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Antique, mid 19th-century brooch executed in 14 carat yellow gold, with a large central sciacca (salmon-colored) coral button, flanked by two medallions with in-laid black enamel, each with a center basra seed pearlthe brooch is not hallmarked, but has been professionally testedthe brooch is in excellent, undamaged conditionno damages whatsoever to the enamel and the pearlsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham ex-deniable operator nick stone is bodyguarding a tv crew on the streets of war-torn basraonly a reporter's swift action saves his lifecaught in the crossfire, stone's nightmare is only just beginning - for the hunter has suddenly become the hunterwhen the reporter vanishes within hours, presumed kidnapped, stone is asked by the intelligence service to find himsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe trail leads from iraq to london, dublin, and kabul - the brutal city where governments, terrorism and big business collidehe seems certain to die when insurgent gunmen attack
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In a comprehensive series of first-hand accounts, this anthology offers a huge variety of views on the experience of war: from a letter written by oliver cromwell to the speaker of parliament, to a first world war's soldier's last letter home to his son, and a powerful description of what it was like to be on the sir galahad when it was hit by a missile in the falklands conflict of the 80s, right up to life as a soldier on the ground in basrait is the autobiography of the british soldiersee oxfam website for delivery information read morewinner of impossible victories, cannon fodder for the western front, thin khaki line against hitler - wherever and whenever, the british soldier has done his duty - and moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham from agincourt to waterloo, from dunkirk to the gulf war, and everywhere in between, one man has served in all these battlesthis is the story of britain at war from the perspective of that manthis is his story
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