Catalogue
New South Wales Police, hat badge (QC), test strike in bronze by Amor, Sydney, no lugs. Toned, and weak strike on eagle, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Territory of Papua, Village Councillor badge in aluminium (34x43mm), 1920's issue, by Millers Ltd. Sydney. (Mira p201/2). A few areas of light oxidation, otherwise virtually uncirculated.
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Village Councillor badge in aluminium (35x45mm), post 1949 issue (Mira p203/4). Scuffing and hairlines on reverse, otherwise virtually uncirculated.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Territory of Papua and New Guinea, T.P. & N.G. Councillor badge (QC), 1965-73 issue in chrome plated bronze by Stokes A/Asia (Mira pp204/205). Good very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Territory of New Guinea, Luluai's TNG Disc, pre 1938, in bronze (32mm), ring suspension and loop (Mira p198-9), believed to have been used in Bougainville. Gilt worn, some pitting on reverse, otherwise fine and extremely rare, Mira states only 2 known to exist.
Estimate $500
SOLD $500
Territory of New Guinea, Luluai badge (KC), 1945-52, in brass with 2x2mm officially pierced holes for attachment, no maker's name and unnumbered (Mira p194, L1b). Small tone spot, otherwise virtually uncirculated.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Territory of New Guinea, Tul-Tul badge, in bronze with 3x3mm officially pierced holes for attachment, no maker's name and unnumbered, type 1 with tip of leaf pointing to N of Guinea (Mira p195). Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Territory of New Guinea, Head Tax token, 1933-1935, ten shillings (type III) (Mira p311), in aluminium (34mm), plain reverse, holed at top edge; Head Tax token, 1937-1938, ten shillings (like Mira type III but larger lettering) (Mira not recorded), in aluminium (36mm), reverse with unidentified impressed trademark and below this 5344, upset to 9 o'clock, holed at top and bottom edges. The first with some light tin oxidation and the second with a score mark that appears to have been on the blank before impressing details, overall extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Territory of New Guinea, Head Tax token, 1935-1936, ten shillings (type III) (Mira p311), in aluminium (34mm), plain reverse, holed at top edge. Slight buckling and dirty, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
New Guinea Police Force, Native Constabulary Valour Badge, 1930-44, in brass, a test strike (30mm on a large planchet 37mm), by Amor. Toned uncirculated.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Royal Papua & New Guinea Constabulary (KC) hat badge Type 1 (Mira p240); another but Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (QC), missing '&' and no enamel or nickel plating (see Mira p240, Type 2), a trial without lugs, struck by Amor, Sydney. The first well worn, poor, the second toned uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $150
Passed in
Royal Papua & New Guinea Constabulary, Police Valour Medal, (instituted 1965), (Mira p234), trial strike by Amor, Sydney, before suspension added. Traces of mint red, uncirculated.
Estimate $100
SOLD $300
Papua & New Guinea, Corrective Institutions Meritorious Service Medal, (Mira p241), trial strike by Amor, Sydney, before suspension added. Toned extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Papua & New Guinea Fire Brigade, Fire Service Valour Medal, (instituted 1974), (Mira p244), trial strike by Amor, Sydney, on a thick planchet before suspension added. Traces of mint red, uncirculated.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Third South Pacific Games, 1969, Commemorative Medallion, in oxidised bronze and enamel (44mm), by Luke, Australia. In case, uncirculated.
Estimate $50
Passed in
Papua New Guinea, post-independence medal 1975 prototype (?), obverse with similar design as the Independence Medal 1975, reverse with native message drum being played and the legend, 'AHEBOU.UNITE.BUNG WANTAIM'. A few small edge nicks, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Papua New Guinea, Independence 1975 Supporter's badge in the form of a tinnie (Mira p210); Children's Independence 1975 plastic discs (2, one red and one yellow), holed at top edge as issued (Mira p210/1); also South Pacific Games, Port Moresby, 1969, in silvered bronze (33mm), with suspension lug, obverse, Games symbol, reverse, map of Papua New Guinea. The last dark toned with some heavy spots of oxidation, otherwise very fine, the rest good very fine - uncirculated. (4)
Estimate $50
Passed in
New South Wales, fifteen pence or dump, 1813, a wall hanging plaster casting (15.7cm), in antique silver finish. A very small edge chip at front and a slightly large edge chip on the plain reverse, easily repairable, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Australian historic coins, a facsimile collection, 1970 issue for Australia's bicentennial of discovery by Captain Cook. Cased with copy of booklet notes prepared by G.C.Heyde, uncirculated. (15)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Edward VIII, medallic crowns, 1936 (2, one gilt and one silvered); mint set, 1981 in United Permanent Building Society case with medal for opening of their No.2 Martin Place Office; USA, Columbian Exposition half dollars, 1893 (3); another being a cameo medallic proof copy (30mm) to commemorate the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of America; West Germany, fifty pfennig, 1950G (KM.109.1); also Chinese cash coin and amulet copies (2). Mostly uncirculated. (9+1 set)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Edward VII - Elizabeth II, florin, 1928; shillings, 1921 star (2); sixpences, 1942D (4), 1942S, 1944S (2), 1945, 1951, 1954 struck ten percent off centre and out of collar, 1960; threepences, 1910, 1941, 1942D, 1942S. Good - extremely fine. (18)
Estimate $100
SOLD $220
George VI, 1951, Jubilee of Federation, together with photos of seven proposed designs for this coin by Vernon Lorimer and a typed note of the background to these, printed at the bottom in pencil, 'From Owen Fleming/To Les Carlisle/1970s'. Extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $120
George V - Elizabeth II, pennies, 1914, 1915H (3), 1915, 1941Y. (planchet bent), 1943Y. (3), 1944Y. (9, one with fade out of lettering on both sides at bottom), 1951PL; halfpennies, 1915H (2), 1928, 1933, 1942 (3), 1942Y. (2), 1943 (3), 1945 (several blobs on reverse), 1946Y. (blob under kangaroo's tail), 1951PL, 1953A. Several with some mint red, mostly good - nearly uncirculated. (35)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
George V - Elizabeth II, pennies, 1930 (3, modern proof gilt issues stamped COPY on obverse); halfpennies, 1923 (2, both modified from 1928); other sixpence, penny and halfpennies (2, one 1918I); obverse uniface copies of the Australian platinum koala, 1993, includes ten ounces and one ounce, copies of the silver kookaburra, 1993, one kilo and ten ounces, and copy of the gold nugget, 1993, one kilo, all decimal issue copies made from white metal; also Perth Mint 1994 miniature medals (15mm) for each of kangaroo, kookaburra and koala. Fine - uncirculated. (17)
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
World coins, Denmark, five kroner, 1971 (KM.853.1); Great Britain, threepence, 1906, penny, 1918H (S.3984, 4052) (2); Netherlands, six stuivers, 1680 (KM.2.1), countermark of bundle of arrows on an Overyssel six stuivers (KM.50); New Guinea, shillings, 1935, 1936, 1938 (3), 1945 (2) (KM.5 [2], 8 [5]) (7). Good - nearly uncirculated. (11)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Australia and world mint tokens, includes Australia, Sydney Mint Opened 1855, in aluminium (26mm), by Bruce Canning (mintage 2); Sydney Mint Museum, 1995, in aluminium bronze (27mm) (struck on opening night); Sydney Mint Museum/70th Anniversary of Royal Mint Branch, 1997, in aluminium bronze (27mm); Royal Australian Mint, undated, in aluminium bronze (23mm); Belgium Mint, 1910, in bronze (30mm); Great Britain, Royal Mint half sovereign wt (2.13 DW), in bronze (19mm); Royal Mint M token, in bronze (31mm); Royal Mint London medal, in bronze (35mm); Israel Govt Coins & Medals 26th Anniversary, 1975, in cupro nickel (30mm); United States Mint, Denver, in bronze (37mm); also coin dealer tokens/medals, includes Paul Bickerton, Ballarat, Vic; Coincraft, London (2 different); Consolidated Numismatics Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada; Guttag Bros, New York, USA; Jacques Schulman, Amsterdam, Netherlands; J.Taylor, East Victoria Park, West Australia; W.Till, London, England, 1834. In 2x2 holders, fine - uncirculated. (18)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Amor test strikes, includes Prisoners of War Appeal pins (2), one convex with cross on one side and 2/- on the concave side, the other with finished cross design on one side and an old cross design as for previous example on the other side; unidentified pool tokens (2), one in bright bronze (26mm and 2.5mm thick), the other in bronze (31mm and 1mm thick), both holed off centre; untitled amusement tokens (3), bronze (19mm), the first with reverse lettering only, reverse dished and no centre hole, the second with multiple off centre strikes and holed in centre, the last a correctly finished product with obverse and reverse lettering and centre hole. Very fine - uncirculated. (7)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
World War I, Liverpool, NSW, Internment Camp threepence, in aluminium. Extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $750
SOLD $1,300
Barrier Munitions Co Pty Ltd, 1915, dental plaster copy of the gold award medal (24mm; overall 40mm). Extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $100
Passed in
Middlesex condor token, Newgate Prison halfpenny, 1794, in bronze (28mm) (D&H 393); other tokens, E.Cottrill, Alcester, Kings Arms beer token, threepence, in bronze (23mm); J.Simmons, Royal Hotel Victoria Park, beer token, four pence, in bronze (28mm); C.Beaumont, Albert Coffee House, York Road, New Cattle Market four pence, in bronze (28mm), the last two by W.J.Taylor, London. The first with traces of mint red, very fine. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60