Featured a few items from the "brass buttons + stuff" box

I'm going to start with just a few items from the "stuff" box I mentioned earlier in the FINDS thread:

I'll begin with these:
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that's one item...

 

They all appear to be WWII 'campaign' medals and you may find their matching ribbons in the group as well.

 

1. This one is marked STERLING. It's about 1" tall:
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2. There are 4 of these, 2 each marked STERLING (like the one at top) and 2 each marked 1/20 10k (like the one below); they're about 2 3/4" wide:

 

Keep reading, Komo!

 

There are several of these, all marked STERLING; they're 1" wide, wingtip to wingtip:


and one of these, also marked STERLING (obviously plated with something else!) It's 1 1/4" tall:
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(I do know what the BWRS was.)

 

Last for tonight, and very likely not militaria, but there was the cutest little brass-handled screwdriver in the box.

It's not like the ones that come with those tiny brass tool sets made in China; it's actually really a sturdy little thing, but only about 1 1/4" long:

 

Eyeglass temple screw driver,missing tube part would hold the screws.

 

Hollyblue, I thought so, too, at first, but it's way too big and "thick" - at least for the screws on the eyeglasses in our house!

Tomorrow, I'll take a photo of it next to DH's cheap little eyeglasses screwdriver, and you'll be able to see what I mean.

 

I can just see KOT counting up his pennies......
That one with the eagle even has my heart a flutter !!

 

I think it's the smallest one in a nesting set that was made by the blind.
Do they still?

 

All nice.

 

It's the smallest one in a set of 4 screwdrivers that nest by screwing into the handle of a brass hammer. Mine was a giveaway from (I think) New England Mutual Insurance (before they were taken over by MetLife. Very handy!

And if I recall correctly, had a Made In China label at one time.

 

I have one of those too.
Do you recall the ones I'm speaking of?

 

"made by the blind" - no I don't.

 

I'll have to research that.

 

I just took a closer look at mine. Still has its little made in china sticker on one side of the hammer head. And on one side of the handle, in red paint/enamel?, IMPACT The Credit Insurance Success System. Definitely from NEM.

 

Hi,
I have one of those hammer and screw driver gizmos. My is really old advertising a broiler heating company in the 1920s.
greg

 

What I meant was that it isn't like the lightweight little ones I had when I was a kid - sort of like these:

...and that it's "thicker" than one for eyeglasses:


Thanks to all of your kind suggestions, I think I've found it:

It looks to be the smallest one from a 4-part set, like the one here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Bra...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Thanks, everybody, for your input!

 

Here's the last of the "stuff" - excluding the buttons, extra pin backs, & the like:


There are 3 of these, each about 7/16" across. They're all marked 1/20 10K GF.
I'm not sure what they represent.

The other things are non-military:

3 of what I believe are Sigma Chi Norman shields. The one at far right has a push-pin back, the others have screw-type fasteners:


What looks like an Alpha Phi Omega pledge pin:


And a couple of Boy Scout items (a very small pin and a tiny charm,) a Toastmasters International pin, and an unmarked little eagle pin:


I think that's it!