Catalogue
Ink stand, silver plated with glass ink wells, engraved 'Presented to Mr B.Woodhead / by the Beechworth Recruiting / Committee Campaign / 1916', maker Phillip Ashberry & Sons, Sheffield / 113 / E.P.S.M. / Made in England. Very fine.
Estimate $350
SOLD $0
Australia. World War I., brodie, tin helmet with hand painted eight battalion colour patch. Very good.
Estimate $300
SOLD $340
Menu card, 24th Squadron R.A.F., Cafe Royal, 12th April 1919 with thirty three autographs of R.A.F. personnel. Very fine. Ex.Captain E.C.Johnston M.C. See lot
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Appreciation Certificate, Presented to Lieut Frank L Smith M.C., M.M. by the Citizens of Burwood in grateful appreciation of his services to King and Country in the Great War which commenced August 14th 1914, framed and glazed, certificate 9410mm x 240mm). Extremely fine.
Estimate $400
SOLD $420
Correspondence relating to the death of 3352 Sapper Spencer De Vere 4th Pioneers AIF Killed in Action on 8 August 1917 at Fanny's Farm Messines. A Greating Card, a Christmas Card and two letters dated 9 june and 1 july 1917 by Spr De Vere to his mother. Letter from the Australia red Cross Society dated 10 Jan 1918 to Mrs DeVere of Brisbane with five witnesses' statements attesting to the circumstances and details of his death. Two small photographs, one of Spr De Vere and the other a group photograph in france with an identifying inscription on the reverse of the second photograph.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Shiniehi Nakamura., Niko River Japan, 1954, site of the Australian Army and Navy base, ink water colour, 200mm x 300mm, framed and glazed.
Estimate $600
SOLD $0
An Original copy of Colonel (later Brigadier Sir Frederick) Galleghan's speech. Typewritten in blue ink on what appears to be a former order book. This document was found among the papers of Captain Alan Shearing a W.W.I. veteran and a Changhi inmate who died in the late 1970s
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $0
Doehle, Dr. Heinrich., Orden und Ehrenzeichen in Dritten Reich, (Berlin), 1940, 100pp., 4 colour plates and illustrated throughout. Fine, hard bound and rare.
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
The library of Edgar Johnston D.F.C., including Hall, Rex., The Desert Hath Pearls, Melbourne, 1975, with inscription inside front page 'Edgar Johnston DFC with warmest regards to an old legionaire' 27/1/76 and signed by author; Brogden, Stanley., The Sudan Contingent, Melbourne, 1943, signed by author inside front page; Ives, Walter.,(Ed), Arthur William Coles With Zeal and Integrity, 1982, with enclosed letter from Lady Coles; Roberts, E.G., Box Kites and Beyond, Melbourne, 1976, with inscription inside front page 'To Edgar Johnston with best wishes from Eric Roberts 12/10/78'; Briggs, F.S., and Harris, S.H., Joysticks and Fiddlesticks - The Unofficial History of a Flying Kangaroo, with a forword by E.C.Johnston Director General of Civil Aviation Commonwealth of Australia, London; Gunn, John., The Defeat of Distance - QANTAS 1919-1939, St Lucia, 1985, signed by author; Pearsh, A.W., Windward Ho, Sydney, 1932, with inscription 'Capt E.C.Johnston with authors good wishes'., and other publications. Good - very good. (62)
Estimate $1,200
SOLD $650
Illingworth, Captain A.E., and Robeson, Major V.A.H., A Hostory of 24 Squadron Royal Air Force. Spine damaged, some loose pages otherwise good and rare.
Estimate $400
SOLD $360
R.A.A.F. Honours and Awards, World War 2, 357PP. Very fine.
Estimate $170
SOLD $0
Skennerton, Ian D., and Richardson, Robert., British and Commonwealth Baynets, 1984, Mangate Qld., 404 pp., illustrated throughout. Hard cover, as new.
Estimate $40
SOLD $10
Williams, R.D., Medals to Australians, Adelaide, first, second and third editions; Pillinger, D., and Staunton, A., Victoria Cross Locator, Queanbeyan, 1991; Hopkins, J.E., Selected New Zealand War Medal rolls of Entitlements, Rejections, and Applications granted up to 1900, Milton, 1997; Newbury, George., Mentioned in Despatches Australian World War I, 1988, signed by author, No.10 of 250 copies; The Herald Melbourne., Who's Who in Australia 1947. Goo d. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $210