GOETZ: 1916 Silver Birth Medal
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K336, GERTRAUD MARGARETE GOETZ, 1916, Cast Silver, 60mm, 60.0g., incuse edge-punch “KGoeTz” at 7 o’clock, Gussfrisch, RRR in silver.
Commemorative birth medal for the oldest daughter of the artist, Gertraud Margarete Goetz born April 22, 1916.
Obverse: Newborn being bathed in a German helmet filled with heated water from diesel torches below. Perimeter displays the 12 astrological signs while other astrological signs significant to her birth time and place are placed around the bathing baby.
Reverse: Inscription within pearled border reads; "In the year 1916 during World War I on April 22 the Saturday
after Good Friday at 7:30 p.m. was born Gertraud Margarete Goetz and was christened at St.Joseph church accompanied by the wishes for God s blessing, M.G.-K.G. Inscription in periphery "Above all my child be faithful and true." The Lamb of God rests bottom center over the Munich city shield with robed Munich child.
Commemorative birth medal for the oldest daughter of the artist, Gertraud Margarete Goetz born April 22, 1916.
Obverse: Newborn being bathed in a German helmet filled with heated water from diesel torches below. Perimeter displays the 12 astrological signs while other astrological signs significant to her birth time and place are placed around the bathing baby.
Reverse: Inscription within pearled border reads; "In the year 1916 during World War I on April 22 the Saturday
after Good Friday at 7:30 p.m. was born Gertraud Margarete Goetz and was christened at St.Joseph church accompanied by the wishes for God s blessing, M.G.-K.G. Inscription in periphery "Above all my child be faithful and true." The Lamb of God rests bottom center over the Munich city shield with robed Munich child.
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<< <i>Beautiful, yet disturbing - gotta love Goetz
If you are talking about the appearance of a baby being "boiled" then you should know that this same motif was used by a number of other artists to symbolize a birth during the Great War. Goetz had stock examples of the same general motif (without the astrology) with blank reverses for engraving. Occasionally an engraved piece will come up for auction but most are kept as family heirlooms I suspect.
This piece must have been cast for family as I can only image what 60 grams of silver would have been worth in the third year of WWI.
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<< <i>Beautiful, yet disturbing - gotta love Goetz
Indeed, those were hard times.
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