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Accession Number | REL31580 |
Collection type | Heraldry |
Object type | Heraldry |
Physical description | Cardboard, Paper |
Maker |
Unknown |
Date made | c 1917-1918 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Writing pad of patriotic notepaper
Description
Patriotic writing pad showing, on the cover, the helmet of a suit of armour crowned with a laurel wreath, Acanthus leaves, and a shield containing the words 'Our Allies' Arms.' In a banner below are the words 'IN FREEDOM'S CAUSE'. Inside the cover is an attached sheet of blotting paper. Each sheet of notepaper in the pad has faintly ruled lines. Across the top and down the left margin, beneath a blue banner containing the words 'IN FREEDOM'S CAUSE', appear coloured representations of the coats of arms of Great Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Servia, Roumania, Portugal and U.S. America. There are ten sheets of paper remaining in the pad.
History / Summary
Unknown, but presumably purchased in Australia during the First World War.