Catalogue
Miniature Group of Nine. Distinguished Service Order (GVIR); Distinguished Flying Cross and bar for second award; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star (France and Germany); Africa Star; Defence Medal; British War Medal 1939-45 (M.I.D.); General Service Medal 1918 - three bars - Palestine 1945-48; Near East; Malaya; General Service Medal (Malaysia). Court mounted for wear.Unnamed but attributed to Sqn Ldr. B.L. Duigan R.A.F.
Estimate $300
SOLD $260
Victoria. Local Forces Badge for Military Engineering. Silver arm badge with scrolls for 1877, 1878 & 1881. Mounted together on silk cloth with a hand coloured photograph by Waddington & Co, Elizabeth St, Melbourne of recipient in uniform wearing the badge. Very fine.
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $1,550
Boer War, silver fob badge, enamelled red cross on white (24mm), engraved on reverse 'Transvaal / 1899'. Very good.
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
South Africa War Veterans Association, 1899-1902, lapel badge in gilt and enamel (23mm) by Fenwick, Birmingham; Comrades of the Great War, lapel badge in gilt and enamel (24mm); Salonika Reunion Association, 1915-19, lapel badge in gilt and enamel (21mm). Very fine - good very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
South African & Active Service Association, fob in gilt and enamel (24mm) by Stokes, on rev. 264/1926. Enamel chipped, fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Badge, awarded to Australian paratroopers who qualified using a GQ parachute. Extremely fine, rare.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
2/43 Bn. A.I.F. Car Club, chromed and enamelled bumper bar badge. Very fine.
Estimate $30
SOLD $20
Military hat badges, primarily British but some Australian and foreign (approx 60). Generally very fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $140
Assorted hat, cap, collar badges, buttons, shoulder titles, World War I - c.1980s, mostly Australian, A.R.P., Returned from Active Service, including Cadet Corps, Williamstown collar badge, enamelled, rising sun badge, Volunteer Cadet Corps, R.S.L. Good - very fine. (approx 100)
Estimate $120
SOLD $210
New South Wales Police, c.1920s, hat badge in sterling silver (48mm). Very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $120
Welcome to the British Naval Squadron, pin backed badge in silvered bronze (37mm). Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Queensland Rifle Association, International Match 1908, badge (90mm), bullion on red cloth, maker Page-Hanify, Woolloongabba, Brisbane. Nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Patriotic badges, mostly Australian, also cigarette cards many with WWI Army and Navy themes. Very good - very fine. (approx 200)
Estimate $120
SOLD $120
Souvenirs of Egypt, embroidered cloth squares (41mm x 41mm), including 10th Light Horse Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, and 'With Best Wishes'. All different. Fine. (4).
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Certificate of Appreciation, World War I, Parish of Glencairn, to Private Robert Austin, Royal Scots, for his service during the Great War 1914-1919. Very fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $40
Patriotic Certificate, framed and galzed (570mm x 470mm), presented to No.1626 Sergeant L.T.S. Ogilvie M.M. 58th battn A.I.F. by the Residents of Cobden and District. Enlisted October 1914. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
World War II, patriotic poster (1000mm x 645 mm) the theme 'Make Them Proud of You - Join the A.I.F.'. Very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Assorted trench art, sweetheart badges and souvenirs, World War I - World War II, including letter opener (2), pocket knife (3), rising sun badges, maple leaf in sterling silver with gold overlay, inscribed Armentiers, also The Australian Soldiers Pocket Book 1941, compass. Very good - very fine. (16)
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
World War II, trench art, cigarette cases, in aluminium and wood (New Guinea). H.M.A.S. Melbourne cigarette lighter. Papua 1944 serviette ring in aluminium, village scene on instrument casing in aluminium. Tarabon 1945 aluminium plaque. Very fine. (6)
Estimate $150
SOLD $130
Trench Art. Japanese artillery shell case turned down to small brass ashtray. Small round tin labelled 'Firing Device DMLFIAI Comb Booby Trap'. Three right angled military flashlights. Generally very fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $30
Army belt with various Australian and British Commonwealth badges, buttons etc., attached, carved wood items including two Maori and an ivory ruler inscribed 'R. Stubbs/19.11.93'. Fine-very fine. (5)
Estimate $50
SOLD $160
World War II, Japanese Army Officer's sword, fitted with a leather combat cover. Some damage to hilt, peg missing, pitting on blade, otherwise very good.
Estimate $550
SOLD $700
Queensland Police Force Uniform shirt with cloth insignia; unused in sealed packet. Ten coloured embroidered shoulder patches, genrally military. Very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $30
Cast metal statue, on wooden oval base (315mm), of an Australian soldier in Vietnam, 'Presented to / WO2 I Felton / From the PMC & Members / MSSM / Sept 88'. Very fine.
Estimate $800
SOLD $0
U.S. military aluminium canteen and dixie, date stamped '1918'. Rare. Generally near very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
United States, World War II cast iron practice hand grenade. Generally very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $70
Loyal Orange Lodge, apron with badges in case. Very fine.
Estimate $30
SOLD $0
Davis, Brian Leigh., Badges & Insignia of the Third Reich 1933-1945, London, (1983) 1997, 208pp., 64 colour plates, illustrated throughout; another Rosignoli, Guido., The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Insignia of the 20th Century, Leichardt, Sydney, 1986 (1997), 224 pp., colour illustrations throughout. As new. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $0
Robertson, Field Marshall Sir William., Soldiers and Statesmen 1914-1918, two volumes, London, 1926. Some foxing, otherwise good condition.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Government House, Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land Police Fund, Edward Foord Bromley, Treasurer of the Police Fund, Government police fund bill, fourteen pounds, 23 June 1821 (182 printed), No.185, to E.F. Bromley, hand signed by Lt. Governor William Sorell, black on white, watermarked paper with crude Britannia with shield on waves in oval on side, with additional four horizontal lines. Extensive paper toning particularly on the reverse, otherwise nearly very fine and extremely rare, being on of only two known in private hands.
Estimate $10,000
SOLD $0