Original U.S. WWII Era Souvenir Brass Ashtray with Marble Piece from Adolf H's Retreat Der Berghof at Berchtesgaden French Machine Guns Coast Guard approval markings

Coast Guard approval markings

The bottom of the soles are marked:

The round war head is 3 1/2" in diameter

complete with its brass puppy paw hooks all intact

Original U.S. WWII Era Souvenir Brass Ashtray with Marble Piece from Adolf H's Retreat Der Berghof at Berchtesgaden French Machine Guns Coast Guard approval markingsOriginal Item: Only One Available. As the saying goes, "To the Victor belong the Spoils", and it was not long after V E day that a steady stream of souvenir items began to flow out of Germany to be sold on the U. S. market. Berlin had been thoroughly bombed out, and was also in the Soviet area of occupation, which complicated things. The Obersalzberg and Berchtesgaden areas however had been taken and bombed by U. S. forces, and were quickly made into