WWI Trench Art Tobacco Jar - Souvenir de Nieuport 1917 For Sale

Beautifully crafted WWI Trench Art Tobacco Jar / Lidded Canister dating back to the height of the Great War. This unique piece features a fascinating combination of battlefield-recovered components from different Allied nations, making it an exceptional historical document.

The main brass body is meticulously hand-engraved with an elegant ribbon banner that reads: "Souvenir de la Guerre – Nieuport 1917" (Remembrance of the War – Nieuport 1917). Nieuport (Belgium) was a key and heavily contested sector of the Western Front along the Yser river.