WWII German Submarine handheld compass

[npowell]

Anyone know what this is, what it was used for, any history, approx value, where I could find more info?

Thanks - Nick

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Check out this site [further down the page]. Sounds like a fake, made in India. As a German with a little historical knowledge the engravings don't make sense. What do you do with a sun dial in a submarine?

http://www.compassmuseum.com/diverstext/fakes.htm

Grizz

 

[bgcameron]

That compass wouldnt work on a submarine either. There is too much magnetic interference from the boat.

 

[Coyote Ugly]

It's missing the L in Deutschland >>>> Deutschand

E should be O for Ost (East) on the dial.

Looks like it was made in WaffenFabrikPakistan!

 

[Coyote Ugly]

What do you do with a sun dial in a submarine?


Grizz

After the U-Boat receives a depth charge, it might come in handy on the life raft!

 

[JAGDMORDER]

It's missing the L in Deutschland >>>> Deutschand

E should be O for Ost (East) on the dial.

Looks like it was made in WaffenFabrikPakistan!

Lol at the waffenfabrikpakistan. That made my day.

 

[buffdog]

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Don't you guys know anything. It says right on it -- " DRP ". Everyone knows that stands for "Democratic Republic of Pakistan.".
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[killer1963daddy]

thats fn hillarious!

 

[mg4201]

wouldn't handheld compass be useless in a submarine; becasuse of all the steel in the pressure hull? Moreover that doesn't like a u-boat hull at at all, more like a 70's nuke boat

 

[desporterizer]

The sub's hull form seems to be a little advanced for 1939 as well. I wonder if a compass would work in a titanium hull?

 

[ojo de aguila]

Check out this site [further down the page]. Sounds like a fake, made in India. As a German with a little historical knowledge the engravings don't make sense. What do you do with a sun dial in a submarine?

http://www.compassmuseum.com/diverstext/fakes.htm

Grizz

Thanks for the fake compass website. The swastika is also off centre, which is easy to have happen when it's banged out in a back alley of New Delhi. It does have value but only as a conversation piece worth a couple of laughs.

 

[desporterizer]

It may have value as a compass.

 

[Nabs]

Be interesting to see if it actually works, atleast you could use it in the bush .

 

[Imperial luger]

Been collecting German Naval accoutrements for yrs, this one is not correctly issued,by 1939 the Swastika would also have an Naval property mark for Ostsee or Nordsee,O and N respectively.

 

[TheTooner]

I wonder if there was actually a U-boat service sort of souvenir pocket compass that this thing is trying to copy?

 

[npowell]

Been collecting German Naval accoutrements for yrs, this one is not correctly issued,by 1939 the Swastika would also have an Naval property mark for Ostsee or Nordsee,O and N respectively.

Thanks Luger for one of the only intelligent responses

 

[npowell]

Check out this site [further down the page]. Sounds like a fake, made in India. As a German with a little historical knowledge the engravings don't make sense. What do you do with a sun dial in a submarine?

http://www.compassmuseum.com/diverstext/fakes.htm

Grizz

Thanks

 

[Coyote Ugly]

Here is some extremely rare 1939 footage of Hitler giving a speech at the Krupp Compass Factory in the DRP (Pakistan):

I wonder if it was in a 5 Cent Digger as a Prize at a Summer Fair/Exhibition back in the 50's, 60's and 70's???

They even had Secret Agent Minature Cameras!

 

[Dosing]

Thanks for the fake compass website. The swastika is also off centre, which is easy to have happen when it's banged out in a back alley of New Delhi. It does have value but only as a conversation piece worth a couple of laughs.

I think its value is intriguing, sure its a fake, but its a bad fake and like you say good for a laff, as such I would say it must be worth 25-50$, and great to pull out at some WW2 re-enactors meeting

 

[Claven2]

Anyone know what this is, what it was used for, any history, approx value, where I could find more info?

Thanks - Nick

I can tell you immediately it's a fake. In 1939 the submarine teardrop hull had not yet been invented, all U-boats at the time were V-hulls. I know my submarine gear and that's a fantasy piece.