Original Item: Only One Available. Soldier Life can be a very boring existence with days upon days of sitting around waiting for something to happen. To pass the time many soldiers took to creating items of use or amusement and this work has become known as "TRENCH ART". Here is a stock from a Swedish Model 1894 Mauser Carbine, converted into a cribbage board by carving the stock and placing required peg holes into the wooden butt. The Buttplate, Brass Stock Disk, and Sling Buckle are still attached to the stock.

Cribbage, played with a deck of cards, pegs and a board such as this is a wonderful game to pass the time, as appropriate today as it was one hundred years ago.

Many Swedish Mausers were used by the Finns during their war with the Soviet Union during WWII. This trench art very well could have been made by a Finnish Soldier during that period of time, perhaps while manning the Mannerheim Line, defending Finland from the Soviets. The exact history is unknown. What we do know, however, is that this conversion was done a very long time ago.