Lot 158

Description

Trench art, brass artillery shell casing impressed on the base “233/POLTE/DEZ/1916/MAGDEBURG”, with a ring loop soldered to the centre, on the main body on one side is inscribed, “J.N.S./14965” and on the opposite side is inscribed, “SOUVENIR OF/THE GREAT WAR/1914 – 1918.” Very fine.

Polte Dez Magdeberg was the Polte-Werke ammunition factory located in Magdeburg, Germany during WWI.
14965 Joseph Nelson Stannard, grocery manager, age 42, born at Warrnambool, Vic; Enl.24Feb1917 at Melbourne, Vic; to Driver, AASC 15Aug1917; Emb.30Oct1917; to France 15Sep1918; RTA 19Aug1919; Disch.10Nov1919.