OFFICIAL TIME WARNER LUCITE EMBEDDED BERLIN WALL DISPLAY SPECIMEN BOXED

OFFICIAL TIME WARNER LUCITE EMBEDDED BERLIN WALL DISPLAY SPECIMEN BOXED (image 3/[null, null, null, null])

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EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL OFFICIAL TIME WARNER LUCITE EMBEDDED BERLIN WALL DISPLAY SPECIMEN BOXED MEASURES 3.25 INCHES IN DIAMETER MINT CONDITION / VERY NICE OFFICIAL LARGE EMBEDDED SPECIMEN OF THE BERLIN WALL / COMES IN ITS OWN SPECIALLY DESIGNED PACKAGING FROM TIME WARNER COMMUNICATIONS / OUTSIDE FULL COLOR PACKAGING DISPLAY BOX READS: THE WHOLE WORLD WAS WATCHING... / PACKAGING DISPLAY BOX MEASURES 5 x 5 x 2.50 INCHES / LUCITE EMBEDDED CYLINDER WITH SPECIMEN MEASURES 3.25 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND 2 1/8th INCHES TALL / EMBEDDED BERLIN WALL SPECIMEN HAS BEEN STAMPED ON TOP / AROUND THE EMBEDDED CYLINDER READS: ~THIS IS A REMNANT OF THE BERLIN WALL, WHICH STOOD AS A BARRIER AGAINST THE FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS, INFORMATION AND CULTURE. YOU HELPED BRING THE WALL DOWN.~ / VERY BOTTOM OF EMBEDDED SPECIMEN READS: TIME WARNER (With Logo) / VERY NICE OFFICIAL LARGE EMBEDDED SPECIMEN OF THE BERLIN WALL / PLEASE SEE 6 PHOTOGRAPHS BELOW / PRISTINE MINT CONDITION. BUY-IT-NOW PAYPAL ONLY PLEASE SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE AUCTION TO VIEW MORE PHOTOGRAPHS _____________DESCRIPTION____________ EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL OFFICIAL TIME WARNER LUCITE EMBEDDED BERLIN WALL DISPLAY SPECIMEN BOXED MEASURES 3.25 INCHES IN DIAMETER MINT CONDITION / VERY NICE OFFICIAL LARGE EMBEDDED SPECIMEN OF THE BERLIN WALL / COMES IN ITS OWN SPECIALLY DESIGNED PACKAGING FROM TIME WARNER COMMUNICATIONS / OUTSIDE FULL COLOR PACKAGING DISPLAY BOX READS: THE WHOLE WORLD WAS WATCHING... / PACKAGING DISPLAY BOX MEASURES 5 x 5 x 2.50 INCHES / LUCITE EMBEDDED CYLINDER WITH SPECIMEN MEASURES 3.25 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND 2 1/8th INCHES TALL / EMBEDDED BERLIN WALL SPECIMEN HAS BEEN STAMPED ON TOP / AROUND THE EMBEDDED CYLINDER READS: ~THIS IS A REMNANT OF THE BERLIN WALL, WHICH STOOD AS A BARRIER AGAINST THE FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS, INFORMATION AND CULTURE. YOU HELPED BRING THE WALL DOWN.~ / VERY BOTTOM OF EMBEDDED SPECIMEN READS: TIME WARNER (With Logo) / VERY NICE OFFICIAL LARGE EMBEDDED SPECIMEN OF THE BERLIN WALL / PLEASE SEE 6 PHOTOGRAPHS BELOW / PRISTINE MINT CONDITION.THE BERLIN WALL The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls,[1] which circumscribed a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, "fakir beds" and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall also served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period. The Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart" (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) by GDR authorities, implying that neighbouring West Germany had not been fully de-Nazified. The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the "Wall of Shame" a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt while condemning the Wall's restriction on freedom of movement. Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border (IGB) that demarcated the border between East and West Germany, both borders came to symbolize the "Iron Curtain" that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Before the Wall's erection, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions and defected from the GDR, many by crossing over the border from East Berlin into West Berlin, from where they could then travel to West Germany and other Western European countries. Between 1961 and 1989, the wall prevented almost all such emigration. During this period, around 5,000 people attempted to escape over the wall, with estimates of the resulting death toll varying between 100 and 200. In 1989, a radical series of political changes occurred in the Eastern Bloc, ... read more

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