Help with hallmarks

[Loko750]

Picked this up at a local thrift for $3 it is an Australian armed forces rising sun with ANZAC(Australia New Zealand Army Core). Attached to the bottom. I can't find another one to compare it too and the hall marks are worn so I was just wondering if anyone out there knows what story they can tell? Thank you in advance for any help
Brendan.

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[tamrock]

Well they do look as legitimate hallmarks of some kind, but that last mark looks possibly as 9c which may indicate it is 9 karat gold. It looks as if it also has a gold wash in order to either plate another base metal or to give it a satin finish over gold, which I've had cufflinks that were finish in such a way and they were 10k solid gold beneath... Go to a pawn shop and ask if they'd be interested in maybe pawning it and they'll do an acid test. If you ask them just to test it they'll think you're just being a pest wanting to use their touch stone and acid. They'll tell you if it's good and then make an offer, which if you don't want, you just decline.

 

[Red-Coat]

This is just a guess, although an intuitive one. I don’t think these are hallmarks, although I see the ‘9C’ at the end (and suspect it originally read ‘9CT’) and an animal that could be regarded as “lion-like” at the beginning.

In between, I think there’s a stylised letter ‘R’ and I believe it might be for George & Ernest Rodd, founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1919 and merged with Platers Pty Ltd in 1949. They made costume jewellery among other things and misleadingly stamped a lot of it ‘9CT’ despite the fact it was gold-fill (ie plated, but more thickly than typical electroplating) rather than solid gold. Some later pieces carry the additional letters ‘LD’ for “lined”, an alternative term for the more readily recognisable ‘GF’ to indicate gold-fill.

I don’t think they made military badges as such, but they did make ‘sweetheart’ badges/brooches with military emblems during WWII.

 

[Loko750]

Thanks for the information Tamrock and Red-Coat I will follow up on this and see where it leads me.

 

[bartholomewroberts]

This is just a guess, although an intuitive one. I don’t think these are hallmarks, although I see the ‘9C’ at the end (and suspect it originally read ‘9CT’) and an animal that could be regarded as “lion-like” at the beginning.

In between, I think there’s a stylised letter ‘R’ and I believe it might be for George & Ernest Rodd, founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1919 and merged with Platers Pty Ltd in 1949. They made costume jewellery among other things and misleadingly stamped a lot of it ‘9CT’ despite the fact it was gold-fill (ie plated, but more thickly than typical electroplating) rather than solid gold. Some later pieces carry the additional letters ‘LD’ for “lined”, an alternative term for the more readily recognisable ‘GF’ to indicate gold-fill.

I don’t think they made military badges as such, but they did make ‘sweetheart’ badges/brooches with military emblems during WWII.

I think it may be a sweetheart badge.. I have about 10 I have found over the years and many are silver with a couple of gold.. plus 3 copper... They are almost exact copies of collar tabs issued in WW1 to our Canuck soldiers..

Micheal

 

[bartholomewroberts]

These are a few of the sweetheart badges/pins I have found over the years... I have more... but did not want to totally hijack the thread