World Historical Medals

Lot 2455    Session 9 (11:30am Wednesday 27th July)    World Historical Medals

Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $120

WORLD MEDALS AND LAPEL BADGES, includes Australia, Highland Society of N.S.W. 1911-12 member's badge, no.753; Australasian Medical Congress, Sydney 1955, 9th Session, brooch-backed name tag with uniface medal (27mm) suspended below; The Eventide Homes lapel badge by Angus & Coote, Sydney; ESU enamel and silver lapel badge (15mm) by Angus & Coote (union badge?); Austria, F.Baumer, Glock brand fruit factory advertising medal in bronze (19mm), 19th century, with suspension loop (nearly Unc); Great Britain, The Pier Weston Super-Mare, silver uniface advertising medal (16mm) with suspension loop ; S.S. Pericles enamel and gilt brooch; advertising token for Regina Queen of Pens, 1911, in brass (21mm); George V imitation sovereign in brass with suspension ring; George V Coronation medal, 1911, in bronze (22mm), another similar (18mm), both holed for suspension; Diana Princess of Wales 1961-1997 medal (37mm) in sterling silver, the obverse enamelled with her image and the reverse features St George and the dragon, cased; Ireland, City of Dublin First International Exhibition, 1907, in bronze (23mm); New Zealand, ARL Auckland Rugby League lapel pin; also a colourful, painted bird brooch in tin. Fine - nearly uncirculated. (15)

SS Pericles of the Aberdeen White Star Line was launched in 1907 at Belfast. In 1910 on its 4th voyage between England and Australia it was returning to London from Sydney when it hit an uncharted rock near Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia. The weather was calm so all passengers and crew were able to abandon ship safely and it sank shortly after.