Who / What / Where Game

[Aktungbby]

^ it could be; but Noach might be a little closer to the Mark

[Moonlight]

What's this arboreal treasure?!, how can it be an arboreal treasure when it's not even wood?.

Was it made for a ship project?.

[Jimbuna]

Military connection?

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Moonlight

What's this arboreal treasure?!, how can it be an arboreal treasure when it's not even wood?.

Was it made for a ship project?.

arboreal treasure...'warfare is the art of deception'... even when asea in a barren land.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Military connection?

yes

[Catfish]

One of those fake-trees, tree-like contraptions they used in WW1, as an observation/spy post at the edge of no-man's land?

[Aktungbby]

BINGO! And jus to throw u a Bone; This one was at a trench location on the German side known as 'German House'

First, engineers would find a dead tree near the front that had (ideally) been blasted by a bomb. They would then take extensive photos, measurements, and sketches of the dead tree. From there, work commenced behind the scenes. All of the detailed information would be brought back to a workshop, where artists would create an exact replica of the tree: life-size, with the same dead and broken limbs, and with expertly crafted “bark” made from wrinkled, painted iron. To make the bark appear more real, the artists would often cover it with a rough textured concoction made from materials like pulverized seashells.

The most important part of the tree, though, was the interior. Each replica tree was hollow, with fake bark surrounding an inner armored tube that would protect whichever soldier was inside. Soldiers would climb a narrow rope ladder through the middle of the tree and sit on a metal seat (in many cases, with a wooden cushion) at the top. Sections of the outer bark were cut away and replaced with metal mesh to disguise viewing holes for the soldier. For protection, though, the soldier faced a solid metal wall and had to use a periscope or telescope to see outside the tree. They would then communicate what they could see to the troops below, who would handle the situation from the ground. After construction came the real challenge. Since the front lines were very visible, the fake tree had to be installed at night, under the noisy distraction of gunfire. The engineers would come in, tear out the original tree, dig a hole in place of its roots, then install the fake tree. When everyone woke up in the morning, the tree would still be there and still looked the same—except now it was a hollow, armored vessel concealing a soldier at the top.
As part of the 2014 to 2018 centenary of World War I, visitors to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia, can see one of these trees on display. The tree featured in this memorial was actually used in battle by German forces from the 3rd Division Army Services Corps. It was used as an observation post camouflage tree, or Baumbeobachter, which translates to “tree observer,” and it stood in Oosttaverne Wood in Belgium. A number of soldiers and 3rd Division members had signed the tree, either in pencil or by scratching their initials into the metal itself. One of the soldiers who signed the tree, Private Frederick Augustus Peck, was killed in battle just three months after he inscribed his name on the bark.

Over 2 Catfish! I could sure use one of these in my very thick-trunk 60 ft palm tree to spy on the buxom blond bombshell next door...but that crusty strumpet knows I'm watching and flaunts it anyway! https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/0...ts-of-ww1.html

[Catfish]

My first thought when i saw the picture was indeed this kind of "tree", but since you wrote "arboreal treasure" .. , this is why i asked whether it was artificial.. and when Jim asked for military use i was back on the first scent..

[Catfish]

Ok what's that..

[Jimbuna]

Mercedes?

[Catfish]

Not a Mercedes.

[Jimbuna]

Looks like the Batmobile to me

[Moonlight]

A limited edition?.

[Catfish]

Jim yes it looks like it


@Moonlight: I have no idea but i think so, maybe the only one.

[Aktungbby]

German?

[mapuc]

First I think we need to figure out in which decade it was made.

I think in the end of the 30's

Markus