UNIQUE pieces of jewellery, crafted during the Second World War by an RAF crewman, have gone on display.

The jewellery, made out of perspex from a salvaged aeroplane windscreen during the Second World War, can now be see at the Eden Camp museum near Malton.

LAC Alfred Mansfield, a member of ground crew with No 85 Squadron, made the two pieces - a heart pendant and a necklace of five leaves - for his sweetheart Margaret “Peggy” Wilkins.

He had met Peggy at the age of seven. They married in the winter of 1944. Peggy wore the heart pendant at their wedding.

The museum came into possession of the pieces after the couple’s daughter, Yvonne Reid, who was born in 1945, sold the jewellery on the Channel 4 television show Four Rooms, which was filmed a number of years ago and aired again last week.

On the show, Yvonne said that she hoped the pieces would be donated to a museum, that they could be cared for and used in a way that would ensure the memory of her parents endured.

She said she hoped for £60 for the pieces, but admitted: “What is a piece of shattered windscreen worth?”

Yvonne said her father died of cancer and her mother died with dementia, and any money she made from the sale would go to charities helping with these two respective diseases.

The heart pendant features within it an RAF wing. Yvonne said her father took off one of his RAF buttons, filed it down, and set it into the heart.

Dealer Celia Sawyer ended up purchasing the pieces for £150.

The other three dealers on the show, Andrew Lamberty, Gordon Watson and Jeff Salmon, all made donations to Yvonne’s chosen charities of £100 each.

“It’s been wonderful,” Yvonne said. “I didn’t expect this at all.”

She donated the money to charity and it was agreed that the necklaces should be displayed at Eden Camp, fulfilling Yvonne’s wish that her parents’ story lives on.

Eden Camp museum archivist Jonny Pye said that families often approach the museum, requesting that they safeguard medals or other special heirlooms.

“We feel quite honoured in that,” he said.

He added that the appeal behind pieces like this was the personal, human stories behind them.

“At the end of the day we like to concentrate on the individual stories,” he said.

The heart pendant and the leaf necklace are on display in the museum alongside a wedding photo of Alfred and Peggy.