Australia WW2 Siege of Tobruk Trench Art Ash Tray

Australia WW2 Siege of Tobruk Trench Art Ash Tray

Cut down 1939 dated 25 Pdr shell case turned into the main ash tray, this with a collar size rising sun badge sweated to the side. Decorated hand cut shell brass gyro mounted arms hold atop the ashtray.
A hand cut shell brass matchbox holder upright to the centre with engraved " Tobruk" on one side and the date 7-6-1941 on the other side.

All mounted on a very heavy brass lamp base.

Polished and lightly lacquered. Age stain and tone consummate with age.

The Siege of Tobruk took place between 10 April and 27 November 1941, when elements of the Allied Army were trapped and besieged in the North African port of Tobruk by German and Italian forces. The defenders quickly became known as the Rats of Tobruk.
The siege lasted for 231 days in 1941, after Axis forces advanced through Cyrenaica from El Agheila in Operation Sonnenblume against Allied forces in Libya, during the Western Desert Campaign

A great Siege of Tobruk relic worthy of any Australian North African campaign collector.

Code: 124