LONDON.- A 17th century German silver-gilt table decoration in the form of a ship (£20,000-25,000) with a tragic and poignant history appears at auction in Bonhams Silver Sale in London on 3 November 2010. It is being sold by the Viennese born Hungarian aristocrat, Count Ferdinand Orssich de Slavetich, and is only one of two known surviving pieces from the fabulous Egger Silver collection confiscated by the Gestapo in Vienna in 1944 and sold anonymously by the Nazis at auction in December of that year. The spectacular 150 piece collection had been amassed by a Jewish couple, Fanny and Ernst Egger, who were arrested in 1944 and sent with the rest of their family to a concentration camp where they died sometime before the end of the war. Ferdinand Orssich was Fanny and Ernst’s step grandson – his father, who was not Jewish, had married the Egger’s daughter. He acquired the ship when a friend of the Eggers bought it,