Airborne Crickets
WW2 101st Airborne Cricket: For the first time since 1944 the toy clicker is available again. This little device, which was carried by the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division into France on D-Day June 6th 1944, was originally known as the 'No.470 clicker' by manufacturers J Hudson and Co Ltd of Birmingham England but quickly came to be called the 'cricket' by the airborne paratroopers.
The cricket is being made once more in the UK. Of course the originals never had the "US" on them as they were made in England. The cricket comes polished.
Although we do not have the original cricket, it is a good quality brass reproduction, representing a lot of history behind it.
This cricket comes in a cotton lined gift box. My apologies for the gray tint on the white cotton.
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