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Cut-out soldier, canvas over padding on board backing, painted in uniform with Sergeant Major's badges and Royal NSW Regt shoulder patch, wearing slouch hat, head to above knees (approx 106cm x 54cm). Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $20
Field glasses, late 19th century, French, marked 'Jumelle Marine' (marine binoculars). Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $20
Officer's telescope, brass, extendable type, worn on pouch belt, c1880. Small glass missing from back, very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $30
Turkey, World War I, Turkish Prisoner of War, handcrafted bead snake. Broken at lower part of tail, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
World, Australian Light Horse Brigade belt buckle (modern cast issue); China, a variety of Mao Zedong badges, small - large (11); Germany, Third Reich, General Assault Badge (repro), Army tri colour shield badge, hat cockade and wreath; Japan, Red Cross Medal, no suspender but on short chain; Tonga, Royal Tongan Medal of Merit miniature medals (3, one gilt, two bronze), no ribbons; WWII Free French Pacific badge, reverse, 'Andor / 06 Le Cannet', silvered bronze; also, tin of Australian WWII buttons and a Bell's Wax Vesta tin. Good - extremely fine. (47)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Army magazine, 1997-1999 (20); Kapyong Kronicle, annual journal of 3RAR (Para) Bn, 1991-1994, 1996 (5); Fourays, journal of Australian Army Aviation Assn, 1996; Reveille, magazine of RSL (NSW), 1999-2005 (40); Airborne Quarterly, magazine of American Airborne Assn, 2007-2008 (5). Mostly extremely fine. (71)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Army, Navy and Air Force News, official Australia Defence Force newspapers, 2001-2010, various issues, also other ADF publications. Extremely fine. (689)
Estimate $150
Passed in
Aurora, ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) Club journal, 1995-2005 (37 issues), includes The P.G.Law 90th Birthday Celebration issue; The National Geographic magazine, May 1936, January 1937, July 1937. Cover loose on May 1936 issue, spines on last three torn, otherwise very fine, the rest extremely fine. (40)
Estimate $50
Passed in
Australian military, shooting competition literature, book, Shooting Awards and Prize Medals to Australian Military Forces 1860-2000 by John O'Connor, 186pp + 49pp of images (396 medal and badge illustrations), A4 size, no.239 of limited first edition of 500; Military Marksman, journal of Australian Army Rifle Assn (12 copies, some multiples); Australian Army Skill at Arms Meeting (AASAM) books, 1999, 2000; programme books for annual championships of NSW, WA, SA, and Nth Qld Rifle Assns, 2000/2001; Australian Service Rifle Assn (ASRA) programme book for 1999, another book of the ASRA constitution; Army Journal, 1971. The first as new, very fine - uncirculated. (22)
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
Decorations and Medals, to Australian Armed Forces, wall chart (640mm x 990mm); Colour Patches of the Australian Military Forces WWII, wall chart (810mm x 1165mm), both charts laminated with each medal and patch illustrated with details. Uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
Defence of Mafeking, 47-page foolscap Roll of the Bar 'Defence of Mafeking' on the Queen's South Africa Medal, 1899-1902, by Dr F.K.Mitchell, Cape Town, 1952, listing approx 1,400 officers and men of Imperial and Colonial units and includes other bars awarded, out of print. Foxing, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Murray, P.L. Lieut-Colonel (Ed)., Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Arica, Melbourne, reprint, hardbound, 607pps.
Estimate $200
Passed in
New Zealand, World War I, small photograph album containing twenty three photographs taken in Palestine including NZ Mounted Rifles; Turkish prisoners captured at Amman; 4th Waikato graves at Ayun Karu; pontoon crossing Jordon river. Fine.
Estimate $120
Passed in
O'Connor, John, Australian Airborne, The History and Insignia of Australian Military Parachuting, 440pp, A4 size hard cover, 356 colour images of insignia, badges and medals and dozens of b&w and colour photos throughout, Sydney, 2005; Simpson, Harold B., Audie Murphy, American Soldier, 466pp, A4 size hardcover, b&w photos throughout, Dallas, Texas, 1982. The first as new, the second with foxing otherwise extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $60
Passed in
O&MRS, Orders and Medals Research Society, journals, 1981-2001 (105) and 25 Year Index 1973-1997. Mostly extremely fine. (106)
Estimate $200
SOLD $100
Sabretache, journal of Military History Society of Australia, 1997-2011 (55), Index Book 1958-2001; Despatch, journal of NSW Military Historical Society, 1985-1991 (7); Miltary Collectors Club of Canada journals, 1989-1991 (4); The Medal Collector UK issues 6-10, 1988-89 (5); Military Medal Society of South Africa journal nos 33, 34, 1990-92 (2); other research and book catalogues (7); Orders & Medals auction by Buckland, Dix & Wood, 12 June 1991. Very fine - extremely fine. (82)
Estimate $100
Passed in
War Decorations & Medals, set of ninety cigarette cards by John Player & Sons; French WWI postcards featuring Pantheon de la Guerre (statue of Victory) (2, unused); No.1 Victory Flag Garland, one yard of 7 flags on thread with original wrapper intact, features original Australian flag design with red field on one side and British flag of the Union Jack on other side; original WWI Victory Medal receipt card named to 41167 Cpl R.Walter, RFA; Dept of Repatriation (Australia) papers re R.J.Harvey applying for assistance to train as a blacksmith (1919) and then to purchase the Saddle & Bridle business (1920). Very fine. (set + 4 + papers)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Wartime, official magazine of the Australian War Memorial, 1997-2007, issues 1-37 inclusive, high quality, colour magazine with historical articles and photos, mostly from the AWM archives. Extremely fine. (38)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Wings, official journal of the RAAF Assn, 1999-2009 (40), other Defence publications and updates (4). Mostly extremely fine - uncirculated. (44)
Estimate $80
Passed in
Olympia 1932, in German, album of cigarette card photos etc 142pp; Olympia 1936, similar in two volumes 127pp and 165pp. Three albums, fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $100
Australia, Collection housed in Seven Seas album, mostly MUH some used, no kangaroos or KGV, noted used sets of Macarthur, Silver Jubilee, South Australia and NSW Sesquicentary, noted MUH arms set to £2, Navigators MUH set complete with extras, decimals appear complete to 1979 noted set to $10 Roberts and block of 25 Xmas 1971; album includes incomplete set of Norfolk Island to 1978. MUH and used. (100s)
Estimate $300
SOLD $320
Australia, 1966-2009, decimal stamp issues, incomplete set; Australia Antarctic Territory, 1954 issues, part decimal issues 1966-2001, housed in five hingeless albums. Used - MUH (100s)
Estimate $250
SOLD $300
Australia Post, Year books 1981-2010 plus Sherwood year Collection of Australian Postage Stamps 1976-1980. MUH. (31 books)
Estimate $600
SOLD $800
Australia, Australia Post Year Books 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 (2), 1989 (3), 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000. MUH. (15)
Estimate $250
SOLD $260
Australia, Australia Post Year Books 1984 (2), 1985, 1986 (3), 1987 (2), 1990 (6, 3 are the deluxe volumes), 1996, 2001, 2002; special production, Gaining Ground. MUH. (18)
Estimate $400
SOLD $300
Australia, decimal blocks, part sheets mostly 1970s - 1980s (FV $1179). MUH. (100s)
Estimate $600
SOLD $440
Australia, decimals from 1970 on, including some strips, half sheets and m/sheets, many high values, also $4 Navigators (6), Xmas 1971 block of 25 and an Australia Remembers 1995 FDC, also Peace set of three, 1945, approx $500 face value. Mostly MUH. (100s)
Estimate $400
SOLD $380
Australia, Post Office packs with much duplication, c1970s-1980s (FV $263). MUH. (104 packs)
Estimate $120
SOLD $140
Australia, Post Office stamp packs housed in two spring back 'Stamp Pack albums' with 50 of 68 possible different packs from 1969 - 1979, noted Japanese 1970 Royal Visit pack, 1970 definitive set, $10 painting, incomplete together with 17 additional AAT, Christmas Island, Norfolk Island, Cocos Islands packs; British Commonwealth collection on leaves in loose leaf album, noted several FDC for Christmas Island for 1963 with mint sets to $1 both types; State issues, mostly arranged in order from A-V as short sets of KGVI and early QEII, NZ and GB issues from Queen Victoria, several other foreign countries also noted, together with a quantity of used on and off papers. MUH and used. (100s)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Australian Bicentennial Collection, two sets each of five books in slipcovers, 1988, one includes Australia Post letter and two fine botanical art prints from the Botany Bay stamp series suitable for framing; also single books and stamps for Botany Bay & Navigators and Shipwrecks. Some foxing on one page of the single Botany Bay book, otherwise MUH. (2 sets, 2 prints & 2 single books)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60