Saddam Hussein Royal Palace Silver Platter Dish Iraqi Christofle Iraq President for Sale

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Saddam Hussein Royal Palace Silver Platter Dish Iraqi Christofle Iraq President For Sale

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Saddam Hussein Royal Palace Silver Platter Dish Iraqi Christofle Iraq President :
$1499.96

LOT-PM222. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important original antique c.1990's royal Iraqi Kingdom silverplate presentation dish / platter from Iraq President Saddam Hussein's royal residence, The as-Salam Palace. Diameter of dish is approximately 12.25". Royal Palace presentation platter is original. Condition is original. It features a masterfully engraved Kingdom of Iraq imperial eagle for Saddam Hussein by Christofle, France. Fully hallmarked. Extremely scarce. Museum quality. One of a kind. Guaranteed authentic.

The as-Salam Palace, previously a home of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Since 2012, the palace has been certified as a Republican Palace.

Al Salam palace is located on the site of the former Republican Guard Headquarters, which was destroyed in Desert Storm. Construction has been ongoing since then and was completed in early 1999. As-Salam Palace was taken over by coalition forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The palace was significantly damaged during the shock and awe campaign, sustaining several airstrike attacks.[citation needed] The palace served as headquarters for the Joint Area Support Group, and was known to coalition forces as Camp Prosperity and Forward Operating Base (FOB) Prosperity.

As-Salam palace has 200 rooms with approximately 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) of floor space. There are six floors, three of which are usable (others serve as 'false floors'), and two large ballrooms. The palace is internally lined with marble floors decorated with hundreds of thousands of hand-cut pieces, granite walls, and ceilings also adorned with thousands of hand-carved and inlaid hand-painted flowers.

The palace is surrounded by a sequence of square tiles bearing the initials of Saddam Hussein (S & H); the Arabic letters are "Saad" & "Haa"." The tiles are clearly visible from the top of the palace. Iraqis report that the palace dome used to be topped with a life-sized statue of Saddam.

Fireplaces around the lake in front of the palace are actually vents used to provide fresh air to bunkers below the lake. The bunkers are now inaccessible, having been flooded and sealed off by coalition forces.

In the palace basement lies an entrance to one of many concrete tunnels running beneath the city of Baghdad. These ventilated tunnels were built to provide access to other palaces, government facilities and Baghdad International Airport.

From April 2009 to January 2010, FOB Prosperity was run by the Joint Area Support Group - Central (JASG-C) 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) from Wisconsin. In 2012, the FOB was occupied by the Iraqi Government, which took over operations after the U.S. military drawdown.