Appraisal: WWI Trench Art Shell. GUEST: This is an artillery shell from Great-Uncle Fred. He served in World War I in the Army.

This object began as a World War 1 shell and was turned into a coffee pot by a soldier, most likely recuperating in hospital. It lists some of the major battles, including Passcehendale and Messines.

Great Britain’s Imperial War Museum website (iwm.org.uk) said trench art “is a misleading term given to a wide variety of decorative items, sometimes also functional, produced during or soon ...

Trench art is any decorative or practical item made out of recycled war refuse such as shell casings, ... She reached in and pulled out a WWI-era pipe fashioned from a hollowed-out bullet.

‘Alarm clock’, 1918. Sapper Stanley Keith Pearl, 5 Field Company Engineers, AIF, Australia, 1893–1986, Australian War Memorial, Canberra. The term “trench art” was coined during WWI to ...

Comments. 1 comment; 1. At 18:56 on 7 April 2010, Steven Booth wrote:. To explore other pieces of WW1 Trench Art, why not visit my dedicated website at: www.trenchartofww1.co.uk Steven Booth ...