you a warning email.

[taylor_memorial]

Never sure of anything until I check, this is just chat.

Nothing on the cover, and I avoided taking pictures of Hitler.

Does that mean I can't use the Global Shipping program? Nothing on the cover, anyways...just checked.

[1786davycrockett]

So long as you exclude shipping to Austria, France, Germany and Italy, there should be no problem with using the Global Shipping Program -- in fact, GSP is preferable to using USPS, unless you are shipping USPS Priority (or better), since the USPS options below Priority do NOT include tracking to most international destinations, and there is a HUGE racket engaged in by some international buyers, who open up "Item Not Received" cases against US sellers, due to the lack of tracking numbers once the package leaves American borders.  Good luck!

[lludwig]

@1786davycrockett - re: there is a HUGE racket engaged in by some international buyers, who open up "Item Not Received" cases against US sellers, due to the lack of [USPS] tracking numbers once the package leaves American borders.

That is what I though when all of a sudden South America turned into a black hole. I had shipped to SA before in the past 20 years with no problem and then within 6 months I sold 5-6 books to several different countries in SA and no one received the book! That is why nearly 2 years ago I switched to Global Priority Shipping. Not only did all of my international orders dramatically increase because of the cheaper shipping costs but no more 'never received the book" from South American countries.