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59th Infantry Battalion (The Coburg-Brunswick Regiment), 1930-42, hat badge in brass and enamel (53mm) (Cossum p30); also South Australian Military Forces belt buckle in brass, male section only (Grebert p256). The first with one lug at bottom only, otherwise fine - very fine. (2)
Estimate $60
SOLD $90
Australian Instructional Corps, 1930-42, officer's hat badge in oxidised bronze and enamel (44mm) and collar badge in oxidised bronze and enamel (29mm); also hat badge in bronze (44mm) and collar badge pair (29mm) (Cossum p33, a). Extremely fine. (5)
Estimate $150
SOLD $500
Australia, collection of badges and other items, includes Rising Sun hat badges (2, one missing lugs) and collar badges (6, one missing lugs), RA Infantry hat badge (QC) (missing lugs), Royal Australian Artillery collar badge, Royal Military college collar badge (QC) (missing lugs), Australia metal titles (9, four missing lugs, three missing one lug, one pin-back ), qualification badges (6 different, includes Gunnery, Signaller [only one lug], Bandmaster [KC, missing one lug], Swordsman [missing lugs], Marksman [2 types]), as well as a large number of officer's pips (57, includes one with one lug, 22 with no lugs ), Warrant Officer crowns (3, two with lugs, one with slider) and some Australian Military Forces buttons (5, three large, two small); Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League badge (KC) (large 2 figure type), by Stokes & Sons, Melb, lug back, reverse numbered 32953; also Royal N.Z. Artillery hat badge (QC) (missing lugs). Good - good very fine. (93)
Estimate $70
SOLD $300
Australia, Rising Sun hat badge in oxidised bronze (KC) (section missing at bottom left side); Rising Sun collar badges in oxidised bronze (KC) (2); Australia title bars in oxidised bronze (4); RAAF other ranks hat badge in oxidised bronze (KC); artillery sergeant arm badge in oxidised bronze, with backing plate; WWII Returned from Active Service badge (AIF), reverse numbered A51537; RSL badge (3 figure type) with (19)45 overlay on crown, reverse numbered X7727. Some items with remnants of blue tack on reverse, otherwise very fine. (11)
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
Melbourne Grammar School Cadet Corps, hat badge in gilt and enamel (41mm) (Cossum RS88); S.C.E.G.S. (Sydney Church of England Grammar School) Cadets, hat badge in brass (33mm), also a pair of collar badges (possibly SCEGS); Waverley College Senior Cadets, pair of collar badges in gilt and enamel (29.5mm) (Cossum RS67). The first with an enamel chip, otherwise good very fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Australian, British, Japanese, assorted Navy and Military cloth cap badges, epaulettes, shoulder titles, includes Victorian Mounted Rifles, Northern Rivers Lancers, Australian Horse, New South Wales Mounted Rifles, Royal New South Wales Lancers, 10th Light Horse, Adelaide District Rifle Club, G.W.L.H. metal shoulder title; soldiers sewing kit; small brass locket with photo; modern Chinese medals; homemade wooden gun barrel cleaner (length 27cm x 2.3cm). Good - very fine. (29)
Estimate $150
SOLD $300
Uniform rank shoulder slides, mostly Army and Air Force officers and many for combat uniform, noted a RAAF Squadron Leader slide with metal crown and eagle, and a WWI British Army Lieutenant slide with metal pips, also noted one for Australian Air Training Corps Warrant Officer and various others up to rank of Brigadier. Fine - uncirculated. (22)
Estimate $80
SOLD $80
Australia, embroidered shoulder titles for Royal Australian Infantry (2, different), Royal New South Wales Regiment, N.S.W. University of Technology Regiment, Adelaide University Regiment (2), and Perth University Regiment. The first with some moth marks, otherwise very fine, the rest extremely fine - uncirculated. (7)
Estimate $30
SOLD $30
WWI, Australian Flying Corps, colour patch lapel badge in silvered and enamel (25x22.5mm), no maker, pin-back. Nearly extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $220
WWI, 7 Light Horse Regiment colour patch lapel badges in gilt and black and red enamel (2), by Stokes, with clutch grip pins; WWII, 4 Field Regiment colour patch lapel badge in gilt and blue and red enamel, pin-back; also Henderson's Sweets, Australian Infantry series of cards for Regimental colours, card no.5 for 5th Battalion, 2nd Brigade. The badges good very fine, the card with foxing, otherwise fine. (4)
Estimate $60
SOLD $190
Australia, 2/4th Infantry Battalion colour patch; Eastern Command (NSW) c1950 shoulder patches (2); 28th Commonwealth Brigade first pattern shoulder patch (Malaya & Singapore c1971); Royal Australian Navy Reserve, 40th Anniversary 1986, lapel badge, clip-pin; Navy Bowling Club, lapel badge, stick-pin; International Fleet Review, Sydney 2013, commemorative coin (actually it is a medal) folder 'Commemorating The Centenary Of The First RAN Fleet Arrival In Sydney', in oxidised brass; also US Presidential Unit Citations (2). The first with a piece missing from grey backing, otherwise fine - uncirculated. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Australia, RAN, Transport Wireless Operator badge in brass (30mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melb, lug back, reverse numbered 40. Very fine and rare.
Estimate $300
SOLD $3,200
Royal Australian Navy, Reserves badge (KC) in gilt and enamel (22x28mm) by K & M Bertram Bros, Melbourne, impressed on reverse '2736'. Extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Naval War Auxiliary badge, in gilt and enamel (28x20mm), by J.M.Dempster, pin-back. Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $150
SOLD $360
Royal Australian Navy, WWII, Returned from Active Service badge (KC), in brass (39x28mm) by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne, inpressed on back '841'. Good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $200
SOLD $190
Royal Australian Navy, Albatross, pin backed lapel badges in gilt and enamel (21x15mm) by Amor, Sydney. Uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $110
Australia, Navy League Cadet Corps, Snapper Is, pin backed badge in gilt and enamel (19mm). Extremely fine.
Estimate $150
Passed in
12th Regiment of Foot, Albert pattern shako plate, in brass (ht 12mmx71mm). Missing lugs, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $1,200
SOLD $1,100
Great Britain, hat badges for Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders (2, one no lugs, one missing one lug); Cameron Highlanders (missing one lug); Carlow Rangers (missing lugs); Connaught Rangers (QVC, no lugs); Essex Regiment, (sphinks missing at top); Finsbury Rifles (KC); Gordon Highlanders (3, all missing lugs); Inns of Court O.T.C. (KC, missing lugs); London Scottish Regiment (missing one lug); Royal Jersey Militia (KC) (no lugs); Royal Kent West Regiment (missing motto scrolls); Royal Warwickshire Regiment scroll only; The King's Regiment (Liverpool) (missing one lug); 7th City of London Battalion; 10th London Hackneys; 19th (St Pancras) Battalion County of London Regiment; also Light Infantry bugle horn collar badge; London Scottish thistle collar badge (no lugs); Jersey metal title; large egg-shaped backing plate. Fine - very fine. (23)
Estimate $70
SOLD $120
Great Britain, hat badges for Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders; Cameron Highlanders; another being an officer's cap badge with pin-back; Gordon Highlanders 'Bydand'; Highland Light Infantry; King's Own Scottish Borderers; Seaforth Highlanders 'Cuidich n Rich'; The Cameronians - The Scottish Rifles; The Royal Highlanders Black Watch; The Royal Scots; also small red and white feather plume. Mostly very fine. (11)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Great Britain, hat badges for Dorsetshire Regiment; Durham Light Infantry; East Lancashire Regiment; East Surrey Regiment; Gloucestershire Regiment; Leicestershire Regiment; Loyal North Lancashire Regiment; Manchester Regiment; Notts & Derby Regiment; Royal Army Medical Corps; Royal Artillery; Royal Berkshire Regiment; South Lancashire Regiment; The Border Regiment; The Essex Regiment; The Queen's Regiment; The Royal Irish Regiment; The Welsh Regiment; The Yorkshire Regiment; Worcestershire Regiment; York and Lancaster Regiment; 10th Royal Hussars Regiment. Mostly very fine. (22)
Estimate $150
SOLD $120
Great Britain, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (47th & 81st Foot) hat badge with Guelphic crown, also silk cigarette card depicting the regimental badge, also regimental lapel badge for civilian dress in bronze and enamel, some enamel missing, reverse impressed 424 on button lug. The last badge rare, the card with some foxing, otherwise fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
RAAF, half wing qualification badges (all QC), in sterling silver, includes CT (Crewman Technical, now obsolete), by Lega, Melb(ourne), pin-back; N (Navigator), by Swann & Hudson, pin-back; S (Signaller), by Stokes & Sons, 1955, pin-back; and Parachute Jump Instructor half wing, no maker, with two clutch grips. Good very fine - extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $200
SOLD $400
Australia, Volunteer Air Observers Corps, Commandant badge in gilt and enamel (29mm), by Stokes, pin-back, reverse numbered 32. Good very fine and rare, only 100 made.
Estimate $800
SOLD $2,400
Australia, Volunteer Air Observers Corps, Chief Observer badge in gilt and enamel (29mm), by Stokes, pin-back, reverse numbered 521. Good very fine and scarce, only 2,000 made.
Estimate $300
SOLD $320
Volunteer Air Observer Corps, Chief Observer, badge in gilt and enamel (29mm), by Stokes, pin-back, reverse with impressed number 1793. Extremely fine and very scarce.
Estimate $450
Passed in
WWII, Volunteers Air Observers Corps, Observer badge in gilt and enamel (29mm), by Stokes, pin-back, reverse numbered 5013; Civil Construction Corps badge in bronze, by Amor, Sydney, lug back; also USA, Army Officer's hat badge in gilt, by K.G.Luke, Melbourne, Australia; US Army unfinished test strike in copper of a U.S. officer's metal collar badge, by K.G.Luke, Melb. The third badge with some oxidation at top left, otherwise very fine - good very fine. (4)
Estimate $70
SOLD $80
Australia, a large assortment of badges, includes various RSL club badges; Volunteer Air Observers Corps, Observer badge; Australian Comforts Fund, Ballarat, Trench Shop 1918; Sailors, Soldiers, Airmens Fathers Association, Womens Auxiliary; C.E.F. For Service at the Front; War Widows' Guild; Maryborough Heroes Day 1917; Royal Australian Air Force Training Corps (2 different); War Widows & Widowed Mothers Association; Victoria League; Women's Auxiliary (2, different); City of Brisbane Rifle Club silver badge; Military Nurse officer collar badge; a variety of other badges and a military belt buckle; also USA Army Engineers collar badge by K.G.Luke, Melb; and an American Red Cross Volunteer badge. Mostly fine - good extremely fine. (36)
Estimate $200
SOLD $260
Australia, WWI, Merchant Service War Badge, in voided gilt (34x35mm), by Stokes (&) Sons, Melb(ourne), lug back, reverse numbered 3205. Very fine and very scarce.
Estimate $260
SOLD $260
Australia, Merchant Navy War Service League badge (KC), in bronze and enamel (18x26mm), by Swann & Hudson, Frankston, lugs removed and ring top suspension added and this attached to Life Member brooch bar, by Pitcher, Melb. The badge extremely fine, the bar very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $300