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I have started sorting out my late mothers estate, which is going to take quite some time. She collected antiques and she inherited things from her mother and grandmother, so it will be tricky going through her old things which I will have to decide on keeping or moving on. Amongst the ornaments in her cabinet I found this odd, delicate and quite beautiful 7" high, glass model of a German Howitzer bomb! Decorating the sides are dates and depictions of 4 battles, the sieges of Maubeuge, Namur and Longwy as well as the Battle of Liège, all in August/Sept 1914, at the beginning of WW1.
There is a visible crack to the lid but otherwise it is pretty amazing that such a delicate piece has survived 2 world wars in Germany, I think it belonged to my great grandmother who was born and lived in there until the late 20's when they emigrated to America. I thought I would share some photos of it as it is pretty unique and a beautiful but sad reminder of such a terrible time and if anyone knows more about this glass bomb I'd be grateful for any info. I will be keeping it of course as I remember looking at it when I was a kid.
- Sorry you have to go through all that Gardener. Is her collection as wide and varied as your record collection?Ianbolton
- kinda, lots of unusual postcards, bookmarks, crockery, furniture etc, it'll take ages to sort through...Gardener
- That's a nice looking glass model though. And yeah, mad it's survived through all that.Ianbolton
- looking through a glass dildo..zardoz
- it‘s a fancy mustard glass. ‚ges. gesch.‘ means TM in ww1 german commerce times.uan
- This is not just any howitzer bomb/mine, this is Big Bertha. Can you show pictures of her bookmarks and crockery?coldarchon
- https://en.wikipedia…coldarchon
- I will get to those eventually coldarchon, thank you for the mustard glass translation uan.Gardener