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RAF buttons

Spitfire

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Ahhh - the details!
In my drawer I have some RAF tunic Kings Crown buttons. I took them out today, just to have a look - and give them a polish.
Then I looked at the back of the buttons and found they were all made by different makers. The strange part is, that one of the buttons are either older than the rest - or has belonged to a guy who really liked to polish brass.
I am talking about the one in the middle - with no producers name on the back.
Can anybody enlighten me of the age - or history - of these buttons.
I know they are all WWII - but the one in the middle might be even older?

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Spitfire

I'll Lock Up
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Location
Copenhagen, Denmark.
It could be a good little TV drama here.
Somewhere in London or B'ham - one day in 1939 a woman is making one button out of the thousands of buttons she produces.
Now who is she?
The button goes to a uniformmaker and is sewn upon a tunic.
Who gets the tunic. What happens to that man. Is he a pilot, a groundcrew, an officer or a private....?
Do they ever meet - the RAF man and the buttonmaker???
Do they survive the war?

The story of a button.

:)
 

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