Catalogue
Assorted documents, War Savings Certificates counter's certification for one pound certificate nos CC399001-CC400000, 22 September 44; AMF re-issue of rifles letter 23.4.46; Loveday post office hand-over control list of documents 1 May 1925; AMP receipt for War Savings Certificates lodge 6 June 1941; Pit Certificate for Hebburn Collieries, Newcastle, 4 Dec 1961; replica cheque for Winner of Kitchener Flag, 1917; birth certificate for Joseph Warne, 1868; Sir Ernest Shackleton promotional material for talk at London Philharmonic Hall; The Melba Waltz movie program cover; dollars & cents decimal currency introduction documents (4); also Small Arms Training manual for Application of Fire, 1937; Field Engineering and Mine Warfare manual for Assault River Crossing, 1951. Fine - good very fine. (15)
Estimate $50
SOLD $20
Collection of Australian and world documents, includes Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia, specimen Letter of Introduction and Circular Letter of Credit, c1964; The Commercial Bank of Australasia Limited, Footscray, Deposit Receipt at call numbers 95/6 consecutive, unissued pair; various manufacturers invoices, mostly Adelaide 1914-15 and most with vignettes; Deposit Receipt for gold bond, Mexico Tramways Company, 1916; various insurance policy documents, all different issuers 1912-1978 and 1889 receipt for Australian Widows' Fund; various lease and property documents, licences, Letters of Patent; Bank of Bengal share certificate, 1876; world issued cheques, mainly USA; Australian WWII ID cards, ration ticket application forms and ration cards for clothing and meat; promissory notes; wartime newspapers, WWI France (2) and WWII USA; map of Cobb & Co Queensland routes and a guaranteed, genuine, original print over 100 years old of a map of Queensland; other items including a print of Napoleon III by D.J.Pound. In a large, black sheet holder, a few items not itemised are damaged but mostly fine - uncirculated. (96)
Estimate $200
SOLD $150
Pre-Federation, set of twenty facsimile notes from 1814 onwards, also various bank advertising notices in plastic (24 in four designs). Stored in a blue album, uncirculated. (44)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Australia, collection of banknote memorabilia, some items includes Reserve Bank of Australia bundle serial number identifier cards for one, two, five, ten, twenty and fifty dollar notes; five shillings vignette, 1989; IBNS Perth Chapter second souvenir card No.2; Australian Banknote Convention and Exhibition, Sydney, October 2007 souvenir card No.42; Treasury, Rabaul, one hundred marks No.0001, facsimile 1998 issue No.100; various funny money, cheques and other advertising vouchers as well as some Reserve Bank letters relating to specific old Australian currency issues; also booklet 'The Australian Nugget' by Western Australian Development Corp. Mostly very fine - uncirculated. (approx 150)
Estimate $150
SOLD $80
Travellers cheques, specimen issues for American Express, one hundred Swiss francs (13, includes one ten pack), deutsche mark one hundred (14), two hundred (14, includes one ten pack), five hundred (14, includes one ten pack), Japanese ten thousand yen (14, includes one book of ten). Uncirculated. (69)
Estimate $50
SOLD $150
World cheques, Australia, Tooth & Co. Limited, Kent Brewery, Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Feb 1922, perforated paid; Tooth & Co. Limited, Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Feb 1922, perforated paid (both large forms with company horse logo), also includes an unused Meat Ration Coupon Change Docket; Canada, N.Smith Belting Works Limited, Imperial Bank of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 1943; Canadian Hospital Council, Bank of Montreal, Toronto, Ontario, 24 August 1951, perforated paid; Scotland, P.R.Jefferies, The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited, Stornoway, 8 February 1957; another but Edinburgh branch, 29 January 1937; USA, The H.B.Smith Company, Hampden National Bank, Westfield, Massachusetts; Pleasant Valley Wine Company, Steuben County Bank, Hammondsport, N.Y., 30 January 1875; Atlantic Mutual Fire & Marine Insurance Co, First National Bank Provincetown, Massachusetts, 18 June 1878; State of New York, The Central National Bank of Rome, 5 February 1874; L.V.F.Randolph, American Exchange National Bank, New York, 3 July 1883; Seamen's Savings Bank, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 12 April 1884; Estate of Chas. M.Reed (see footnote), First National Bank of Erie (Pennsylvania), 25 April 1873. Fine - extremely fine. (14)
Estimate $50
SOLD $20
Chinese Government, 5% Reorganisation Gold Loan of 1913, brown certificate number 209454, issued by Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, in modern timber frame with glass on both sides (465x350mm), interest coupons visible at back; another 5% Reorganisation Gold Loan of 1913,brown certificate number 311413, issued by Banque De l'Indo-Chine a Paris, in modern timber frame with glass on both sides (465x350mm), interest coupons visible at back; another 5% Reorganisation Gold Loan of 1913, brown certificate number 44348, issued by The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in London, in modern timber frame with glass on both sides (465x350mm), interest coupons visible at back. another 5% Reorganisation Gold Loan of 1913, brown certificate number 750924, issued by Russo-Asiatic Bank, in modern timber frame with glass on both sides (465x350mm), interest coupons visible at back, all certficates printed by Waterlow & Sons and all with the same basic design of Mercury seated at top with ships and peasants around, at either side peasants and oriental buildings. Initials DB or UD on most at top edge otherwise extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $200
SOLD $330
India, Fort St George (Madras), 1819, second of exchange for 'fifty pounds sterling or sicca rupees 400', dated Fort St. George 31st December 1819, No. 23 'to the Honorable the COURT of DIRECTORS for affairs of the Honorable the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND trading as East Indies in LONDON'. Nearly very fine and very rare, a very early bill of exchange from Fort St George (Madras).
Estimate $200
Passed in
India, Fort William in Bengal, various Supreme Court documents and Sheriff of Calcutta legal documents and other legal correspondence relating to court cases, summonses and writs, mostly 1850s-1860s, a few earlier, many with seals and mostly hand written in English and signed, many by the British Sheriff of the day. Stored in large document album, mostly fine - very fine. (26)
Estimate $150
SOLD $100
USA, Bill of Exchange, Banking House of R.S.Battles, Girard, Pennsylvania, 1908 to Chase National Bank, New York (punch hole cancelled); Treasury Department, order form for drugs, 1948, from Valley Road Pharmacy to D.Kattman & Coy, Jersey City; Citizens Bank of Louisiana at Shreveport, fifty dollars, unissued (paper loss on top edge and top right corner missing); letter from Charles Ruwolt Pty Ltd dated 1942 to Area Officer, Area 29a, requesting an exemption from compulsory military training for Alex B.Steel, a process worker in the companies Armour Piercing Shell Annexe, a reserved occupation. Fine - extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $60
Passed in
USA, various banking promotional wall calendars, 1940s-1990s (13) with some other promotional items (3) and Bank of America calico money bag; 1991 issued 50th Anniversary of America's entry into WWII mini stamp sheet; medallic first day covers, USA Bicentennial issues, 1974 and 1975, Marshall Islands To Mars and Beyond 2004; also The Official Whitbread round the world race 1989 medal. Mostly very fine - uncirculated. (22)
Estimate $50
Passed in
Menu, 1994, for the launch of the five dollar coin in Adelaide with autographs of the coin designer, Wojciech Pietranick, and the Controller of the Mint and politicians. Extremely fine.
Estimate $50
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Germany, Third Reich, ID card 5588 dated 21 April 1939 for Herr Max Jungmann, issued by Deutsche Lufthansa, inside photo of holder with stamp of Lufthansa and Third Reich stamp signed by Airport Line Lt-Colonel, also with annual service stamps of Lufthansa for the years 1939-1942, back with Third Reich stamp of Air Station Company, Reim. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
French prints, by various artists, mainly printed on book pages, includes a series of mostly Pacific region scenes including a few New Zealand, a total of fourteen, others of famous French soldiers in history, all Imperial lithographs of Delpech of Paris (18), all but two with facsimile signatures, others of famous artworks (14), all in Sienna colouring and one other unidentified. Some paper loss around edge of pages, prints unaffected, foxing on some, overall fine - extremely fine. (47)
Estimate $50
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Views of Ireland, 19th century engravings (approx 12x18cm plus border with title below), all by W.H.Bartlett, includes Ancient Crofs, Clonmacnoise; Dephi Lodge (Connemara); Taking a Stag, near Derrycunnihy Cascade, Killarney, all printed by Geo. Virtue of 26 Ivy Lane, London. Some faint foxing around border, otherwise good very fine. (3)
Estimate $120
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Views of Ireland, 19th century engravings (approx 12x18cm plus border with title below), all by W.H.Bartlett, includes The Giants Causeway (from above); Gougauna Barra; Castle Howard Vale of Ovoca, all probably printed by Geo. Virtue of 26 Ivy Lane, London. Some faint foxing on back and on borders, otherwise good very fine. (3)
Estimate $120
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Views of Ireland, 19th century engravings (approx 12x18cm plus border with title below), all by W.H.Bartlett, includes Augustinian Abbey, Adare (with the Castle of the Fitzgeralds and the Francescan Abbey); Glenariff; Clifden Castle (Connemara), all printed by Geo. Virtue of 26 Ivy Lane, London. With some foxing around borders, otherwise very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
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Views of Ireland, 19th century engravings (approx 12x18cm plus border with title below), all by W.H.Bartlett, includes Youghall Abbey (The Residence of Sir Walter Raleigh); Interior of Cashell Abbey; Interior of Holy-Cross Abbey, all printed by Geo. Virtue of 26 Ivy Lane, London. With some foxing around borders, otherwise very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
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Views of Ireland, 19th century engravings (approx 12x18cm plus border with title below), the first two by W.H.Bartlett, the last by W.Hogarth, includes Phoul A Phuca; The Giants Causeway (from above); The Industrious 'Prentice Favourite, and Entrusted by his Master from the book Industry and Idleness, all probably printed by Geo. Virtue of 26 Ivy Lane, London. With foxing around borders, particularly on last, otherwise very fine. (3)
Estimate $140
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