An engraved brass teapot stand containing a cartoon: Hold my gun and I'll kill him for good, on a carved bakelite base. Depicting the efforts of members of the VTC (Volunteer Training Corps), the 'Dad's Army' of WW1, comprising a variety of over age and unfit men. The VTC nevertheless grew to a formidable force by the end of the war, providing both a means of training under-age would-be soldiers and keeping guard on vulnerable points. The men wore a distinctive armband with the letters GR (Georgius Rex), the origin of one of its wartime nicknames, 'Gorgeous Wrecks'. Trench Art.