Militaria

Lot 1625    SESSION 6 (9.30AM TUESDAY 31ST AUGUST)    Militaria

Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $130

WWII, German POW Camp tag, top half of a slotted disc in zinc (60.5x21mm), pierced hole at left for suspension, impressed on the disc, 'STALAG 1B/No: F 53937' (presumably issued to a French detainee); also an Australia 1944 florin with obverse shaved smooth and engraved, 'New' at the top and 'Guinea' at the bottom and in the centre are Japanese text characters with the number 19 inscribed above and 44 below, pierced at two sides to enable wear as centrepiece of a wrist band. The first with age spotting, otherwise very fine; the second fine. (2)

Stalag I-B Hohenstein was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located 2 kilometres west of Hohenstein, East Prussia (now Olsztynek, Poland). It was built to house captured Polish soldiers during the initial invasion of Poland but later housed Belgian, French, Italian, Russian and Serbian soldiers.

The New Guinea engraved item was possibly crafted by a Japanese soldier captured in New Guinea in 1944 and sent to a POW camp in Australia or alternatively was crafted as a souvenir of service in New Guinea using a coin taken from a captured Australian soldier.

Ex Dr W.J.D.Mira Collection.