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Australia, World War I, return fob, in gold (9ct, 6.1gm, 39mm), inscribed on reverse 'To / Pte F.Simms / From the Residents / of Lake Charm / on his return / From the War / 9/7/19'. Small hole right hand side, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $700
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Mother's and Widow's Ribbon (AIF), one star, number 8305 on reverse of suspension bar; War Widows' Guild lapel brooch by K.G.Luke, Melb, reverse number Q3581; Australian Legion of Ex-Servicemen & Women badge (1975), reverse impressed NS at top and 19501 at bottom; Women's Institute - For Home and Country enamel badge (England & Wales), reverse plain. Extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $200
SOLD $220
Demobilised Soldiers' Badge, WWI, by Stokes & Sons Melb, impressed number 1490, engraved name 'H.T.Minter'. Nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $100
Tribute piece WWII, silver serviette holder with attached winged rising sun within a wreath and with crown above, over this a blue enamel map of Australia bearing the words 'For Service / 1939-45' and across the lower half is a scroll bearing the blue enamel names, 'Stewarts Brook / Woolooma', on the reverse is engraved, 'Cpl. W.W.Sutherland'; WWI souvenir in brass, scratched inside, 'Turk Shell Driving Band Gallipoli'. Good very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Australia. WWII, RAAF Caterpillar Club badge, complete with red eyes, pin-backed with catch (20mm x 3mm). Engraved on underside 'Flt Sgt K.Holden'. Extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $650
SOLD $850
Queensland Cadets shooting medal, 1908, in silver. Name on reverse removed. Good very fine.
Estimate $80
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Western Australia Military Forces, hat badge, c1895, in white metal (53mm) (Grebert p271). Good very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $300
Australia. 13th Light Horse Regiment (Gippsland Light Horse), 1930-1942, collar badge in white metal (29mm x 24.5mm). Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
8th Infantry Battalion, (The City of Ballarat Regiment), collar badge (28mm) in brass, 1930-42. One lug missing, very fine.
Estimate $50
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Australia, 1st Armoured Car Regiment, 1930-1942, hat badge in brass (58mm x 45mm); Rising Sun hat and collar badges; Great Britain, RAF cap badge; Bedfordshire Hertfordshire hat badge, also assorted world minor coins, including Australia, Great Britain, U.S.A. Good - extremely fine. (130)
Estimate $300
SOLD $280
10th Western Australian Mounted Infantry, hat badge (KC) 1948-1953, in white metal; Western Australia Police, 'bottle top' cap badge, small version voided swan, reverse in relief 'Sheridan, W.A.', scarce c1914-1929 reissued 1948-1954; Western Australia Police Force buttons (KC) in nickel plated bronze, by Sheridan (2). The crown missing on the police cap badge, otherwise very fine. (4)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Australian Army, metal badges, Australian Army Chaplain's Department (Christian) (KC) collar badges, oxidised (10); Australian Army Service Corps (KC), 1911 pattern hat and collar sets, oxidised (2); Australian Engineers, 1930-42, collar badges, oxidised (62), brass (38); Royal Australian Artillery buttons, oxidised (14). Some very fine but mostly extremely fine - uncirculated. (130)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Australian Army qualification badges, WWI and WWII, metal badges, Bugler (20, copper); Lewis Gunner (20, oxidised with backing plate); Machine Gunner (32, thirty oxidised and of these twenty with backing plates, two brass and of these one with backing plate); Marksman (15, oxidised with backing plate). Mostly uncirculated. (87)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
British Commonwealth, WWI and WWII, souvenir belt with hat and cap badges, including Canada, 4 C.M.R.R.; Great Britain, Army Ordnance Corps, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, North Stafford; New Zealand, 1st Regiment New Zealand Infantry Canterbury, New Zealand Engineers, Staff Corps. Some badges with corrosion, good - very fine. (21)
Estimate $150
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ANZAC sweetheart brooch, in silver, Rising Sun badge above ANZAC with enamel in crown and on letters, pin missing; sweetheart brooch in silver, features diamond shape with central, glass covered disc, inside a drawn, coloured Rising Sun badge on a yellow background, hanging from an unusual patterned suspension with pin back. The first with some enamel missing, otherwise very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
ANZAC 8th Battalion, souvenir coming home flag, c1918 (195mm x 167mm). Fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $120
WWI map, Hazebrouck 5A, Edition 2, Belgium, linen covered colour map, some areas highlighted with colour pencil such as Staple, Hezecques, Lisbourg and Pr‚defin. Fine.
Estimate $40
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RAAF cufflinks, in 9ct gold (5gm), in shape of airman's hat badge with KC, in light blue, dark blue and red enamel, reverse of both engraved, 'H.G.K'. Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
WWII First Aid tin for Motor Transport; St John's Ambulance Association Handbook Notes on Military Sanitation; brass shotgun cartridge reloading tools; leather holster; Australia, stamps, autograph book c1900; album (damaged) with postcards c1905; book 'Passing on the Torch'. Poor - very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $200
New Zealand, WWII, Prisoner of War Post, inward and outward cards (2), envelopes (3), British Civilian Internee Dr Allan Francis Mackay, Changi Camp, Singapore and later Japan. Good - fine. (5)
Estimate $450
SOLD $300
Posters, post WWII, includes large size of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Air Marshall Arthur T. Harris (Bomber Command), other smaller of Churchill, Lord Louis Mountbatten in uniform, King George VI in uniform, numerous others of aircraft and RAAF educational issues, also a very large United Nations' poster showing flags of member nations c.1942 and large map of Australia. Good - very fine. (approx 25)
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
France, Rats des Tranchees 1914-1916 (Rats of the Trenches) badge, pin back. Extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $700
New Zealand, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles, WWI, hat badge in brass, by J.R.Gaunt, London, screwback fitting. Good very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Thailand, parachute badges, military and police in both metal and bullion, all different (10); US Army basic parachutist badges (3, all different metals). Uncirculated. (13)
Estimate $60
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