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Colony of Victoria, documents, handwritten on vellum, including Conveyance of an Allotment in Kilmore, between Harvey E.Combe of Geelong and Horace M. Wright, Barrister at Law, Melbourne, signed and dated 11th August 1856; Conveyance of Land in Murgheboluc between Robert Beckham and Stephen, Robert and John Ritchie, farmers, signed and dated 18th January, 1878, with a Victoria 2/6 stamp affixed; Memorial, thirty acres in the Parish of Murgheboluc, between Stephen, Robert and John Ritchie and Thomas Keanan, signed and dated, 24th February, 1881; Mortgage (printed and handwritten on paper) of one hundred and twenty one acres in the Parish of Nabdallah, between John, Stephen and Robert Ritchie and Thomas Keanan, signed and dated 24th February 1881, with two Victoria 1d duty stamps affixed; Reconveyance by Endorsment, between Thomas Keanan and Stephen, Robert and John Ritchie, signed and dated 23rd may 1884. With some foxing, fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Colony of Victoria, Special Lands Purchase, to John Elder, William Elder and Nairne Guthrie Elder of eighty one acres, one rood and twenty perches on the County of Grenville, Parish of Wurrook, on vellum, signed, sealed and dated by Governor Sir Henry Barkly, 14th May 1862. With folds, fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Colony of Victoria, assorted documents including, Equitable Mortgage, on land in the parish of Jika Jika, 1861 and Parish of Prahran, 1864; Submission to Arbitration, 1868, relating to land in Gisborne; Deed of partnership in Saw Mills at Glenlyon and Trentham, 1871 and Deed of Dissolution, 1873; Mortgage, of land in the Parish of Moorabbin, 1873 and Further Charge on the land, 1875; Acknowledgement and Confirmation of a right to light over a strip of land facing King Street, Melbourne, 1873, on vellum; Power of Attorney, 1879; Mortgage of Livestock, 400 sheep, Swan Hill, 1889; another., 2 cows, a heifer and draught horse, Swan Hill, 1889; Declaration of Trust, Walhalla, 1891; Mortgage of Share under Will, 1892; Probate in the Will of William Boyd of Kensington, 1894, on vellum; Agreement, between the Federal Coffee Palace with Andrew Knight Esq, Melbourne, 1897. Very good - very fine. (15)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Colony of Victoria, Lease of Land, of two hundred and thirty five acres one rood and ten perches in the County of Dundas, Parish of Toolka to Duncan Smith, sheep farmer of Coleraine, signed, sealed and dated by Sir Charles Henry Darling, 1st June 1865. Seal cracked, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Colony of Victoria, a group of documents relating to the Chiltern Sons of Freedom Mining Company, including Consolidated Miner's Right, No.24, on vellum, issued to Henry Nickless of Chiltern, Manager of the Sons of Doma Consols, at Beechworth Chiltern, 27th Feby 1874, to be in force until 25th Febry 1875 and representing 80 Miner's Rights as endorsed on back hereof, handwritten names listed alphabetically on back, signed by Daniel Oliver front and back; Miner's Rights issued to the Chiltern Sons of Freedom Mining Company, Beechworth Chiltern, dated 12th April 1876, Nos 97003-97062 consecutive run of 60 attached together with pin; another, No.84936, issued to The Bank of New South Wales, Melbourne, 24th April 1876; Lien Ticket from the Chiltern Sons of Freedom Mining Company to the Bank of New South Wales, upon its Alluvial Mining Claim for sixty men in the Valley of the Black Dog Creek as security for due payment of £7,000 owing to the bank, dated 8th March 1875, with attached Certificate for Claim and Certificate of Amalgamation, both dated 21st January 1875; Conditions of Sale between the Bank of New South Wales and John Alston Wallace of Melbourne, for the machinery and mining plant and chattels of the Chiltern Sons of Freedom Mining Company, dated 3rd August 1876; Assignment from the Bank of New South Wales to The Hon J.A.Wallace M.L.C., of Machinery Plant and Chattels of the Chiltern Sons of Freedom Mining Company, dated 1877. With folds and stains on some, otherwise mostly good very fine, and scarce as a group. (67 items)
Estimate $2,500
SOLD $2,400
Colony of Victoria, Land Conveyance, handwritten on vellum, between the Land Mortgage Bank of Victoria Limited and Mr John Schubert of Kilmore, of land in the Parish of Moranding, County of Dalhousie, sealed and dated 24th July 1876, with Queen Victoria 10/-, 2/-, 1/-, 6d and 4d statute stamps affixed. Stamps fiscally cancelled, document with some foxing, fine.
Estimate $200
Passed in
Victoria, documents, dated between 1879 and 1910 including Transfer of Land Statute (2), Particulars & Conditions of Sale of Freehold, Lease, Transfer of Land, Agreement; stationery of E & M Roughton Adornments, 284-8 Bourke St Melbourne, with vignette left of the company's building and view down Bourke St to the GPO (approx 100 sheets); also, USA, Copy of the Charter of the T.C.Williams Company, signed and sealed by Joseph T.Lawless secretary of the Commonwealth of Virgina and with attached certification with metal seal of the Governor of Virgina, Chas T. O'Ferrall, signed and dated 1st February 1894; Extract from Deed of Conveyance (2), in relation to the firm of Thomas C. Williams & Co, 30th July 1894, letters (3) regarding trade marks and other matters of the T.C.Williams Co, Extract of the By Laws of the T.C.Williams Co. Fine - good very fine. (approx 113)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Colony of Victoria, Conveyance, between William Alexander Fettes and James Stewart McLagan Birrell both of South Melbourne of land in the Parish of South Galla, County of Bourke, dated 18th August 1886, with Victoria duty stamps affixed of £2, £1 (4), 25/- (2), 10/-, 5/- and 2/6. Stamps fiscally cancelled, document fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Colony of Victoria, Land Conveyance, handwritten on vellum, between Thomas Redford, Henry Baker Chomley, Alfred Wilson Braim and William and James Lindsay for six hundred and forty acres in the County of Villiers Parish of Bullanbul, dated 24th August 1886, with eight Victoria duty stamps affixed of £100, £10 (3), £2 (2), 15/- and 2/6. With folds, foxing, stamps fiscally used, good very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $260
Mortgage indenture, dated 14th May 1901 between Henry Francis Maguire of Bondi and Mrs Ann Brindley Maguire of Barkston Gardens in the County of Soudan, England for £1,300 sterling, witnessed by solicitor, E.L.Dunhill, Sydney and with impressed stamp of Registrar General, New South Wales, 20 May 1901. Very fine.
Estimate $40
Passed in
Victoria, Elector's Right, Women Only, Residential Qualification, c1908, book containing forty five forms (five have been issued), government printer Melbourne. Very good - extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $470
Wando Station, a variety of documents for this historic sheep property near Casterton, Victoria, including numerous recipts and statements of account from various merchants relating to the operational aspects of the property, the documents are mostly in the name of Broughton Bros, the owners of Wando since c1886, and cover the period 1887 to the early 1900s (approx 100); War Savings certificates and loans, includes a large numnber of documents with various prospectus forms for different loan years, return forms, applications, instructions, and copies of other styles of documents, for the period 1919-1960s. Fine - very fine. (lot)
Estimate $150
SOLD $100
Banking documents, a variety of unused cheque forms and books, some with colourful background scenes and others with vignettes, noted some for Star of Bendigo Tent No.5, Independent Order of Rechabites, ES&A Bank, Bendigo, and National Bank of Australasia, Collins Street East, Melbourne 1888- also several unused bills of exchange for Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited, Adelaide (3 types), English, Scottish & Australian Chartered Bank, Adelaide -186-. Mostly extremely fine - uncirculated. (lot)
Estimate $100
SOLD $290
Banking, Bank of New South Wales, Melbourne, Second of Exchange (16), dated between 1894 and 1899, all made payable to Messrs Malleson England & Stewart for various amounts; Royal Bank of Australia Limited, Melbourne, Second of Exchange (3), 1898, 1901, 1902, all handwritten 'Payable at Dundee' in red ink bottom left corner; English Scottish & Australian Bank Limited, Melbourne (2), 1912, duplicate cheques; Promissory notes, Melbourne, dated 1881-1883, for various amounts, all with duty stamps affixed. Three with piece missing from top left corner, one with piece missing from bottom left corner, all with folds, good - fine. (35)
Estimate $150
SOLD $290
The National Bank of Tasmania Limited, fixed deposit receipt no.1001 for £400 in name of James S.Wilson, lodged at Stanley 28 August 1894 at rate of 4% per annum. Spike and punch holes, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $80
Passed in
Victoria, Cash Book, 1895-1940, for J.L.Currie, pages 1-145 filled, hardbound, with canvas slipcover, by Sands & McDougall Limited, Melbourne. Corners of slip cover frayed, otherwise good condition.
Estimate $100
Passed in
Commonwealth of Australia, WWII petrol ration tickets, 1939-40 ten gals, green, signed on back (4); 30th Sept 1941 one gal, orange/green; 31st July 1943 one gal, blue/red, one signed (12); 31st July 1943 two gal, orange/red, one signed on back (8); 30th Sept 1943 two gals, blue/purple (4); 31st May 1944 one gal, orange/black (24); 31st July 1944 one gal, blue/red (4); 30th Nov 1944 one gal, orange/black (2); 31st July 1944 two gals, orange/red (5, one missing corner); also a number of world banknotes, USA military payment certificates (7), JIM Notes (4), Vietnam (2) and Malaya & British Borneo. Very good - very fine. (78)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
New Zealand, National Savings Bond A357826 issued at Wellington 7 Nov 1944; Post Office Bonus Bonds, 1980s, almost all issued at Dunedin, includes two dollars (5), five dollars (4), ten dollars (8), twenty dollars (8), fifty dollars (3), one hundred dollars (26), five hundred dollars (19); Hokitika Savings Bank depositor's pass book in name of William Henry Merewether, 14 Feb 1929 - 16 Aug 1963, book printed 1927; Dunedin Savings Bank, promotional cards (140x228mm) to encourage school students to open a savings account (3); Canterbury Petroleum Prospecting Company share certificate for ten shares, 1917; Melbourne Cup sweep tickets book of twenty five tickets, Tuesday, November 4th, year not indicated, first prize three hundred pounds. The last with some staining on cover, a few tickets with a tear, otherwise very fine, the share certificate with folds and a few spots of foxing, very fine, the rest extremely fine. (80)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Bank of New South Wales, specimen travellers cheque, Feb 1971, for fifty pounds sterling, and fifty US dollars (five pairs in folders of issue) plus $10 to $100 Australian folder; Thomas Cook, specimen US $10 June 1980, two folders of sterling, US, Canada and Australian dollars, folder of French, also National Provincial Bank Ltd., Overseas Branch, for £10 and £20, 19-, circular of credit. Uncirculated. (12)
Estimate $150
SOLD $140
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 $150
Passed in
India, Madras, second of exchange, 1823, for 841 pounds sterling, dated Madras, 14 August 1823, No. 150, payable five months after sight; another, Madras, 1827, second of exchange for fifty pounds sterling, dated Madras, 12th July 1827, No. 1072, to Messers Coutts & Co, Bankers, London. Very fine; nearly very fine, both very rare. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
India, Bill of Lading, Peary Chand Mittra and Sons, for 500 bags of rice and 500 bags of oats, shipped from river Hoogly, Calcutta, dated 8th March 1867 to Mauritius; another from L. Gandolphe, various goods shipped from Madras, dated 18 November 1867 to Mauritius. First missing small pieces from right corners, otherwise good fine and rare. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $90
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 $50
Passed in
New South Wales Government Railways and Tramways, Report of the Chief Commissioner for the year ended 30 June 1910, pp56 plus graphs and coloured maps, hard cover with gold blocked title. Good very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
New South Wales Government Railways, Pleasant Places Convenient to the Lines, b&w pictorial book published by authority of the Railway Commissioners, printed by W.A.Gullick, Government Printer, 1902, hardcover, 17 leaves of plates (25x32cm). Some ageing marks on cover, one page with tear at top left edge but not affecting photograph, photos in excellent condition, fine - very fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
The MLC Insurance Company Limited, Bonus Certificate Commonwealth Bank of Australia cheque for £5 Sept 16 1937 London Bank of Australia Limited Sydney cheques 19- (3); Carnegie & Sons Saving boooks (2) with stamp duty stamp, all in leather wallet. Fine.
Estimate $50
Passed in
Tubbo Estate Company, printed financial statements for 1896, 1897, 1901, 1905, 1907-1909, 1911-1913, 1915-1921 and various other documents relating to Mrs Annie McFall of Kilkenny and asset distribution accounts for the estates of William Peter and James Kerr, all in the early 1900s. Fine - very fine. (lot)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
James Stewart & Co. Pty. Ltd., The Corner Block, Rockhampton, currency certificates, c1960-66, two shillings (3), five shillings (2), ten shillings overstamped one dollar (3), one pound overstamped two dollars (2), five pounds overstamped ten dollars (4); also, Murdoch's Ltd, Park & George Sts, Sydney, purchase certificate no.66821 for one pound. One five pounds with tape repair, otherwise fair - nearly very fine. (15)
Estimate $60
SOLD $40
Freemason's Hall Melbourne, 26 March 1885, proclamation document (56x41.5cm) for the laying of the Corner Stone of the Freemason's Hall, Collins Street East, in the City of Melbourne by the Honourable Sir William John Clarke, printed by E.Whitehead and Co, 53 Collins Street East. With folds, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
'Pillars' Master Masons certificates, all for Portland Lodge of Victoria, all signed, a few also signed by recipients, numbered and with the affixed impressed paper seal of the United Grand Lodge, the first three under Grand Master The Right Honourable The Earl of Zetland and named 289 Thomas Lochland, 5 February 1856; 292 Grenaway Rogerson, 5 February 1856; 921 Charles F. Crouch, 11 April 1864; and another three under Grand Master His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales named to 1265 Daniel Jones, 20 March 1878; 1273 Robert Law, 20 March 1878; 5866 Edward Reynolds, 2 October 1879; the document for 921 Crouch also signed by T.H.Lempriere D.G.Secy and also by the Past Grand Master for Victoria and with the Masonic Grand Lodge Victoria impressed paper seal. All with folds, good very fine - extremely fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50