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WWI, rectangular gift tin (15.5x9.5cm), printed on lid is Australian coat-of-arms and below, 'To/Our Gallant Australian Kinsmen/At The Front/From/The Australian War Contingent Association, London/With Every Good Wish To One And All/Xmas 1915'; small tobacco tin (8.5x5.5cm), affixed to the lid is an oxidised bronze Rising Sun collar badge; also an Australia shoulder title in oxidised bronze. The first two with dents and oxidation, otherwise good, the last extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
Welcome Home Australian handwaver flag, printed on thin cloth and stitched to a wooden stick, an original issue used at Welcome Home parades for Australian troops; also gent's polyester tie issued for 85th Anniversary of Gallipoli, featured on the tie is a Rising Sun badge with the motto 'Gallipoli Pilgrimage 2000. Very good; uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $70
Passed in
New South Wales, "A" Grade Competition, 1905-1906, Winners Aust. Engineers N.S.W., medal in silver (39mm), by W.J.Amor, reverse inscribed, 'Sapr B.Lee'. Nicely toned, nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $250
SOLD $440
The 7th F.A.Brigade A.I.F. Gymkhana, Larkhill Camp, Salisbury Plain, England, 7.10.1916, prize medals (3) in bronze (52mm) all awarded to Gnr Lynch C.E., 107th Bty, for Kicking Football; Tug of War Champ; Man-Handling Gun Comp. Good very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $300
SOLD $700
Anglo-Boer War trench art, South Africa, ZAR, Kruger silver shillings, the first dated 1897 with obverse finely engraved to add a pipe to President Kruger's mouth and a patterned hat to his head; the second with date altered to 1900 and with obverse finely engraved to add a pipe to President Kruger's mouth and a patterned hat to his head, the reverse with engraved addition to legend of, 'Relief Of Ladysmith' and the centre details removed and engraved, 'XX/Spion/Kop'; the last undated and with obverse finely engraved to add a pipe to President Kruger's mouth and a patterned hat to his head, the reverse design has been removed and engraved with a crowned cross with stars and a central lion all within a wreath (the crest of NSW Military Forces) and at the top, 'N S W', and at the base, 'Citizen Bushman'. Very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $550
WWI, trench art bracelet-style dog tag, a Turkish silver ten kurush, 1914, with bracket fitted at each side to fit on a leather wrist strap, the reverse shaved smooth and inscribed in the centre is a Middle East building rooftop scene with trees and across the lower half, 'Baghdad/1918-19', around the outer edge, '23022. Spr. L.C.BOUSTEAD' at the top and at the bottom, 'ANZAC.W.LESS'. Very fine/fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $850
WWI, trench art dog tag, a French silver two francs, 1917, with pierced hole at top and bottom edge, with obverse shaved smooth and then inscribed, '2694./G.I.Webb/C Coy/A.I.F./1st Pnr. Btn./R.C.' Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
Cannon, c1850, brass model of a transversing defence gun, step turned, bottle barrel (135mm) with brass trunnions, capstan screw elevating rivetted sides, greased bed and rails for longitudinal movement and brass wheels on gantry for lateral movement, mounted on a wooden oval shape base (155x75cm). Very good.
Estimate $300
SOLD $360
Japan, military document, February 1921, on finely woven silk cloth, possibly relating to the Heimei Maru Incident, in black with red seals, (122cm long). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Propaganda items, World War II, news pamphlets that were air dropped on the Philippine Islands, includes copies of Pewarta Serikat, January 1945 (2); the Jinamoo Journal, 2 March 1945 issue 7 (2); Island XPress Philippine Islands, 11 March 1945 Vol 4 No.10; Australia, colour patch chart, c1930,cut into smaller cards (8). Good - very fine. (27 items)
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
War Dance, A Story of the 2/3 Aust. Inf. Battalion A.I.F., by Ken Clift, 1980 First Edition, hard cover with dust jacket, 450pp with b&w images, includes battle honours, awards and nominal roll, signed on cover page by Maj-Gen K.R.Murray AO, OBE, RFD, ED, QC, Commander 2nd Division; also Battle Initiation, Bardia 3 January 1941, booklet by Neville Blundell, 2001, board cover, 20pp plus ivpp introduction, with b&w images and maps, signed by the author, N.Blundell MM, 2/3 Bn 1939-45 03.01.01. Book with some very light foxing at page edges, otherwise very fine, booklet extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $100
Passed in
White over Green, The 2/4th Infantry Battalion, edited by The Unit History Editorial Committee, 1963 First Edition, hard cover with dust jacket, 364pp with b&w images and maps, includes battle honours, honours & awards, honour roll and nominal roll. Very light foxing at page edges and on cover pages, some small paper loss to cover edges, otherwise nearly very fine.
Estimate $200
Passed in
The Footsoldiers, The Story of the 2/33rd Australian Infantry Battalion, A.I.F. in the War of 1939-45, by William Crooks, 1971 First Edition, hard cover with dust jacket, 528pp, with b&w images and maps, includes lists of POWs, battle honours, honours & awards with citations, roll of honour, casualty list, with endorsement on cover page signed by Eric Marshall (Maj-Gen Eric Sydney Marshall) served in 2/33rd as Captain. Foxing at page edges as usual, otherwise very fine and rare as first edition.
Estimate $420
SOLD $260
Cooper, Alan W., The Men Who Breached the Dams, London, 1982; Bombers Over Berlin, London, 1985; In Action With the Enemy, London, 1986; Shore, Christopher and Cull, Brian, Air War for Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete 1940-41, London, 1987; Malta, The Hurricane Years 1940-41, London, 1987; Malta, The Spitfire Year 1942, London, 1991; Bloody Shambles, Vols I and II (Air Operations Over South-East Asia 1941-1942), London, 1992, 1993. Good condition. (8)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Corfield, J., The Australian Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Boxer Uprising 1899-1901, 256pp, 2001. Very fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $50
Murray, P.L. Lieut-Colonel (Ed)., Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Arica, Melbourne, reprint, hardbound, 607pp. Foxing at edges, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $10