Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1942 Eastern Front Trench Art Commemorative Photo Album Archive the exterior with a salmon-coloured

the exterior with a salmon-coloured interlocking patterned cloth covering on all sides

1944 until 1946

1927 ANNO V" above

Footnote: The Monastery of Saint John the Theologian (also called Monastery of Saint John the Divine) is a Greek Orthodox monastery founded in 1088 in Chora on the island of Patmos

the obverse with a crowned Italian coat of arms within an open ended wreath of leafy stems

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1942 Eastern Front Trench Art Commemorative Photo Album Archive the exterior with a salmon-coloured(Wehrmacht Ostfront Grabenkunst Fotoalbum). Constructed of blackened wood, the cover covering bearing hand carved coloured rhombuses surrounding a central Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by a date of 1942, the reverse bearing identical geometric imagery surrounding an inscription that appears to read ANDENKEN GERHARD CLAUDE A MATIUPOLA, possibly referencing the city of Mariupol, unmarked, measuring 13 cm (w) x 8. 5 cm (l)