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Tasmanian documents, Cashier of the Commercial Bank, Hobart Town, -183-, blank bank cheque form; Bill of Exchange, Launceston, 6 April 1892, pay £24.0.0 to Mr W.D.Lette, White Hills, with embossed Tasmania duty stamp for three pence, endorsed on back; Bill of Exchange, 23 April 1897, pay £30.0.0 to Mr C.P.????ham, Launceston, with embossed Tasmania duty stamp for one shilling, endorsed on back multiple times; Bill of Exchange, 19 Sept 1898, pay £11.0.0 to David Cocker Jr at The Bank of Australasia, Launceston, with embossed Tasmania duty stamp for six pence, endorsed on back multiple times. The first virtually uncirculated and scarce as such, the second with minute pin hole, the third with several spike holes small section of one corner missing and small edge tear, overall fine - uncirculated. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Australian Bills of Exchange, 1909-1938, drawn by various companies and payable at Bank of Australasia, Murray Bridge, South Australia (15) and ES&A Bank, Clare, South Australia (3), most endorsed on back. Fine - very fine. (18)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
The Bank of Australasia, Adelaide, South Australia bank cheque dated 29 Jan 1930 on an Ancient Order of Foresters, Adelaide form, to pay R.Donovan seven shillings and eight pence being 'Cost of cartage & Freight on Coin to Murray Bridge', written in red ink, 'Remit Debit Murray Bridge', reverse endorsed by payee; also handwritten account, Adelaide, 28th January 1930, Bank of Australasia to R.Donovan, for carriage of 2 Boxes of Coins to Railway Station for freight to Murray Bridge, signed by R.Donovan as paid by cheque; receipt from South Australian Railways dated 29 Jan 1930 for 'Gold Dust, Bullion, and Specie Note', received from Bank of A/Asia, 2 cases of copper coins, value £15, for forwarding to Murray Bridge. Documents pinned together at top left corner, fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $50
Passed in
Australian cheques, The Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd, Numurkah, 5 March 1926, with two bank stamps and back endorsed; The Union Bank of Australia Limited, Daylesford, 21.12.1948, vignette at left side, cancelled as paid and endorsed; blank cheque forms for Bank of New South Wales, Melbourne, Vic, 19-; Bank of New South Wales, Toowoomba, Qld, 19-; The Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd, Victoria Market Branch, Melbourne, Vic, 19-; Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia, Toowoomba, Qld, 19-; The National Bank of Australasia Limited, Central Branch, Brisbane, Qld, 19-; The National Bank of Australasia Limited, Glenhuntley, 19- (2 consecutive, joined); The National Bank of Australasia, Riverton (Sth Aust), 18-; The Queensland National Bank Limited, Brisbane, 194-; The Osborne Company, First of Exchange No.219, dated 19th October 1938, to Bank of New South Wales for A.G.Smythe, Murray Bridge, Sth Aust, endorsed on back; Final Dividend warrant 1941-1942 of The Queensland National Bank Limited payable to B.W.Meade, with paid stamp. A few with spike hole or pin holes, otherwise fine - nearly uncirculated. (13)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
World cheques, Citibank Savings Limited, Margaret St, Sydney, unissued 19- (6); Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Northbridge, NSW, unissued 19- (7, all with different Colonial events or buildings); Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia, Newcastle West Branch, NSW, issued 1959; The National Bank of Australasia Limited, George Street, Sydney, (Ducon Condenser P/L), issued 1942; Great Britain, Barclay & Company Limited, Bank Plain, Norwich, (Gurneys, Birkbecks, Barclay & Buxton), issued 1903 (18); The Clydesdale Bank Limited, London, unissued 19-; National Westminster Bank, Tavistock Square Branch, London (2 cheque books, one partly used, the other unused), 19-; Israel, Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), Tel-Aviv, unissued 19-; Scotland, The British Linen Bank, West Port Branch, Dundee, issued 1947; savings passbooks, Bank of New South Wales, Sackville St, London; First National City Bank, 28th Street Branch, New York; also 20p tickets for Scottish Borders Council (2); embossed seal of National Portrait Gallery. Fine - uncirculated. (41 + 2 cheque books)
Estimate $100
Passed in
World cheques and bills of exchange, Malayan Banking Limited, Malacca, sola of exchange for one hundred Australian pounds, dated 24 April 1964 to Australia and New Zealand Bank Limited, Adelaide, Sth Aust for credit of Miss Daisy Khoo Eng Neo, endorsed on back; National Provincial Bank Limited, Mayfair, London, bank draft for £32.17.6, dated 9 Sep 1931 to Bank of Australasia, Murray Bridge, Sth Aust, for credit of Miss Bessie Davidson, endorsed on back; National Provincial Bank Limited, London, share certificate for one hundred shares dated 21 November 1961, in name of Mrs Rosemary Marjorie Winifred Batting, Devon; Tozer, Kemslev & Millbourn Ltd, London, to Messrs Champions Ltd, Adelaide, First of Exchange No.46769 dated 26 Sep 1950 and payable sixty days after sight to The Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd, with impressed duty stamp and additional affixed stamp, endorsed on back; Wm. Holt & Sons (Walshaw) Ltd, Manchester, to Messrs M.L.Philips, Murray Bridge, Sth Aust, First of Exchange No.708 dated 16 Feb 1938, endorsed on back and on front written as accepted payable at The Bank of Australasia, Murray Bridge, with impressed duty stamp and additional affixed stamp; undated form for documents to be given up on payment, with mention of firm in 310 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, stamped by Bank of Australasia, London. Very fine. (6)
Estimate $50
Passed in
New South Wales, Elector's Right, No.290903, Residential Qualification, Electoral District of the Hawkesbury, Holder James McMahon of Windsor, dated 8th September 1897, dated on back 'F.C.V' 3/6/98 and 27/7/98. Fine and scarce.
Estimate $50
Passed in
Victoria, miners rights for two shillings and sixpence, issued at Ballarat, dated 3rd January 1901, 7th July 1903, 11th August 1916, 31st May 1919 and 2nd October 1923. Fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Coal Mining share certificates, The Yarragon Coal Mining Company No Liability, fifty shares, 27 January 1890; Woolamai Colliery No Liability, Kilcunda, Victoria, one hundred shares, 7 February 1910, transfer signed on back; Kingsthorpe Coal Mining Co Ltd, Toowoomba, Queensland, one hundred shares, 12 February 1912, transfer signed on back; Coal, Oil (N.Z.) Limited, Sydney, fifty shares, 30 May 1927; Queensland Oil Development Company Limited, Melbourne, thirty shares, 30 April 1928; Tailem Bend and Murray Coal Company Limited, six shares, 9 June 1921, transfer signed on back; The Dudley Collieries Company, Coalville, Gippsland, two hundred and forty shares, 7 October 1909, transfer signed on front; Gretamain Collieries Ltd, ten thousand four hundred and eighty shares, 8 February 1924; Moss Glen Colliery Company No Liability, Recherche Bay, Tasmania, one hundred shares, 30 September 1902; Neerim Coal and Oil Syndicate, Neerim, Gippsland, Victoria, one share, 17 June 1918; Outtrim, Howitt and British Consolidated Coal Company, Jumbunna, South Gippsland, Victoria, one hundred shares, 29 November 1900, transfer signed on front; Riverina Collieries Limited, three hundred and ninety eight shares, 28 May 1923, transfer signed on back; Vale of Clwyod Coal & Brick Coy Limited, Sydney, twenty five shares, 23 August 1917; Sydney Collieries Limited, Sydney, one thousand shares, 30 September 1929; Pulverized Coal (Australasia) Limited, five hundred shares, 30 November 1921. A few with foxing and some edge tears, otherwise very good - very fine. (15)
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
Mining share certificates, Cuprite Consolidated Tin Mines No Liability, Watsonville, Queensland, one hundred and sixty shares, 13 November 1899; Victoria Gold Mining Association (Charters Towers), Queensland, two hundred shares, 13 February 1899; Great Northern Copper & Gold Mining Company of Queensland No Liability, five hundred shares, 6 February 1899; United Queen Consols Gold Mining Company Ltd, Charters Towers, Queensland, fifty shares, 16 May 1892; Golden Fremantle Company, Kunanalling, West Australia, fifty shares, 13 August 1900; Mount Magnet Occidental Gold Mining Co, Mt Magnet, West Australia, one hundred shares, 9 September 1897; Nor-West Gold Exploration No Liability, Central Australia, one share, 29 September 1932; Cape York Peninsula Gold Mining Company, Laura, North Queensland, one hundred shares, 30 June 1934; Coronet Hill Development Company, Mount Davis, Northern Territory, one share, 26 August 1924. Very good - very fine. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Mining share certificates, Queensland Mining Prospecting & Investment Co, Melbourne, fifty shares, 24 August 1899; The O.K. Copper Company, Cairns, North Queensland, one hundred shares, 22 September 1909; Ebagoolah Gold Sluicing Syndicate, Ebagoolah, Queensland, one share, 15 December 1922 (2); Black Cameron Gold Mine No Liability, one hundred shares, 19 July 1951; Redcastle Reward Gold Mining Syndicate, Menzies District, Western Australia, nine shares, 27 May 1901; United Options Limited, Brisbane, twenty shares, 24 July 1934; Junction Dredging No Liability, Melbourne, forty shares, 13 October 1921; Golden Treasure Gold Mining Company Limited, Tate, Queensland, one hundred shares, 23 September 1895; Laureville Gold Mines, A1 Settlement, Gaffney's Creek, Victoria, three shares, 17 February 1933. Fine - very fine. (10)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Mining share certificates, The Mikado Gold Mining Coy, Dayelsford, Victoria, fifty shares, 19 February 1907, transfer completed on back; Mining and Metallurgical Processes Proprietary Limited, two hundred shares, 22 May 1923, transfer signed on back; Long Tunnels (Consolidated) No Liability, Melbourne, one hundred shares, 21 August 1939; Broken Hill South Silver Mining Company No Liability, fifty shares, 3 January 1912, transfer completed on back; another, fifty shares, 18 August 1913; Georgetown Gold Mines No Liability, Georgetown, Queensland, one hundred shares, 7 September 1934; the North Queen Gold Mining Company Limited, Charters Towers, Queensland, one hundred shares, 23 (??) 1903, transfer signed on back; Gympie Gold Dredging No.1 No Liability, one hundred shares, 18 September 1934; Return Creek Tin No Liability, Mount Garnet, Queensland, (yellow paper), one hundred shares, 10 February 1930, transfer signed on back; another (blue paper), thirty five shares, 29 June 1928, transfer signed on back;, the Smith's Creek Proprietary Tin Mines No Liability, Mount Garnet, Queensland, fifty shares, 2 December 1902; Trail Mines Inc, Colorado, USA, one thousand shares, 10 June 1960, transfer signed on back (punch hole cancelled); Ghostmount Mines Limited, Ontario, Canada, twenty five thousand shares, 16 March 1960; Peninsular Petroleums Limited, Canada, fifty shares, 14 March 1931, transfer signed on back. A few with spike holes, otherwise very good - very fine. (14)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
Share certificate to Australia's WWI Minister of Defence, Rialto Rubber Proprietary Limited, Kensington, one hundred shares, 3 June 1927, named to Sir George F.Pearce, together with four letters addressed to Senator Sir Geo F Pearce re the share purchase and a handwritten note signed with initials G.F.P. All pinned at top left corner, fine - very fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Mining share certificates, Lacepede Options Proprietary Limited, Victoria, two shares, 3 March 1926; Langi Logan United No Liability, Ararat, seventy five shares, 2 October, 1925; No.2 South East Day Dawn Gold Mining Company Limited, Charters Towers, Queensland, one hundred shares, 11 July 1913; The Lord Roberts Gold Mining Company, Sailors' Falls, Daylesford, one hundred shares, 23 May 1912; Mayfield Gold Development Syndicate, Melbourne, one share, 12 December 1934; White Range Gold Mines (Central Australia) No Liability, one hundred shares, 9 April 1929; Junction Dredging Company No Liability, Porepunkah, fifty shares, 17 May 1905, in name of Felix Meyer (see footnote); Glen Aplin Tin Dredging Company No Liability, near Stanthorpe, Queensland, one hundred shares, 1 September 1925; Little 180 Gold Mine No Liability, Bendigo, Victoria, one hundred shares, 22 December 1937, with transfer completed on back and punch hole cancelled; Kingston (Queensland) Mines No Liability, Kingston, Queensland, one share, 15 August 1914; Metal Options (Broken Hill) Limited, Melbourne, two shares, 21 January 1938; Mineral Ventures No Liability, Melbourne, one hundred shares, 29 October 1954. Very good - very fine. (12)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Oil company share certificates and others, Netherlands Eastern Oilfields Limited, one share, 3 August 1926; Netherlands Eastern Syndicate, Netherlands Indies, one share, 18 April 1926; New Salak South Tin Dredging Company No Liability, Malay Peninsula, one hundred shares, 3 March 1927, transfer signed on front; New Guinea Rubber Estates Ltd, Papua, twenty five shares, 25 May 1920; Boola Boola Petroleum & Natural Gas Coy No Liability, Traralgon, Victoria, twenty five shares, 27 July 1923, transfer signed on front; Condamine Oil Limited, Queensland, twenty two shares, 21 September 1954; Point Addis Oil Wells No Liability, Torquay, Victoria, fifty shares, 1 March 1923; Great Eastern Oil Company, Dutson, Gippsland, Victoria, ten shares, 1 March 1939; Roma North Oil Company No Liability, Roma, Queensland, ten shares, 2 June 1930, transfer signed on back; The Australian States Oil Concession Syndicate No Liability, South Australia, ten shares, 31 October 1903, transfer signed on front; Australian Shale Oil Pty Ltd, one share, 8 February 1924; Burix Plantations and Oil Company Limited, one share, 30 August 1922, transfer signed on back. Some with edge tears and pin holes, very good - very fine. (12)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Oil share certificates, Leongatha Oil Wells No Liability, Leongatha, Victoria, one share, 5 July 1923; Lake View Oil Wells No Liability, Lakes Entrance, Victoria, fifty shares, 12 June 1931, transfer completed on back; Lake Victoria (Gippsland) Oil Wells No Liability, fifty shares, 20 January 1932, transfer signed on back; The Lander Oil Field (Australia) Ltd, fifty shares, 20 March 1928; Mersey Valley Oil Company Limited, fifty shares, 11 June 1923; Midfield Oil Company No Liability, one hundred shares, 24 September 1930; Producing Oilfields Limited, one hundred shares, 23 December 1938; Victoria River Coal, Shale & Oil Company No Liability, Victoria River District (Northern Territory), four shares, 7 March 1913; Austral Oil Drilling Syndicate No Liability, one share, 4 August 1941; Adelaide Oil Exploration Company Limited, five shares, 12 October 1920, transfer signed on back; American Beach (K.I.) Oil Company No Liability, Adelaide, one share, 12 July 1921; Australian Essential Oils Limited, five hundred shares, 28 May 1931. Some with edge tears, one with small piece missing from bottom left corner, otherwise very good - very fine. (12)
Estimate $60
SOLD $100
Oil share certificates, Australian Oil Wells Company No Liability, Melbourne, one hundred shares, 14 October 1913; Australian Oil Wells Prospecting Syndicate No Liability, Nelson, Victoria, one share, 24 November 1926; Australian Petroleum Development Company No Liability, one share, 1 August 1921; Kalimna Oil Company No Liability, Lakes Entrance, Victoria, twenty shares, 29 April 1930, transfer signed on back; Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Company No Liability, fifty shares, 31 may 1956; Tanjil Oil Company No Liability, lakes Entrance, Victoria, one hundred shares, 1 July 1930, transfer signed on back; Roma Ormildah Associated Oil Fields Limited, fifty shares, 3 July 1931, named to Major Rupert Edward Fanning (see footnote); Roma Oil Corporation Limited, ten shares, 29 March 1928; Australian Oil Corporation No Liability, South Australia, ninety six shares, 12 March 1923, transfer signed on back; Associated Oil Corporation Limited, Mount gambier, South Australia, twenty shares, 2 February 1922; Elcho Island Naptha-Petroleum Company Limited, ten shares, 18 December 1923. Some with edge tears or paper loss at edges, otherwise very good - very fine. (11)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Woollen Mill share certificates, The Melbourne Woollen Mill Company Limited, Footscray, ten shares, 2 May 1872; Castlemaine Woollen (Cloth Manufacturing crossed out) Co, Castlemaine, receipt for eighteen shares, 11 September 1882; The Daylesford Woollen Mills Company Limited, fifty shares, 12 September 1921; Daylesford Worsteds Limited, one hundred shares, 22 October 1929, together with letter from Chairman of Directors re share scrip and company progress; Alexandra Spinning & Knitting Mills Limited, Eaglehawk, fifty shares, 28 November 1922; Excelsior Knitting & Manufacturing Company Ltd, Geelong, twenty five shares, 22 October 1920, together with delivery covering letter; The Gippsland Woollen Mills Limited, twenty five shares, 27 January 1925. Fine - very fine, the first scarce. (7)
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Woollen Mill and other share certificates, The Felted Fabric Depot Limited, five first issue shares, 4 June 1874; The Gippsland Woollen Mills Limited, one hundred shares, 28 January 1926; Riverina Woollen Manufacturing Company Limited, Wagga Wagga, seventy shares, 31 March 1920 with transfer section on reverse completed; another identical for one hundred shares, 11 December 1916, with payment of calls recorded on back; The Daylesford Woollen Mills Company Limited, twenty five shares, 6 June 1924; Stawell Woollen Mills Limited, one hundred shares, 12 January 1923; Ballarat Flour Mills Limited, one hundred shares, seventh June 1923; also hand written documents by A. McDowall of Logan, one dated 4 November 1837 being a bill of exchange for future payment at Derwent Bank, the other dated 8 November 1838 being a directive to Derwent Bank to pay named person, both endorsed on back. Very good - fine, first scarce. (9)
Estimate $150
Passed in
Share certificate to historic figure, Pani-Ilota Limited, one hundred shares, 22 July 1910, named in print to Samuel A. Pethebridge, Melbourne, printed diagonally in red, 'Fully Paid Up', signed on back, 'S.A.Pethebridge'. Pin hole at top left corner, toning to right edge, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $100
Passed in
The Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, receipt dated 13.2.1890 to Mr Vellappa for four dollars for message no.663 from Penang Station to Rangoon, signed by Penang Station clerk, at left side margin is printer's name, William Brown & Co., Ltd., Printers, &c., London, E.C.; collection of old perfume labels (34); Australian used stamps 1930s-1980s (201). Spike hole in centre of first and some traces of official stamping, otherwise very fine, the labels mostly very fine, the stamps used. (236)
Estimate $40
SOLD $20
Women's Australian National Service (WANS), document (20.4x31.7cm) for launching of the WANS on 25th June 1940 at Sydney Town Hall, printed both sides with WANS badge in colour on front top left corner, together with similar size two page typed original of the Programme and Agenda with relevant pencilled notes to facilitate use from the meeting opening at 7.30pm to finish with National Anthem at 9.44pm. Colour print faded on printed document, otherwise very fine. (3 pages)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Historic photos, in b&w, one features the Quarantine boarding launch, Jenner, approaching the Sydney Quarantine Station, includes various research documents; also four photos of the Grafton train ferry during construction and in use, one of these a contemporary postcard. Some damage around edges, otherwise fine and scarce. (lot)
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
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 $50
SOLD $30
Great Britain, Game Duty Certificate D, for a person not being a Game-keeper, for the year 1825 for the Division of Gore in the County of Middlesex, issued to The Rev William Drury residing in the Parish of Harrow on the Hill in the said County, signed by William S. Tootell, Clerk to the Commissioner for Taxes; also Appointment Document of George III, with one pound ten shillings duty stamp affixed, all details faded to near invisible. Good very fine; good. (2)
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
Germany, Hamburg lottery ticket for quarter D, 6 class, 3 October 1890, No.59479, city crest at top and stamped name of Collector for Hamburg City Lottery, Louis Lowenherz. Minute edge chips and tip off one corner, otherwise nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $40
Passed in
India States, lottery tickets, most with attractive designs, The Great Lottery, Malerkotla, Punjab, ticket No.032442, drawing 7 October 1928; Dewali Luck, Dholpur, ticket No.662644, drawing 3 Nov 1928; B.U.P.A. Funds, Bansda State, Lady Wilson Hospital for Women & Children, ticket No.A175602, drawing 15 June 1933; St Francis Xavier's Church, Calcutta, ticket No.O 847, drawing 20 Aug 1936; United Club Sweepstake, Datia, St Leger 1938 ticket No.496179, drawing 6 Sept 1938; Derby Arrow, Calcutta, ticket No.75792, drawing 27.9.54. Mostly extremely fine - uncirculated. (6)
Estimate $40
SOLD $20
India and world lottery tickets, Bikaner Canal Land Lottery 1925-26, Book No.1792, Ticket No.90858, drawing 10 March 1926; Summair Club Sweeps (authorized by Namangar State) unused book of tickets for sweep on the Manchester Novr. Handicap run at Manchester on 28.11.1936, full book of six tickets and Special Drawing ticket; Ireland, Irish Free State Hospitals' Sweepstake ticket No.A35960, entered for The Grand National 1938; Burma, 11th Burma State Lottery, ticket No.706888, drawn 23 September 1941, also 12th Burma State Lottery, ticket No.A120995, drawn 18 December 1941, both with names of purchasers entered in ink. Some paper loss at bottom right corner of the first and a pin hole, the second with vertical fold, the third with a few small holes, the second last with pin holes and the last two with rough edges, otherwise fine - extremely fine. (5)
Estimate $40
SOLD $30
India, Postal Orders, Post Office at Allahabaa, twenty rupees, 2008 (purple and black, No.AA/5 907235) ; Post Office at Karsog, one rupee, 2008 (green and purple, No.2 20 382469); Post Office at Patna, one hundred rupees, 2009 (orange and black, No.EE/2 906970). Pin or punch holes and some rough edges, otherwise fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $40
SOLD $20
India, Thakore Saheb of Gondal cheques to The Khajanchi (Treasurer), Gondal Durbar with payment instructions for payee and amount, the first No.07476 dated 20 July 1926, the second No.07564 dated 27 August 1926, the first with additional handwritten figures on front and both with writing on back; 5-1/2 Year Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) post office investment scheme certificate 17BC 404520 for 5,000 rupees, stamped by issuing post office. All with spike hole and the first two with pin holes at left, one of these with a few edge tears, otherwise fine - good very fine. (3)
Estimate $40
SOLD $20