Box NRI2/8/8/4/1 (1 of 2)
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Series
Badges and pins, 1914-c.1995
Series
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/8/8/4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
The dimensions given for the medals are the diameter and the depth.
Dates:
1914-c.1995
File
‘Help China / Don’t buy Japanese toys at Christmas’ flag pins, 1938 - 1939
File
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/8/8/4/1
Scope and Contents
The pins are held in a bent metal canister, which has no markings except a label on the base with the price ‘2/6’ (2 shillings and 6 pence). It was probably the original tin which held the pins. There are 135 flags with metal pins and 3 with missing pins. The pins were part of the 1938 Christmas boycott of Japanese toys organised by the China Campaign Committee, see ‘Aid China 1937 – 1949: A Memoir of a Forgotten Campaign’ by Arthur Clegg (China: New World Press, 1989).5 pins...
Dates:
1938 - 1939