A Pair of solid silver wine bottle coasters With the family crest of Prince Lichnkwsky, Karl Max, who was the ambassador of Germany in England in 1914, at the beginning of world war 1.Hallmarked for Berlin, GermanySilversmith Wagner & Sonn.Weight 300 grams Diameter 15 cm Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky (8 March 1860 – 27 February 1928) was a German diplomat who served as ambassador to Britain during the July Crisis and who was the author of a 1916 pamphlet that deplored German diplomacy in mid-1914 which, he argued, contributed heavily to the outbreak of the First World War.He was the sixth Prince and eighth Count Lichnowsky. He succeeded his father in 1901. His father was Carl, Prince Lichnowsky (1819–1901), fifth Prince and seventh Count Lichnowsky, a general of cavalry, and his mother was Marie, Princess of Croy (1837–1915). He was the head of an old noble Bohemian family, possessing estates at Kuchelna, then in Austrian Silesia, and Grätz in Moravia ...