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Zirl Tirol - Austria This is constructed of either tin or aluminum and is a unused medallion/stocknagel. This stocknagel is to be mounted on a walking stick with two nails to show the places that they had visited. These are called either pins, mounts, shields, stocknagel, medallions, placckette/scudetti or badges and do the same thing as lapel or hat pins, they tell everyone where you have been and what you have seen. Zirl is a market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land and is located 10 km west of Innsbruck at the bottom of a pass with the name "Zirler Berg" (Zirl mountain), leading to Seefeld and ultimately to Germany. The location was mentioned in documents in 799 for the first time . Zirl was tortured several times by inundations and fires but nevertheless the population has increased in the last years. The status „Market town“ was received in 1984. A remarkable sight is its parish church, richly adorned with frescoes. This is an extremely nice stovknagel. Scan did not do it justice Thank you all for your interest. Please check my ebay store for many hundreds of additional German walking stick pins. http://stores.ebay.com/Four-Winds-Products |