$85.00
This is a classic, trench art match safe. The match safe was created primarily from a prewar Prussian enlisted man’s belt buckle. The belt buckle center does not have any dents, which makes it an excellent example. It has a period matchbox in place. Even a striking surface has been added.
It is a winsome little reminder of a bygone era.
PRUSSIA – MATCHBOX – FASHIONED FROM AN ENLISTED MAN’S BRASS BELT BUCKLE
This is a classic, trench art match safe. The match safe was created primarily from a prewar Prussian enlisted man’s belt buckle. The belt buckle center does not have any dents, which makes it an excellent example. It has a period matchbox in place. Even a striking surface has been added.
It is a winsome little reminder of a bygone era.
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PRUSSIA – MATCHBOX – FASHIONED FROM AN ENLISTED MAN’S BRASS BELT BUCKLE
This is a classic, trench art match safe. The match safe was created primarily from a prewar Prussian enlisted man’s belt buckle. The belt buckle center does not have any dents, which makes it an excellent example. It has a period matchbox in place. Even a striking surface has been added.
It is a winsome little reminder of a bygone era.
| Dimensions | 2.5 × 1.5 × .75 in |
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$75.00
The shell stands 2 1/8.” Its edges are scalloped, allowing placement of a number of cigarettes. It is a larger caliber shell than the 77mm examples we are offering. It measures 100mm (10cm) in diameter. On the bottom are marks from the munitions factory that produced it. It is marked twice that it was produced in 1915. One mark advises that the shell was produced on 7 December 1915……
GREAT BRITAIN – ASHTRAY – TRENCH ART – EIGHTEEN POUND SHELL
This is an interesting trench art ash tray made from a British eighteen-pound artillery shell. 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 fashioned letter openers 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.
The shell stands 2 1/8.” Its edges are scalloped, allowing placement of a number of cigarettes. It is a larger caliber shell than the 77mm examples we are offering. It measures 100mm (10cm) in diameter. On the bottom are marks from the munitions factory that produced it. It is marked twice that it was produced in 1915. One mark advises that the shell was produced on 7 December 1915.
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$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.
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$125.00
This is a silver-toned box that might have been used to hold snuff or pills. It has a hinge so that the box opens by swinging upward……
PILL/SNUFF BOX – DEPICTING FRENCH RAILWAY CAR USED FOR GERMANY’S WW I SURRENDER
This is a silver-toned box that might have been used to hold snuff or pills. It has a hinge so that the box opens by swinging upward. It measures 2″ in diameter and is ½” tall. The upper half features the same design on both the outer and inner sections. The bottom half is silver-toned inside, while its outer section displays a bronze-toned medallion that depicts a railway car. The car is identified for being where the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918. This simple railway car became even more famous in 1940 (twenty-two years later) when Adolf Hitler accepted France’s surrender. He then imposed some of the same harsh terms that had been levied on Germany in 1918.
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