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Victoria, miners rights for two shillings and sixpence, issued at Ballarat, 28 Feb 1898; 12 Oct 1900; 3 June 1905; 5 April 1916; 2 May 1919 and 7 March 1921. Fine - very fine. (6)
Estimate $140
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NSW Government Tramways, 1897-1966, group of pre-paid tram tickets (light card), including (1897-1902) penny overprinted 'OS' (4); another, overprinted 'N.E.S.'; threepence (1952?), overprinted 'O.S.' (2); twopence (1920s?) red; decimal five cents, orange, overprinted 'Ambulance'; Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board, 1-1/2D, purple (2) and blue (Peck 13, 19, 21). Mostly fine - very fine. (12)
Estimate $70
SOLD $50
Australian, 'Political Funny Money', a wide selection, all different (18); plus USA 'Clinton Era' notes featuring Bill and Hillary Clinton, Monica Lewinski etc (10). Mostly uncirculated. (28)
Estimate $90
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Australian 'Funny Money', a wide selection including political, advertising, discount and others including lottery tickets, also noted Australia's Bicentenary Expo 88, two dollars (3) and five dollars (2); Hutt River Province, two, ten and fifty dollars, 1970; Western Australian State Lottery ticket application form (£8,000 for 5/-); Watch Your Jockeys Today for Sydney/Brisbane/Melbourne, pool competition ticket date 20th October 1962; Fox Studios Australia Backlot admission ticket, 16 Nov 1999; Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia, Withdrawal Form C.S.B. No.10, pre 1966; postal sticker for Legislative Assembly Victoria (KC); Sovereign Hill Ballarat admission tickets (2); also a quantity of world 'Funny Money' or Confederate copies, mostly USA. Poor - uncirculated. (approx 145)
Estimate $70
SOLD $120
Wax seal, for The Archdeacon of Van Diemen's Land. Affixed to cardboard, very fine.
Estimate $70
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Victoria, Melbourne Harbour Trust, plans (2), detailing improvements as recommended by Sir John Coode in his report of 17th Feby 1879, the first (90x74cm) a General Plan, Shewing (sic) Harbour Improvements, with Hobsons Bay, Williamstown, Sandridge Flats, Footscray, Melbourne, Emerald Hill, Sandridge, St Kilda; the second (58x125cm) a Detail Plan, Shewing (sic) Proposed Floating Dock and Improvements in the Yarra River, with the Yarra River and surrounds from Sandridge Flats to Swanston Street, detailing proposed sites for wool stores, warehouses, sheds, timber yards, store yard depots, proposed channel and sluice and future rectification of river line. Both plans in black, blue and red print on buff, printed by Thomas Kell, Lith. 40 King Street, Covent Garden; plan of town allotments in the Parishes of Corinella, Jumbunna, Jeetho, Woolamai and Wonthaggi, 1880; Footscray, 1857; Talbot, 1865. All with heavy folds, some foxing and stains, small and large tears, fair. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Australia, Commonwealth Inaugural Celebrations, Monday 7th January 1901, invitation to a picnic at Kurnel (sic) by the Government of New South Wales to Parliamentary and Judicial Visitors, opens out to show Menu; Official Programme for re-enactment of Landing of Captain Cook, R.N., at Botany Bay, on Monday, 7th January, 1901, opens out to reveal details of the original event that occurred at Kurnell and the names of actors involved in the re-enactment. Both documents with foxing, otherwise fine - very fine. (2)
Estimate $50
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Shackleton's Last Antarctic Expedition, Southward in the "Quest", c1922, a cardboard body Kinimette view box with twelve slides in original black paper covered cardboard box (approx 17x7.3x7cm) with top label showing an explorer at the Pole and initialled 'JWS' (?) and 'Mar', and on one end is the label of Kinemette with instructions for viewing. Cardboard box well worn and loose at one corner, the rest fine.
Estimate $1,200
SOLD $1,150
Brownie Downing prints, a collection of prints originally drawn in c1950-60s and featuring Aboriginal children and bush animals as well as young ballerinas and some other children's works, all in colour printed on white or other different coloured paper, approximately small writing pad size, many multiples, suitable for framing. Some with foxing, otherwise uncirculated. (70)
Estimate $150
SOLD $220
World War II Illustrated, Sir John Hanimerton, issues 212-9, 221, 3-6, 254-5. Very good. (15)
Estimate $50
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Australian Chivalry, reproductions in colour and duo-tone of official war paintings, edited by JL Treloar, Director, Australian War Memorial, 1933, broadside with numerous colour and black & white illustrations, cloth boards embossed with Australian Coat of Arms, 44cm wide. Very fine and complete.
Estimate $100
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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 $150
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Gould, John, Birds of Australia, Orthonyz Spaldingi, Ramsay, (Spalding's Orthonyx), original hand-coloured lithograph, heightened with gum-arabic, 530x350mm, Walter Imp, [1875], framed, overall size, 720x550mm. Very fine.
Estimate $250
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Gould, John, Birds of New Guinea, Gymnophaps poecilorrhoa, (Rusty-banded fruit-pigeon), original hand-coloured lithograph, heightened with gum-arabic, 530x350mm, Walter Imp, [1875-88], framed, overall size, 720x550mm. Very fine.
Estimate $250
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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
SOLD $200
Gould, John, Birds of New Guinea, Manucodia Comrii, Slater, (Curl-crested Manucode), original hand-coloured lithograph, heightened with gum-arabic, 560x340mm, Walter Imp, [1877], framed without glass, overall size, 690x550mm. Very fine, scarce.
Estimate $250
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Gould, John, Birds of New Guinea, Carpophaga Van-Wyckii, (Van Wyck's Fruit pigeon), original hand-coloured lithograph, heightened with gum-arabic, 530x350mm, Mintern Bros Imp, [1875-88], framed, overall size, 720x550mm. Very fine.
Estimate $250
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Gould, John, Birds of New Guinea, Pachycephala Collaris, (Golden Whistler), original hand-coloured lithograph, heightened with gum-arabic, 530x350mm., Mintern Bros Imp, [1875-88], framed, overall size, 720x550mm. Framing glass broken, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $250
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Lindsay, Lionel, (1874-1961), drypoint etching, c1925, 22x30.5cm, 'Cobb & Co', signed lower left, inscribed title centre and 'Plate of 60' lower right; in original frame by Geo.Styles, Sydney. Some foxing, rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $600
Great Britain, large engraved plates of commemorative medals for Queen Anne, George I, William and Mary and William III, printed 1786-1789, some being for Tindal's Continuation of Rapin's History of England, also slightly smaller pages of engraved plates of coins for Egbert to Hardicanute, Edward Confessor to Richard II, and Henry IV to George III, hundreds of images. Most pages with edge tears or loss of paper at edges, most images unaffected, good - very good. (20 pages)
Estimate $100
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Coin postcards, Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey I and II, set of twelve in gold embossed box featuring gold coin of Queen Wilhelmina I and the words 'Geldsorten aller Lander' (money of all countries), early 1900s. In original box (damaged), coin postcards, uncirculated. (lot)
Estimate $250
SOLD $150
World, postcards in a shoebox, mostly from early 20th century to 1980s but mostly of the later period, many with postage stamps fixed to the postcard, many are from Europe, Great Britain, Canada and the United States, but other countries are represented. Mostly fine - very fine. (approx 350)
Estimate $60
SOLD $270
Boxing Glove, Kostya Tszyu signed leather glove. In original packaging, unused.
Estimate $100
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