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World military, metal badges, shoulder titles, buttons, Association lapel badges including Australia, Rising Sun hat badge, RAAF; metal ID tag 99182/Wilcox G.I./W.A.A.A.F./C.of.E.; Great Britain, RAF; together with small wall plaques (3), Australia, 1st Armoured Regiment; Recruit Training Battalion; 4/19 Prince of Wales's Light Horse. Very fine. (33)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Australia, AWAS titles in oxidised bronze (6); WWII Female Relative badge with one star, reverse numbered A236027; buttons for NSW Military Forces, 1880-1901, in white metal (16mm), by Hobson & Sons London (2); Queensland Defence Forces, 1885-1901, in brass (17mm), by Hobson & Sons London; Tasmanian Defence Forces, 1884-1901, in white metal (17mm), by Hobson & Sons London; Australian Military Forces, c1930 with all boundaries on map marked, in bronze (25mm), no maker; Great Britain, blanks in bronze for WWII campaign stars (3); trial stamping on brass plate of a medal suspension loop; trial stampings on brass plate for medal clasps (2, Thailand, and PNG); Burma Star Association badge for President S.W.London; Lincolnshire Regiment collar badge in white metal; King's Royal Rifle Corps hat badge (KC), copy; die in brass for Gordon Highlanders badge (KC) (badge size 21x27mm), design as for sporran badge. Fine - good very fine. (22)
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
Australia, WWI, modern copies of sixty six cloth unit colour shoulder patch pairs, mounted and described in a lever arch file, units include AFC Medical, Corps Supply Column, Mechanical Transport Company, 1st Anzac Cyclists Battalion, RANBT, Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (Tropical) 3rd Battalion, 1st Australian General Hospital No 1 Hospital Ship. Extremely fine. (66 pairs)
Estimate $600
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Australia, 1921-36 single cloth colour patches, 3rd ALH; 9th ALH. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $130
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Australia, 1943, single cloth colour patch, 2/7th Australian Cavalry (Commando) Regiment, double diamond on grey. Very fine.
Estimate $100
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Australia, 1942-43, single cloth colour patch, 2/8 Commando, double diamond white on grey. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Australia, WWII colour patches for 2/32 Bn Tobruk T (3), 7th Division Cavalry (2), 2/2nd Machine Gun Bn, 2/3rd Field Regt (no grey backing), also Army Sergeant's stripes (1), Australia embroidered slip on titles (2); and N.E.I. - R.A.A.F. 18 Sqn. Association embroidered patch (Netherlands East Indies 'Forgotten 18 Sqn '). Some moth holes, otherwise fine - uncirculated. (11)
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
Australia, World War II, (B.C.O.F.) theatre made silk woven unit insignia colour patch; miniature colour patch (Machine Gun Battalion); K/C Commonwealth Forces shoulder patch and a pair of 1944 pattern full size colour patches for the Australian War Graves Unit. Fine and rare. (4)
Estimate $300
SOLD $180
Royal Navy Motor Boat Reserve badge, rare R.N.M.B.R. badge (KC) in silver and enamel (34x34mm), hallmarked for Birmingham 1916 by maker, Emanuel, Southampton, pin back. Good very fine.
Estimate $100
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Great Britain, Royal Army Medical Corps, sandcast badge (KC), buttons in gilt, all KC (16, includes 8 large, 6 medium, 2 small); officers gilt and enamel pips (6); Warrant Officer Class 1 badge (KC) in bronze with backing plate; Gloucestershire Regt hat badge in white metal; Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer badge (QC) in metal; other sundry items including New Zealand Air Force button (KC), ribands (poor), Austrian Jubilee Medal 1848-1908, missing suspension; St John Ambulance Grand Prior Award, the highest award for cadets, bullion embroidered (KC), St John Ambulance Brigade lapel badge in silvered and enamel, St John Voluntary Aid lapel badge in gilt and enamel, and other items (3). Poor - uncirculated. (approx 30)
Estimate $60
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Great Britain, Prince of Wales' Own Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Hussars), embroidered badge (approx 110x110mm), design of Prince of Wales' plumes over motto, as used by other regiments as well; another with same design over Roman numerals 'XL', bullion embroidered; pin back enamel lapel badge featuring POW plumes and the word 'Wales'. The first as new, the second with several moth holes, otherwise fine - nearly uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $50
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Canada, WWII, 1st Canadian Armoured (Personnel) Carrier Regiment 'The Canadian Kangaroos', cap badge (copy) in gilt bronze (44mm). Very fine.
Estimate $40
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USA, WWII USN Chief Petty Officer's badge in gilt brass and nickel, by K.G.Luke, Melbourne, pin back. Uncirculated and very scarce Australian made USN badge.
Estimate $100
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Australia, various buttons pre Federation (11), oxidised bronze title includes numeral 2 (4) and also INF as well as R (2), WWI Returned from Active Service badges (2), both by Stokes, Melb and numbered 160847 and 175536 and WWII (6) by various makers and numbered A129716, AF37126, AF94037, A368372, A332288 and A399231; Volunteer Defence Corps formation patches (2); also Great Britain, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards cap badge (KC) (2, both EF). One button with a dent and a few items with some oxidation, otherwise very good - extremely fine. (30)
Estimate $150
SOLD $140
Victoria, buttons for Victorian Permanent Artillery, 1893-1903, in brass (24.5mm), and (23.5mm), both by W.Moncton, Melbourne (2), (24mm), by Green & Baker, Birmingham (1), (23mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne (1), by Bowley & Co, Melbourne (1), (17mm), by Bowley & Co, Melbourne (9), Lincoln Stuart & Co (2), Smith & Wright, Birmingham (1), (16.5mm), by W.Moncton, Melbourne (1), (16mm), by Stokes & Sons (7), E.Stillwell & Son, London (1), Firmins Ld, London (1). One small button missing shank, otherwise fine - very fine. (27)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Australia, Boer War Bandsman's uniform buttons and insignia, c1902, includes hat badge, arm badges (2, hat badges with crown removed), collar badges (4, note Rising Sun at top), buttons (8, two small and six large). Good very fine - extremely fine. (15)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Australia, various buttons from Edward VII - pre 1950 for Army and Air Force including General Staff issues and a crossed sword and cannon insignia for a General, also a collection of tinnies, all military related, as well as badges for Red Cross (2), colour patch enamel badges (2), collar badges 1900-1930, for Queensland Rifles in white metal and 15 Aust Light Horse (QMI) in gilt, and other badges for an Emu in a garter belt and a horse head in a horseshoe. Fine - extremely fine. (51)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Great Britain, buttons for British nobility and other livery buttons in various sizes and metals and by various makers, c1887-early 1900s. Mostly fine - extremely fine. (72)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Great Britain, buttons various sizes and makers, mostly Queen Victoria era and includes Royal Household and other livery types as well as various crowned types, Staff Officer issues and general purpose types, noted British India Steam Navigation Co; Coast Guard; Scottish Highlander's kilt button, c1930s; East India Co; Metropolitan Police; and others. Very good - extremely fine. (60)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Great Britain, buttons various sizes and makers for City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders); 74th Regt of Foot; The Life Guards Household Division (5); Royal Hampshire Regt; 'China' The Border Regt; The Queen's Royal Regt (QVC) (2); Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) (6); Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry; Grenadier Guards (3); Royal Army Veterinary Corps; Royal Leicestershire Regt; 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales's); Royal Berkshire Regt (Princess Charlotte of Wales) (KC); Royal Lancaster Regt; Royal Marines Light Infantry; Prince of Wales' Own Regt (Canada). Fine - very fine. (28)
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
World, Egypt, Prisons uniform button, 1883-1914, British made by Perreaux, London from moulded blackened bone; Great Britain, Royal Scot's piper's glengarry badge in brass; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, London, souvenir tea spoon in sterling silver and enamel, hallmarked for Birmingham 1913 by maker, Daniel George Collins, features enamelled crest at end of a coiled handle and near the bowl are two fish entwined around the handle; Japan, Imperial Navy officer's two piece silvered and gilt hat badge. The second last with a small dent at end of bowl, repairable, and some loss of enamel in the crest, otherwise fine - good very fine. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Royal Australian Navy, original H.M.A.S. Australia tally band; medalet to commemorate first visit of the Commonwealth Fleet to Sydney, 1913, in bronze (29mm) (C.1913/5); Wills's cigarette card for H.M.A.S. Australia, No.29 of 50 in Series; watercolour painting (27.5x18cm), features HMAS Australia left, signed by W.P.Powell 1914; publication titled, The Battlecruiser HMAS Australia First Flagship of the Royal Australian Navy by Vince Fazio (Shipwright Lieutenant RAN Rtd), 2000, soft cover, approx 85pp (unnumbered) including b&w photos and drawings plus a fold-out of the ship's structure, signed by author, white strip block out of owner's name at bottom of title page. Foxing on painting, otherwise fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $70
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Royal Australian Navy, original H.M.A.S. Perth tally band; H.M.A.S. Perth, Christmas Day 1939 Menu (the first such menu for the ship), features the ships crest at the top then the menu and at the bottom a drawing of HMAS Perth passing Statue of Liberty New York, at the side the menu has been marked '31 Mess' and autographed in ink by 12 men, the menu has been laminated for protection; program for A service of worship with the HMAS Perth Association at The Naval Chapel Garden Island 1 March 2009. Fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $60
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Australian Army slouch hats, includes 1968 issue made by Fayrefield, Melbourne, size 6 3/4, no puggaree or chinstrap; a June 2002 issue made by Mountcastle Pty Ltd, Q/N232039, size 58, with chinstrap and puggaree; another earlier model but with no maker's details, with puggaree and chinstrap but this broken and needs re-attaching at one side, brim has two cuts made to fit Rising Sun badge. Fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $130
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Australian Army dress uniform jacket, WWII, with belt, made of wool, with oxidised bronze Rising Sun collar badges and Australia shoulder titles and pips for rank of Lieutenant, 2/30Bn colour patch on each shoulder, and on the right arm is a patch with three overseas service chevrons, all buttons in oxidised bronze, on the left breast above the pocket are two bars of ribands for 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45 with MID emblem; Australia Service Medal 1939-45 and an Efficiency Medal; an officer's swagger stick, hollow with an applied rough textured pattern of nodules along the entire length; also a wooden coat hanger. Jacket with a few small moth holes and a few small marks, easily cleaned, otherwise extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $180
SOLD $130
Australian Army dress uniform jacket and trousers, WWII, with belt, made of wool by W.Chorley & Co Pty Ltd, George Street, Sydney, 25/6/43, with oxidised bronze Rising Sun collar badges and Australia shoulder titles and pips for rank of Lieutenant, 2/17Bn (Tobruk) colour patch on each shoulder, all buttons in oxidised bronze; Sam Browne leather belt with sword carrier; an officer's leather covered cane swagger stick; also a wooden coat hanger. A few minor moth holes in the uniform, otherwise very fine - extremely fine. (5)
Estimate $300
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Australian Army jacket, WWII, made of wool, inside marked V362 Made in Australia, 1942, with oxidised bronze Rising Sun collar badges and Australia shoulder titles, 2/30Bn colour patch on each shoulder, and on the right arm are Corporal's stripes and a patch with five overseas service chevrons, all buttons in oxidised bronze. Some small moth holes but relatively unscathed, very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Victoria Police helmet, 1920-47, black leather with metal ventilation dome at top, with white metal number, 251, affixed on front, plain metal ball points at side for attaching chinstrap, this missing, leather sweatband with loose cloth above, on the underside of the helmet body is the maker's label, 'A.W.Sudweeks/Manufacturer/Ballarat'. Very fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $360
Great Britain, QVC, Volunteer Artillery Officer's helmet plate in white metal. Extremely fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $210
British Mark 4 Army helmet, post WWII, black in colour. Oxidation, otherwise very good.
Estimate $50
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