Sweetheart Badges
With so many Australian soldiers departing for foreign shores and the uncertainty of their return, it is understandable how the tradition of giving a wife, sister, mother, and or sweetheart a precious memento would become popular among the troops.
Today we refer to these mementos in general as "sweetheart badges", but in reality these precious gifts could just as easily be a necklace, a ring, or even a hairpin and take many more forms than just solely badges.
The desirability of these "sweethearts" is not just the metallic content but also the rarity of the design. With a vast range of patriotic and romantic styles chosen by our ANZAC diggers, shows us such an important and beautiful part of their story.
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Rising Sun in the center of Australia in
Sterling Silver with gilt wash and an Australian
Army Service Corps colour patch
$235
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Unusual variant of a handcrafted Rising Sun
in what appears to be a silver
$245
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Another unusual variant of the Rising
Sun design. Great shape with
quality enamel. Unknown maker
$225
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A sterling marked horse shoe
with a gilt Rising Sun in the center
to wish a loved one luck
$225
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Australian Rising Sun design
in a base metal with detailed enamel
scrolls in white and blue. Collar badge size
$185
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Australian Rising Sun design
marked Sterling TLM with detailed enamel
scrolls in red and blue. Collar badge size
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$225
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Australian Rising Sun design
marked sterling silver with detailed
enamel around the crown and scrolls
in red and blue. Collar badge size
$225
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Australian Rising Sun design on
marked silver with detailed enamel
around the crown and
in the scrolls. Red with two
shades of blue in collar badge size.
$285
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Australian Rising Sun design
marked Sterling TLM with detailed enamel
scrolls in red and blue. Collar badge size
$225
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Australian Rising Sun design
marked sterling silver with detailed
enamel around the crown and scrolls
in red and blue. Collar badge size
$225
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Void Australian Rising Sun design
marked sterling with detailed enamel
scrolls in red and blue. Collar badge size
$225
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Void Australian Rising Sun design
not marked but quality construction
with stones covering the Sun's ray
with the scrolls in blue enamel.
Collar badge size with safety chain
$225
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Void Australian Rising Sun design
not marked but quality construction
with stones covering the Sun's ray
and scrolls in blue enamel.
Collar badge size with safety chain
$245
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Void Australian Rising Sun design
marked sterling silver N2. A quality
construction with stones covering
the Sun's ray and the scrolls in grey enamel.
Collar badge size with safety chain
$225
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Australian Rising Sun design
marked sterling silver. A quality
construction with stones covering
the Sun's ray with detailed
enamel around the crown and scrolls
in red and blue. Collar badge size with chain
$245
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Silver Australian Rising Sun design
imbedded in a white enamel background.
Hallmarked silver & maker marked what
appears to be "FRG", but hard to read
$285
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A WW2 rising sun broach
complete with colour patch for the
Service Corps. Marked 9 CT.
$235
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Tortous shell shape with a Rising Sun
design imbedded on a black/brown
enamel background. Not
marked but appears to be silver
$275
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Tortous shell shape with a Rising Sun
design in silver and red and blue enamel
imbedded on a white enamel background.
Marked Sterling Silver
$275
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Traditional Rising Sun design
marked 9 CT with detailed
enamel in its jewelers case
$265
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Traditional Rising Sun design
marked 9 CT with
detailed enamel in its jewellers case
$265
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Traditional Rising Sun design
marked 9 CT with detailed enamel
in "GEO. P. HARRIS SCARFE & CO LTD"
jewelers Adelaide case
$265
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Kangaroo standing on top of the phrase
"I GO TO RETURN" inside a
blue enamel boomerang.
Marked Sterling & registration No with chain
$295
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