£45
Treen snuff box / trinket with bronze encased medal depicting Germany, The Watch on the Rhine ? and The Black Shame, cast bronze medal, 1920, by Karl Goetz 58mm. Helmeted head of a French colonial soldier to right, DIE WACHT AM RHEIN, rev. naked woman tied to a post in the form of a phallus, surmounted by a helmet, DIE SCHWARZE SCHANDE, the black shame. (Kienast 264; Jones, Dance of Death, 52; Jones, Art of the Medal, 399). About Extremely Fine, brown toning. Height 3cm, diameter 7cm
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