First World War ‘Trench Art’ White Metal Knife Blade

c. 1918

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2009.11.6

Item type

Artworks

Metalwork

Material

Metal (silver-plated)

Width

27 mm

Height or length

103 mm

Weight

6 g

Inscriptions and markings

Engraved ‘From Dad to Hilda’ with flower motif and other side, ‘1914’ flower motif ‘1919’ and ‘Souvenir of the Great War’

Keywords

Trench Art

World War One

First World War

WW1

Prisoner of War World War One

Place made

Le Havre
France

Year

c. 1918

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Historic significance

Scientific or research significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

Geotag

-35.030449, 117.912878

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