Kaiser carriage ornament / Austria - Lot 28

Kaiser carriage ornament / Austria Ornaments for the Kaiser's carriage, metal "crown" plate affixed to velvet and intertwined letters F, +-12 x 12cm. Provenance: from an Austrian aristocratic family. Note: The ornament is accompanied in its case by a note written on a typewriter: translation,This star is a decorative accessory from an imperial carriage destroyed by a shell bursting over Schönbrunn Palace during the fighting in April 1945. This ornament was found and preserved by a soldier of the British Army of Occupation in the rubble of the carriage, the only one to fall victim to the fighting. This star may be the only remaining piece of the carriage, as the fragments were considered impossible to restore and were created with the remaining rubble.