Auction Catalogue

30 March 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 720

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30 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£85

Norwegian cap badge, bearing the cypher of Haakon VII, silver, reverse with hallmarks for Birmingham 1942, nearly extremely fine; Axis Powers Propaganda Booklet, aimed at ‘Arabic readers’ of North Africa, with 20 coloured anti-British, pro-Axis Powers’ cartoons with Arabic captions - cartoons depict a drunken Churchill; British shipping being sunk; Churchill and The King praying to the god of money; Churchill begging from ‘Uncle Sam’; an Arab hand-in-hand with soldiers of the Axis, etc., a little water stained, good condition (2) £40-60

Cap badge worn by Norwegian troops in Britain.