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Assorted badges, in gilt and enamel, including South African Soldiers Association 1899/1902 (S.A.); Victoria Racing Club, 1920-21; Royal Australian Navy Reserves; Demobilised Soldiers Association; N.S.W.M.C. Member, 1930-1931; Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria Steward; B.G.S.O.B.A. (Brighton Grammar School Old Boys Association) in silver and enamel; together with enamelled fobs (2) green/yellow/green (25x14mm) and blue/red/blue (30x14mm). Very fine - extremely fine. (9)
Estimate $170
SOLD $160
Badges, includes The King's School hat badge, lug-back; Wickham S.H.S (Superior High School) badge, by Angus & Coote, pin-back; NSW Branch Transport Workers Union of Australia, 1944, no.877, pin-back (pin clip fitting missing) (Smith 633); ARU (Australian Railways Union) National Convention Delegate, 1980s, pin-back (Smith 144); Women's League of Health & Beauty, by H.W.Miller, B'Ham, pin-back; unidentified LSD badge handcrafted in silver and enamel and featuring an owl sitting on a crescent shaped man in the moon face and with 4 stars at top right, by W.Burtt, pin-back (missing pin); handcrafted, curved silver (?) shield inscribed '1902', no maker, lug-back; also New Zealand, Country Women's Institute 'For Home And Country' badge, by Young & Co, Auckland, pin-back; N.Z.W.Fed. 1922 Union of Brotherhood, WEST'Pt (impressed) B'ch, number 44 on back slide. Fine - extremely fine. (9)
Estimate $120
Passed in
Australia, M.J.R.U. badge, 1940, in gilt and enamel (17.5mm), by Millers Ltd, Sydney, numbered 301; Aust Legion of Ex-Servicemen & Women badge (KC) in gilt and enamel (31x26mm), by A.J.Parkes, Brisbane, pin-back (no pin), numbered Q9041; New South Wales NES Warden badge (KC), in silvered and enamel, pin-back; also Great Britain, EMU checkpiece guaranteeing chains have passed Admiralty test, undated, in bronze (26mm), holed at top; Temperance Society medal in white metal (38mm), by J.Moore, pierced hole at top for suspension; religious tinnies (2); E.R.M. - K.M.S. Belgium Military Academy jacket button in brass; unidentified WAACC badge, 1877, in gilt (28mm), pin-back. Very fine - extremely fine. (9)
Estimate $50
Passed in
An accumulation of tinnies, mostly Sydney charity badges, all in MacRobertson 'Old Gold' chocolate box. Fine or better. (approx 70)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Badges/tinnies, Australian, mostly World War I related, some other commemorative types included, mostly larger type (40) and some smaller (15), together with Australian, mostly World War II related, cardboard and celluloid badges/fundraisers (131). The tinnies in 2 x 2 holders, others against cardboard backing, all in plastic coin album pages, mostly good very fine or better. (186)
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
Badges, includes tinnies for 1956 Olympic Games representatives (8, each a different star athlete or swimmer); The Phantom's Club Member; Rocky Starr A Man Of Stamina; Snowy McGann; others (approx 60) including several very large types and other stick-pin non-tinnies (13); other metal badges, mostly with enamel, includes N.S.W. Junior Farmers Club; Protestant Alliance Friendly Society Juvenile Member; Girl Guides; N.S.W. Gould League of Bird Lovers; LGCC; The League of Ovaltinys; Newcastle Lapidary Club; others including various club membership issues (60). Mostly fine - extremely fine. (approx 151)
Estimate $350
Passed in
Victoria Police, belt buckles (2, large [64x47mm] and small [48x38mm], both with KC), c1947-53, by AROS, Australia; lapel badge 'Uphold The Right' motto (2, both QC, one silvered and another one in gilt on Victoria Police Official Merchandise card); commissioned officer's mess jacket lapel badge (QC). Some sticky tape residue on belt buckles, otherwise good very fine - uncirculated. (5)
Estimate $60
Passed in
Victoria Police, shoulder titles in chrome and enamel (2 types, one no maker, the other by Stokes Melb.), both with two lugs on reverse; buttons (6, QV [2, one a reproduction], GVR [2], EIIR [2]), all marked by maker 'Stokes' except reproduction which is unmarked; tie stick-pin in gilt and enamel with image of Victoria Police badge (QC) motto 'Tenez Le Droit', c1959-64; also Victoria Mounted Rifles lion's head slouch hat hook, c1880s, in gilt (39mm high) (Grebert p201). The last with most gilt faded, otherwise fine - extremely fine. (10)
Estimate $60
Passed in
Button collection, all in metal, includes St John Ambulance Brigade (1), General Post Office (KC) (1) also GPO brass title (1); Post Master General's Department (KC) (2); N.S.W. Prisons Department (4); Corrective Services N.S.W. (QC) small badge; Naval Dockyard Police (QC) (1); N.S.W. Police Force (12); N.S.Wales Railways (EIIR) (1); General issue types for VRI (3), GVR (4); also African Royal Mail; various size issues but mostly medium to small. All affixed to cardboard backing, very fine - good very fine. (32)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Black Family coat of arms badge, Australian version with kangaroo at top between motto Via Crusis Via Lucis (Cross the Path of Light), in silver (34x46mm), pin-back, hallmarked for Edinburgh 1955, by maker 'M&C' (Mackay & Chisholm, Edinburgh). Nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $100
Passed in
Australian Historical Medals 1788-1988, by Leslie J.Carlisle, 2008, hard cover with dust jacket (22x30.5cm), 681pp, with illustrations in b&w of almost all medals, the standard reference work for Australian historical medals and medalets. Some age toning around the page edges, a small loss of paper on the top edge of the dust jacket at the spine, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $160