"Enigma"
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"Enigma" Encrypting Machine Used by the German Military in WWII
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Pawn Stars Rick:
"$15.00, best I can do."
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I read a lot about the Enigma machine and it's use. Literature provided by a former Intelligence Officer. It was quite the machine. Cheers, RickO
i do look forward to seeing what this thing brings. i don't recall what prices i may have seen before, so i won't look any up now and let the hammer be a surprise!
the terrors surrounding that little wooden box is the stuff great sci-fi/horror movies are made of.
i've always appreciated when someone posts an amazing item like this up for auction from time to time. there have been some good ones to be sure.
I believe the Brits broke that code at Bletchley Park with the bomb.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
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There are several on display at the pentagon
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Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
@OAKSTAR said: I believe the Brits broke that code at Bletchley Park with the bomb.
No, that would be Polish mathematician Marian Adam Rejewski. I find it quite fitting that it was Poland that led the effort on cracking that code since the Germans were particularly harsh in their treatment of Poland from the point of invasion to the death camps set up in that country.
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IF, some of the material i watched is true and accurate (as much as it can be for that horrible period), poland didn't just suffer losses of soldier and civilians, they lost so much it is assigned in percentages of their whole population up in double digits; although to be fair, even though russia didn't lose anywhere near the percentages a lot of the other smaller countries did, their overall losses are breathtaking (their history is quite something). i will NEVER cease to be amazed at the damage that can and has been done by smaller (in sq miles) countries compared to their neighbors, (thinking germany, japan etc). - i won't comment or respond this line any more though for the unbelievably high propensity for someone to be upset/offended is astronomically high as almost should be given the incalculable and unimaginable horrors from the whole of wwii.
Sold for $250,000 w/BP.
That's a fair amount of money.
Amazing that today, a 17,576 possibility crypto would be broken in time measured in minutes (or less?). Even when I served, and ran a crypto radio shop in the late 80's, it would have been short work.
The use of a crypto machine with 17,576 combinations (26 cubed) in pre computer times would have been nearly impossible before the message was obsolete, and only through the Nazi sign-offs' and the analyzing of most common combinations (by hand) was the code cracked enough to render messages somewhat readable to the Allies.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
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thanks for the heads up. idk why but i was a bit disappointed at first seeing such low bidding
The description notes "...sales have been recorded well in excess of $100,000..." and "Fewer than 250 used during WWII are believed to still exist" which implies over 100 exist.
So, it sounds like it was in the market range and maybe even a strong price.
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agree. the hammer. my comment was seeing it sit so low at the start and for a while after.
Marvelous piece of history. I hope it goes to someone who can appreciate it for what it is.