A cracking example of a original

World War One

Imperial German Army-Issue

French Red Wine Bottle

excavated intact in the 

Trenches of the Western Front in 1914-18


The Battle of Meuse-Argonne

was the last great Allied offensive against the

German lines which took place between

September 26th and the Armistice on November 11 1918.


Over 1 million of the new American troops in theatre,

took part & tragically some

26,000 were killed in the course of the battle, 

with over 100,000 casualties suffered in total..


Measuring approx 12" in height and completely undamaged,

this impressively-shaped large wine bottle in brown glass

was one of two excavated in a remaining

German position in the 

'Kaiser Bunker System' 

in the Argonne Forest along the River Meuse

some 200 miles east of Paris.


Still in a stunning, undamaged condition 

it  is another lovely surviving & evocative item from

The German Argonne Sector of the Great War..


Part of an on-going acquisition of

a fascinating militaria collection of 

British, German & French

Great War Barn-found & Trench Dug

artefacts from 

The Somme, Verdun & Meuse in France

and from the 

Ypres Salient of Belgium

that was carefully built up & curated over a 40-year period.


Thanks for looking..!