The Three Pence Spitfire Earrings
$69.90
These unique, hand-crafted earrings are made in Nelson by Martin de Ruyter. Taught by his late grandfather, each piece is shaped from a 3d or three pence coin into the shape of a spitfire fighter aircraft.
This type of jewellery is sometimes known as trench art.
Size approx. 2 cm x 1.5 cm.
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Martin explains that Jim, his grandfather, then a 15-year old bay in war-torn England, fashioned these items ‘during tea breaks while building real spitfires for the RAF in a factory near his home in Swindon. He used the three pence coin because of their high silver content, and I use New Zealand three pence coins for the same reason’.
Air Force Museum of New Zealand
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