Estonia. An Estonian Collaborator Pow Trench Art Box And Identity Tag Auction returning home to become Officer

returning home to become Officer Commanding of the 65th Battery

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19 cm inside diameter

Footnote: This order was first mentioned on page 41 of the 1891 publication of Genouillac - ""Nouveau Dictionnaire des Ordres de Chevalerie"" as an order ""created by the sultan mogul Alina d’Eldir during his stay in France

Estonia. An Estonian Collaborator Pow Trench Art Box And Identity Tag Auction returning home to become OfficerA rare and unique trench art box made by an Estonian collaborator POW in Soviet captivity. Constructed of multiple pieces of light wood, the box features a retractable lid on a hinge, decorated on the exterior with an etched Estonian coat of arms, highlighted in national blue, black, and white colours. The lid opens to reveal a highly detailed, multi coloured design on the reverse in the form of a barbed wire POW camp fence overlaid by a Leibstandarte