WW1 "Ypres" Trench Art Signet Ring

WW1 "Ypres" Trench Art Signet Ring Estate sale find Very RARE find During the winter of 1914, an activity known as "trench craftsmanship" appeared in the townships and second line camps throughout France and Belgium. Using the materials and components they had to hand - shell casings, buttons, and other battlefield objects - small groups of jewellers and smiths worked to create souvenirs to sell to the soldiers returning from the front lines. Demand for such objects spiked after a feature in French newspaper Le Payes De France whereby selected "Trench Artists" were awarded prizes for their work: "The craft comprises any decorative item made by soldiers, sailors, airforce personnel, prisoners of war, civilians, Chinese Labour Corps., auxiliary services, where the manufacture is directly linked to the Great War or its consequences, offering an insight to the maker's wartime feelings and emotions and their surroundings utilising materials they had available to them." # 1564