PRUSSIAN GERMAN IMPERIAL NAVY URN MILITARY PRE WWI OLD
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I'am pleased to offer this beautiful breathtaking piece of world history for your consideration. Let me begin by saying that I'am not a military collector or any type of expert in that field. I have run across this item purely by chance while in pursuit of another item at a local estate sale in Dallas. I have tried to do a little research in the past couple of day's and all I can tell is that I believe this is a presentation piece either to or from an elite German Naval Regiment Von Voigtz Rhetz (3 Hannoverian) On Jan. 18th 1890. The only inscription is the one shown on the top, I can find no other marks unless they be under the ornamentation. I have tried to figure out whether this is a punch bowl or food warmer, I do not know. I do know that it is quite heavy weighing about 28 lbs. and it is made of copper with spelter ornamentation, Zinc bucket type insert with original hand spun glass bowl. The measurements are 20" tall 17 1/2" wide horse head to horse head, 13" wide outside rim to outside rim, 9" wide inside glass bowl 6 3/4" deep inside glass bowl, the base feet are 10 7/8" wide foot to foot. Lets talk condition, For 127 years not bad, Starting at the top The eagle is threaded but the threads have stripped he is made to screw down and sit in a channel at the top of the cannon ball, As he is he sits just fine but you would not
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