Germany, Imperial. An 1898 Reservist’s Commemorative Pipe Auction certificates and people with histories

certificates and people with histories and captions

and the gokenin were the lower vassals

set on a 26 mm-long zink bar with horizontal pinback

as mounted on the car

Germany, Imperial. An 1898 Reservist’s Commemorative Pipe Auction certificates and people with histories(Reservistenpfeife). A personalized and finely detailed reservists commemorative pipe, constructed of a glazed white porcelain shaft, topped by a retractable silvered bronze lid in the form of a Pickelhaube, the exterior bearing hand painted scenes documenting the life of a reservist, including uniform issue, guard duty, fraternizing with fellow personnel, and returning home, with the illustrations surrounded by text descriptions of the scene, a unit