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petey
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WW1 Trench Art, made from brass shell cases, to represent British and German caps, pictured against an actual sized British cap.
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Vintage Guru Reveals Her Glamour Secrets
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The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
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Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
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The Beautiful Chaos of Improvisational Quilts
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Our Dad, the Water Witch of Wyoming
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This 1959 Goggomobil Is Insanely Cute and Gets 55 MPG. Why Can’t Detroit Do That?
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California Cool: How the Wetsuit Became the Surfer's Second Skin
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The Unfiltered History of Rolling Papers, Plus Tommy Chong's Big Fat Jamaican Vacation
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World's Smallest Museum Finds the Wonder in Everyday Objects
Tucked away in a lower Manhattan back alley, the freight-elevator-sized, generically named Museum is one of New York City's newest curiosities.…
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Fightin’ Femmes: Unmasking Female Superheroes with Author Mike Madrid
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Trench ArtStrictly speaking, trench art is a phrase that describes folk art created b…
I love these Petey ,they are beautiful .Im fascinated by them ,Thank You .
Petey, is this the Colonel Moran cap you posted earlier? It's very fine.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
GREAT trench art petey!
Pls share more.
scott
Thanks for looking, Vestibule1965, JueBoo, AR8Jason, kerry10456, miKKoChristmas11, blunderbuss2, scottvez.
JueBoo, thank you for the comment.
miKKoChristmas11, thank you for the comment, well spotted, you are correct, you have definitely been paying attention! Thank you.
blunderbuss2, thank you for the comment.
scottvez, thank you for the comment. I do not have many items, but as I find them in various boxes I will post them. One I do hope to find is a piece that was really made in the front line trench. His widow gave it to me along with his Princess Mary Christmas Box 1914, which has dents in, caused by the trench falling in on him when he was wounded by a shell blast. He had made a fire iron holder out of a shell casing, and brought it back with him.
Thanks for looking walksoftly, and BELLIN68.
I am looking forward to seeing it petey! Give me a heads up once you find it and post it.
scott
Thanks for looking Manikin
Thanks for looking MattyG.