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Assorted World militaria, including Australia, badges, Imperial League, Returned Sailors & Soldiers (2) 1919, by Prouds Ltd, numbered 99206 on reverse; 1920, by W.Bishop, numbered 86719 on reverse; Returned Sailors & Soldiers (small version), Q158 on reverse; Returned Sailors, Soldiers & Airmens, by J.Parkes/Brisbane, Q22847 on reverse; The Air Force Navy Club, by Perfection/Sydney, numbered 285 on reverse; Sweetheart brooch, Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, in silver with gold overlay; smoothed token engraved 'Love/Clyde/A.I.F./New Guinea/1943-44'; 1915 Anzac lapel badges, copies (2); Belgium, Military Combatants Medal, 1940-1945; Germany, Bonn, 1908, Carnevals-Gesellschaft Freundschaftsbund, in gilt and enamels (70mm); Great Britain, NRA, Bisley, Grand Aggregate Medals (2), 1907 (missing loop mount) and 1911; award medal, engraved 1945/High Jump/Winner/L/cpl T.Turner; London Small Bore Rifle Association, in gilt and enamel, engraved on reverse '1965/Cornsih/Wimbledon Park/Winners'; Royal Welsh Fusiliers, cap badge; New Zealand, NZR shoulder title, in brass; USA, WWI Victory Medal with four claspes - Defensive Sector, Foreign Service, Meuse-Argonne, France; Armed Forces Reserve Medal. Fine - good extremely fine. (20)
Estimate $150
SOLD $150
Australia, RAN Officer's beret badge (QC), in gilt and enamel, with two clip-pins on reverse; postcards, one featuring HMAS Sydney, three featuring SMS Emden and one featuring Kapitan Muller, all appear to be reproductions, two photos, one colour and one b&w of an unidentified Australian sailor; copy of the letter sent by the Captain of the Sydney to the Captain of the Emden on 9 November 1914. Extremely fine - uncirculated. (9)
Estimate $30
SOLD $20
Australia, Royal Australian Navy, rank badges for Chief Petty Officer (6), Petty Officer Marine Technician (3), MTP3 Marine Technical Propulsion 2 Star (3, two red on black and one blue on white), Naval Airman Safety Equipment (SE) Rate, Combat Systems Operator, Electronic Technician - Communications, Stoker (3, one red and dark blue, two blue and white), Boatswains Mate (category FC), Leading Seaman (6, one red on dark blue and five blue on white), Able Seaman, also an Able Seaman Australia shoulder slide in embroidered yellow on black; an unidentified badge; also Australia titles (5 blue on white), a Marksman badge in red on black felt and a pair of Army Corporal's rank stripes in gold bullion on black; small embroidered white ensign Australian flag. A few with marks or damaged, otherwise mostly fine - extremely fine. (37)
Estimate $120
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Australia, WWII, Female Relative badges (2) both with one star, reverse on one by Amor/Sydney, numbered A201106, the other by G & R Rodd/1940, numbered A42026. With a 6mm rust mark on wreath of second badge, otherwise good very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
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Australia, Rank badges, a small collection of Warrant Officer's (12, all QC) and officer's pips (8), mostly embroidered but three in dress bullion; also various service riband bars (6, single, pair, trio [4], and unit citation bars (10). A few fine but mostly good very fine - uncirculated. (36)
Estimate $50
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New Zealand, cap badges, Army Service Corps in brass (KC) (O.8/26); Dental Corps in brass (KC) (O.8/110); collar badges, New Zealand Rifle Brigade badge in bronze (O.4/236); 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment in brass and white metal (O.6/12); 3rd (Auckland) Regiment in brass (O.6/22); 7th (Wellington West Coast Rifles) Regiment in brass (O.6/74); 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment in bi-metal (O.6/134); 15th (Northland) Regiment in brass (KC) (O.6/146); 16th (Waikato) Regiment in brass (O.6/156); Qualification badge for Interpreter in gilt bronze (O.10/81); NZR (NZ Rifles) shoulder title in brass (O.12/102). A few with some oxidation marks, otherwise mostly very fine. (11)
Estimate $150
SOLD $180
New Zealand, cap badges, 1st (Canterbury) Regiment (KC) in brass (O.6/2); 12th (Nelson) Regiment in bronze (O.6/114); New Zealand Medical Corps (KC) in brass (O.8/213); NZ Machine Gun Corps (KC) in brass (O.8/198). All badges with traces of oxidation, the third badge has some oxidation on front and back, otherwise very fine. (4)
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
New Zealand, cap badges, 6th (Hauraki) Regiment in brass (O.6/61); 14th (South Otago) Regiment in brass (O.6/137); 16th (Waikato) Regiment (KC) in brass (O.6/152); 17th (Ruahine) Regiment in brass (O.6/160). Some oxidation on reverse of last badge, otherwise very fine. (4)
Estimate $70
SOLD $100
New Zealand, cap badges, 8th (Southland Rifles) Regiment in bronze (O.6/81); 9th (Wellington East Coast Rifles) Regiment in brass (O.6/93); 10th (North Otago Rifles) Regiment in brass (O.6/101); 11th (Taranaki Rifles) Regiment in brass (O.6/105). Very fine. (4)
Estimate $70
SOLD $100
WWI, On War Service, H.M.N.Z. Transports lapel badge in brass (26mm), by C.M.Bay, with lapel button on back. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Certificate of Discharge, a parchment document dated at Dunedin on 20 November 1913 and confirmed on 26 November 1913 for the discharge of No. 100 Gunner Thomas Fitzpatrick of Royal N.Z. Artillery having reached the age for retirement after an unblemished record of over 34 years service. Very fine.
Estimate $40
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New Zealand, World War II, small b&w photograph of three soldiers marked on reverse, 'Snowy Gillespie, Captain Harry/Barnett, 2nd L/T A.B.Cottrel (sic) M.C./Fuka,/Western Desert/Egypt/Xmas Day 1941'. Very fine.
Estimate $50
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Great Britain, General Service Corps hat badge (KC) in brass; also collar badge (KC) in oxidised bronze; and another fitted to a leather wrist band; The King's Own Royal Regiment hat badge in bi-metal (slide back missing bottom half); Coldstream Guards hat badge in brass; Notts & Derby Regiment hat badge in bi-metal (missing crown and also slide back fitting); Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment) hat badge (KC) in brass; RGA metal title; artillery collar badges (2 different); other damaged badges (2). Good - very fine. (12)
Estimate $70
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Seventeenth Lancers, helmet plate in brass, with two screw fittings on reverse. Very fine.
Estimate $70
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Royal Lancers, helmet plate in brass, with two pins on reverse. Very fine.
Estimate $70
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Cambodian shoulder patches, includes Army, Navy, Air Force and Police patches as well as a Police shoulder title, also a Cambodia shoulder patch and Security Platoon, Cambodia 1993 shoulder patch featuring the flags of Australia, the United Nations and Cambodia. Extremely fine. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
World War I and II, military kit bag locks, a pair of brass D shaped locking devices, one with a small padlock attached but no key. Fine. (2)
Estimate $50
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Australia, WWII, RAAF Mk1 Aerial Dead Reckoning Computer, made by W&G, Melbourne, Australia, comprises a metal rotating calculating unit with plastic insert for calculation, with original leather case marked at the bottom in white paint, '942'. The plastic insert damaged and the leather case missing stitching at one side and across the bottom, otherwise good fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $30
Australia, shoulder purse, in brown leather with chain and leather shoulder strap, with clip down flap, inside marked, 'Geo. Pizzey & Son Ltd/[detail unclear] 1955/D upright arrow D', a badge has been removed from the flap leaving four holes. Very fine.
Estimate $30
SOLD $20
Military observation scope, angled at one end, side marked with King's crown above A M/REF. No 6B/110/No 136/38. Fine.
Estimate $70
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Canada, vintage bugle in copper and brass with badge of Ontario Regiment soldered to the top of the horn section, the original mouthpiece replaced with a silver plated brass type marked, 'Yamaha Japan 11'. A few dents as usual, otherwise fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Great Britain, Range Finder No.12 MkVII, Type F.T.37, Base 80cms, No. (impressed) 791 and also impressed with Defence upright arrow, complete with folding handles and also with folding metal tripod marked, 'Stand No 1 & 2 Infty. R.F./Mark II/Houghton Butcher Mfg. Co Ltd/1916/10291 and upright Defence arrow'. The rubber at each end is deteriorated with age and there are a few small spots of oxidation, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $140
Binoculars, small pair of opera style binoculars marked by maker, 'Lossl & Cie/In Wien', in small leather purse-like holder and this fits into a small khaki bag with flap and khaki cloth shoulder strap, the flap has two closing clips but both loose and one missing a stud, the inside of the flap has the penned name, 'TAIT'. The binoculars very fine, the leather purse poor and the shoulder bag very fine except for missing bits. (lot)
Estimate $40
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World War II, RAF cockpit lamp Mk II, Bakelite body with red filter, this with small crack. Good fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Branding Iron, for branding 7, head of iron impressed, '??nold/1916/Birmm', with loop at end of stem. Good fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $30
Buchanans Whiskey glazed earthenware decanter, WWI period in shape of a military shell, in navy blue and pale blue (approx 22cm high), base marked, 'James Green & Nephew/Queen Victoria St London/Patent No.12748/8. Septr 1916.' (the retailers) and by the maker, 'Copeland Spode', with moulds on both sides, on one side it depicts a ship with the name 'Sydney' below and on the opposite side it depicts a soldier wearing a slouch hat standing to attention with a WWI vintage aeroplane overhead. Missing dome top lid, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $200
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Presentation goblet, in EPNS, made in Australia, one side inscribed, 'Stoker. S.P.Barden./H.M.A.S."Brisbane"/Sydney.'. Heavily toned, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $100
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H.M.A.S Sydney, large bronze plaque (29.5x21.1cm), designed by C.H.Eccles and cast by Amor, featuring the Sydney riding to the left through rough seas and below in the border, 'H.M.A.S Sydney'. Good very fine.
Estimate $500
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Vietnam Veterans Parade, Sydney 1987 plaque in timber and enamelled brass plate, across the top is a small separate brass strip marked, 'Presented To V.F.W. (Veterans of Foreign Wars)/Cpl. Len Conway Alpha Pl 5th Coy R.A.A.T.S.'. Very fine.
Estimate $50
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Aircraft wall plaques, in coloured plastic and metal on black background with name in metal below each aircraft, includes (approx 33x16cm) (6) Lancaster B11, Hurricane II, Spitfire MK IX, and German Focke Wulf TA 152V20, Heinkel HE 111 H-1, Junkers JU87D-3, (approx 29x13.5cm) (4) 1917 Sopwith Camel, 1917 Avro 504K, and German 1917 Albatros D-V, 1918 Fokker D-VII. All with stickers on back where they have been wall hung, black background needs cleaning, otherwise good very fine. (10)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50