The Hand & Lock version was designed by Laura Campbell and produced on an Irish machine at Hand & Lock. The embroidery was made using a hand-guided industrial sewing machine and depicted a field of poppies. The symbolic poppies were stitched on a white velvet ground and set into a black frame. The embroidery was donated to a blind auction held by the British Legion (BL) that took place on 11th November 2014. The BL was aiming to raise forty million pounds by selling the embroidered picture and many other items, to be used for welfare work for serving personnel, veterans and their families. Who eventually bought the embroidered poppies at the auction is unknown.
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Digital source of illustration (retrieved 21 June 2016).
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