Germany, Imperial. A First World War Austro-German Alliance Patriotic Stein certificate_of_authenticity maker marked D

maker marked D

with fold-down side and back panels with aggressively sloping downward scallops towards the front

The blade sits securely within a one-piece nickel-plated metal hilt with a hooked quillion and hollow insertion slot featuring a functional push-button spring release

It is believed that they were struck in May 1856 for sale at the Crystal Palace

ISBN (13) 978-973-52-0087-9

Germany, Imperial. A First World War Austro-German Alliance Patriotic Stein certificate_of_authenticity maker marked D(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