hammered silver rim and foot mounted to bowl with rivets, the rim engraved with Gothic lettering "I was wrought by desire of The Iraq Petroleum Company to express their admiration for Herbert Sidney Austin on the successful completion of a great engineering achievement / 12th February 1935". Together with original photographs from the construction of the pipeline and a book The Story of the Iraq-Mediterranean Pipe Line.

wood with two small and two long splits, some scratches to silver around the rivets, otherwise good condition
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Herbert Sidney Austin was an American engineer behind the expansive Iraq pipeline that brought crude oil from the oil fields of Kirkuk in northern Iraq through Jordan to Haifa in Palestine. Built by the Iraq Petroleum Company across mostly British and French mandated territory, it covered 1200 miles and cost $50,000,000 to build. The pipeline was operational between 1935 and 1948.