WW1 Trench Art metal scent bottle ‘The last hug’

Round flattened metal scent bottle showing on the front a couple embracing in front of a flag with Lorraine crosses; the word FRANCE is clearly readable, while on the inside edge of the scene a probably signature remains uncertain; it looks something like “S.Crunx”; on the other side is depicted a cannon and two crossed flags, apparently French; the cannon, on a meadow full of flowers is marked “75” and came into use in 1898. Example of Trench Art (usually you find lighters, so called briquet, letter openers, inkwells, ecc.)
Period
1900/1940

Country

France 1918 ca

Material

metal

Size

4 cm d

COD.

181

Bibliogrphy

See the Magazine of the UK Branch of the IPBA, June 2014, “Trench Art” by Monica Magnani, pag 3

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