Let’s see your Trench art

Ok, I came across this whilst browsing the web. it’s a strange bit but it’s a Northumberland fusiliers hat. My great grand father served as TF at 14 years old after lying about his age to sign up for the Great War.

I had to have it. I even left an UNC South Shields halfpenny to buy this instead. its espeically interesting to me in the 100 years since peace. how times have changed !

Fantastic thread. Not quite trench art but the other day I saw a WWI-era (well, to be fair it could've been from any time from the mid-19th century to WWII) French military kepi with oak leaf embroidery (bit like this) in an antiquities store, when I went in to see if they had any coins for sale. Out of my price range, but a piece of history nonetheless.

The only WWI items I have (aside from coins/notes/stamps from the war years) are military medals; specifically the British 1914-18 medal in silver, a British (well, NZEF) 1914-15 star, the British and French Inter-Allied victory medals, and an Austro-Hungarian medal (that I found in a flea market outside Paris of all places).



I also have this Field Service postcard from 1918:




There have been a couple of pennies from the years preceding WWI with military numbers on them on the ID forum recently, I'll share one here: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic67597.html

I have these six UK 1 Penny 1916 to 1918 coins ...

https://en.numista.com/forum/topic68592.html#p561461


Presumably joined together at the time, so may be trench art.

Cool. I always wanted a Boer shilling defaced but how genuine that would be is questionable. I reckon this could be the real deal I’ve found. Yes they look like service numbers. It would be interesting to find out who they were !

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I wonder if that might have been some sort of plaything to pass the time with. I have no idea how it might have been used though.... Maybe one day, a sentry, bored out of his mind, taking six pennies out of his pocket and making something like that perhaps?​

Not sure if trench art or a hobo nickel.


Cass I have a few Field service postcards my grandpa wrote my grandma from WWI

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​Why not both?

Some what off topic. A US 1 cent 1961 smoking a pipe

Quote: "ALLRED1950"​Cass I have a few Field service postcards my grandpa wrote my grandma from WWI

​Not addressed to me, but what a precious thing to have. I love that!

yes my grandma from my dad side." Allred"

from France Nov,11, 1918. close to one of his last one.

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​from France Nov,11, 1918. close to one of his last one.

​those are precious. Amazing mate !

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​from France Nov,11, 1918. close to one of his last one.

​The date of the Armistice!

It'll be its centenary soon enough!

Cass I thought no one would catch the date. Good eye, it has a lot of meaning to me.

Not mine, but I saw this on the British Museum's site:



It's from the Franco-Prussian War rather than WWI, but someone engraved a Prussian pickelhaube onto Napoleon III's bust, presumably following his capture at the Battle of Sedan in 1870.