Description
Twenty-seven Pieces of Infantry Regimantal Silver Ware. Each piece profusely maker marked and stamped: WELLNER PATENT with the number 90 in a circle and the number 30 in a square. Also stamped with Nazi eagle and engraved with II.I.R. 86. Set consists of soup spoons, dinner forks, dinner knives, desert forks and desert knives. The Second Battalion, Infantry Regiment 86 was organic to the 10th Panzer Division and was eventually converted to a Panzer Grenadier Regiment. A very historic unit as the 10th Panzer Division fought in Poland, France, Russia and was primarily responsible for Eisenhower’s failure to capture Tunis in 1942. However, the Division was eventually trapped and surrendered to the Allies in May 1943. EX++ (27821) $1695. NOT AVAILABLE