Trench Art Engraved Aluminum Case with Nudes Inside wooden block houses as it's quite a thing

as it's quite a thing

like an arched window

I purchased this piece in a very badly tarnished state—in part because I could not resist the fabulous fox head

Plus red linen trousers held up with buttoned straps

I rather like how the blue-green mass at left arches over them like a giant wave though

Trench Art Engraved Aluminum Case with Nudes Inside wooden block houses as it's quite a thingHard 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;