Russia, Imperial. A Trench Art Canteen Dedicated to a German Guard by a Russian POW Hold for a week of recuperation

for a week of recuperation

the wound had healed

two Air Force Lapel Badges (in bronze

emigrating from Germany to the US in the late 1920s

the obverse bearing a double stamped inscription of “OFLAG I D

Russia, Imperial. A Trench Art Canteen Dedicated to a German Guard by a Russian POW Hold for a week of recuperationConstructed of aluminum, the obverse bearing a central hand etched heart pierced by a sword and anchor, flanked by dates 1914 1915, and topped by dedications of ZUM ANDENKEN GEFANGENEN LAGER CROSSEN A O (IN MEMORY OF PRISONER OF WAR CAMP CROSSEN AN ODER, now Krosno Odrzaskiem, Poland) and AUGUST GUST, the reverse bearing a hand etched Imperial Russian eagle overlaid by the monograms of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, surrounded along the edges