{"id":1753,"date":"2014-03-18T19:56:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2015-10-19T17:29:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:29:50","slug":"those-germans-know-how-to-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/those-germans-know-how-to-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Germans know how to party"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1754\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-622.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1754\" alt=\"Fasching masks\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-622.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-622.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-622-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fasching masks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I&#8217;m trying to find out some information about these masks. I&#8217;m guessing that they are from Germany. Any information would be helpful.\u00a0 Craig, 622<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> You are correct, they are German.<!--more-->If that soldier (not shown on the cropped photo) didn&#8217;t have on a German Army cap on I would have said German, Swiss, or Austrian. Those are the countries that celebrate Fasching every November with masked parades and parties. Your little group is done by an especially talented mask maker. I wish we knew his name and exactly where he comes from. That would also increase the value of them to collectors. If they were made out of wood they would also increase in value. And finally, try to keep them together as a set.\u00a0 <strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I&#8217;m trying to find out some information about these masks. I&#8217;m guessing that they are from Germany. Any information would be helpful.\u00a0 Craig, 622 A: You are correct, they are German.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}