WW2 Yorkshire War Worker YMCA Home-front Enameled Lapel-badge.

Good original wartime period 'Young Men's Christian Association Yorkshire Area War Worker" pin-back enameled lapel-badge. Large circular gilded brass example, 30mm dia with black and red enameling all in excellent condition. The reverse bears the maker's details 'Fattorini Bradford'. read more

Code: 52363

Pair of 'Parachute Regiment' Machine-embroidered Cloth Shoulder-titles.

Machine-embroidered in light-blue on maroon. Mint unissued condition after a stock of these was found in a long forgotten redundant QM stores. read more

Code: 52361

National Hospital Service Reserve Enameled Membership (King's crown) Lapel-badge.

Pre-1953 green and red enameled brass pin-back badge in excellent condition. The reverse bears the maker's name 'H.W.Miller Ltd, Branston St., Birmingham 18'. Formed in 1948 under the Civil Defence Act as a product of the Cold War, the NHSR was finally disbanded in 1968.
(The purpose of the National Hospital Service Reserve was to recruit, train and organise a peacetime reserve of men an... read more

Code: 52360

BRD : Early Bundeswehr Official Photo of a Raketenwerfer 110 SF (Rocket launcher).

Original official photo 17.5cms x 13cms ,from the West German Ministry of Defence (Verteidigungsministerium) showing a couple of Rocket launchers 110 SF. This piece of equipment consisted of two eighteen-barrel rocket-launchers on a rotating mount carried on a LKW 7t gl vehicle. All the rockets were 110mm calibre, electrically fired and had a maximum effective range of 15,000 mtrs although th... read more

Code: 52359

BRD : Early Bundeswehr Official Photo of an Armoured Bridging Vehicle.

Original official photo 17.5cms x 13cms ,from the West German Ministry of Defence (Verteidigungsministerium) showing a Bundeswehr American M48 A2 chassis on which is mounted the hydraulic bridging equipment. The bridge, which was 19.2mtrs long x 4mtrs wide, could take a load of 60 tonnes and span an 18mtr gap, being laid in 3-5 minutes. The vehicle is shown crossing one of its own bridges. T... read more

Code: 52358

Third Reich : Period Postcard of a Painted Portrait of General Erich Ludendorff.

Beautiful coloured portrait painting postcard of General Erich Ludendorff wearing his principal decorations. The painting was done by Paul Bender. This pre-1945 postcard was produced by the Ludendorff Verlag Gmbh in Munich. It has a lengthy caption on the reverse saying that larger print copies of the painting are available at a price of RM 10.-. Excellent / near mint condition. Rare. read more

Code: 52357

Third Reich : Portrait Card of a painting of Adolf Hitler in Uniform.

The card measures 16.5cms x 12cms and shows a coloured three-quarter length painting of Hitler in full uniform. The card was obviously for display and has evidence of drawing-pin holes in each corner. Unfortunately at some time in its history, someone appears to have thrown a couple of darts at the portrait leaving two small holes as shown in the photographs. These do not overly detract from... read more

Code: 52356

Third Reich : Original Hoffmann Portrait Postcard of Hitler in Uniform.

Excellent deckel-edged unused postcard-photo of a uniformed Hitler in stern dramatic pose. .The reverse bears the address of Heinrich Hoffmann's photo studio in Munich plus some reference numbers. Excellent near mint condition. read more

Code: 52355

Third Reich : Postcard of Hitler Receiving Posies from Children.

Unused and un-captioned postcard-photo of Hitler in uniform being presented with flower-posies by a group of young children including some in DJ and JM uniforms. The reverse bears an un-franked printed postage-stamp. This card is one of a series of PR postcards. Excellent condition. read more

Code: 52354

Third Reich : Portrait Postcard of Adolf Hitler.

Unused and uncaptioned postcard-portrait of Hitler without his cap. The reverse bears an un-franked printed postage-stamp. This card is one of a series of PR postcards. Excellent condition. read more

Code: 52353