It has been over a century since the guns of WW1 fell silent. A war best known for mostly static trench warfare on the Western Front in France and Belgium as the great Empires of Britain, France, and German slugged out a 4 year-long brutal slaughter. In the immediate aftermath of this...
The colour is probably best described as taupe: a greyed, warm brown. It's not formal enough for the smartest business attire, really, but certainly for anything other than that. And it has a feeling in common with the camel colours of a polo coat - that it could be thrown on with...
Yes. I have a 1920 and 1921 penny exactly like this, included in an auction lot from the 1990s. They are in a Whitman folder, and the previous owner has annotated the streakiness as being caused by the use of WW1 shell casings in the mix. He doesn't say where he got his informati...