Description
Nymphenburg Porcelain Eggcup from Hermann Göring’s Guest Wagon 10 ‘234’
A Beautiful little snow-white porcelain Eggcup, specially produced by the Nymphenburg factory in Munich for the Deutsche Reichsbahn Sonderzugs.
The eggcup carries designation marks for Hermann Göring’s Sonderzug ‘Asien’, and in particular carriage number ‘234’ which was Göring’s guest wagon.
This highly glazed porcelain eggcup is accentuated with a fine red trim and even finer gold trim to the top rim, and again to the base circumference, only with the gold trim to the top and red underneath. Centered to the upper portion of the eggcup is the Deutsche Reichsbahn insignia, a gold eagle with wreathed swastika straddled by the letters D and R. To the underside is, an impressed Nymphenburg shield, and a hand-painted number ‘234’ in black indicating the wagon number.
Condition:
Superb near mint, just very minor surface wear. Very rare, and beautiful display piece, and a great investment.
Dimensions:
Eggcup
Top rim diameter 4.7cm
Height 4.7cm
Base diameter 4.3cm
Weight 50g
All weights and measurements are approximate.
