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Australia, Vietnam Veterans lapel badges, white metal, gilt and acrylic (28mm x 23mm) by Amor. Uncirculated. (approx 300)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
WWI, King’s Silver War Badge box with no.A57621 on back (scarce); Returned From Active Service badge, no.180814 impressed on reverse, by Stokes & Sons Melb; RSA (Returned Soldiers Association) New South Wales, no.6150 impressed on reverse, one lug missing. Extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $90
SOLD $80
WWI, King’s Silver War badge, no.A30398 impressed on reverse; Nearest Female Relative badge, two bars, badge no.179827 and bar nos.60188 and 60304, all impressed on reverse, by Stokes & Sons / Melb / Stg.Sil; Returned From Active Service badge, no.165005 impressed on reverse, one lug missing. Very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Military tokens, a selection from WWII and later issues including RCAF, Montreal British Militia c.1812 from a flattened button; BCOF one unit; U.S. Civil war issue; NAAFI issue; Toy Nazi issue etc. Fine - extremely fine. (15)
Estimate $80
SOLD $180
Handcrafted fob in 9ct gold ( 5.1gm, 33mm x 30mm), inscribed on reverse ’58th Bd / Wangaratta / Table ’L’ Lewis Gun / 1928-29 / Won by / C.C.Vincent’, correction to part of date, together with silver fob chain. Very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $100
Sweetheart badges, Australian Rising sun, officer’s size hat badge in mother-of-pearl; small mother-of-pearl heart pendant; Egypt, sphinx and pyramid scene with red, white and blue border; unit colour patch, vertical blue/white diamond in enamel brooch; NZ on fern leaf in sterling silver. Very fine - extremely fine. (5)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Sweetheart brooches, all on clear epoxy resin background, one with silver overlaid hearts, ’To My Dear Mother / SWP 1945’; another with a silvered Rising Sun badge on suspender, below a heart with an inset New Guinea 1938 shilling; a third with a crescent moon suspender with inset silver plate on which is engraved ’Borneo’ and below is a heart with an inset silver heart engraved ’Mother’ with letter ’V’ behind; colour patch brooches (2); Victory Medal 1914-19 with brooch pin fitting on reverse and suspender removed, ’E R’ engraved on obverse, edge impressed naming, ’196820 W.B.Neill. A.B. R.N.’ Fine - very fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
RAAF sweetheart brooches, two Air Force eagles coloured and encased in clear epoxy resin, three pilots wing’s colured and encased in clear epoxy resin, one Air Force crest on gold plated locket suspended below gold plated ribbon bow; one RAAF airman’s hat badge design on round gold plated disc, one epoxy brooch missing pin. Very fine - extremely fine. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Memorial Plaque WWI, named to Andrew Dollar. Uncirculated.
Estimate $300
SOLD $0
Memorial Plaque WWI, named to Joseph Burt Pagan, in original fold-over packet and with letter from King George V sending the plaque in memorial of a brave life given. Uncirculated.
Estimate $500
SOLD $0
Memorial Plaque WWI, John Crichton. In circular glass and timber frame with gilt decorated laurel wreath around, reverse with King’s Memorial letter glued thereon, extremely fine.
Estimate $350
SOLD $0
VAD Maryborough, Queensland (Voluntary Aid Detachment), 1919, readiness badge in sterling silver and enamel (28mm x 22mm) by Macleod. Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $300
Australia, WWII, Female Relative’s badges, all with single stars, Army (6), Air Force (3). Fine - very fine. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Australia, WWII, Mothers and Widows badge, with single star, No.A3852, by G & E Rodd 1940. Fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
WWII, Female Relative badge with one star, no.A264806 impressed on reverse, by Amor / Sydney; Returned From Active Service badge (KC) no.AF 86857 impressed on reverse, by Sheridan / Perth / 1945; War Widows’ Guild badge, no.6495 impressed on reverse, by K.G.Luke / Melbourne / Stg Sil. Good very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
War Widows’ Guild, badge, by Pinches London; sweetheart brooch, ’Our Captive Boy’s’ on boomerang, by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne; slouch hat made from 1919 penny, novelty brooch; Australia Remembers 1945-1995 enamelled badge; Centenary of Federation 1901-2001 miniature medal in original card packet; Tin Hat badge and Lest We Forget pin; 3rd Battalion Singapore Guards enamelled medal, reverse ’7th Mono Intake / Best / Infantry Unit / 94/95’; Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee medal, 1897, in gilt (22mm), pierced for suspension loop. Very fine - extremely fine. (9)
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
Australian Army qualification badges, WWI and WWII, metal badges, Bugler (30, five oxidised, twenty five copper and of these five with backing plates); Lewis Gunner, oxidised with backing plate (23); Machine Gunner, oxidised with backing plate (27); Warrant Officer (KC) arm badge, one lug missing. Mostly uncirculated. (81)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Australian Army, metal badges, Australian Army Chaplain’s Department (Christian), King’s crown, collar badge, oxidised (30); Australian Army Service Corps, King’s crown, 1911 pattern hat and collars set, oxidised; Australian Corps of Signals, King’s crown, 1930-42 pattern collar badges, oxidised (10); Australian Engineers, 1930-42, collar badges, oxidised (27), brass (23). Mostly uncirculated. (93)
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Australia, Department of the Army, Inspection Branch, badge in brass and black enamel (37.75mm) pin backed, No.2221, with Department of the Army - Inspection Branch card. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $120
SOLD $150
Enamel badges, all military related, includes scarce Queensland Volunteers Net Camouflage Maker (illustrated), also Parramatta Rifle Club 1888 (KC), Ex Prisoners of War Assn (KC), Partially Blinded Soldiers Assocn (KC), N.S.W. Blinded Soldiers Assn (KC) and a variety of other badges, some scarce, also three buttons and a NES badge in bronze. Very fine - extremely fine. (34)
Estimate $120
SOLD $350
Sydney University Scouts (NSW), hat badge and collar pair. Very fine - extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $150
SOLD $670
Australia, assorted militaria, including Army, Navy, RAAF, cloth rank badges, shoulder titles, belt buckles, buttons, Australian Cadet Corps, Melbourne University Regiment, RAAF shoulder boards; Great Britain, Player & Sons cigarette cards, Army Corps and Divisional Signals, 1914-1918; identity tags, 2326196/CE/W/Balgue; 1542 R.Gregory/18AI/CE. Good - very fine. (approx 200)
Estimate $200
SOLD $260
Australia, WWI, Corporal stripes, cloth colour patches, 17th Battn (2). Very good. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Australia, WWII, RAAF cloth pilots brevet wings (2), Irvin parachute wings (3), in gilt and enamel. One of the cloth wings sewn onto a copper backing. Very fine - extremely fine. (5)
Estimate $300
SOLD $250
Royal Australian Navy and Merchant Navy, 1930-1950, assorted cloth shoulder titles and buttons. Fine - uncirculated. (112)
Estimate $200
SOLD $0
World military badges, Australia, shoulder title, ANZAC, Buffet Auxiliary; France, paratroopers badge; Germany, New Zealand, Returned Soldiers Association, together with Great Britain, the London College of Music, medal in bronze, reverse inscribed ’Dorothy J.Lee / for / Pianoforte Playing / Senior Section / November 1917; Royal Life Saving Society medal in bronze, inscribed on reverse ’M.Cullen / 4.3.1915’; coins, Canada, proof dollar, one, five, ten, twenty five and fifty cents, 1967; dollar, 1966; Great Britain, crown, 1965, last two coins set in acrylic blocks; also photographs. Fair - extremely fine. (36)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
World military, police, cloth and metal badges, buttons, including Canada, Royal Canadian Air Force, cloth shoulder titles; Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, Army Cadets, Army Service Corps Mechanical Engineers; New Zealand Police Force, King’s Crown rank insignia, in silver, Taranaki XI Rifles Regiment; Rhodesia and Nyasaland Federation, badges, Army Service Corps, 1957-1965, Engineers, 1957-1967, North West Security Service Ltd, cap badge; 1st Hyderabad Infantry, cap badge in brass with numeral, c.1935. Good - extremely fine. (120)
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
The Landed by Moonlight, framed print by Robert Taylor, limited edition, print 226/750, frame size 850mm x 1005mm, signed by Capt Murray Anderson DFC, Lt Col Francis Cammaerts DSO, ACM Sir Lewis Hodges KCB, CBE, DSO*, DFC*, Wgcdr Len Ratcliff DSO, DFC and Gp Capt Hugh Verity DSO*, DFC and Nancy Wake; two accompanying framed items, both frame size 370mm x 295mm, one features a Certificate of Authenticity and the other is a photograph of Nancy Wake ’The White Mouse’, the Allies’ most decorated female servicewomen of WWII, signing one of the prints. Uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $300
SOLD $0
The Dambusters, framed print by Robert Taylor, limited edition of only 100 issued and signed personally by Mick Martin, frame size 410mm x 535mm. Uncirculated and scarce.
Estimate $300
SOLD $0
Duel of Eagles, by Robert Taylor, depicts Douglas Bader and Adolf Galland in aerial combat over Northern France 1941, signed personally by Bader and Galland, frame size 400mm x 530mm. Uncirculated.
Estimate $300
SOLD $0