1917 Death Head

[saab-bob]

I remember reading a fascinating thread on this forum about the TK logo. There was a picture of a WW1 German officer with a insignia that matches the cartoon logo seen on some of these lugers. He was reportedly in one of the flamethrower units.

Has any WW1 luger ever been seen that is unit marked from one of these German flamethrower outfits,with that same TK logo?
The little marking above the skull does look like a hose of some kind.
That marking is not on the later Nazi TK and the style of the TK seems different.
Just thinking out loud.
Gerben is right, you can believe what you want.
Bob

[sheepherder]

I just did a google/Image search for "Freikorps" and got hundreds of pics...I saved four showing death's head graphics (trucks, tank, armored car) and all have a 'balloonish' head, which is quite close to the Luger death's heads...

This makes me wonder when we got so spoiled that a proper skull & crossbones had to look like a pirate's flag...Was it during the movies of the 30's??? Errol Flynn as Captain Blood??? Maybe the Freikorps death's heads were the German embodiment of a skull...

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by saab-bob

I remember reading a fascinating thread on this forum about the TK logo. There was a picture of a WW1 German officer with a insignia that matches the cartoon logo seen on some of these lugers. He was reportedly in one of the flamethrower units.

Flammenwerfer!!!