Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company visually-hidden After initially serving in training

After initially serving in training and replacement battalions

the inscription "WORLD WAR" above

June to October 1964

thus giving it a pink (Rosa) Waffenfarbe - the pink wool glows orange when exposed to UV light

white and dark yellow embroidery on a blue wool base sewn in place on the left shoulder

Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company visually-hidden After initially serving in training(Grabenkunst Plakette). An interesting prisoner of war (POW) camp art relief, constructed of hand carved wood with lacquer and multi coloured paint, depicting a stag in a traditional alpine forest scene, situated within a border of stylized oak leaves, the reverse retaining a wire hanger and period label bearing a handwritten inscription indicating that the relief was carved by a captured German merchant mariner who was among the 60 employed from 1943