Germany, Heer. A Set Of Infantry Swallow’s Nests Auction Archive Charles Frederick Bacon Philbrook

Charles Frederick Bacon Philbrook

Hurst ran afoul of the authorities

60 mm (w) x 59

plus 37 pages incorporating the plates printed in black ink

Germany, Heer. A Set Of Infantry Swallow’s Nests Auction Archive Charles Frederick Bacon Philbrook(Heer Schwalbennester). A matching set of Heer Infantry swallows nests, each constructed of a white cotton twill base, bearing seven bands of vertical silver aluminum wire tresses, and with an additional silver aluminum wire tresse trimmed the lower edge, the reverse of each embroidered with magnetic metal clips, one nest retaining a dark grey wool reverse liner, both unmarked and measuring 225 mm (w) x 98 mm (h), in addition to the missing backer