WW1 Lord Kitchener 'I WANT YOU' advertisement recruitment tin button badge WW1 Lord Kitchener 'I WANT YOU' advertisement recruitment tin button badge

WW1 Lord Kitchener 'I WANT YOU' advertisement recruitment tin button badge

A very scarce original First World War early circa 1914 period 'Lord Kitchener recruitment advertising celluloid tin button badge' in the form of black and white photographic image of 'Lord Kitchener' wearing the cap of a British field marshal, he stares and points at the viewer calling them to enlist in the British Army and inscribed 'I WANT YOU' this set on a red, white and blue coloured patriotic Union (Jack) Flag. Good condition, no foxing, complete with original button loop shank fitting.
Diameter 25mm.
Lord Kitchener died in 1916 near the Orkney Islands, Scotland, when the warship taking him to negotiations in Russia was sunk by a German mine.

Code: 65510

60.00 GBP