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
France 1918 ca
metal
4 cm d
COD.
181
See the Magazine of the UK Branch of the IPBA, June 2014, “Trench Art” by Monica Magnani, pag 3