Hermann Historica has done it again. What "it" is I'm not exactly sure. As usual, only oral provenance, and with an uncommon but common looking soldered plaque which possibly means the silver was too thin in 1918 for engraving. Wolfgang H. sez it belonged to Lt. Georg Wolff who must have been quite a favourite with the family, but there is nothing in writing as with the MvR items in the last auction. Given the date I wonder of Manfred ever saw this, or if he was called to HQ for this goblet and then again a few days later for his Red Eagle? Interesting, but suspiciously not the usual quality of a Kaiserpreis. But if you've got 20,000+ Euros burning a hole somewhere and don't look tooooooo closely....! Rgds John A towering 16.34 inches! (41.5 cm) P.S. Years ago I saw the cased fire-gilt damascened letter opener given to Goering by the Kaiser after he took over the squadron from MvR. It was far superior to this cup in design and execution...
Hermann Historica has done it again. What "it" is I'm not exactly sure. As usual, only oral provenance, and with an uncommon but common looking soldered plaque which possibly means the silver was too thin in 1918 for engraving. Wolfgang H. sez it belonged to Lt. Georg Wolff who must have been quite a favourite with the family, but there is nothing in writing as with the MvR items in the last auction. Given the date I wonder of Manfred ever saw this, or if he was called to HQ for this goblet and then again a few days later for his Red Eagle? Interesting, but suspiciously not the usual quality of a Kaiserpreis. But if you've got 20,000+ Euros burning a hole somewhere and don't look tooooooo closely....! Rgds John A towering 16.34 inches! (41.5 cm) P.S. Years ago I saw the cased fire-gilt damascened letter opener given to Goering by the Kaiser after he took over the squadron from MvR. It was far superior to this cup in design and execution...