Catalogue
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 $50
Not offered
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 $500
SOLD $380
New South Wales, Elector's Right no.285786, Residential Qualification, Electoral District of Tenterfield, Division of Tenterfield, to holder William Berkin Baker of Sandy Hill, dated Ninth day of March 1894, stamped on back, 'F.V. / 4-3-1897', and 'F.C.V. / 8-6-1898'. Fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
Not offered
Van Diemen's Land, hand written Third of Exchange, £9.0.0 Sterling, Hobart Town, 22nd April 1826,'At ten days sight of this my third of Exchange (first and second unpaid) please pay to the Order of Mr Gamaliel Butler Nine Pounds Sterling on account of pension due to me as the widow of the late Quarter-Master William Leach....' to Paymasters, Royal Artillery Drivers, London signed Ann Leach. Two pin holes, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $100
Not offered
Van Diemen's Land, Derwent Bank, Hobart Town, 15 Feby. 1836, cheque for £3.6.0, made payable to Richard Hayes, signed B.Beatham. Spindle hole at left, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $110
Van Diemen's Land, share scrip No.133 (on parchment) for the Norfolk Plains Bridge Company, Van Diemen's Land, a ten pound share certificate to Exec. William Field, dated 12 December 1839. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $3,300
Tasmania cheques, a large spring back album (marked Stamp Album), containing 148 various used bank cheque forms from 1886 - 1916 with most c.1890s - 1900s, almost all are issued from National Bank of Tasmania Limited, many on the Stanley branch, a quantity from private companies linked to this bank including the Marrawah and Montagu Cheese Factories, Duck River Farmers Association, Tatlow's Royal Mail Coaches, Robertson & Gardner (Stanley), Charles Thomas Smith, Horton Main Road Board, Derwent & Tamar Fire and Marine Assurance Company and other organisations almost all drawn on the above bank. An interesting collection of this period's banking activity, which was mostly centred on Stanley in Tasmania. Fine - very fine, many with duty stamps. (148 forms)
Estimate $500
SOLD $300
New South Wales five per cent debentures, Indenture dated 7 April 1860 for settlement of five hundred pounds of aforesaid stock between Mary Ann Brown of Middlesex and Rev.Henry William Watson and Rev.John Rowe, advanced for making some provision for her neice Eleanor Mary Strong, a large handwritten document signed and sealed under wax by the first three parties and with affixed £1.5.- duty and stamped London 8.2.60; also credit note No.28 from National Bank, Bayswater to Bank of New South Wales, Melbourne dated 1 Oct 1866 for £55.11.- to account of John Matthias Spread, on The National Bank watermarked paper, with impressed one penny duty stamp and with black vertical print 'DUPLICATE'. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
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
Not offered
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 $50
SOLD $40
William Clarke & Sons, Clarke's Gold Office, Melbourne, £5 percent per annum Deposit Receipt, undated, black on green, ornate border with vignette of streetscape, printer Sands & Kenny Melbourne, on the back a handwritten list of names and amounts, dated Nov 15th to Dec 9 1858. With spike hole top left corner, other tiny holes, centre fold and light creases, 5mm tear top and bottom of centre fold, some foxing, otherwise good fine and rare.
Estimate $250
SOLD $340
Italy, receipts for money paid to the Roman Catholic Church for permission to marry a relative of the 3rd degree of consanguinity (1st cousin), one dated 10.2.1800 and the other undated (estimated to be c1800). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $40
Not offered
Tatura Internment Camp Victoria, a folio of six lino-cut prints, produced by an internee at Tatura Internment Camp during World War II depicting daily life within the camp. Very fine and very rare.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $2,000
Australia, WWII documents in relation to internment of a German civilian residing in Australia, includes Application For Leave to Submit Objections Against Detention Order dated 10 December 1940, completed by Gustav Adolf Weissflog who was interned at Tatura POW Camp in Victoria, also letters written from Germany to the internee at Tatura Camp 1A, six in total, passed by censors in Germany and at the Camp, a variety of other documents. Fine - very fine historical documents. (lot)
Estimate $1,500
Not offered
Red Cross and St. John Ambulance documents, an interesting collection of documents, certificates named and awarded to Weela Vane (ne Bower), including Red Cross membership card, Armidale Branch 1915-6; St. John Ambulance, Certification certificates October 14, 1915, and February 29, 1916; Certificate of Award from the Australian Red Cross 1914-1919; others dated 22.3.38, 12.7.38 as certificates of attendance of First Aid course; and a Certificate of Service 1939-1945 for faithful service; another Red Cross Society, certification of attendance of the V.A.D. parade, April 9, 1938 for Australia 150 years. Mostly fine. (lot)
Estimate $150
SOLD $150
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, framed 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 $70
Not offered
Accounts ledger and scrap book, Ebenezer Bacon & Co, London, 1868 - c1877, includes various graphic designs for West England & South Wales Distrcit Bank; Devon & Somerset Steam Printing Co Limited Exeter. Fine.
Estimate $100
Not offered
Assorted letters, stamps, banknotes including ships menu T.S.M.V. 'Manoora' the Adelaide Steamship Coy Ltd; poem 'The Adventures of a five pound note'; artists' proof prints (2) for a Swedish stamp, 1994; A.I.F. Discharge Certificate, No 2401 Private Harry Lucas 20th Battalion 1.11.1918; Chrome Art print, Looney Tunes Bug Bunny's Getaway, 1994. Good - extremely fine. (13)
Estimate $100
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 $100
SOLD $90
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
Not offered
Alliance Assurance Office, Sydney Branch, handwritten letter dated 17 June 1865 to The Honourable E.Deas Thomson C.B., Barham, Woolloomooloo, with affixed NSW penny red stamp and postmarked, 'E/Ju 17/1865/Sydney'. Good very fine.
Estimate $50
Not offered
Victoria Public Education, Royal Commission of Enquiry Report, 1878 by Charles H.Pearson, with an impressed seal compliments slip of the Agent-General for Victoria; South Australian School of Mines and Industries manual training booklet, 1893; Report on Brisbane Technical College, 1900-1901; privately circulated memorandum to shareholders in Australian Agricultural Company, December 1852; Australia in Brief 1952 booklet; The Royal Visit 1954 souvenir booklet; catalogue for Australian, New Zealand Communion Tokens and Miscellaneous Series, published 1964 (first edition). Cover on third report torn and loose, otherwise fine - very fine. (7)
Estimate $40
Not offered
Sydney Harbour Bridge, NSW Government Tramways, set of seven tickets all with red 'S' (Sunday surcharge), 1d, 4d, 7d, 8d (green bars), 8d (orange bars), 9d. Scarce, fine - very fine. (6)
Estimate $60
SOLD $70
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 $80
Not offered
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 $150
Not offered
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 $90
Not offered
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 $60
Not offered
Sydney Harbour Bridge, NSW Government Tramways, 1d, 4d, 7d, 8d and 9d tickets (all with red 'S' - Sunday surcharge). Fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $50
Not offered
Australia, programmes, invitations, postcards, menus, including programme to celebrate the completion of the 60th Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria, 1897; official programme of Ceremonial and Entertainments of the Australian Commonwealth at Sydney, January 1st, 1901, 44pps., spine taped; menus, State Municipal and Civil Luncheon, Town Hall, Sydney, Jan 7 1901; Luncheon The Lord Provost and Corporation of Glasgow to Australian cadets on their visit to Great Britain, 4th May 1925; Great White Fleet, United Fruit Company twenty fifth anniversary silver Jubilee Dinner at Sea, 8.12.1951. Very good - very fine. (11)
Estimate $350
SOLD $200
Lord Byron, signature on part of a letter written from Genoa and indicating a possible trip to Greece, signature at end as Noel Byron, dated Genoa May 29th 1823. Foxing, some splits around edges, ink signature clear, fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $600