Catalogue
India, Kapurthala State, The Grand Raffle ticket 34093 from book 3100, in aid of The State Hospital, 25 April 1925, conducted by Jolly Bros, Kapurthala, Pewsar, counterfoil attached, unissued; Bikaner State War Fund Lottery, ticket 228266, date of draw 10 March 1942; Gandhi Rashtriya Smarak Nidhi fund raising receipts for one rupee (green AX-215224), five rupees (3, orange N9-069064, brown AX-050023, yellow AX-000224), ten rupees (yellow AX-335224), all identical banknote style design with image of Gandhi and all with counterfoil attached. The first with spike hole in counterfoil and two pin holes and rough bottom edge, extremely fine, the second extremely fine, the rest with staple holes in margin where taken from book, otherwise crisp uncirculated. (7)
Estimate $40
SOLD $30
German Occupation of Czechoslovakia, envelope with three Czechoslovakian stamps each postmarked for the first day of the Occupation with swastika and around, 'Iglau 1st Frei 15 Marz 1939' and another single postmark for 'Jihlava Iglau 1' (Iglau is German for Jihavla, a Czechoslovakian city between Moravia and Bohemia); The Home Front Life in Australia during World War II by Rosemary Clark, 1991, 36pp, with four bonus nostalgic WWII period postcards; The Anzac Between the Lines Tradition by Dawn Mendham, 1990, 56pp, with free wall map 'Arenas of War' (2 of each); and Navy Public Affairs poster of The Fleet; other booklets for Victoria Barracks, Sydney; The Army Museum, Victoria Barracks, Paddington; Remember by National Support Group of 55/53 Battalion, 1995; used Australian stamps, c1937 (6). Used and very fine - extremely fine. (lot)
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
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 $50
Passed in
Captain Cook books, includes Captain Cook Navigator & Scientist, Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium Australian Academy of Science, Canberra 1 May 1969, edited by G.M.Badger, 1970 first edition, 143pp; Captain James Cook Image and Impact, South Seas Discoveries and the World of Letters, edited by Walter Veit, 1972 first edition, 137pp; Captain James Cook Image and Impact Vol II, South Seas Discoveries and the World of Letters, edited by Walter Veit, 1979 first edition, 200pp; With Captain James Cook in the Antarctic and Pacific, The Private Journal of James Burney, Second Lieutenant of the Adventure on Cook's Second Voyage 1772-1773, edited by Beverley Hooper, 1975 first edition, 112pp; The Exploration of the Pacific, by J.C.Beaglehole,1975 third edition, 346pp; also James Cook His Coins & Medals, by Dr W.J.D.Mira, 1970 first edition, 44pp, with library plate of Ken C. Welch inside front cover. The first five all with dust jackets, the first book with foxing on first and last few pages, otherwise minimum usage, extremely fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
The Adventures of Robin Hood, with text based on the Warner Brothers production 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' starring Errol Flynn, hard cover with dust jacket, published by Ward, Lock, & Co, c1938, 128pp, includes eight colour plates and about 90 black and white plates of Errol Flynn and others in various scenes from the classic movie; similar book of the movie for The Three Musketeers, hard cover with dust jacket, published by Ward, Lock & Co, c1950s, 128pp, includes eight colour plates and 80 black and white plates of various scenes from the classic movie; Buffalo Bill Wild West Annual No.8, hard cover with dust jacket, c1954, 141pp, includes stories and panoramic pictures; Roy Rogers Cowboy Annual, hard cover, 93pp, published 1953, with stories, comic stories in colour and various pictures. The dust jackets rough at top and bottom edge and some tears at spine area, foxing, otherwise very fine. (4)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Carte Des Isles Britanniques, map of the British Isles with the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland divided into provinces and counties, with supplement for the Orkney and Shetland Islands, by Robert De Vaugondy after Thomas Kitchin printed by C.F.Delamarch, undated (1800s), in colour, approx 53x71cm with 1.5x2.5cm borders. Foxing and two tears of 2cm on edge, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $30
SOLD $10
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 $70
SOLD $60
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 $70
Passed in
Sydney Harbour Bridge, souvenir items, includes various photos (7), postcards (6) and other ephemera; also Sydney Harbour Tunnel opening official medal in card holder of issue and postcards (6). One postcard with foxing, otherwise uncirculated. (lot)
Estimate $80
SOLD $40
Antarctica, Antarctica Overseas Exchange Office Ltd (USA), two, three, five, ten and twenty dollars (2007-2009) (P.-); Arctic Territories, Global Numismatic Services (USA) three, eight, ten and fifteen polar dollars (2013-2014) (P.-). Uncirculated. (9)
Estimate $90
Passed in
Austria, International Refugee Organisation, Austrian Operation payment certificate, one unit, undated (c1945-48) (Campbell 7360; Schwan & Boling 181). Good extremely fine.
Estimate $120
Passed in
Brunei, Government of Brunei, 1967, one (2) and ten ringgit (P.1 (2), 3) (3); Malaya and British Borneo, ten dollars 1/3/1961 (P.1a); Malaysia, one ringgit (P.1a); Malaya, George VI, one dollar 1/7/1941 (P.11). Very good - very fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Bulgaria, Banque Nationale de Bulgarie, five hundred leva, 1938, V0068749 (P.55a). Uncirculated.
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Cambodia, one hundred riels, printer's proof, undated and no serial number (cfP.15). Uncirculated.
Estimate $200
SOLD $140
Cambodia, specimen one and two thousand riels (2013-14), commemorating Sihanouk's funeral. Uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $150
Cambodia, specimen fifty and one hundred thousand riels (2013, 2012). Uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $150
Passed in
Ceylon, Central Bank of Ceylon, Elizabeth II, five rupees 16th October 1954 (P.54). Quarter folds, otherwise good fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $90
China, Empire, The Ta Ching Government Bank, 1906 issue, Kaifong, five dollars, No 59090, unissued remainder (P.A70r). Small stain and wrinkle, otherwise uncirculated and rare.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $1,800
China, Empire, The Ta Ching Government Bank, 1906 issue, Kaifong, ten dollars No 52816, unissued remainder (P.A71r). Tape repair, otherwise good very fine and rare.
Estimate $2,000
Passed in
China, Republic, Bank of Tientsin, January 1931, five yuan, W574838 (P.70b). Good fine.
Estimate $30
Passed in
China, various issues, one yuan (1945), five yuan (1937), ten yuan (1928 and 1941), fifty yuan (1948), one hundred yuan (1941 and 1949), five hundred yuan (1945, 1947 and 1949), one thousand yuan (1948) and five thousand yuan (1948) (P.80, 197, 239a, 243, 284, 381, 382b, 385, 387, 403, 408, 409). Very fine - uncirculated. (12)
Estimate $110
SOLD $80
China, Republic, The Central Bank of China, 1936 Waterlow & Sons issue, one yuan, B/D 794703 (P.216a). A few light creases, otherwise nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $60
Passed in
China, Japanese Occupation, five thousand yuan, 1945 (P.J41a) AAC and AAN. The first with a small edge chip and some edge scuffing, both with some toning, otherwise extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $80
SOLD $70
China, People's Republic, five jiao, 1953 (P.865), one yuan, 1960 (P.874a), two yuan, 1960 (P.875a), five yuan, 1960 (P.876a); later issues (7) (1965, 1980), Bank of China, Foreign Exchange Certificates (7). Generally flat and uncirculated. (18)
Estimate $200
SOLD $270
Costa Rica, El Banco Anglo Costarricense, one colon, 1917 (P.S121r) <Remainder note A 060606, scarce repeater number. Uncirculated.
Estimate $60
Passed in
Danzig, Senate of the Municipality, post WWI inflation issue, ten thousand mark, 26 June 1923, 100398 (P.18). Virtually uncirculated and rare.
Estimate $400
SOLD $240
Danzig, Senate of the Municipality, post WWI inflation issue, five milliarden mark, 11 October 1923 (P.30). Four pin holes at left, otherwise very fine and rare.
Estimate $450
SOLD $260
Dominican Republic, Banco Central de la Republica Dominicana, specimen one thousand pesos, undated (1964-74), A 000000 A, overprinted SPECIMEN diagonally in red both sides and two red oval de La Rue & Co Ltd specimen seals on the front and back, two punch hole cancellations at signature, SPECIMEN No. 22 in bottom margin (P.106s). Uncirculated and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
Egypt, National Bank of Egypt, five pounds, 1958 (P.31); Central Bank of Egypt, five pounds, 1973 (P.45a). Uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Ethiopia, Bank of Ethiopia, ten thalers, Addis Ababa, 29 April 1933, No. B/2 18878 (P.8). Flattened of creases and folds, small splits in margins of centre fold, otherwise fine, a scarce later date.
Estimate $500
SOLD $320