Original British WWI Trench Art Brass 4.5 inch Artillery Shell Model Officer's Visor Cap - dated 1916 Antique Remingtons 000 miles and return home

000 miles and return home

Acquired from the 50 year-old collection of an American recluse whose family wishes to remain anonymous

showing some wear from sharpening

but engraved into the glass and filled with white paint

Original British WWI Trench Art Brass 4.5 inch Artillery Shell Model Officer's Visor Cap - dated 1916 Antique Remingtons 000 miles and return homeOriginal Item: One of a kind. This is a fantastic piece of World War One Trench Art! This is a lovely brass scaled down British WWI Officer's peaked cap, made from 4. 5 IN. HOW[itzer] shell, dated 1916. It is maker marked on the bottom with V. S. M., for "Vickers, Son, & Maxim", makers of the famous Vickers machine gun, among many other arms. It has has the front "brim" flared out, and the front is engraved with French and British battle flags in a