Australia. Australian Service Longarms And Australian Service Bayonets (Pair) certificate_of_authenticity With an attractive pumpkin handle

With an attractive pumpkin handle that has no chips or cracking

measuring 28 mm (w) x 44 mm (h)

the obverse bearing a white cotton disc measuring 90 mm in diameter

two clasps: Taku Forts 1860

Australia. Australian Service Longarms And Australian Service Bayonets (Pair) certificate_of_authenticity With an attractive pumpkin handle1. Australian Service Longarms by Ian D. Skennerton: hardcover, yellow cloth exterior, copyright 1975, published in 1976 at Margate and printed by Watson Ferguson & Company of Brisbane, ISBN 0 9597438 0 4, inscribed "Of a limited edition of two thousand copies this is number" and numbered in handwritten black ink "882" on the fly page, with six chapters entitled: 1. Australians in Service; 2. Their Longarms Pre Federation; 3. Their Longarms Post