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On this page you`ll find pick ups I made from the battlefields and ww2 sites. Please note that none of the objects is found alongside soldiers or remains,all such finds is returned to Grave Commissions together with the remains.

Trench Art Finds

11/19/2015

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Some trench-art items found this season. Both German soldier made and Soviet/Yugoslav POW items.
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A signal flare casing made into a candle holder. Found in a dumping pit in a German WH camp.
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Another flare casing made into a shot glass or candleholder. This is engraved "Radfahrberg" which was a fighting position on the front west of Murmansk. Found on a capitulation place in Nordland.
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Carved wooden ashtray. Found on a German WH camp.
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"Home-made" POW dog-tag. It read : Stalag 2H 13530 and has some artistic engravings on the other side. Found in a garbage pit near a German WH camp where POWs stayed after the liberation in 1945.
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A piece of scrapped trench art. Found in the same place as the tag above.
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POW shank? Found in the same pit as the two last items above.
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Part of a carved wooden bird. Traces of red paint on it. Found together with the last items above.
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