A clock in an anthracite holder. The holder (representing a mine and a mine worker) is one solid carved coal piece. A round mechanical clock in the upper part is enclosed in a metal casing and has an hour and a minute hands. The clock face with Arabic numerals is blue and green. Below the clock there is a figure of a mine worker using a pickaxe in the shaft. The holder is removable; it is fixed to the base with wooden pins. The inscription in the middle of the base reads: “Kopalnia – Śląsk” (Mine shaft “Silesia”). To the left and to the right of the inscription there are symmetrical crossed hammers.
Table clock
See also
Gong. Model
Indonesia ,
17.07.1965
Gong. Model
A gift from Murakhman, the city mayor of Surabaya, to the Tsaritsyn - Stalingrad Museum of Defense on 17.07.1965, Surabaya
Sculptural composition on a stand “God Krishna with a lover in the garden house.”
India ,
June 1967
Sculptural composition on a stand “God Krishna with a lover in the garden house.”
The composition is mounted on a wooden stand with metal cartouche plates affixed with engraved inscriptions in English and Tamil on three sides: “Our best wishes to the Volgograd City Council. Given on behalf of Madras Corporation in 1967, by Era Sambandham, the city mayor.”
1967, Tamil Nadu, Madras.
Signature sheets of the US citizens who have collected donations to the pets of the Serebryanye Prudy orphanage in the region of Stalingrad
USA ,
1947
Signature sheets of the US citizens who have collected donations to the pets of the Serebryanye Prudy orphanage in the region of Stalingrad
In 1947 the American Birobidzhan Committee (“Ambidjan”) launched a charity campaign. Each lined sheet of paper contains the names and addresses of donators with the indication of their contributions. 4,570 American children put their signatures and contributed the total of USD 8,854 to the orphan asylum “Silver Ponds”. The signed sheets are kept in specially designated holders.