Quote Originally Posted by Flying10uk View Post
If everything that people nowadays describe as WW1 "trench art" had actually been produced in the trenches I have my doubts that there would have been much time left over for fighting.
Agreed! I've seen real trench art (with provenance), but some pieces of so-called trench art look just too good to be the real deal. I'm fully aware that some soldiers were extremely gifted, artistically, and had skills they'd acquired in civvy street. I've seen some of the carvings in the deep dugouts and tunnels in which they took refuge. You can see the crude works but some of the stonework is obviously the work of a sculptor or master mason. As I'd mentioned, the picture from the auction wasn't the greatest and it looked like a piece of trench art. Further information dispelled that.
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