Germany, Luftwaffe. A Grumello del Piano POW Camp Guard Trench Art Cigarette Case Province of China John Robert Taber

John Robert Taber

Type 2 (silver with red enamels

with blue-enamelled laurel branches to the left and right

Hugh Raymond Willis-O'Connor later married Margaret Marise "Jackie" Bishop (1926-2013)

the obverse bear an aluminum yarn “V” pattern Litze with a centre stripe of bright aluminum with a silver coloured pebbled button affixed to the upper portion

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Grumello del Piano POW Camp Guard Trench Art Cigarette Case Province of China John Robert Taber(Kriegsgefangenenlagerwrter Zigarettenetui). Constructed of aluminum, the lid bearing a hand engraved Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika situated above a date of OKT. 1943, circumscribed by an inscription of ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DIE WACHE GEFANGEN LAGER GRUMELLE DEL PIANO, the base bearing a hand engraved map of the Mediterranean and its coastal regions, opening with a functional hinge to reveal a plain interior, unmarked, measuring 7. 5 cm (w)