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H.M.A.S. Australia, sailor's cap tally band; Memoirs of H.M.A.S.Australia picture card with five cameo images; H.M.A.S.Australia postcard featuring coloured cameo of Admiral Patey; official coloured program, 'To Commemorate the Arrival of The Australian Fleet, Sydney, October 4th 1913'. The picture card with creasing and edge damage, the program with several edge tears and tally band colour faded, otherwise fine - very fine. (4)
Estimate $50
SOLD $90
Military leaders, honoured in tinnies and silk printings, also some British royalty, noted Kitchener of Khartoum, Lord Roberts, Sir Redver Buller, Maj Gens J.D.P.French and H.A.MacDonald and others. Mostly very fine. (18)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Military aviation prints, from artwork by John Batchelor, individually framed for hanging (approx 29x36cm each), features colour prints for wartime English Spitfire, USA Mustang and Vought F4U Corsair, and Japanese Zero. Uncirculated. (4)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Australian war dog, timber framed b&w print of a painting of 'Bushie', the celebrated Boer War dog, (190x135mm and with border in frame 315x255mm). Good very fine.
Estimate $50
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Military hospital ships, two artworks in timber frames, one a colour print of SS Kanowna in the English Channel by JC, 1915, London (255x460mm and with border in frame 360x575mm), the other an original watercolour of SS Maheno by Tom Morison, undated (400x550mm, no border). The last with water damage, otherwise fine - very fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
HMAS Sydney, sinking the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni, 19 July 1940, timber framed colour print of a watercolour painting of the action by renowned ship artist John Allcot in 1940, (245x320mm and with border in frame 430x450mm). Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
WWII Burma, trench art POW prison camp scene oil paintings (4) on scrap plywood from tea chests, two with sketches on the back, one of these of the ship 'Stella-polare', two with old paper labels on back signed 'Ricefato No 46', (sizes 182x252mm, approx 128x198mm (2), 123x183mm). Good very fine - extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Military related NSW Legislature reports, tabled in Parliament; 1. 1885-6, Officers of the Permanent Artillery (Return). 2. 1870, Volunteer Artillery. 3. 1887, Coast and Harbour Defence. 4. 1887-8, Gunpowder and Explosives Rates Act of 1884. 5. 1887-8, Report from the Select Committee on Torpedo Defence of the Colony, pp88. 6. 1888, Schwartzkopf Torpedoes. 7. 1889, Captain Lee (coreespondence relating to appointment to Permanent Submarine Miners of). 8. 1889, Cable for Torpedo Purposes (correspondence respecting tenders for), pp13. 9. 1889, Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry and General Courts-Martial together with action taken in the Supreme Court in the case of No.95 Brigade Quartermaster-Sergeant (now Gunner) William Webster N.S.W.Artillery, pp158. 10. 1889, Guns at Steel Point Battery, pp28. 11. 1891, Guns at Steel Point Battery. 12. 1891-2, Majors in Permanent Artillery, pp54. Some tattered around edges, otherwise very fine. (12)
Estimate $70
SOLD $90
How Australia Took German New Guinea, with nominal roll, by F.S.Burnell, undated; wartime issue newspapers, The Sydney Mail, Dec 16, 1914 (War issue no.XX), Jun2, 1915 (features Heroes of the Dardanelles), Dec 1, 1915 (War issue no. LXX), November 15, 1916, also The Mirror of Australia, November 27, 1915. With tears, frayed edges and book cover loose, still readable and all scarce. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $190
Sir Thomas Henley, (appointed honorary Lt Colonel in AIF 1915), photos and postcards mostly of Egypt and Turkey during WWI and some of Colombo, Ceylon at same time, several with details printed or handwritten by Henley; also two business cards for Alderman T.Henley, M.P., both with his handwritten notes. Mostly fine - good very fine. (43)
Estimate $150
SOLD $160
Egyptian Expeditionary Force (Australian Red Cross Society), Desert Mounted Corps Rest Camp, Port Said, leave pass issued to 1039 Dvr. W.S. Schinner on 27 February 1918. Good fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Admission ticket, 'Visit of Special Service Squadron to New South Wales, April 1924. Admit one/to Special Inspection, H.M.S. "Hood,"/Saturday, 19th April, 1924. Steamer leaves No.8 Wharf (Lane Cove Jetty), Circular Quay, at 9.45 a.m. sharp.' Very fine.
Estimate $100
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Small dagger, possibly North Africa, 25cm with 16cm blade, handle of ivory and brass, in a suede and brass sheath. Very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $70
Indo Persian karud dagger, c18th century, 33cm with 22cm blade, ivory grips. Blade lacquered to prevent rusting, fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Obsidian blade dagger, 33cm with 11cm blade, carved timber handle features standing native with long, horse-like face. Damage to one leg and the butt end, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $100
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Dagger, with hand made guard and carved timber handle with flat metal butt, 30cm with 20cm blade, in suede and leather scabbard. Blade lacquered to prevent rusting, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $60
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Steel helmet, possibly Dutch, similar also to British Mk III turtle helmet, liner and chin strap intact. Surface oxidation, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $80
Spain, M26 steel helmet, liner and chin strap intact. Extensive oxidation, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $90
USA, Vietnam era M1 helmet with Mitchell camouflage cover, liner and both chin straps intact. Very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $70
USA, metal dog tag impressed 'Olie E Cooper/20400806 T42 A/Lucy R Cooper/Holtland Tenn P'; two vials of Claustro-Thermal Catgut Sutures, U.S.P., medium chronic - Type C, in excess of 54 inches, by Davis & Geck, Brooklyn, New York, sutures with attached needle in liquid inside glass tube. The tag very fine, the vials extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $50
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