Catalogue
Anzacs in armoured cars collection, WWI, features the Australians and New Zealanders who signed up with Locker-Lampson's armoured cars in Russia and then onto the Middle East with Dunsterforce, includes 727 individual photos (in eight albums) and even with some original negatives, detailing the complete Locker-Lampson and Dunsterforce story as told through the eyes of Captain Lefroy DSC and is accompanied with his field notebook (containing a huge amount of information and orders) along with the record of all the vehicles (including chassis and engine numbers) written in 1918 in Iraq (no record of these chassis numbers has existed to date). These truly stunning and clear photos follow the whole war with the Armoured Cars in Russia and Mesopotamia. To our knowledge nothing like this has ever surfaced, let alone to an Anzac. Fine - extremely fine and of the utmost historical importance, an extremely rare collection. (lot)
Estimate $15,000
SOLD $20,000
Australia, King's Silver War badge, reverse numbered A69715; Female Relative badge WWII with three stars, reverse numbered A133493; Returned from Active Service badges, WWI (AIF), WWII (KC) (2, A849 and AF9585), post WWII (QC); Merchant Navy MN Australia badge; Australian Legion badge; RSL League badges (4, one two figures and 3 three figures); Air Force Association badges (KC) (2 different); RAAF sweetheart brooches (KC) (2); Boer War, Good Luck to Australian Bushmens Corps medalet in bronze. Very good - good very fine. (17)
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
Australia, Volunteered for Active Service Medically Unfit badge, silvered bronze, reverse impressed 20616; Austria, Medal for Bravery in Bronze (4th Class), no ribbon; USA Pilot's badge in sterling silver; Scottish Clan Gregor pin-back lapel brooch in silver. Fine - very fine. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Australia, Nearest Female Relatives' badge, WWI (AIF) (2, one without bar and one with one bar) both by Stokes; Female Relative badge, (WWII) (8) all with one star, one by Amor, the rest by G & E Rodd. Very fine. (10)
Estimate $80
SOLD $170
Australia, WWII, Female Relative's badge one star, reverse numbered N3369, scarce Navy issue. Very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $150
Tribute medal, 1911-25, a plain disc in 9ct gold with rope border (35mm; 9.2g), with suspension loop, obverse, inscribed in four lines, 'Mercantile Marine/H.M. Royal Navy/H.M. Submarines/1911-1925', and above is engraved an Australian Rising Sun badge, reverse, engraved with a version of a Naval badge within a wreath. Some hairlines, otherwise good extremely fine.
Estimate $160
SOLD $400
Royal Flying Corps, sweetheart brooch in enamel and 14ct gold (5.1g). Extremely fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $240
Tank Corps sweetheart badge, (KC), in enamel and 15ct gold (23mm; 1.9g). Brooch pin missing, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $80
Australia Rising Sun sweetheart brooch, in 9ct gold (2.7g) features dark button style with gold edge and handcrafted Rising Sun hat badge design in centre. Very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $100
Australia, Victorian Constabulary (QVC), c1870, hat badge in silver (74mm x 66mm). Extremely fine.
Estimate $650
SOLD $1,200
New South Wales Military Forces, helmet plate, QVC 1881-1901 pattern, in bronze (105mm) (Grebert p78). Very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $400
5th Regiment NSW Scottish Rifles, piper's plaid brooch in white metal (10cm), 1886-1896; another, belt buckle in nickel brass, 1886-1896; another, a shoulder belt brooch (8x10cm) in nickel brass and with cast lead central badge; other various sized NSW Scottish diamond-shaped epaulette badges mostly in nickel (14); also a piece inscribed 'Waist Buckle', parts missing. Fine - very fine. (18)
Estimate $200
SOLD $2,000
Australian Rifle Regiment, ARR metal shoulder title badge, 1900-12. Fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $20
NSW 2nd Infantry Regiment, 2 INF metal shoulder title pair (4 pieces), 1900-12; cigarette cards for 2nd Aust Infy (3, two different). Very fine. (7)
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
4th Australian Infantry Regiment, 4AIR metal shoulder title badge pair, 1900-12. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $120
NSW Defence Forces Staff hat badge, 1900-12, in brass (46mm) (KC); Military Forces NSW buttons (QVC) (6); 1 INF title (2 pieces); cigarette card for 1st Aust Infantry Reg. Fine - very fine. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Australia, WWI, German Concentration Camp, Guard's hat badge, bi-metal, brass crown, nickel letters (46x48mm). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $800
The St George Regiment, 45th Infantry Battalion, officer's collar badge (right facing), only worn 1940-42, also lapel badge (left facing), both in brass and enamel. The first very scarce, cleaned, very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $100
Royal Australian Infantry Corps, bullion embroidered badge (QC) (85mm) on black backing, professionally mounted on blue felt backing in timber frame. Extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Naval Auxiliary Patrol hat badge, WWII, in gilt bronze. Nearly very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $280
Royal Navy badges, Petty Officer hat badges (2, one in bullion (QC) another in bronze (KC)); Petty Officer rank badge in bullion (QC); Survey Recorder Able Rate bullion badge; Leading Seaman shoulder slides for No.2 uniform (2); Royal Navy bullion blazer badge. The bronze badge missing one lug, otherwise very fine. ((7)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
R.M.S. Orvieto lapel brooch, in enamel and gilt. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
The Royal Life Saving Society, The Award of Merit medal in silver, reverse inscribed 'F.C. Gazzard 8.4.15'. Dark toned, very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
King George III, universal pattern small size officer's military gorget in brass, with fully rolled edge, engraved with Royal cypher. Very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $750
Great Britain, 17th Lancers helmet plate, in bronze (QVC). Dark chocolate brown toning, very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $150
Great Britain, mainly metal hat badges, some noted Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (3 different including a helmet badge), Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Lincolnshire Regt, Royal Irish Rifles (QVC), others including RAAF Airman's hat badge (WWII) and Notts and Derby brass shoulder title; a selection of various sized military and civilian metal buttons (26) some uncirculated and two metal rank pips. Mostly fine - uncirculated. (38)
Estimate $80
SOLD $80
Russia, Imperial Military Medical Academy badge with screw back, one part construction in bronze (45x60mm). Screw on piece missing from back suspension screw, otherwise good fine and scarce.
Estimate $300
Passed in
British Red Cross Society armband, with stamp of the society and written date, '2.9.14', at one side of red cross and on the other side is stamp for Army Medical Service and with stamped date, '14 Feb 19??', and impressed number '19079', complete with securing metal buckle; Australian Army Medical Corps hat badge and collar badges (10, enamel [1], brass [3], oxidized bronze [6]), all KC issues; British Red Cross Society First-Aid Manual No.1, eighth edition, by St. J.D. Buxton, 1939, hard cover, 340pp; British Red Cross Society Nursing Manual No.2, fifth edition, by Hester C. Parsons, 1939, hard cover, 298pp; A Hospital at War, The 2/4 Australian General Hospital 1940-1945 by Rupert Goodman, 1983 first edition, hard cover, 208pp, inside cover inscribed, 'Presented to/Sir Victor Windeyer,/A gallant soldier of Tobruk/and/A great Australian/by/the 2/4 Australian General/Hospital Association./(signed) Rupert Goodman/(ex 2/4 AGH)/Author/World Reunion Rats of Tobruk/Gosford. 10 April 1983.' Fine - very fine. (15)
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Australia, colour patches, chevrons and rank badges, mostly WWII and after, also a large assortment of buttons, these mostly Edward VII or Queensland issues of various sizes. Some damaged, overall good - very fine. (lot)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
The Waratahs South Coast Route March 1915, colour patch and two smaller colour patches of the Australian flag and a single four leaf clover, together with three postcards from Kiama at the time, one used and two unused, also a brief outline of the march and a list of those marchers who gathered at Shoalhaven. Very fine and scarce. (lot)
Estimate $100
SOLD $350