Considering his military background, it is no surprise Peter Harvell prefers collecting art made from artillery shells and bayonets to paintings of pastel pansies or Impressionist haystacks.

Artifacts that soldiers who are in the middle of battle using wreckage of war, such as bullets, shrapnel, bone, hair,Trench Art"is. Trench art, which is sometimes required and sometimes created from ...

We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at [email protected] or call Voices editor Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. Elizabeth Russell’s family has a long history of military ...

HOW IT STARTED Soldiers transformed battlefield objects into objets d’art; thanks to the Internet, they’re being traded JUDGMENT CALL It’s beautiful, bizarre, and can be worth a bomb Californian Jane ...

The museum holds 60,000 books and 40,000 artifacts on military history. Angela visits the Pritzker Military Museum & Library near Kenosha, which houses over 60,000 books and 40,000 artifacts. Director ...

Nowhere is this more true than in the kind of war objects called trench art, a term bequeathed by World War I but in fact a concept rather than a name applied solely to items belonging to a particular ...

In the years of First World War trench fighting, the debris associated with waging an industrialised conflict was everywhere. In what is now called trench art, soldiers made creative use of everything ...

“This was handed down to me from my grandfather,” wrote Jed Vier to the column about an item he was hoping to bring in for appraisal. “He was a French cavalryman in World War I. He spent three years ...

Considering his military background, it is no surprise Peter Harvell prefers collecting art made from artillery shells and bayonets to paintings of pastel pansies or Impressionist haystacks.