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Queensland Defence Force - pre-federation cap badge. Slight distortation to crown otherwise very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $80
Australian Commemorative military medals, badges and records, HMAS Canberra , HMAS Shropshire Association, Tasmanian Reunion medal (56mm); Ex Prisoners of War Association, International Reunion, Launceston, Tasmania, October 1990 (51mm) (2) in cases of issue, SAF Precision 1912-1962, 50th anniverary commemorative produced in the form of a bullet; Garden Island, Sydney, Naval base entrance pass (35mm); League of Loyal Women of Australia dark blue enamel badge (30mm); Australian Military Forces, W.W. II record of Service Book, Demobilisation Procedure Book and Officer's and NCO's Note Book, 2/7 Aust Field Ambulance. fine - uncirculated. (9)
Estimate $130
SOLD $200
Royal British Nursing Association, badge in bronze (32mm), engraved on reverse 'Elfrieda Ethel May Doepke'. Very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $70
Royal Australian Artillery 1912-18 hat badge (45mm) and two collar badges (30mm) oxidised. Very fine. (3)
Estimate $130
SOLD $120
Thirty First Re-inforcements, uniform lapel badge in gold (9ct); New Zealand Field Artillery, lapel badges (2) in gold and blackened metal; New Zealand Artillery, lapel badge in gold (damaged brooch pin). Very fine. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $170
Australian Military Forces, buttons, W.W.I - 1950s, including Royal Australian Artillery,1930 - 1942, in brass and oxidised; Victoria Police Force, c.1950s, buttons and shoulder titles. Fine - uncirculated. (approx 400)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Launceston Artillery, shoulder titles, in brass (17mm). Very fine. (12)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
World War II, Australia, Mothers and Widows badges by Amor, Sydney. Fine - good very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Relic of German battleship SMS Koenig, brass section of the cold water reserve pump. Salved from the wreck after sinking at Scapa Flow 1919.
Estimate $350
SOLD $0
Australia, HMAS Penguin, naval base, Sydney Harbour, Wardroom Mess canteen chits for one cent (yellow), ten cents (blue), 'Valid for two months from...'; HMAS Kuttabul, naval base, Sydney Harbour, Wardroom Mess canteen chits, for one cent (white), five cents (blue), all with black print; Royal Australian Army Pay Corps '10' dollars (blue), 'Facsimile Currency for Training Purposes Only' in black print. Uncirculated. (5)
Estimate $130
SOLD $100
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 $90
SOLD $70
A group of military related documents, certificate of identity, war savings stamp book partly full, Red Cross message form, U.S. Jewish War Veterans cheque, air raid precautions manual; photographs, two photos from the trenches in Europe a group of military and naval cigarette and collector cards (122), certificate, home comforts badge; includes a coloured Japanese propaganda leaflet with the additional handwritten Ink message 'Your Convoy Has Been Smashed, Supplies From Rabaul has been Stopped'. The leaflet depicts a Japanese General? sitting at his desk with a ship being blown up in the background. Last Item damaged around edges but rare, poor - uncirculated. (138)
Estimate $110
SOLD $80
World War II, Commonwealth of Australia, ministry of Munitions, folder containing copies of letters, reports relating to the production of lenses, optics and the optical industry 1941-1946. (60 letters)
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
Australia, Royal Australian Air Force, Certificate of Service and Discharge (1941-1946); Defence Department, 3rd Military District, W.W.I railway ticket order 1919, hospitals; Queensland Railways W.W.II Berth or Seat order 1943; C of A. W.W.II Enrolment Form for Military Service for Home Defence 1941; Australian Military Forces - Army, early rising sun insignia transfer sticker. Very good - very fine.(5)
Estimate $50
SOLD $0
Bayonet frogs, c.1890. Good.(4)
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
Binoculars (4 pairs), including WWII by Kershaw (110mm high), 'Nautic' Marque by Iris of Paris (130mm high), Juvenile Theatre, Paris (65mm high), another pair with no makers name (145mm high), all brass or brass with leather cover, pocket knives (3), bugle, brass and copper, missing mouthpiece. Good - very good. (8)
Estimate $130
SOLD $150
British orders decorations & medals. Hall 1973. HB 96 PP. Spinks catalogue of Beitish orders decorations and medals. Joslin IP83-HB 192PP. The Queens orders of Chivalry. Beleabere 1964 HB 228PP. Fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Medals to Australia Williams 1981 HB 64 PP. First QM1 Contingent in South African. Clark SB 28 PP. Western Australian consignments to the South African War. Burridge, S.B. From Captains to colonels. WADF 1861-1901. Grant 1991 SB 78 PP. A Lion in the colony. Tasmanian volunteers 1859-1901. Wyatt. 1990 JB 62 PP. Fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $150
Military badge collecting. Gaylor 1971 HB 150 PP. Australian military uniforms 1800-1982. Wedd 1982 HB 144 PP. Australian army insignia 1903-1966-Festberg 1967 HB 140 PP.
Estimate $80
SOLD $100
Records of Australian contingents to the war in South Africa 1899- 1902. Murray facsimile reprint. HB-607PP.
Estimate $80
SOLD $340
Tasmanians in the Transavaal war. Bufton 1905 NB 534 PP. Rare fine.
Estimate $400
SOLD $280
Draft Bill to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia, as finally adopted by the Australasian Federal Convention, at Melbourne, 16th March 1898; together with an Explanation of its Provisions. 29 pages and introduction, with the Constitution printed in the left-hand column of each page, the Explanation in the right-hand column. Printed by William Applegate Gullick, Sydney, 1898. Folded crosswise twice for posting, handwritten in ink 'On Public Service by ... / Mr John M.Palmer / Bagdad' and with two postmarks 'Broadmarsh Tas 10 May 1898' and 'Bagdad Tas 11 May 1898'. With some foxing on front cover, rust marks, holes on folds back and front and stained on back, otherwise good condition.
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Ticket of Leave, Colonial Secretary's Office, N.S.W., 2nd October 1837, dispensing with the Attendance at Government Work, of Daniel Griffen who was tried at City Cork 27 April 1832 and transported for seven years on the ship 'Rollin Castle' in 1833 employed in the District of Yass, and signed. Weakness, missing corner and fragile around bottom edges, rare.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $0
Ticket of Leave, Principal Superintendent of Convicts Office, Sydney, N.S.W., 3rd April 1841, dispensing with the Attendance at Government Work, of George Taylor who was tried at the Central Criminal Court 17 August 1835 and transported for seven years on the ship 'Recovery' in 1836 employed in the District of Yass, signed. Missing piece of corner, rare.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $0
Banking, including The Bank of Victoria Limited cheque book 189_, (twelve used); promissory cheques 1864-1934 (15). Very fine. (17)
Estimate $60
SOLD $70
Bank pass books, 1894-1948, including State Savings Bank of Victoria (8), Bank of Australasia (3), Union Bank of Australia (4), Bank of New South Wales (2 includes London Branch), Bank of Victoria (2), The English, Scottish & Australia Bank (2), National Bank of Australasia (2), Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, Commonwealth Bank. (25)
Estimate $60
SOLD $50
Colony of New South Wales, Conveyance of Land documents, between David Shepherd and others for various pockets of land in the County of Cumberland, dated 1879, 1882, 1886, 1896, 1906; Mortgage between David Shepherd and Rev. R.B. Vaughan, 1881; Abstract of the Title of Messrs. Thomas Shepherd, David Shepherd and Patrick Shepherd of twenty eight acres two roods of land in the County of Cumberland known as The Darling Nursery Estate, 1835. First five documents handwritten on vellum. Very fine. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Crown lease, to Walter Smith of Swan Hill for land in the County of Tatchera, signed and sealed by Chief Justice Sir William Foster Stawell, dated 18th June 1884; Certificate of Insolvency in the matter of Julien Bourdeau of Daylesford, dated 12th February, 1863, handwritten on vellum. Seal cracked and tears in folds on first document, otherwise very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Land Grant by Purchase, to Donald Cameron of Bochara of six hundred and forty acres in the County of Dundas, signed and sealed by Governor Sir Henry Barkly, 20th Abpril, 1861, on vellum. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Land Grant by Purchase to Henry William Baker of Melbourne of two roods in the Village of Warrigal, Parish of Keelbundora, County of Bourke, signed and sealed by governor Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, 25th August, 1848, on vellum. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0