Tranch art Brandy cups set

[Theodor]

Hi guys, I've always liked very much the trench art pieces and here is something I got yesterday. A set of cups for brandy. The tray is made probably from a bigger cal. artillery case, while the cups are from small calliber. On the bottom is written, that it is from the soldiers at the South front, 1917 - this is the Southern Balkan front, seems a group of soldiers has made it for an officer. Chhers

About the cups - from what brass were they made, for what weapon? On the botton the marking is D.W. u. M. /Deutsche Waffen und Monicion sp.? maybe?/ and a single letter K. The diameter is about 26 mm

Edited November 5, 2006 by Theodor

[Tony]

Hello Theodor,

Very nice and can we expect an invite to try them out?

Without your 26mm diameter measurement I'd have had an off hand guess at a 37mm Hotchkiss, but obviously not.

Tony

[Theodor]

Hi Tony! Measured them again, actually 27 mm, not 26. But still far from the 37 Hotchkiss

[Tony]

All I can find in one of my books is Deutsche Waffen und Munitions Fabriken which you more or less guessed anyway.