Badges
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Lot 4753 Session 17 - (11:30am Friday 3rd August) Badges
Estimate $60
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $90
GERMANY, Great War propaganda Iron Cross design but with words 'Calais Swank', 'Paris For London I Don't Think', cast in iron and painted black; also a copy of a WWII Third Reich Iron Cross 2nd Class; WWI Australian letter card for threepence, unused and WWII satirical envelopes by Clarrie King, one features an obese soldier with the caption, "I've Been Putting On Weight Lately"! and the other shows a tank driver's head and shoulders protruding from his tank and the caption, "Lookout Hitler Here I Come"!, both unused. The stationary with foxing, otherwise fine - nearly uncirculated. (5)
Ex Dr Gordon C.Shortland Collection.
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