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.

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
.
$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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