Carry Your Identity Card Always Poster.

37.5 x 25 cm poster ' Carry Your Identity Card Always '. Printed for HMSO by St.Michael's Press Ltd, London, this poster was printed early in the War following the May 1940 announcement requiring the cards to be filled in and carried. The 1939 National Registration Act had required a national register of the population of Britain to be undertaken after which everyone regardless of age was alloc...  read more

Code: 13380

John B. Pillin Ltd On National Service lapel badge.

Chrome and enamel, pinback lapel badge for workers of JohnB.Pillin Ltd. John B. Pillin Ltd were lubricating equipment manufacturers of Church Hill, Beckenham, Kent. Numbered to the reverse. Good, clean condition.  read more

Code: 13379

Civil Defence - C.W.Glover

3rd 1941 ' Civil Defence ' - C.W.Glover. Huge 804pg survey of all aspects of practical civil defence with particular regard to the provision of shelters and their construction. Also includes chapters on ARP organisation, camouflage, bombs and individual protection. Extensive appendices and a large number of contemporary adverts. Good condition with sunned and split spine. V.heavy nearly 2kg !  read more

Code: 13378

Association of Friends of the French Volunteers - Publicity Card.

Heavy weight card recruiting poster for the Association of Friends of the French Volunteers, Amis des Voluntaires Francais - AVF. Striking photo montage design intended either for hanging in a door or window or has provision for free standing. Originally had a tear- off pad to enable address details to be posted through the ' postbox '. Small area of damage to posting slot and some bumped corne...  read more

Code: 13377

Wandsworth Peace Celebration Souvenir Gift.

Silver EPNS spoon given by Wandsworth Borough Council as a souvenir gift as part of their peace celebrations in 1945. Spoon features a design with a dove surmounting a ' victory V ' over a sword. The bowl of the spoon engraved ' Wandsworth 1945 '. Good, clean condition, lightly patinted, contained in its original titled box. Box slightly a/f.  read more

Code: 13376

Northampton Women's Warden Service Lapel badge.

Brass and enamel, pinback badge for Northampton Women's Warden Service. Established early in the ARP establishment, the organisation had a short life as a seperate entity before being rolled into the County Warden's Service in 1942. Uncommon badge in good, used condition.  read more

Code: 13375

Pillboxes by Henry Wills.

1st 1985 Henry Wills seminal book ' Pillboxes, A study of U.K. defences 1940 ' is where much of the interest there is today in pillboxes and other defences, really began. Following his national survey Wills produced this valuable study with a gazetteer of the known survivors and an overview of pillbox and defence types. 98pgs Illustrated throughout and still a valuable resource. Good, clean con...  read more

Code: 13374

ARP Beret.

Official issue ARP Beret. Official nomenclature ' A.R.P. 68A ' indicating the ' Austerity ' pattern. Size 6 3/4 manufactured by ' J.Collett Ltd ' in 1942 with markings printed onto a cotton protector with small reinforced seam forming a headband. This example in excellent, probably unissued condition.  read more

Code: 13373

Comic postcard - Gas Attack.

Comic postcard, part of the ' Docks ' series entitled ' Duck Lads - a Gas Attack ! '. Postally unused, generally clean with minor marking.
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Code: 13372

Defence-The Services' Magazine & Home Guard Monthly-1943

August 1943 ed. 48pgs containing articles on ' AA Battery's Mission, With the 30th Middlesex H.G. and Surprise Tactics in Training .' In good, used condition with some chipping to cover and spine. read more  read more

Code: 13371