Comic Postcard - Blackout.

Charming comic postcard published by the Medici Society featuring the artist Mollie Willing and a Blackout theme. Postally used and desirable image.
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Code: 13324

ARP Handbook No.6 ARP in Factories and Businesses.

1938 1st.ed ARP Handbook No.6 'Air Raid Precautions in Factories and Business Premises'.69pgs illustrated with line drawings and diagrams dealing with subjects from trench shelters to decontamination and sandbags to warning systems. In excellent, clean condition.  read more

Code: 13323

1941 Ration Book R.BI/4.

1941 RB.1/4 General Ration Book. This is the fourth issue ration book, issued in 1941 from the Manchester food office, the second page contains instructions on how to use the book. As usual with most ration books some coupons clipped and or cancelled, covers lightly marked through use with rusted staples.  read more

Code: 13322

Home Guard Improvised Grenade.

WW2 Home Guard extemporised grenade. Designed by Lt.Col.Williams Ellis of the 1st Btn. Merioneth Home Guard the grenade consisted of a rough casting sealed by a wooden plug, similar in design and construction to the WW1 Battye bomb. Filled with black powder and intiated by a piece of Bickford cord the grenade could be used as a practice or as a replacement H.E.Fragmentation grenade in place of ...  read more

Code: 13320

Wartime Observer Corps Officer's Cap.

Uncommon example of an Observer Corps Officer's Cap. Manufactured by the Bedford Tailor of Harry Hills Ltd who had their premises in Silver St, Bedford and featuring a prominent label to interior. RAF officer style cap with a deep leather head band and featuring a bullion cap badge with a gilt form of an Elizabethan Beacon Lighter on a mound surmounting a patent leather chinstrap. Good, used co...  read more

Code: 13319

Emergency Relief Organisation Armband.

Printed cotton armband for the Emergency Relief Organisation. The ERO was the name for most of the post-raid services including rest centres and air raid welfare in Scotland. From December 1940 the various post-raid organisations were brought under the ERO banner and insignia was issued. In good overall condition with light surface marking. Scarce.  read more

Code: 13317

CD Training Pamphlet No2. Objects Dropped from the Air.

Important Civil Defence Training Pamphlet detailing all the objects dropped from the air likely to be encountered by CD personnel. Printed in 1944 and given a RESTRICTED classification the70pg booklet details most of the known German air dropped ordnance demonstrating them in b/w photographs and diagrams. Also lists Italian ordnance and Allied AA shells, barrage balloon devices,mortars,rockets ...  read more

Code: 13316

A.F.S. Nuneaton Lapel badge.

Brass and silver gilt lapel badge worn by members of Nuneaton A.F.S. Half moon lapel fitting with manufacturer's details for the ' Birmingham Medal Co '. Rubbed condition but scarce.  read more

Code: 13315

WVS Cambridgeshire Civil Defence arm badge.

WVS Civil Defence embroidered arm badge and area title for Cambridgeshire. Arm badge and area title embroidered on felt which replaced flannel from 1941 due to wartime shortages. The badge and Cambridgeshire title were worn low on the sleeve although the arm badge does appear both as a breast and beret/hat badge. Both items in unmothed condition with clear signs of having been removed from a un...  read more

Code: 13314

Children's miniature book ' Life in a Tank '.

Part of the ' Tuck's Little Books ' series published by Raphael Tuck & Sons intended as a pocket size book for use ' in the shelter '. In good, used condition with some contemporary marking.
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Code: 13313