Per un certo contesto la mia Oma è cresciuta a Berlino durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale e successivamente si è trasferita in America. All’inizio ho pensato che forse fosse francese ma poi ho visto la croce di ferro.
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is there something written on the back?
Looks like an ashtray?
Where do you See an iron cross? The only things I can identify are the typical French lilies.
Edit: Found the cross
presumably a very ornate aschenbecher
That’s a cross pattée and not exclusively used as an “iron cross”. It is used all over Europe.
Wall decoration
It looks like the [coat of arms of the municipality of Öllingen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/DEU_%C3%96llingen_COA.svg/1200px-DEU_%C3%96llingen_COA.svg.png). This is a village in the Swabian Jura, not far from Ulm. Your Oma may have vacationed there and picked this up as a souvenir.
Aschebecheee
I would call it a “Wappenteller”
Those are plates with the sigil of a “house”/”nobility”/”City” on it.
[Wappenteller – Wikipedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wappenteller)
Alle hesse sind verbresche, denn sie klaue aschebesche
could be a lion painted by someone who never saw one
A decorative plate.
The crest in the interior is most likely from Öllingen in Baden-Würtemberg.
The fleur de lis is a very common heraldic charge that was not only used by the french.
Prunkteller. It’s a decoration. It was either hanging on the wall or presented in a showcase.
Dat isn verdammt adretter Flupperbehälter
Smthn u put ur cigarette in
Sooo, nobody talking about what the heraldic significance of the lion’s erection is?
Looking for a buyer – are you? 😄
My dad used to have a full collection of these decorative metal plates to hang up on walls.
Maybe some Löwenbrau ad?
Sprich !
Like my german fellows would say, “the world is a village”. Scrolling random through reddit, seeing someone from the States searching for a plate with the Coat of Arms from a small village called Öllingen, 587 citizens living there, not more than 10 miles away from me. Its amazing how the world is connected.
Looks like an ashtray
The closest I can find is the crest of the Baillon/Baglion family but it´s not an exact match and… very specific.
Do you know which part of Berlin she grew up in? I grew up in West Berlin and my mother´s family is from the part of Berlin that was under French administration. The French were particularly good at trying to foster good relations with lots of projects, events (Deutsch-Französisches Volksfest, anyone?) and exchanges. My mom still has some random French souvenir type things she was given for participating in youth exchanges as a translator in the 1950s and 60s.
Then we also had a lot of French army staff who brought things from home with them and often didn´t take it all back when they left. The German-French Kindergarten always sells very French things at their annual flea market.
Every Berlin district also typically has at least one French twin city. Even though I lived in the American sector, my school offered youth exchanges with our French partner town and there, too, we received random but good quality objects as keepsakes. Very embarrassingly, our French counterparts just got a very cheaply made wallet that had “From the Mayor of Neukölln” printed on it in a very uninspired font.
TL;DR Looks like a French souvenir to me, Berlin has sufficient French ties, especially right after WW II to make anything possible.