Watch List notes:

NEW GUINEA, late 1940s, appears to be a cigarette case, perhaps made from the metal of a WWII crashed aircraft with inner compartments of aircraft perspex, one side engraved with Chinese text (translated as), 'South Souvenir' above a map of New Guinea with a sail boat at bottom left and a two-man canoe at top right and on the other side engraved with Chinese text (translated as), 'View of a Moonlight Night' above palm trees, mountains and sail boat. Good fine.

Perhaps a remembrance of a romantic night made from the metal of an aircraft shot down during WWII in southern New Guinea.