Heres an Aussie WW1 curio

9teen11 · 04-03-2006, 05:56 AM

Carved from a piece of the Cloth Hall at Ypres. Not a bad effort considering it was done in one of the hottest spots on the planet at the time.

9teen11 · 04-03-2006, 05:59 AM

Its a snuff box, somewhere between the size of a box of matches & a pack of gaffers.

The Coat of Arms would have been copied from an Aussie coin of the period.

9teen11 · 04-03-2006, 06:07 AM

Heres a before & after of the Cloth Hall. It was rebuilt exactly after the Great War & is home of the "In Flanders Fields" War Museum.

Its worth doing a google on the Cloth Hall, incredible story.

ACOG · 04-03-2006, 06:41 AM

That is a cool little box.

HorseSoldier176 · 04-03-2006, 02:51 PM

Beautiful work!

pistol-packin-wifey · 04-03-2006, 02:57 PM

it's gorgeous altogether!

Pogo · 04-03-2006, 03:06 PM

Yes, that is a beautiful piece. And that was a beautiful structure it came from.

ptannjr · 04-03-2006, 03:06 PM

Nice piece!!

Wolverine · 04-03-2006, 04:02 PM

That is pretty neat. Nice little piece of history.

partssman · 04-03-2006, 06:01 PM

What's a gaffer?

9teen11 · 04-03-2006, 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by partssman

What's a gaffer?

Gaffer = cigarette.

The bloke I got the box from also had a couple of lamps from the Hall as well. Looks like the Digger who did the work might not have made it home.

The box & lamps were brought to Oz by a Belgian poof whose parents had the items.

partssman · 04-03-2006, 07:23 PM

That's what I thought but I wanted to make sure....

you ain't got no fingers with band aids on em yet have you?

9teen11 · 04-03-2006, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by partssman

That's what I thought but I wanted to make sure....

you ain't got no fingers with band aids on em yet have you?

LOL! No way mate! Im being very careful.

Ive got to watch out that the Missus doesnt knock it off to cut the roast with!

Preacher · 04-03-2006, 09:52 PM

Truly a work of art. You should be proud to own such a peice of history.

AKWARRIOR · 04-03-2006, 09:56 PM

The carving on that box is beautuful.

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9teen11 PERMANENTLY BANNED Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,082	Heres an Aussie WW1 curio Carved from a piece of the Cloth Hall at Ypres. Not a bad effort considering it was done in one of the hottest spots on the planet at the time.

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04-03-2006, 05:59 AM	#2
9teen11 PERMANENTLY BANNED Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,082	Its a snuff box, somewhere between the size of a box of matches & a pack of gaffers. The Coat of Arms would have been copied from an Aussie coin of the period.

04-03-2006, 06:07 AM	#3
9teen11 PERMANENTLY BANNED Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,082	Heres a before & after of the Cloth Hall. It was rebuilt exactly after the Great War & is home of the "In Flanders Fields" War Museum. Its worth doing a google on the Cloth Hall, incredible story.

04-03-2006, 06:41 AM	#4
ACOG Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,385	That is a cool little box.

04-03-2006, 02:51 PM	#5
HorseSoldier176 Retired Soldier Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: South Central PA Posts: 14,148	Beautiful work!

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Wolverine Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: West Virginia Posts: 369	That is pretty neat. Nice little piece of history.

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partssman Redneck Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Reedy Creek, NC Posts: 9,140	That's what I thought but I wanted to make sure.... you ain't got no fingers with band aids on em yet have you?

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Preacher Chaplain/Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: West Virginia Posts: 11,321	Truly a work of art. You should be proud to own such a peice of history. __________________ You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. Ronald Reagan - 1964 ------------------------------------- Bunker Member #4.

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