Japanese Shin-Gunto officer's sword with World War II fittings. Signed and dated on the Nakago & a Seki arsenal stamp, a city in central Gifu Prefecture, with a 500 year history of sword production. the date was the 17th year of the Showa period =1942 (the
Post office poster Pmg 5/49 May,1949 'Post Christmas mail now for Overseas.' signed P I Cox. Peter Ingram Cox (born Adelaide 1913). During the second World War, Cox worked as a cartographer in the a I F & after the war was an artist in the Postmaster Gener
Victoria racing club medallion (1929-1930). On the reverse side 1929-1930 949 Bentley. For this medallion's provenance & its particular historical interest see the attached letter from (Dr) Andrew lemon Consultant Historian to the Victoria racing club. The
Framed & glazed photograph. RAAF de Haviland DH9A was one of thirty gifted by the British government after the first World War so that Australia could form an air force. This plane A1-28 (previously E9692 RAF) was manufactured by Mann, Egerton & Co., Norwi
Variety of books on military Aviation. RAAF World War II the 'Boomerang' Interceptor aircraft operating instructions; RAAF publication no 257, January, 1943, 84 pages, spirax wire binding; RAAF Observer's, air Gunner's & Wt Operator's flying log book, comp
Press photograph mounted on cardboard. Kingsford Smith & Ulm visit wounded great war Veterans at the Randwick (Sydney) military Hospital. Smithy is wearing his RAAF uniform. Ink stamp to reverse 'Copyright photograph by Sydney Mail,' 1928.
World war I sheet music - Australian National Anthem. Words & music by a G Stephens. Red, white & blue illustrated cover of a garlanded lady in the foreground beating a drum; marching soldiers carrying the Australian flag; field guns firing with shells exp
World war 1 Australian flying Corps British War Medal 1914-1918. With ribbon awarded to Charles Frederick Harvatt & inscribed on the edge 223 1/Am C.F Harvatt A.F.C.A.I.F. Private Harvatt served with no 1 squadron (as an air mechanic) which was formed in E
Nine World War I Australian official photographs, from the Western front. Wounded on Menin Road 20th September,1917; Captured German aeroplane; dressing station Menin Road in Ypres; Australians looking at the destroyed bridge at Baupame; two men from the 2
Ten various Union & War Services badges. 'Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia' in enamel with clip back; 'Victorian Railways Union' 8911 on reverse. Enamelled for 'Trolley Draymen & Carters Union 2203. 1920; Amalgamated Road Transport Workers Uni
Silver footed bowl presented to Bob Hawke at the end of the Gulf war, 1991, inscribed 'Presented by Dick Cheney Secretary of Defence, United States of America'
Prussian World War I officers dress Sword/Sabre, with lion head pommel, above, shagreen handle, accented with cartouche motifs and metal scabbard, length 101 cm
Fijian war club, with spherical knop end, with embedded tooth, above cylindrical handle, with carved and incised decoration, height 43 cm. Purchased Randwick antique, Walter & Co, 2017, the private collection, Sydney
A Victorian cameo brooch, the oval shell cameo depicting Athena, goddess of Wisdom and war ensnaring three prancing horses, the frame engraved and enamelled in 18ct gold, with accompanying John T. Hinkley's certificate of quality and content Jt#146.
3 Australian Comics items: 'The Sunbeams book: more Adventures of Ginger Meggs' comic book with 'Ginger Meggs' song sheet by Jack O'Hagan, & 'Bluey and Curley' by Gurney Australian Comic, post World War II
Three World War I issue NZEF war medals, two British war medals to 4/67A SPR. C.P.Fair and 75674 Pte. H.W.Goodin no hanger and a Victory medal to 10/1756 SJT. F.S.Broughton.
A 19th century French mahogany night cupboard with marble top, small drawer and cupboard door with dummy drawer fronts, banded inlay, gilt metal mounts, elegant cabriole legs. 450 X 380 X 84 cm. Provenance: Purchased by our vendors from the 2002 Manchester
An early/mid 20th century carved wooden tiki, carved in high relief with suspension hole to the top, length 13.5 cm. Provenance: From outside a whare at Te Kopi sheep station (Wairarapa), c.1900-1910, owned by Sir Walter Clarke Buchanan, (1838-1924) MHR fo
World War I era colour poster of Australia AIF in the Great War, printer: Osboldstone & Co., Pty Ltd. Melbourne, mounted on board, 58 cm x 46 cm approx.
Framed World War I Turkish Medal 'Star and Ribbon for Gallipoli Campaign, for Combatants, 'El Ghazi,' The Victorious, 333 1915. This medal was acquired in 1917 by Capt G.H. Allen, Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides, Indian Army, during the Palestine Camp
World War I Capt L.R. Hargreaves, M.C silver Inkwell, presentation bell form inkwell with mounted cap badge engraved to body 'Presented to the Sergeants Mess 2nd Battalion Irish Guards. By Major A.FL. Gordon. DSO.M.C. The Surmounted Cap Badge Belonged to T
World War I Lithgow bayonet & sheath for Lee Enfield rifle, stamped 1917 to blade, and 2nd M.D. to crosspiece, length 55 cm approx, bayonet blade including hilt.
A collection of 19th century Magic lantern photographic glass slides most stamped G.W.W (George Washington Wilson), includes 'Nansen's Farthest North' colour slides, World War I military, views of Fiji, Honolulu, & New Zealand. Topographical views of South
A Winton Stoke on Trent World War I patriotic large mug 'United we stand, obverse- portraits of Lord Kitchener, Admiral Jellicoe & General French, reverse-Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them. Nought shall make US rue, If En
A regimentally marked pattern 1796 Heavy Dragoon flintlock pistol, round 9 inch,.77 calibre smoothbore barrel, marked Tower on tang and with crown over GR, along with small ordnance marks under pan. Brass trigger-guard engraved '3 DRAs G/51' for the 3rd Dr
Two historical Auckland New Zealand 9ct. gold badges, one a cap badge with 3rd (Auckland) Company World War I coat-of-arms upon a bar brooch, the other with Auckland coat-of-arms within a garter detailed S.M.T.C. 4.7gm