NFS 17 breast badge.

Embroidered red on blue wool National Fire Service area 17 breast badge. For wear on the heavy duty NFS tunic. Area 17 covered Somerset and had it's headquarters in Bristol. In good condition with some evidence of having been removed from a tunic.  read more

Code: 7668

Civil Defence area title.

Gold on blue embroidered cotton on bluette Civil Defence area title for Bedfordshire. Worn on the breast pocket of the overalls below the CD breast badge. In good clean, unmothed condition.  read more

Code: 7665

NFS sidecap

Mid to late war economy, white metal and enamel cap badge. This pattern replaced the heavier, cast or die struck examples in an effort to economize the use of raw materials. This example in excellent condition complete with white metal retaining pin.  read more

Code: 7653

Comic postcard - travel.

Comic postcard by the artist 'Dinah' featuring that wartime slogan 'Is your journey necessary?' Postally used, sent in 1943 to a Derby address. Bumped corners and slightly dusty.
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Code: 7647

YMCA War Service Fund badges.

Card flag day badges for 'The Margarets Fund-National Y.M.C.A. War Service Fund'. Presumably given to recognise a donation to the fund. In good order with some minor creasing and pin hole to top.
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Code: 7621

Luftwaffe target maps - Leeds.

1939 dated Luftwaffe target 'pack' for Leeds Gasworks. Containing a target description marked 'Geheim!' - secret,an aerial photo with target outlined in red and other annotations, 2 x 1:50 000 maps similarly marked (Leeds W.Gaswerk & Gaswerk Leeds Sud) and a larger scale 1:10560 map with overprinting. All the maps were copied by the Germans from British originals and targets identified and outl...  read more

Code: 7614

8th Battalion Cornwall Home Guard sleeve badge.

8th ( Helston ) Battalion Cornwall Home Guard sleeve badge. In place of county designations and numbers, Cornwall battalions wore distinctive designs, in this case a stylised lizard printed on cloth. Badge in mint un-issued condition  read more

Code: 7608

Harrow Bomber Fund pin badge.

Celluloid and tin, pinback badge for the 1940 Harrow Bomber Fund. Featuring a pun in the design this badge was made by Thos.Fattorini and is marked to the rim. Like its counterparts in the Spitfire Funds this badge was probably given in exchange for a donation to the fund. In excellent condition with minor corrosion to the reverse, uncommon.  read more

Code: 7605

Fuel Watcher poster.

25cm x 37cm approx poster issued by the Ministry of Fuel and Power and printed by W.R.Royle & Son as part of the 'Fuel Watcher' campaign. Featuring an image of the small blue plastic fuel watcher badges with the strapline 'Don't leave it all to your Fuel Watcher - keep on helping him to save heat,steam,power,light' In excellent, fresh, unissued condition.  read more

Code: 7602

H.J.Heinz Fire Brigade badge.

Embroidered, cotton on wool breast badge for the famous H.J.Heinz company fire brigade. Based on the design of the pre and early war AFS badge, this particular example is in unissued condition.  read more

Code: 7592