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Canada, Canadian Memorial Cross (GVR), inscribed on reverse 421074 Pte J.F.Shepherd. With case of issue. Very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $140
India, Sainya Seva Medal (Military Service Medal) - one bar - Jammu and Kashmir. Sep. Bhagat Ram Dogra. Impressed. General Service Medal - 1947 - one bar -Naga Hills, MWTR Lasar Masih ASC (MT. Impressed.) Raksh Medal 1965 (Defence Medal) Hav Chattar Singh Dogra. Impressed. Indian Independance medal 1947. Unnamed. Four medals, no ribbons. Generally nearly very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Rhodesia, GSM (1969) PR103538 Rfn R. Baker. Another R98958T Pte M.A.M. Lindley. Both impressed. Also regimental badges (5) plus shoulder and lapel badges for Somaliland Camel Corps. Very fine - extremely fine. (9)
Estimate $140
SOLD $90
USSR: Medal for a Veteran of Labour, Medal for fifteen years of Irreproachable Service in the KGB, issued by the Committee of State Security (Type 1). Two medals, very fine.
Estimate $30
SOLD $50
USSR: Jubilee medal for the Thirteenth Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War; Jubilee Medal for Sixty Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR; Medal for Veterans of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Three medals, very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
USSR, Group of Five, Defence of Leningrad Medal; Medal for Victory Over Germany; Jubilee Medals for the 20th, 30th and 40th Anniversaries of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Generally very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $80
USSR: Trio, Jubilee Medals for Fifty, Sixty and Seventy years of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Generally very fine.
Estimate $45
SOLD $30
USSR: Pair, Defence of Moscow Medal; Jubilee Medal for fifty years in the Soviet Militia. Very fine.
Estimate $30
SOLD $20
USSR, Pair: Defence of Moscow Medal; Jubilee Medal for Fifty Years in the Soviet Militia. Very fine.
Estimate $30
SOLD $20
Two early nineteenth century military monochrome lithographs, 'The attack on the rearguard of the French at Salamonde' (London, April 2, 1812); and 'The Attack on the French Corps Commanded by General Laborde on the 17th August 1808' (London, January 1 1813), each print framed and glazed 370x300mm. Very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $60
USN on anchor brooch, Military Forces NSW button, Scottish badge in silver and gilt 'Menin Nov 1918'. Very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Metal military insignia, a large assortment including badges and buttons. Mostly very fine or better. (73)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Victorian Railways - Investigation Officer's badge, numbered 191. Pin missing. RAAF airman's Cap badge, no lugs. Women of Australia - A.I.F., Badge, some enamel missing. 'SS-NRA' pin backed badge, numbered on reverse. Nearly very fine. (4)
Estimate $40
SOLD $30
Royal Australian Navy, Naval Dockyard Police cap badge (KC)and breast badge. Naval Police breast badge (QC), enamelled. Three badges, good very fine. (3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $170
Japan, Military Head band, Second World War. Military veterans' cap badge, with maker's mark on reverse. Near very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $150
H.M.A.S. Watson, naval base, Sydney Harbour, Wardroom Mess, Canteen Chits for one cent (white), five cents (blue), and ten cents (yellow), all with black print, unpublished and very rare. Uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
H.M.A.S. Kuttabul, naval base, Sydney Harbour, Wardroom Mess, Canteen Chits for one cent (white), five cents (blue), and ten cents (yellow), all with black print, unpublished and very rare, Uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
H.M.A.S. Penguin, naval base, Sydney Harbour, Wardroom Mess, Canteen Chits for two cents (white), five cents (yellow), and ten cents (blue), all with black print, `valid for two months from ....' (date to be added). Unpublished and very rare, uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $60
World War I identity disc, inscribed 'J.Mc.M.Smith / No.5 A.D.S.C. / A.I.F. / C of E / 5689', on the obverse of a Belgium five francs, 1873. Very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $130
World War I, Australian/Great Britain Welcome Home banner, flags, Australia, Great Britain, W.W.II. Navy Ensign, pennant, Welcome Home 2nd A.I.F. Very good - very fine. (8)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
N.S.W. Housekeepers' Emergency Service badge, legend in four lines, crown above, blue enamel, (25mm). Rare, extremely fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $0
A collection of military postcards, written by a soldier participating in World War I in Europe, Egypt and North Africa, to friends and relative in Australia. Gives some details of his part in the war during 1915-1918, includes a number of censor, army post and field post office markings. Fine - very fine. (51 postcards)
Estimate $80
SOLD $150
A collection of inscribed photographs of service personnel, local scenes and a series of postcards mainly acquired by a member of the 2nd AIF in the Middle East in 1941, together with a small number of military badges.
Estimate $30
SOLD $70
Briggs, F.S. and Harris S.H. Joysticks and Fiddlesticks. The Unofficial History of a Flying Kangaroo. A Fascinating Account of the Rise of Aviation in Australia, Hutchinson, London (N.D. C.1936), 222 pages, well illustrated, from the library of Lal E. Story R.A.A.F. Dustjacket a little worn otherwise fairly clean and complete, rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Charlton, Peter., The Unnecessary War, South Melbourne, 1983; Laffin, John., Anzacs at War, London, 1965; Pack, S.W.C., The Battle of Matapan, London, 1961; Phillips, C.E.L., The Greatest Raid of All, Kingswood, 1958; Ward, George F., Victorian Land Forces 1853-1883, Sunshine, 1989; Joslin, E.C., Catalogue of British and Associated Orders, Decorations and Medals, London, 1983; Lang, Walter N., The World's Elite Forces, London, 1987; Law. P., and Bechervaise, J., Kingsgrove, 1957; Australian Army Catering Corps, 1970, handbook. (9)
Estimate $60
SOLD $30
Mackenzie, S.S., Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, Volume X, The Australians at Rabaul, tenth edition, Sydney 1941, pp.412, with 55 maps and 91 illustrations.
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Military Literature, Wilkinson, Collecting Military Antiques, London 1984, pp.208; Rosignoli, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Insignia of the 20th A Comprehensive A-Z guide to the badges, patches and embelishments of the world's armed forces, London 1986, pp.224; Greene, War at Sea, Pearl Harbour to Midway, New York 1988, p.184; Bigold, Badges of the Canadian Forces (1940), Ryde, N.S.W., 1975, p.22; Calder, Glimpses of Colonel Tom, A Collection of Addresses and Letters by Colonel Tom Price, Melbourne, 1985, pp.56; Small Arms of World War I 1914-1918, N.S.W. Military Historical Society, Ryde N.S.W. 1970; Mottoes and Inscriptions on Orders and Decorations, Ryde N.S.W., pp.12; plus a group of the Despatch (10) the Journal of the N.S.W. military Historical Society 1986-1991, most books well illustrated. (18)
Estimate $90
SOLD $0
Military Literature, including Inglis, The Rehearsal, Australians at War in the Sudan 1885, Sydney 1985, pp.176; Chamberlain, History of the Bathurst Contingents 1868-1987, Bathurst 1987, pp.192 together with supplement (pp.6); Cossum, Buttons of the Defence Forces in Australia, Sunbury, VIC, 1988, pp.72; Festberg, The Lineage of the Australian Army, Melbourne 1982, pp.118, first three books well illustrated. (4)
Estimate $80
SOLD $170
Auction Catalogues, largely war medals and militaria, Spink 1997, 1998 (2), 1999-2000, Bonhams 1996-1998, DNW November 1996 (2) and 1996-1997, John Burridge price lists 1993-1998 also various other medallic literature items (8). (30)
Estimate $90
SOLD $70
Germany, W.W.II., Railway enlisted mans visor cao, badge eagle and swastika within wreath below cockade. Sweat band showing signs of wear, some congealing on peak, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $0