Wartime Cadbury's Milk Tray Assortment box.
Scarce wartime Milk Tray Assortment box by Cadbury's. The clue to it's wartime provenance is the the strapline 'covered with blended chocolate' - blended chocolate was a wartime expedient as full cream milk supplies were limited and were blended with seperated milk to produced 'blended chocolate'. In good overall condition with minor scrapes, tears and broken corners. read more
ARP Sidecap.
Dark blue, serge sidecap favoured by members of the ARP and Civil Defence services. Serge body with cotton lining and sweat band with two chrome buttons, which denote the non-military nature of the cap and a hallmarked silver ARP cap badge. This example was probably worn by a women with traces of face powder present to interior. Good, used condition and uncommon. read more
Home Guard Group Photograph - C Company 22nd West Riding Btn.
Landscape portrait of C Company ( Hipperholme & Lightcliffe ) of the 22nd West Riding ( Calder Valley ) Battalion Home Guard. 61cms x 22cms approx. In good condition, has been folded. read more
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Comic Postcard - ' To Hell with Hitler ! '
No.14 in the ' Cheerful ' series published by an East London publisher entitled ' To Hell with Hitler ! '. In good, used condition, postally used in 1939.
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3rd City of London Battalion Home Guard titles.
Printed blue/black on khaki Home Guard shoulder title for the 3rd City of London ( Farringdon ) Battalion. Good, used condition accompanied by a printed HG shoulder title with clear evidence of having been removed from a uniform. read more
Post Office Home Guard Stand Down Programme.
Programme printed for a celebration of the stand down of the Post Office Home Guard held at the Connaught Roomsin London in January 1945. Featuring artwork by Eric Kenningto and listing all Post Office units and their regions. Good, used condition, has been folded with light creasing. read more
Salute the Soldier pin badge - Smethwick.
Smethwick Salute the Soldier badge featuring the Abram Games' 'Liberator' design, given in exchange for a donation towards the campaign. Celluloid covered button badge with a pin fastening. Clean, bright image.
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LDV Instruction No.6 - Relations Between the CD Services and the LDV.
LDV Instruction No.6 - 1940 Relations between the DS Services and the LDV. 4 page leaflet outlining the working relationships between the Civil Defence services and the LDV, also includes some additional notes on the CD. Good, clean condition with some minor creasing. read more
W.O.F. Ordnance Factory Badge.
Chrome and enamel pinback badge for use by a worker at as a yet, unidentified ordnance factory. ' Doing Their Bit ' by J.Mills suggests appropriate candidates as either Walsall or Wrexham who had a shell filling and an explosives factory respectively. Numbered to the reverse with the manufacturer's details of ' Thos. Fattorini, B'ham '.Generally bright, clean condition but does have a small ena... read more
Wartime ' WIK-O ' Washing powder.
A wartime pack of ' WIK-O ' all purpose washing powder with ' coupon free ' and ' Brings you the unrationed !! ' strap lines to the packaging. Contains original contents and is in good, solid condition. Slightly faded. read more