Engraved brass teapot stand containing a cartoon, WW1

An engraved brass teapot stand containing a cartoon: Hold my gun and I'll kill him for good, on a carved bakelite base. Depicting the efforts of members of the VTC (Volunteer Training Corps), the Dad's Army of WW1, comprising a variety of over age and unfit men. The VTC nevertheless grew to a formidable force by the end of the war, providing both a means of training under-age would-be soldiers and keeping guard on vulnerable points. The men wore a distinctive armband with the letters GR (Georgius Rex), the origin of one of its wartime nicknames, Gorgeous Wrecks'. Trench Art

Armband Bakelite Dads Distinctive Formidable Georgius Gorgeous Keeping Nickname Points Teapot Unfit Volunteer Vulnerable Wrecks

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