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Baby gas mask found in attic - any ideas?

We are clearing out our attic in preparation for some insulation and building work.

We found what appears to be a child or baby's gas mark from World War Two. Is this the kind of thing that is:

a) Really valued by museums so I should donate it to one;

b) Very common and only fit for the tip;

c) Extremely rare and could make me a millionaire.

Any ideas? Has anyone found anything similar?

Thanks....just not sure what to do with it, but throwing it away straight away seemed silly. And I don't really have the house style to suit a decorative gas mask on the wall......

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Angela on April 14, 2012 at 21:56

I would ask Bruce Castle Museum tbh - but I wouldn't give up the day job just yet. The manufacturer is the North British Rubber Company - now better known for their Hunter wellies!

 

My mother had to wear one of those and still remembers it 70 plus years later - she hated it!

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on April 15, 2012 at 7:57
Or the Imperial War Museum might be interested.
Permalink Reply by SarahC on April 15, 2012 at 13:27

You could try the Museum of Childhood too.

I'd have thought babies would have been permanently traumatised by something that looked like that...

Permalink Reply by Andy H on April 17, 2012 at 17:18

it nobody wants it, it would fit in really well with all the masks and weird collections in my house! ... it would look lovely next to the cyberman helmet on top of my piano!

Permalink Reply by RNM on April 29, 2012 at 18:11

Do you really want it, Andy? Let me know if you are serious and if so, happy to hand it over next week when I'm back from a work trip!

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