Germany, Imperial. A First World War Austro-German Alliance Patriotic Stein consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac / ZA ZASLUGE / 1942"

/ ZA ZASLUGE / 1942" on the reverse

Material fatigue is evident to the dust jacket

significant oxidation is evident throughout

1939 – # 15

The volume measures 260 mm (w) x 350 mm (h) x 58 mm (d)

Germany, Imperial. A First World War Austro-German Alliance Patriotic Stein consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac / ZA ZASLUGE / 1942"(Bierkrug). Constructed of glazed off white earthenware, the exterior bearing central painted images of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Emperor Franz Joseph, situated within a green oak leaf wreath wrapped in ribbons executed in the red, white, and black tri colours of Germany and the black and yellow bi colours of Austria, joined together at the bottom by German and Austro Hungarian coats of arms with a central 1914 Iron Cross, topped by a date of 1914, and