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Serbia. Order of the White Eagle - fifth class breast badge in silver and enamels with Milan I cypher on reverse. Slight enamel chip otherwise very fine.
Estimate $140
SOLD $200
Serbia. Gold Cross of Charity - 1912 - gilt bronze and enamel breast badge. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $110
UNITED STATES Purple Heart. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
British Army collar badges (90) and shoulder titles (12) of modern manufacture. Good very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $60
Military Badges, primarily British Regimental Badges (KC) buttons and shoulder titles (130). Generally very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $60
Badges. Army Air Corps - Cap and collar badge .Scottish regimental badge.Australian civilian lapel badges - Returned from Active Service, Ex-service Discharge, RANR, Naval Association, S.A. Civil Defence. United States - Meritorious Unit Commendation emblems (3), Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry emblems (3). Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Australian and British military badges mounted on cardboard (14) selection of Australian military badges and related items (50). Very good-extremely fine. (64)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
R.A.A.F. wings, in sterling silver by K.G.Luke, Melbourne, 1952. Very fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $90
An assortment of military related items to Sgt C.Wheeler D.C.M. including a silver plated award cup (ht.16cms, hallmarked) inscribed 'Sct.C.Wheeler D.C.M. / 52nd Royal Fusiliers / B Coy / Highest Score / Part III / g.m.c. / Dec 1918'., also soldiers small book, wallets(2) with photos, notebook, sewing kit, mirror, badges, buttons, 9ct gold sovereign case, British Empire Exhibition, 1924 and 1925 medals in bronze (51mm) in cases. Fine-extremely fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $0
South African War Veterans' Association of South Australia. Two membership tickets (1954 and 1962); 1947 Annual re-union programme and 1949 Golden Anniversary Commemoration Programme (which contains a number of identifiable Boer War veterans' signatures). Very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $40
War Correspondent's Insignia 1939-45. Two khaki, green and gold epualette slides 'Accredited War Correspondent'; two gold wire slides 'British War Correspondent'; two metal shoulder title badges 'War Correspondent' and a cuff badge in gold wire containing a stylised 'C'. Rare. Very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $300
Two Volunteer Defence Corps colour patches. Contemporary newspaper clippings relating the epic 450 mile trek made by Flight Sergeant G.R. Warwick RAAF and three other airmen after their aircraft was shot down behind enemy lines in North Africa; photograph of the four evaders; a congratulatory postcard from a P.O.W. in Italy, two metal eagle epualette badges (named to Warwick) and a carboard box from RAAF Medal Section addressed to G.R. Warwick. Generally fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Poster (33cm by 21cm) entitled 'Protection of Women and Childred In Event of an Attack on Thursday Island' dated 26 August 1914. Edges slightly torn and slight staining. Rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $150
Medal Ribbons, approx one metre each. British - Commander of the Royal Victorian Order; Member of the Royal Victorian Order; King's Police Medal; India Medal 1895; Reserve Decoration; Polar Medal; Fiji Independence Medal. Australian - Conspicuous Service Cross; Conspicuous Service Medal; Civilian Service Medal 1939-45. French - Medal of Gratitude; Dunkirk Medal. Miniatures - King's Police Medal; Africa Service Medal; Fiji Independence; Australian Civilian Service Medal; Dunkirk Medal. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Queen Mary's Chocolate Box Christmas 1914 contains in the lid a hand-painted depiction of the destruction of SMS EMDEN by HMAS SYDNEY, November 1914. Rare and fine.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $1,800
A letter of congratulations to Lt.Col Charles M.Dare D.S.O. from Gen Birdwood on being awarded the D.S.O., also a note from John Monash and a signed photo of C.M.Dare, 1916. Very good-very fine.(3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
Silk Airman's escape map - East and West Borneo. Very fine.
Estimate $30
SOLD $20
Trench Art - brass ashtray 14cmX14cm with large raised 15th (North Auckland) REGT. crest in centre. Very fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $30
Large Sweetheart Badge consisting of silvered 'Rising Sun' surrounded by silver filagree. 'Women of Australia' badges - one enamelled and two silver; one large and one small RSL badge, Peace Medal 1919; three 'Australia' shoulder titles. Very fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $30
Military Buttons (50), cloth rank badges. Large unnamed good shooting medal and two Russian proficiency badges.
Estimate $30
SOLD $0
Fortieth Heavy Ack Ack Regiment R.A.A. Officers Mess Visitors book, handwritten troop diary, from New Guinea, 'On Target, Angus & Robertson, 1943, 'The Fighting Fourth', March 1943, Vol No.3 troop magazine. (4)
Estimate $120
SOLD $60
A series of 24 hand written naval signals relating to the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet 1919. All contained in an album. Fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $0
World War I and World War II English military ephemera including soldiers service and pay book, a wallet containing photos, identity card, a photo album with photos of Cologne and Bonn 1918. Good-fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $30
Early Aerial Bomb (inert) mounted as a table lamp, 48cm in height.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Ceremonial white painted army belt, with chromed male and female belt buckle depicting a rampant lion facing left and the motto 'In omni modo fidelis'. Fine.
Estimate $30
SOLD $0
Mentioned in Despatches- Australians World War 1, by G. Newbury. 150pp. Soft cover. Fine.
Estimate $20
SOLD $30
Mentioned In Despatches - Australians in World War 1, by G. Newbury. 150pp. Soft cover. Fine.
Estimate $20
SOLD $20
The Australian Commonwealth Horse, by G. Newbury.110pp. Soft cover. Fine.
Estimate $20
SOLD $10
Ten Chapters - by Field Marshal B.L. Montgomery. Fine.
Estimate $20
SOLD $10
Spink & Son, London, medal auction catalogues, 1984-1995. Many with prices realised. (26)
Estimate $100
SOLD $40