£45.00
A ‘quirky’ period item being a Royal Navy cap tally for HMS Royal Sovereign, made into a ladies ‘garter strap’
Fading to the wire details and elasticated border banding, otherwise damage free.
A gift from a sailor (the same sailor as the previous listing) to his sweetheart ?
HMS Royal Sovereign was a ‘Revenge Class’ battleship seeing WW2 Service with the Royal Navy and from may 1944 the Soviet Navy
War time food package, ’Orlox Plain Suit Pudding In War Time Jacket’. Plain grey card package with red content detail. Excellent un-used condition. Damage and tear free. Will fold flat for display or storage.
A very good pictorial and text, card cover, account of the Blitz suffered by Portsmouth July 1940 - May 1944. Fairly graphic images of bomb destruction suffered by the city, that may well have not passed the censor earlier in the war. Good clean damage free condition with an inked ‘gift’ dedication to the inside front cover. Profits from the sale of the booklet were to be donated
A superb pre-WW2 hallmarked silver art-deco ladies cigarette case, presented to a lady officer by the students of her first anti-gas class. Damage and dent free with slight tarnishing. Good clear presentation engraving. Above the hallmark seems to be a pawn shop marking. A very attractive item. (77 grams of silver with a scrap value of approx £35 at the time of listings).
Southend on Sea General Hospital’, flag day lapel pin. Very good damage free condition. Complete with fitting pin, which is now a little rusty.
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