311 - Spoils

311 - Spoils

Today I listened to a VE Day bonus podcast episode from my friend Estelle's Nature Podcast called 'Under Wartime Skies – A Childhood in Rural England During WWII with Allen Chalk'.

It's an interview with a 93 year old Wiltshire local who was a 'carter', that is an expert ploughman in his youth.

Through the episode I discovered an amazing precedent to Tatty Devine's acrylic Jewellery.

The young lads of the wartime era (and perhaps lasses), living in the countryside, would salvage pieces from Nazi war planes that came down. The best souvenir prize, was the perspex windscreen of the plane, which they would cut up with a jigsaw, by hand and fashion into jewellery.

The pieces are so beautiful! Take a look at these search results 

I love the way this one is in the shape of a propellor (found on Facebook).

More info and examples here.

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