Catalogue
Kingsford Smith collection, under glass in timber frame (approx 22x27cm), includes his signature on blue paper as 'C Kingsford Smith/Southern Cross/16th June 1931'; Special Flight Ticket No. 466 with Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Kt, MC, AFC, in the "Southern Cross", unissued with stub intact; Souvenir Flight Ticket No. 4887, Kingsford Smith Air Service Limited, issue price of five shillings. Very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $220
Kingsford Smith autograph, on card (9.3x6cm) featuring image of his Southern Cross aircraft and with penned signature below. Foxing on card, otherwise fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
Kingsford Smith, bronze busts, both wearing leather flying cap, the first dark brown (17cm high) the other silvered (13cm high), this without base. Fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $320
Kingsford Smith, The Southern Cross Flies Again 1928-1987, timber framed colour poster (approx 64x78cm; with frame 68x82cm), featuring in the top half a large image of Kingsford Smith with his aircraft at the side and in the lower half another image of Kingsford Smith standing with Charles Ulm and with his Southern Cross aircraft behind them. Extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Kingsford Smith, and other aviators' photos, including family photos for Smithy, also various aircraft photos, a large number of relevant aviation newspaper cuttings and a contemporary booklet titled Hurricane Hinkler. Poor - very fine. (100s)
Estimate $100
SOLD $440
Kingsford Smith, timber and perspex framed page of The Sydney Mail (approx 39.5x50.5cm; with frame 48x60cm), Royal Show Number, Wednesday, April 10, 1929, featuring a photo of Smithy wearing his RAAF uniform and with arms folded, below 'Commander of the Southern Cross'. The page with several horizontal folds and a few light spots of foxing, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Kingsford Smith newspaper article, published in the Truth, Sunday, January 14, 1934, featuring photos of Smithy and another of him with his Southern Cross aircraft and crew and with a story of his greeting in New Zealand after a 17 hour trans Tasman flight, framed under thick perspex on a background board featuring a modern art painting technique and with six small metal aircraft used as feature decorations, signed by the artistic creator on the front and back. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $90
Kingsford Smith, front page newspaper article 'Smithy is Missing', published in the Daily Mirror, Saturday, November 9, 1935, with images, also includes cut-out newspaper photos positioned in two opposite corners, under perspex in timber frame (approx 45x55cm). Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia, by Sir Ross Smith, KBE, MC, DFC, AFC, New South Wales Edition, 1920 (First edition), 32pp, board cover with grey dust jacket, ribbon-tied as issued, features portraits of Sir Ross Smith & Sir Keith Smith, as well as text-illustrations and 27 full-page aeroviews of Sydney, its suburbs, and some NSW country towns by Capt Frank Hurley; another identical but second edition (1921) with different print layout on dust jacket which omits the words 'New South Wales Edition' and is manilla coloured. Some staining and a few tears along top back edge of dust jacket of first and some foxing on both, otherwise fine and scarce. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
The Sydney Mail, October 24, 1934, Celebrations and Centenary Air-Race issue No.1178, 60pp, also features the Duke of Gloucester in Melbourne, many photos throughout and interesting, historical articles. A few small tears, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $150
Aviation journals, booklets and photos, several relating to Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Poor - very fine. (lot)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Aviation newspapers and magazines, 1920s - 1930s, The Sydney Mail 14 March 1928 (Hinkler an Empire Hero on Tour) cover page only; The Queenslander Pictorial May 18 1933 (4pp with full cover photo 'Vale, Bert Hinkler'); The Sydney Mail 13 September 1933 (Hargrave's Place in Aviation History); Flying The New Air Weekly July 9 1938, July 23 1938; November 5 1938; November 26 1938; December 31 1938; February 18 1939; April 8 1939; Flying The Popular Air Weekly, May 13 1939; August 21 1939; September 16 1939; November 4 1939; Il Vittorioso, Italian comic magazine with a cover and story feature on Charles Lindbergh, November 29 1953; also another Sydney Mail dated October 31 1934 missing some pages; also various newspaper clippings relating to aviation . Some with edge loss but overall good - fine. (16 + clippings)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Flight tickets, The Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah V. Airspeed Courier souvenir ticket for passenger flight piloted by Squadron Leader D.E. Stodart DSO, DFC who flew it from London to Melbourne in 99 hours in the Centenary Air Race October 1934, No. 474, price ten shillings; Flight with Keith R.M. Farmer (late of Australian Flying Corps), established 1919, Mebourne Airport, Coode Island, unissued ticket No. 6724 with stub intact. The first with some pencil notations and glued to board, otherwise very fine, the last extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
Aviation tinnies, many Kingsford Smith issues, 1919-1934, some duplicates or triplicates. Good - good very fine. (14)
Estimate $50
SOLD $150
Southern Cross lapel badge, in enamel and silvered (39x14mm), by Angus & Coote, Jewellers, Sydney, pin back. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $200
Amy Johnson England to Australia flight commemorative pin, 1930, in copper, (approx 72x27mm), features cut-out of her aircraft with name, 'Jason' impressed on side and suspended below is a map of Australia on which is impressed, 'Johnnie/1930'; another identical but missing the map of Australia. Fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $220
Amy Johnson England to Australia flight commemorative pin, in enamel and gilt (25x28mm) by Miller, Birmingham, features an aircraft with name of her aircraft 'Jason' struck behind propellor and her name, 'AMY', between maps of England and Australia on the red enamelled wing, pin back. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $270
Early aviator's long coat, (Kingsford Smith's??), c1920s, in brown leather, lined with tan tartan material and with matching leather belt, inside written K????Smith, this probably not contemporary. Some deterioration and tearing to lining and leather coat, leather hardened with age and some colour loss as to be expected, good.
Estimate $200
SOLD $1,700
Pilot's leather gloves, gauntlet style by McLeod, brown in colour with adjustable back strap and fur lined, much of this missing. Fine.
Estimate $50
Passed in
WWII leather flying cap, inside label for Lasica's, Australia and Murdoch's Ltd, Sydney. Most brown colour faded from main body of the cap and lining loose in parts around edge, good.
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
Leather flying cap, inside with gilt Army parachute wings and words, 'Flying Commando'. Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Aeroplane propeller, partial prop in timber (50x18.5mm), c1920s-1930s period, fitted to a stand (overall size 54x51cm). Some scuffing on one side, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Aircraft watercolour paintings, four pieces on a masonite board (approx 41x30cm), suitable for framing, features Gloster Gamecock Mk 1 (1926), Armstrong Whitworth Siskin Mk IIIA (1927), Hawker Fury Mk1 (c1932), and Fairey Fantome (1935). Some light foxing on first, otherwise very fine. (4)
Estimate $80
Passed in
Aviation prints, includes large softcover booklet (43.5x33cm), Aeroplanes in Detail (with 12 images); Ghosts 2001 large calendar with 12 coloured photos; large hard cover folder featuring 38 images mostly with specifications; seven other prints and photos featuring a variety of aircraft, many in colour. The first booklet with foxing, otherwise fine - uncirculated. (47)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Aircraft photos and prints, all framed under glass (approx sizes indicated), includes colour print of Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm (37.5x48cm); colour photo of Hercules C-130 in flight (39.5x30cm); colour photo of pilots of 721st Kokutai (Japanese Naval Air Corps) Jinrai Butai (Divine Thunderbolt) (27x22cm); framed black and white photos as follows Kingsford Smith's Southern Cross flying over Sydney Harbour Bridge while under construction (44.5x54cm); little boy in toy Southern Cross aeroplane Xmas 1935, a specially issued photo for the Flying Doctor Service by Philip Knightly in 1999 (28x37cm); Amy Johnson in flying suit (17.5x26.5cm); Ansett Airways flying boat of the Lord Howe service preparing to take off (51x32.5cm); RAAF seaplane unit at Rathmines with unit officers and airmen assembled around the aircraft (35x22.5cm); 'BRF' last flight landing at Lord Howe Island 10.9.1974 (27x22cm); sheet music for Top of the World march and two step used as colourful poster and features Byrds Arctic Flight (28x35.5cm); small colour print of Australian Inland Mission (16.5x11.5cm); also metal embossed image of Consolidated B-24 Liberator on board (34x16cm) . The Harbour Bridge photo with staining and frame damaged, the colour poster with staining at bottom area, the Ansett photo with light foxing, otherwise good - good very fine. (12)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Aircraft photos and specifications, a collection of 38 packs (approx 15x15cm), each containing 20 cards with colour photo, specifications and history of various aircraft from several different countries. All but one pack unopened, uncirculated. (760 in 38 packs)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Charles Lindbergh tapestry, 1927, (approx 49x139cm; with frame 58x157cm), made in France and listed as No. 1047 in 'Threads of History', features in the centre a suited, facing Lindbergh wearing the French Legion d'Honneur and with the nose of his famous aircraft, the Spirit of St Louis, behind, at the left side, Spirit of St Louis aircraft departing from New York and at the right side, Spirit of St Louis arriving at Paris. A few stain marks at left side and a few small holes, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $200
Passed in
Aviation ceramics, includes Westminster Australia fine china plate 'To Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Amy Johnson's Solo Flight' (26cm) with stand; glass tray (25.5x10.5cm) commemorating Victorian and Melbourne Centenary 1934-1935 and London - Melbourne Centenary Air Race; shaving mug (9cm high) by Wade of England, featuring an RAF bi-plane design on side; vintage milk jug doily featuring Kingsford Smith's Southern Cross. The last item with a few tears, otherwise fine, the rest extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
Aviation commemorative tins, Swallow and Ariells Christmas Cake tin featuring World Famous "Southern Cross"; Bushells Blue Label tea tin featuring Ulm and Kingsford-Smith aviators 1928; Travelling Sweets tin featuring Southern Cross, includes some poor condition stamps and also a ticket AA 11 for Soldiers' Poppy Day Appeal Festival of Remembrance and patriotic Concert at Town Hall, Sydney Sat. Nov, 10 (no year shown); Squadron Leader tobacco tin by Samuel Gawith & Co Ltd, featuring RAF bi-plane on lid; Charles Kingsford Smith Aviator Mints, The Legend Series, 2013, unopened. Poor - good extremely fine. (5)
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
Aviation collectables, includes brooch featuring Spirit of St Louis (Ryan NX-211), machine turned circular disc (58mm) with affixed aircraft; spoon ladle impressed with image of Southern Cross flying above Sydney Harbour Bridge; Stuart collector spoon commemorating Kingsford Smith Tasman Flight 1933; Wright-Patterson AFB medal in bronze (39mm) for US Air Force Museum; small bronze plate (27x22mm) with box kite aircraft; Australia mint one dollar, 1997C Kingsford Smith; Western Samoa, mint tala, 1978 Kingsford Smith First Pacific Flight; Spirit of Australia set of twenty medals, one for Kingsford Smith, in official holder; Kellogg's Aviation Cadet Corps membership certificate no. 1906, dated 15 March 1939; Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Alice Springs, N.T. overprint on Darwin, cheque dated Aug 16th 1943 for Guinea Airways Limited; 1934 Air Race Welcome to Sydney flag. The last poor, the second last with a few holes, good, otherwise very fine - uncirculated. (11)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30