My few decorated casings

[Gspragge]

Difficult to get great images as the designs wrap around these small cases.
Some artistic license in the Voisin and an Iron Cross for the A.E.F. market !

It seems aeronautical subject matter is uncommon in decorated cases ?

 

[HAZORD]

Gordon, thus the name "Trench art"

 

[Gspragge]

Indeed - but it's all mostly commercial stuff even if handmade to order as some was.

 

[HAZORD]

I've amassed a quantity of rather crude ones typically done in a trench with a nail repeatedly pounded into casings.

 

[Slick]

Great pieces of art, there. The aviation theme is a big plus, for sure.

Included in my minuscule collection of trench art, I have this shell. A 105 M14.


Acquired by my Dad in 1967 in DaNang, VN. I have advised the family that this should be my burial urn. When the time comes. Or, they can just dump the ashes somewhere. Hopefully with some dignity. Not that I'd care, but still.

Glad to see trench art is still a thing. I have some Iraq War painted F1s, so it's not a dieing art.

 

[HAZORD]

I'm kind of puzzled how a WWII 1944 dated 105H case was in Nam?

 

[Slick]

Good question. A VN civilian sold them in various states of engraving. This is the plain example. Brother ended up with the fancy one. Same-same brass, shape. I'll ask him the date on his.

 

[HAZORD]

It looks like it was spun on a lathe. It might have been the property of an Officer that served in WWII that was in Nam, and was liberated somehow.

 

[Slick]

I suspect a machine was involved, although there are some peen marks. And it's near perfect, symmetrically.

 

[Gspragge]

I may have had some time ago an American hand decorated case (French case) I think to a Pennsylvania division ?
My German Prisoner example certainly isn't "High Tec" don't imagine he was allowed many sharp instruments ~

 

[tucco]

Difficult to get great images as the designs wrap around these small cases.
Some artistic license in the Voisin and an Iron Cross for the A.E.F. market !

It seems aeronautical subject matter is uncommon in decorated cases ?

So nice, as good as it gets.

 

[flak18]

So nice, as good as it gets.

After the war the US government had millions of rounds of ammunition in Europe and they would obviously have sold it on, rather than ship it home so the French bought 105mm How ammo. Then the early days in Vietnam kicked off and the French army would have taken their howitzers there and that is how an M14 case came to be there......along with thousands of others.

 

[tucco]

Difficult to get great images as the designs wrap around these small cases.
Some artistic license in the Voisin and an Iron Cross for the A.E.F. market !

It seems aeronautical subject matter is uncommon in decorated cases ?

Great Casings , love them all..