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Posted 9 years ago
scottvez
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This is an unusual true pair (mirror) of trench art picture frames.
The frames were made in WW1. The craftsman cut out and flattened the pieces from shell brass and then applied the acorn and oak leaf decoration.
This style of decoration is common in WW1 shell vases and I have several examples, but this is my first example in a picture frame.
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I didn't know Trench Art could be so beautiful! Just love them!
Thanks sklo-- I appreciate you looking and commenting. Here is another with amazing workmanship and beauty that may be of interest:
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/148338-ww1-damascus-trench-art-with-koran-quota
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Thanks valentino, pat and david.
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I wonder if they were made as xmas presents in the trenches ,hence the holly pattern.. ;-)
Thanks for the link, scott. With that and another of your links plus a bit of reading I now realise that Trench Art goes beyond the trenches. Sometimes CW, or really the people on it, is an education! Perhaps I should get out of my glass ghetto more often, Peggy
Peggy,
The name "Trench Art" is a little misleading. The genre encompasses artistic and utilitarian pieces made from military refuse. Some of it was actually made by soldiers and some of it was actually made in the trenches, but there are myriad of pieces made outside of those two groupings that most collectors would still classify as trench art.
The heyday of Shell art was WW1, but everything from a MODERN Iraqi Freedom Helmet:
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/17175-trench-art-painted-iraqi-fedayeen-helmet
to a Spanish American War painted canteen: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/82781-trench-art-canteens-through-the-years
still fits into the Trench Art genre.
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Thanks surf.
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Thanks fran and budek.
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Thanks much toolate!
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Thanks petey!
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So!..very beautiful....:-)
Thanks much inky!
They came from France with free postage (high postal costs usually kills any trench art purchases from Europe).
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Thanks bratjdd and rustfarm.
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Thanks scott for introducing this kind of art to me.