Serbian aluminium trench art
This is a 3 piece set of Serbian trench art made of aluminium and consists of a matchbox holder, a cigarette case, and a small cup. One side of the matchbox holder has the Serbian text 'СОЛУН-БИТОЉ, 1918', which transliterates to 'SOLUN - BITOLJ, 1918', and correspond, respectively to the towns of Salonika in Greece and Bitola in Macedonia, which was a province of Serbia at the time; on the spine of the matchbox holder is the Serbian text 'СПОМЕН', which transliterates to 'SPOMEN', which means 'souvenir' in English; on the other face of the matchbox holder are the inter-twined Serbian Cyrillic initials of 'Ф' and 'J', which stand for 'F' and 'J' respectively and which may have been the initials of the original owner. The front of the cigarette case has a banner with, above it, the Serbian Cyrillic text 'МОНАСТИР 1914 1918', which transliterates to 'MONASTIR 1914 1918', and Monastir was the former name of the afore-mentioned town of Bitola. Beneath the banner is the Serbian text 'ЖИВЕЛА ЈУГОСЛАВИЈА', which transliterates to 'ZIVELA JUGOSLAVIJA' and translates into English as 'LONG LIVE YUGOSLAVIA'. The cup features a Serbian heraldic bi-cephalic eagle with the year '1914' to the left and '1918' to the right with, above the eagle, the Latinised word 'SRBIJA' and, on the back, the name of the town of Monastir. Of note is that the two words on this cup are Latin Serbian rather than Cyrillic Serbian text.
Trench art matchbox holder, cigarette case, and small cup.
CONTRIBUTOR
Špiro Vranješ
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
11
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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