Australian & Historical (#513) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices RealizedPDF Catalogue View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-57 of 57. Previous|1|Next Lot #382 FUSIL DE CHASSE antique French flintlock fowling piece with brass furniture and 100cm barrel, circa 1750, 143cm long View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #383 An antique English muzzle load percussion cap rifle, the lock stamped "T. KETLAND & CO." mid 19th century, 117cm long View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$1,600StatusSold Lot #384 WOOLEY & Co. antique English sword scabbard, circa 1796-98, would suit a P1796 infantry or Naval Officer's sword, 78.5cm long View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #385 COLONEL ROBERT BALDOCK antique miniature portrait of a British military officer, early 19th century, 9.5 X 7.5cm, 16.5 X 14cm overall Titled verso on old label. Baldock was a Colonel in the Honourable East India Company's Service and the Bengal Infantry. He died at Woodlands, South Australia in May 1859 View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #386 GODFREY BALDOCK antique miniature portrait of a gentleman in military dress, early 19th century, 7.5 x 6.5cm, 13.5 x 12cm overall. Titled verso on an old label. View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #387 An antique English percussion cap pistol with "TOWER PROOF" stamp and crown mark, 6" barrel, .69 calibre, circa 1837, 32cm long View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #388 A circa 1890s Scottish Cadet Officer's tunic from Victoria. The tunic is doublet-style with collar badges, and is displayed together with a kilt (probably early 20th Century), a waistbelt of correct Slade-Wallace type, a sporran which dates to 1935 and spatts, socks, etc., from around the 1920s. Accompanied by the correct sidecap (which lacks badge). A handsome and rare exhibit. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #389 MAJOR ARTHUR JAMIESON MEIKLE (1869-1954). A series of letters dating from August 1914, before his departure from Port Lincoln, and continuing to December 1915, that letter headed "Walden Grove - Anzac - Turkey" (Then a medical post and now a cemetery at Gallipoli). The letters, to a friend, Mrs John Myers of Coulta, South Australia, are highly articulate and insightful. In his letter for 30th May 1915, headed "Gallipoli Peninsula" he writes "You'd see from the papers that we landed here on the 2 View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #390 WORLD WAR ONE original photographs including the No.20 Battery, Field Artillery training at Seymour in March 1914; C. Sub. No.19 Battery F.A. also at Seymour in 1914; an original sepia print by Antippa, Cairo, of Australian and British troops posing on the Great Pyramid (23 x 29cm); three postcard size photos of the Gallipoli landing, two of which are titled "Two hours after landing"; an Australian Bristol fighter plane on the Western front; and an Australian Flying Corp plane on the ground.(8) View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #391 THE AUSTRALIAN NAVAL AND MILITARY EXPEDITIONARY FORCE: "Infantry Training. (4-Company Organization) 1914" handbook (265pp + adverts) issued to "S.H. WATKINS, No.176. "Aus. Nav. & Mil. Exped. Force, Rabaul. 1914" with his manuscript details in pen to the Contents page. Accompanied by two other associated books, "Our New Possessions" by Captain J. Lyng (1919), and "The Australian Soldiers Gift Book" edited by Ethel Turner. (3). View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #393 AUSTRALIAN FORCES CAMPED AT THE GREAT PYRAMIDS OF GIZA, EGYPT: Black and white two page albumen panoramic view, 22 x 49.5cm, 44 x 71cm overall View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #394 ERNEST ALBERT EPPLE, 1st. A.I.F. 11th FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE: WWI tunic with Rising Sun lapel badges and patches and original Turkish-knot style buttons. Epple was in the motor transport battalion. The tunic is made from barathea material and was probably privately tailored. View details Estimate$5,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #395 A MAKESHIFT "POSTCARD" FROM GALLIPOLI: Because of the shortage of writing materials, the soldiers present during the Gallipoli Campaign had to resort to using whatever they could scrounge. This makeshift card was made using the lid from a Special Crown Virginia Cigarette box, endorsed "ON ACTIVE SERVICE. NO STAMPS AVAILABLE" and is headed "Dear Sweetheart" from "Shrapnel Valley" and is addressed to Miss Harding at Harbour Street, Mosman Bay in Sydney. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #396 1914 large-format photographs by Melbourne photographer, Algernon Darge in 1914: "F Coy. 5BN 1st A.I.F. Marching to Camp 19/8/14"; "H. Co. 5th BATT."; and, "B Co. 7th BATT."; the images all approx. 18 x 30cm and laid down on backing cards (which are defective). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #397 A "Kodak Souvenirs" photo album containing 97 snapshots which appear to have been taken by an officer on-board "H.M.A.T.S. Anglo-Egyptian". The cargo ship was leased by the Australian Commonwealth between 1915 and 1917 and used as a troop transport. Many of the images are annotated at Salonika, Alexandria, off Lemnos, Persian Gulf, Basra on the River Tigris, as well as other ships, soldiers of Allied countries and Turkish prisoners. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #398 WWI period Red Cross full sized fired plaster bust of a nurse, ex-Repatriation Hospital in Sydney, 61cm high View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #399 WWI period British Patriotic pottery lion with peace shield, sold to raise funds for the war effort, manufactured by Bretby Pottery, 15cm high, 25cm long View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #400 SOME POSTCARDS TO HOME: A 1916-18 collection of postcards sent by Australian soldiers, while en route to the Western Front, from England and from France and Belgium; several silks, and mostly expressing their longing for home and their loved ones, and their hope for return mail that never seems to come. Accompanied by several Christmas cards from the same correspondence and several postcards that were mailed in envelopes (without written messages). (35+ items). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #401 A circa January 1916 silver gelatin photograph (13.5 x 19cm), laid down on backing card (W. Mason & Co. of Bridge Road, Richmond), depicting a group of men in front of the recruiting office under a banner which reads "RICHMOND'S 1st QUOTA of RECRUITS For Australia's New Army of 50,000". The men are photographed with their recruiting officers and a young, uniformed mascot. Overall 24 x 29cm. In January 1916, the Army announced that it needed 50,00 men for the "New Army", and 16,000 reinforcement View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #402 AUSTRALIA IN NEW BRITAIN, NAURU & THE SOLOMON ISLANDS DURING WW1: A large "Newlyn" photograph album containing 91 postcard-size photographs of the Australians and natives, the buildings, gatherings and activities from about 1916 onwards. Most images are annotated and include "Rabaul NB", "Easter Sports - Rabaul 1917", "Road Mending - Rabaul", "S.S. Marsina", "S.S. Morinda", "Coal Shed - Matupi", "Officer's Mess - Rabaul - Late German Club", "Kokopo Road", "Sir Samuel Pethebridge + Staff", etc. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #403 A TRAGIC BOOK OF CONDOLENCE CARDS: Following the deaths of their two sons, Private Leslie Edward BENNING, who died of wounds at the age of 21 (24th July 1916), and his younger brother, Harold Vincent BENNING, who died of his wounds, aged 19 (14th Nov. 1916), the mourning parents collected the newspaper reports and condolence cards they received from family, friends and acquaintances, as well as old school teachers and others, who were motivated to write. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #404 R.A.F. Walking stick carved from the propeller of a bi-plane, WW1 period, 91cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #405 A WWI period impressive trench art umbrella stand made from a 1918 German shell casing, titled "REIMS", 50cm high, 13cm diameter View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #406 CAMP POCKET CANDLESTICK "A Soldier's Friend" WWI period tin box with photolithograph top and patent date "19.7.15", 12.5cm wide View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #407 WW1 ERA flags/bunting of various sizes, strung together for display on shop-front or house; a bit weathered, but a fascinating group. (8 flags). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #408 Two WW1 period trench art biplane ornaments, both engraved "PERONNE". 9.5cm wingspan each View details Quantity2Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #409 WW1 period trench art vase with leaf decoration, together with a brass vase, 20th century, (2 items), the larger 27cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #410 WWI period German artillery shell dated June 1918, stamped "KARLSRUHE", an imposing 108cm high, 27.5cm diameter at base View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #411 An original Royal Air Force Technical Department lithographic poster, dated 4.8.18, depicting a Sopwith "Pup" with details of the control mechanisms shown in cross section. Overall 67 x 101cm. Despite extensive research, we have been unable to locate another example of this training poster. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #412 WORLD WAR ONE ERA bunting consisting of patriotic flags of the Allies, mostly stitched together in strips for display outside shops and home. Comprising of two strips of 8, and a pair, all marked "British Made", each flag is approx. 22 x 29cm. (18 flags). View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #413 "RECORD OF AUSTRALIA'S VOLUNTARY EFFORT IN THE GREAT WAR (A.I.F.), AUGUST 4th,1914 TO JUNE 28, 1919" chromo-lithograph print attractively presented in period oak frame, 69 x 54cm overall View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #414 "A SOUVENIR OF THE GREAT WAR AND THE GLORIOUS PART PLAYED BY AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND", circa 1919 linen tea-towel with scenes depicting the ANZACS landing at Gallipoli, various battle cruisers and the flags of the Allies. Framed & glazed, overall 59 x 74.5cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #415 "Y.M.C.A. AUSTRALIA" vintage enamel and metal sign, 20th century, 114 x 230cm Brought back from France by an Australian Army officer. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #416 ARTIST UNKNOWN, (General Sir John Monash in uniform), oil on board, circa early 1920s, 40 x 32cm; overall 49 x 41cm. View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #417 ARTIST UNKNOWN, H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA, watercolour and ink on card, circa 1920s, initialled "JR" at lower left, 18 x 26cm; overall 32 x40cm. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #418 WW1-era telescope by W. Ottway & Co, Ealing, dated 1912 and with Australian Army broad arrow marking......tripod, etc. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #419 AN AUSTRALIAN GENERAL'S CAP, made by Hawkes & Co. Ltd., 1, Savile Row W., circa 1920s. With evidence of being worn, including perspiration stains to inner lining. Otherwise in superb condition. While it is rare to see a General's cap on the market - from any period of Australia's military history - this cap may be truly unique and important. Acquired some years ago by the present vendor, from a prominent Ballarat collector/dealer, who passed away recently. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #420 ARTIST UNKNOWN, (An Officer of Victoria's 57th Infantry Battalion, the "Merri" Regiment), circa 1930s, oil on canvas, 60 x 45cm, 67 x 51cm OVERALL View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #421 Australian Military Forces "Field Message And Notebook" circa 1945, in original green cloth boards; together with a tine of assorted studs and buttons including many military examples View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #422 MANTUA scratch-built model ship in glass case on timber base, 20th century, with detailed label affixed documenting the history of the ship, 12.5cm high, 25.5cm wide, 10cm deep View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #423 A sterling silver Fleetwood Class model ship mounted on green onyx base, retailed by ASPREY of London, in original box, 25.5cm wide View details Quantity2Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #424 An American military flare gun, stamped "PISTOL, PYROTECHNIC-M2 No.5631 INSP. F.A.M. U.S. PROPERTY", note replaced wooden grips, View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #425 JAPANESE MINIATURE SUBMARINE metal fragment with affixed souvenir card "A Guaranteed Souvenir From The Japanese Midget Submarine. Sunk In Sydney Harbour, Sunday, May 31st, 1942", 4cm wide View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #426 R.A.F., R.A.A.F. and Civilian range of instructional, information and training publications, mainly 1940-45 including R.A.A.F. Educational Service "Instructional Course for Air Crew Reservists", "Japanese Aeroplanes - Aircraft Identification" booklet, "Through The Overcast" by Assen Jordanoff, R.A.A.F. "Manual for Air Crew Reservists", "Oxygen Sense", "The Vickers Gun Simplified", "The AIrcraft Captain", "War Gases - Learn and Live", "How to avoid flying accidents due to Weather", etc. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #427 COMMANDO FIGHTING KNIFE with leather handgrip, WW2 period, relic condition, 31.5cm long View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #428 Set of four folk art Australian cedar beer tankards with brass linings, each one carved with the R.A.F. crest and R.J. MITCHELL, POONA, 1945", 13cm high View details Quantity4Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #429 Three WWII period black and white photographs of war ships including H.M.S. Illustrious and H.M.S. Grenville in the Bay of Naples, circa 1940s, the largest 24 x 31cm overall View details Quantity3Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #430 WWII period Australian military folk art painted Greek pottery vessel adorned with caricatures of Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Josef Stalin and an Australian digger, 28cm high View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #431 A vintage aviation leather cap, mid 20th century, View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #432 UPPER YARRA RIFLE CLUB presentation brown leather kit bag, fitted with cartridge compartments and accessories, bearing silver plaque "Upper Yarra Rifle Club Scratch Championship, Won By N.E. FLEMING, 1954-1955", 28cm wide View details Estimate$120 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #433 M. RADIK, (The Battle of Cape Spada), oil on board, signed and dated "58" lower left, 91 x 73cm; overall 104 x 84cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #434 M. RADIK, (A Battle of Britain scene), oil on board, signed and dated "59" lower left, 91 x 73cm; overall 103 x 85cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #435 The September 1964 typewritten manuscript by the author, Thomas A. Miles, for a book to be titled "Men of Anzac", as submitted to the Shakespeare Head Press for consideration. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #436 A vintage Australian slouch hat with Queen Elizabeth II Royal Australian Engineers badge, circa 1980s View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #437 Light Horse Breeches (Bedford Cord.), late 20th century View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSold Lot #438 SANDS OF GALLIPOLI boxed set of limited edition medallions, 30 x 23cm View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #439 An Australian hand-crafted Bowie knife with scrimshawed whale's tooth handle and leather scabbard, 20th century, blade stamped "K. B. S., Castlemaine, Aust.", 36cm long View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$1,300StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
