Estonia. An Estonian Collaborator Pow Trench Art Box And Identity Tag certificate_of_authenticity contact marks and surface wear

contact marks and surface wear on the bust

Footnote: J/29175 Flying Officer James Walter Wood was the son of Walter Wood and Elsie Wood of Toronto

Light contact on the brass pieces

without makers mark

along with an Extract from the War Diary of February 1945

Estonia. An Estonian Collaborator Pow Trench Art Box And Identity Tag certificate_of_authenticity contact marks and surface wearA rare and unique trench art box made by an Estonian collaborator POW in Soviet captivity. Constructed of multiple pieces of light wood, the box features a retractable lid on a hinge, decorated on the exterior with an etched Estonian coat of arms, highlighted in national blue, black, and white colours. The lid opens to reveal a highly detailed, multi coloured design on the reverse in the form of a barbed wire POW camp fence overlaid by a Leibstandarte