Artefacts Gallery

Bruce Bairnsfather merchandise

Selection of items featuring illustrations by the famous World War One cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather including a jigsaw with Bairnsfather's curmudgeonly soldier character Ole Bill grumbling on the front of the box, "Now where does this blinkin bit go" - a skit on one of his most famous cartoons entitled, "Now Where Did That One Go?'. Also included is a poster or playbill for a revue called "Flying Colours" at the London Hippodrome, as well as a colour print of a cartoon of a victorious British soldier balancing a pickelhaube helmet on the end of his bayonet

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Onslow Auctions Limited

United Services Museum

In its day the Royal United Services Museum was regarded as the biggest and most important in the country, apart from the British Museum. It was started by the Duke of Wellington in 1831 and housed 9,000 artefacts. however, most of its artefacts had been dispersed to other museums by 1962

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Early aviation artefacts

A selection of early aviation artefacts associated with Louis Bleriot and Alcock & Brown. There are two pieces of wood from the plane in which Bleriot flew the English Channel in 1909, a piece of metal from the plane in which Alcock & Brown flew the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919, and a postcard bearing Alcock's and Brown's signatures. The photograph of Alcock and Brown is on the reverse of the postcard

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