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These pages display a number of the rare items that I have had the pleasure of selling. To view more details and a larger photograph please click on the thumbnail picture.
Wartime R.A.F Ash Tray.
Wartime unusual heavy cast R.A.F wings ash tray measures approx 15 x 12cm and weighs approx 1 lb 2oz. The oval ash tray is surmounted by good detailed cast Kings Crown pilot wings and is in good used condition.
Attributed 1941 Dated R.C.A.F Jacket.
Royal Canadian Air Force pilots four pocket service jacket named to F/O W. Hendershott and dated 22/5/1941. The tailored jacket is in very good condition with a few small stains and some general service wear, his R.C.A.F pilots wings and WW1 medal ribbons. Retains in the jacket inner pocket a clear tailors label - Warren. K. Cook - Cook Clothing Company Ltd. Toronto. Tailored especially for F/O W. Hendershott - 22-5-41. In WW1 Hendershott served with the Royal Flying Corps as a pilot and saw service with 19 Squadron in France.
1943 British Army Chocolate & Boiled Sweets Ration
Wartime British Army chocolate & boiled sweets ration tin (measures approx 22x14x6cm) in good used condition with some service wear to finish, printing to lid has manufacture and packing details - R.W.H. Ltd / PKD. 8/43.
Medal / Log Book Grouping to Group Captain C. Foth
Medal / log book grouping to Group Captain C. Fothergill R.A.F includes - 1939 - 45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star and War Medals 1939 - 45 with MID, 5 x log books covering 1934 to 1958, 12 x RAF publicity photographs for the launch of the Manchester bomber, including images of the recipient and his 97 Squadron crew. Charles Fothergill, who was born in June 1913, was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in August 1934 and qualified for his Wings in August 1935. Posted to No 70 Squadron at Hinaidi in Iraq, in the following month, he flew Victoria and Valencia aircraft until returning to the Uk in late 1937, a period which encompassed several aircraft searches, including one for a missing Horsa of Imperial Airways in late August 1936 - it was subsequently found in the Arabian Desert by a pilot from No 84 Squadron. Back in the UK Fothergill attended assorted courses, including one at the Central Flying School, prior being appointed an instructor at No.6 F.T.S at Little Rissington in October 1938, but with the advent of hostilities he was ordered to join No 501 Squadron at R.A.F Filton. Here as evidenced by his relevant log book , he took under his wing as instructor numerous future Battle of Britain pilots, - Ginger Lacey, but also those less fortunate, among them P/O John Bland (KIA 18 August 1940), P/O Keith Aldridge (shot down and badly wounded on 24/8/1940) and P/O Edmund Sylvester (KIA 20/7/1940. Then in February 1940, fothergill was posted to another F.T.S in Northern Ireland and then in November to an O.T.U at Cottesmore, from which he joined No 97 Squadron flying Manchester bomber from Conningsby, in March 1941. Going operational that June with strikes against targets in France and Dusseldorf (3 x ops). He was then ordered to take command of No 207 Squadron at Bottesford, were he carried out two "Gardening" trips in February 1942. Later in 1942 he took up an appointment in No 41 Group and he remained similarly employed on instructional duties until war end, while in December 1945, after joining No 617 Squadron he was ordered to South-East Asia Command, the Squadron participating in a Victory Week fly past over Delhi before returning to the U.K. in April 1946. But Fothergill was once more ordered overseas with an appointment in No 31 Squadron at Palam that September where among other duties he transported refugees in the units Dakotas. With the disbandment of No 31 Squadron at the end of 1947, he joined Air H.Q, B.A.F.O as a Wing commander, from which date his flying hours became more intermittent, not least because of appointments such as RAF selection board at Cranwell. But in September 1954, he mastered the age of jets, going solo in a Meteor IV. Then from April 1956 to July 1960 he served as Air Attache at Belgrade, in which latter that year he was placed on the retired list as a Group Captain. List of No 501 Squadron Battle of Britain Pilots Instructed by Fothergill - P/O K.R Aldridge P/O J.W Bland - KIA 18/8/40 Sgt G.W Pearson -KIA 6/9/40 P/O E.J.H Sylvester - KIA 20/7/40 P/O H.C Adams - KIA 6/9/40 Sgt J.H Lacey "Ginger" DFM Sgt D.A.S McKay DFM F/O K.N.T Lee DFC P/O R.C Dafforn DFC Sgt P.C.P Farnes DFM Sgt D.B Crabtree All the logs are in good condition with normal age wear, well written with correct signatures etc. Medals are in excellent condition.
Royal Ordnance Factory - No 21 Lapel Badge.
Wartime Royal Ordnance Factory - 21 (ROF Spennymoor) brass lapel badge with button hole fixing and maker marked T.L.M. Ltd B'ham and numbered 539.
Civil Defence Motor Transport Badge.
Single civil defence M.T "Motor Transport" embroidered badge measures approx 40mm dia. In good unissued condition.
Dig For Victory Leaflet No.1.
Dig For Victory Leaflet No.1 - Vegetable Production in private gardens and allotments. 8 page foldout leaflet published 1941 giving details how to get vegetables all year round. Leaflet in good clean condition.
Wartime Novelty Pop Up Card.
Scarce wartime novelty pop up greeting card entitled "Thumbs Up!". Produced by the Brent Press Ltd, the card is in good used condition.
Boots A.R.P Dept - Aircraft Recognition Book.
Identification Of Principal British And German Aircraft folder / book for use by Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd. A.R.P Department, Station Street, Nottingham. The expandable hard cover book measures approx 22x15x4 cm and holds hundreds of hand written details plus pasted in illustration of numerous aircraft. The covers of the book has Boots A.R.P Dept stamps to front and rear. This interesting book is in good used sound condition.
Laughs With The R.A.F.
Laughs With The R.A.F. Complied by S. Evelyn Thomas. One of a series of wartime booklets taking a light hearted look at the home front. Compiled from various cartoons and publications. The 48 page booklet is in good sound clean condition.