DOT, 1945 Brass Trench Art (Removable) Dorcel Lighter, Monogrammed JPA on Reverse old child's drawing and pinkish red tongue hanging

and pinkish red tongue hanging out

skull at their feet

Paper stencil like this were traditionally used for patterning textiles

but I'm using the term to describe this wonderful carved envelope anyway

a WW2 pin-up style Spider-woman of sorts

DOT, 1945 Brass Trench Art (Removable) Dorcel Lighter, Monogrammed JPA on Reverse old child's drawing and pinkish red tongue hangingI was drawn to the elusive and evocative DOT engraved in perfect trench art style on the face of this Dorcel lighter, 1945 on the flip lid just above it. There is what I take for a monogram on the other side, JPA. Maybe DOT was his sweetheart? Or stood for an event or location? Or Dept of Transportation?! Somehow the capital letters, with that O at the center, make me imagine the DOT as a shape, as in dot, line, circle, square, etc. 1 7 8" x 1 3 8" x