sweetheart grips?

[hogleg]

Our member TRUMAN has a pair of clear 1911 WWII "sweetheart grips" for sale here. I am curious as to what these are but didn't want to post a disallowed question over there. Can anyone shed some light on these? Truman?

[diamondback22]

G.I.'s would take a clear piece of plastic and add a picture of there sweetheart under it and make a set of grips..i have heard this called trench art before..

[moosedog]

Supposidly the clear lexon material came from shot down and captured Nazi planes.

[swamprat]

Examples of sweetheart grips:
http://gallery.gandalf23.com/d/57059...gripsgioyg.jpg

German WWII sweetheart grips:
Pocket pistol with a high neat factor in C&R Handguns Forum

[moosedog]

I saw a pistol that came from a guy who was from Tennessee, had a picture of his sister in the grips.

[hogleg]

Thanks Guys. I had never heard of them before. Another cool tidbit of WWII history learned. I especially like the pictures.

[El Bibliotecario]

I saw a pistol that came from a guy who was from Tennessee, had a picture of his sister in the grips.

I suppose if one goes far enough back into the mountains, the line between siblings and sweethearts becomes blurred. But I was delighted to see someone pointed out the old gun show story that such grips were made from plexiglass taken from NAZI planes...*laff*...although I'd bet more than a few of these grips were turned out by bored air corps ground crew with access to a supply of plexiglass.

[azasadny]

In Desert Storm, we made jewelry out of dental wire and sea shells. Boredom will do that to you. Very cool example of "trench art"!