Struwwelpeter Charitable Badges
1942BB079<p>Charitable Badges / Children's Ornaments - Struwwelpeter</p><p>Original WINTERHILFSWERK handicraft based on the children's book "STRUWWELPETER" still in its original cardboard box. Group of 12 hand-painted terra cotta bust badges H. 1" to 1-3/8"; with safety pinned backs and issued for Christmas holidays of 1942 as gift tokens from Winterhilfswerk.</p><p>These are based on characters from the Heinrich Hoffmann children's tales: Struwwelpeter Katze Kaspar Mohr Nikolas etc all of them are still attached to the original cardboard backing strip 18 x 1-1/2 inches and contained within its original pictorial box 5-7/8 x 1-5/8 x 1-5/8 inches - top side cover panel defective; a couple of the figures with some minor paint chipping.</p><p>These were given as tokens to acknowledge those who donated to the German charitable organization WHW Winterhilfswerk Winter-help-work which was an annual charitable event held by the "NS -Volkswohlfahrt" National Socialist - Peoples'-welfare-organization in which members from all of the organizations would solicit donations from the public and reward contributors with a variety of lapel badges or propaganda booklets.</p> Winterhilfswerk books
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