US Home Front, Trench Art, & Sweetheart Items

ARTIFACT: This is a numbered World War I Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety food worker badge. The badge is oval, showing the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at center, and reads 1917 NATION'S SERVICE FOOD PRODUCTION around the border...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful World War I bronze level worker badge for the United States Government nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Production of nitrate began within a few weeks of the end of World War I. There were three levels for this...

ARTIFACT: Rare WWI War Worker lapel pin for the United States Ordnance Toluol Recovery Plants in New York City in 191The numbered lapel pin is enameled gilt brass, the white center depicts a US Shied in red, white, and blue with an eagle standing atop...

ARTIFACT: This is a nice World War I United States War Worker service lapel pin. The pin is a five-pointed star with fine etching and its center is enameled in a beautiful cobalt blue. It was made by Whitehead & Hoag. VINTAGE: Circa World War I...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful 1945 dated USAAF 86th Fighter Wing trench art bracelet made in the Philippines of lightweight aircraft aluminum. The front of the bracelet has a cut-out name (Midge Van Buren) and there are engravings of flowers at either...

ARTIFACT: Cool WWII Soldier's letter opener made out of aircraft parts in Italy by a Prisoner of War (POW). The handle is capped on either end with a brass coin and the grip is fashioned from resin and rubber aircraft parts, the opener blade is made of...

ARTIFACT: Great WWII Trench Art ashtray, 192nd Field Artillery Battalion of the 43rd Infantry Division of the United States Army. The center shows a shield and fleur de lis and the surrounding lip/edge reads: "43rd INF. DIV" along the top with...

ARTIFACT: Great WWII Seabee-made Trench Art novelty erotic souvenir of Okinawa 1945, made from repurposed aircraft aluminum. The outside is in the shape of a shell and reads: "OKINAWA" on one side and: "1945" on the other. The shell...

ARTIFACT: Cool WWII Trench Art letter opener made in Napoli, Italy in 1945 from aircraft aluminum in the form of a nude. The blade of the letter opener reads: "NAPOLI 1945" VINTAGE: Circa 1945 SIZE: Approximately 10-1/2" x...

ARTIFACT: This is a great Australian-made United States Army Air Forces P-38 trench art ashtray from World War II. The base is a British or Australian shell dated 1942 (hard to read). The plane will "fly" in a circle but care must be taken...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I "trench art" shell decorated with the green wildcat for the United States Army 306th Sanitation Train, 81st Division. The letters "OCL" encircle the wildcat, and stand for the motto "Obedience,...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful early WWI trench art miniature German Eindecker Aircraft in brass and copper. The piece is made of bullet and shell casings, and depicts an Iron Cross on each wing and the propeller spins swiftly. Great overall construction and...