Germany, Imperial. A Desk Ornament Carved by a German POW in Malta, c. 1917 Auction ribbons in very fine condition

ribbons in very fine condition

and she was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1912

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Footnote: After Japan was forced to trade with the west from the 1850s

A fine “Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen”

Germany, Imperial. A Desk Ornament Carved by a German POW in Malta, c. 1917 Auction ribbons in very fine condition(Grabenkunst Schreibtischdekoration). Constructed of lacquered dark brown wood, consisting of a sphere emanating from a cascading stem, bearing hand painted imagery of tents amid trees and building, topped by a German national eagle, in turn affixed to a flattened base of identical construction, bearing dates 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, interspersed with an inscription of MALTA KRIEGSGEFANGENEN=LAGER, the base showing a rivet securing the finial in place