Auction 4 Valkyrie - Winter Auction 2021
Feb 21, 2021
USA
 PO Box 13020 Des Moines, IA 50310
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LOT 260:

3 Reich - Hitler Youth Marching Drum.

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3 Reich - Hitler Youth Marching Drum.
Hitler Youth Marching Drum (Marschtrommel).

Every Hitler Youth "Bann" (Regiment) had a band, and every "Stamm" (Battalion) a fife and drum corps. Two types of drum were used, the large "Landesknecht" and a smaller, military-style side drum. The latter employed a diamond pattern along its wooden upper and lower edges, in red and white for the "Hitler Jugend, " or black and white for the "Deutsches Jugend."
It would have been suspended from the belt by a drum hanger, held away from the body by its wire thigh brace, and played with drum sticks which would usually have been painted black, and otherwise held in a leather frog hung from the belt.

A 36cm diameter drum, with skins to either face, separated by tall steel surround with upper and lower wooden bands. The thigh brace is riveted to the lower band beneath where the drum hanger would be fitted.
Seven right-angle metal brackets are equidistantly riveted along both the upper and lower bands, with threaded metal posts fed between them. These control the tightening of both the upper and lower skins.***THIS ITEM SHIPS FROM OUR EUROPE OFFICE***

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