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Australian Army unit presentation plaques, 1980s, all wall hanging timber shields with affixed unit crests/badges, includes Officer Cadet School, inscribed plate, 'Presented to Capt. J.R.Poiner from PMC & Members - OCS Officers Mess 13 June 1981'; Training Command, inscribed plate, 'Presented to Capt J.R.Poiner by HQ Trg Comd Offrs Mess'; Veh. Coy 11 Sup. B.N. Banyo Bandits, inscribed plate, 'Presented to J.Poiner 1983'; 11th Supply Battalion, inscribed plate, 'Presented to Maj J.R.Poiner Offrs Mess 17 Nov 83'; 11th Supply Battalion, inscribed plate, 'Maj J.R.Poiner 11 Sup Bn Offr Mess Jan 86 - Dec 87'; another without inscribed plate, R.W.A.U. MFO Sinai. Fine - very fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, crest in metal and enamel, mounted on a timber wall hanging shield; Air Force Association gold bullion embroidered circular patch; light blue ladies business jacket by Target (size 16), with embroidered Air Force Association badge sewn onto left breast. Some small foxing on jacket, otherwise good very fine - uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Cigarette case, sterling silver (approx 400g, length 164mm, width 110mm, height 23mm), engraved on inside lid with 'Royal Engineers/to/Major W.A.Smailes/with Compliments/From Officers, NCO'S & Men/185 (S) T.Coy.R.E.'. Fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $350
HMS Jervis Bay, matchbook holder in silver plate (43x62mm), marked on inside 'Made in England', a machine turned case with an area for inscribing monogram and in the centre is affixed a silver and enamel disc with a merchant navy crown in the centre and the ship's name in a blue enamel outer band, inside the hinged-lid case is an early Teal (Tasman Empire Airways Limited) matchbook for Fiji and with 6 matches still inside. Matchbook in excellent condition and holder good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
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Japan, WWII artillery shell brass casing (long 165mm, diameter 53mm), base marked with crossed canons, F, 10 and 4 and Japanese text; Japanese tanto (dagger) with brass menuki under leather wrapping on the sharkskin covered tsuka, with brass tsuba but missing the kogatana (small utility knife) that fits into the saya (wooden scabbard); group of nine ribands sewn on to a backing with clip fittings for wear, one with emblem and a loose ribbon metal suspension bar . Blade of second last item with rusting and some damage, otherwise fine, the shell casing very fine, the ribands good. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $420
Australia, WWII, Department of Defence, scale model aircraft as used to identify Allied and enemy aircraft, includes Lockheed 'Ventura'; Brewster F2-2 'Buffalo'; Vought SB24-1 'Chesapeake'; Douglas TBD-1 'Devastator'; together with assembled kits. Fair - very good. (9)
Estimate $300
SOLD $180
Model militaria, vehicles, tanks, missile carrier, jeep, various makers including Britain's, Dinky, Lesney, Saladin armoured car; Saracen personnel carrier; service ambulance Ford 3 ton 4x4, UEHA, Huskey Lone Star bren gun carrier; Hendrix VW Typ 82 1:24; Solido Willys jeep, small cannons, tank with encased cigarette lighter. Some vehicles with damaged or missing tyres, tank tracks, good - fine. (17)
Estimate $150
SOLD $220
Dinky/Meccano, super toys, Thornycroft Mighty Antar, Tank Transporter 660; Centurion Tank 651; Recovery Tractor 661; 10 Ton Truck 622 (2); Dinky Toys, Military Ambulance 626; Armoured Car 670; Scout Car 673; Armoured Personnel Carrier 676. Good - fine. (8)
Estimate $200
SOLD $300
Dinky/Meccano, super toys, Thornycroft Mighty Antar, Tank Transporter 660; Centurion Tank 651; Recovery Tractor 661; Missile Servicing Platform 667; 10 Ton Truck 622; 1 Ton Cargo Truck 641; Leopard Tank; Volfswagon KDF; Ferret Scout Car. Good - good fine. (9)
Estimate $150
SOLD $300
Australia, WWI Disabled and Discharged Scroll, named to Lieutenant A.North, 1st Battalion AIF, Honourably Discharged 29th June 1919, with stamp of S.O.I.&R.S., 2nd M.D. Some foxing and some edge tears not affecting central scroll, Fine.
Estimate $70
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Letters from an Australian officer KIA, three letters addressed to Miss Doris Richmond at North Fitzroy, Melbourne, Vic, sent by Lt George Arthur Dutton and dated France 29 Jan 1917, in the Field 8 Feb 1918, and France 22 May 1918, all with Passed By Censor stamps on envelope; also an envelope sent from Melbourne, Vic to No 532 Sergeant George Dutton, 13th Light Horse Brigade, B Squadron, Australian Imperial Forces Abroad, this then redirected on three occasions. All letters very legible and in excellent condition, envelopes very good - fine. (4)
Estimate $50
SOLD $150
Australia, King's Certificate (aka Disabled and Honourably Discharged Scroll) WWI, Army type, variety with second line, 'Honourably discharged on.', unissued. Small 2cm tear at right edge and a small area of foxing on back bottom right edge, actual certificate detail area as new, good very fine and scarce as an unissued document.
Estimate $70
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WWII, Leave Ration Cards No. A 49922-9 (8 consecutive numbers), stamped Headquarters 2nd Field Coy, N.Z. Engineers, 25Mar1943; Vietnam War, Safe Conduct Pass to be honoured by all Vietnamese government agencies and allied forces; slow motion colour photos (6) of what appear to be rockets and other items; Poems of the Diggers including 'The Landing at Gaba Tepe' by Returned Soldiers, soft cover, 15pp. Fine - nearly uncirculated. (16)
Estimate $50
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Australia, WWII 'Cease Resistance' safe conduct passes for surrendering Japanese troops in New Guinea and other documents to New Guinea locals, includes a variety of documents with Japanese, pidgin English and Indonesian text, some featuring images of captured soldiers in camp and various New Guinea natives as well as images of native recognizable symbols, also news booklets with a few multiples and war articles, mostly relating to war in Pacific but some for Europe, also translation of documents targeted at Japanese troops pre-surrender, noted one US Army leaflet 144-J-1 dropped to Japanese soldiers in 1945 that features a giant Soviet soldier greeting a giant American soldier over map featuring Japan and titled in Japanese text, 'Red Army Strikes', with Japanese text message on back indicating that the Soviet and US have defeated Germany and will now throw there combined military might against Japan. Some with heavy edge tears or some loss of paper at edges, otherwise poor - very fine. (approx 35)
Estimate $250
SOLD $300
Australia, WWII 'Cease Resistance' safe conduct passes for surrendering Japanese troops in New Guinea and other documents to New Guinea locals, includes a variety of different documents, many featuring images of captured soldiers in camp and various New Guinea natives as well as images of native recognizable symbols and allied flags and three documents in Japanese bearing the printed signature of Lt Gen S.G.Savage, General Officer Commanding 2 Australian Corps, one with a map of New Guinea on the back also with Japanese text and two with native figures or symbols. Several with edge tears or some loss of paper at edges, all have been attached to a paper fastener at left corner, otherwise good - very fine. (18)
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
WWII, 'Japan has Surrendered' document featuring three vertical lines of Japanese text printed in black ink on a plain sheet of thick paper (approx 20x33cm), across bottom right corner written in English, 'Japan has/surrendered/Dropped in Wewak/Maprik Sepik/Aitape (?)/Area/16.8.45'. Folds, some small loss of paper at edge, centre hole on folds, otherwise fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
WWII, collection of b&w photos (31) from a former soldier in New Guinea, many with description and many featuring the Japanese surrender, some of these marked, 'Photographed by Mr (former Army Sergeant) Brian Burney of Denmark W.A'; Japanese postcards, WWII related issues, all text in Japanese, mostly unused. The postcards with some foxing or ageing, otherwise very good - very fine. (77)
Estimate $80
SOLD $80
WWII, booklet for tripod mounted Japanese military camera with photos, all text in Japanese; small embroidered yellow star as used on Japanese rank badges; five large pages of clear graph paper with ruler measurements top and bottom for placing over or creating maps during wartime, all text in Japanese; large ruled sheet of paper with Japanese printed text at top right for Army and bottom right for Japan; Japanese soldier's wartime letter of 4pp in Japanese text, dated 4 August but no year shown, paper features a floral spray at bottom left corner. Very good - fine. (9)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Vintage Victorian miniature portrait in oil, under glass in gold coloured frame (54x69mm), with suspension loop, written on reverse, 'Signed & Painted/Rover Dean/1800/Officer In/The Rifle/Brigade'. Extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $900
Vintage Victorian miniature portrait in oil, under glass in 9ct gold frame (tot wt 46.2g; 62x74mm), bottom edge impressed '9ct WW', with suspension loop, written on reverse, 'Colonel/Edward Miles/38th & 89th Foot/Commander Bath/Gold Medal for Salamanca/& Bar for St Sebastion (sic)/Knight of Portuguese/Tower & Sword/Portrait Circa 1816/Major 21 march 1805'. Extremely fine.
Estimate $400
SOLD $550
Anzac Cove print, in colour (approx 12.5x9cm), mapped framed under glass in a timber frame (22x18cm), below the painting is written in ink, at the left 'Anzac Cove' and at the right it is signed, 'Sapper. H Moore-Jones.', probably one of a series of prints of his watercolours which he sold as he toured New Zealand. Very fine.
Estimate $50
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Print of The "Anzacs" Landing at Gallipoli 25 April 1915, a b&w print (approx 36x20cm) by Philip G Hunt & Co, London, mat framed under glass in a timber frame (approx 49x34cm). Small grazing to one corner of glass, barely visible when in frame, loose at back and needs re-framing, print extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Asplin, K.J., Despatches of the China War 1856-60, Volume 3, Wiltshire, 2004; Perkins, S.P., British & Empire Campaign Medals, Volume 1, 1793 to 1902, 2013; Gould, R.W., Campaign Medals of the British Army 1815-1972, London, 1972; Augustus Seward, W., War Medals and Their History, (reprint), 2009; Grehan, J., and Mace, M., British Battles of the Crimean Wars 1854-1856, Barnsley, 2014; Mace, M., and Grehan, J., The Zulu War, Barnsley, 2013; Condon, J., Mentioned in Despatches, The Evolution of Certificates and Emblems for British Mentions in Despatches, High Wycombe, 2007; Warrington, P., For Bravery in the Field, Great War British Army Recipients of the Military Medal 1914-1920, The Naval and Military Press Ltd, 2014; McDermott, P., For Conspicuous Gallantry, The Register of the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal 1855-1992, N & M Press, 1992; Walker, R.W., Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal 1914-1920, The Naval and Military Press Ltd, 2010. Extremely fine. (9)
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
How Australia Took German New Guinea, An Illustrated Record of The Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force by F.S.Burnell, c1915, hard cover, 34pp mostly with b&w photos and a nominal roll of the Military and Naval personnel of the AN&MEF. Signature in corner of fly leaf and foxing on front and back fly leaves, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $220
Souvenir of the Australian and Malayan Battle Planes 1914-1918, by C.A.Baker, printed for private circulation only London 1920, hard cover A4 size, 148pp with colour and b&w illustrations, with author's compliments at front and personally signed, one of the earliets works on Australian aeronautics and rare. The usual soiling to cover and some foxing at front and back cover pages, short split at top of front cover and spine, otherwise fine.
Estimate $750
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Galleghan's Greyhounds, The Story of the 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion, by A.W.Penfold, W.C.Bayliss and K.E.Crispin, third edition 1984, hard cover, 404pp, includes nominal roll; The A.I.F. In Malaya, Grim Glory, by Gilbert Mant with a foreward by Lieut. General H.Gordon Bennett C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D., third edition December 1942, soft cover, 77pp; 2/30 Bn A.I.F. maroon woollen pennant with large applied Rising Sun image and purple and gold satin ribbons attached, also 2/30 Bn colour patch and an enamel lapel badge. The first book very fine, the second book with torn cover and foxing mainly on edge of pages, very good, the pennant with moth holes on backside and colour patch with moth holes, poor - very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
The Long Carry, A History of the 2/1 Australian Machine Gun Battalion 1939-46 by Philip Hocking, published by 2/1 Machine Gun Battalion Association, First edition 1997, hard cover with dust jacket, quarto (18x25cm), 366pp with b&w photos and awards, honour roll and nominal roll, signed on cover page, appears to be signature of a female related to a unit member listed on p330. With plastic cover, extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
British Commonwealth Occupation Forces, Know Japan, 1946, issued under direction of Commander-in-Chief, BCOF, soft cover, 94pp; Tokyo, hard cover b&w and colour picture book in slip case, text in Japanese and English, approx 50pp, appears to be c1950; Japan, 1945-50, post cards (40), featuring scenes throughout Japan and its cities; BCOF Memorial Dedication - Canberra 1998, chart showing Order of Battle for Australian Component and list of RAN ships and RAAF and RNZAF units in Japan 1946; program for BCOF 60th Anniversary Ceremony at Canberra 7 March 2006; menu for BCOF Australian Component 60th Anniversary Dinner held at Ainslie Football Club 7 March 2006; copy of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima Eye witness Account of P.T.Siemes S.J. 9pp, a card issued to members of Allied Force at Morotai on the surrender of Second Japanese Army, and the Instrument of Surrender; also a silk banner with metal and gold cord suspender, featuring Kure City, Japan; BCOF shoulder patch; Beer Ticket for Salon White Bear, Shimbashi (a district of Tokyo). Several postcards with some foxing and a few with water stain, all unused and colours still fresh, otherwise fine - extremely fine. (49)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Australia, Malay Emergency 1948-60 items, includes 'The Jogger', 3rd Bn The Royal Australian Regiment, restricted booklet of 34pp; Operational Report DMT 6/65 Lessons From Operations East Malaysia, restricted report of 3pp; Mostly Unsung, Australia and the Commonwealth in the Malaya Emergency 1948-60, by Lieutenant Colonel Neil C.Smith AM, Melbourne 1989, soft cover, 125pp, includes nominal roll, roll of honour and non-fatal casualties. All with some age toning or foxing on covers, otherwise very fine. (3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
New Zealand and The Distinguished Service Order, by J.Bryant Haigh and A.J.Polaschek, 1993, hardcover with dust jacket, 468pp; The Complete N.Z. Distinguished Conduct Medal by Alan Polaschek, 1983 revised edition, hardcover with dust jacket, 359pp. Both as new, uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $100
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