A superb first pattern (1918) RAF pilot brevet, that is quite simply a throw back to RFC brevets.
Size is ‘petit’ and in keeping with RFC brevets of a year or so earlier.
Brevet is slightly grubby, but damage free. Removed from a tunic, with attaching thread still present.
Reverse with white paper backing as was common to RFC brevets of similar size and ‘design’.
A good used removed from a tunic RFC / early RAF medal ribbon grouping. Consists of the second pattern Air Force Cross, War & Victory medals ribbons, all with the same wear. The victory ribbon at one time (from the marks on it) seems to have carried an MID oak-leaf cluster. Nice untouched, worn, grubby condition.
A fine example of a Royal Flying Corps pilot brevet. Good crisp detail to wing feathers, crown and central monogram. A very clean moth free example of a removed from a tunic, brevet that is now hard to find.
The memorial card as issued for the service of remembrance for the victims of the R.101 Airship disaster of October 1930. The card has suffered from age storage and as such is a little stained and ‘grazed’, but is in overall very good handle able condition.
Made under the same cottage style industry as hand embroidered silk post cards, this is a superb silk pillow case with large embroidered R.F.C. pilot wings, Corps motto and wording ’Souvenir From France’. A more ’up-market’ form of silk embroidery that would probably have been intended for sale to an R.F.C. pilot / air crew for sending home to a sweetheart or parent. There is some age
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