A FRENCH RESISTANCE FOUNTAIN PEN SPIKE.

A FRENCH RESISTANCE FOUNTAIN PEN SPIKE.
[England; c.1940-45.]
A French Resistance fountain pen, inoperative as a pen, but containing in its body a steel assassins spike. Length of pen 128 mm, spike 60 mm. The body of the pen in Bakelite, with three band colors on the cap, red, white and blue, the colors of the French flag;
Together with two paper French Resistance flags, with the Cross of Lorraine, likely used in the celebrations in May 1945, and other three celebratory tin Liberation flags (May 1945) for the USA, France and the French Resistance, to be attached to a bicycle.

A fine and unusual assassins pen, made for use by the French Resistance, the pen housing a steel spike, a silent and deadly weapon at close quarters, together with various other celebratory flags used by the Resistance on the Liberation of France.