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Thanks! I'd love to know a ballpark. I need to get it appraised for insurance. I'm from Holly Springs originally, but live in Mooresville near Charlotte now. Funny thing, the grandfather who brought this back graduated from Cary High in (I think) 1939.

Also, on a quick Google books search, I was able to find plenty of original German publications, including some dating to 1816, that made the same mistake. A more fundamental point is that if this man's son was a 33-year-old private first class who was a member of the working-class SA (the organization that, in many respects, emphasized the "socialistiche" and "arbeiter" part of the NSDAP), it's likely that this was a very working-class family, and that the old man was probably literate enough to write, but not literate enough to have perfect spelling of even the most basic words...