Richthofen "75" Kills Honor Goblet !!!

[Aerowallah]

Hermann Historica has done it again. What "it" is I'm not exactly sure. As usual, only oral provenance, and with that weird soldered plaque which possibly means the silver was too thin in 1918 for engraving.

Wolfgang H. sez it belonged to Lt. Georg Wolff who must have been quite a favorite with the family, but there is nothing in writing just like with the MvR items last auction. Given the date I wonder of Manfred ever saw this, or if he was called to HQ for this goblet and then again a few days later for his Red Eagle? All in all interesting, but suspiciously not the usual quality of a Kaiserpreis. But if you've got 20,000+ Euros burning a hole somewhere and don't look tooooooo closely....!

16.34 inches!!! (41.5 cm)





P.S. Years ago I saw the cased fire-gilt damascened letter opener given to Goering by the Kaiser after he took the sqdn. over from MvR. It beat the pants off this cup in design and quality of execution...

[VtwinVince]

Without written provenance from the family, I wouldn't touch that thing with a ten foot halberd.

[PFFF]

I think it was in early bio of MVR (Floyd Gibbons) that MVR only had about 60
victory cups made before silver shortage becasue of Royal Navy blockade

[Aerowallah]

True, but those were cups he purchased privately. This is a personal gift from the Kaiser...allegedly.