Catalogue
Group of Six to only Anzac in the air over Gallipoli: Distinguished Service Order (GVR); 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19 with MID; Africa Service Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45. First medal unnamed as issued, Lieut. A.H.K.Jopp 3/F.A. Bde. A.I.F. on second medal, Major A.H.K.Jopp A.I.F. on third and fourth medals, 3239 A.H.K.Jopp on fifth and sixth medals. All named medals impressed. Toned extremely fine.
Estimate $35,000
SOLD $35,000
Single medal: 1914-15 Star. 146 Pte A.G.Stapleton 5/Bn A.I.F. Impressed. Very fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $400
Group of four: Distinguished Service Order (GVR); 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19 with MID Captain F.L.Biddle 2/F.A.Bde A.I.F. on Star, Major F.L.Biddle A.I.F. on last two medals. Named medals impressed. Extremely fine.
Estimate $11,000
Passed in
Trio: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. 1740 Pte N.Kidd 23/Bn A.I.F. All medals impressed. Very fine.
Estimate $2,500
SOLD $2,200
Trio to WIA Gallipoli: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. 36 Pte J.N.Dugan. 1/Sig. Trp. A.I.F. on first medal, Lieut. J.N.Dugan. A.I.F. on last two medals. All medals impressed. Very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $650
Memorial Plaque WWI, named to Robert Young Wright. Polished, reverse lightly scratched with some details of Pte Wright, hole pierced at top for hanging, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $180
SOLD $240
Anzac Commemorative Medallion 1915, issued in 1967, in bronze (50x75mm) (C.1915/3), named to R.Kidd. In case of issue, uncirculated.
Estimate $350
SOLD $300
Anzac Commemorative Medallion 1915, issued in 1967, in bronze (50x75mm) (C.1915/3), named to G.H.Proudman. Nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $250
SOLD $300
Trio to Gallipoli KIA: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. 10999 L.Cpl A.H. Turtle. Worc:R on first medal, 10999 Pte. A.H. Turtle. Worc. R. on last two medals. All medals impressed.
Estimate $400
SOLD $350
Trio to only NZ Anzac at Gallipoli sentenced to death: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. 10/594 Pte. J.R.Dunn. N.Z.E.F. All medals impressed. Display court mounted, hairlines, very fine.
Estimate $2,500
SOLD $5,500
Gallipoli bugle and diary to Australian, Pte J. Darby, 19 Bn, copper and brass bugle with silver mouthpiece and green cord lanyard, on the side of the bugle's main body is a trench art inscription, 'J.Darby 1173/D. Coy 19 Batt' and also scratched further below, 'J.Darby/1173', stored in a calico bag marked, 'J.Darby/1302 D Coy 19th Batt', also a Wood's Australian Diary for 1915, inside marked, 'Bugler Darby/13 PLT D Coy 19th Bat/5 Brigade/Australia'. Battered from action and the edge wrap on the horn has come loose and needs re-fitting, the diary has one page missing and instead the period covered by the page has been hand entered, otherwise good and an extremely rare and historic record of an Australian bugler at Gallipoli.
Estimate $15,000
Passed in
WWI Gallipoli diary, of Lt John Stone of Worcester Regt, a British prisoner of war in Turkey, captured during the bloody battle at Krithia Vineyard at Gallipoli, as well as a large quantity of various letters to Lt Stone as POW, and from Lt Stone as a POW with Turkish postal rubber stamps and censor stamps, many other letters and envelopes with some pre 1900, noted one envelope from Shanghai via Siberia with Chinese postage stamps and cancelled postal stamps of Foochow and Shanghai and others, also Croissant-Rouge Ottoman (Turkish Red Cross) postcards and an unused pre-addressed British POW envelope to Afion-Kara-Hissar POW camp in Turkey-in-Asia, also extracts from letters written by Captain McDonald POW at the Afion-Kara-Hissar camp, an outstanding collection of information and personal correspondence for Lt Stone, a WWI POW with a diary containing 135 pages in graphic detail for the period through to 31 March 1917 written in a very professional and legible style and includes a full account of the attack on Krithia Vineyard where he was captured. Good - very fine and an historically significant collection of a Gallipoli veteran. (lot)
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $4,000
Gallipoli glass stereoscopic slides, totalling 31 and all taken at Gallipoli in May 1915 by Australian Surgeon General Sir Charles Snodgrass Ryan KBE, CMG, CB, and importantly, these extraordinary slides include photos of Australian and Turkish dead and of burial parties on Armistice Day at Gallipoli, 24 May 1915, when no photography was permitted. Extremely fine and very rare. (31)
Estimate $6,000
SOLD $9,500
Australia, Anzac Remembrance Day, 1919, Gallipoli landing 25th April 1915, pin backed badge in gilt and enamel (33mm) by Stokes & Sons Melb. Good very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $450
Germany, WWI, The Sleepwalkers on the Gallipoli Peninsula, cast medal in bronze (57mm) by Karl Goetz, recording the disastrous British naval and land campaigns in Turkey, 1915-16, obverse, depicts the English and French 'sleepwalkers' standing inside of the Turkish crescent, 'Die Mondsuchtigen auf Gallipoli', reverse shows them reduced to skeletons (Kinast 169). Extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $800