Australian & Historical (#481) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-28 of 28. Previous|1|Next Lot 901 SEAN JAMES GORDON VC: carte-de-visite for Seamus James Gordon V.C. taken by Charles Percy Pickering at George Street Studio, Brickfield Hill, Sydney c.1880. The image shows a seated Gorman holding a walking stick, wearing 4 medals including his Victoria Cross, his left leg exhibiting pronounced attestation to the artificial leg concealed beneath. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 902 WAR DEPARTMENT 4lb weight with broad arrow stamp, mid 19th century, 14cm high View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 903 BOER WAR - S.S. SALAMIS - 'SPORTS MEETING': Attractive hand-drawn and coloured souvenir poster, captioned 'Advance Australia/S.S. Salamis' at top and 'Souvenir/South Africa' at base, with a central listing of events and winners; framed & glazed, overall 74 x 51cm. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 904 9th Australian LIGHT HORSE table vesta porcelain striker by MacINTYRE (Moorcroft), emblazoned with a kangaroo in wattle wreath, 6cm high, 8cm wide View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 905 GALLIPOLI - "WITH THE CAMERA AT ANZAC": group of 40 photographs (each 11.5x16cm) taken by three young Australian soldiers Henry James Lowe, Arthur James Cook & George Downs at Anzac Cove and surrounding areas in 1915. This is an almost complete representation of the 42 photographs included in an album of photographs registered for copyright in 1919, under the title "With the Camera at Anzac", a copy of which is held in National Archives. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$2,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 906 Major General Walter Adams Coxen CB, CMG, DSO (22 June 1870 – 15 December 1949): A collection of postcards sent by Coxen to his daughter, 1915-19. The Coxen family lived in South Yarra during the First World War. (170+) View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 907 BOCK Family Tasmania military and boxing group including: I.) 9ct gold military medallion "S.B.S. BOCK 40th Batt. Oldina Friends, June 1919". II.) Dog tag "Stretcher Bearer S.H. BOCK 58 GE 40th A.I.F. 10th BDE". III.) Silver vesta engraved "Presented To Sapper S.H. BOCK, Field Engineers, A.I.F. By His Oldina Friends, 6/3/16". IV.) CORROLLO PRIZE, silver boxing medal "Presented To G. BOCK For His General Proficiency Displayed In Competition, Oct. 23, 1885". V.) CORROLLO MEDAL, silver boxing meda View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 908 An Australian red ensign flag, 20th century, 88 x 150cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 909 WW1 TURKISH P.O.W. beadwork bag emblazoned "TURKISH PRISONER, 1918, ADVANCE AUSTRALIA", adorned with Australian crest with emu and kangaroo over "GEORGE" on both sides. A rare survivor in excellent condition. 38cm high overall, 16cm wide View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 910 Australian military badges including ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARMOURED CORPS, and rising sun examples, 20th century, (11 items), The "Australia" examples 5cm wide View details Quantity11Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 911 "THE ALL-AUSTRALIAN MEMORIAL HISTORY, HEROES AND HELPERS" Australian Commonwealth Military Forces single volume, full morocco with embossed gilt lettering, [published 1917], complete with fold-out sections. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 912 WWI TRENCH PERISCOPE: Trench periscope with original label identifying it as 'Periscope No.9, Mark II" made by Adam & Co (Great Britain, 1918), two spare mirrors, housed in canvas bag, 36cm high. View details Estimate$180 - $240Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 913 LITERATURE: 'Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt' by Barrett & Deane (H.K. Lewis & Co, London, 1918), an illustrated account of the organisation and work of the Australian Medical Corps in Egypt in 1914-15; cloth bound, foxing to end pages and internally in places, 259pp octavo with 34 plates. View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 914 MILITARY parade photograph taken outside the Tattersalls Hotel in Armidale (N.S.W.), assorted postcards and framed certificate, (7 items) View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 915 WWI - AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE: "Record of The Australian Imperial Force in the Great War 4th Aug.1914 - 28th June 1919" original poster, designed, engraved & printed by Osboldstone & Co (Melbourne, c.1919); framed & glazed, overall 70x57cm. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 916 WWI CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION: City of Hawthorn & Shire of Gordon original certificates commemorating the contribution to King and Country of local servicemen; both are framed & glazed, the larger 62x54cm. View details Estimate$100 - $140Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 917 LITERATURE: varied array including hardbound 'H.M.A.S.' (1942) and 'RAAF Saga - The RAAF at War' (1944), both published by Australian War Memorial, softbound 'From Shore to Shore' book of poems by Eric Locke (1944); plus 1937 facsimile of letter sent by Billy Hughes as Minister for Health and Repatriation to war pensioners undergoing institutional treatment, WWII copy of 'Jungle Courage' magazine, 'SALT' Second Birthday Issue (Sep. 27, 1943) and 'The Weapon Arts Museum Catalog No 1 (1955); View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 918 Vintage chrome aeroplane ornament inscribed "WITH COMPLIMENTS OF HINDUSTAN AIRCRAFT P. Ltd. BANGALORE, INDIA", 16cm high, 18cm wingspan View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 919 ADOLF GALLAND - GERMAN WWII FIGHTER ACE: bold signature of the Luftwaffe General on a black & white photograph (11 x 7cm), housed in photo frame, overall 19 x 14cm. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 920 JOSEPH HERMAN RAAF '466' SQUADRON - 'CATERPILLAR CLUB': Personal effects of miracle WWII survivor Joseph Herman who on the night of November 4, 1944 was piloting a Handley Page Halifax B III bomber over Germany when hit by anti-aircraft fire. Although not wearing his own parachute, he ordered the crew to bail and whilst crawling to retrieve his own parachute the plane exploded leaving a fully conscious Herman to free fall from 18,000 feet. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$2,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 921 DOUGLAS BADER - BRITISH WWII FIGHTER ACE: printed photographic image (20x25cm) of Bader standing on the wing of his Hurricane, boldly signed in ink “Good Luck Robert, Douglas Bader, 14/7/80”. Bader was befriended by German ace Adolf Galland (see lot 919), shortly after bailing out over German occupied France in 1941. View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 922 JAPANESE SURRENDER 13th September 1945, two sets of 16 photographs depicting the ceremony in the field which culminated in Hatazo Adachi, commander of the Japanese 18th Army in New Guinea surrendering his sword to the commander of the Australian 6th Division, Major General Horace Robertson. (32 items). View details Quantity32Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 923 Three ornate whip handles by VERNAN HENRY YATES 40th Battalion, The Derwent Regiment (Tasmania). Three fine and unusual examples from the 1930s made from Tasmanian timbers inlaid with metal work depicting various symbols and motifs many to do with horse racing which was a passion of Yates'. Yates was born at Sorell, Tasmania in 1900, and enlisted in the army June 1942. the largest 48cm long View details Quantity3Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 924 WWII NEW ZEALAND SERVICE MEDALS: including Africa Star, Italy Star, 1939-45 Star, Defence Medal (2), War Medal 1939-45 (2) and 'For Service' Medal, all uninscribed, with ribbons. (8) View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 925 WWII PHOTOGRAPHS - LABUAN & JAPANESE SURRENDER: album of black & white photographs (mostly 6 x 9cm, some larger) taken in Labuan in 1945, included are images of Lieutenant-General Masoa Baba, Commander of the 37th Army in Borneo on arrival in Labuan, with photos showing (1) the arrival aircraft, (2) the Commander surrounded by Australian troops after disembarking, (3) the Japanese commander seated in American Jeep, under armed escort, awaiting transportation to Surrender Point, View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 926 SHIPS - MV/HMS KANIMBLA: commemorative screen print on fabric dedicated to the ship known as " The Great Grey Raider", with a central image of the ship and a list of ships captured beneath; framed & glazed, overall 60x57cm, c. late 1940s. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 927 Scallop shell trench art ashtray, the clasps and base fashioned from a WWI artillery shell case, 7.5cm high, 15cm wide View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 928 "ZLOTO" Australian Comforts Fund, DRAUGHTSMEN set in original box; together with a "Motor Traffic Act, 1909, And Regulations" 1927 edition; a lemonade bottle stamped "F. & E. THOMAS Ltd. INVERELL", plus 8 assorted military patches, (11 items) the bottle 22.5cm high View details Quantity11Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
