160 - Large Scheffel Goblet of the Corps Guestfalia Greifswald, Enamelled Arms, Gilt Rim, circa 1900

Large Scheffel Goblet of the Corps Guestfalia Greifswald, Enamelled Arms, Gilt Rim, circa 1900 Colourless glass, enamel painting, gilt rim, large Scheffel goblet, circa 1900, conical armorial glass on a round foot, the front elaborately executed in enamel painting with the multicoloured full coat of arms of the student fraternity Corps Guestfalia Greifswald, in the quartered shield among others a leaping white Westphalian horse on a red ground, a green-white-black colour shield (couleur colours of Westfalia), the circle (Zirkel) between the letters “P”, “G”, “H” and “A” as well as a laurel wreath with a bundle of duelling sabres (Schläger) and the initials “G. U. N.”, above a crowned barred helm with green-white-black plume, flanked by sweeping mantling in black-white and green-white, outside the arms an oblique white Latin inscription “Neminem time, neminem laede!” (“Fear no one, harm no one!”), calibrated fill line at 0.4 l, marked “0,4 L”, on the base an acid-etched round mark, probably “Carl Wilh. Dummort, Altst. Markt 18/19. Königsberg / Pr.”, very good state of preservation commensurate with age, minimal traces of use, D. 9.8 cm, H. 25 cm. 360-degree photo available on our website. The Corps Guestfalia Greifswald was founded on 9 July 1837 and reconstituted on 10 June 1852 after a suspension. It belongs to the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV), founded in 1848, and provided its Vorort in 1856. The colours of the Corps are green-white-black with silver percussion, the Füchse wear green-white-green, the cap is green. The inscription “Neminem time, neminem laede!” is the motto of the Corps; the initials “G. U. N.” in the shield stand for the arms motto “Gladius ultor noster!”, translated “The sword is our avenger!”. The leaping white horse in the red field is the Westphalian horse, the traditional heraldic charge of Westphalia. The Kartell corps of Guestfalia include, among others, Guestphalia Bonn, Marchia Berlin and Masovia Königsberg zu Potsdam.