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Description
Vintage 1967 Military 'Bromsgrove School' O.T.C Worcestershire Swagger Stick
This swagger stick has a nickel silver top, displaying the emblem for:
'Bromsgrove School OTC'
'The school is an ancient chantry school founded some time in the Middle Ages, it was re-established as a Tudor grammar school between 1548 and 1553. The endowment of Sir Thomas Cookes in 1693 produced the first buildings on the present site and also the historic link with Worcester College, Oxford. At the foundation of the Headmasters' Conference in 1869, Bromsgrove was one of the original fourteen members.'
This swagger stick would have been used by a pupil of Bromsgrove school who was serving during WW1.
Palm wood shaft with an original ferrule reading:
'RG
L2A2
67'
Measures at;
71cm long
1.6cm diameter of the top
1.2cm diameter of the shaft under the top
65g
