AN ADMIRALTY PATTERN SIGNALLING TORCH, CIRCA 1940s

heavily constructed in brass with maker's plate inscribed Shimwell, Alexander & Co., 30 Bury Street, London, with retractable contact button and soldered brass loop -- 10in. (25.5cm.) long; together with a brass maquette of the monument to the lost German gunboat Iltis, 1896 -- 7½in (19cm) high

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The S.M.S. Iltis was a 155ft 'Wolf' class gunboat of 1878, lost with all 85 hands in a typhoon while serving in the China sea 23rd July 1896.

Condition Report

in good working condition, wear commensurate with age

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