trench art

[18pounder]

Evening to you all

Given to me recently a 3.7in shell base,typically made into an ash tray with an old penny mounted in the centre.
Some nice markings present.
(if some one wants to explain them...)

I'm a smoker (boo i hear you cry) so i use it everyday.

How about use this thread to post 'trench art' stuff folk have got?

Its not really my kind of thing,but you dont refuse a freebie now do you!!:tinysmile_twink_t2:

18pounder

 

[spotter]

heres mine
http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/spotter-buys-some-t14614.html?t=14614&highlight=trenchart

 

[spotter]

and another http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/no106-mkii-not-t4479.html?t=4479&highlight=no106

 

[18pounder]

and another http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/no106-mkii-not-t4479.html?t=4479&highlight=no106

nice bits spotter,
shame it was a lighter!! ha ha:tinysmile_hmm_t2:

18pdr

 

[spotter]

i recently got a good one from bigdave so the lighter can come out of the cabinet and be used
http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/no106e-viii-z-t61318.html?t=61318&highlight=no106

 

[V1coy67]

egypt trench art

Not ordnance art but heres an ashtray my Grandfather made after "procuring" a piece of aluminium from a blenheim bomber that crash landed at Helwan air field during WW2. The picture hasnt come out as well as i would have liked but then the stamping isnt very deep either. Just thought id put a pic up. I dont have alot of ordnance but alot of interesting items from Al-alamein, Crete, Egypt etc. Grandad liked to "rat around" And iv got abit of a collection of Live firing Weapons. (fully legal in NewZealand).....(for now anyway.....) Anyone interested in SLRs, Aks, etc? My favourite Pistol in my collection is a .45 Ballester molina issued to the Armada Argentina

 

[Gspragge]

Here's mine a nice 18 Pdr.

Has original plating, a very much above average base. It looks like it held a glass open shade. I haven't found one so may use a repainted helmet body as a shade. Body dated 1917. The fuze is a dummy.

 

[V1coy67]

dohhhh

i GUESS A PICTURE WOULD HELP? :tinysmile_hmm_t2:

 

[V1coy67]

....

Not in the same league as the above item......... Gunners always had alot more spare time on their hands compared to Infantry....:tinysmile_classes_t

 

[Gspragge]

I have seen so many unfilled

18 Pdrs over here that I think it would explain the great shell shortage. I think most are post war reworks, though I have seen one wartime fundraiser. Some are clearly made in a factory or small shop, some are home made looking.