Elstow Ordnance Factory lapel badge.
Chrome and enamel lapel badge ' EOF - Front Line Duty ' with pinback fitting to reverse. This badge is believed to be worn by members of staff of Elstow Ordnance Factory in Bedfordshire, ROF 16, which was engaged in shell filling under the management of J.Lyons of cornerhouse fame. Numbered and maker marked ' Thos.Fattorini, B'ham ' to reverse. In excellent, used condition.
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Comic postcard - Soldier.
Comic postcard.... ' I've gone crackers over a soldier ' .Comic postcard published by Valentine's by the well known artist Mabel Lucie Attwell featuring her trademark children . Clean, postally unused example, slight creasing.
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Essex Home Guard Tunic.
'40 Pat. Battledress Blouse bearing the insignia of the 2nd Essex ( Maldon ) Battalion Home Guard. Featuring a heavily worn manufacturer's label dated March 1941 possibly a size 12 - Chest 38ins - 39ins. Features Lieutenant rank insignia and printed Home Guard shoulder titles and ESX 2 area designations with WW1 Trio ribbon bar to left breast. What is particularly appealing about this tunic is ... read more
Girls Training Corps Forage Cap.
Woollen forage cap in the form of a field service cap for wear by an officer of the Girls Training Corps. Featuring nickelled plain buttons and a gilt and enamel GTC cap badge by Fattorini, B'ham with a dark blue woollen body with full lining and cotton sweatband. Some areas of mothing with the worst areas to the reverse. read more
WLA Area Shoulder title.
Embroidered cotton and wool area shoulder title for the WLA for the area of Carmarthenshire . These titles were intended for wear on the short coat and and were unofficially seen in the later stages of the War. Good, used condition with a couple of small moth nips. read more
Comic postcard - ARP
One of an early war series depicting comic doggerel with an ARP theme. Good condition, postally unused.
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War Cookery Leaflet No.24 Drying & Salting.
1945ed. Ministry of Food, War Cookery Leaflet No.24 ' Drying & Salting '. As with the rest of this series gives a number of simple and practical tips on the preservation of foodstuffs using drying and salting . Good, used condition with small tear.
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WLA 2 1/2 Year armband.
Felt and cotton, embroidered Women's Land Army armband for two years service with the addition of an applied half diamond indicating a further 6 months service. In excellent, clean condition with slight shrinkage following wear. read more
No.76 SIP Grenade.
A scarce example of a No.76 ' Hand & Projector Grenade '. Invented by Allbright & Wilson the self-igniting phosphorous hand or Northover Projector grenade was quite rudimentary . A specially made bottle ( slightly stronger bottle for use in the Northover , denoted by a green cap ) containing phosphorous, benzine mixture and a strip of latex rubber which would ignite on breaking of the bottle an... read more
ARP Handbook No.1.
124pgs 1938ed .ARP Handbook No.1. - 'Personal Protection Against Gas'. This ubiquitous volume was issued in large numbers and deals principally with gasmasks and gas. Sections on decontamination and anti-gas treatment also included. Illustrated with b/w photographs, sketches and diagrams. In good, clean condition.
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