Original British WWI Trench Art Brass Powder Compact Circa 1914 Sterling SMG embroidered lieutenants bars

embroidered lieutenants bars

Between 1879 and 1883

303 Vickers Medium Machine Gun

On the barrel tang

Original British WWI Trench Art Brass Powder Compact Circa 1914 Sterling SMG embroidered lieutenants barsOriginal Item: Only One Available. The cutest small brass powder compact made to look like an officer's hat and the same style used by other ranks in the first months of the War before steel combat helmets were adopted. The hat shape without a peak has the British Royal Cypher badge in miniature on its facing edge. The brim opens to reveal the powder compartment in the bottom and a small vanity mirror in the underside of the lid. Constructed from