[Nozzer]

Great collection and nice to see the HMS tally positively identified as WW2 period.

It is hard to tell , but your tally looks to be of the style of the lot that was released from stores and turned up on the market in the early 1980's still in the boxes and wrapped in bundles. I was lucky enough to get one of these boxes, but sadly the original date has been obscured when they examined and resealed them in 1978. There has been a lot of argument about these tallies or ribbons as to when they where made, but if your tally is period and matches then that is a great leap forward.

Shown below is one of the boxes and one of the bundles that was contained within. I also show a bundle of post 1984 ribbons still sealed in the plastic bag above them. I have shown them on the forum before, but I made an error with my attachments and deleted them in error (sorry)