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My few decorated casings

Gspragge

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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 ?
 

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I've amassed a quantity of rather crude ones typically done in a trench with a nail repeatedly pounded into casings.
 
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
I suspect a machine was involved, although there are some peen marks. And it's near perfect, symmetrically.
 
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 ~
 
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