A Fabulous 1937 Third Reich 'Condor' Aeronautical Large Presentation Silver Dish. The Pilot and His Airline That Inspired The Naming of the Condor Legion Volunteers that Fought For Franco in Spain

A unique presentation piece of aeronautical history, in that there is simply no other piece like it that encompasses so many different fields of collecting history. It is not only a large piece of fine silver it has unique aeronautic provenance, combined with Third Reich, WW2 Luftwaffe, Spanish Civil War Condor Legion Volunteers, and pre war Brazil, the final home and resting place of so many notorious German Nazi Party members fleeing to escape their well deserved justice from the Western alliance post 1945. Presented to famous Brasilian Lufthansa pilot of the 1930's, Commandant Guilherme Mertens, in Rio De Janiero, Sept 1937. It is said he personally trained many Condor Legion pilots who fought in Spain, and fighter pilots of the Luftwaffe for WW2. Hallmarked German silver .830 by Third Reich Silversmiths, Wilkens & Sohne - Bremen-Hemelingen, Germany. Approx 24 troy ounces. Supplied by Casa Oskar Merchado, an exclusive and famous jewellers in Rio de Janiero, Brasil, presented to the commandant of the Condor Airline for his 1 Million Kilometers flying for the Third Reich owned Lufthansa subsiduary company. Lufthansa airline, secretly trained the WW2 Luftwaffe pilots needed for the war. The company was a Lufthansa subsiduary named 'Condor', which is said to have been the inspiration for the naming of the Condor Legion that fought with German fighter pilots in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Presented for the first million kilometres of the Airline Syndicato Condor Ltda at Rio De Janiero on the 16th Sept 1937.
Syndicato Condor S / A was a subsidiary of Lufthansa in Brazil. One of the oldest aviation companies in the world, was created in 1927. During the interwar period, German pilots were trained secretly in violation of the treaty, at Lipetsk Air Base and in Brazil ostensibly by running a commercial airline in South America. An airline funded and partnered by Lufthansa, with many German directors and principles. Lufthansa was once an instrument of the Third Reich, an airline that effectively was used to create the modern wartime Luftwaffe through it's training of German pilots for the coming war. It's company title was named after the Nazi favoured representation of their joint Spanish-German aeronautical endeavours. It was decided the South American company name should be the Condor Syndicato Ltda, as the Reich associated aviation in the Spanish speaking worlds with the Condor. This title was thus used by the German pilots and tank crews that served in the 'Condor Legion'. Volunteers from the German armed forces, that fought for Franco in the Spanish Civil war. The Condor Legion was used to develop the principles, and perfect the techniques, of their new system of warfare called Blitzkrieg. This new, devilish, and incredibly successful method of warfare was rehearsed, in other areas of influence and conflict, outside of Germany before the war. Much of it with South American trained German pilots against the Republicans in the Spanish War in 1936 to 1939 The Wilkens Silver company was founded in 1810 was the leading silver manufacturer in Germany al the end of 19th century. Its designers were Peter Behrens, Albin Muller, and Heinrich Vogeler. H. Bulling, A. Donat, C. Krauss and Karl Muller designed for the firm between 1910 and 1940.

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