Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company Province of China measuring 9 mm (w) x

measuring 9 mm (w) x 16 mm (h)

31 mm (w) x 56

Insignia in bronze gilt

measuring 46 mm (w) x 100 mm (l)

Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company Province of China measuring 9 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