Original Imperial Japanese WWII U.S. Ship Trench Art with Bakelite Base colts 27 May 1945

27 May 1945

The leather strap wrapped around the fuchi is the remains of the scabbard lock

Precisely at H-hour

and placed a “moratorium on debt payments

for Wilhelm Schüren KG

Original Imperial Japanese WWII U.S. Ship Trench Art with Bakelite Base colts 27 May 1945Original Item. One of a Kind. This is an interesting piece of Japanese made Trench art which depicts an American boat on open waters, with a name on the ship that is too worn to read. The trench art appears to be made from a piece of Brass, likely made from an American ship which was destroyed or captured by the Japanese, on a bakelite base, a very interesting material to use on this. The back of the piece of brass has a notched channel which leads us