SECOND WORLD WAR GERMAN WAFFEN-SS 1ST SS-PANZER- DIVISION 'LEIBSTANDARTE DISH
Description
A Leibstandarte Officers' Mess desert dish in 'German Silver' with twin handles and dished body, engraved with the 'L.A.H.' monogram. Marked for 'Wellner-Sohne' (the same maker as used by Hermann Goring). 16 cm wide. See Mollo 'Uniforms of the SS', Vol.3 p.57, fig 2, for an illustration of this monogram. These items are said to have been looted by the Russians in 1945 from the Leibstandarte's barracks at Lichterfelde in Berlin.
Condition
A nice example with some light marking to the surface.