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.

Shell casing formed into a flower, exhibited in the 2009 exhibition “From Swords to Plowshares: Metal Trench Art From WWI and WWII” at James A. MIchener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

World War I-inspired a prolific amount of trench art, ... She reached in and pulled out a WWI-era pipe fashioned from a hollowed-out bullet. “Somebody used this,” she said.

Trench Art. 1 minute read. Amanda Bower. August 6, 2001 12:00 AM EDT. HOW IT STARTED Soldiers transformed battlefield objects into objets d’art; thanks to the Internet, they’re being traded .