Trench Art
US WWI Trench Art Match Safe, Co. M, 157th Infantry, AEF. Jane A Kimball Collection
Trench Art
US WWI Trench Art Match Safe, Co. M, 157th Infantry, AEF. Jane A Kimball Collection
Item #66208 : Original era manufacture. All brass matchsafe with the roundel from a Prussian enlisted buckle on one side and on the other is etched: C.E. Tracey, Co. M. 157th Inf, U.S. Army. Once part of the Jane A. Kimball Collection of Trench Art. During WWI the 157th Regiment was assigned to the 40th Division which served as a Depot division in France, sending thousands of men to the front as replacements.