Cool cig case from WWII
 

In preparation to paint my bedroom I emptied out my wife's hope chest and found my FIL's cigarette case that he brought back from his time as an AA battery gunner in the China-Burma-India theater. I think it is pewter, I doubt it's silver, it's non-magnetic.

I thought it was cool and wanted to share. Please share any items you may have

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Very cool!

I Love items like this, you think about all it has seen, and what it would say if it could talk.


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+1

Seeing things like this affects me deeply for some reason. There was once a young man carrying that case seeing the sights and sounds of south east Asia during war time. Just seeing the case seems to make the adventure of it come alive.

Har-Bro's case from what I can tell the 1930's

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I think that would fall under the category of "Trench Art" which makes it even cooler and also more collectable.

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I have a tobacco canister made from a very large shell casing...WWII vintage.

what does the inside look like?

very cool.

Couldn't get it to load the first time, pic of the inside

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I have yet to read a better explanation of exactly how I feel when I see such items.

NY that case is the very definition of a family piece.

You can see mental images of him carrying it with all the sights and sounds can't you?

Thanks for posting the interior pic.

That thing is fascinating. I imagine everyone smoked back then. The regular packaging cigarettes came in, they were not durable enough? The case fit an entire pack of smokes?


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Pop was a Lucky Stike man. I welled up when I found that piece.

I have a piece of a Zero wing and a piece of Japanese parachute of one of his AA battery's victims. The stories he told used to choke me up. The suffering of the civilian population and of course our GI's, incredible.

Pop was in China when they built the airfields to fly supply missions over The Hump. Thousands of Chinese women and children breaking rock in to smaller and smaller rock in order to make gravel for the landing strips, all by hand.

Tough times and tougher people.

That is just as cool as the other side of the pillow! Nice find!

I think those strings on the inside are from bull durham bags - the metal aglets are the clue...

(but I probably don't know for sure)

Originally Posted by HardDrive View Post
"Seeing things like this affects me deeply for some reason. There was once a young man carrying that case seeing the sights and sounds of south east Asia during war time. Just seeing the case seems to make the adventure of it come alive."
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I agree.
Well put, HD!!!