Bruckmann, Silver Toast Rack from Adolf Hitler’s Dining Wagon 10 ‘242’
An extremely rare silver toast rack, specially produced by Bruckmann for the Deutsche Reichsbahn Sonderzugs.
The toast rack carries designation marks for Adolf Hitler’s Sonderzug, the ‘Fuhurersonderzug’ (known as ‘Amerika’ in 1940, and later ‘Brandenburg’), and in particular carriage number ‘242’ which was Hitler’s executive dining wagon.
The main body of the rack has slots for eight slices of toast or bread with an elongated lifting handle situated on the centre ring, at each end of the rack is an oval plate, each of which features a finely detailed Deutsche Reichsbahn Eagle with wreathed Swastika straddled by the letters D and R all in relief. There are four ‘ball’ feet to the base, and stamped into the base rim is found the ‘ALPAKA’ silver mark, the Bruckmann ‘train’ makers mark, followed by the impressed number ‘242’ indicating the wagon number.
Please check out our gallery photographs for this piece, we have included some actual images of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, along with their respective entourage, on the platform outside wagon number ’10 242’, it is quite extraordinary, or maybe creepy, to know that the toast rack we present here was on that train wagon at that time.
Hitler, himself, would most likely have taken slices of dry bread from this rack, not toast, as he would have prefered to simply take a slice with marmalade or jam!
Without doubt this is one of those ‘If it could talk‘ pieces!
This is one of the rarest of the rare Deutsche Reichsbahn, and Hitler items to find, an unmissable purchase for the diserning collector or museum curator.
