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Box NRI2/8/8/4/1 (1 of 2)

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Contains 2 Results:

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Badges and pins, 1914-c.1995

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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
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‘Help China / Don’t buy Japanese toys at Christmas’ flag pins, 1938 - 1939

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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