A carved wood cigarette box of a Luftwaffe Officer, Oberfähnrich Zimmer?, commemorating service in the Luftwaffe base at Orsha, Belarus, in 1943-1944.
It is hand-carved from a light colored wood, perhaps maple. The shape is similar to cigarette boxes of the 1930s as a container with lightly rounded edges on four slightly flaring foots. The lid is made of a separate piece of the same wood attached to the body with two small metal pins forming a hinge that opens and shuts tightly. The lid is carved with the German Airforce (Luftwaffe)’s insignia from World War II: a soaring eagle holding the Nazi swastika. Additionally it has the dates 1943 and 1944, and the location Orscha, on a stippled field inside of an oval. Clearly the work was done by an expert wood carver.
To see more information and to purchase the original see: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Luftwaffe-officer-s-carved-wooden-cigarette-casefrom-Eastern-Front/183130778843.
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