"Trench Art" Cigarette Case in Wood with the Lid Carved "AEFS (American Expeditionary Force, Siberia), Vladivostok 1918-19".
Measures approx. 3 ½" x 3" x 1", in solid oak with hinged lid. The wood is finished with toned lacquer.
In outstanding condition, finely crafted and showing no wear whatsoever.
The American Expeditionary Force, Siberia was a formation of the US Army sent by President Woodrow Wilson, and was a part of the larger Allied North Russia Intervention campaign. The AEFS pursued multi-pronged military, diplomatic, and economical goals, ranging from assisting the 40,000 men of the Czecho-Slovak Legion to escape via Vladivostok and, hopefully, return to the Western Front of WW1 to prot
Measures approx. 3 ½" x 3" x 1", in solid oak with hinged lid. The wood is finished with toned lacquer.
In outstanding condition, finely crafted and showing no wear whatsoever.
The American Expeditionary Force, Siberia was a formation of the US Army sent by President Woodrow Wilson, and was a part of the larger Allied North Russia Intervention campaign. The AEFS pursued multi-pronged military, diplomatic, and economical goals, ranging from assisting the 40,000 men of the Czecho-Slovak Legion to escape via Vladivostok and, hopefully, return to the Western Front of WW1 to protecting large quantities of military supplies and railroad rolling stock that the USA had sent to the Russian Far East in support of the Russian Empire's war effort there during WW1. The political goal was to support and bolster a Russian self-government opposing the Reds. At that time, the Far East had only small pockets controlled by the Soviets, and this goal of Wilson's was within the realm of the possible.
Please note that the quarter coin in our photo is for size reference.
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