347 Small Mocca - Cup from Board of the Wilhelm Gustloff.
White glazed porcelain. On the front dipiction of the KDF passenger ship Wilhelm Gustloff in coloured porcelain painting. Underneath the inscription: "M.S.WILHELM GUSTLOFF". On the inner side golden label with the designation "G". The bottom with blue mark of the porcelain manufactory Fürstenberg. Complete with matching saucer, the rim gilded. Also with manufactory mark.
When the Soviet submarine S-13 sank the Wilhelm Gustloff off the coast of Pomerania on 30 January 1945, packed with civilians fleeing from the Red Army, between 4,000 and more than 9,000 people lost their lives. In terms of a single ship, her sinking is considered one of the most loss-making maritime disasters in human history and one of the greatest war crimes committed by the Soviets in World War II.
Only a few mementos of this ship, purchased as souvenirs on voyages before 1945, have survived.
36 x 60 mm (diameter. Coaster 105 mm diameter.