Germany, Imperial. A Late First World War Trench Art Shell certificate_of_authenticity The Department of the Army

The Department of the Army Historical Division

measuring 95 mm (w) x 48 mm (h) and 100 mm (w) x 50 mm (h)

Footnote: William Douglas Renton was born in Britain in 1922

one constructed of a dark blue card stock binding with 20 paginated interior pages

decorated with thirty small old european-cut diamonds and five similar cut rubies

Germany, Imperial. A Late First World War Trench Art Shell certificate_of_authenticity The Department of the Army(Grabenkunst). A rare late First World War trench art shell, constructed of brass, the outer circumference featuring a hand pounded dimpled background covering approximately three quarters of the surface, bearing a raised biplane with a Luftstreitkrfte Iron Cross clearly visible on the tail, above a U Boat, with stylized clouds dispersed over the skyline, the base stamped with a manufacture date of JULI 1918 and with calibre information indicating