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A silver mounted desk paperweight of 'Bristol Bulldog', by John Henry Hill, London 1935,...

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A silver mounted desk paperweight of ‘Bristol Bulldog’, by John Henry Hill, London 1935, of rectangular form, the glazed top mounted with a model of a bulldog,enclosing tricoloured panels of blue, white and red, raised on stepped base, the side containing a pull-out silver paperknife/letter opener and two propelling silver pencils, base loaded, dimensions 12.8 x 7.8cm. £300-£500 --- The Bristol Bulldog was a British Royal Air Force single-seat biplane fighter, designed in the 1920s by the Bristol Aeroplane company. The wheel hubs and propeller bosses were in the Flight colours. The Flight colours were blue, white and red. More than 400 Bulldogs were produced for the RAF and overseas customers, and it was one of the most famous aircraft used by the RAF during the inter-war period.
A silver mounted desk paperweight of ‘Bristol Bulldog’, by John Henry Hill, London 1935, of rectangular form, the glazed top mounted with a model of a bulldog,enclosing tricoloured panels of blue, white and red, raised on stepped base, the side containing a pull-out silver paperknife/letter opener and two propelling silver pencils, base loaded, dimensions 12.8 x 7.8cm. £300-£500 --- The Bristol Bulldog was a British Royal Air Force single-seat biplane fighter, designed in the 1920s by the Bristol Aeroplane company. The wheel hubs and propeller bosses were in the Flight colours. The Flight colours were blue, white and red. More than 400 Bulldogs were produced for the RAF and overseas customers, and it was one of the most famous aircraft used by the RAF during the inter-war period.

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