Trench Art Coins and Tokens from German East Africa and the East Africa Campaign of 1914-1918
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Trench Art Coins and Tokens from German East Africa and the East Africa Campaign of 1914-1918
A unique accumulation of trench art and militaria from German East Africa and the East Africa Campaign of 1914-1918, including rare and only extant examples, presented in a custom display box. Est. ZAR15,600.
Kreuzer S.M.S. Königsberg Schiffsgeld (für die kantine), brass 200 Pfennigs, 30mm, 5.52g, 25mm, 3.48g (Schimmel 1050, 1200; Ford 296; cf. DNW 138, 3374).
German East Africa, Tabora mint: 1916 20 Heller coins (2 coins, different combinations); 1916 5 Heller coins (2 coins); “gun metal” coins (from a S.M.S. Konigsberg gun, other sources).
Soldatenerkennugsmarke - 2nd S.A.R (Laidlaw: 1298): obverse of a Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft Zwei Rupien coin, skimmed and the blank surface engraved with an ornamented rim, a springbok head dividing slanted dated ‘1915’ and ‘1916’, legend above '2ND. S.A.R.' and below 'G.E.A; reverse of 1893 DOA Zwei Rupien coin; the 2nd South African Rifles was an Imperial Regiment of South African and Rhodesian soldiers who volunteered to fight in the East African Campaign of the First World War.
Soldatenerkennugsmarke - Company Sergeant R.H. Algar, 3rd Battalion, Nigeria Regiment (Nigerian Brigade); obverse of a Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft Eine Rupie coin, skimmed and the blank surface ornamentally engraved with Sgt. Algar’s details; reverse of 1899 DOA Eine Rupie coin; ‘.. the Nigerian Brigade, who had by universal acclaim made for themselves in East Africa a reputation second to none’.
From the HMS Hyacinth, a beautiful trench art example: obverse of a Deutsches Reich Drei Mark coin, skimmed and the blank surface very finely engraved ‘H.M.S. Hyacinth Cape Station 1913 – 1919’; reverse of a Deutsches Reich 1909 Drei Mark coin; after the beginning of World War I, the HMS Hyacinth spent the first months of the war escorting convoys around South Africa, and in early 1915, she was deployed to German East Africa to blockade the German light cruiser SMS Königsberg.
A clearly marked shell casing (stamped EAST AFRICA 1916), fashioned into an ashtray, 90mm diameter, with a mounted DOA 1 Rupie, a rarely seen example.
An accumulation of very fine, handmade silver spoons, 13 spoons in total. The bowls of the spoons include hammered 1/4 Rupie and 1 Rupie coins, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II in his Garde du Corps helmet. The reverse has the denomination of the coin, date, and mint, shafts and ends delicately finished in different styles.
A handsome, masterfully enamelled DOA 1 Rupie (1891) coin brooch, with very fine colour detail. This collector has yet to see another example of this quality.
A voided, Deutsches Reich Drei Mark coin, another rare, finely crafted example with a relief bust of WILHELM II DEUTSCHER KAISER KONIG V PREUSSEN.
A brooch, fashioned from a DOA ½ Rupie (1901) in the centre, flanked by 2 ¼ Rupies (1913 A, and 1912 J).
A SANGS graded ‘TRENCH ART – GENUINE’ DOA 1 Rupie (1904 A): with rim elevations on both the obverse and reverse sides; an uncommon example, fashioned for a unknown (perhaps mechanical) purpose.
A DOA 1 Rupie (1909 A) brooch, with fine detail, pin intact.
A DOA 1 Rupie coin, a more primitive example, with the obverse skimmed and crudely engraved ‘FROM THOMAS COUTTS S COUTTS E A’, unresearched.
Included, a embossed postcard (ca. 1908) with the various denominations a true sizes of coinage from the colony (‘Grüsse aus Deutsch-Ost-Afrika’). Also, militaria from the period: a Iron Cross - For Kultur, 1914, cross pattée, crudely cast in iron in the form of a German Iron Cross, field damaged, a British First World War anti-German propaganda medal exploiting the German Army's excesses, one of a series of 'joke’ Iron Crosses (the legend 'FOR KULTUR' is a scornful pun on the Kaiser's claim to be spreading culture); and 2 Kaiserliche Schutztruppe buttons, one of the buttons flattened into a disk (possibly trench art).
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