Catalogue
World badges, includes Great Britain, 5th Border Regiment, hat badge (KC), in white metal (50mm), pin-back; King's 17th - 20th Battalions (Liverpool Pals), hat badge in bronze (37mm); Northern Cyclist Battalion, hat badge (KC), in brass (one lug broken but with lot and also missing scroll at base); also India, Jammu & Kashmir Rifles, badge showing engagements over the years, cast in voided white metal (52mm) with two screws on reverse; South African Union Defence Force, 1912-57, Union is Strength, other ranks' cap badge in bronze (35mm). Fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $80
SOLD $80
World, includes France, 51st Infantry, large pocket badge in gilt and enamel, fitted onto a leather button hole suspender; steel dog tag with chain (this detached at one end), inscribed on one side, '185/6495/Houze Francois/Regiment/Z.Z.R./Z.S.F.'; Compagnie Des Messageries Maritimes (a prestigious French merchant marine company), paper money clip (?) or perhaps a slide pocket badge in silvered (features central medal with company logo); Great Britain, WWI, Arras sweetheart brooch in voided silvered and gilt brass, with a tank in the centre (Battle of Arras in 1917 featured 40 tanks of the 1st Brigade); vintage Regiment Artillery miniature buckles in brass (3); USA, WWII Air Force officer's collar badge, pin-back. Fine - very fine. (8)
Estimate $60
SOLD $40
Australian Army, Bren Gun cleaning kit, by Slazenger's, c.WWII, comprising adjusting tool, oil container, pull through, assorted spare springs, complete in khaki tool wallet. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Royal Engineers' officer's swagger stick, George V era, cane stick and at the end is a hallmarked round silver knob decorated with the Royal Engineers' badge. Bumps to the knob, otherwise fine.
Estimate $60
Passed in
RAN Bosun's whistle, in nickel silver, stamped 'Aussie/Rider & Bell'. Very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $40
Australian Army whistle, in brass, with Department of Defence broad arrow mark above 1942, impressed with maker's name, 'Premier Wire Works, Melbourne, Australia'. Fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $70
Australia, Army Pattern 1882 pair of brown leather leggings/gaiters; ammunition pouch in brown leather with belt slides on reverse, marked by maker, '??der & Frost, 19U, for 45/577 ammunition and 303 types; small satchel with carry handle in brown leather (damaged). Good - fine. (pair + 2)
Estimate $320
Passed in
Australia, WWI, ID bracelet, features an aluminium map of Australia attached to an expanding watch band, the map inscribed, '6340/L.O.Loewe/26th Battn./A.I.F.'. The watch band overstretched, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $140
Australia, a pair of Army field uniform epaulettes as worn in North Africa in 1941, with two oxidised bronze pips for a Lieutenant as well as oxidised bronze Australia titles, also a tinnie badge with 2/2 Australian Infantry Battalion colour patch. Some loss of material at tip of one epaulette, otherwise fine - very fine. (pair with pips and titles + 1)
Estimate $60
Passed in
Australia, WWII colour patches for Corps of Signals, Army Service Corps, 2/8 Infantry Battalion; Great Britain, Royal Armoured Corps embroidered shoulder badge (QC); USA forces in Brisbane, Australia victory morale embroidered patch, WWII For Victory, Hawaii with large V, features 3 dots and a long dash (Morse code for the letter V). The second and third patches with some moth damage, otherwise fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $60
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USA, WWII Navy garrison cap badges (2, one in sterling silver with 10K gold filling, pin-back, the other in sterling silver and gilt, pin-back but pin missing, also inscribed on reverse but details unclear (maybe Ivy/FA/1362 -Note: these badges were also worn as sweetheart badges by loved ones); US Marines collar badge in oxidised bronze, screw back; Air Force Security Police badge in nickel silver, pin-back; U.S. Army Temporary Pass 6004, mounted under plastic (this damaged) and fitted into a round brass frame with pin-back as well as slide back; also a copy of the magazine, 'Yank Published Down Under', Dec.3, 1943, Vol.1, No.18. Fine - very fine. (6)
Estimate $60
SOLD $40
US Army Formations, Vietnam, 1962-1975, shoulder patches, thirty two different types, all identified. Very fine - extremely fine. (32)
Estimate $150
Passed in
Australia, WWI Nearest Female Relative badge, in silver and enamel, reverse numbered 139724; King's Silver War badge, reverse numbered A54447; Returned from Active Service badge (AIF), reverse numbered 47145; WWII, General Service badge (type 2), reverse numbered AF363; Returned from Active Service badges (4, three oxidised and one gilt), numbered A57809, A78024, A158723 and N46597; War Widows' Guild badge in silver, reverse numbered 5911. Fine - very fine. (9)
Estimate $150
SOLD $110
Australia, WWI Nearest Female Relative badge AIF, reverse numbered 79151 (missing some enamel); WWII Female Relative badge, with bar and one star, reverse numbered N.1545; Returned from Active Service (AIF) badge, reverse numbered 169365 (cleaned and worn with repaired lugs); Returned Services League badge (3 figure type) with 67 overlay on crown, reverse numbered 70466; Fifth Light Horse A.I.F. unofficial collar badge 1912-18 (38mm) (Cossum 174) (cleaned); Australia metal title (missing one lug). Very good - very fine. (6)
Estimate $70
SOLD $50
World, includes Australia, WWI Nearest Female Relative's badge (AIF) in silver and enamel by Stokes & Son, Melb, badge number 138395, with four bars numbered, 102007, 102008, 102009, 102010 (the top two bars missing some connecting hooks); Demobilised Sailors Soldiers & Airmens Asson badge in gilt and enamel, numbered S1035; modern gilt and enamel pin-back lapel badge featuring a kangaroo and a WWII colour patch on a boomerang marked 6 Div. A.I.F. (still in sealed bag, unused); also medalet To Aid The N.S.W. Patriotic Fund, Good Luck to the Australian Bushmens Contingent, 1900, in bronze (23mm) (C.1900/21); another medalet First Crossing of Blue Mountains, 1813-1913, in gilt (23mm) (C.1913/2); Great Britain, Victory Medal 1914-19 named to 12182 Pte S.Todd R.W.Fus, no ribbon; Victory of Jutland Bank, 1916, medal in white metal (45mm) (Eimer 1951; BHM 4124), pierced hole for suspension; screw back small crown in copper and enamel; USA, 25c canteen token in bronze for Co "L" 162nd Inf. (supposedly found in remains of a wartime American camp at Riverton, Utah); also severely corroded Sharpshooter qualification badge (probably found at same site); unidentified tinnie badge featuring flags of Russia and the Russian Navy with a bear below and the date Aug.18.1916. Poor - uncirculated. (11)
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
Australia, King's Silver War badge, reverse numbered A94517; WWI Returned from Active Service badge (AIF) (missing lugs); NES National Emergency Services New South Wales badge (KC); Great Britain RAF Bomb Aimer half wing embroidered badges (3); also four spare medal ribbons. Fine - very fine. (10)
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
Australia, King's Silver War badge, reverse inscribed A73691; also miniature King's Silver War badge, unnumbered. Extremely fine; good very fine and rare. (2)
Estimate $190
SOLD $200
Australia, WWI Volunteered For Active Service, Retained For Home Service badge, issued by The Navy Department, by Stokes & Sons, Melb, with two lugs on back, reverse numbered 355 (this actual badge illustrated in Australians Awarded by Clive Johnson). Good very fine and very scarce Navy issue.
Estimate $1,200
SOLD $1,200
Australia, WWI Volunteered For Active Service, Retained For Home Service badge, Issued By The Navy Department, in gilt bronze (29.5mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melb, lug back, reverse numbered 812. Some oxidation on reverse, otherwise very fine and very scarce Navy issue.
Estimate $1,200
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Australia, WWI, Volunteer for Active Service, Required for Home Service badge, issued by Department of Defence, with two lugs on back, reverse numbered 1114; also woven red on khaki Warrant Officer Class II badge. Good fine, the last with some holes in khaki cloth and loose at edges. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $270
WWI, Munition Worker's hat badge in bronze (54x43mm), lug back, reverse, 'Issued/By/Department/Of/Defence/Stokes & Sons/Melbourne', also impressed, 1714. Nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $240
Australia, WWI Returned From Active Service badge (RAN), by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne, reverse numbered 4573. Some spotty toning, otherwise very fine and scarce.
Estimate $150
SOLD $250
Australia, WWI Returned from Active Service badge (AIF), by Stokes & Sons, Melb, reverse numbered 131556; another, by Stokes & Sons, Melb, reverse numbered 141430; another, by Austral Eng Co, Perth, reverse numbered 105468. Very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Australia, WWI Returned from Active Service badge (AIF), reverse numbered 250593; RS&S Imperial League Australia badges in gilt and enamel (large 2-figure type) (2, one with 1919 overlay on crown and one with 1922 overlay), another but small 2-figure type with 76 overlay on crown; Returned Services League Australia badge in gilt and enamel with acrylic coating (2, one with 88 overlay on crown and one with 90 overlay), one pin-back and the other with stick-pin; Aust. Legion of Ex-Servicemen & Women badge in gilt and enamel with 46 clip-over on KC; R.S.S.I.L.A. Women's Auxiliary badge in gilt and enamel, pin-back; Ex-Service Mens' Guild of CTA (Commercial Travellers' Association) of Queensland badge in gilt and enamel; Haberfield Five Dock Abbotsford RSL Bowling club badge in gilt and enamel. A few with enamel chips, otherwise fine - very fine. (10)
Estimate $60
SOLD $60
Australia, WWII Mother's and Widow's badge, by G & E Rodd, 1944, pin-back, reverse numbered AF7854, with bar and one star, also included is a rare card of issue from O.I.C. Records, Headquarters, R.A.A.F., with No 7854 typed and with written date July 1945, on the reverse blank side is written, 'Officer in Charge of Records/R.A.A.F/319 Chapel St/Prahran/Victoria'. Heavily toned very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $320
Australia, WWII Mother's and Widow's badge, by Amor, Sydney, pin-back, reverse numbered A18410, with one star. Toned, a few surface scratches, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $150
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Australia, WWII Mother's and Widow's badge with one star, by G & E Rodd 1940, pin-back with safety chain, reverse numbered AF.1285. Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $210
Australia, WWII Female Relative's badge with two stars, by Angus & Coote 1942, pin-back, reverse numbered A162763. Very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $40
Australia, Female Relative badge, WWII, by Amor, Sydney, with one star, reverse numbered A277775; also badges in gilt and enamel for Australian Legion Auxiliary, Aust. Legion of Ex-Servicemen & Women (2, one with 46 clip on crown and the other with 76 clip on crown), all by A.J.Parkes, Brisbane; tinnies for Totally & Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association appeal, another for T.P.I. Button Day. Fine - extremely fine. (6)
Estimate $90
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Australia, WWII Female Relative's badge, by G & E Rodd, 1944, pin-back, reverse numbered AF.76931, with bar and one star, also included is a rare card of issue from O.I.C. Records, Headquarters, R.A.A.F. with No 76931 typed and with written date July 1945, on the reverse blank side is written, 'Directorate of War Graves Services/Victoria Barracks/St Kilda Rd/Melbourne.' Badge toned and with oxidation, otherwise fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $210