Original French WWI Captured 97mm German Shell with Depiction of French Children Mourning Grave in Destroyed City - c’est ta main - Dated July 1917 Allow PayPal & Amazon Checkout The blade of this example

The blade of this example is heavily tarnished but is still in great shape with the fuller still visible

and has an unknown maker mark (Letter S and letter I crossing one another)

with an engraved lock (not stamped)

734 BROADWAY

Coat shows signs of use in a hot

Original French WWI Captured 97mm German Shell with Depiction of French Children Mourning Grave in Destroyed City - c’est ta main - Dated July 1917 Allow PayPal & Amazon Checkout The blade of this exampleOriginal Item. One of a Kind. This is a tremendous piece of trench art made from an enormous spent German artillery shell casing which measures 9 in diameter and is 9 tall. The shell depicts a large scene of three French children mourning a grave in a destroyed city with rubble, destroyed trees, and debris in the background. A young girl with her arm in a sling is knelt before a recently buried grave with small rocks and a cross marking it.