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South Africa Republic, De Nationale Bank der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek Beperkt, Ermelo Branch, cheque no.0413 dated 21.6.1898, for thirty pounds, written in Afrikaans, with embossed duty stamp and bank's paid stamp, with coat-of-arms of Transvaal at the top and floral and scroll design at left margin. Spike hole as usual, small paper loss on tip of one corner, fine.
Estimate $50
Passed in
World sculling championships antique wood engraving, 1877, (approx 12.5x22.5cm), part page illustration in colour as published in The Graphic Sept. 8, 1877, p220, with text and images on back being p219 of The Graphic, title of work, 'The sculling championship of the world - the contest on the Parramatta River at Sydney between Messrs. Trickett and Rush', matted to approx size 26x34cm. No centre fold but there is a centre fold image evident in printing from original, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
Antique botanical flower prints, by Pierre-Joseph Redoute, c1950s from his original folio titled Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs et des Plus Beaux Fruits published in 1827, includes nos 3, 4, 7, 13, 35, 44, 45, 58-60, 66, 70, 73, 89, 96, 97, 120-122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 131, 132, 141, 142, 144. Good extremely fine. (28)
Estimate $350
SOLD $200
Guild League of Bird Lovers, an album containing various archival notes and articles relating to the League since its inception in 1910; also colour copies of 'Collectors Guide to the Gould League of Bird Lovers of NSW' by Barry Rolls (revised 1.2.2003), plus colour copies of most of the membership cards from 1931 to 1967 and seven original cards, details of the establishment of the Gould League of NSW and several other magazines, a wealth of information. Very good - fine. (lot)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
NSW Government Tramways, prepaid penny ticket, overprinted 'O.S. and diagonal red lines' (official service), issued 3.11.1897 - 7.9.1902 (Peck 13), rare as a strip of eight. Very fine - good very fine. (8)
Estimate $80
SOLD $110
NSW transport tickets and passes, c1983/4, all unused, includes various issues for Sydney Explorer (4 different); UTA bus tickets of various values and various designs, some in cardboard and some in paper (55); ESR Travelpass Rail/Bus, Bus Only, Bus/Ferry, Rail/Bus/Ferry, of various values (16); UTA return tickets of various types (8); UTA Transfer ticket for bus at Charlestown (2); UTA136 Chatswood and Manly Wharf ten rides tickets (3); UTA Bus, Rail Eastern Suburbs to City (4, Adult [2], Half Fare [2]); sixteen various specimen issues for Bus or Rail School Travel (4), Apprentice ID card for Travel Concession, Student ID cards (2), Children's Hospital Bus Concession card, N.S.W. Half Fare Entitlement certificate, Proof of Age card for State Rail, pensioner Free Economy Rail Travel Voucher (2), Retired Employee's Concession fare Authority (2), Transport Concession Card (2); photocopy of ESR Bus/Rail New Fare Scale from 29 July 1984; a large and comprehensive collection of issues. Mostly uncirculated. (109)
Estimate $250
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Urban/State Transit Authority of NSW, Bus Conductor's leather ticket case, complete with twelve different blocks of 200 tickets, ranging from 50c to $3.80, combined bus/ferry for 60c and $1.20 and red Pensioner Excursion ticket. Tickets uncirculated, case very fine. (approx 2,400 tickets plus case)
Estimate $60
SOLD $70
German New Guinea, money card, posted Sep 29, [19]06, Glasgow to San Antonio Texas, USA fixed with 1d Edward VII; together with Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, advertisement card and another advertising Liebig Company Fleisch-extract. Fine. (3)
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
South Africa, ZAR, postcard featuring embossed coins of Paul Kruger, 1892-95, 'Souvenir of the Transvaal', probably sent from a soldier in the Boer War, not postally used but addressed on the back to 'J.Kreuiter, Paddington, Sydney, N.S.W.'. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $250
Cigarette cards, 1904, Player's, British Empire complete set of fifty. Very fine. (50)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Cigarette cards, 1905, John Player & Sons, Life on Board a Man of War in 1805 and 1905, one duplicate. Very fine. (40)
Estimate $150
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Cigarette cards, 1908, W.D. & H.O. WILLS's (small s), Cricketers complete set of fifty. Very fine. (50)
Estimate $250
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Cigarette cards, silk, the Kings and Queens of England Series, 1911, with issues from 1100-1910, by The 'Three Castles' Cigarettes (36 includes 21 types with multiples of some); other issues totalling 12 for Australian schools and universities, British Commonwealth flags, British Army unit badges and others. All with backing intact, some with fraying at edges, mostly very good - fine. (48)
Estimate $100
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Cigarette cards, 1915, Cohen, Weenen & Co, Victoria Cross Hero cards 51, 52 (2), 54, 56 (2), 57, 61-73, 75, 92, 93. Light foxing on back, otherwise mostly very fine or better. (23)
Estimate $200
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Cigarette cards, 1915, Lambert & Butler, Aviation complete set of twenty five. Extremely fine. (25)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Cigarette cards, 1916, W.D. & H.O. Wills's, Mining complete set of fifty. Very fine. (50)
Estimate $120
Passed in
Cigarette cards, 1922, Lambert & Butler, Motor Cars complete set of twenty five. Very fine - extremely fine. (25)
Estimate $100
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Cigarette cards, 1924, W.D. & H.O. Wills's, Railway Engines complete set of fifty. Extremely fine. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
Cigarette cards, 1938, Ogden's, Prominent Cricketers of 1938 complete set of fifty. Nearly uncirculated. (50)
Estimate $220
SOLD $300
Cigarette cards, 1912, Vice-Regal, Types of the British Army numbers 3, 6-8, 11, 15-18, 20, 23-25, 28, 30, 34, 38-42, 45. Some with light foxing, otherwise very fine. (22)
Estimate $80
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Scanlen's Rugby League Football, Sticker Album No.2 complete with all stick-in cards and club logos; Scanlen's Cricket Sticker Album No.2 complete with all stick-in cards; book of replica Santa Claus antique postcards, perforated at edge for easy tear-out to use, 22 of 28 cards present. Some foxing on pages of first two albums, otherwise very fine, the first two scarce. (3 books)
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Scanlen's Cricket stickers, 1983, Nos.1-172, not consecutive and some multiples (178); Stamina Trousers cards, A Man of Stamina series (18 different); Tip Top Bread, Sunblest Explorer cards (7 different); The Smash Hits 85 cards by Figurini Panini (20 different); Player's filter cigarette pack of 20 with famous paintings on front (10 different empty packs); Bank of New South Wales currency conversion guide for Australia to world currencies as at March 1961; Commonwealth of Australia Clothing Ration Card, June 1944 Issue No. N 724033; Identity Card for Armidale, NSW office postmarked 1 Apr 1942; Vietnam War era Zippo cigarette lighter with USA seal on one side and below the inscribed signature of Lyndon B Johnson. Mostly fine - extremely fine. (237)
Estimate $100
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Mad magazines, Australian Super Special numbers 38, 40 (2), 42, 43 (2), 46; Australian Mad numbers 226, 230, 231, 234, 235, 237, 240; Mad Australian Super Special Book of Silly Nonsense (1983); A Second Look at Mad's Dave Berg (Australia 1984); USA Special number 3 (no cover); Super Special number 19, and Summer 1981; Mad numbers 188, 198; also Super Cracked, issue 19, Winter 1983. Good - very fine. (22)
Estimate $100
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Autograph book, with drawings throughout (approx 28), some portraits but mainly cartoons by famous cartoonist during the period 1935-1940, mostly in colour, noted drawings of Ginger Meggs signed by the creator, Jimmy Bancks, others by such people as Hal Quinlan of Smith's Weekly fame, Theo Batten, as a young man and who later created the 'Lucky Cat' strip for the Sun Herald and who also won the coveted Wakely Award in 1972, also Noel Cook of the Telegraph, Jack Baird, cartoonist and WWII war artist for the Sunday Sun, Stuart Peterson a freelance artist to newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, many others. Very fine - extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $7,500
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Annuities receipt 1789, a receipt on printed form (approx 20.5x26.5cm) headed 'Annuities 3700L. per Week', Record (written) 7 April 1789, Numb. (written) 569 - Littleton, being a recipt signed by Thomas Coutts as attorney for George Gefferina for Fifty pounds in recognition of granting aid for carrying on war or other occasions to the King and paid from the fund created from rates and duties on alcohol. Some foxing, loss of paper on one fold and a few other small areas and along bottom edge, otherwise very good and scarce.
Estimate $50
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Earl of Sandwich signature, on a promissory note, London Oct 8th 1791, to pay to the Earl of Sandwich or to his order, one thousand pounds, signed by Fasham Nairn, with impressed II Shillings duty stamp, on the reverse signed, 'Sandwich' and below his signature, 'Received the contents' and signed Wm Martin, at the bottom edge has been written at a later date details of the Earl of Sandwich and his government posts, also written across the front bottom edge, 'Recommended by Lloyd who was to have guaranteed the Bond but went out of Town and died'. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $350
Signatures of British parliamentarians and nobilty, all early 1800s, includes 13th Lord St John of Bletso; Duke of York and Albany; Winthrop M. Praed (politician and poet 1802-39); Earl of Winchilsea; Earl of the County of Mayo, Ireland; Earl of Uxbridge; Sir Nash Grose; Duke of Newcastle 1825; Sir Fletcher Norton, 1st Lord Grantley. Fine - very fine. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Duke of Wellington signature, on section of envelope addressed to Messrs Coutts, stamped 'FREE/27JA27/1831', with his signature below and with contemporary letter detailing his titles from the establishment of the Family Wesley or Wellesley, founded in Ireland in 1172 and from his birth on 1 may 1769 with his various titles and the dates bestowed, concluding with the sentence, 'Prince of Waterloo = Conferred by the King of the Netherlands (after the Battle of Waterloo), all written in ink. Signature on envelope written by one of the most famous military and political figures in modern history, a few paper splits at top of letter, otherwise in excellent condition, very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $380
Joseph Hume signature, on letter addressed to Messrs Barclay & Co, Bankers, London, postmarked 'FREE/14JA14/1833', with signature Joseph Hume at bottom left edge. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
British nobility signatures, two on part envelopes with FREE postmark dated 1831, as available to members of parliament, signatures include Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex; Lord Althorpe (with copy of portrait); William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester 1825; and Count Ernst Friedrich Herbert von Munster, Chancellor of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order 1825. Very fine. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50