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I am fortunate or cursed depending on how you look at it
I share that sentiment. There are some real treasures of out-of-print books with no equivalent on the internet for research purposes.
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Originally Posted by
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It's Finn marked SA.
With the wartime dispersal maker code of M634.
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Is that a giant ruptured duck? Neat piece...of course we never see those here.
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The toy helmets were available in the UK in the time frame of the late 1930's to around 1940 or so. What I don't know is if any were UK manufactured or if they were all US produced.
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LOL, it is a giant ruptured duck and I never made the connection before you said that. To explain what this is for non-US members, in the US, veterans have flags placed on their graves and these are the holders. This makes my fifth. I have the Civil War, the Spanish American War, WWI, WWII and one that is not marked but is the same design as the WWI so probably another variety of that. These will have a metal rod that goes into the ground and stays year-round on the grave. The small flags with wooden poles fit in the top and are changed periodically.
The UK probably had their own manufacturers of the toy helmets. A book I picked up yesterday has a photo of two boys in the occupied Channel Islands wearing them. They look just like miniature Brodies and are painted green. It is possible Marx made them as they were a big toy manufacturer, but you had plenty of toy manufactureres also.
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The first 2 pics were likely taken late 1939 or early 1940 and the last pic around a year or so later. I do still have the teepee seen in the last pic albeit with a few moth holes and I do intend to put it up in my garden in order to take some photos at some stage. Sadly I don't have the toy helmets or the model aeroplane also seen in the pic.
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