Lot 3451

Description

Australia, varied collection, includes Rising Sun hat and collar badge, Australia titles (2), Warrant Officer's crowns (2), officer's pips (2), all WWII issues in oxidised bronze; WWII Returned from Active Service badge (AIF); Tobruk T colour patch of 9th Australian Infantry Division; Corporal's stripes (3, two embroidered, one in gold braid); slouch hat puggaree; ribands (3, one with three ribbons and two with four), also a single riband for Africa Star with 8 emblem attached; a concave silvered Italian brass souvenir brooch featuring an ancient Roman warrior's helmeted head right (pin missing), on the right side is inscribed, 'XAPI'; Australian pennies, 1938 (4); photo of a pamphlet dropped by Germans on Tobruk in June 1941 directing Aussies to surrender. Poor - very fine. (24)