badge
- Museum number
- 2005,1107.9
- Description
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Stamped and enamelled badge, made of metal. (whole)
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Silver inscription on a light blue background; silver, blue and red illustration of the Czechoslovak Army logo/the small Czechoslovakian coat of arms (a silver lion rampant with crossed tail, with shield containing a silver double-cross above a blue mountain peak on a red background) behind a blue snake entwined around a blue vertical line (representing the Rod of Asclepius); red and white background (the English flag, white with red cross). (obverse)
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Silver with inscription. (reverse)
- 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
- 2005,1107.9
