Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company Province of China 31 mm (w) x 56

31 mm (w) x 56

hanging on a laurel suspension

8 mm inclusive of its crown and crossed swords suspension

and Stoker A

while the left tab features a singular strip of silver aluminum bullion tresse with three silvered aluminum rank pips oriented diagonally across the tab

Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company Province of China 31 mm (w) x 56(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