My mother gave me this brass cap made from a WWI artillery shell manufactured in 1915 (as far as I can tell). Does anyone have any info/history on this type of item?

by I_Say_I_Say

The cap in question. The emblem on the cap is that of the British Army Corp of Royal Engineers.

EvanHarper

It's a pretty typical example of trench art. There's one very much like it in the Imperial War Museum, made from the same kind of 18-pdr shell casing and with the same Royal Engineers emblem, attributed to a Sapper Ernest William Fielding.