Catalogue
Australia, Anzac Remembrance Day, Gallipoli Landing 25th April 1915, badge in gilt and enamel (27x24mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melb, pin-back (securing catch missing). Tone spotting, otherwise very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
Capt Carmichael's 2nd Thousand, 1918, uniface badge in silvered and enamel (24x26mm), no maker, scroll and ring top suspension with stick-pin fitted. Some dark spots at edge, otherwise very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Australia, WWI Soldiers' Dependents' Day, (1918), fundraising badges (3), one in gilt with white and blue enamel, one in gilt with blue and red enamel, and one in silvered with blue enamel, all by Angus & Coote Ld, Sydney, the last with a ring top suspender with stick-pin and the other two with pin-back. Very fine - good very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Collection of badges, includes fundraising badges for Tin Hat Day, Legacy (2, different), Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund, Comforts Fund Appeal Day, Red Cross Day, United Returned Soldiers Fund Tin Hat Day, also Granville R.S.L. Club, Visit of American Fleet to Australia July 1925, Anzac Day, Jack's Day 1941. All attached to black felt mounted in a small timber display frame, very fine - extremely fine. (12)
Estimate $60
SOLD $50
Australia, NSW, Lake Macquarie War Memorial, We Will Remember Them badge in gilt and enamel (24x25mm), by Amor, Sydney, pin-back. Good very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Australia, WWII, ARP (Air Raid Precautions) Warden badge (KC), in gilt and enamel, by Handford, lug back, reverse numbered 8199; Civil Defence Queensland badges, all in gilt and enamel (KC), includes Welfare Service badge, by Handford, pin-back, reverse numbered 262; another different style Welfare Service badge, no maker, pin-back, unnumbered; Essential Services badge, by Handford, pin-back, reverse numbered 3295; Medical Services badge, by Wallace & Bishop, pin-back, reverse numbered 4084. Very fine - good very fine. (5)
Estimate $150
SOLD $130
Australia, Incapacitated & Wounded Sailors & Soldiers Assn. of Q(ueensland), lapel badge in gilt and enamel (KC), lug-back, reverse numbered 2367. Small enamel chip on crown, otherwise very fine and scarce.
Estimate $70
SOLD $60
Australia, Q(ueensland) Ex Prisoners Of War Assn, Life Member badge (KC), in gilt and enamel, reverse marked by maker, A J Parkes, "Parxite 77", pin-back. Uncirculated.
Estimate $60
SOLD $80
Australia, Q(ueensland) Ex Prisoners Of War Assn, member badge (KC), in gilt and enamel (18x23.5mm), by A J Parkes, pin-back. Uncirculated.
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
Australia, Soldiers Sailors & Airmens Association, Fathers badge in silvered and enamel, by P.J.King, pin-back, reverse numbered 467; Sailors Soldiers & Airmens Assn Vic., Fathers badge (KC) in silvered and enamel, by K.G.Luke, Melb(ourne), stick-pin, reverse numbered 14402; Sailors Soldiers Airmens Assocn, Womens Auxiliary, Fathers badge (KC) in silvered and enamel, by K.G.Luke, Melb(ourne), pin-back; Incapacitated & Wounded Sailors Soldiers & Airmens Assn. of Q(ueensland) lapel badge in gilt and enamel (KC), lug back, reverse numbered 1355. Very fine. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Australia, WWI, Sailors & Soldiers Assocn Of Q'lnd, Fathers badge in sterling silver and enamel (25x29mm), by P.J.King, Melb, with button lug, reverse inscribed, '374' at top and at the bottom, 'J.W.E.Hanlon'; WWII, Sailors Soldiers & Airmens Assn Vic., Fathers badge (KC) in silvered and enamel, with stick-pin, reverse numbered, 'D419'; Sailors Soldiers & Airmens Ass S A (Association South Australia), Fathers badge (KC), with (19)47 overlay on KC, by Schlank, Adelaide, double lug back, reverse numbered, '2581'. The second very good, the other two nearly extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $70
SOLD $170
Australia, War Chest For Our Soldiers, 1917, in gold and enamel (9ct; 2.07g; 21mm), by WFW, pin-back. Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Mons Star Association of NSW, lapel badge 7-sided in gilt and enamel (31x26.5mm), by Angus & Coote, button lug back re-fitted, reverse impressed with serial number '72', on the front is 'F. M. /N.S.W.' (Fellowship of Mons, NSW). Oxidation on the bottom reverse edge, a small enamel chip at top edge, otherwise fine and scarce.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Australia, Gundurimba Shire Repatriation Committee, Member badge in gilt and enamel (21.5mm), by G.A.Miller, Sydney, ring top suspension fitting. Good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Australia, Monaro & Dalgety Repatriation Committee, Member badge in gilt and enamel (21mm), by G.A.Miller, Sydney, with stick-pin. Oxidation spot, otherwise very fine and scarce.
Estimate $60
SOLD $40
C.T & W.A. (Commercial Travellers & Warehousemens Association), Army Nurses' Day, 1917, badge in gilt, silvered and enamel (25mm) (Smith 597), no maker, pin-back. Small loss of enamel on nurse's cape, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $100
Passed in
Returned Sailors' & Soldiers' Waterside Workers Union Of N.S.W., badge in silvered (28mm), no maker, button lug back, not recorded in Emblems of Unity by Greg Smith. Extremely fine and very scarce.
Estimate $150
SOLD $440
Tramway Sailors & Soldiers Assoc, lapel badge in silvered and enamel (KC) (19x25.5mm), no maker, button lug back. Toned very fine.
Estimate $100
Passed in
N.S.W Railway & Tramway Ex-Services Assoc., lapel badge in silvered and enamel (KC) (19x25.5mm), by Angus & Coote, Jewellers, double lug back. Good very fine.
Estimate $150
Passed in
Australia, Enlisted On Sportsmen's Recruiting Day, 1917, badge in gilt and enamel (28x37mm), no maker, pin-back, reverse impressed, 'Newcastle'. Some oxidation, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $280
Dalby And District, Victory Fund, 1941, fundraising badge for ?1-1-0, in gilt and enamel (24.5mm), by Wallace Bishop, Brisbane, pin-back, reverse with impressed number, 15. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Suffolk Regiment, voided sweetheart brooch in sterling silver (33x34mm), hallmarked for Birmingham 1895 by maker 'R & W' (Reynolds & Westwood), pin-back. Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Australia, ALH (Australian Light Horse) Boer War sweetheart badge in the shape of a map of Australia, handcrafted in sterling silver (33.5x26mm), pierced hole at top for suspension. Fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $320
H.M.A.S. Australia, German New Guinea, Rabaul, Samoa, 1914-1919, sweetheart badge in sterling silver and enamel (39x26mm), by O.T&S., pin-back. Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $250
SOLD $260
H.M.A.S. Brisbane, sweetheart badge in sterling silver and enamel (28.5mm), by O.T & S., pin-back but missing pin. Good very fine.
Estimate $100
Passed in
Fifth Light Horse, A.I.F, sweetheart badge in voided gold (9ct; 6.64g; 21x27.5mm), pin-back with safety chain. Good very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $360
Australia, WWI sweetheart brooch in gilt, features 1915 above a small Rising Sun badge with scroll bearing the words, 'Australia New Zealand Army Corps', all above the word, 'ANZAC', pin-back. Toned, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $140
WWI, Mercantile Marine crown sweetheart badge in gold (9ct; 3.04g; 25x13mm), pin-back with suspension loop at back top edge. Pin securing lug broken, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $130
SOLD $100
Red Cross Ambulance pendant, undated (WWI era), in voided yellow and rose gold and enamel (9ct; 1.28g; 22mm), no maker, ring top suspension, perhaps a wartime sweetheart badge. Very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $320
Australia, sweetheart brooches made from Mother of Pearl, one with Rising Sun (KC) (60x45mm), pin-back, and one with a small Rising Sun (KC) in a patterned surround (44x32mm), pin-back. Virtually uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60