' Blackout ' Card Game.
' The topical game of Blackout ' - loosely based on whist with suits including ' Blackout Fashions, searchlights, silhouettes and black out views ' with the Black out card. Complete set with instruction sheet and conatined in it's original box. In excellent, clean condition with minor tears to box. read more
Boxed Silver ARP badge.
Silver ARP badge with brooch fitting intended to be issued to a woman contained in it's blue card box. Badge carries London hallmarks for 1936 and is contained in it's original packet and is in excellent condition. The Man's badge was issued in a corresponding red box. Box is unusually intact with some rubbing to edges. read more
The War That Went On Wheels.
C1945, 62pgs ' The War That Went On Wheels - The War Record of the Tilling Group of Companies 1939 - 1945 '. The Tilling Group was made up of 23 seperate companies primarily running bus and tram companies as well as building the same. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and illustrations. Interesting overview of the wartime public transport companies, In good, overall condition with li... read more
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The Hotspur Comic.
October 1944 edition of The Hotspur Comic. 14 pages of stories with a colouful cover showing a steamroller driven by a soldier crushing a Nazi turret. Other stories include ' the Vanishing Major ' and ' Old Joe's Jungle Jokers '. Tatty condition but intact.
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Battle For Fuel sticky labels.
Gummed labels endorsing the ' Battle For Fuel ' and intended to be stuck to correspondence, bills etc to remind people to ' Watch Your Target Figure '. In excellent, clean, unused condition. Several available.
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Allotment & Garden Guide Vol.I No.3
Issued as part of Ministry of Agriculture Dig For Victory campaign , this leaflet entitled ' Allotment & Garden Guide ' was one of a series issued in early 1945 under the same title. Vol.1 No.3 of March 1945 deals with all aspects of establishing an allotment and tips for the time of year. 8 page, gatefold leaflet in excellent condition.
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Identity Card endorsed ' mentally defective '.
Identity Card, one of the new 1943 issues, made out to a woman and endorsed ' Mentally defective '. Her address is given as a hospital. Card is in excellent, clean condition and bears a cancellation from 1943 . An unusual example of wartime registration read more
South Lonsdale Home Guard Association lapel badge.
Gilt and enamel lapel badge for ' the Kings Own - South Lonsdale Home Guard Association '. Home Guard Associations and OCAs were set up during and very quickly after the Stand Down in 1944, this example dating from that period. Lapel fitting to reverse, manufacturer marked ' Thos' Fattorini, B'ham '. In good clean condition with some patination to gilt finish. read more
Victory headscarf.
Large, rayon headscarf with ' VE ' and peace motif overlaid over a printed desgn featuring ration books, Allied flags, Churchill, and the Royal Family. These wartime themed headscarfs, hankies, and scarfs were popular as they were not rationed and were a bright and contemporary fashion accessory. In excellent, clean and bright condition. read more
Home Guard Instruction No.51 Pts 1 - 4.
4 x manuals of Home Guard Instruction No.51 ' Battlecraft and Battle Drill for the Home Guard '. Part I ' Introduction & Battlecraft 1942 ', Part II ' Battle Drill 1942 ' , Part III ' Patrolling 1943 ', and Part IV ' The Organization of Home Guard Defence 1943 ' , the last dealing with the Smith Gun and Spigot Mortar. All manuals with the exception of Part I illustrated with sketches and diagra... read more