Battle of Mulhouse & Alsace Liberation WW1 Plaques
A beautiful set of two bronze plaques commemorating the battle of Mulhouse also called the Battle of Alsace, which began on 7 August 1914 and was the opening attack of the First World War by the French Army against Germany. The Germans counter attacked days later making the French leave the city on the 11th of August. The plaques feature A French officer kissing an Alsatian young woman in traditional dress who throws herself in his arms. In the background the French infantry are charging and on the right a fallen panel inscribed with DEUTSCHES REICH. The plaques are signed on the left: Joe Descomps SCR, A Chambin Editeur, and on the right Georges Scott, 8 Aout (August) 1914.
One of the plaques is on a large wooden frame and the other plaque is on a wooden desk stationary pad with 1914-1918 shown on the bottom.
Dimensions
Large plaque: 21 cm x 28 cm (8.26 inches x 11 inches)
Notepad plaque: 11 cm x 21.5 cm (4.3 inches x 8.4 inches)
Schwarzlose Machine Gun Crew Plaque
A German brass plaque featuring a crew of three soldiers operating the Schwarzlose or Maschinengewehr 08/MG 08 Machine Gun.
The plaque in German: Erinnerung a.d. Dienstzeit translating to "In memory of the years in service" and dated 1935.
The Schwarzlose M. 7 was designed by the Prussian firearms designer Andreas Wilhelm Schwarzlose in 1904, and used in service between 1908 to a bit after 1945. The a Schwarzlose is a belt-fed machine gun, usually mounted on a tripod, and used by the Austro-Hungarian empire and later Germany, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Sweden, Russia and in some colonial conflicts.
Dimensions:
Width: 17 cm
Height: 19.5
South African Memorial Plaque
South African memorial plaque for a soldier killed in action in World War Two.
The plaque is of a bronze cross mounted on a wooden base. The cross features the South African coat of arms with Latin motto "EX-UNITATE-VIRES" translated "from unity, strenght", with a label below inscribed, ‘Killed in Action - World War 1939 1945 Gesneuwel Wereldoorlog C288218 PTE. J.F.Busby, C.C.
7.6 x 7.6 mm
Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 Plaque
The Škoda 305 mm Mörser Model 1911 was a siege howitzer artillery cannon produced by Škoda Works and used by the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and by Nazi Germany in World War II after they took over the factory.
This bronze plaque commemorates the production of the Skoda 30.5 cm (305 mm) howizer cannons during WW1 between 1914-1915.
The back of the plaque is marked: System SkodaWerke, Pilsen.
November 4th WW1 Memorial Plaque By Egidio Boninsegna
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November 4th is celebrated and commemorated in Italy as the end of World War 1, the day of Armistice at Villa Giusti. Italy lost in WW1 over 500,000 soldiers. This rare bronze plaque was sculpted by one of Milan's most famous sculptures in the early to mid 20th century: Egidio Boninsegna. The memorial plaque depicts an angel carrying to a tomb a half-draped male soldier accompanies by his mourning wife and two children bidding him a final farewell and another man holding the ends of the drape. Both the angel and the fallen soldier show deep, hollowed-out eyes, indicating the suffering and grief caused by the war. The angel is sitting on a slab with the writing Ignoto Militi, the unknown soldier. In the background is a great memorial tomb complete with fluted columns and another frieze of mourning figures. The artist Egidio Boninsegna is best known for the creation of numerous tombs for the Monumental Cemetery and the Musocco Cemetery in Milan. He also sculpted the monument dedicated to the Milanese painter Filippo Carcano in 1915.
This November 4th Italian memorial cast bronze plaque is rare in this excellent condition. It is fastened to a heavy wooden frame.
Dimensions:
Height: 48 cm (18.9 inches)
Width: 39 cm (15.35 inches)
Weight: 7.4 Kg (16.31 lbs)
Hathaway Maker Cast Iron Sign and Lights
An original British antique!
The cast iron plaque on butter churn barrel cover reads:
"Shakespearian Rd. Trademark
No. 76960
Notice, this great butter producing churn used in all parts of the world
Hathaway Maker
Chippenham England"
The two lamps are also made of cast iron and read Hathaway Maker on their bases.
All original and in very good condition.
A very nice set of salvaged antiques great for decorating a pub or man cave.
Dimension:
Plaque with barrel cover:
Diameter: 48.5 cm (19 inches)
Weight: 8 kg (17.63 lbs)
Each lamp weighs 1.84 kg (4 lbs)
Charleston Rice History Commemorative Plaque
This plaque commemorates the first successful rice planting in the Charleston South Carolina colony in the 1670's starting the rice growing culture of the South known as Madagascar gold. The plaque was approved by the Historic Commission of Charleston South Carolina. The plaque is attached to a thick slice of an olive tree trunk.
Dimensions:
Metal plaque:
Height: 40.5 cm (15.94 inches)
Width: 30.5 cm (12 inches)
Wood plaque:
Height: 70 cm (27.55 inches)
Width: 64.5 cm (25.39 inches)
Weight: 18 kg (39.68 lbs)
Alan Shepard Memorabilia American Legion Plaque
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This is a piece of Alan Shepard memorabilia that has not been seen for decades. It is probably a one of a kind plaque commissioned and presented to astronaut and naval pilot Alan Shepard Jr. for his amazing accomplishment of being the first American and the second human after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagerin to orbit the earth. On May 5, 1961, Shepard piloted the Mercury-Redstone 3 mission and named his spacecraft, Mercury Spacecraft 7, Freedom 7.
As a show of appreciation and admiration for his incredible achievement in the height of the Cold War and the start of the space race, the American Legion decided to present Alan Shepard with this plaque as an award.
Dimensions:
Height: 49 cm (19.29)
Width: 35.5 cm (13.97 inches)
Weight: 7.9 Kg (17.41 lbs)
Warsaw Ghetto By Kenneth Treister
Warsaw Ghetto is a cast bronze brutalist style sculpture by Kenneth Treister, architect of the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach in Florida. The sculpture is a depiction of the famous photograph in which the last surviving Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising were taken out of a bunker and surrendered to the Nazi troops. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising occurred from the 19th of April to the 16th of May 1943, in which about 13,000 Jews were killed and German casualties were 150. The photograph has been one of the most iconic depicting the Holocaust and one of the most influential in the 20th century.
This Warsaw Ghetto sculpture by Kenneth Treister is of the first and original batch of bronze plaques signed in the back and is 122/150 made on August 1969.
Length: 19 cm (7.48 inches)
Height: 12 cm (4.72 inches)
Weight: 1.9 Kg (4.18 lbs)