WW1 Naked Women Trench Art Signet Ring vesta case and pine cone motifs

and pine cone motifs

It's a beautifully constructed piece that dates from the turn of the 20th Century

apparently)

The five stones rest in foil backed pie-crust settings

as well as a single pearl

WW1 Naked Women Trench Art Signet Ring vesta case and pine cone motifsDATE: WW1, c. 1916 Highly unusual and very cool WW1 trench art ring with naked woman shoulders and brass crest featuring the Austrian coat of arms (probably repurposed from a button). The band itself is constructed in aluminum from an artillery shell nose cone, and the apparent crude construction only partially masks the fact that this was clearly made by a talented metallurgist using whatever tools could be found adapted in the trenches. Given the