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  • Walther Eberbach

    "Dem Totengraber Irlands"

    DS-116

    1916, Blackened Cast Iron, 69.9mm, 72.6g., VZ , Frankenhuis 1495

    Obverse : Death wearing English cap smoking a briar, seated on a coffin inscribed, "Home Rule R. I. P.". In his left hand, a bouquet of shamrocks. In border, "Maistrausz von der griinen Insell, 1916" (May flowers from the Green Island).

    Reverse:: Spade decorated with the arms of Great Britain shoved through a harp (arms of Ireland). Date, 1916. In border, "Dem General Maxwell dem Totengraber Irlands" (To General Maxwell, Ireland's grave-digger).


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Walther Eberbach

"Dem Totengraber Irlands"

DS-116

1916, Blackened Cast Iron, 69.9mm, 72.6g., VZ , Frankenhuis 1495

Obverse : Death wearing English cap smoking a briar, seated on a coffin inscribed, "Home Rule R. I. P.". In his left hand, a bouquet of shamrocks. In border, "Maistrausz von der griinen Insell, 1916" (May flowers from the Green Island).

Reverse:: Spade decorated with the arms of Great Britain shoved through a harp (arms of Ireland). Date, 1916. In border, "Dem General Maxwell dem Totengraber Irlands" (To General Maxwell, Ireland's grave-digger).


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