Description

Summary: book, hardback book, German novel 'Sanna Spitzenpfeil' by Kuni Tremel-Eggert, covered in coarse natural colour linen embroidered all over in bright blue, with a square-rigged ship on the front, inscribed 'Weinachten 1940. Zum Andenken von deinen Fritz'

Identification note: made by German prisoner of war Fritz Schmidt in POW camp on Setley Plain. After the war he settled in Lymington and married a local girl and lived in Kings Saltern Road