Catalogue
Australia, 56th Infantry (The Yarra Borders) (Vic), hat badge in white metal and bronze (36.5mm) (Cossum 135), reverse with maker's name, Firmin & Sons, London. Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $260
Australia, Rising Sun hat (3) and collar (19) badges (all KC), many oxidised, one a 1948-53 issue in gilt), an Australia shoulder title in oxidised bronze; also modern souvenir hat badge featuring Rising Sun design with map of Australia in centre, Australia below and wattles at bottom left and right, by Stokes, Melb, in gilt. Some need cleaning and some missing a lug, otherwise fine - very fine. (24)
Estimate $120
SOLD $180
Australia, 11th Light Horse Regiment (Darling Downs Regt Q.M.I.), 1930-42, hat badge in oxidised bronze (52mm). Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $190
Australia, 14th Light Horse Regiment (West Moreton Regt Q.M.I.), 1930-42, hat (52mm) and collar pair (25mm). Fine - very fine. (1 + pair)
Estimate $150
SOLD $280
Australia, 30th Infantry Battalion, (The NSW Scottish Regiment), 1930-42, hat badge in white metal (75mm); 30th Infantry Battalion (The NSW Scottish Regiment), c1935, belt buckle and fittings in nickel plated; The Black Watch, (The Royal Highland Regiment), hat badge (KC) in white metal (71mm); also The Black Watch Association New South Wales Branch card 462 with small red feather plume attached. The buckle fine, the rest good very fine. (4)
Estimate $130
SOLD $100
Australia, 35th Infantry Battalion (Newcastle's Own Regiment) hat badge in brass 1930-42. Nearly extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $200
SOLD $150
Australia, 37th Infantry Battalion (The Henty Regiment), 1930-42, collar badge in gilt and enamel (28mm), maker's name on reverse, Orbuck. Good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $650
Australia, 45th Infantry Battalion (The St George Regiment), 1930-42, hat badge in brass (64mm), type 1, marked on reverse by maker, 'Stokes'. Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
Australia, collection of Army badges, hat and collar types, mostly 1930-42 issues, although noted a couple of pre federation issues (one a copy), some items include 60th Battalion collar badge in enamel and gilt, Army Veterinary Corps hat and collar pair badges, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps badges (2, different), Officer Cadet School hat badge, also Melbourne Grammar School Cadet Corps hat badge, Toowoomba Grammar School Cadet Unit hat badge, and RAAF Airman's hat badge (KC). Stored in a large white album, some badges are copies, overall mostly fine - extremely fine. (61)
Estimate $200
SOLD $550
Australia, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps hat badge (Cossum 468), also an embroidered woollen shoulder title; Women's Royal Australian Army Corps cap/collar badges (Cossum 469) (3), also a WRAAC button; Boer War souvenir items, includes a book post card with fitted stand, titled 'Everlasting Silver Leaves from the Slopes of Table Mountain', the leaves marked 'The Seasons Compliments', addressed to single female recipient at Ultimo, Sydney NSW, also two postcards, one marked 'Zulu Mothers', the other 'Matable Wives' written on the back of the first, 'these are my two girls' and on the front bottom of the other, 'some more of my girls'; also South Africa, 8th Transvaal Scottish Infantry hat badge in brass, WWII, pin back fitting. The cards with foxing and creasing to one, otherwise good - extremely fine. (10)
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
Australian badge collection, mostly Army, includes a few metal hat badges, but mostly rank badges, shoulder titles, trade and specialist qualification badges (many with backing plates), and other items including some British Army badges and a Pakistan Frontier Police badge in silver bullion embroidered, also a pair of shoulder boards fitted with metal insignia for a Brigadier with metal R (Reserve of Officers/Retired), and a solid metal block (50x32x6mm) affixed to the top of which is a gilt lapel badge of the Royal Aust Navy (KC) pre 1948. Many qualification badges appear to be of modern manufacture, otherwise mostly very fine - uncirculated. (77)
Estimate $150
SOLD $180
Australia, an assortment of Army and Air Force cloth and metal rank insignia, c1950-1990, including Prince of Wales Light Horse bullion beret badges. Good - extremely fine. (82)
Estimate $150
SOLD $180
Australian Army badges, displayed in a large timber frame (50x80cm), under perspex, post 1953 issues, includes copies, reverse of frame has a coloured photographic backing of the same badges as are in the frame. A few extremely fine but mostly uncirculated. (56)
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
Australia, hat badges and collar badges for various battalions and corps, mainly 1953-60, almost all in metal, noted Pacific Islands Regiment; City of Perth 11/44 Infantry Battalion; The Swan Regiment 28th Infantry Battalion; Hindmarsh Regiment 43/48th Infantry Battalion; 10 WAMI; Australian Intelligence Corps; Army Chaplain's Dept (Christian) (2, one with damaged lugs); Royal Australian Army Dental Corps; Special Air Service; several others as well as two buttons (KC), one with long pin attached, one title for RQR and cloth patches for Southern Command (Vic post 1954) and Western Command c1950. The patches fine, the buttons very fine - extremely fine, the rest mostly extremely fine or better, an Ordnance Corps hat badge with pierced hole on shield for fitting central nickel design but this missing. (28)
Estimate $120
SOLD $140
Australian Army badges, The Royal Military College (Duntroon) hat badge in gilt 1953-60; also an RMC button (QC); The Officers Cadet School (Portsea) hat badge in bi-metal 1953-60; The Officers Training Unit (Scheyville) hat badge in anodised 1960-85. Extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $50
Passed in
Australia, Royal Australian Engineers, 1953-60, hat badge in bi-metal (46mm) (Cossum 394), affixed to a navy blue beret by Beret Mnfrs Pty Ltd, Victoria, Australia, with sewn internal tag for recording Regimental No and name; also Royal Australian Engineers officer's flaming grenade collar badges, 1953-60, in gilt (49mm) (Cossum 394) (4). All badges uncirculated, beret good very fine. (6)
Estimate $80
Passed in
Australia and British Army badges, collection that includes hat and collar badges also a good range of qualification badges, all metal except one, as well as metal shoulder titles, all AWAS, AAMWS or Australia, also one pre federation issue, this and various other badges appear to be copies. Stored in a large white album, overall mostly very fine - uncirculated. (46)
Estimate $120
SOLD $200
Australia, RAAF Officer's hat badge (KC), with original backing intact; WWI ID bracelet named to 9471 Gnr. C.S.Copplestone 17 Bty A.F.A., WWII dog tag named to 127367 C.S.Copplestone RAAF. Very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
RAAF Airman's hat badge, 1948-53, in silver (46.5mm), as worn by band members. Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Australia, WWI nurses arm band in white cloth and embroidered with wreath around a red cross and ensigned with a King's crown, secured at back with stud clips, inside stamped with DW (Department of War) and upright arrow above. Age toning otherwise virtually unused and scarce.
Estimate $250
SOLD $360
Australia, pre and post federation artillery bullion embroidered badges, includes Artillery Quartermaster Sergeant with field gun badge and separate star badge for above, c1885; Artillery Sergeant (3, two opposing field guns and one facing left); 2nd Class badge for Prize Winning Battery, c1890s; Gunnery 2nd Class badge, post 1901; 3rd Class Driver for Field Artillery; 2nd Class Gunnery badge, c1906; also artillery flaming canon badges (2 different types). Fine - extremely fine. (11)
Estimate $200
SOLD $340
Army Qualification badges, Artillery 1st Class Gunner's badge in bullion tape and wire, c1890s; Artillery Quartermaster Sergeant's star embroidered in bullion for fitting above field gun badge; Staff Sergeant Major 3rd Class embroidered badge (KC). Very fine. (3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Victoria, Trumpeter badge, c1893, in bullion embroidered; Australia, Signaller badge, c1906, in bullion embroidered; AMF, Wheelers & Carpenters (Artificers) badge, c1931, in bullion embroidered. The second with some loose bullion wire, otherwise very fine. (3)
Estimate $70
SOLD $220
Australian/British, rank and qualification badges, includes Colonel's badge and various sized Queen Victoria crown badges (5) in bullion embroidered and another Staff Sergeant Major badge in bullion embroidered; also various size Queen Victoria crowns in metal (4) and a King's crown in metal; a pre federation Quartermaster's badge in white metal; Bandmaster/Bandsman badge (QVC) in bronze (one lug repaired) and a pair of collar badges in bronze (one missing a lug). Fine - very fine. (16)
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
Buttons, rank badges and titles in metal includes Major's crown badges (24, large [19], small [5]), in gilt and also oxidised bronze; officer's pips (46, small and large in oxidised bronze, silvered, silvered and enamel, gilt and enamel); Australian Military Forces buttons (KC) (80, large [3], medium [24], small [52], extremely small [1]) in various metals namely gilt, brass and oxidised bronze; RAASC (EIIR) buttons in gilt (6, large [4], small [2]),; pre federation Queensland Volunteers button in white metal (2); General Service large button 1899-1901 in bronze; British General Service buttons in bronze (KC) (5, large [3], medium and small); another unidentified GVR medium size button in bronze; Australia shoulder titles (7) in bronze, a few oxidised; also embroidered Major's crowns (5, KC [2], QC [3]); embroidered officer's pips (8); Australia 2nd Infantry Division c1950 embroidered shoulder patches (4). Good - extremely fine. (189)
Estimate $250
Passed in
Australia, Army Warrant Officer Class I rank badge in blue sewn to an Army brassard; other Warrant Officer Class I rank badges in embroidered cloth (3, two on tan background and one on Khaki), embroidered wool (2, on Army uniform background), in bullion embroidered (2, on black background). One of the last with some loss of black background, otherwise very fine - extremely fine. (8)
Estimate $50
Passed in
British/Australian Navy rank badges, mostly pre 1900, Chief Petty Officer (QVC), embroidered red on black; Chief Petty Officer (QVC) with three good conduct chevrons below, in embroidered bullion on black; 1st Class Petty Officer (KC), embroidered bullion and cotton on black; 2nd Class Petty Officer (QVC), embroidered bullion on black; Petty Officer 1st Class rate badge (QVC, c1860s) with three good conduct chevrons below (Perryman p21), embroidered cotton on white. The first and second with a few spots with loss of material, the last with foxing, otherwise fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $340