Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company Hold measuring 45 mm (w) x

measuring 45 mm (w) x 103 mm (h)

as she was awarded the Order of St

the book itself divided into three sections

(Fliegerschützenabzeichen für Bordmechaniker)

Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company Hold measuring 45 mm (w) x(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