Beschreibung:

Diameter 5 cm. 12 coloured illustrations by Berthold Löffler. Housed in illustrated screw cap of tin plate in original box by the Wiener Werkstätte.

Bemerkung:

The famous 'screw-thaler' which Löffler designed for charity organisations in world war I. It consist of paper-medaillons, 6 with illustrations by Löffler on both sides and 6 with poems by austrian poets, also on both sides. The medaillon with illustration on both sides. The 'screw-thaler' of tin plate was designed by O.M.Schwerdtner and is housed in the original grey paper-box of the Wiener Werstätte with the Wiener Werkstätte sign on the reverse side and the printed name of the sculptor and painter. - In this form with the original box extremly rare. - Catalogue 'Wiener Werkstätte' 1957, p. 89.