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(via NATIVE SILVER. Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,Germany. … | Lot #87099 | Heritage Auctions)
Native Silver “wires” have been known for as long as mining has taken place in this part of the ‘Ore Mountains’ (Freiberg was founded in 1186) and there has been a erratic production of them over the centuries. Re-unification of the two Germanys resulted in many things magically appearing from the backs of closets and under beds. Some of them were Wire Silvers. Freiberg Wire Silvers differ from some others, Kongsberg ones for example, in that they grow from a matrix of Acanthite: Silver Sulfide. This example still shows a tiny remnant of that material on the base of the wire. The two branches rising from the base, become three and then wind their way sinuously to form an ‘Art Nouveau’ sculpture. Without straightening, the group measures around 4.125 inches (10.5 cm) in height, from the Acanthite at the base to the top of the branches.
(via Freezing weather wipes out German flea circus - Yahoo! News)
BERLIN (AP) — An entire troupe of performing fleas has fallen victim to the freezing temperatures currently gripping Germany.
Flea circus director Robert Birk says he was shocked to find all of his 300 fleas dead inside their transport box Wednesday morning.
The circus immediately scrambled to find and train a new batch so it could fulfill its engagements at an open-air fair in the western town of Mechernich-Kommern.
Michael Faber, who organizes the fair, told The Associated Press that an insect expert at a nearby university was able to provide 50fleas in time for the first show Sunday.
Faber says he hopes they’ll “get through this without any more fatalities…”
Caravan - Golf Girl [1971] (Beat Club - German TV) (by officialcaravan)
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Das Motorrad, Germany, 50s
© Erasmus Schröter, 1985, Leipzig
The Berlinische Galerie is to stage the world’s first comprehensive exhibition of art photography in the GDR. Twenty years after the Wall, “The Shuttered Society - Art Photography in the GDR 1949-1989” identifies traditions and trends while illustrating shifts in visual idiom and theme. Although the exhibition is devoted primarily to the medium itself, it also tells a great deal about daily life in the GDR. (read more)
The exhibition is running through Jan. 28, 2013.
An immaculately turned out Landsturmmann from 2. Landsturm Infanterie Ersatz Bataillon ‘Freiburg’ (XIV. 22) (by drakegoodman)
Skifreiwilliger Carl Strobel, Württemberg Ersatz-Schneeschuh-Kompanie Nr. 1, Sonthofen, February 1915 (by drakegoodman)
Heaviest, tallest, shortest, Munsterlager circa 1914 (by drakegoodman)
Letter on reverse (below) authored in Munster on 25.10.1914 and addressed to a Frau Mina Pirc in Giessen. Postage cancelled the same day in Munster (Lager). Photogr. Schubert, Munsterlager i/H.
