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World, large sawback bayonet/dagger (blade approx 52.5cm long, 3.8cm wide), no markings, wooden handle with brass guard, leather scabbard with brass fittings. Tip of blade pitted, rest of blade heavily cleaned, small piece missing from handle, otherwise fine.
Estimate $50
Passed in
World, various socket bayonets (5), includes flat face (2, different length sockets) and scooped face (3, two of these with Nepalese numerals on blade), no scabbards. Fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $250
Passed in
World, Borneo, Dayak Mandau sword from Iban tribe of west Borneo, forged iron blade, back shaped with motif, plain wooden handle, no scabbard; a dagger, probably Javanese, crudely made blade and guard, carved wooden handle and scabbard; Indonesia, traditional Javanese kris (2), one small and one large, both with traditional wavy blades and both elaborately decorated, both with decoratively carved wooden handle, one has a scabbard but it is damaged; also a damaged part of a sword scabbard. Poor - very fine. (5)
Estimate $120
SOLD $160
World swords, the first is unmarked but appears to be a Chinese liuyedao sabre, plain blade with scabbard of black shagreen with plain metal attachments; the second is of Middle Eastern origin with Arabic text on guard, scabbard with metal top piece, the main body wrapped and bottom metal piece missing. Both scabbards damaged, and metal fittings on first heavily rusted, good. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $220
World, possible French short cutlass, blade engraved with floral design and head of possibly Marianne, the national symbol of the French Republic, wooden pineapple patterned handle and brass guard, in leather scabbard. Small piece missing from pommel, scabbard cracked and worn, otherwise fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $120
World, Indo Persian curved blade decorated with script, bone handle, no scabbard; Spain (?), all metal bowie blade and metal chain links handle, no scabbard; Nepal, Ghurka kukri, leather scabbard with provision for two small daggers (these missing); Philippines, bolo knife with wooden handle and wooden scabbard; another larger with wooden handle and leather scabbard, this split down one side. Fine. (5)
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
World, country uncertain, sabre with double sword catcher guard on one side and a single on the other side, all with down turned quillons, blade marked with stars and rising sun, engraved silver bolster between handle and D shaped hand guard, wooden handle inset on one side with a Spanish Charles III silver two reales of 1775, with scabbard. Fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
World, antique fencing sword, handle with enclosed leather guard. Slight bend near tip, rusting on blade, blade loose, good.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Cut & Thrust Weapons, by Eduard Wagner, the history of European swords throughout the ages, 1969 second edition, 491pp with hundreds of colour and b&w illustrations, hard cover with dust jacket, a large book weighing nearly 3.5kg. Foxing to the cover and to extreme edges of pages, dust jacket with wear and some small tears to edges, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
Kingsford Smith collection, under glass in timber frame (approx 22x27cm), includes his signature on blue paper as 'C Kingsford Smith/Southern Cross/16th June 1931'; Special Flight Ticket No. 466 with Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Kt, MC, AFC, in the "Southern Cross", unissued with stub intact; Souvenir Flight Ticket No. 4887, Kingsford Smith Air Service Limited, issue price of five shillings. Very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $220
Kingsford Smith autograph, on card (9.3x6cm) featuring image of his Southern Cross aircraft and with penned signature below. Foxing on card, otherwise fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
Kingsford Smith, bronze busts, both wearing leather flying cap, the first dark brown (17cm high) the other silvered (13cm high), this without base. Fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $320
Kingsford Smith, The Southern Cross Flies Again 1928-1987, timber framed colour poster (approx 64x78cm; with frame 68x82cm), featuring in the top half a large image of Kingsford Smith with his aircraft at the side and in the lower half another image of Kingsford Smith standing with Charles Ulm and with his Southern Cross aircraft behind them. Extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Kingsford Smith, and other aviators' photos, including family photos for Smithy, also various aircraft photos, a large number of relevant aviation newspaper cuttings and a contemporary booklet titled Hurricane Hinkler. Poor - very fine. (100s)
Estimate $100
SOLD $440
Kingsford Smith, timber and perspex framed page of The Sydney Mail (approx 39.5x50.5cm; with frame 48x60cm), Royal Show Number, Wednesday, April 10, 1929, featuring a photo of Smithy wearing his RAAF uniform and with arms folded, below 'Commander of the Southern Cross'. The page with several horizontal folds and a few light spots of foxing, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Kingsford Smith newspaper article, published in the Truth, Sunday, January 14, 1934, featuring photos of Smithy and another of him with his Southern Cross aircraft and crew and with a story of his greeting in New Zealand after a 17 hour trans Tasman flight, framed under thick perspex on a background board featuring a modern art painting technique and with six small metal aircraft used as feature decorations, signed by the artistic creator on the front and back. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $90
Kingsford Smith, front page newspaper article 'Smithy is Missing', published in the Daily Mirror, Saturday, November 9, 1935, with images, also includes cut-out newspaper photos positioned in two opposite corners, under perspex in timber frame (approx 45x55cm). Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia, by Sir Ross Smith, KBE, MC, DFC, AFC, New South Wales Edition, 1920 (First edition), 32pp, board cover with grey dust jacket, ribbon-tied as issued, features portraits of Sir Ross Smith & Sir Keith Smith, as well as text-illustrations and 27 full-page aeroviews of Sydney, its suburbs, and some NSW country towns by Capt Frank Hurley; another identical but second edition (1921) with different print layout on dust jacket which omits the words 'New South Wales Edition' and is manilla coloured. Some staining and a few tears along top back edge of dust jacket of first and some foxing on both, otherwise fine and scarce. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
The Sydney Mail, October 24, 1934, Celebrations and Centenary Air-Race issue No.1178, 60pp, also features the Duke of Gloucester in Melbourne, many photos throughout and interesting, historical articles. A few small tears, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $150
Aviation journals, booklets and photos, several relating to Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Poor - very fine. (lot)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Aviation newspapers and magazines, 1920s - 1930s, The Sydney Mail 14 March 1928 (Hinkler an Empire Hero on Tour) cover page only; The Queenslander Pictorial May 18 1933 (4pp with full cover photo 'Vale, Bert Hinkler'); The Sydney Mail 13 September 1933 (Hargrave's Place in Aviation History); Flying The New Air Weekly July 9 1938, July 23 1938; November 5 1938; November 26 1938; December 31 1938; February 18 1939; April 8 1939; Flying The Popular Air Weekly, May 13 1939; August 21 1939; September 16 1939; November 4 1939; Il Vittorioso, Italian comic magazine with a cover and story feature on Charles Lindbergh, November 29 1953; also another Sydney Mail dated October 31 1934 missing some pages; also various newspaper clippings relating to aviation . Some with edge loss but overall good - fine. (16 + clippings)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Flight tickets, The Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah V. Airspeed Courier souvenir ticket for passenger flight piloted by Squadron Leader D.E. Stodart DSO, DFC who flew it from London to Melbourne in 99 hours in the Centenary Air Race October 1934, No. 474, price ten shillings; Flight with Keith R.M. Farmer (late of Australian Flying Corps), established 1919, Mebourne Airport, Coode Island, unissued ticket No. 6724 with stub intact. The first with some pencil notations and glued to board, otherwise very fine, the last extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
Aviation tinnies, many Kingsford Smith issues, 1919-1934, some duplicates or triplicates. Good - good very fine. (14)
Estimate $50
SOLD $150
Southern Cross lapel badge, in enamel and silvered (39x14mm), by Angus & Coote, Jewellers, Sydney, pin back. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $200
Amy Johnson England to Australia flight commemorative pin, 1930, in copper, (approx 72x27mm), features cut-out of her aircraft with name, 'Jason' impressed on side and suspended below is a map of Australia on which is impressed, 'Johnnie/1930'; another identical but missing the map of Australia. Fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $220
Amy Johnson England to Australia flight commemorative pin, in enamel and gilt (25x28mm) by Miller, Birmingham, features an aircraft with name of her aircraft 'Jason' struck behind propellor and her name, 'AMY', between maps of England and Australia on the red enamelled wing, pin back. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $270
Early aviator's long coat, (Kingsford Smith's??), c1920s, in brown leather, lined with tan tartan material and with matching leather belt, inside written K????Smith, this probably not contemporary. Some deterioration and tearing to lining and leather coat, leather hardened with age and some colour loss as to be expected, good.
Estimate $200
SOLD $1,700
Pilot's leather gloves, gauntlet style by McLeod, brown in colour with adjustable back strap and fur lined, much of this missing. Fine.
Estimate $50
Passed in
WWII leather flying cap, inside label for Lasica's, Australia and Murdoch's Ltd, Sydney. Most brown colour faded from main body of the cap and lining loose in parts around edge, good.
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
Leather flying cap, inside with gilt Army parachute wings and words, 'Flying Commando'. Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $80