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Australia, Rising Sun sweetheart badge, pin backed, in gold and enamel (9ct, 3.3g, 27x12mm) by E.A.P & Co. With case, badge with 'XX14' scratched on reverse, extremely fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force), miniature sweetheart brooch, diamond encrusted in white, pink gold and enamels (9ct, total weight 9.8g, 37x27mm) with safety chain, hallmarked Birmingham 1972. With case, extremely fine.
Estimate $750
Passed in
Presentation salver, an EPNS ornately decorated salver with cast floral designs about the rim, all of Sheffield plate, diameter 25cm, presented to Lieut. & Mrs W. Dumbleton from the Officers of the 7th Divisional Calvary Regiment A.I.F., 7.12.1940. Very fine.
Estimate $100
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WVCC (Waverley Volunteer Cadet Corps), shoulder title in silvered bronze; prize fob in silver (2), monogram initials 'GCG' on shield on obverse of first and on the reverse is inscribed, 'G.C.Gorbould (sic)/2nd 50 Yds H'cap/W.V.Cadets/8.2.02', on the other fob is scratched the initials, 'GCC' on shield on front and reverse is blank; medalet for First Visit of the Commonwealth Fleet to Sydney, 1913, in bronze (29mm) (C.1913/5), holed for suspension; Jack's Day pin in blue enamel and silvered bronze (stick pin missing); another type of Jack's Day stick pin with KC in silvered bronze and blue enamel. Fine - very fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Australia, handcrafted shoulder title in brass, 5 VMR Australia (5th Victorian Mounted Rifles). Very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $450
Australia, 7 Light Horse metal title; King's Silver War badge, reverse numbered A3131, pin missing from pin back fitting. Fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $300
1st A.L.H. N.S.W. Lancers, shoulder title in nickel silver (52x26mm), by J.R.Gaunt & Son Ltd, Birm. Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $380
Hat badges, artillery (5), noted Royal Australian Artillery (EVIIR) and Royal N.Z. Artillery (KC); RNZA collar badge pair; Artillery Master Gunner qualification badge with backing plate; Royal Australian Regiment (QC); Royal Military College (KC); Great Britain, 57th Regiment of Foot cross belt plate in brass (QC); Irish Guards tie bar in silvered and gilt. Very fine - uncirculated. (12)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Australia, Rising Sun hat badges (KC) (5, one sand cast without lugs); Rising Sun collar badges (KC) (6); Australia titles (3); Female Relative's badge WWII with one star, reverse numbered A124722; General Service badge WWII type 2 (2), numbered on reverse, A22449 and AF25073; fund raising badge, Win The War Fete Hawthorn 1917, in gilt (missing pin); also British Army Service Corps hat badges (2, both KC, one bright bronze and the other oxidised). Very good - uncirculated. (20)
Estimate $100
SOLD $280
Royal Australian Survey Corps, hat badge and collar badge 1915-48; hat badge (QC), collar badges (2, one KC, one QC); embroidered cloth titles (4); Survey Corps metal titles (2); purple lanyard; Field Survey Unit RAE colour patch; Australian Survey Corps WWII colour patch; shoulder boards with RASVY titles (2); RA Survey Corps metal buttons (all QC), large (11), small (2); timber wall plaque with RA Survey Corps badge (QC). Very good - uncirculated. (30)
Estimate $150
SOLD $120
British/Australian Army Officer rank badges, as worn on epaulettes, all in gilt and mostly singles except for General (pair with KC), Lieutenant General (KC), Major General, Brigadier (KC), Colonel (KC), Major (KC), Captain, Lieutenant. Good very fine - extremely fine. (7 + pair)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Australian Army colour patches, includes a photo album style book, with handwritten details in Indian ink and hand painted colour patches as well as privately made-up material colour patches, includes a section for Light Horse Regts & their descendants, as well as patches of the AIF, includes date of issue as well as GRO for several, also included is a small paint brush used to paint the illustrations of patches; various printed colour charts of unit colour patches; a box of colour patches, a few appear to be original 2nd AIF but mostly privately made. Poor - extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $220
Australia, Army WWII unit colour patches, all different except one, all original except one and includes three miniature patches. Mostly very fine or better. (30)
Estimate $150
SOLD $480
South Australian Police, nickel plated helmet plate, King's crown, voided number 713 (H82x64mm). Good very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $250
Great Britain, army hat badges, noted several Scottish units including King's Own Borderers (QVC) and (KC), Royal Highlanders, Cameron Highlanders, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), Royal Scots, Royal Scots Greys, Seaforth Highlanders, Argyle & Sutherland, Highland Light Infantry (short scroll type), others including Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry, The King's Own, Hampshire Regt, King's Royal Rifle Corps, Royal Sussex Regt, City of London Yeomanry, 8 Bn City of London Regt, Queen's Royal Lancers, Cambridge University O.T.C., 3rd Dragoon Guards, Norfolk Regt hat and collars (2), Royal Irish Regt, Royal Engineers, various Artillery badges (4), Tank Corps; also a NZ Rifle Brigade cap badge; rank and qualification badges, noted Signaller with backing plate, 3rd Class Gunnery badge, Warrant Officer and RSM badges (2, different sizes). Mostly very fine or better. (36)
Estimate $250
SOLD $180
Great Britain, Army hat badges in metal, Army Physical Training Corps (KC), The Buffs, Devonshire Regt (KC), Connaught Rangers (KC), Cornwall (KC), Dorsetshire, Durham Light Infantry, Gloucestershire, East Surrey, The King's Own, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Leicestershire, The Leinster, Manchester, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, The Royal Highlanders (KC), Royal Irish Rangers (KC), Royal Ulster Rifles (KC) (2), Royal West Kent, South Lancashire Prince of Wales Vols, South Staffordshire (KC), Suffolk Regt (KC), West Yorkshire, Wiltshire Regt, York and Lancaster. Cleaned, very fine - good very fine. (28)
Estimate $220
SOLD $160
Great Britain, Army hat badges in metal, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Royal Munster Fusiliers, Royal Scots Fusiliers helmet badges (KC) (2, one gilt and one nickel plated), Royal Artillery (KC) (2), Artillery Proficiency Master Gunner badge; Tank Corps (KC), Army Ordnance Corps (pre 1918), Royal Army Ordnance Corps (KC), Army Service Corps (KC), Royal Engineers (KC), Royal Army Medical Corps (KC). All cleaned, good fine - very fine. (13)
Estimate $100
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Great Britain, WWI metal shoulder titles, curved type, includes Buffs, Connaught, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Durham, E.Surrey, Gloster, Kings.Own, Leicester, Leinster.R.C., Manchester, Middlesex, North.Hampton, Oxf&Bucks, S.Lancashire, S.Stafford, Suffolk, W.Yorkshire, R.W.Kent, Wilts, T/RFA/Monmouthshire with backing plate. All except last cleaned, very fine. (22)
Estimate $140
SOLD $90
Great Britain, WWI metal shoulder titles, straight type, includes RA, RE, RDF, RSF (no lugs), RIR, RMF, RFA, RTC, RGA, RHA, Y & L, AOC, RAMC, RAOC, RASC, K.O.Y.L.I, T/Y/RGH. Cleaned, very fine. (17)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
British Warrant Officer Class I, rank badges (4, two in metal (KC) with backing plates and two embroidered (QC)); Warrant Officer Class II rank badges in metal (2, one with wreath and one without, both KC); The Royal Highlanders Black Watch hat badge (KC); Australian Rising Sun hat badges (4, Commonwealth Forces (KC), Military Forces (KC) [2], proposed new issue with star in centre [Cossum RS148]); Rising Sun collar badges (3, Commonwealth Military Forces (KC), Military Forces (KC) [2]); Australia metal title; Australian Military Forces buttons (all KC), large (4, three gilt, one blackened bronze), medium (gilt KC) (3), small (3, two gilt, one blackened bronze); R.A.N.R. enamel lapel badge by Denham Neal & Treloar, Sydney; colour patches (3) and Australia cloth shoulder slider; various Command patches, noted Australian Army HQ (2), Northern Command, Southern Command (2), Eastern Command (2), Central Command (S.A.), Western Australia Command; Tasmania Command; also USA, 106th 'Golden Lion Division' patch. The Highlander badge with a few bumps, otherwise fine, the rest mostly very fine - extremely fine. (44)
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Canada, army and air force hat badges, all in metal, WWI Army cap badges (3), Tank Corps (KC), Medical Corps (KC), Army Service Corps (2, one KC and one QC), Artillery (2, one KC and one QC), the remaing badges all QC issues, Army Infantry, Army Cadets (no lugs), Cadet Instructor badge, Corps of Signals (2), Provost Corps (2), Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, Army Medical Corps (no lugs), Lord Strathcona's Horse, Princess Louise's Canadian Hussars, RCEME, Ordnance Corps, Artillery, Dragoons, Engineers, Pay Corps, Canadian Guards, Dental Corps, also Canada title (missing one lug); Royal Canadian Air Force hat badge and cap badge (both QC). A few fine but mostly very fine - uncirculated. (32)
Estimate $150
SOLD $100
Germany, Third Reich, a large assortment of reproduction badges in metal and cloth, noted Army elite Edelweiss hat badge (2); Army eagle badges (6, one metal and five cloth [2 green, 3 gold]); Bundeswehr military cavalry hat badge; Waffen SS 'skull' cloth badges (6, two of each in green, silver and gold); same 'skull' badge but metal (3); embroidered Army hat badge (wreath and roundel) (2); shoulder boards (6, green and grey); modern medical badges (10); modern propellor in wreath badges (4); lanyards (2, one grey, one silver); Third Reich Army helmet decal set; hat roundels (20, one missing pins); aluminium buttons for shoulder boards (approx 20); also Meine Ehre Heiht Treue with skull badge, reverse marked RZM 05/10 and screw plate backings marked RZM 215/41; other pips and buttons (14); also US belt buckles (2); CSA (Confederate States of America) belt buckles (3); other plain buckles (4); saddle carbine hooks (4). Virtually all are reproductions or modern issues. (lot)
Estimate $50
SOLD $90
Spain, army, small crown, 1960-1977, in gold gilt and enamel, metal cap badge and tie clip (6); military unit patches (10); military caps (4), four different types. Fine - very fine. (20)
Estimate $100
Passed in
USA, 1st Cavalry Division lapel badge, in gilt and enamel, by Angus & Coote, Sydney; 7th Cavalry Regiment hat badge in brass by Pasquale; USAAF Pilot's wings in silver; 1st Lieutenant bar in silver; Officer's (U.S.) collar badge in brass (2); Perched Eagle badge for indicating Petty Officer, pin back, in brass; also ribands for Silver Star, and Purple Heart. Fine - very fine, the first 'Made in Australia' and scarce. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Great Britain, 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot cross belt plate in brass (QVC). Good fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $340
Great Britain, 28th Regiment of Foot cross belt plate in brass (QVC). A few paint stains that are removable, good fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $470
World badges, Great Britain, Battle of Trafalgar commemorative (65x45mm), features gilt metal stamped anchor behind lifebuoy and in centre under plastic cover is a circular white board on which is printed, 'TRAFALGAR/OCTOBER 21/1805', stick pin missing; Italy, WWII Army hat badges in metal, 116 Infantry Regiment (no lugs), Pioneers, 20 Engineers, unidentified with flame above horn with crossed swords behind (end of one sword missing), all except first with red, white and green rosette; USSR, Red Star for forage cap (one securing bar missing); also another but smaller lapel badge with pin back. Very good - good very fine. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Australian trench art cigarette case, made of brass (75x53mm), lift up top lid, with polished Rising Sun hat badge (KC) fitted to one side and on the other side is inscribed, 'Lt.Colonel William Grant/1912/A.L.H'. Polished, otherwise fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $350
World War I, Princess Mary's Christmas gift tin 1914, empty; brass scimitar shaped letter opener with a German bullet and casing as the handle, inscribed on one side of the blade are leaf sprays and the word 'Flo.' and the other side also with an identical leaf pattern but with the word, 'Somme', the bullet casing is marked S67 16 DM (model S case by Spandau in 67 percent copper and Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken (German Weapons & Munitions), Karlsruhe & Berlin 1916). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Camel Corps commemorative bugle, an M1855 British Duty bugle made of copper and brass with small safety chain from mouthpiece to body of bugle, and soldered at the side above the bell is a Rising Sun badge and affixed on the crown is a brass cut-out camel facing left, above the badge is inscribed, 'CAMEL CORPS/MAGDHABA BATTLE/23rd DECEMBER/1916'. One time cleaned with traces of cleaning compound in grooves, now retoned, with various oxidation spots, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,800