Militaria
Lot 4684 Session 17 - (11:30am Friday 3rd August) Militaria
Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $800
HMAS SYDNEY PLAQUE, in bronze (29.5x21.1cm), designed by C.E.Eccles and cast by Amors, features the Sydney sailing left and below in the border, 'H.M.A.S. Sydney'. Very fine.
Together with a colour print of the original oil painting done by A.J.W.Burgess in 1920 of the German Light Cruiser SMS Emden aground and on fire after the battle with the RAN light cruiser HMAS Sydney off the Cocos-Keeling Islands in WWI. In the print, the Sydney can be seen steaming off in the distance. The Sydney was lost with all hands off Western Australia in 1941.
Charles E.Eccles was a designer and engraver for the medallist, Amor. One of his works was the reverse of the medal for the Sesquicentenary of Australia in 1938 and another was the Victorian Golf Association War Medallion c1940.
A similar plaque sold in Noble Numismatics Sale 75 (lot 2657) in 2004 for $620.
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