$30.00
This is a NON functional lighter. It is fashioned from a Canada-produced ammunition round like the Tank Abwehr Gewehr, M1918 or T-Gewehr. The lighter is gold-toned. While the lighter breaks in half, its guts are NOT present, only the pad where one adds lighter fluid……
CANADA – LIGHTER – GERMAN ANTI-TANK ROUND
This is a NON functional lighter. It is fashioned from a Canada-produced ammunition round like the Tank Abwehr Gewehr, M1918 or T-Gewehr. The lighter is gold-toned. While the lighter breaks in half, its guts are NOT present, only the pad where one adds lighter fluid.
The lighter’s base features the words “Super Baragge” and “Made in Canada.”
The piece is fine for display.
Sold
CANADA – LIGHTER – GERMAN ANTI-TANK ROUND
This is a NON functional lighter. It is fashioned from a Canada-produced ammunition round like the Tank Abwehr Gewehr, M1918 or T-Gewehr. The lighter is gold-toned. While the lighter breaks in half, its guts are NOT present, only the pad where one adds lighter fluid.
The lighter’s base features the words “Super Baragge” and “Made in Canada.”
The piece is fine for display.
| Dimensions | .75 × .75 × 2.75 in |
|---|
$50.00
This is a fancy, brass, trench art match safe. The brass probably came from an artillery shell casing that was dismantled to make various trench art pieces. Trench art was created by soldiers from all WW I’s armies, when they had extra time on their hands in the trenches between battles……
GERMANY – MATCHBOX SAFE – TRENCH ART
This is a fancy, brass, trench art match safe. The brass probably came from an artillery shell casing that was dismantled to make various trench art pieces. Trench art was created by soldiers from all WW I’s armies, when they had extra time on their hands in the trenches between battles. They took bits and pieces of gear and fashioned them into artistic objects. Some common examples were belt buckles converted into match safes, as well as jewelry and letter openers fashioned from shrapnel shards. These often-bored soldiers showed amazing creativity. A great deal of trench art also was created in hospitals as therapy for soldiers recovering from mild to severe wounds.
Many trench art match safes were fashioned in a manner similar to this example, except that their centers were commonly decorated with belt buckle. Our example is three-sided, which allows one to easily insert a matchbox. Each of the three sides sports a different, stippled design. Its creator spent HOURS tapping out these designs with either a small hammer or a bayonet!
In stock
$1,995.00
This large (far larger than most I have seen) cigarette case is silver-toned. It measures 3 1/4″ x 5 1/4.” The case’s dimple-patterned exterior rather resembles silver snake-skin……
CIGARETTE CASE – PRINZ ADALBERT von PREUßEN
Prinz Adalbert was the only one of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s six sons who served in the Kaiserliche Marine. All the other boys served the Army in one capacity or another. (The Kaiser’s eldest son, Kronprinz Wilhelm, served as an Armee field commander). This large (far larger than most I have seen) cigarette case is silver-toned. It measures 3 1/4″ x 5 1/4.” The case’s dimple-patterned exterior rather resembles silver snake-skin. Its interior, which measures 6″ x 5 1/4″ when fully opened, is covered with a gold wash finish. Engraved in the interior’s left half is Prinz Adalbert’s reproduced signature, along with a personalized dedication to the “Kommandeur I/M. B./R 4.” The dedication concludes “In dankbarer Kameradshaft Treuerden 1916” (In grateful, dearest comradeship, 1916). (One speculates that Prinz Adalbert gave cigarette cases like it to several men who served with him in this unit).
The elastic strap that held the cigarettes in place is long gone. The case’s side catch is hallmarked underneath for .800 silver and its manufacturer, and sports a moon, and a Hohenzollern Crown per Kaiser Wilhelm I’s 1885 royal decree. It is a high-quality cigarette case, given by a member of the royal family. Kaiser Wilhelm II was far more liberal in giving gifts than any of his sons. Gifts from any of the Hohenzollern Princes are quite scarce. I have had the privilege of offering royal gifts from the Kaiser and the Kronprinz, but this is the first time I have had anything from any of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s other sons. The simple reason is that there were not near as many gifts from the sons. Especially from the sons other than the Kronprinz.
In stock
$895.00
This is a high-quality cigarette case that once belonged to a German See-Battalion soldier based in China…..
This is a high-quality cigarette case that once belonged to a German See-Battalion soldier based in China. It is rounded and a bit thicker than we generally see in cigarette cases. Its front features an enamel device in the upper right corner that consists of three silver-toned lions passant against a dark blue field surrounded by nine small hearts. This is very similar to the Danish National Coat-of-Arms. Engraved on the front are quite faint attributions of officers from Württemberg and Saxony. On the cases reverse the information below is professionally engraved in clear printed type (rather than script).
“Seesoldat Kuno Golz [Sea Soldier/See-Battalion Soldier]
1. Komp. OMD [Ostasiatische Marine Detachement]
Tientsin China via Sibirien”
A very faint engraving in script appears across the “S” in Seesoldat and reads either “Huna” or “Kuna” followed by a symbol.
Inside the case, both elastic bands are in place that held cigarettes on either side. Engraved in script on the left side is the information listed below.
“Rabe
Feldart-Regt. 20”
This is a fine cigarette case for a soldier who served in China at the colonial German base in Tientsin.
In stock