Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company Hold Victoria Cross with bronze VC

Victoria Cross with bronze VC Clasp

40 mm (w) x 26

above a handwritten signature identifying the individual as a doctor

2 mm in diameter and weighing at 19

Footnote: 1812203 Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Spriggs was born on April 25

Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company Hold Victoria Cross with bronze VC(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