Catalogue
Australia, WWI & WWII papers relating to 521 and S212239 Edward Richard Maxwell, Pte 10th Batt and WOI, 4th Australian Adv Amm Depot, including Certificate of Character (1914), identity card, AMF Warrant (1941), character reference from Lt Col Oke (1943), WWII Certificate of Discharge (1943) showing service from 3Oct1939 to 3Oct1943, leather wallet c.1940's. Very good. (6)
Estimate $130
SOLD $0
6th Infantry Battalion (City of Melbourne Regiment), 1912-1918, voided shoulder titles, oxidised (46mm x 12mm) by Stokes. Good extremely fine and extremely rare. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $0
6th Infantry Battalion (City of Melbourne Regiment), 1912-1918, brass shoulder title; (Royal Melbourne Regiment) 1930-1942, Officer's collar badges in brass and enamel (28mm x 12mm). Two with chipped enamel, otherwise very fine - extremely fine, first item extremely rare. (5)
Estimate $200
SOLD $180
6th Infantry Battalion (City of Melbourne Regiment) 1912-1918, collar badge, oxidised (30mm x 22mm). Extremely fine and extremely rare.
Estimate $120
SOLD $110
Naval Dockland Police, cap badge (GVR) 1920s, in white metal (46mm x 54mm). Very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $230
6th Infantry Battalion (Royal Melbourne Regiment), 1930-1942, collar badges, oxidised (29mm x 22mm). Very fine - extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
6th Infantry Battalion (City of Melbourne Regiment), 1930-1942, Officer cap badge in blackened brass and enamel (37mm x 26mm). Extremely fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $150
Australia, World War II, AWAS shoulder titles, voided. Very fine - extremely fine. (100)
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Australia, World War II, shoulder titles, non voided. Very fine - extremely fine. (50)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Australia, World War II, shoulder titles, non voided. Very fine - extremely fine. (50)
Estimate $140
SOLD $0
Australia, World War II, shoulder titles, voided (24), non voided (36). Very fine - extremely fine. (60)
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Australia, World War II, shoulder titles, non voided. Very fine - extremely fine. (50)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Australia, World War II, shoulder titles, non voided. Very fine - extremely fine. (50)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Australia, World War II, AWAS shoulder titles, voided. Very fine - extremely fine. (120)
Estimate $180
SOLD $0
Pith helmet as worn by the South Australian Police, c.1940, no badge, made in India expressly for Cook, Son & Co.Ltd, Adelaide. Some external water marks, otherwise good fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Assorted badges, buttons, including RACV car radiator badge, Chevrolet (2) and Ford car badges, Beach Vigilance Committee, Sunbeams (2), Williamstown Bowling Club Jubilee, 1938, Military and Navy buttons, Rising Sun hat badge, South African Constabulary, cap badge, A.I.F. Disabled Soldiers badge. Good - very fine. (37)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Military and related badges, mostly Australian but including British, New Zealand etc., also noted miniature medal pairs and assorted military buttons. An unsorted lot with many scarce issues, very good - extremely fine. (100's)
Estimate $500
SOLD $900
The New Testament, 1899, leather bound with a colour printed insert on the inside front cover 'A Memento rom the Melbourne Young Mens Christian Association to W.Bryan A.B. (Naval Contingent) upon the occasion of his leaving Victoria for Service with the British Troops in China, Melbourne Australia, July 21st 1900'; also a framed and glazed embroidered silk souvenir (540mm x 510mm) featuring the flags of the Allied Nations - Germany, Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy, U.S.A. Fine - very fine. (2)
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $3,100
Photograph of S.S.Salamis, troop carrier which took the Naval Contingent to the China Boxer Rebellion 1900-1901. Glazed and framed (205mm x 135mm).
Estimate $100
SOLD $320
World War I, photograph of an Australian soldier, initials P.J.D., cloth with flags of the Allied Nations. Framed and glazed (880mm x 700mm). Fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $0
Original photo in card frame, autographed by Victoria Cross winners attending dinner in 1919 given by Hugh McIntosh.
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $3,200
World War II Prisoner of War Camps Malaya, a piece of a parachute silk (1080mm x 700mm) with the signatures of Japanese Military, Navy, Kempei-Tai and civil Police Officers who were interned as P.O.W.s. These include the notorious KAWZOYE 'Puss in Boots' staff at the Outram Road Prison, many high ranking Officers such as M.Saito, Officer Commanding P.O.W. Camps Malaya. A unique and highly important W.W.II item of the infamous Japanese of the Military P.O.W. Camps, where many Australian Military personnel suffered unduly at the hands of their captors.
Estimate $5,000
SOLD $4,000
World War II, art work, Netherlands East Indies, Java, crayon drawings, first showing military trucks and soldiers, the second a waterhole? with flowers, butterfly, snail and frog; several Tasmanian soldiers? names on the back of the first item, other names and the word 'Java' on the front of the other (both 170x135mm); photograph showing a squadron of W.W.II RAF Transport Wing DC3's. Fine-very fine. (3)
Estimate $70
SOLD $60
Selection of naval and military cigarette cards (32); Royal Australian Army Pay Corps ten dollars facsimilie currency for training purposes; Bank of France World War I gold? Certificate of Exchange to banknotes dated 25th January 1918; Queensland World War II military rail ticket 'Defence Forces Camp' available Lowood and Brisbane dated 6th to 19th April 1945 (very rare); AMF 45th Battalion programme of Parades 1928; RAAF and military photoes; HMAS Collins submarine postcard; set of six Air force aircraft cards; RAAF Comforts Appeal button; Australian Repatriation Fund 1917 appeal ribbon; Department of Government Transport, Ex Serviceman's Newcastle Bus Pass 1967, Police Officer's home and duty pass 1968, institute and first aid corps students bus pass 1968. Very good - uncirculated. (54)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
World War II, trench art ashtrays made from 25 pound shell 1940, 1942, 105mm dated 1940, also 37mm cartridge case.
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
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 $170
SOLD $170
Railways at War. A record of the Activities of the New South Wales Government Railways in the Second World War. Sydney, ND (1946?), 71 pages. An illustrated history of the Railways operation, works implements and staff during the war, includes a roll of honour. Fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $0
Militaria, foreign and Australian, assorted medals, badges, buttons and patriotic badges including Australia Service Medal, V368697 E.J.Shagg; two spoons engraved C.F.R.U. / Won by / Sgt J.Shagg / 29th Batt / 1929; 2nd Bn / Snipers / 1944 ; Germany, Poland. Good - very fine. (50)
Estimate $120
SOLD $110
Queensland, Police Officers peak cap and badge with bullion braid. With stains, very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Canada, Stable belt buckles, c.1950, V.R.I. gilded; Queens Own Rifles of Canada, chrome. Very fine - extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0