Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The document is dated on

The document is dated on the reverse to July 14

DELL’ARMA DI CAVALLERIA ROMA 1930 A

00mm(w) x 62

Emergency First Aid Lapel Badge (in bronze gilt with black and white enamels

I AWARD WERKMEISTER KLÄDEN WITH THE SHIPYARD MERIT BADGE”)

Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The document is dated on(Grabenkunst Plakette). An interesting prisoner of war (POW) camp art relief, constructed of hand carved wood with lacquer and multi coloured paint, depicting a stag in a traditional alpine forest scene, situated within a border of stylized oak leaves, the reverse retaining a wire hanger and period label bearing a handwritten inscription indicating that the relief was carved by a captured German merchant mariner who was among the 60 employed from 1943