Rare Ddr Perfume Atomizer & Vase - Veb Gpg Porcelain With Original Box

Beschreibung:
In a time when East Germany was sealed off from the West, everyday luxuries like this perfume atomizer were the stuff of legends. My uncle, who had fallen in love with Biggy from East Berlin, not only slipped across the border to marry he, he actually carried this rare little treasure out of the DDR as a gift for his mother. Because he had gone voluntarily, where everyone else longed to leave, his request for birthday visits to the West where usually granted. My grandmother kept it in its box, proud & amused, because luxury items usually flowed the other way. Produced by VEB GPG, with its silhouettes of dancers & musicians circling the porcelain like shadows caught mid-song, it was more than just an atomizer. You might find one if you search, but almost never still cradled in its original box, a small, mischievous fragment of a divided world. The box is 17 x 17 cm the Atomizer 10 x 7 cm & the vase about 14 x6 cm Rare Ddr Perfume Atomizer & Vase - Veb Gpg Porcelain With Original Box