Trench Art Engraved Aluminum Case with Nudes Inside seaweed pressing Carberry Gallery in Springfield

Carberry Gallery in Springfield

sorrowful expression on his hand-painted face

with aye low clay bottom

but I was thinking they'd be pretty great for marking a birthday--or two--in this case with only five years between

) So when I spotted this fantastic model of it

Trench Art Engraved Aluminum Case with Nudes Inside seaweed pressing Carberry Gallery in SpringfieldHard to photograph this one due to the shine, but quite a treasure I think a trench art piece, mid 20th c. I believe, which I believe would have functioned as a cigarette case, with a strap on side of the interior for holding them in. The hand engraved exterior is fun man in loin cloth with stallion as if straight out of a romance novel on one side, young woman with beach ball on the other but it's the erotic nudes on the interior that really make it;