Accumulation including German helmet impressed 'M-1943'; black beret RCAC (Royal Canadian Armoured Corps); Vietnam-era ground sheet; water bottles, belt, pen-knife, spurs; plus wooden box ex WWI Driver William Anderson with photographs (60) including 4th Battery AIF, letters (80), passports (4), ephemera re 1928 Australian Scottish Delegation, family history & correspondence, mainly Fair/Fine. Ex Alan & Ian Davidson collections.  (100s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Group including American type M1 helmet with spade symbol on side; German helmet with 'VQ' symbol; side caps for RAAF (2), Germany (3) & USSR; Queensland Police caps (2); other caps (8) including berets & Donegal tweed cap; Air Force blazer; grey jacket; books published by Australian War Memorial (17), mainly Fair/Fine.  (37) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

Insignia & Badges WWII group plus other bits 'n' bobs in box including Australian insignia with '55/Collingwood' militia, badges and military buttons with RAAF and some USA framed display (49x39cm).  (100+)

Estimate AU$150

Photographs duplicated group including WWI aeroplanes; WWII Desert Campaign, Navy, etc, mainly Fine.  (100+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Propaganda Leaflets selection of mostly WWII items including German enlistment appeals & "Trust the Fuhrer", German psychological leaflets dropped over Allied towns, safe passage leaflet in Russian, etc, also a few WWI examples including German types dropped from balloons; and a 1960 United Nations anti-Katanga leaflet in French, with annotations. Fascinating & sometimes disturbing content.  (24) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

BOER WAR: Collection comprising 1900 Siege of Mafeking banknote 1/- blue with green Pick S651a, issued by Col R.S.S. Baden Powell, serial 'A 5205'; The Mafeking Mail 'SPECIAL SIEGE SLIP' #60 1900 January 27th, 107th Day of Siege' printed on thin brown paper (245 x 380mm; fragile, a couple of edge tears); photographs showing 2nd Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen at New Town Encampment Tasmania prior to departure in 1901 (2); 1901 (circa) Ludo style board game depicting four British Boer War figures complete with 28 player pieces and dice; 'Black & White' newspaper and sheet music, etc; condition variable.  (11) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

WORLD WAR I: Group including 'Field Service Pocket Book 1914', Gallipoli magazine 'First Aid Post', photographs (50+) including 3rd Aust General Hospital; 1916 France fold-out map; 'The Aussie Wallet' from Xmas 1918; book 'Official History Vol.VII Sinai and Palestine', postcards (350+) including Albert (Somme), Amiens, Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Lourdes, Orleans, Paris, Tours, Ypres and Australian War Memorial; also BCOF Japan leave pass, signs 'THIS IS A WAR SAVINGS STREET' (2), military manuals & ephemera; mainly Fine.  (400+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

WORLD WAR I: Two photograph albums, the first showing Australian Field Artillery at Larkhill, Salisbury Plain, UK with 103 photos; the second showing 2nd Field Artillery Brigade in Belgium 1917 with 47 photos (most 20x16cm); plus booklet 'Australia's First Expeditionary Force 1914', mainly Fine. Ex Alan Davidson collection.  (150 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

WORLD WAR I: The fascinating and beautifully presented social history display collection of the 9.11.1914 naval engagament off Cocos Islands between HMAS 'Sydney' and the German raider SMS 'Emden', formed over many years by Mrs Kim Dwyer from New South Wales. This was Australia's first ever naval victory but the escape of many of the German crew and their return to The Fatherland via Yemen and Turkey is the stuff of romantic legend. The display begins with items from the pre-war days of both ships, including a letter signed by the 'Sydney's captain "JohnCTGlossop", who rose to the rank of Vice-Admiral. The story of the Battle of Cocos is well-developed, as is the theft of the Clunies-Ross yacht 'Ayeesha' and its mid-ocean rendezvous with the German merchant ship 'Choising'. Some 35 postcards including real photo types add to the story, as do two postal items to 'Emden' prisoners of war. Four large contemporary prints of photos taken on Cocos (327x220mm; 380x220mm; and two of 405x217mm) are highlights, and are supplemented by many modern prints from photos in the Australian War Memorial and elsewhere. The display includes German commemorative medallions honouring Captain von Mueller x2 and his First Officer von Mucke, and a Mexican 8 reales coin from the wreck with silver mount added at Sydney (the so-called Emden Medal). Other commemorative items include 2004 Perth Mint 'Sydney'/'Emden' coloured $1 coin for the Cook Islands and Macquarie Mint 42mm silver medallion; 2014 Macquarie Mint 35mm silver & 13mm 14ct gold pieces; 'HMAS SYDNEY' $100 gold (1oz, 0.999) coin for Niue; and 2014 Australia Post tiny 'Sydney' Miniature Sheet ('115/150') & 50c coin. Ephemera includes cigarette cards x8, labels x3 and a 10pf Emden canteen token inscribed 'KANTINE/SMS/EMDEN', plus six actual pages from books or newspapers with accounts of the events (one from Gibraltar is poor, but it must be very rare). Finally, there are two large Imperial Defence Charts, the first showing the routes of ships assembling to form the First Convoy and the subsequent route to Egypt including the Cocos incident; and the other of the 'Emden's Indian Ocean meanderings prior to it being sunk. (Image1)

Estimate AU$10,000

WORLD WAR I: Western Australia 'Sydney'/'Emden' medal (32mm, with fob ring and blue ribbon) awarded to 'J.R. ADAMS/ORDy SEAMAN', front 'TO COMMEMORATE THE VICTORY OVER THE EMDEN/H.M.A.S. SYDNEY/9th NOV.1914'. Rare: approximately 400 were minted by Taylors Jewellery Works (Perth) and presented to crew members of HMAS Sydney. (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

WORLD WAR I: Memorial Plaque (or Death Penny) Britannia bestowing laurel crown on tablet named to 'HARRIE TWYFORD', lion in foreground, surrounding text 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOVR', with original outer card and Buckingham Palace In Memorium letter, all displayed in recess mounted frame (655 x 555mm).

Estimate AU$150

WORLD WAR I: Small group comprising a helmet made by Herbert Johnson, London; postcards of HMS Renown (3), WWI soldiers (3), Stonehenge & SS 'Tungo Maru'; and a metal signalling mirror, mainly Fair/Fine.  (10 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100