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Frankston High School Cadet Corps, hat badge, c.1950s, in gilt and enamel (36mm x 43mm) by Swann & Hudson. Extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Royal Army Medical Corps, badge in silver and enamel (31mm x 28mm) pin backed. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Victorian Railways, embroidered cloth cap/armband, insignia pre-Federation, Gatekeeper, Guard, Porter (2). Extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
W.W.II., seamans cap with H.M.A.S. Platypus tally band, handwritten in ink inside of cap 'H.L.Smidt. Tel'. Fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
W.W.II., steel helmets including Victorian Police Force issue (2), one without numerals indicating an officer, another with No.9613, 1944 seniority list Shelley J.W.E., Australian A.R.P., British post W.W.II. shells only (2), Royal Australian Police. Good - very good. (6)
Estimate $200
SOLD $0
Tasmania, 40th Derwnt Regiment hat badge in gilt bronze. Also Hobart, Yellow cabs badge No 43. Nearly extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $40
SOLD $0
England, Somerset National Fire Service, W.W.WII., steel helmet with NFS transfer, named inside '098788 Watson'. Fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Great Britain and Commonwealth hat, cap badges, shoulder titles including Womens Army Auxiliary Corps, Mine Clearance Service, 16th London Regiment, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, School of Musketry, Royal Air Force, First Life Guards, South Africa Union Cadets, Army Ordnance Corps, Officers Training Corps, also police buttons. Some mounted on a felt lined board. Good - extremely fine. (133)
Estimate $160
SOLD $170
British military badges, mostly regimental in gilt metal, mostly George VI and Elizabeth II, many identical, all in plastic pages (6). Very fine - extremely fine. (70)
Estimate $200
SOLD $80
Military buttons, 1880s - 1990s. Framed and mounted for display in four frames. Very good - extremely fine. (425 buttons)
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Musket Powder flask, in brass with original cord sling, by Hawkley. Used at the Ballarat gold fields.
Estimate $200
SOLD $220
Accoutrement, c.1900, sword knot, bullion braid, epaulettes, spurs (2 pairs), also peakcap visors. Good - very fine. (38 items)
Estimate $130
SOLD $0
Australian Army, five pounch leather bandolier, made by Beckworths C & M 1904; W.W.II., tan leather leggings marked DCD-1943 as issued to Military Police; tan leather bayonet frog; brown leather waist belt with brass buckle, A.A.O.D. 1910, made by Guthridge & Co Melbourne; Australian Army issue U.S. type jungle gaiters; leather pouch with lead bullets (9); leather belt with British hat and collar badges, shoulder titles including King's Own Scottish Borders, The Highlanders, Cheshire Regiment; RAOC belt. Good - very fine. (12 items)
Estimate $200
SOLD $150
W.W.I., compass, cased, made by Barnes & Morris, London, No.13672 1917, as used by the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, impressed on lid of case 'L.F. & Co. 1916' and inscribed 'N.Z.R. 18580 J.S.Marsden'. Securing strap piece missing, otherwise good fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $130
W.W.I material relating to Australian Military service of the Wakley family, including AANS Apppointment Certificate, regulation hat pins with the organzen working cap, silk dress cap which was used on ceremonial and formal occasions as worn by Staff Nurse Violet Olive Wakley; photograph of Corporal George Reginald Wakley 'B' Squadron 4th L.H.R. and his sister Staff Nurse Victoria Wakley A.A.N.S. Enl.05May1915 RTA.27Feb1919. Fine - very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $400
W.W.I. Record of the Australian Imperial Force in the Great War, 4th Aug 1914 - 28th June 1919, in a board folder. Good very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $150
Australian Army, dress blues tunic, trousers and cap with rank and collar badges, c.1950, also khaki issue peak cap with RAAOC badge, originally issued to Major J.W.Snelling formerly the Australian Army's Chief Inspector of Fire Services in Canberra, service details of Major Snelling - Governor Taiping Prisons Malaya H.Q., Commandant Changi Prisons, War Crimes and member No.7 War Crimes Court 1946, H.M.Convict Prison Taiping Official Visitors book and Prison Orders book (rare), attached inside Standing Order No.1/45 'It is hereby ordered that all Prison Standing Orders ... signed Major Snelling'. Very good - very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $180
W.W.II., pilots double sided silk excape maps (51mm x 46mm) of Cyrenaica, K1/K2, K2/K1. First map with 5mm hole bottom left, very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
W.W.II., Pith helmets (2) made by Peninsula Hat Mfg.Co. Calcutta 1938, the second made by S.M.Co Products; Civil Bandmans peak cap, made by Miown Cap Co. Melbourne; Russian Army side cap 1992. Very good - very fine. (4)
Estimate $120
SOLD $100
Australian Contingent 1937 Coronation, personal scrapbook of Gnr T.D.Cunningham including newspaper clippings, invitations, Certificate of Discharge No.1, 470002 Thomas Duncan Cunningham, Australian Coronation Contingent, 12/7/1937, leave passes, photographs Colonel Lind OIC - T.D.Cunningham, pocket patch. Good - very fine.
Estimate $170
SOLD $200
Canada, World War II, Ration books to Julia Mark (2) Julia and Samuel Crawford., each partly used, mostly meat rations. Fine. (4)
Estimate $40
SOLD $0
New Britain, World War II souvenir, original artwork in watercolour and crayon? of the Lords Prayer in Pidgin with Greetings from New Britain (165x112mm) (signed) 'Pte Cox R.' nice souvenir item. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $0
New Zealand, W.W.II., Officers cap with K.C. bullion embroidered badge. Fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
South African Constabulary, hat and cap badge, c.1910, in white metal (67mm x 57 mm and 43mm x 29mm). Extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $140
South Africa & Active Service, badge in gilt and enamel (30mm x 24mm) by Stokes, No.104, date 1929 on reverse. Good very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $150
Germany, World War I U Boat badge in gilt. Extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
World military badges, including Italian Parachutist, arm badge, Portugal Air Force, Royal Saudi Arabia Air Force Officers hat badge, Thailand, Netherlands. Very fine - uncirculated. (12)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Assorted world badges, buttons and medals, including Boer War bars, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, W.W.I., patriotic tinnies, rising sun badges, Federated Railway Loco Engine Drivers Assoc N.S.W., in silver, brass belt buckle, Youth League of Australia badges, Vic Roads Enforcement Department cap badge, the National Medal for Service (not to final production stage). Good - very fine. (62)
Estimate $130
SOLD $140
Germany, W.W.I., Prussian infantry, other ranks spiked helmet (picklehaube) black leather body with brass fittings and front plate, roundels unpainted. Part of inner lining missing, very good.
Estimate $500
SOLD $0
Germany, W.W.II. issue luger pistol holster, leather, complete with spare magazine; Australia, Army revolver holster, leather, written inside of flap 'E.Rogerson'; Australian Army, W.W.II. issue, revolver holster, leather, with Government markings, made by Morris Conn & Co, Adelaide, 1941, as issued to Military Police. Very good - very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90