Catalogue
Australia mining, Dowling Forest Estate Gold, near Ballarat, second new issue, 189[1], five £2 5s shares, black and blue on buff; Federal Convention Gold, Stirling, 190[2], fifty 10s shares, black on aqua; Standard Quarries, 191[1], one hundred £1 shares, blue on blue; Wymah Wolfram Mining, 191[7], £5 debenture, blue on buff; Mount Cuthbert, 19[19], one hundred £1 10s shares, blue on buff; Glen Patrick Alluvials, Elmhurst, 193[5], one hundred 10/- shares, blue on brown; Pacific Gold, 1935, one hundred £10 shares, black on yellow; Misima United, 193[6], one £10 share, brown on brown; Consolidated Gold Areas, 1939, one hundred 4/- shares, red print with border; Morning Star Mines, 1955, one hundred 4/- shares, brown on yellow; Australasian Mining, 1968, one hundred 20c shares. With pin holes on some, light folds, good fine - good very fine. (11)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
Australia mining, Black Horse and Egerton Extension Gold, Egerton (Vic), 189[3], one hundred 5/- shares, orange print and scrollwork, with four brokers stamps, map of claim area on back; Maori Queen Proprietary Gold, Ovens Valley, Harrietville, 190[11], five £20 shares, maroon print and scrollwork; Cock's Pioneer Gold and Tin, 191[6], fifty £1 shares, maroon print and scrollwork; Gold Mines Development, 193[2], one hundred 5/- shares, brown on buff; Lancefield (W.A.) Gold, 193[3], one hundred 4/- shares, black on blue; South Red White and Blue Gold, Bendigo, 19[33], fifty 10s shares, blue print and scrollwork; Illabarook Alluvial, 19[37], one hundred 10/- shares, black on aqua; Milano Gold, 1919, one £10 share, brown on green; Edna May (W.A.) Gold, 1941, one hundred 5/- shares, black on yellow; Evanston Gold, 19[47 typed], one hundred 4/- shares, blue on grey. Some with pin holes, light folds, very fine. (10)
Estimate $120
SOLD $140
Australia mining, British Queen Gold, Elaine, 189[3], one hundred 5/- shares, black print and scrollwork, vignette of bust of Queen Victoria; Mount Drysdale Gold, Cobar, New South Wales, 189[5], ten £1 shares, brown print and scrollwork; North Queen Gold, Charters Towers, Queensland, 190[3], one hundred 7s 6d shares, blue print and scrollwork; North Australian Exploration Limited, 191[2], one £10 share, blue print and scrollwork; Mount Battery Tin, Torrington, New South Wales, 192[8], one hundred 10/- shares, blue print; Tower Hill Consolidated, 192[3], fifty £1 shares, black on pink; South Red White and Blue Gold, Bendigo, 19[33], one hundred 10s shares, blue print and scrollwork; Westralian Gold Development, 193[4], one £5 share, black on green; Wiluna Ajax Gold, 193[6], one hundred 5/- shares, brown print; Whippet Consolidated, 19[51], one hundred 1/- shares, black on yellow; Australasian Mining Corporation, 1968, one hundred 20c shares, black on blue. With folds, creases and pin holes, very fine - good very fine. (11)
Estimate $120
SOLD $170
Australia mining, 'Queen's Birthday' United Gold, 18[94], three Fully Paid Up ordinary £1 shares, blue print and scrollwork. With pin holes, folds and creases, very fine and rare.
Estimate $130
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Australia mining, Mount Drysdale Gold, Cobar, New South Wales, 189[5], ten £1 shares, brown on buff with scrollwork; South New Moon Gold, Moon Reef, Eaglehawk, 190[6], ten £1 shares, red on green with scrollwork; Flying Pig Gold, Sydney, N.S.W., 19[35], one hundred 2/- shares, black on blue. With pin holes, light folds, good very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Australia mining, Kalgoorlie Mint and Iron King Gold, Adelaide certificate, 189[7], twenty five £1 shares, blue print, border and scrollwork; North Australian Exploration, 191[2], one £10 share, blue print and scrollwork; Oxide Creek Limted, Queensland, 191[3], one hundred Fully Paid 5/- shares, black print and scrollwork; Silver Mountain Mining, Pine Creek, Northern Territory, 192[8], one hundred Fully Paid 10/- shares, black on blue with border and scrollwork; Blue Spec Mining, 19[51], one hundred 5/- shares, brown on yellow. With pin holes, light folds, very fine. (5)
Estimate $120
SOLD $90
Australia mining, Queen Margaret Gold, Bulong, Western Australia, 189[8], twenty six £1 shares, black print and scrollwork, gold border; Cassilis Gold, Gippsland, 190[5], twenty five 10/- shares, red on buff with scrollwork; Daisy Hill Alluvials, 193[5], one £5 share, black on grey; East Reefs Consolidated, 1935, £10 Fully Paid share, black on pink; Great Boulder Mining and Finance, 19[35 typed], one hundred 5/- shares, brown on buff; Ballarat East Development, 1934[5], one £10 Contributing share, blue print; East Gippsland Gold, Bruthen, Victoria, 193[6], one £5 Fully Paid share, blue on green with scrollwork; Chrome Alluvials, 19[37], fifty £1 Ordinary shares, black on grey; Bendigo Mines, 19[37], one hundred 15/- shares, brown on yellow with scrollwork; Blue Spec Mining, 19[51 typed], one hundred 5/- shares, black on yellow. With pin holes on some, light folds, very fine - good very fine. (10)
Estimate $120
SOLD $170
Australia mining, Tasmania West Extended Gold, Beaconsfield, 18[99], seventy five 1/- shares, red and black print, with border and scrollwork, vignette of propecting scene, top centre; Maori Queen Proprietary Gold Dredging, Ovens Valley, Harrietville, 190[9], one £20 share, maroon on buff, with scrollwork; Cock's Pioneer Gold and Tin, 191[6], fifty £1 shares, brown print and scrollwork; Mount Cuthbert, 19[19], one hundred £1 10s shares, blue print; Gold Mines Development, 193[2], one hundred 5/- shares, brown on buff; South Red White and Blue Gold, Bendigo, 19[33], one hundred 10s shares, blue print; Lancefield (W.A.) Gold, 193[3], one hundred 4/- shares, black on blue; Pacific Gold, 1935, one £10 share, black on yellow; Misima United, 193[6], one £10 share, brown on brown; Illabarook Alluvial, 19[37], one hundred 10/- shares, black on aqua; Consolidated Gold Areas, 19[39], one hundred 4/- shares, red on buff; Milano Gold, 1939, one £10 share, brown on green; Edna May (W.A.) Amalgamated Gold, 1941, one hundred 5/- shares, black on yellow; Evanston Gold, 19[47], one hundred 4/- shares, blue on grey; Morning Star (C.M.A.), [1955 typed], one hundred 4/- shares, brown on yellow. Some with pin holes and light folds, very fine - extremely fine. (15)
Estimate $160
SOLD $460
Australia mining, Lake View South Gold, W.A., Adelaide Certificate, 190[1], one hundred £1 shares, black on pink, vignettes of sluicing scene and black swan and vegetation, black on pink; Tingha Consolidated Tin, New South Wales, 190[6], one hundred Fully Paid Preferential 10/- shares, black print; Radium Hill Company, 19[13], one Contributing £10 share, brown print; Lode Hill Tin, Queensland, 191[5], one hundred 10s shares, blue print; Tingha Tin, N.S.W., 192[4], one hundred £1 shares, blue print and scrollwork; Great Boulder Mining, 1035, one hundred 5/- shares, brown print; Mountain View Gold, 1949, one hundred 4/- shares, black and gold print and scrollwork; Shaw River Alluvials, 1955, one hundred 5/- shares, maroon on pink. Some with pin holes, light folds, very fine - good very fine. (8)
Estimate $100
SOLD $170
Broken Hill South Limited, one hundred fully paid up shares, Melbourne, 1st October 1918, signed H.G.Gadsby, Acting Sectretary. Extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Australia sundry, The Polynesia Company Limited, Melbourne and Fiji, 18[69], twenty five £2 shares, black print, vignette of palm trees and island plants left side; Mirboo Collieries Proprietary, Gippsland, 188[9], one hundred £1 shares, blue and pink, on white and pink, with scrollwork, coloured vignette of palm trees and vegetation. With light creases, extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $120
SOLD $170
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 $80
SOLD $160
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 $50
SOLD $40
The Cuba Railroad Company, certificate for 10 preferred shares, Dec 30, 1919, issued to Robert Fleming & Co, punch hole cancelled on signatures, stored in Lufthansa folder created specifically for the certificate and with a connecting story; set of four German cancelled to order stamps affixed to a Lufthansa folder created for the anniversary set of airline stamps and with connecting story; Australians Under Fire, a large (approx 21.5x30cm), hardcover book by Australia Post, 1991, 40pp, with colour and b&w photos and maps of WWII battles. Extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Commonwealth of Australia, WWI, Treasury Bond, £10, Seventh War Loan Bond issue, 15th October 1918, maturing on 15th September 1923, signed by W.Israel, Auditor General and Jas R.Collins, Secretary to the Treasury, blue, orange and green on white, with three interest coupons attached. With pin holes and folds, otherwise very fine and rare.
Estimate $2,500
SOLD $2,700
Commonwealth of Australia Treasury Bill, No.R 002724 issued at Sydney (20th 'crossed out') 31th (sic) day of (May 'crossed out')March 1982 for Twelve hundred million dollars (written), and $1 200 000 000 (written at top left), payable to the bearer at the Reserve Bank of Australia at Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart or Darwin on 30 June 1982, secured on the Consolidated Revenue of the Commonwealth of Australia, printed signature of John Stone, Secretary to the Treasury and penned signature of the Registrar of Stock, perforated PAID cancellation at each edge of bottom corners. One small stain at lower left and a few light creases, otherwise extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $20,000
Passed in
Sir Joseph Banks, a one page letter of compliments penned by Thomas Coutts, The Strand (London), 1st June 1787 to Sir Joseph Banks, requesting a viewing of Sir Wm. Petty's model ship at The Royal Society. With notes in pencil at top, very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
Norman Lindsay letter, under Perspex in timber frame (25.5x44.5cm), sent from Springwood, NSW to Ronald Holloway, together with envelope addressed to Ronald Holloway, University College, Auckland, New Zealand (this crossed out and replaced with c/o Display Studio, Cadbury Fry Hudson Ltd, Dunedin), written at top left edge of the envelope in pencil by Robert Holloway is the following, 'Reply to a letter suggesting Rupert Brook's line "Christ has died and Pan is risen" as a subject for a picture. 14.iv.30 R.H.', envelope postmarked at Springwood, N.S.W. 5JE30 and again at Auckland, 1JL30.1 AM. Very fine and rare.
Estimate $2,500
Passed in
Royal Mint Sydney Branch, Report from the Select Committee on Decimal Coinage, 1 August 1853, 185pp; Report relating to the changes in, and present state of the Royal Mint, 1852, 55pp, with William A Crowle bookplates in both. Both bound, torn spines, loose covers, foxing to pages, and taped repairs to second book, good. (2)
Estimate $120
SOLD $70
Holy Bible, containing Old and New Testaments, printed at Oxford, England by The University Press, 1865, (21.5x28.5cm), pages not numbered but many hundreds, inside fly page written, To Mabel from her Grandmother & Grandfather', inserted throughout the book are four botanical pressed leaves/sprays, and a Cassilis Parish & District Monthly Circular for July 1887 and a Star Pastel Co, Newcastle, NSW 'Order for Frame' promotional slip, 1895; also photo of Mabel Laws; a locket of blonde hair; a photo of Flying Officer Jack Laws. First two fly pages of bible loose, foxing, fine - very fine. (lot)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Souvenir of Sydney and Harbour, with panorama, illustrated booklet containing 36 black and white views, published by the NSW Bookstall Company, Sydney, printed by John Sands Limited, no date but photos from the late 19th century to early 20th century. Very good condition, cover very fine, contents as new.
Estimate $50
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Squizzy Taylor, original police photograph of head and shoulders, front and left side, handwritten on back of photo 'Sqizzy Taylor' from Det Clugston. Removed from mount, with crease and 15mm tear left side, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Autograph book, c1912-1915, (23x15cm), mottled brown cover, with quotations, personal messages and momentos, ink drawings by Robin B.Gray, Temora and a watercolour by V.P.Palinier. Spine repaired with tape, foxing around page edges, fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Born to Win, A Lifelong Struggle to Capture the America's Cup, by John Bertrand as told to Patrick Robinson, 1985, 385pp, octavo size, hard cover with slipcover, copy number 123 of a limited bound edition of 250 and personally signed by the author; also National Australia Bank Limited, Select Documents of the Nineteenth Century Volume One 1834-1872 and Volume Two 1872-1900, edited by Harry W.Nunn, 1988, 780 and 762pp respectively, octavo, hard covers, both signed by the editor and also W.T.Hall and both copy number 181 of 300. Foxing to a few pages inside front and back cover of all, and discolouration to some lettering on the spine of the first, otherwise extremely fine, the first very scarce. (3)
Estimate $400
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The Great Imperial Throne, from Le Comte, G.Child engraver, copperplate engraving (15x23cm) on sheet and matted, featuring the Great Imperial Throne in the Forbidden City, Beijing, China; The Flying Bridge, I.Wood engraver, copperplate engraving (22x30.8cm) on sheet and matted, featuring the Flying Bridge built between two mountains on the River Whang-ho in China, 600 feet long and 650 high from the river. Both with some spots of foxing, otherwise very fine. (2)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Carte de la Louisiane et pays Voisins, (map of Louisiana and county neighbours), by J.N.Bellin, Paris 1757, coloured map (22x30cm) on larger backing sheet and matted, featuring lower Mississippi River and surrounds, various mountain ranges and villages of native Indian tribes, all bordered by Florida, Georgia, Gulf of Mexico and New Mexico. Good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $300
Passed in
La Chine avec La Coree, et les Parties de la Tartarie les plus voisines, (China with Korea and parts of the near territories), by J.N.Bellin, Paris c1763, based on maps by Jesuit missionaries 1707-1717, coloured map (29.5x33cm) on larger backing sheet and matted. Good very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $120
A map of the Rout (sic) which Hannibal took, through Gaul and over the Alps into Italy, coloured map (22x29cm), an original copperplate engraving from the important series, Roman History, from the building of Rome to the ruin of the Commonwealth by Nathaniel Hooke, on larger backing sheet and matted; Expeditio Hannibalis Paenorum Imperatoris uti describitur in Livio & Cornelio Nepote, (Hannibal's route through Gaul and over the Alps into Italy), coloured map (15.5x22.5cm), an original copperplate engraving by Herman Moll c1732, on a page (18x28.5cm) on a larger backing sheet; Romanum Imperium, sicut in Caesaris Commentariis et Silio Italico (Roman Empire of Caesar and Silius Italius), coloured map (15.5x26cm), an original copperplate engraving by Herman Moll c1732, on a page (18x28.5cm) on a larger backing sheet. Fine - good very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
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Antique world maps, Map of France, in colour (approx 37x46cm), printed in London, March 1834. Centre fold split, taped on back, otherwise very fine; Map of Persia and Arabia, in colour (approx 37x46cm), printed in London, March 1834. Very fine; Map of Ancient Persian Empire (Iran), in colour (approx 37x46cm), printed in London, March 1834. A top edge split on centre fold, otherwise good very fine; Map of Prussia with part of Poland, in colour (approx 37x46cm), printed in London, March 1834. Very fine; Map of Switzerland, in colour (approx 37x46cm), printed in London, March 1834. Very fine; and a Map of Turkey in Europe, in colour (approx 46cm x 37cm), printed in London, March 1834. As described mostly very fine. (6)
Estimate $250
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Italy, hand signed and printed document in Latin, with seal and title of Cardinal Respighi, Archpriest of the Basilica of St John Lateran, believed to be in relation to some religious relics, dated 11 January 1911. Eight folds and paper splits on some, otherwise fine.
Estimate $50
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