ANTIQUE BOTTLES & COLLECTABLES
Wednesday, 4 - Sunday, 15 June 2025
EARLY ENAMEL BADGES/LAPEL PINS
Current Bid $10 (1 bid, reserve met)
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Lot Details
A group of 4 early badges/Lapel Pins Boy Scouts, brass with black lettering, Very Good 8/10 WWB- World Wide Brotherhood, red blue white & gold enamelling, Very Good 8.5/10, The Wide World Brotherhood (WWB) was founded in 1949 by Horace Pitt-Kethley who at the time was editor of the The Wide World magazine. The WWB was a fraternal organisation for men and women “linked by a common bond of a love of travel and adventure” (Wide World magazine January 1956). To join the WWB cost 5/- (5 shillings), a once-off charge with no annual subscriptions thereafter and for which each new member received a welcoming letter from the editor, a certificate of membership and the enamel badge BOSCH, diamond shaped enamelled badge (fixing pin is missing), image of a Bosch Spark Plug, Very Good 8/10 Shell design with letter M on it, stick pin, (Methodist Church??), Very Good 8/10
