Lot 3922

Description

Engraved coins, Australian threepences, 1917M with obverse shaved and engraved with a heart and inside hands shaking in greeting; 1921M inscribed on obverse across the King's image, 'Orange/1927'; 1919M inscribed on obverse at sides of King's image, 'Hill 95 10-1-42'; an English halfpenny of Edward VII, 1905, scratched onto the obverse, '12-3-16/from/Glen for luck/Picked up at White City', and on reverse, '12.3.16/from/Glen'; also a plain, brass disc (oval, approx 33x35mm), inscribed on one side, 'To/H D Quinlan/P.M/(Poor Motorist)/in recognition/of our trip to/Raymond Terrace/7-4-22/From the/Suburbanites'. Good - fine. (5)

Hill 95 was a camp at Palestine for 2nd AIF during WWII.

H.D.Quinlan on the last item probably is Harry D.Quinlan who at the time was a founder and Vice President of the Stockton Progress Association. He would later be elected Mayor of Newcastle and in 1947 was conferred with the title of Lord Mayor with the approval of King George VI, thus becoming the first person of any non-capital city in Australia to hold such a title.