Germany, Third Reich. An Academy Mess Hall Silver Salad Fork Hold 42 indicates he was "Kanonier"

42 indicates he was "Kanonier" in 9

with a black cotton backer on the reverse

one is maker marked with the Arthus Bertrand insignia

1986 and signed by Black Cross President Otto Jaus

cost the equivalent of a doctor’s monthly salary

Germany, Third Reich. An Academy Mess Hall Silver Salad Fork Hold 42 indicates he was "Kanonier"(Salatgabel). Constructed of silver, featuring four sharpened prongs in barb shape, the obverse plain, the reverse stamped with a NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, above an unidentified academy insignia, with a silver mark of WMF 90 2,5 indicating German manufacture, measuring 46 mm (w) x 195 mm (l), weighing 57. 0 grams, in extremely fine condition.