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Australia and New Zealand, six Letters Patent issued to William Edgar Muntz, inventor, late of H.M.Department of Public Works, India, patents relate to Windmills, taps or valves, and processes involving vulcanised rubber, four issued for Australia in 1913, 1914, 1915, 1921 and two for New Zealand in 1914 and 1920. Full documentation, wax sealed and in original solicitors' Letters Patent completed envelopes, very fine - extremely fine. (lot)
Estimate $70
SOLD $60
Receipt for goods, supplied to Gilnough, Bolton 8/5/1833, signed by William Harrison; London letter dated 31.12.1839 to H.G.Holden; letter dated 31.3.1841 to Mr Sep Herbert, Waterloo House, Hindley St, Adelaide, South Australia; envelope imprinted General Chen Chia-shang, Chinese Air Force, Office of the Commanding General, Taipei, Taiwan, China, postmarked Taipei 31.7.1959, Chinese text written on, addressed to Air Marshall F.R.W.Scherger, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., A.F.C. One tear and some foxing on last otherwise fine, the rest good - fine. (4)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Victoria, Report on the proposed Coining of Silver at the Melbourne Branch of the Royal Mint, 1890, 14pps., Miners Rights (2), issued at Walhalla, 30th March 1912, to Joel Fox, and Ballarat, 17th March 1932, to Elizabeth Silvey; New South Wales, Report on Police Department, 1876, 5pp. Tears to edges on last, folds and creases to second and third items, fine. (4)
Estimate $120
SOLD $140
Australian memorabilia, Christmas 1894 The Fitz-Stubbs Musical Album sheet music book (states the only album of music by Australian composers ever produced) printed by W.C.Penfold & Co Lith. Sydney; gun targets by Sil Rohu (late A.I.F.) 110 Bathurst Street, Sydney (2) c1920 - 1940; two copies of State Cycling News Feb 17 and Mar 3, 1954; The Cricket Score Book for Enfield Club in W.S.C.A. competition 1958-1959; university newspapers and newspaper liftouts; other booklets for advertising; Dept of Education Dec 1919 Exam papers for Needlework-Practical and Drafting. Very good - very fine. (lot)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
An accumulation of printed ephemera, c1860s-c1990s, including Australia, Searches with stamps affixed, assorted share scrip 1906-1990; Colony of Victoria, Warrant Writ, 1865 (2); cheques, receipts, letters; also Great Britain, Portugal, Hungary, USA. Fair - good very fine. (100s)
Estimate $200
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Australian memorabilia, an assortment of documents and booklets, some items include The Liberal Three - Gould, Millen, Oakes postcard 1913 (unused); Sweet Bros Ltd, King St, Newtown staff reference partially written with graphic letterhead of factory, 1926; The Story of Hartley and its Historic Court-house, 1937 (reprinted 2000); Prospectors Guide to Lightning Ridge; Beenleigh Some Rum Stories; Cadbury's Puzzle: Get the Ring Off advertising game; various other items. Mostly fine - very fine. (lot)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Victoria, Debentures (2), City of Malvern, Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways, 1919, £100, with £3 interest coupons attached. All coupons intact, extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Dorothea Mackellar memorabilia, book titled Gerard's Herball, The Essence thereof distilled by Marcus Woodward from the Edition of TH. Johnson, 1636, printed at London, 1927, 303pp, inside front cover with bookplate of Dorothea Mackellar, and opposite page signed personally, 'Dorothea Mackellar, London 1928'. Cloth hard cover, no dust jacket, some foxing on front and back cover pages, otherwise very fine and scarce.
Estimate $150
SOLD $170
Public Library Museum & Art Gallery of South Australia, letter of thanks to Lady Ernest Waterlow, 2 Queen's Gate, London, S.W.7. England, for the presentation of three examples of the late Sir Ernest Waterlow's artwork, one of which is The Mill, Essex, handwritten in calligraphy style in red and black ink, signed by B.S.Roach as President and Malcolm McRae as Acting General Secretary, under glass in a gilt frame (approx 420x336mm). Small 300mm section of frame damaged, a few light foxing spots on the letter and some age fading of some red ink, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $100
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Commonwealth of Australia, award certificate (340x415mm) named to Wm. Newman whose loaf, containing Australian Sultanas, gained Second Prize in the Australian Class at the Leeds & District 7th Annual Bread & Confectionery Competitions & Exhibition, October, 1935, vignettes at sides featuring Australian rural production and ship loading, with a border of fruits and beehives. Some silverfish damage, mostly on the top right corner on the plain outer border, small water stain area at bottom right corner, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $50
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The Argus and Australasian Coronation Souvenir, (460x340mm), May 24, 1937, pictorial publication of the Royal Family and the coronation, 40pp, in B&W and colour, with two supplement pages featuring the Royal Family (GVI) in B&W and King George VI in coronation robes in colour. A few small edge splits on front cover and some ageing, inside in excellent condition, overall very fine.
Estimate $50
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The Associated Financial Corporation, debentures for £100 each, consecutive numbers 2497/8, named to Henry Khan, dated 11 November 1902 (2); Indenture for assigning a share in the estate of George Humprys, formerly of Leak, Staffordshire, between his grandson Arthur Henry Bacon Humphrys and Bertram Murray, both of Sydney, dated 8 January 1912, with all relevant seals and duty stamps impressed. Very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $50
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Great Cobar Limited, share warrant 00663 for one share no.44289, 4 June 1907, with dividend coupons 2-20 still attached, in English and French; Broken Hill South Silver Mining Company, certificate F842 for fifty contributing shares, 5 March 1915; Broken Hill South Limited, certificate 11018 for one hundred shares, 13 July 1923; another, identical but certificate 11020; North Broken Hill Mining Company, certificate M2952 for fifty shares, 8 September 1911. Mostly very fine. (5)
Estimate $70
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The Union Bank of Australia Limited, book of all authorised signatories, 40pp, Jan 1937; a similar book for Bank of New South Wales, 12pp, July 1 1937; other correspondence from various Australian banks re travellers cheques and signatories 1939-1951 (5); NRMA Touring Grounds around Sydney book with maps, directions and attractions, c1940s-1950s. Very fine - extremely fine. (8)
Estimate $40
SOLD $90
Burbanks Mining and Investment Trust, certificate 575 for five hundred shares, 11 April 1929; The Commonwealth Oil Corporation Limited, certificate 1077 for fifty preferred ordinary shares, 25 June 1907; another, certificate 1822 for one hundred and ten deferred ordinary shares, 27 February 1908; another certificate 3748 for one hundred preferred ordinary shares, 10 December 1919; another, certificate 432 for twelve pounds ten shillings of 6 per cent non-cumulative income debenture stock, 16 December 1919; Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie Limited, option certificate 1100 for one hundred shares, 20 February 1935; Loddon Valley Goldfields (1907) Limited, certificate 655 for one hundred shares, 19 December 1907; The New Cornish Gold Mines, second debenture for £2, 16 September 1910 (mine at Daylesford, Castlemaine District, Victoria, wound up in 1921); The Smelting and Refining Company of Australia (1901) Limited, certificate A0333 for four shares, 19 November 1902; The Whim Well Copper Mines Limited, share warrant 6063 for ten shares numbered 36680/89, 3 March 1911, in English and French, with dividend coupons 5-20 still attached. Mostly fine - very fine. (10)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
F.H.Faulding & Co, Perth, advertising and promotional items of 1930s (?) period for Duckworth & Co drinks such as Ginger Beer, Lemonade, Ginger Ale, Lime Juice and Soda, Kola and others. Mostly very fine - extremely fine. (10)
Estimate $50
SOLD $130
New South Wales Stock, £3.10s per Ct, 1924, issued 26 May 1904; another 5 3/4% Inscribed Stock 1922-32 issued 1 February 1928; another 6 1/2% Inscribed Stock 1930-40, issued 1 February 1928; another 4% Stock, 1942-62, issued 1 February 1928; Queensland Stock £3.10s per Cent (1st January 1945) issued 12 October 1922; Victorian Government Inscribed Stock 4 per cent Loan 1884, undated issue, repayable 1 October 1919 (2, one blue paper the other pink paper); Queensland £4.10s per Cent Stock 1920-25, issued 13 August 1920; The National Bank of Australasia Limited, Melbourne, February 1967, English currency traveller's cheques for £2, 5, 10, 20 and 50, with diagonal imprint of SPECIMEN, in presentation folder. Fine - extremely fine. (8+folder of 5)
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
World documents, Commonwealth of Australia Series 27 Australian Savings Bond, twenty dollars, issued 30 December 1983 with all interest coupons intact; Banco De Castilla, Madrid, stock certificate numbers 18148 and 18158 for five hundred pesetas each, 1 December 1880, with interest coupons 59-80 intact; USA cheques, all featuring vignettes, Banking House of R.S.Battles, Girard, Pa, April 21, 1890, signed by R.S.Battles; The Canajoharie National Bank, Canajoharie, N.Y., Dec 23, 1893, signed H.G.Perry; The First National Bank of Harrisonburg, Harrisonburg, Va, May 21, 1873, signed Winfield Siggell, affixed two cents Internal Revenue stamp; State of South Dakota, County Warrant of Lawrence County, Deadwood, Nov 7, 1903; Travelers (sic) Insurance Company, City Bank of Hartford, Hartford, Conn., November 9, 1865, signed Rodney Dennis. All cheques except last punch hole or X-cut cancelled, fine - very fine. (8)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
India, cheques by a variety of issuers on various banks, 1920s-1980s, some include Alwar State Treasury; Government of Jodhpur; Central Bank of India, China Bazaar; Punjab National Bank, Sambalpur (Orissa); National Bank of India, Madras; Mercantile Bank Limited, New Delhi; State Bank of India, Kanpur City; The Bank of Rajasthan, Alwar; The Bank of Baroda, Tripolia Bazar (sic) Branch, Jaipur; Allahabad Bank, Kanpur; The Benares State Bank, Kanpur; The Bank of Bikaner, Ahmedabad overstamped Kanpur; United Commercial Bank, Sikar; Gondal Durbar, The Khajanchi; Hindustan Mercantile Bank, Kanpur; Syndicate Bank, Meerut (U.P.); Rastriya Banijya Bank, Kathmandu; various other issued and unissued cheques. Fine - very fine. (36)
Estimate $100
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USA, Wells Fargo & Co, San Francisco, Second of Exchange No.1418 to the Union Bank of London, dated Dec 18, 1868, for £6 sterling payable to Thomas Burbury (sic) (Burberry), affixed US Internal Revenue two cents stamp. Two small splits at bottom edge, otherwise nearly very fine.
Estimate $50
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USA cheques, various banks and States, many over one hundred years old such as Banking House of R.S.Battles, Girard, Pa. from 1890s and The Bullion and Exchange Bank, Carson City, Nev from 1890s. Mostly fine - extremely fine. (1,530)
Estimate $900
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Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola cheques, a good assortment of issues of various divisions and locations from 1920s - 1970s. Mostly fine - very fine. (58)
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
World cheques, including travellers cheques, used and unused, mostly twentieth century, some interesting banks such as unused forms for Deutsche Palastina-Bank, Agence de Nablus and another for Deutsche Orientbank, Konstantinopel. Mostly fine - extremely fine. (800)
Estimate $400
SOLD $360
Australian 'funny money', a wide selection, including political, advertising, store, food vouchers, discount and gift vouchers, stage money, comic, numismatic, demonstration money, includes a few foreign items. Mostly uncirculated. (73)
Estimate $90
SOLD $130
Petrol coupons, 1939 to 'B' series, one to five gallons, various issues from NSW, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania, includes Great Britain, one unit, April 1950. Very good - uncirculated. (13)
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
NSW Government Tramways, racecourse tickets, Circular Quay, Railway and Newton Rd Junction to Randwick Racecourse and return, 2/- (type with large 'A'); Newcastle Racecourse to Newcastle or Plattsburg, 9d; Dept of Govt Transport, City to Racecourse and return (Randwick?). Very good - good fine, all rare types. (3)
Estimate $90
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NSW Government Tramways, set of sixteen tickets consisting of 3d (three different colours), 4d (five different), 5d (three different), 6d and 7d (two different), 8d. All different with various sections, depots and colours, mostly fine - extremely fine, a rare set. (16)
Estimate $100
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NSW Government Tramways and Dept. of Government Transport, tickets, Circular Quay or Railway to Agricultural, Cricket or Sports Ground and return, consisting of 6d, 1/3 (child), 1/6, 2/6 (pink) and 2/6 (red). Fine - very fine, a rare set. (5)
Estimate $170
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Georges River Bridge, NSW, toll tickets, sixpence 'D' black print (3404); another sixpence, 'F' red print (88713). Fine and rare. (2)
Estimate $100
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Dept of Government Transport NSW, and Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Co Ltd, bus and ferry combined tickets from various suburbs including Curl Curl, Balgowlah, Brookvale to Circular Quay 3d, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6 (two types) all with low serial numbers. Extremely fine, a rare set. (6)
Estimate $70
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