Germany, Imperial. A Naval Serviceman’s Album from a 1912 Mediterranean Voyage consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Wrapped around the handle in

Wrapped around the handle in the appropriate fashion is a period portepee fabricated from fine aluminum bullion wire

the lid inscribed "PALAIS NATIONAL / Galerie des Valois

with the majority of its original silver finish worn on the obverse

Pforzheim” on the reverse in the same style

military commander of the defenses of Liege during the battle that took place from August 5 to 16

Germany, Imperial. A Naval Serviceman’s Album from a 1912 Mediterranean Voyage consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Wrapped around the handle in(Kaiserliche Marine Fotoalbum). A fascinating album compiled by an Imperial German Navy serviceman, constructed of a heavy card stock binding with an olive drab canvas exterior liner, the interior content consisting of 26 black card stock pages, in turn pasted with 239 private photographs and postcards, added chronologically and depicting the owner with other naval serviceman in Kurmark in 1912 prior to departing for a lengthy sea voyage, with