Australian Historical Medals

Lot 604    SESSION 3 (2.30PM TUESDAY 17TH APRIL)    Australian Historical Medals

Estimate $150
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $120

VICTORIA'S JUBILEE, Jubilee of South Australia, 1887, in silver (21mm) (C.1887/61), with suspension; Queen Victoria's 60th Year of Reign/Australia's Celebration, 1897, in gilt bronze (31mm) (C.1897/26); Queen Victoria's 60th Year of Reign/Municipality of Brisbane, 1897, in gilt bronze (31mm) (C.1897/43); Edward VII Coronation/Australia's Celebrations, 1902, in gilt bronze (27x39mm) (C.1902/7); Visit of USA Naval Fleet to Australia, 1908, in gilt bronze (34x47mm) (C.1908/10), with ribbon (damaged) and suspension brooch bar, 'Welcome'; American Fleet, 1925, in gilt bronze (39mm) (C.1925/1), pierced hole at edge; Old Wesley Collegians, voided fob medal (26x29mm), in gilt and enamel; handcrafted Maltese cross in silver (24mm), with swan left in centre of a coiled rope border, unnamed; Tas. Amateur Boxing & Wrestling Championship, undated, in bronze (54mm), by A.H.W. (A.H.Wittenbach), obverse, Australian coat of arms inside a wreath of various flowers including waratah, reverse, laurel spray at left of a tablet for inscribing name, unnamed; also WWI prize medal in bronze (32mm), by MBLd (Mint Birmingham Ltd), with suspension loop, obverse, wreath, inside inscribed, '45th Bn/A.I.F./France', reverse, plain and inscribed, 'Tug-Of-War/15 Platoon/"D" Coy'; France, Journee du Poilu (Day of the Hairy being nickname of French trench soldier) fund raising brooch, 1915, in silver (30x29mm). Poor - good very fine. (11)