WW1 Match book covers
 

I have been picking these up at shows the last year or so, picked up the bottom right one and the next one to it while at Gettysburg yesterday.

I have not seen this style? Have you guys?



Ed

Ed, I have NEVER seen one of these with the Picklehaben on it before! Good score!

Jerry Burney

Ed
I have collected and sold several of these over the years but have never seen one with the helmet. I like it! Bill

Neat Ed I two have never seem one with the helmet. Great find.

I too have never seen one like it.
I have a standard "Gott Mit Uns" cover, which my grandfather brought back from WW1. I lost it while on a hike my freshman year in college and miraculously found it on the trail my junior year in college!
The cover had weathered two Ohio winters without anybody spotting it and returned to my possesion in a million to one chance.
I have and treasure it today.

Over the years I have seen several with the Pickelhaube. A point of interest is that the Pickelhaube shown on the matchcover is of a municipal or civilian type Pickelhaube, not military. These match box protectors in brass were almost all made up after the war and sold to occupying American Doughboys. The German soldiers did carry similar items but the decoration is always of a different nature and the material is almost always steel

As George says, the Picklehaube cover will come up once in a while on ebay. I'm always looking for the odd ones, but often get out bid on them. I will find a good one now and then.

A few that are not seen too often, or rarely if ever. The one with the shield says Verdun on the banner.

Ron

Ron you got some neater ones then Ed . Real nice

hey, I'm just starting! :)

Very nice Ron and thanks Geo for the info!


Ed

Ed and Ron

You are off to a great start!!!!!!

Ed I am sending you a photo of my collection of this type of trench art. Will you please post it for me. Thanks Pal...

Matchbox covers
 

Have shown these before.

Cigarette case
Lighter
Matchbox cover

Cool, I think Trench Art is a inexpensive part of the hobby that is under apprecaited!

I have one like you do Russ and Bill, I cropped russ' picture to show which ones sit by the couch :) My sister (nor I) smoke, but the ashtray and lighter is really cool ad she likes it.

Russ you beat them all. Very Very nice

Hi All!

I`d like to get one of those covers! Anyone selling these? And how much?

jussi

I have one my grand dad brought back.
I had another from WW2.
It had a Russian star on the front and the edge was stamped "Russland Kursk"
with the 27th SS division insignia and date.
It was much thicker than the old ones and had been pebbled as well.
It got ripped off about 32 years ago.

Russ, Ron
Nice collections. Bill

Four of mine. One has a heavy artillery theme, another was given to either an artilleryman, cavalryman or Train trooper as it indicates a three year enlistment term. The brass protector is made of light metal and plated brass and nickel.

Geo

Those are great....

Russ

There are some pretty neat old commercial match safes out there too.

Here's one that I just won on ebay. I couldn't pass it up.

A very good friend of mine died of liver and stomach cancer about 18 months ago.

He was an artist in the highest sense of the word. He built custom muzzle loaders that sold for $3000 to $4000 each.

He had the best philosophy and sense of humor about life of anyone I have ever met. When he was diagnosed as terminal, he went out and bought a motorcycle and rode it every day until he was too weak to stand up.

When my time comes, I only hope that I can accept, and deal with it half as well as he did.

One of his favorite sayings was this quote from Rudyard Kipling.

Ron, I'll trade you any two of mine for that one. Maybe three.

Hi George,

You've got some nice ones, but I think I'll hang on to this one for awhile. Craig would've loved it.