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Stars of metal (death shrine)

Lost Art-ID

626410

Artist / Creator

Unknown

Title

Stars of metal (death shrine)

Object type

Portable art

Group of reported objects

Crafts and other folk arts

Material / Technique

Metal (Silver)

Inventory number

1935,118

Description

The 105 lodge badges are bijous of deceased members of the Hamburg Hansa Lodge. The seven-pointed stars and oval medals are predominantly made of silver or brass and show the engraved names of their former owners as well as other inscriptions.

The stars come from a cabinet of the Hansa Lodge Hamburg.

Provenance

[...]; without date. - 01.07.1935 Hansa Lodge, Hamburg; 01.07.1935 - 17.08.1935 August Struve, Chairman Hansa Lodge Hamburg; since 17.08.1935 Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg (surrender in the course of dissolution or liquidation, 17.08.1935 date of receipt)

Literature / Source

Zugangsbuch, 1935, Eintrag 118; Archiv des Museums für Hamburgische Geschichte, Korrespondenz 1935, Briefe von A. Struve an Museum, vom 07.08.-14.09.1935; Magisterarbeit Erich Gockel, Zeugnisse hamburgischen Freimaurertums im Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg 1979

Published since

03.03.2025