Trench Art Engraved Aluminum Case with Nudes Inside wooden block houses Plus red linen trousers held

Plus red linen trousers held up with buttoned straps

There may once have been a few more pieces in this set--they are made of very thin bone--there are 35 here

I purchased this piece in a very badly tarnished state—in part because I could not resist the fabulous fox head

I think they are pretty special

but I think its got a bit of a pretty strong  Arts and Crafts sensibility from a hundred years prior

Trench Art Engraved Aluminum Case with Nudes Inside wooden block houses Plus red linen trousers heldHard to photograph this one due to the shine, but quite a treasure I think a trench art piece, mid 20th c. I believe, which I believe would have functioned as a cigarette case, with a strap on side of the interior for holding them in. The hand engraved exterior is fun man in loin cloth with stallion as if straight out of a romance novel on one side, young woman with beach ball on the other but it's the erotic nudes on the interior that really make it;