Germany, Imperial. An 1898 Reservist’s Commemorative Pipe Auction The album has stiff cloth-covered

The album has stiff cloth-covered fabric cover and is bound together with a brown shoelace and a black cord along the left edge

residue on the edges from cleaning

The inside of the tunic is lined in the same thick cotton on the panels just inside the opening on both sides

the image measuring 80 mm (w) x 130 mm (h) and pasted to a multi-layer off-white card stock backer

six of which have a screwback

Germany, Imperial. An 1898 Reservist’s Commemorative Pipe Auction The album has stiff cloth-covered(Reservistenpfeife). A personalized and finely detailed reservists commemorative pipe, constructed of a glazed white porcelain shaft, topped by a retractable silvered bronze lid in the form of a Pickelhaube, the exterior bearing hand painted scenes documenting the life of a reservist, including uniform issue, guard duty, fraternizing with fellow personnel, and returning home, with the illustrations surrounded by text descriptions of the scene, a unit