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Gould, John, Birds of New Guinea, Pitta Caeruleitorques Salvad, original hand-coloured lithograph, heightened with gum-arabic, 530x350mm, Walter Imp, [1875-88], framed, overall size, 720x550mm. Minor water damage at base, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $320
Gould, John, Birds of New Guinea, Ptilopus Fischeri, (Fischer's Frui-pigeon Dove), original hand-coloured lithograph, heightened with gum-arabic, 530x350mm, Walter Imp, [1875-88], framed, overall size, 720x550mm. Very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $270
Gould, John, Birds of New Guinea, Semioptera Wallacii, (Standardwing Bird-of-paradise), original hand-coloured lithograph, heightened with gum-arabic, 530x350mm, Mintern Bros Imp, [1875-88], framed, overall size, 720x550mm. Very fine.
Estimate $250
Passed in
Sydney water colour paintings, a group of four water colours on cardboard of Sydney Harbour and Hawkesbury River. 'Gap, Bluff & North Head, Sydney NSW' (15x11.5cm); 'The Gap' (18.5x12cm), details on the back states 'The Gap, Sydney Heads, scene of the wreck of the "Dunbar"....'; a scene of the heads from the Eastern Suburbs (18.5x12cm); 'The Old Hawkesbury Bridge', Hawkesbury River (18.5x12cm), each painting is also embellished with Australian wild flowers around part of the frame. Some foxing on one painting, mostly very fine. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
Prints, assorted group including fishes (4), East Indies (6) all c1783-1850; Voyage of Captain James Lancaster to the East Indies old print, p368-376, produced in 1768; another as part of the Christian's Magazine issued in January 1792, 48pps, (State of the Gospel in the East Indies). Mostly fine or better. (12)
Estimate $250
Passed in
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
Passed in
Australian casino souvenir decks of playing cards, Casino Canberra, ACT, c1995; Conrad Jupiters, Gold Coast, Queensland, 1994 (2, one red dotted packet and one blue dotted); Wrest Point Hotel Casino, Tasmania, 1992 (2, one blue packet and one red). Extremely fine. (5 decks)
Estimate $50
Passed in
Cigarette Cards, W.D. & H.O. Wills's, 1908 Time and Money in Different Countries complete set of fifty, 1911 United States Warships complete set of twenty five, 1906 Melbourne Cup Winners complete set of forty five, 1905 Interesting Buildings complete set of fifty, 1898 Conundrum complete set of twenty five, 1911 Australian and English Cricketers incomplete set 41/50 (missing No.42-50), 1904 Stage and Music Hall Celebrities incomplete set 37/50 (celebrities in rectangular frame), 1904 Stage and Music Hall Celebrities complete set of fifty (celebrities in oval frame) 1907 A Tour Round the World incomplete set 49/50, 1907? Female Stage and Music Hall Celebrities incomplete set 48/50 (celebrities pictured with red background), 1912 Types of the British Army incomplete set 35/50 (missing No.1,7,12,18-21,26-28,30,33,37,46,49), 1908 Views of the World incomplete set 174/215; American Tobacco Company, 1901 Australian Parliament incomplete set 43/44; Sweetacre Confectionery, 1932 Test Records incomplete set 30/32 (missing No.24,25); Goblin Foods, 1920's Old Cars 32 cards; various other trading cards (40); assorted cigarette tins (in wooden box) (17). Several toned cards and worn tins, poor - fine. (791)
Estimate $200
SOLD $180
Queen Victoria, second type, 1864. Very fine/good very fine.
Estimate $650
SOLD $500
Queen Victoria, second type, 1864. Very fine.
Estimate $600
SOLD $520
Queen Victoria, second type, 1865. Fine/good fine.
Estimate $400
SOLD $460
Queen Victoria, second type, 1865. Fine.
Estimate $450
SOLD $400
Queen Victoria, second type, 1865. Very good.
Estimate $400
SOLD $400
Queen Victoria, second type, 1866. Good very fine.
Estimate $700
SOLD $500
Queen Victoria, second type, 1866. Nearly very fine.
Estimate $450
SOLD $440
Queen Victoria, second type, 1866. Rim bruises, good fine.
Estimate $400
SOLD $420
Queen Victoria, second type, 1866, 1867. In a Monetarium case of sale, very fine. (2)
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $860
Queen Victoria, second type, 1867. Good fine.
Estimate $400
SOLD $420
Queen Victoria, second type, 1867. Nearly fine.
Estimate $400
SOLD $420
Queen Victoria, second type, 1868. Surface marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $750
SOLD $520
Queen Victoria, second type, 1868. Nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $700
SOLD $500
Queen Victoria, second type, 1868. Good fine.
Estimate $400
SOLD $420
Queen Victoria, second type, 1870. Good very fine.
Estimate $700
SOLD $480
Queen Victoria, second type, 1870. Good very fine.
Estimate $650
SOLD $500
Queen Victoria, second type, 1870. Good very fine.
Estimate $600
SOLD $480
Queen Victoria, second type, 1870. Very fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $440
Queen Victoria, first type, 1856. Fair/poor.
Estimate $200
SOLD $310
Queen Victoria, second type, 1857. A little polished, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $700
SOLD $560
Queen Victoria, 1871 Sydney, WW in relief and incuse (McD.118a, b). Nearly very fine; very fine. (2)
Estimate $800
SOLD $820
Queen Victoria, 1872 Melbourne. Very fine.
Estimate $400
SOLD $460