Just as I was despairing of finding anything worth buying at the Beltring Fair yesterday, I came across a ( sadly chipped ) coffee cup and saucer (but it only cost me £5...) : - On the bases are the Swastika-in-cogwhel mark and slogan : 'Modell des Amts : Scoenheit der Arbeit' - This goes with the fork which I already have ; - 'Schoenheit der Arbeit' ( 'Beauty - or Perfection - through Work' ) was an office attached to the 'Strength Through Joy' organization ( the Nazis loved their slogans ) and was established to approve the style of civil production items to fall in with the 'official line' on creating a clean, modern, utilitarian 'Nazi style' and to render all types of 'decadent art' obsolete. It's an interesting little sideline in WWII militaria - anyone else have any ?
looks like your on the ball there, martin, nice daf cup and saucer. this daf china tea cup and saucer, exactly the same design too, here..selling for $95 Authentic & Original W.W.II Japanese, Imperial, & Third Reich Germany PM&M resources [Vocabulary Section] Page
Only 5 pounds? Not bad eh? These days that translates to about $7.50 or so USD... ;-)) Id have been happy to pay that price for two items even if they are not Military items per se ;-))
Very pleased indeed to get this at Beltring. It's a large (A3-sized) catalogue for a 1938 MDASDA exhibition. Really superb condition with a fine colour cover..... Inside are pages and pages of original German industry advertisiements and photos of German factories, suitably decorated... The dealer charged me £8 and I didn't feel at all 'robbed'..........
How come I missed this fine thread, great cup and saucer, I have a large coctail plate that goes with it , it is divided in several compartments. It has the same RAD symbol but it is kaki instead of green
Two more items I picked up at Beltring : a plate with rather nice 'MDASDA' markings... ...and a MDASDA bowl with the Reichsbahn logo and 'RBD Saarbrucken' mark.... When I got home I checked out the 'RBD' marking - it stands for ReichsBahnDirektion : these were the regional control centres for the railways and Saarbrucken was one of them.
I'm guessing they must have been a distributor/wholesaler...Bauscher Weiden was ( and remains in business today ) one of Germany's biggest manufacturers of hotel porcelain.
Highly probable, same for Saarland and Saarbrücken. Saargemünd also. (today Sarreguemines, Lorraine) It was a manufacturer for the Kaiser and they have been making some fine porcelaine until the 2000s.
Another nice addition to my little SdA collection - a Rosenthal soup-bowl.... ...and now I'm trying to find out which company's canteen it came from.........