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Australian colonial military uniform prints, in colour (approx 38x52cm), all autographed in blue biro by the artist, Monty Wedd, the autograph being positioned under his signature on the original drawing, includes Ranger, Ballarat Volunteer Rifle Regt, 1874; Regimental-Quartermaster-Sergeant, Tasmanian Volunteer Rifle Regt, 1887; Gunner, NSW Volunteer Artillery, 1873; Trooper - Queensland Mounted Rifles, 1893 (this last image is the cover-piece of Monty Wedd's book, Australian Military Uniforms 1800-1982), together with small printed descriptive sheet featuring the four uniformed soldiers and there units; also Uniforms of the Australian Armed Services, c1960, Golden Fleece swap card album complete with 36 Military Uniform cards as well as 13 spare cards, all different. Foxing on last two prints, otherwise uncirculated. (4 + album + 13)
Estimate $150
SOLD $140
British regimental postcards, all unused, includes one large album with plastic pages with 200 mostly different cards, and one small photo album with 44 different cards, mainly two types featuring either the regimental badge or else the regimental uniform. Some foxing and some cards in small album with small mark where fitted into photo holders, otherwise very fine - extremely fine. (244)
Estimate $250
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British regimental postcards, all unused, includes 50 loose cards featuring a combination of regimental badge images (21) or soldiers in regimental uniform and unit history (29). Some foxing, otherwise very fine - extremely fine. (50)
Estimate $150
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Japan, QSL cards (7) (see footnote), postcards (10), photos (38, large and small, many with full description of subject matter written on reverse), photo envelope packs (5) featuring Farmer Life, Yokosuka, Artisan of Japan, National Park Hakone, and Maiko (Budding Geisha), some from the 1970s but many from late 1940s, together with an old style (Japanese ?) photo album, also WWII Japanese Occupation money for use in Dutch East Indies, one cent (2). The album in poor condition, the notes each with a corner missing, the rest mostly very fine. (approx 60)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
South African postcards, c1920s-1930s (9); unused books of 12 postcards (2) includes The Bay, Pier, & Table Mountain, Cape Town, Series 2 and Mountain Tramway Ride round Lion's Head, Series 6; Christmas cards (2, one unsigned from South African Consulate in Sydney and another from the South African Ambassador in Canberra, signed. Fine - very fine. (11 + 2 postcard books)
Estimate $50
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World postcards, (102), also some booklet style (4) and a fold-out series of photos for Acropolis in Greece, many from early 1900s and includes some WWI military issues and a few movie star cards, noted James Dean (2 different), also some used world stamps on paper, a 96pp booklet 'Die Niederlande deutsch geschen' and a quarto book, 'New York Illustrated', from early 1900s. Used, very fine. (lot)
Estimate $100
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 $50
SOLD $30
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 $40
SOLD $20
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
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Victoria, miners rights for two shillings and sixpence, issued at Ballarat, dated 1st February 1901, 3rd December 1903, 5th June 1908, 2nd December 1920 and 10th April 1923. Fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
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 $40
SOLD $60
State Savings Bank of Victoria bank passbooks, for various locations including Melbourne City branches (3), Armadale, Box Hill, Brunswick, Camperdown, Croydon, Dandenong, Elsternwick, Footscray, Hawthorn, Maldon, Malvern, Northcote, North Melbourne, Prahran (2), St Arnaud, St Kilda, 1898-1928. One with loose wrapping on spine, otherwise mostly fine - very fine. (20)
Estimate $80
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ANZ cheque books, picture series type plus a Bank of New Zealand, Adelaide branch cheque book in deluxe folder, includes early green pictures book Town Hall, Sydney (15 forms); blue series picture cheques with marijuana leaf on hang glider, buttless style (25 forms); as previous but small butt style (25 forms); as previous but marijuana leaf removed, buttless (12 forms); ANZ fauna series, butt style (25 forms); as previous but buttless style (25 forms). Extremely fine. (7 books + folder)
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
USA, Wells Fargo & Co, San Francisco, California, Second of Exchange No.13906 to the Union Bank of London, dated Aug 13, 1868, for Twenty five pounds sterling payable on demand to Thomas Burbery (sic) (Burberry), affixed US Internal Revenue two cents stamp; another, No.870 to Wells Fargo and Company, London, dated Nov 1st, 1869, for Eight pounds sterling payable on demand to Thomas Burbery (sic) (Burberry), affixed US Internal Revenue two cents stamp and California four cents State Revenue stamp as well as Foreign Bill drawn out of the United Kingdom Two pence duty stamp. Edge splits and small edge paper loss, otherwise fine - very fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
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 $40
SOLD $50
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 $50
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
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Shipping related collection, includes The Adelaide Steamship Company Ltd Manoora Racing Club programme of meeting held on the Ozone Racecourse (on board comedy entertainment); Orient Line, Good Friday April 18th Morning Service order of proceedings; Sitmar Line 'Your Passage Ticket' folder; postcards featuring passenger ships (6, four unused, includes TSS Katoomba, SS Orontes, RMMV Winchester Castle, RMS Orcades, SS Lady of Mann, also Queenscliff Sorrento Ferry); advertising folder for The Marina Hotel, Steamer Point, Aden (Arabia), with some pencilled Arabic text on cover; P&O paper diary 'On board S.S."Mongolia", Smoke Room, titled 'Noumea & Back', a 54-page account of the trip by a passenger with detailed descriptions of sight seeing, c1923-37; b&w photo (15x105cm) of 1917 General Strike Volunteers on board ship, by W.Fulton, Oakley Studio, Paddington (torn with piece missing but all volunteers visible). Stored in a CofA (Commonwealth of Australia) foolscap size spring-back binder, fine - very fine. (12)
Estimate $50
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Sydney Showboat, cruise brochures and booklets; Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Company, various annual general meeting reports, 1946-1955 complete (10); 'Captain Cook's Australia' by Baglin & Mullins; a selection of cheques, including the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corp. Govt. Railways 'Parcels Way Bill' for 6.7.1886, plus 'Guards Road Van Way Bill', 26.10.1890? to Harden, NSW; also, cheques, motor vehicle license & registration, lottery tickets, period map of Melbourne by Vacuum Oil (1944); funny money; Sarah Bernhardt reproduction poster (Bernhardt Season at Her Majesty's beginning 8 July 1891); an original New Zealand poster for J.C.Williamsons' comic opera 'The Gondoliers' and 'Utopia Limited' over two nights (7 & 8 June (year not given) damaged, 'Napier 7th June 1900' written on back; various letters, receipts, 150th anniversary of Australia, 1788-1938, two page facsimile souvenir letter; American Banknote Co, souvenir card for the American Numismatic Assn featuring a one dollar note from Tucson, Arizona. Poor - uncirculated. (approx 77)
Estimate $130
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Transport photographs, a collection of railways and ferries, black and white photos featuring Queanbeyan Station, Wellington, Binalong and Belmore Stations (last) Broadhurst, another unidentified; Western Endeavour, first steam train to cross Australia from Sydney to Perth in 1970 (8); a collection of colour photos of stations, platforms, sidings, water towers and signal boxes throughout parts of Australia, includes many stations that have closed (102); a group of Sydney Harbour ferries colour photographs taken from various points in Sydney Harbour (53); also includes a small group of ferry tokens (8). Mostly very fine - uncirculated. (175)
Estimate $80
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Documents to R.Welby, Fitter, Australasian Society of Engineers NSW Branch member's card, 16 Dec 1919 with one receipt; Society Rules and Regulations book, 1917; Pence Card (Annual Dues) for 1913 (blue), 1914 (red); New South Wales Government Railways and Tramways Electrical Branch Annual Picnic, Family Ticket, September 18th, 1905; Tracing of portion 56 in the Parish of Termeil County of St Vincent applied for by Arthur E. Charles Welby, surveyed 21st July 1886, stamped by Land Board Office Sydney; also AMP Society annual bonus certificate for 1919 year for one hundred pounds to J S White; various horse racing betting tickets, noted tickets from A.Negus and Bill Langham (14). Mostly fine - very fine. (22)
Estimate $50
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NSW Government Tramways, collection of Sydney tram tickets 1907-1957, includes early single colour issues, large colour bar, narrow colour bar, plus a group of Sydney Harbour Bridge tickets with 2, 3, 4 and 5 colour bars, ten red 'S' = Sunday Surcharge tickets; also, Circular Quay or Railway to Agricultural, Cricket and Sports Ground & Return, 6d and 2/6 and ferry and tram combination ticket with Sydney Harbour Ferries 1/-, mostly different with various sections, depots, colours from 1d to 2/6. A number of scarce tickets, especially the last item, several with stains, otherwise mostly fine - very fine. (64)
Estimate $270
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NSW Government Tramways, set of sixteen tickets consisting of 3d (three different colours), 4d (five different), 5d (three different), 6d and 7d (two different), 8d. All different with various sections, depots and colours, mostly fine - extremely fine, a rare set. (16)
Estimate $70
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Dept. Road Transport and Tramways, set of tram/bus tickets (1952-56), consisting of 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d (orange bar), 4d (no bar, 2nd section), 6d, 8d, 9d, 10d, 11d and 1/-. A fairly well matched and scarce set, mostly fine - nearly extremely fine. (11)
Estimate $70
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NSW Government Tramways, Sydney Harbour Bridge, consisting of 3d (two different colour bars), 4d, 5d, 6d, 7d (two different), 8d (two different) and 9d, five tickets with 'S' = Sunday Surcharge, all S.H.B. except 5d. A scarce set, mostly very fine - extremely fine. (10)
Estimate $100
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Sydney Harbour Bridge Celebrations, 1932-1982, special souvenir tickets, Dept. of Road Transport & Tramways, consisting of 2d (child), 4d and 8d. Very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $70
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Dept of Transport and Tramways, Sydney Harbour Bridge Celebrations, 1932-1982, special souvenir tickets for 1d, 2d (child), 3d, 4d (complete set). Extremely fine and rare. (4)
Estimate $80
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Sydney Harbour Bridge, Dept. Main Roads, NSW, toll tickets for 3d, 6d, 9d, 1/- narrow tickets with narrow colour bars. Fine. (4)
Estimate $60
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Sydney Harbour Bridge, NSW Govt. Tramways tickets for 1d, 2d, 3d (2 types), 4d, 6d, 7d, 8d, 9d, 10d, a well matched complete set. Mostly very fine - extremely fine. (10)
Estimate $120
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NSW Govt Railways, 'Defence Personnel in Uniform Only' fortnightly ticket, second class, fare 3/- No.22341 expires 22.4.1943, between Otford, Campbelltown, Kenny Hill, Penrith, Richmond and Cowan; Williambong Shire Patriotic and War Fund ticket No. 3560, authorised at Leeton, NSW. Fine - very fine, the first rare. (2)
Estimate $50
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