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French trench art cigarette lighter

Trench art cigarette light made by someone serving with the French Armee d'Orient.
This is a French trench art cigarette lighter. On one side is engraved '1917 Armee d'Orient 1918' and the other side bears the stylised initials of 'JB'. The Armee d'Orient was a French Army that was based in the Balkans during the First World War.

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CONTRIBUTOR

Špiro Vranješ

DATE

1917 - 1918

LANGUAGE

eng

ITEMS

9

INSTITUTION

Europeana 1914-1918

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Source

UGC
Artifact

Contributor

europeana19141918:agent/610885ba9e90ab715a62cb0460ca10b5

Date

1917
1918

Type

Story

Language

eng
English

Country

Europe

DataProvider

Europeana 1914-1918

Provider

Europeana 1914-1918

Year

1918
1917

DatasetName

2020601_Ag_ErsterWeltkrieg_EU

Begin

1917

End

1918

Language

mul

Agent

Špiro Vranješ | europeana19141918:agent/610885ba9e90ab715a62cb0460ca10b5

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2019-09-11T08:11:13.358Z
2020-02-25T08:05:43.995Z
2015-05-26 16:46:29 UTC
2015-05-26 16:47:07 UTC
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1917
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2015-05-26 16:47:23 UTC

Provenance

INTERNET

Record ID

/2020601/https___1914_1918_europeana_eu_contributions_19912

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