Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac I AWARD WERKMEISTER KLÄDEN WITH

I AWARD WERKMEISTER KLÄDEN WITH THE SHIPYARD MERIT BADGE”)

10 mm (w) x 48

Illness continued to plague Arnold

overlaid by a central U-Boat superimposed over a hollow void the reverse with a barrel hinge and narrow vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch

Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac I AWARD WERKMEISTER KLÄDEN WITH(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