Catalogue
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 $50
SOLD $30
USA, Fleet Visit, 1925, assorted ephmera relating to the Visit to Australia, including invitations and some correspondence. Good - extremely fine. (24)
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
General Gordon photo, in antique picture frame, (approx 140x130mm), in design of British coat of arms, c1890s, in bronze, in the centre a period photo of General Gordon, marked below, 'Great Soldier and Philanthropist, Born Jan., 1833. Died heroically in Khartoum Jan., 1885'. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Herbert, Harold, B., pencil drawing, 20.5x26mm, 'Building a Pontoon Bridge', WWII subject, framed, signed and inscribed centre left. Very fine.
Estimate $100
Not offered
Australian War Memorial (AWM), Canberra, coloured metal photo (approx 95x130mm) for wall hanging, hanging pin missing; postcard size coloured photo of AWM, newly constructed in early 1940s with gravel road and dirt areas opposite instead of grass; wide shot B&W photo of a proposed AWM (approx 125x370mm) with a feature similar to the Menin Gate at the entrance instead of the finished building with two pylons, written on reverse of photo, 'The proposed War Museum at Canberra', c1930s; Wills's cigarettes (1) and McNiven's sweets (4) cards featuring RAN ships. One corner torn off last AWM photo and a diagonal crease not affecting building, otherwise fine - very fine. (8)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal, 1855-1909 by P.E.Abbott, 1975, 88pp, another for 1914-1920 by R.W. Walker, 1981, 219pp; The Distinguished Service Medal 1914-1920, by W.H.Fevyer, 1982, 121pp; British Battles & Medals by Major L.L. Gordon edited by E.C. Joslin, A.R. Litherland, B.T. Simpkin, 6th edition, 1988, 299pp. The second and last with usual usage, very fine, the other two extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $130
SOLD $50
Assorted titles, including, In Search of Breaker Morant by Margaret Carnegie and Frank Shields; The Forgotten War by L.M.Field; Scapegoats of the Empire by Lieut George Witton; The Anzacs by Patsy Adam-Smith; 1918 Year of Victory edited by Ashley Ekins; Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918 by Roger Chickering; The Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger; The Australian Light Horse by Roland Perry; Anzac and Empire by John Robertson; Sir John Monash by A.J.Smithers; and others. Good condition. (23)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Assorted titles, relating to WWI, including, Gallipoli by Les Carlyon; Australians on the Somme, Pozieres 1916 by Peter Charlton; Don't forget me, cobber The Battle of Fromelles by Robin S Corfield; The Battle of Hamel by John Laffin; The Somme Battlefields by Martin & Mary Middlebrook; Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead; Monash as Military Commander by P.A.Pedersen; VCs of the First World War Gallipoli by Stephen Snelling; Passchendaele the untold story by Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson; Haig's Command by Denis Winter; and others. Good condition. (20)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Assorted titles, including, Jacka VC by Ian Grant; Singapore The Pregnable Fortress by Peter Elpjick; Bardia by Craig Stockings; They Dared Mightily by Lionel Wigmore; Battleship Bismarck A survivor's Story; Kokoda by Paul Ham; Tobruk by Chester Wilmot; Vietnam, The Australian War by Paul Ham; also books on Orders, Decorations & Medals (5) by Donald Hall, Forman's, Purves, Spink and Williams; booklets (9); and others. Mostly hardbound, good condition. (31)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Assorted titles, relating to WWII, including, The Desert Generals by Correlli Barnett; A Bastard of a Place - The Australians in Papua by Peter Brune; Rommel by Charles Douglas-Home; Bitter Victory The Death of HMAS Sydney by Wesley Olson; Donitz the Last Fuhrer by Peter Padfield; Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism by Donald Sassoon; Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer; The Right of the Line - The Royal Air Force in the European War 1939-1945 by John Terraine; HMAS Sydney Loss & Controversy by Tom Frame; and others. Most books harbound, good condition. (20)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Assorted titles, including, The Battles of the Somme by Martin Evans; At the Front Line Experiences of Australian Soldiers in WWII by Mark Johnston; Blood and Iron The Battle for Kokoda by Lex McAulay; France, The Dark Years 1940-1944 by Julian Jackson; Paris in the Third Reich by David Pryce-Jones; The Berlin Bunker by Theodore White; German Soldiers of WWII by Jean de Lagarde; The Loss of the Bismarck and Avoidable Disaster by Graham Rhyse-Jones; Out of the Smoke by Ray Parkin; Search for the Sydney by David L Mearns; also journals, magazines and booklets (8). Mostly hardbound, good condition. (21)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Assorted titles, including, The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor; For the Soul of France by Frederick Brown; George, Nicholas and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter; JFK's Last Hundred Days by Thurston Clarke; Batavia by Peter Fitzsimons; The Peninsular War 1807-1814 by Michael Glover; Dreyfus the Man on Devil's Island by Ruth Harris; Berlin in the 20s by Rainer Metger; The Conquest of Mexico by Hugh Thomas; Petain by Charles Williams; and others. Good condition. (13)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60