Trench Art Engraved Aluminum Case with Nudes Inside seaweed pressing entrances on either side

entrances on either side

Note - the photographs were taken in conditions to avoid reflections

Nicely executed in ink wash/watercolor and mounted to a backing sheet the perfect shade of blue

sorrowful expression on his hand-painted face

This basket definitely has some years on it

Trench Art Engraved Aluminum Case with Nudes Inside seaweed pressing entrances on either sideHard to photograph this one due to the shine, but quite a treasure I think a trench art piece, mid 20th c. I believe, which I believe would have functioned as a cigarette case, with a strap on side of the interior for holding them in. The hand engraved exterior is fun man in loin cloth with stallion as if straight out of a romance novel on one side, young woman with beach ball on the other but it's the erotic nudes on the interior that really make it;