Military & Other Services Uniform Buttons

Lot 4915    Session 17 - (11:30am Friday 3rd August)    Military & Other Services Uniform Buttons

Estimate $140
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $80

AUSTRALIA, buttons for South Australia, MAB (Metropolitan Abattoirs Board), c1910, in white metal (23mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne (1); Tasmania, Post & Telegraph Tasmania (QVC), in brass (25mm) (5, one missing shank), and (22mm) (2), all by V & R Blakemore, Birmingham, also Mental Hospital Tasmania (KC), in white metal (24mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melb (1, hollow back); Victoria, Post Office Victoria (QVC), in brass (25mm), by Stokes & Martin, Makers, Melbourne (1), no maker's name (1), (23mm), by Howard & Davies, London (2), by Green & Baker, Birmingham (1), by Firmin & Sons, London (1), (21mm), with wreath and Extra Rich (1), no maker's name (2), also General Post Office (QVC), in brass (25mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne (1), (24.25mm), by Firmin & Sons Ld, London (1); Western Australia, W.A. Fire Brigade, 1909, in white metal (23mm), by Stokes & Sons, Victoria (1); also Australia coat-of-arms button, early 1900s, in silvered bronze (23mm), by Miller Rayner & Haysom Ltd (1); plain button, pre federation, in bronze (25mm), by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne (hollow back) (1). The second last with heavy oxidation, otherwise very good - extremely fine. (23)