Russia, Imperial. A Trench Art Canteen Dedicated to a German Guard by a Russian POW Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic with a finely enameled black

with a finely enameled black background

Jean Antoinette Mackenzie (nee Barker)

IDAR-OBERSTEIN”

and: held at Clarence Mill

(Sturmabteilung Wimpel)

Russia, Imperial. A Trench Art Canteen Dedicated to a German Guard by a Russian POW Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic with a finely enameled blackConstructed 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