where although you can meld a shell case into a flower vase, it’s still in the end a vessel that once held only obliteration. Nevertheless, trench art was also a small trophy of survival ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police discovered a shell casing and pair of broken glasses at the scene of a reported shooting at the steps of the Art Museum but no victim. Officers were ...

Spent bullets and shell casings were plentiful and sturdy, so these leftovers became a popular medium for trench artists. The P-38 Lightning featured twin booms that lent themselves to bullet art.

APPRAISER: Shell art is something that we really see coming ... And so there are empty shell casings all over the place. They got turned into souvenirs for the soldiers, either by the soldiers ...