Original Items: Only One Available. Trench art is any decorative item made by soldiers, prisoners of war, or civilians where the manufacture is directly linked to armed conflict or its consequences. It offers an insight not only to their feelings and emotions about the war, but also their surroundings and the materials they had available to them.

Not limited to the World Wars, the history of trench art spans conflicts from the Napoleonic Wars to the present day. Although the practice flourished during World War I, the term 'trench art' is also used to describe souvenirs manufactured by service personnel during World War II. Some items manufactured by soldiers, prisoners of war or civilians during earlier conflicts have been retrospectively described as trench art.

All ammunition and field gun rounds are totally inert in this lot and cannot be rendered live again. They are in compliance per the current BATF standards on inert ordnance ownership.

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This example features a removable “bomb” constructed out of Japanese mortar/artillery fuzes mounted on a 6.5 Arisaka round and US 1944 105mm base used as the “bowl” of the ashtray. There are three thing brass sheet resters present with 1 of them being reattached by means of glue but it is still falling off.

A lovely example ready for further research and display.