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A fighting ’kerchief

A version of this handkerchief (pictured) received the thumbs-up from The Army and Navy Gazette in 1895, in the days when the accessory now regarded as a cult relic was ubiquitous. But rather than a nose-wipe or decoration, the large handkerchief was designed to be an aide-mémoire. “The notion is good and...

A jet boat in a stamp

Bill (Charles William Feilden) Hamilton revolutionised the world of jet boating from his high-country station Irishman Creek, in Te Waipounamu the South Island of New Zealand, where rivers are shallow, rocky, fast-flowing, and brutal on propellers. In the 1950s, Hamilton and his small team pioneered the world’s first commercial waterjet....