Item Reference: 006516
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Two Second World War tin openers. One inscribed ‘1943, John Watt, Sheffield, England’ and the other inscribed ‘H. J. Heinz Co Ltd, 57 Varieties’
Date: 1943
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Item Reference: 006515
Category: Second World War
Format: Badge
Description: Auxiliary Fire Service buttonhole lapel badge, chromium plated, eight pointed crowned star with red enamel ‘AFS’. Maker’s details on reverse ‘J.Pinches Ltd, London’
Date: 1940s
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Item Reference: 006514
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: RAF Benevolent Fund Bell, cast in metal from German aircraft shot down over Britain 1939-45. Depicts busts of Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt
Date: 1939-45
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Item Reference: 006513
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Standard issue, ACME pattern 049, Nickel-plated brass Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Warden’s whistle. Maufactured by J Hudson and Co. Barr, Hockley, Birmingham.
Date: c. 1938
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Item Reference: 006512
Category: Second World War
Format: Clothing
Description: Silk scarf, hand embroidered with military badge of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire regiment
Date:
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Item Reference: 001440
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Empty, oblong, tin, badly rusted, with worn and patchy instructions printed on lid. Would have previously contained eight lead tubes of anti-gas ointment designed to be applied to the skin as an antidote to mustard gas and lewisite
Date: c. 1941
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Item Reference: 001431
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Small, green, tubular tin, badly rusted, with worn and patchy instructions printed on the outside. Would have contained anti-dimming compound and cleaning cloth for gas mask eye pieces
Date: 1940s
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Item Reference: 001427
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Plain white china plate with Nazi Eagle printed on the underside
Date:
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Item Reference: 001426
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Plain white china plate with “George VI” printed on the underside
Date:
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Item Reference: 001417
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Air Raid Warden’s torch, manufactured by Eveready, issued by SEGas, personal etching on side
Date: 1940s
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