Catalogue
Award medals, (1990s-2000), includes Victorian Ministry of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, For Outstanding Voluntary Service, in silvered bronze (60mm), unnamed; Australian Retired Persons Association Silver Power, in silvered bronze (60mm), unnamed; Earth Week Commemorative Award, in gilt bronze (31.5mm), with loop suspension and ribbon, unnamed; The Westpac Award/Australian Mathematics Competition, lead pull of obverse (64mm); Queensland National Bank, obverse struck on thin copper sheet (64.5mm); bronze medal blank (57mm). Very fine - uncirculated. (6)
Estimate $150
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Prime Ministers of Australia, undated, in 24ct gold on sterling silver (38mm) (5), includes issues for Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, John Christian Watson, George Houston Reid, and Andrew Fisher; also Australian States medals in sterling silver (44mm), includes issues for Queensland, Western Australia, and Tasmania. Uncirculated. (8)
Estimate $170
SOLD $100
Sterling silver medals ex sets, includes (45mm) issues for Matthew Flinders, William Dampier, John McDouall Sturt, and Capt Robert F Scott RN; also (44mm) issues for Mathew Flinders Australian Coast Surveyed, First Convict Fleet Colonising Australia, Arrival of First Fleet, and John MacArthur. Uncirculated. (8)
Estimate $200
SOLD $160
Australian Numismatic Society, a variety of medals in different metals and for different events, noted several (14) with coin inserts, some medals numbered, mostly in the period 2001-2014. Uncirculated except for coin inserts. (42)
Estimate $200
SOLD $160
Numismatic Association of Australia Conference, 2011, in bronze (38mm), obverse features Captain Cook presenting a medal to a Tasmanian aboriginal, also Sydney Mint special collector's set of three by the ANS, set no.46 of 50, in sealed plastic panel; G Dean medallic tokens; another for Scott Douglas Canadian tokens; Sofala tourist souvenir token in bronze; Austral Bronze complimentary convex medal (37mm) marked Alloy 901; tin splashes for Australian company logos (4); replica of convict love token in The Mint & Barracks folder; convict love tokens set of two in plastic in descriptive folder; also Euro blanks (2, [25mm aluminium bronze and nickel] and [29mm copper and nickel]). Mostly uncirculated. (13 + 2 sets)
Estimate $80
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Numismatic society and mint medals and badges, includes The Australian Numismatic Society Centenary Holey Dollar and Dump medal, 2013, in oxidised silvered (50mm), cased; ANS Qld Branch 500 meetings, 2004, stamped onto an Australian 1962 penny; Italian Numismatic Association Melbourne award medal, undated, in bronze (38mm), unnamed; A J Parkes Centenary medal, 1996, in bronze (57mm), cased with stand; Royal Mint London badge in maker's box; Auckland Coin Convention, 1971, in white metal (32mm) (2); San Francisco Mint commemorative, (1973), in bronze (38mm); various badges (8) for numismatic associations and other nameplates (3). Mostly very fine - uncirculated. (19)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Royal Children's Hospital Brisbane, 1878-2014, tribute medal in polished high relief on gilt-frosted base (60mm), specially struck to commemorate Radiological Sciences as a Heritage medal for Clinical Radiology and Medical Imaging, obverse, Armorial Bearings of the Royal Children's Hospital Brisbane, with Hospital motto 'Healing, Teaching, Caring', reverse, standing figure of Sol holding a torch and with representation of lithium atoms to left and right of the figure, the medal was designed and commissioned by Emeritus Professor John Pearn AO as a gift of Professor John Masel AM and the Pearn family, bestowed in 2014 as a tribute to the service rendered by those all who have cared for patients of the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane. In case of issue and a professionally printed descriptive certificate, uncirculated, one of only 10 produced and the only example available to collectors.
Estimate $150
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Sundial medal, in brass (40mm), with loop suspension, small pin attached to a chain and hole in medal to accommodate this pin, hand engraved, obverse, various numbers and indicators as well as Summer and Winter Solstice and Equinox and Lat 33 degrees 50 minutes S, reverse, numbers and Zodiac figures and marked 151degrees E, both these indicators are based on the user being located in Sydney. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Amor test strikes, all unfinished, includes Leeton Eisteddfod in brass (33mm) and another in copper; Seven Hills Dance Festival in brass (27mm) (5); City of Parramatta Eisteddfod in bronze (25mm); Sydney International Art Festival in brass (29x20mm), all uniface in various stages of production. Uncirculated. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Hafner Mint sample medals, Australian Ski Federation (2, one gilt, one bronze) (hexagon 58x51mm); the following all in bronze, penny Farthing Championships Victoria (51mm); Head of the Schoolgirls Rowing Regatta (51mm), with suspension ring; the following all 48mm, Head of the River; another identical but no title; cricket medal in similar style but no title; another but for hockey; soccer without title; Australia map with kangaroo and boomerang, untitled; Melbourne Victoria; Marriage Medal examples (2) with identical obverse but different animal reverses; untitled medals with identical reverse design for naming recipient but different obverses (6, includes Koala, Emu, Lyre bird, Kookaburra, Possum, Trout); Victoria Police; military prize medals for Royal Military College, Officer Cadet School, Command and Staff College Queenscliffe; in silvered, Inter Service Colleges Athletic Medal (51mm), with suspension ring; also The Roaring Forties Club, in silvered (47mm). The last with a few small scuff marks, otherwise uncirculated. (25)
Estimate $250
SOLD $160
Medallist's samples, one being a uniface plaque cast in bronze plate (93x131mm), features facing bust of Charles Wiseheart; the other a medal in silvered plate (85mm) on a plate (89x93mm), features a peacock with fully raised feathers covering the entire medal, date of both unknown. Extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $100
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Dame Nellie Melba, vintage natural plaster wall hanging (13x16.3cm); also others of a man's bust to right wearing a beret, in plaster (15cm) (2, one white and one light tan coloured), unidentified other than on the back of one is marked, 'Ernest Davies/Hunters Hill'. The first age toned, small chip from nose and upper lip, and a few other chips and a thin scratch, fine, the other two with age toning spots, otherwise very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
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