Tommy Atkins – the advertisers’ hero

This 415-lot sale of advertising material was one of the South Yorkshire auctioneers’ BBR's most varied of its kind to date. It ranged from four-figure rarities and pieces of museum interest through favourites like Guinness material down to affordable collectables to bring a total of £45,730.

The entry that towered above all others was the pair of Facchino ice-cream figures of a boy and girl…

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