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Nearest Female Relative's badge (AIF), WWI, in silver and enamel by Stokes & Sons, Melb, pin-back, badge number 114776, with two bars consecutively numbered 100754 and 100755. Toned very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
Australia, WWI Nearest Female Relative's badge (AIF), reverse numbered 35810, with one bar with reverse numbered 20990; Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League Australia badge, large 2-figure type, reverse numbered P8205; another 2-figure type but small size, reverse numbered V6979; two other 3-figure types, reverses numbered S3435 and V6956; Returned Services League Australia badges (2), reverses numbered NA52462 and A.C.T.4126; Returned Sailors' And Soldiers' League Victoria, War Service Fund, reverse numbered 11476; General Service badge (WWII), reverse numbered A47174; WWII Returned from Active Service badge, reverse numbered A19868 (lugs repaired); Sailors Soldiers Airmen Assocn, Fathers badge, reverse numbered 5448, with stick-pin; Aust Legion Of Ex-Servicemen & Women badge, reverse numbered V27712, with 48 overlay on crown; Women's Auxiliary R.S.S.A.I.L.A. badge (KC); All For Australia League badge; War Widows' Guild of Australia badge, reverse numbered W8861; Anzac Day 1918 medalet in silvered bronze; also Great Britain, British Red Cross Society clasps for 1939 Red Cross Nursing and also for 1939 Anti-Gas Training; Great Britain, For Home And Country badge by W.O.Lewis (Badges) Ltd of Birmingham; also NAAFI token for 10 Lire in aluminium for use by NATO Air Force Base in Italy. Very good - extremely fine. (20)
Estimate $100
SOLD $180
Australia, WWI Nearest Female Relative's badge, in silver and enamel, with pin-back, reverse numbered 170237; WWII Female Relative's badge in silvered, with one star, with pin-back, reverse numbered A53096; sweetheart badges, includes gilt Rising sun with enamelled red over blue colour patch in centre, on pin-back bar (securing loop missing); silver and enamel badge for 45th Infantry Battalion colour patch, pin-back; gilt and enamel badge for 8th Infantry Battalion colour patch with A in centre, pin-back. The first badge with loss of most enamel, second badge very dark from oxidation, fourth badge with small enamel chip, otherwise very good - very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $220
Australia, Nearest Female Relative's badges (3), the first numbered for Army, A89323, with one star and suspended below the bar is an enamelled colour patch for RAA; the second numbered for Navy, N6545, with one star; the third numbered for Air Force, AF28141, with one star and with safety chain attached. Fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $60
SOLD $130
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, 2 lugs on back, reverse numbered 511. Very fine and very scarce Navy issue.
Estimate $600
Passed in
Australia, WWI Volunteered For Active Service, Retained For Home Service badge, Issued By The Navy Department, in gilt bronze (30mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melb, lug back, reverse numbered 812. Some oxidation on reverse, otherwise very fine and very scarce Navy issue.
Estimate $750
SOLD $480
WWI, Munitions Worker badge in bronze (54x43mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne, 2 lugs on back, number 2529 impressed on reverse. Good very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $180
WWI, Munitions Worker badge in bronze (54x43mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne, 2 lugs on back, number 4314 impressed on reverse. Toned nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $300
Passed in
Australia, War Worker, Navvies & Labourers, badge in bronze (38mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melb, lug back, reverse with impressed number 1272. Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $250
SOLD $320
Australia, War Worker, Navvies & Labourers, badge in bronze (38mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melb, 2 lugs on back, reverse with impressed number 1308. Good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $300
SOLD $360
Australia, WWI, RVA (Rejected Volunteers' Association) Queensland, badge in silver, pin-back, reverse numbered 580. Toned very fine and scarce.
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,100
Australia, WWI Returned from Active Service badge (AIF), reverse numbered 45115; WWII Returned from Active Service badge, reverse numbered 336362; WWII General Service badge, reverse numbered A45560; Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League Australia badge (KC), small 2-figure type, reverse numbered A27115; Returned Sailors Soldiers & Airmens Imperial League Australia badge (KC), small 3-figure type, reverse numbered Z54253. Very fine - nearly extremely fine. (5)
Estimate $90
SOLD $60
Anzac Commemorative Medallion, 1915, issued 1967, in bronze (51x76mm) (C.1915/3), plain reverse, probably has been mounted on a board. Oxidation on reverse and some contact marks on obverse, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Australia, Anzac Medallion 1967 lapel badge (23x34.5mm), with double lug on reverse, reverse inscribed, 'W.J.Cooper. Extremely fine.
Estimate $100
Passed in
Australia, WWI, Gallipoli lapel badge in bronze (issued in 1967), with double lug back, reverse inscribed, 'W.Milburn'. Extremely fine.
Estimate $150
Passed in
Australia, WWI, Merchant Service War Badge, in gilt bronze, by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne, 2 lugs on back, reverse numbered 129. Good fine.
Estimate $300
Passed in
O.H.M.S, British Aluminium Co Ltd War Service badge, 1915, in darkened bronze (32mm), button lug back. Extremely fine.
Estimate $60
Passed in
St John Ambulance War Service, badge in gilt and enamel (26x30mm), with pin-back 'Australia' suspender, impressed on reverse with number '6096'. Extremely fine and very scarce.
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
Australia, WWII, Mother's and Widow's badge, by Angus & Coote, 1942, pin-back, reverse numbered A6968, bar with one star, attached below the bar is a silver and enamel miniature colour patch of 29th Australian Infantry Battalion. Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $280
Australia, WWII Nearest Female Relative's badge with three stars, by Angus & Coote, 1942, numbered A163959, pin-back with safety chain. Toned very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
Australia, WWII Reserved Occupation exemption badge, by Wallace Bishop 1940, lug back, reverse numbered A18259. Toning, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $70
Australia, Merchant Navy lapel badge, 1940 issue, by Wallace Bishop, Brisbane, double lug back, reverse numbered 1134. Very fine.
Estimate $30
SOLD $20
Australia, WWII, POWA (Post Office Women's Auxiliary), badge in gilt and enamel (23x25mm), by Handford, pin-back. Good very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $360
Australia, Mine Watcher badge in gilt and enamel (25x22mm), by Handford, pin-back, reverse numbered 120. Very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $320
Great Britain, Queen Victoria, The Regiment Award of Merit, in gilt bronze (44.5mm), unnamed. Very fine.
Estimate $100
Passed in
Great Britain, King's Silver War badge (GRI), reverse numbered O2074. Good very fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $40
Great Britain, WWI, Female On War Service Badge 1916, in voided brass (44x38mm), by Wylie & Co, London, pin-back, reverse numbered 321554. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
(Minesweepers Medallion), WWI, two uniface medallions in white metal (50mm), obverse side, fishing boat with mine in water behind the boat, with a crest at the base and with legend at the top, 'To The Fisherman Defenders/Of/Our/Coasts', on the reverse side, Britannia with shield and spearing serpents in the water and with legend, 'Vivant/Britannia', at the base is the designer's name, 'F. Gleichen 1917'. With sticky paper on reverse where they have been glued to board, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $90
HMAS Sydney - SMS Emden, Nov 9, 1914, Mexican eight reales, 1891 Ca M.M. Chihuahua Mint, medal by W.Kerr, Sydney (C.1914/4), with a few very small chopmarks. With few small scratches, otherwise nicely toned very fine.
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $1,700
Australia, WWI, handcrafted tribute fob in gold (9ct; 10.86g; 21x34mm), with ring top suspension and a claw set oval cut garnet, the obverse with raised letters, 'AIF' with crossed rifles and inscribed, 'ARS', the reverse inscribed, 'Presented/To/A.R.Smith/By/Bonshaw friends/on his return/from/the War/20.10.17.', the fob is attached to a sterling silver watch chain. Very fine.
Estimate $600
SOLD $460