Our Shipping Reporter detected the following cotton handkerchief with a large central cartouche depicting the Gallant Sons of Empire -Australia and New Zealand - storming ashore at Gallipoli .
Smaller uncaptioned cartouches at each corner depict ships of the Royal Australian Navy including HMAS Sydney, and at lower centre a depiction of the German light cruiser SMS Emden after its engagement with the Sydney, captioned ‘”The Scrap Heap”. There is a view of the Emden after the fight with the Sydney off the Cocos Keeling Islands.
Believed to have been made in the United KIngdom, the scarce lithographic printed handkerchief , dug out of the latest list from Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne , by our waterfront roundsman , is priced at $750.
(Gallipoli. Souvenir. Emden.)
