Auction Catalogue

23 September 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 620

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23 September 2011

Hammer Price:
£3,100

Australian Military Badges. An interesting group including a brass cap and single collar badge to the 11th Australian Infantry Regiment (Cossum 84), a cap and a matched pair of collar badges to the 18th Australian Light Horse (fretted swans and fitted discs) (Cossum 70), cap and single collar badge in white metal to the Western Australian Infantry Regiment (Cossum 45), a g/m collar badge to the Naval Bridging Train, (Cossum 161), a bronze cap badge to the 5th Light Horse (with Gaunt tablet) and another blackened brass cap badge (with Gaunt tablet and lugs replaced) (Cossum 174), a brass cap badge Australian Horse ‘For Hearths & Homes’, 1st Australian Light Horse, collars as per Cossum 50, New South Wales Lancers a w/m cap badge similar to Cossum 49 but without title scroll and the elephant crest badge placed lower than that shown, St. George’s English Rifle Regiment a plated hat badge (33 mm) (Cossum 14), New South Wales Defence Forces Staff two Imperial Victorian Crown gilded brass head dress badges (one without fasteners) (Cossum 16), Queensland Mounted Infantry two Victorian g/m hat badges (no fasteners) (as per Cossum 26 but QVC), Gold Fields Infantry Regiment a single collar badge in silver plate and black enamel (Cossum 46), 32nd Battalion A.M.F. a brass collar badge (Cossum p.22), Victoria Military Forces a Victorian cap/collar badge in g/m being a QVC over an eight pointed star bearing laurel sprays title circle ‘Pro Deo Et Patria Victoria’ and State arms in the centre (35 mm), Queensland Mounted Infantry a Victorian brass collar badge (28 mm), 15th Australian Light Horse a KC w/m collar badge (Cossum 66), Victorian collar badge being a crowned strap ‘Aut Pace Aut Bello’ two loop fasteners (32 mm), a w/m collar badge facing viewer’s right to the 12th Australian Light Horse (Cossum 63), eleven ‘sunrise’ Australian Military Forces cap badges and three collar badges one blackened with blade fasteners one gilt and one brass (pinned), three s/titles 2 x RAA (variable size) and one AMC; Royal Australian Air Force a KC cap badge and two variable blackened collar badges; a single ‘Australia’ s/title; Victoria Military Forces an o/r 1855 pattern waist belt clasp QVC centre with Aut Pace Aut Bello Victoria on the circle (fracture on the title circle), plus two related collar badges, some items require cleaning otherwise good condition (48) £500-700