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handkerchief

human history
  • Other Name

    souvenir cloth: It's a Long Way to Tipperary, WW1

  • Description

    handkerchief, printed with the music and lyrics to the song 'It's a long, long way to Tipperary', surrounded by different flags and with a line of marching soldiers walking into the foreground of the image.

    Patriotic souvenir cloth: It's a Long Way to Tipperary, WW1

    score and words to song; flags of Great Britain and Dominions and Colonies around edges inside border of shamrocks, Victoria /Crosses in each corner; flags either side of musical score; on lhs: flags of Japan, Great Britain and Russia; on rhs flags of France, Great Britain and Belgium

    markings: lower lhs: REGD; below musical score: BY KIND PERMISSION OF / B. FELDMAN & CO. 2 3 & 4 ARTHUR ST. NEW OXFORD ST. LONDON, W.C.

  • Place
    United Kingdom
  • Associated Place

    United Kingdom

    Western Front/Europe

  • Accession Number
    2015.97.2
  • Accession Date
    11 Nov 2015
  • Department

    History

    War History

    Applied Arts and Design

handkerchief 2015.97.2

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  • handkerchief 2015.97.2
  • handkerchief 2015.97.2
  • handkerchief 2015.97.2
  • handkerchief 2015.97.2
  • 2015 Graham - WWI memorabilia hankie - Tipperary recto
  • 2015 Graham - WWI memorabilia hankie - Tipperary verso
  • 2015 Graham - WWI memorabilia hankie - flags recto
  • 2015 Graham - WWI memorabilia hankie - flags verso
  • 2015 Graham - WWI memorabilia

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