Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1942 Eastern Front Trench Art Commemorative Photo Album Archive chronicling the festivities

chronicling the festivities

demonstrating minor material fatigue to the leather with sporadic loss of gilt finish to the buckle

Tiny edge nicks

1942-43 (Jellicoe's Squadrons

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1942 Eastern Front Trench Art Commemorative Photo Album Archive chronicling the festivities(Wehrmacht Ostfront Grabenkunst Fotoalbum). Constructed of blackened wood, the cover covering bearing hand carved coloured rhombuses surrounding a central Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by a date of 1942, the reverse bearing identical geometric imagery surrounding an inscription that appears to read ANDENKEN GERHARD CLAUDE A MATIUPOLA, possibly referencing the city of Mariupol, unmarked, measuring 13 cm (w) x 8. 5 cm (l)