Trench Art Engraved Aluminum Case with Nudes Inside lidded micmac basket like little Frank Stellas

like little Frank Stellas

and is pretty smart looking in red and blue I think

I love as much as any I’ve found

Cream colored pieces show a little age/darkening

The figures are a bit curious too--often scrimshawed pieces were made as love tokens

Trench Art Engraved Aluminum Case with Nudes Inside lidded micmac basket like little Frank StellasHard 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;