Catalog No. 1457
Stoneware, relief, 0.5L, relief inlaid lid (Bismarck portrait).
Text:
�Wir Deutsche f�rchten Gott, sonst Nicht�s auf der Welt.�
(We Germans fear God, otherwise nothing else in the world.)
Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) was known as the �Iron Chancellor� and is generally acknowledged as having been the prime mover in unifying the German states under a single ruler (Wilhelm I) and in the rise of Germany as a great European power.
Text is taken from a speech given by Bismarck to the German Reichstag on February 6, 1888.
See also Nos. 1409 and 1458.
Price Ranges Full-color: $150-$225 Ltd-color: $125-$175
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