Tyne Electrical Engineers Machine-embroidered Formation badge.

Machine-embroidered yellow on black shoulder-flash.  read more

Code: 50461

WW2 1941 Vale of Avon Warship Week (Nov 8 - 15) lapel badge.

Tin and celluloid stick-pin lapel badge featuring a destroyer (D10....HMS Intrepid) for Warship Week. Excellent condition. Scarce.  read more

Code: 50459

Greece : Army Colonel's pair of epaulette rank slip-ons.

Machine-embroidered matched pair of current Greek Army colonel's insignia.  read more

Code: 50458

Czechoslovakia (CSSR) : CSSR / USSR Friendship enamelled buttonhole lapel-badge.

Soviet era small (17mm high) gilt & enamel lapel badge with buttonhole fitting on the reverse. Behind the fitting is a makers mark which looks to be 'Astrid / Jablonca'. There is a very small chip to the red enamel of the star which only became apparent on the enlarged photo !  read more

Code: 50457

WW1 German 1916 Blackened Iron Medallion "Gold gab ich zur Wehr, Eisen nahm Ich zur Ehr".

In an effort to help the war economy in what was termed the Iron Time (In Eiserner Zeit), the Germans collected gold and silver from the public in return for which they received this 40mm diameter iron commemorative medallion.  read more

Code: 50455

WW1 British 1915 Copy of the German Lusitania Medal.

In 1915 the Germans produced a commemorative medallion designed by Karl Goetz to mark the sinking of the Lusitania. This 55mm diameter iron medallion is one of the official British replicas of that medallion and was sold as an anti-German propaganda tool to raise funds for St Dunstans during the First World War. These originally came in a box together with an explanatory leaflet. Excellent co...  read more

Code: 50454

Third Reich : Sturmabteilung (SA) Brownshirt's 2nd pattern Signals personnel removable epaulette.

Second pattern epaulette worn from 1939 to '45. Silver and brown braid on lemon-yellow base as worn by SA Signals ranks from SA-Mann to Haupttruppführer. Removable type with bottom bar. Good condition but with some rust staining to the yellow base from the internal wire frame.  read more

Code: 50453

Third Reich : Wehrmacht Identity Disc.

Aluminium alloy oval disc stamped '297 1./N7' which I assume is for a signals (Nachrichten) unit.  read more

Code: 50451

Belgium : National Recognition Medal in Silver for Veterans & Victims of War 1914-18 & 1940-45.

Silver-alloy medal complete with two-prong ribbon pin.  read more

Code: 50444

Third Reich : Rare Nazi Hilfswilliger 'HIWI' Identity Disc.

Alloy oval disc stamped 'HIWI 36 / L36990'.
The Hilfswilliger or voluneer assistants were drawn from the Eastern Occupied Territories and were frequently used to do the Nazi's dirty work. In one instance, the SS and police inducted, processed, and trained over 5,000 HIWI guards before the end of 1944 at the SS training section of the Trawniki concentration camp set up at the village of...  read more

Code: 50443