badge
- Museum number
- 2005,1107.8
- Description
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Stamped badge, made of metal. (whole)
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Stamped inscription contained within an illustration of a ribbon; illustration of the Czechoslovak Army logo/the small Czechoslovakian coat of arms (a lion rampant with crossed tail, with shield containing a double-cross above a three peaked mountain), behind a snake entwined around a vertical line (representing the Rod of Asclepius), and in front of a cross filled with vertical lines on a stippled background. (obverse)
- Production date
- c1940
- Dimensions
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Height: 37 millimetres
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Width: 28 millimetres (at widest point)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of twenty one badges, formerly belonging to John Tusa, father of Sir John Tusa, a Czech who came to England in 1938 as manager of the British Bata shoe company, the UK outpost of the Czech company. In World War II many Czech army and air force people came to his house.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2005
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- 2005,1107.8
