£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
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).
Post WW2 / early 1950’s ‘Cold War’ Civil Defence Corps shoulder title ‘Headquarters’ Yellow thread on heavy navy wool backing. Moth and damage free.
ARP Bulletin No 3 ‘Home Storage of Food Supplies….What to buy and how to use.’ 16 page booklet detailing the safe storage of food and its use in emergency / food shortage. Also gives healthy / cost conscious meals within certain budgets. Some age foxing to front cover, otherwise excellent damage free condition.
AWA Flying Group Overall badge. Mint condition cloth badge. Thanks to a site viewer I can now attribute this patch to the ‘Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft’ organisation. A.W. were a major producer of aviation products pre and during WW2.
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