WW1 Trench Art – Embossed metal scent bottle with the Belgian Lion and the French Rooster

Embossed metal scent bottle showing on one side the Belgian Lion and the words “Lens, Vimy Roeux, Buillecourt”; on the other side the French Singing Rooster and the word “Craonne 304”; all these towns were the scene of bloody battles between April 1917 and May 1918. Example of Trench Art (usually you find lighters, so called briquet, letter openers, inkwells, ecc.)
Period
1900/1940

Country

ebay, December 2013, 25 euro

Material

metal

Size

5,5 cm

COD.

401

Labels

antique scent bottles

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