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

Carberry Gallery in Springfield

Note - the photographs were taken in conditions to avoid reflections

) So when I spotted this fantastic model of it

with a wooden ring for standing it up to display

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;