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WWI comic war scene bowl, (240x222mm), 'Bairnsfather Ware' by Grimwade's Store on Trent, reverse marked, 'Made By The Girls Of Staffordshire/During The Winter of, 1917/18/When The "Boys" Were In The Trenches/Fighting For Liberty/& Civilization' and with Grimwade's logo below. Age toning, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $60
British officers, commemorative tiles and a plate, includes wall tiles for Admiral Sir David Beatty, reverse marked 'Modelled by Geo.Cartlidge after photograph by Speaight Ltd' (228x152mm), three others, all 151mm square featuring, General Sir Redvers Buller V.C., General Sir W.F.Gatacre, and General Hector Macdonald C.B.; also, commemorative plate (160mm) featuring General Sir George White V.C. The first tile crazed and with two chips at right edge, the second with chipped top right corner, otherwise very fine. (5)
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
HMAS Sydney, cedar timber stationery stand (approx 38cm wide and 20cm high) divided into compartments, the front with inset blue tile plaque marked, Wood From/ (naval crown)/H.M.A.S./'Sydney'; H.M.A.S. Sydney sailor's cap tally band; Captain J.C.T.Glossop (of HMAS Sydney) post card. The last item with two tears otherwise unused and very fine, the band very fine, the stand extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $320
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
Passed in
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
Passed in
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
Passed in
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
Passed in
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
Passed in
Sicily, Syracuse, Time of Agathokles, (317-289 B.C.), electrum twenty five litrai, (1.84 g), obv. laureate head of Apollo left with long flowing hair, rev. **[S]URAKO SION* around, kithara, (S.958, Jenkins 'Electrum Coinage of Syracuse' Essays Robinson, p.155 (Pl.14), SNG ANS 617ff, BMC 266ff, McClean 2778). Nearly very fine and rare.
Estimate $1,800
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Sicily, Tauromenium, (275-210 B.C.), gold trihemiobol (fifteen silver litrai), (1.10 g), obv. laureate head of Apollo head to left, monogram behind, dotted border, rev. tripod lebes, to right and left **TAUROME/NITAN*, API monogram at end of legend (S.1008, SNG ANS 1115, see example from same dies Peus Sale 29 October 2000 [lot 95]). File mark on edge, very fine/good very fine and rare.
Estimate $400
SOLD $800
Macedon, Kingdom of, Alexander III, (336-323 B.C.), gold stater, (8.58 g), Tyre mint, issued 305-290 B.C., obv. head of Athena to right in crested Corinthian helmet, ornamented with a serpent, rev. Nike standing to left with open wings, holding wreath in outstretched hand a WT**W* monogram in left field, in inner left **PUR* monogram in circle, to right **ALEXANDPOU*, (cf.S.6702; cf.Price 3536 [type as Price 3539 p.446 for tetradrachm for monograms], M.-, BMC -). Extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $2,700
Macedon, Kingdom of, Alexander III, (336-323 B.C.), gold stater, (8.45 g), Babylon mint, issued 317-311 B.C. during first satrapy of Seleucus, obv. head of Athena to right in crested Corinthian helmet, ornamented with griffin, rev. Nike standing to left, holding wreath in outstretched hand and a ship's mast, **BA SILE[WS]* and MHP monogram in wreath in lower left field, to right **ALEXANDPO[U]*, (cf.S.6702; cf.Price 3700 [p.473 for tetradrachm for symbol] or 3745 cf.M.710, cf.BMC 3700). Good fine/ nearly fine and rare.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $950
Lesbos, Mytilene, (c.412-378 B.C.), electrum hekte or sixth stater (2.49 g), obv. helmeted head of Ares to right, rev. helmeted head of Amazon to right within linear border within incuse square, (cf.S.4250, Bodenstedt 65, SNG von Aulock -, SNG Copenhagen 320, HGC 6, 991). Very fine.
Estimate $800
SOLD $450
Lydia, Kings of, Alyattes, (c.610-560 B.C.), electrum hekte or Sixth Stater (2.32 g), Sardes mint, obv. confronted lion's heads (only the left is visible) facing to the right, 'walwet' (off flan) between, rev. two incuse square punches, (S.3400, Weidauer Group XVII, 101-2, Trait‚ I 51-2). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $2,000
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Sassanian King, Shapur II, (309-379), gold dinar, (7.18 g), Kabul mint type, obv. bust to right with crown, flowing hair type, cross before, rev. fire altar, text around, (Sellwood 31, Gobl 1309.4 [Kushan Gold very similar dies]). Good very fine and rare.
Estimate $7,000
SOLD $6,000