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Charms
Object type Classification: 78436
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English: Heitiki swastika lucky charms, World War 1 period Belonged to Tpr AC Nicol, Wellington Mounted Rifles, and Wellington Infantry Regt, NZEF one small greenstone tiki and enamelled green swastika attached to each other by small chain
Date World War 1, 1914-18-wars; (1914-1918)
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length: 52mm
length: 12mm
length: 11mm

notes: col.card
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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1992.279
Place of creation New Zealand
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1992.279, col.3463
Notes Swastika and tiki good luck charms - part of collection relating to Tpr A C Nicol 11-1942 INZEF. 11-1942 Pte Arthur Charles Nicol Trooper Arthur Charles Nicol left New Zealand with the 8th Reinforcements, Wellington Mounted Rifles on the 13 November 1915 aboard HMNZT 36 (ss Tofua). En route he assisted (as printer) in the publication a 'The Albatross' vol. 1 No 1, "the first paper issued on board a troopship at sea". Other earlier papers were printed while the vessels were "in port". Pte Nicol may have later served with the 17th (Ruahine) Regiment (as part of the Wellington Infantry Regiment) as an embroidered cloth made for his mother features the badge of that regiment. Post war Arthur Nicol worked for the North Auckland Times.
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