Featured RAF brass, engraved thingy

I just won it. I really liked the engraving, something else to hang on the wall. Ya gotta snipe to win.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/202923543665

 

When you receive it,post some good closeups.

 

HAHA!!! I thought I'd try on this NEW Pop It for a wee bit!!!!

 

Thx. Well y’see how I didn’t call it trench art, the seller did,
. I didn’t wanna go there and start a fight this late at night. I don’t know what object it was made from, maybe some Brit collector will know.

 

From the photos it looks like it started and a flat sheet,edge hammered to look like a lid.Cleaned the outside hammer marks smooth but left the inside marks.Looks like some kind of dent at the 6 o'clock position on the "engraved" side.

 

Agree with Hollyblue^^ and I like the engraving too. Odd how it is centered with the camel but the entire emblem is off center. I find the holes drilled in the sides for the chain look too "perfect" having been drilled after the fact of the crimping of the edge. I guess clamps and a drill press were used for those? Someone may have had access to a shop. I doubt I would call this trench art either, it could just be fan art.

 

Agree holes drilled last. Regarding offcenter emblem, I’m guessing there was space reserved at the bottom for a presentation that never happened with this particular piece. The squadron may have had a few of these made up to be engraved with a personal presentation as folks were transferred out, much as we did with ship’s plaques in the USN. If this piece had such a presentation it would have sold higher depending on rank of recipient.

Just to “get technical” those holes could been punched more easily than drilled. There are common handheld punch sets that would handle that thickness of brass, and avoid the fixturing needed to drill it.

https://www.eastwood.com/eastwood-1...ohMiEdDbRtHR5nuJB4rhEKIt2k684ioUaAvTOEALw_wcB

 

It started life as a lid.

 

Thx, I thought it was something like that, wonder what was in the container, or maybe general-purpose container. Being brass, fairly precious during WWIi, maybe it was a special container for special stuff? Probably will never know that.

 

I suspect flour or other rations. Or even cigarettes or chocolate. Food, anyhow. Often, the body of the container was tin, but the lids were brass to give a bit more strngth.