Bought from an antique shop in North Adelaide many years ago is this fine example of trench art - an engraved shell made into a jug , a souvenir of France. It honours nurses , described on the shell as The SOLDIERS FRIEND.
The fine engraving appears to have been made over a year or more as there is a 1918 date on the Rising Sun badge
If A.E. Lane made the jug, he was a skilled engraver as the detail on the nurse is superb as it is elsewhere . Several researchers are on his trail . A number of Lanes have turned up in Australia World War 1 records .
