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WW1 British Royal Flying Corps Collection, including Flying Helmet, Goggles, Wrist Compass and Map Board

WW1 British Royal Flying Corps Collection, including Flying Helmet, Goggles, Wrist Compass and Map Board

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A fantastic and rare WW1 British Royal Flying Corps collection - including leather flying helmet, wrist compass, map board, goggles and ephemera.  

Includes :

A First World War Wood Navigation Map/Chart Board by Houghton's Ltd. dated 1913, London, as used by the Royal Flying Corps.  With a shaped pediment set with a compass, the reverse with a leather wrist strap and a protractor covered in perspex, stamped with maker's name and date 1913/IV, with broad arrow and numbered 4648; 

A Brass Wrist Compass, with leather wrist strap; 

an RFC Leather Flying Helmet, lined with rabbit fur in excellent condition.

A pair of RFC flying goggles - the rubber on the rims has solidified and is brittle with a number of pieces no longer connected - could be sympathetically restored.

An RFC themed WW1 silk postcard and unpublished small RFC photo.

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