I showed the tankard all ready as part of a deal I did last week!
But here it is for disscusion!
Here is the story; I baught it as a dammaged piece of china. As a profecional porcelan restorer it seemed to me like a challenge to restore a lithophane, wich is an etched and molded artwork in thin very translucent porcelain that can been found as bottom of any Reservistenkrug.A job I never did before!
But here it comes!
I kept on thinking how such dammage could occure to the krug , untill a forum member on a pickelhaube forum said that these kind of mutilation (punched hole in its bottom)was part of a ritual when a felow soldier died so no one else could use the tankard of the brother in arms.
That made me thinking again ( yes i had a lot of work last week!! (lol!)! I am quiet familliar with dammaged china, and for the experience I have with it,it seems to me that someone must be rather (maybe even "very"(!!!)) squilled to punch a hole in a tankard as it was done with thise one.I can easely imagine one be left over, only holding the handle of the tankard.
And when I started a surch regarding thise "ritual" i could only find 4 tankards with a similar dammage! 4 among the hunders of Reservistenkrug's there are to find on the internet.
So could they be hard to find! (Wishfull-thinking!!) (lol!!)
But I didn't found any evidence regarding thise crippling of a tankard would be a ritual dammage....
One more thing i want to add is that thise tankard belonged to a einjährige freiwilliger of the Chevaulegers-Regiment ,,Kaiser Nikolaus von Rußland” Nürnberg. Dated 98-99. And the form of the dammage looks very much to the forme of some lance points used by lancers regiments.
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|<ris
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