WO2 Amerikaanse Souvenir Bracelet IJsland! 1942 trench-art

Bijzondere souvenir armband gemaakt uit 2 aurar munten uit 1942, er is een sluiting aan de ketting gemaakt om het te dragen. Er staat een ander exemplaar online in een museum, de amerikanen hebben ijsland na 1941/1942 bezet, en dit waren er niet veel.

The Kingdom of Iceland was occupied by the Allies during World War II, beginning with a British invasion intent on occupying and denying Iceland to Germany. The military operation, codenamed Operation Fork, was conducted by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. In time, some of the British garrison was replaced by Canadian and later American forces, despite the fact that the United States was not yet in the war.

This bracelet is made up of seven Icelandic coins from 1942, although the middle ones is stamped “Iceland 1945.” Four of them are two aurar coins (worth 0.02 krona, which were the currency in Iceland), and two of them are one eyrir (0.01 krona).
The museum actually has very little information on this bracelet because the donor found it washed up on a beach in White Rock in the 1960’s. That means that there is no original owner who could provide information about the piece and almost everything we know about it is from careful research and some theorizing. Luckily, the donor had conducted some research of his own, from which he theorized that this object was trench art, a theory that was reinforced through the museum’s research.