- Object type
- Arms and Armour
- Date
- Production: 1938
- Subject(s)
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Arms and Armour
War - Associated activity
- War
- Associated event
- War: Second World War (1 September 1939 - 2 September 1945)
- Inscriptions
-
1938
- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth: 196 x 75mm
- Materials and technique
- Metal
- Production place
- Germany
- References
-
Foakes, Tom, ed. Treasures: Faith, Care, Valour: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of the Order of St John. Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 2019.
Page 169 - Catalogue number
- 5522
Bomb fragment
While the Order of St John’s Priory Church in Clerkenwell was destroyed by the Blitz during the Second World War, fragments of the incendiary bomb survived the destruction and it is still possible to make out the reference number and the date ‘1938’ on its tip.