GCL3145313: HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY (1831-1891). Madame Blavatsky's mystic brooch, with her initials in a hexagram (spirit and matter intertwined) under a swastika (the ceaseless coming into being of life) enclosed within an ouroboros (immortality), surmounted by the crown of perfection. / Bridgeman Images
GCL3145369: PRINCE OTTO von BISMARCK . Prince Otto von Bismarck-Schonhausen. Prussian statesman. 'A Good Shepherd lets no sheep get lost.' A German cartoon of 1867 in which Germania cautions Bismarck, who is knitting a stocking of 'unity,' to guard her flock from the waiting wolf . / Bridgeman Images