Post-Second War Cigarette Cases.
Six aluminium engraved and pierced cigarette cases all decorated with hand engraving and pierced with coloured celluloid or fabric backing bearing the images of Egyptian and African scenes, mosques, the Sphinx, an elephant and scantily clad females, one inscribed internally with the name ‘Dennis P Hodges’, others with ‘Afrika 1946’, ‘Egypt 1947’, ‘Egypt 1948’, and another of different form inscribed ‘Sierra Leone’, some degradation to some of the coloured inserts, with some wear overall but generally good to very fine (6) £50-£70

There are conflicting stories as to the origin of these items but they are believed to have been made from scrap aluminium salvaged from the wrecks of aircraft shot down over the Sahara Desert and manufactured either in the Egyptian bazaars or made in Italian and German P.O.W. camps.