Catalogue
U.S.A. Presidential Officer Appointments, three documents namely, 1932 appointment as Captain in Military Intelligence, and 1929 and 1938 both to another officer in the Field Artillery for appointment as Lieutenant and then Colonel; Commanding Officer's Appointment document for a Fifth Corporal in the Governor's Guard of the militia of the State of Wisconsin, 1829; Sons of Veterans of the U.S.A. commissioning document to a Captain from Sabina, Ohio, signed at Cleveland in 1888; Saturday Evening Post, 23 October 1965, cover features U.S.Medal of Honour recipient, Captain Roger Donlan; U.S. Civil War period bottle with basket weave covering and metal screw cap (ref. Lord's) Fine - very fine. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Australian Defence Canteens Service, canteens order for two shillings, V273755, A.Davidson, postmarked 'Wangaratta Vic 19 DE 41', handwritten on back of note donor 'Byawatha Patriotic Fund, Byawatha Wangaratta'. Very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $240
AAF cloth map, Asiatic Series (620mm x 490mm), silk map for U.S. Army Air Forces, produced by Army Map Service, Oct 1943, for use by Air Officers. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $0
Australian WWII Aeronautical Maps, of New South Wales including ACT and part of Victoria, prepared by Dept of Civil Aviation and RAAF Headquarters, includes third editions of J.8 (February 1944), J.9 (November 1943), K.8 (May 1943) and K.9 (December 1943) for use in daylight or under red light. Extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $50
SOLD $0
Australian military Forces, 3rd military District, two W.W.I letters regarding Maryborough, Victoria camp site; two unused letterheads; group of envelopes (7) with a selection of advertising cancellations for recruitment into the military forces; group of ration cards and coupons including clothing (5) and meat (4) as well as loose coupons; two 1942 identity cards; a "Special Clothing Ration Book- Young Child's Issue" 1945 and a U.S.A "War Ration Book Two". Good- extremely fine. (25)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Australian WWI and WWII assorted letters, postcards, photographs, camera, Discharge Certificate and diary dated 1st January-31st January 1916, 9451 Driver Balfour Burton Phillips 28th Bn A.I.F.; photographs include B.B.Phillips with walking stick (with this lot), family and other military personnel; postcards, ANZAC, HMA Transport Medic; lettercard with submarine AEI (sunk); fortune telling cards; Victoria Barracks Melbourne pass 20.11.1941; photograph album with photos, 1st 54th AA Coy Darwin 1940, V50142 Keith Balfour Phillips Gunner, Enl.24Jun1940, Disch.27Jan1941, Enl.RAAF 12Sep1941 409600 Flt Srgt, KIA 28Aug1943, Certificate of Death on War Service; Mothers and Widows badge No.AF2827 together with original card and registered envelope; HMS Victory model ship. Good - extremely fine. (lot)
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $1,150
Australia, Royal Australian Air Force, Certificate of Service and Discharge (1941-1946); Defence Department, 3rd Military District, WWI railway ticket order 1919, hospitals; Queensland Railways WWII Berth or Seat order 1943; C of A. WWII Enrolment Form for Military Service for Home Defence 1941; Australian Military Forces - Army, early Rising Sun insignia transfer sticker; WWII, 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). Very good - very fine. (65)
Estimate $70
SOLD $80
Expressions of Appreciation, one a letter to Australian Army Lance Corporal Conway dated December 28, 1961 expressing thanks for his part in trying to locate Michael Rockefeller during the air search in New Guinea, signed personally by Nelson Rockefeller as Governor of New York; the other, a card addressed to Leonard H.Conway signed personally by President George W.Bush. Some light foxing to first item but overall very fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $0
Documents and publications, AMF Pass and another Duty Pass, first issued 23/11/1946, the second issued 25/9/1947; Merchant Seaman Australian Certificate of Discharge for James Paterson, fireman (2) one issued 30 June 1934, Port Adelaide, the other issued 20 November 1941, Melbourne; Survival Hints booklet issued to Allied Air Forces by Directotrate of Intelligence, SWPA; 'Someday' In Aid of Our Prisoners of War, a small book of poems and other verses by Australian Red Cross Society, Sydney 1942; Pocket Guide to Australia, WWII, prepared by Special Services Division, Services of Supply, US Army. Fine - very fine. (7)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Commonwealth of Australia, Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign citation, to Jennifer R O'Connor, dated 10 November, 1943, signed personally by J B (Ben) Chifley as Treasurer of Australia; invitation from Commander-in-Chief of U.S.Asiatic Fleet for dinner on board U.S. Flagship Augusta; invitation to a Ball in the Palais Royal, Sydney 23 November 1934 in honour of HRH The Duke of Gloucester together with information sheet; invitation to attend a Royal Review in Centennial Park on 6 May 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V (2, one to Captain M.V.Williams and one to his wife); letter of thanks to Mr & Mrs Williams from Leader of the Governmenmt in the Federal Senate, Sir Kenneth Anderson, dated 1 July 1970; Christmas Card from the Leader of the Government in the Federal Senate and Minister for Health, Sir Kenneth Anderson and Lady Anderson, 1971; another undated Christmas Card from the Hon. Ken Anderson and Mrs Anderson, then Minister for Supply, probably 1969 as card features first moon landing scene; invitation to Dame Joan Sutherland's visit to St Catherine's School, Waverly (her old school) 15 February 1979, with Dame Joan's autograph on back. Very fine. (10)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
New Zealand, W.W.II, Prisoner of War Post, inward and outward cards (2), envelopes (3), British Civilian Internee Dr Allan Francis Mackay, Changi Camp, Singapore; also Japan. Good - fine. (5)_
Estimate $500
SOLD $0
Cairo, Series N.5, book of 24 detachable phototype post cards, book intact, entry on back of last card, 'Received no letters so far. 22/7/16'; loose post cards of Egypt from WWI period (31); English - Arabic Conversational Dictionary as carried by a WWI soldier. Very fine. (33)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Australia, canteen tokens, Australian Defence Force Canteens, NSW, penny (oval 22mm x 27mm), pierced hole at left, obverse, "A.D.F.C. / N.S.W.", reverse, denomination left and right, above, "Bottle", below, "Token" (Yarwood AUT019); Repatriation Hospital Concord, twenty-two cents in aluminium (27mm), obverse, denomination in centre, above, "R.G.H.Concord", below, "Token", reverse, plain (not recorded); Australian Comforts Fund, Womens Australian National Service Canteen, worker's tin badge, WWII, "ACF" inside six-pointed red star, above, "W.A.N.S.", below, "Canteen"; Garden Island RAN Dockyard, attendance token in brass (35mm) (2), uniface, centre hole, impressed above, "GI" on one, "G.I." on the other, below, impressed number "827" on first, "858" on the other (Yarwood AUT016). First item very fine, second item uncirculated, third item has white background discolouring with age, very fine, last two items good very fine. (5)
Estimate $70
SOLD $90
British Expeditionary Forces, WWI, pisoners of war token in zinc coated iron, ten centimes with centre hole, said to have been used as five centimes (24mm), ten centimes (24mm), one franc (32mm), obverse, "Token" across centre, above, "P. of W.", below, "B.E.F.", reverse, denomination inside a decorative scalloped border (Yarwood MMT071, 073). The last item has a small area of rust on reverse, otherwise fine. (3)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Germany, emergency money in iron, WWI, Town of Bergedorf, 1917, five pfennig; Alb. & E. Henkels, Bad Barmen, undated, ten pfennig; Town of Stettin, 1917, five pfennig; two others, illegible, one for twenty five pfennig, the other for fifty pfennig; uniface disc, impressed "25"; Third Reich, occupied territories coinage, ten pfennig, 1940A (KM.99). The last coin good very fine, the rest poor - fine. (7)
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
Germany, emergency money, Town of Duren, ten pfennig in iron, 1918, Offizier / Casino, brass (21mm), reverse, beer stein in centre, around, "Gut Fur Ein Glas Bier"; France, WWI, token in white metal (hexagonal 21mm), 45th Regt / d'Artillerie / Mess / Des Sous Officiers (of Under Officers), reverse, "25c"; Belgium Allied Occupation, two francs, 1944 (KM.133); France Allied Occupation, two francs, 1944 (KM.905); two other worn coins. Very fine - extremely fine. (7)
Estimate $50
SOLD $20
Germany, prisoners of war camp, tokens in iron, WWI, Bad Colberg, five pfennig; Munster, five pfennig; Munster II, two pfennig; Stralsund, ten pfennig; Schneidemuhl, ten pfennig. Very good - fine. (5)
Estimate $70
SOLD $30
N.A.A.F.I., tokens in laminated fibre, halfpenny (25mm) (2), penny (29mm) (2), obverse and reverse identical, repeating pattern of "British / Armed / Forces / (denomination)" (Yarwood BAF2, BAF1); No 1 Reserve M.T.Training Depot, Dinner token in white plastic (25.5mm), uniface (Yarwood Mystery #3); "Car / 10 / Mess", token in zinc (octagonal 28mm), uniface; bread token on same type of blank as early N.A.A.F.I. tokens (25mm), Frome Co-op Society Ltd, Half Quartern Loaf. Last item only good, the rest very fine - good very fine. (7)
Estimate $80
SOLD $30
N.A.A.F.I Austria, tokens in plastic, c.1946, (hexagonal 25mm x 28.5mm), ten groschen (yellow) (2), twenty groschen (red), obverse, N.A.A.F.I. crest, reverse, denomination in two lines (Yarwood NA1, 2). Two with purchase tickets, good very fine - uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
U.S.A., History of the Ninety-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, during the War of the Rebellion 1861-65, prepared at the request of the Regiment by Isaiah Price D.D.S., Major, Ninety-Seventh PA. Vols and Brevet Colonel U.S. Vols., with biographical sketches of its field and staff officers and a complete record of each officer and enlisted man; published by the author and subscribers, Philadelphia, 1875, hardbound, (275mm x 180mm), 608pp plus errata page, illustrated with steel portrait engravings and wood cuts; hand written at front "Miss Louisa Mary Bousfield, London, England, 17th May 1878; front cover gold blocked with U.S. Congress arms above the name, Louisa Mary Bousfield. A rare personalised copy of a Civil War history record, foxing on some pages, otherwise fine and scarce.
Estimate $150
SOLD $50
Cooper, Major Bryan, The Tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli, London, 1918, 272 + XXIV pp., black & white photos and fold-out map of ANZAC - Suvla area. Hard cover, some discolouration on cover, foxing throughout, otherwise very fine and scarce.
Estimate $50
SOLD $110
Bayonet reference book, Skennerton, Ian D. & Richardson, Robert, British & Commonwealth Bayonets, second edition 1986, Margata, Queensland; hardcover, 404pp., b&w photos; comprehensive and standard reference work with hundreds of photos. As new.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0