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16 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£880

Australia, New Zealand and South African Military Badges, the Australian Section includes a rare die-stamped brass collar badge to the Commonwealth Horse 1st pattern (Cossum Part 2 No. 1) (original lugs removed), a similar rare die-stamped brass hat badge to the 8th Infantry Battalion (The City of Ballarat Regiment) (Cossum Part 1 page 15), Byron Scottish an officer’s good silver plated bonnet badge by Stokes; The New Zealand Section includes a rare brass cap badge to the A/XV Reinforcements, a die-stamped bronze cap badge to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Cox 2955), a rare blackened brass cap badge to the 2nd Queen Alexandra’s W.W.C. Mounted Rifles (complete with J R Gaunt London tablet); Fiji Islands Defence Force a rare sheet brass shoulder title “Fiji/Islands”; Tonga Defence Force a rare die-stamped brass cap badge, a rare white metal and green enamelled KC cap badge “Leoleo Samoa Mo Samoa” enclosing a scene depicting the sea, palm trees, huts and a boat (lugs deficient); the small South African section includes two very scarce WWI (?) Air Force cloth badges, good overall condition (59) £400-600