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…