Reinhold Hofmann appears to have shot this photo through the doorway of the Stünzner family cabin .
Daughter Gertrude ( shown on right ) wrote a reminiscence in 1993 in which she commented on the pipe-smoking habits of frequent visitor , Count Felix von Luckner . “ When his pipe was blocked , he took the mouthpiece and blew the contents on the floor . Our mother was very annoyed , but he did not bother . Although Count Luckner constantly had his pipe in his mouth , he never had matches to relight it . He always took some of ours . So our father wrote our name on the matchboxes and fastened them on a string . Nevertheless Luckner ’ s pockets had to be controlled before he left .”
Auckland Libraries , West Auckland Research Centre , WWI Print Collection
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