Catalogue
S.A.S.A (South Africa Soldiers' Association), Life Member lapel badge (KC), in gilt and enamel (24x25mm), by Amor, Sydney, button back. Nearly extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $200
SOLD $1,100
S.A.S.A (South Africa Soldiers' Association), Member lapel badge (KC), no maker, in gilt and enamel (15x22mm), button back. Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
South African & Active Service Association, For Empire, membership badge in silvered and enamel (24mm), by Stokes, scroll and ring top suspension, reverse impressed, '217/1930-1'. Toned reverse, a few small enamel chips, otherwise very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
Special School of Instruction,?Albury, 1910-11, in gold and enamel (tested as 9ct, 6.86g, 23mm), with scroll suspender, inscribed on reverse 'S.S.M./W.H.Gold'.?Good fine.
Estimate $450
SOLD $420
Mother's and Widow's?Ribbon?(AIF),?one star, number 4040 on reverse of suspension bar, missing pin-back. Bars heavily toned, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
Australia, WWI Nearest Female Relative's badge (AIF), by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne, reverse numbered 145929; QNA (Queensland Naval Association) 1913 badge, voided in silver and enamel, stick-pin missing from back; RAF and RAAF Air Gunner's winged bullet brass arm badge c1923-39 (replaced by AG half wing brevet). Very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Australia, WWI Nearest Female Relative's badge (AIF), in silver and enamel, by Wm McLean & Co, Melbourne, pin-back, reverse numbered 23071, with two bars numbered 8763 and 8764, attached below these is a bar with two enamelled unit colour patches. Some loss of colour on one colour patch, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
Australia, WWI Volunteered for Active Service Medically Unfit badge, reverse numbered 1994; Returned from Active Service badge (AIF), reverse numbered 2589; Aust. Legion of Ex-Servicemen & Women badge with 49 overlay on crown, reverse numbered 37818; Junior Imperial & Constitutional League badge (KC); War Savings Certificates Voluntary Worker badge, reverse numbered 18550; tinnie for Anzac House 6d Appeal. Very good - good very fine. (6)
Estimate $80
SOLD $80
Australia, WWI, Volunteered for Active Service, Medically Unfit badge, in silvered, lug back, reverse numbered 4231; Volunteered for Active Service, Required For Home Service badge, in gilt, lug back, reverse numbered 1106 and also inscribed, 'Lieut/Ballantyne/Simpson/29 Inf,/A,R,R,' (Australian Rifle Regiment); Returned from Active Service (AIF) badge, by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne, lug back, reverse numbered 224950. The first two toned, otherwise fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $300
Australia,?Enlisted On Sportsmen's Recruiting Day, July 27, 1917, badge in gilt bronze and enamel (28x37mm), by Angus & Coote Ltd, Sydney, pin-back.?Reverse dirty, needs a good clean, otherwise fine and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $160
Advance Australia, The Empire Calls To Duty, 1914, RAN patriotic badge appears to be in silver (28x32mm), struck bracteate, saluting sailor in centre of a twisted rope border within wreath of wattle, stick-pin missing from reverse. Nearly extremely fine and previously not seen.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Volunteered?Cross,?WWI, in gilt and enamel (24x34mm), with suspension loop, reverse inscribed, 'A.R.McPhee'.?Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $80
SOLD $150
Australian Repatriation Fund, To Honour The King And Help Our Heroes, June 4, 1917, cream ribbon with blue and red printing. Extremely fine and scarce. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Australia,?Demobilised?Soldiers' Association WWI, large sized version (KC) in gilt and enamel (28x41.5mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melb, two lugs on reverse and with impressed number 2930; WWII Reserved Occupation exemption badge, in white metal, by Wallace Bishop 1940, reverse numbered A.F 290; Royal Australian Air Force Training Corps badge, in bronze, button back; Merchant Navy Australia badge, in white metal, by Wallace Bishop, Brisbane, reverse numbered 3196; Merchant Navy (British) badge, in white metal, button back; Civil Defence Queensland Bomb Disposal badge (KC), in gilt and enamel, by Handford, pin-back, reverse numbered 293; Civil Defence Queensland Auxiliary Fire Service badge (KC), in gilt and enamel, by Handford, pin-back, reverse numbered 1169; (Red Cross) Hon.Collector P.O.W. Appeal badge, in silvered bronze and enamel, by Amor, Sydney, pin-back, reverse numbered 12661. Fine - very fine. (8)
Estimate $200
SOLD $300
Australia,?Demobilised Soldiers' Association, WWI, large sized version badge (KC) (28x41.5mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melb, two lugs on reverse and with impressed number 2707.?Very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $100
Australia, Demobilised Soldiers Association WWI, small sized version (KC) (23x32mm), by Schlank, Adelaide, two lugs on reverse and with impressed number 2620. Very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $50
Australia, WWI, Returned from Active Service badge (AIF), reverse numbered 24562; WWI trio of miniature medals swing mounted (original ribbons poor); WWI riband trio; Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League Australia, large 2-figure type, reverse numbered S1784; another but small 2-figure type, with 31 overlay on crown, reverse numbered N.S.W 1266; 1919 Peace medalet in silvered; WWI postcards from Egypt to South Yarra, Victoria (4) (see note below); WWI recruitment cigarette card (tear, creases and small paper loss); replica of Anzac?commemorative?medallion 1915,?issued 1967, in darkened bronze (50mm x 75mm) (C.1915/3) in a box; all stored in a vintage metal box. Fine - very fine. (lot)
Estimate $60
SOLD $90
Australia, Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League, two figure large lapel badges in gilt and enamel, each fitted at top with year, includes 1919, by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne, reverse numbered 66351; 1920, by Simes, Sydney, reverse numbered Z14955 (one lug broken but included with lot); 1921, by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne, reverse numbered 40090. Very fine. (3)
Estimate $140
SOLD $90
Returned Soldiers' Association (RSA) New South Wales, badge (KC), in gilt, pin-back, reverse numbered 518; Returned Soldiers' Association (RSA) Victoria, badge in gilt and enamel, button back, reverse numbered 731. The first toned, otherwise very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
Returned Soldiers Assn Q(ueensland),?Est.1916, lapel badge (KC) in silver and enamel (19x33mm), by P.J.King, Melb, button back, reverse with impressed number, 555.?Very fine and rare.
Estimate $450
SOLD $550
Western Australia, Returned Maimed & Limbless Mens Assn, membership badge in silver and enamel (25x29mm), by Austral Stg Co, W.A., lug back (these folded over), reverse with impressed number 84. Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $80
SOLD $360
Diggers Association (Queensland), badge (KC) in gilt and enamel (23x29mm), by Handford, double lug back. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Australia, Lest We Forget Yorketown 1915, patriotic badge in gilt and enamel (25mm), by Basse, scroll and ring top suspension but no hole in ring, pin-back but pin missing, fold-over flat prongs in centre of reverse. Bend on right side and small loss of enamel at top right, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Australia, WWI overseas service lapel badge in silver and enamel (15x25mm), by Prouds Ltd, red enamel stripe for 1914 service and two blue enamel stripes for two additional years' overseas service, pin-back. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Soldiers' Dependents' Welfare Association, Drummoyne, 1916, fob badge in silver and enamel (23mm), by Amor, scroll and ring top suspension, reverse inscribed, '1914-18/Pte. L.Whitney/Fought For/His Country & Honor'. Some enamel missing, otherwise fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Naval Military Forces Nepean Recreation Club, (Victoria), 1917, membership fob, in voided gilt and enamel (32x29mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melb, ring top suspension. Good very fine and rare.
Estimate $70
Passed in
Mother's and Widow's badge,?by Angus & Coote, 1942, pin-back, numbered A.12641, with one star. Toned, very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
Australia, Female Relative badge WWII, with one star, reverse numbered A238474, by Amor, Sydney, pin-back with safety chain. Extremely fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $60
Australia, Female Relative badge WWII, by G & E Rodd, 1940, pin-back, reverse numbered A8327, with bar and two stars; another by G & E Rodd, 1944, pin-back with safety chain, reverse numbered AF.61060, with bar and one star, suspended below this is an enamelled unit colour patch; another by Amor, Sydney, pin-back with safety chain, reverse numbered A265728, with bar and one star. Very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
Australia, Female Relative badge WWII, by G & E Rodd, 1940, pin-back, reverse numbered AF 180, with bar and two stars, suspended below this are two enamelled colour patches, one marked RAAF; another by G & E Rodd, 1940, pin-back with safety chain, reverse numbered A6437, with bar and one star. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $80
SOLD $240