WW1 Trench Art – Embossed metal scent bottle showing ‘A dream of Peace’

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Round flat scent bottle made of embossed metal (bullet shell) during the First World War, showing a couple of doves on a branch and a tower bell in the back: a dream of peace. Example of Trench Art that usually produced lighters, so called briquet, letter openers, inkwells, vases, ecc.)
Period
1900/1940

Country

France, 1918 ca

Material

metal

Size

4 cm d

COD.

654

Labels

antique scent bottles

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