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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 78975, member: 54"]Edited</p><p><br /></p><p>Good find, and I have no question that the last part of it regarding the new bronze lion arriving on King Street in 1963 is accurate, but am struggling a bit to relate the early history of it to the various images.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, here's the original 1916. apparently wooden lion.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://springfieldarsenal.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/d-dorf-lion-1916.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Robo-translation of the text for this is: "DÜSSELDORF : Bergischer Löwe , design by Johannes Knubel , Graf Adolf Square , the beginning of 1916 , Nailing in favor of the Red Cross picture he was terminated in 1933 and by a new lion teak replaced , the perished in the bombing . 1963 a new one was Created lion bronze by sculptor Harth , stands at the Königsallee ."</p><p><br /></p><p>That's all it says but I keep running into incompletely-explained text regarding nails. My wild guess given that the lion looks a bit mangy, is that for a donation to the Red Cross of a certain amount, you got to pound a nail into Mr. Lion. The ladder affords easy access to do your pounding.</p><p><br /></p><p>That came from this document which has hundreds of pix of German monuments, museum artifacts, etc, most of which I've never seen:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.munzel-everling.de/download/Kriegsnagelungen_August_2012.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.munzel-everling.de/download/Kriegsnagelungen_August_2012.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.munzel-everling.de/download/Kriegsnagelungen_August_2012.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 78975, member: 54"]Edited Good find, and I have no question that the last part of it regarding the new bronze lion arriving on King Street in 1963 is accurate, but am struggling a bit to relate the early history of it to the various images. Anyway, here's the original 1916. apparently wooden lion. [IMG]https://springfieldarsenal.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/d-dorf-lion-1916.jpg[/IMG] Robo-translation of the text for this is: "DÜSSELDORF : Bergischer Löwe , design by Johannes Knubel , Graf Adolf Square , the beginning of 1916 , Nailing in favor of the Red Cross picture he was terminated in 1933 and by a new lion teak replaced , the perished in the bombing . 1963 a new one was Created lion bronze by sculptor Harth , stands at the Königsallee ." That's all it says but I keep running into incompletely-explained text regarding nails. My wild guess given that the lion looks a bit mangy, is that for a donation to the Red Cross of a certain amount, you got to pound a nail into Mr. Lion. The ladder affords easy access to do your pounding. That came from this document which has hundreds of pix of German monuments, museum artifacts, etc, most of which I've never seen: [URL]http://www.munzel-everling.de/download/Kriegsnagelungen_August_2012.pdf[/URL][/QUOTE]
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