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Lot | Description | Status | ||
20204 Click for more photos | 1908 Visit of the USA great white fleet State of Victoria 1d & 1½d stamped postcards. Special illustrated cards issued for the visit of American Fleet. Superb fresh unused. Stieg P33-4 cat US$200 in 2001. (latest listing). Retail similar. Impossible to find nicer. (2). | AVAILABLE at A$80 | ||
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20285 Click for more photos | Navy 1900-1960 photographs (11) ranging in size from 300x250mm to postcard size. Some very good shots of Navy/Reserves/Cadets etc. Come with 2 pieces of ephemera, 1 to Navy cadet named & dated 1908. The other a letter from an officer to 'Keating' in 1897 with NSW Naval Volunteers badge logo asking him to attend a dinner for his long & meritorious service. Also 20 plus prints of which 17 are card backed & 3 pieces of ephemera, 2 are State related. VG. Some rare shots. (32+). | SOLD at A$180 | ||
20321 Click for more photos | Imperial. Hesse 1908-10 2nd Company Lifeguard Regiment number 1 Darmstadt stein & lid. Heavily decorated with German soldiers including the Kaiser. Names of Men of the company. Pewter cap depicting a picklehaubed German guard. Lid lifter has Hessan lion rampant. VGC. Rare & a very desirable stein. | AVAILABLE at A$600 | ||
20322 Click to enlarge photo | Imperial. SMS Gneisenau 10 Pfennig WWI Kantine token. The Gneisenau was an 8.3 inch armoured cruiser, launched 1906, commissioned 1908. She was sunk in the Battle of the Falklands in December 1914. Rare. | SOLD at A$300 | ||
20520 Click for more photos | Manuals, books & ephemera. Inc Mountain Artillery Drill, 1897; Artillery Training Vol 2 Gunnery, 1928; Handbook Q.F 18 pdr MK IV Gun, 1924, Artillery Training Vol 1, 1963; Manual of Ceremonial, 1935; 3 Naval Signal Cards (1930s-50s). Army service books inc 2 cadet for 1913 & 1917. The other is a demob book for AIF. Book on 'Treaties of Service Ordinance', 1908, is very interesting. Complete but spine heavily faded. Plus other items ACF WWII diary, certificates (poor condition), modern Army message books, signalling mirror & metal box. Poor-VGC. (23 items) | SOLD at A$140 | ||
20525 Click to enlarge photo | Army. Cadets. Manuals & documents dating from 1908-80. Also inc a manual on Army Rifle Clubs Reserves & on Bugle Calls. Manuals are all used although some are near new (mostly WWI manuals). There is also a Cadet Parade Card from 1929 & a Record of Service book (Cadet) from 1950s. Unissued ATC identity/Service book. One manual (British issue) badly damaged. (19 items in total). | SOLD at A$120 | ||
20673 Click to enlarge photo | Army 1908/15 Pattern leather pistol holster. 2 diff colour pattern 08 web belts. 2 pattern 08 shoulder straps. 2 pattern 08/15 leather valise straps. WWI leather bayonet frog, this need TLC. Overall GC. Hard to get WWI items. (8). | SOLD at A$300 | ||
20674 Click for more photos | Army 1908/15 pattern leather equipment. Waist belt, same as 08 webbing belt but leather. 2 leather shoulder straps. Left & right pouch set. Water bottle carrier. Valise strap. Entrenching tool carrier. Plus entrenching tool & handle both ? stamped but not dated. GC. Hard to find. (8). | SOLD at A$550 | ||
20675 Click to enlarge photo | Army 1914 pattern Australian made pistol holster. 1917 dated webbing rifle sling. Slade Wallace pattern bayonet frog. Pr Lewis gunner's shoulder straps. 3 x 1908 pattern shoulder straps. WWI/II leather rifle sling. 2 x pattern 1908 web belts. 1 single fox puttee. Pr 1942 dated short puttees. 1944 dated Whistle with leather strap, stamped ?. Overall GC. Some nice WWI bits. (13). | SOLD at A$350 | ||
20691 Click for more photos | Army Aust/GB WWI style British Officer leather gaiters. This style was a popular private purchase by officers. 1916 dated Webbing Rifle sling. 5 WW2 & later army rifle slings. Leather Sam Brown sword frog & leather strap. 1915 & 1916 dated leather bayonet frogs. These have hardened with age. Need cleaning & oiling. 3x1906 dated ammunition pouches by English markers. 1 x 1916 dated ammunition pouches by Australian Maker. 2 Sam Brown straps both D^D stamped. 1 being dated 1908 & 1916. 1911 dated ammunition pouch as issued to cadets Made by Forster Melbourne. Fair-GC. Some nice items in this lot. (16). | SOLD at A$425 | ||
20702 Click for more photos | Army 1908 Pattern WWI Entrenching Tool Cover. Officially converted to pattern 37 in WWII, with WWII handle & undated tool. GC. Hard to get sets. (1) | AVAILABLE at A$120 | ||
20737 Click for more photos | Navy. Aust/GB, 1917 dated navy bandolier, this if for percussion cartridges. 1 navy kitbag. 1908 pattern web belt green. Pr Navy blue puttees. 1944 cloth Navy white money pouch belt. 3 leather navy straps. 1943 dated Aussie Rider & Bell bosun's whistle with ? stamp. 3 diff era navy housewife bags, one named. 2 equipment cleaning/polishing stocks. 2 navy cut cigarette tins. Overall GC. Bandolier is fairly scarce. (17). | SOLD at A$210 | ||
20746 Click to enlarge photo | 1936-45 1908 Parabellum ('Luger') Auto pistol case. Black leather, buckled flap by 'Gerbruder Klinge, Dresden, 1936' with large Waffenampt stamp below. Couple of diff service numbers lightly inscribed to reverse. Minor stitch wear. VGC | SOLD at A$200 | ||
20879 Click for more photos | Army. Cadets. Rare Barker College post WWI dress uniform. Named on Gardens Sydney tailors, label Barnett with information attributing to Lionel Morrell Barnett. Dark blue collar cuffs & epaulettes with red stripes to ea. Faded gold braid Sgt stripes, right sleeve. 1 collar badge is a later addition Tunic is khaki with matching Barker Cadet corps buttons by Stokes & Sons Melbourne. With matching blue striped trouser & a 1908 pattern web belt. L.M. Barnett was retired in 1943 with rank of Lieutenant. A very desirable & quite Rare tunic. | SOLD at A$1400 | ||
20955 Click for more photos | Army. pre 1908 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer's wool scarlet frock tunic. All white metal buttons named to 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers. Shoulder titles woven in blue '3L'. Collar has some damage, easily repaired. Comes with infantry pattern trousers of later date. Some minor mothing typical of age. A rare tunic, seldom seen. (2) | AVAILABLE at A$140 | ||
21251 Click to enlarge photo | 1939-45 Prisoner of War ID tag: 'Stalag. 308/19086'. Rectangular zinc-alloy, horizontal slot centre comp. Stalag (POW camp for Enlisted Men & NCO's) 308 was designated at 'VIII E' and was situated at Neuhammer in Poland. Opened in June 1941 it closed 1945. Appears ground dug. VF | SOLD at A$70 | ||
21385 Click to enlarge photo | Sword: 1901-11 British India Army Officer Sword, pattern 1897 with 'E.R.I.' (Edward Rex, Imperial), cypher to sheet steel guard, blade marked 'Wilkinson, London' (dubious?) & 'I/ISI' beneath broad arrow with date stamp: 'I/09' (January 1908) to opposite ricasso face. Plain, straight blade, fullered each side, plain sheet steel guard with pierced decoration, sharkskin bound wood grip in its broad, brown leather covered wood scabbard with sheet steel locket & chape. Locket with ovoid frog stud. Blade worn, chips to sharkskin, overall VGC. Possibly intended for use by local officers or senior NCO's. | AVAILABLE at A$400 | ||
21543 Click for more photos | 1939-45 Royal Australian Airforce attached Coastal Command UK group of 3. 1939-45 Defence, War & Aust Service Medals. Impressed officially: '13245 J.E. LEFOE' John Frances Lefoe, born Chiltern, VIC 2/3/1908. Enl RAAF 3/3/41. To UK. Ground Crew with 455 (Beaufighter) Sqn, Coastal Command from 13/9/41. Sergeant 1/9/44. RTA & disch 27/11/45. Died 1967. With box of issue. With research notes. gVF | SOLD at A$100 | ||
21773 Click for more photos | 1896-1908 Khedive's Sudan Medal, silver, 2 x clasps: 'The Atbara' & 'Khartoum'. Engraved officially '3403 PTE. HOYLE. I CAM. HIGH'RS.'. Unresearched. Sl ek's, on original ribbon, aEF. | SOLD at A$350 | ||
21779 Click for more photos | 1908-35 India General Service Medal. GVR ('Kaiser-I-Hind') clasp ' MAHSUD 1919-20' entitled to another clasp as Mahsud not awarded singly, impressed officially '558 SEPOY PAHLWAN KHAN, 2/30/PUNJABIS'. Toned, gVF. | SOLD at A$100 | ||
21816 Click for more photos | 1914-52 Acting Brigadier Royal Army Medical Corps group of 9: 1914-15 Star impressed officially: 'LIEUT. J. H. G. HUNTER, RAMC'; British War & Victory Medals: 'CAPT. J. H. G. HUNTER'; General Service Medal 1918-62, GVR clasp Iraq: 'CAPT. J. H. G. HUNTER'; India General Service Medal 1908-35, GVR clasp: 'NORTH WEST FRONTIER 1930-31':'MAJOR J. H. G. HUNTER, RAMC'; 1939-45 Defence & War Medals unnamed as issued; 1937 Coronation & 1953 Coronation Medals unnamed as issued. Service as per RAMC Roll of Officers:' John Henry Graham Hunter; Born 14.03.1891, Argyll, MB, ChB Edinburgh 1913. Lt 11.09.14. Capt 11.09.15. PRAC-Capt 01.08.19 (11.03.18), Maj 11.09.26. Lt Col 09.11.37. A/Col 19.10.42. T/Col 20.04.43, Col 21.02.44 (09.11.40). A/Brig 12.08-21.12.46. Ret 29.03.57. Died 09.11.62 London. Services-RMO 6/Bedf Regt 1914-15. France 1915-16 (invalided). Italy 1918-19. Mespot 1920-21. India 1921-25. Shanghai-Surg Spec 7 Gen Hosp 1927-29. India 1934-36. Surg. To H.E.C-inC AHQ(I) 1937-41. CO PW Gp Hosp. Bangalore 1941-42. CO 4 CGH May-Oct 1942. CO 127 IBGH (BT) 1942-44. CO 133 INGH (BT) 1944-45. ADMS HQ 11 (EA) Div 1945-46. E Africa May-Jul 1946. MELF:DDMS HQ LF Greece Aug-Dec 1946. CO R Victorian Hosp Netley 1947-48. PSMB Northern Cmmd 1948-57. Specialist in Surgery 1927. Medals - 1915 Star, BWM, Vict, GSM & Cl Iraq, IGS'08-NWF.31, Def, War, 1953 Coro'. gVF. | AVAILABLE at A$1200 |