WWII German Submarine handheld compass

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

Thanks - Nick
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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? :D

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

Grizz
 
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!
 
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
 
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? :D

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

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

Thanks - Nick
compass-6.jpg

compass-5.jpg

compass-8.jpg

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.
 
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