WW1 Victory Lamp, ID'd Helmet Shade Hand Painted Aircraft Town Trench Artillery

Description: WW1 Artillery Shell Lamp with Identified Helmet that has been hand painted. The scene on the helmet has a British aircraft flying over trenches with a burning village nearby having SHOT DOWN a German aircraft. It is identified on the brim as having belonged to Sgt. James Turner, M.G.T 403, Co. 163 (harder to see). I've tried to get the best pictures I can to represent this one of a kind piece. It's a 75 M/M WWI Armistice celebration shell desk lamp. "11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918". Brass banner on shell quote: "they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" Book of Isaiah—Isaiah 2:3–4. Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. Swords to ploughshares (or swords to plowshares) is a concept in which military weapons or technologies are converted for peaceful civilian applications. The phrase originates from the Book of Isaiah: And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.—Isaiah 2:3–4 The essence of these lamps, and their main component, was a 75mm artillery shell recovered from the remains of the beyond enormous series of explosions at the Morgan, NJ based T. A. Gillespie Loading Company plant. This catastrophe started in the early evening of October 4, 1918 and went on for something like three horrifying days. The gigantic “Morgan Plant” was quickly built in 1918 to load explosives, e.g., Trinitrotoluene (TNT) and Amatol (TNT mixed with Ammonium Nitrate), into a wide range of sizes of artillery shells and casings for use by the US and its allies during World War I. This is one of those. Please ask any and all questions before bidding. It is quite heavy so I will try and keep shipping costs down as best I can.

Price: 799 USD

Location: Ramona, California

End Time: 2024-11-10T19:17:23.000Z

Shipping Cost: 100 USD