Description	Wedding Cake Top: cast ceramic of wedding couple; male figure on left in army uniform; female figure on right in white wedding dress; paper American flag and faux flowers. This wedding cake top was used at Lester M. Thiele and Josephine M. Kohnke Thiele's wedding on September 7, 1942. See photograph, OPM Negative #21332, of bride and groom; and photograph of the Thieles and an Army training center in California.
Dimensions	H-4.5 W-4 D-3 inches
Event	World War II
Material	Ceramic/Cloth/Paper
Object ID	1999.47.1
Object Name	Accessory, Wedding
People	Thiele, Lester M. Thiele, Josephine M. Kohnke
Related Publications	Oshkosh Public Museum Newsletter, Summer 2005. Larson, Bradley G. "Voices of History 1941-1945". Oshkosh Public Museum, 2003. Wedding Bells Ring, OPM staff, September 6, 2000, Antique Trader.
Used	Thiele, Lester M./Thiele, Josephine M. Kohnke
Year Range from	1942
Year range to	1942

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