Lapel Collection

How to recognise rank in the Royal Navy-a wartime advert for Dunlop fort tyres. Date: 1941

Lenin Making Speech
VLADIMIR ILICH ULYANOV LENIN The Russian statesman is depicted making a rousing speech

Elderly couple sitting on the side of a rowing boat
An elderly couple pose for a photograph sitting on the side of a rowing boat on the beach at a busy British seaside resort. Note the lapel cord on the gentlemans fine boater hat! circa 1920s

Astronaut Virgil ?Gus? Grissom wearing the NASA Disting?
Astronaut Virgil ?Gus? Grissom wearing the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and a Project Mercury lapel pin, during a news conference at Cape Canaveral, the day after his sub-orbital flight

White Star Line, four souvenir enamel lapel badges
White Star Line, souvenir enamel lapel badges depicting Teutonic, Calgaric, Cedric and Adriatic

Schlachtschiff Bismarck lapel badge, German battleship, WW2
MILITARIA/THIRD REICH: Extremely rare enamel Bismarck lapel badge possibly a launch souvenir or an item purchased on board. Made by B. H

Cunard Line, RMS Queen Mary - souvenir brass items made from her propellers - four coasters, 3.5 inches diameter, two paperweights, 2 inches diameter, tie bar, lapel pin, and two sets of cufflinks

Gordon Brown, Labour politician, speaking at a meeting
Gordon Brown (James Gordon Brown, b 1951), Labour politician, MP from 1983, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997, and British Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010. Seen here speaking at a meeting

James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), British Labour politician, Prime Minister in 1924, and again 1929-1935. Seen here sitting in a chair with a hand on the lapel of his jacket. Date: circa 1920s

DRYDEN/DIE DAME/19/CAR
Cover design for Die Dame magazine - a woman wearing flowers in her lapel examines a model car Date: 1926

Extremely jolly elderly couple - Granny in a bath chair, Grandpa in his Sunday best and bowler hat. Smiles as wide as possible!! Date: circa 1910s

Nurse in veil and coat, possible nurse in felt hat and coat
Formal studio portrait of two nurses. One nurse stands, wearing dark veil and General Nursing Council badge on her lapel. A district nurse in coat and hat sits on a bench holding gloves

Space Memorabilia - Apollo XI lapel pin
Space Memorabilia - Apollo XI (11) mission space flown lapel pin. An incredible piece of Apollo 11 flown history, Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the moon

Delightful, at the Gaiety Theatre, Macedonia
Delightful first produced at the Gaiety Theatre, Macedonia in 1918. The caption reads Weston Drury as Ferdie Fittitt. Sergeant Weston Drury wrote many of the productions at the Gaiety Theatre

Boer War - Lapel badge depicting Brigadier General Sir H Mac
Lapel badge depicting Brig Gen Sir H Macdonald, nd. One of 42 photographic lapel badges depicting Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and British Army staff of the Boer War, 1900 (c)-1902 (c)

Thomas Macnamara
THOMAS JAMES MACNAMARA Politician Date: 1861 - 1931

Suffragette W. S. P. U Badge Christabel Pankhurst (reverse)
Paper lapel reads, Votes for Women Womens Social & Political Union, 4 Clements Inn, Strand W.C. Reverse of portrait badge. Date: circa 1908

Suffragette Ceramic Teapot
A Ceramic teapot made in the Foley Intarsio ware, of a suffrage supporter or advocate of Womens Rights. The lid or cover has the face of a stereotypical, be-spectacled spinster

Man in uniform with various medals
Profile portrait of man in uniform with various medals attached to the lapel of his coat. Lithographed by C. Hullmandel after M. Gauci. H.R.H. Don Francis

Cartoon, A Friend at Last, WW1
Cartoon, A Friend at Last. A German cavalryman says to a British slacker who hasn t yet joined the armed forces: Thanks, mein friendt! Your neutrality in the war is most helpful to me

Advert for Flamingo raincoats 1935
The latest aquatite production- the Flamingo light weight raincoat. Rubber-less odourless, hygienic and self-ventilating. The Flamingo tripple-proofed fashion coat folds or rolls into a very small

The Wall Nut - Effeminate young gent pondering the scene
The " Wall-Nut" - An effeminate (Metro-sexual?!) young gent pondering the scene from his perch on the promenade wall of a seaside resort

Charabanc outing, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Twenty-eight men, most of them with a carnation on their lapel, and two women, posing for their photo before setting off in a charabanc for a days outing to the races, organised by the Marine Hotel

Derby County FC lapel or tie pin
A Derby County Football Club lapel or tie pin in black and gold. Date: early 20th century

Young lady in plain brown dress by Jean Patou
Young lady wearing a plain brown v-necked crepe dress with flared sleeves, by Jean Patou. 1924

Middle-aged Victorian man with whiskers
A middle-aged Victorian man with whiskers and a long face. He is wearing a wide-lapelled jacket and a large tie with a tiepin

SIMPSONs SUIT 1937
An elegant man in a double- breasted suit with easy drape and long lapel rolled to the bottom button worn with a carnation buttonhole, striped tie & trilby hat

Wilhelm Ii / Schwarz
Wilhelm II German Royalty German Emperor

Edward Braddock
EDWARD BRADDOCK British Major General and commander in chief of forces in America. Led expedition against Fort Duquesne (1755)

Fashionable Couple 1837
Man: frock coat with roll collar & pointed lapel. Woman: pink & white open-robe, bodice with lace tucker & quilling, tunic fastened at intervals with a shell shaped trim

English Style Dress 1834
English style: brown cut-away D-B coat with triangular notch between lapel & collar, pale grey trousers; plaid waistcoat with shawl collar, green frock coat & white pantaloons

Poppy in Button Hole
A remembrance poppy on the lapel of a tweed jacket

Study of a Tramp
A study of an old man, a tramp, with matted hair, a gypsy sprig pinned to his lapel and a couple of war medals pinned to his coat with a safety pin

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