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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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Victoria sundry, The Melbourne Patent Stearine Candle Company Limited, one £300 share, issued to Adalbert Kruge Esq of Melbourne, signed by Henry Henty and Frederick Lamb as Directors, dated 3rd January 1866 [date written], black print. With broker's stamp, folds, pin holes, good very fine and rare.
Estimate $250
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Victoria, The Melbourne Patent Stearine Candle Company Limited, certificate of transfer of share numbered 36, from Adalbert Kruge to James Graham of Melbourne, dated 10th May, 186[6]; and Memorandum and Articles of Association of 'The Melbourne Patent Stearine Candle Company Limited', twenty pages printed on vellum, signed by the twelve subscribers including Henry Henty, Herbert James Henty, Adalbert Kruge, James Graham, Frederick Lamb, dated 27th November 1865. First item with pin holes and creases, second with vertical centre fold and some foxing to front and back cover, otherwise very fine and rare. (2)
Estimate $500
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Victoria mining, Alpine Gold, Stringers Creek, Victoria, 186[6], five £10 shares, black print and scrollwork left side. Light vertical folds, extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Victoria mining, The Rose Hill Company, Ballarat, 186[9], five £3 shares, overprinted 'New Issue/Shares, £3 each', black and brown on mottled green and buff. With broker's stamp top left corner, light folds, good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
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 $100
SOLD $90
Gold mining, Horn Island Gold, 1900, £2 debenture; Maori Queen Proprietary Gold, Ovens Valley, Harrietville, 190[11], £20 share, maroon print; Wymah Wolfram Mining, 191[7], £5 debenture, blue print; Mount Cuthbert, 19[19], one hundred £1.10s shares, blue print; Radium and Rare Earth's Treatment Company, Olary, South Australia, 192[5], £10 share, brown on yellow; Lancefield (WA) Gold, 193[3], one hundred 4/- shares, grey on blue; Westralian Gold Development, 193[4], £5 share, black on green; Pacific Gold, 1935, £10 share; South Red White and Blue Gold, Bendigo, 19[36], one hunded 10s shares, blue print; Wiluna Ajax Gold, 193[6], one hundred 5/- shares, brown print; Misuma United, 193[7], £10 share, brown on brown; Milano Gold, 1939, £10 share, brown on green; Illabarook Alluvial, 19[37], one hundred 10/- shares, black on blue; Whippet Consolidated, 19[53], one hundred 1/- shares, black on yellow; Morning Star, 1955, one hundred 4/- shares, brown on yellow. Some with pin holes and folds, fine - very fine. (15)
Estimate $130
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Australia gold mining, Tingha Consolidated Tin, Tingha, 190[6], one hundred preferential 10/- shares (2); Cassilis Gold, Gippsland, 19[11], one hundred 15/- shares, red print; Oxide Creek Limited, Queensland, 191[3], one hundred 5/- shares; Radium Hill Company, Sydney, 19[13], £10 share, mauve print; Lode Hill Tin, Cooktown, Queensland, 191[4], one hundred 10s shares, blue print; Cock's Pioneer Gold and Tin, 191[6], fifty £1 shares, brown print; Tingha Tin, Tingha, 192[1], ten £1 shares; Gretamain Collieries, 192[3], fifty £1 shares, black on green; Silver Mountain Mining, Pine Creek, Northern Territory, 192[8], one hundred 10/- shares, black on grey; Australian Radium, Mount Painter, South Australia, 192[9], fifty £1 shares, black on pink; Gold Mines Development, 193[2], one hundred 5/- shares, brown on buff; Ballarat East Development, 1934[5], £10 share, blue print; Daisy Hill Alluvials, 193[5], vendor's £5 share, black on grey; East Gippsland Gold, Bruthen, Victoria, 193[6], £5 share, blue on blue; Bendigo Mines, 19[37], one hundred 15/- shares (2), brown on buff; Chrome Alluvials, 19[37], fifty £1 ordinary shares, black on grey; Edna May (WA) Amalgamated Gold, 1938, one hundred 5/- shares, black on yellow; Shaw River Alluvials, 5/8/55, one hundred 5/- shares, crimson on pink; Blue Spec Mining, 19[51], one hundred 5/- shares, black on buff. Most with pin holes and folds, fine - good very fine. (21)
Estimate $130
SOLD $130
Far East mining, Bardak Company, Jeneri, Malay Peninsula (2), 19[20], fifty £1 shares, blue on pink; Timor Petroleum, 192[6], five £1 shares; New Salak South Tin, Malay Peninsula (2), 192[7], one hundred £1 shares, blue on buff; Lampeh (Siam) Tin, Southern Siam (2), 192[8], one hundred £1 shares, blue on blue; Tujoh Tin, Federated Malay States, 192[8], fifty £1 shares, green on pink; Mavua Rubber Estates, 1927[8], £100 debenture; Timor Petroleum, 192[9], ten £1 shares; British New Guinea Gold (2), 19[34], £5 share, brown on yellow; Irowat Gold, New Guinea (2), 193[5], one hundred 2/6 shares, brown on pink; Upper Watut Gold, New Guinea, 193[6], one hundred 5/- shares, brown on green; Borneo Options (3), 1939, £5 shares, blue on blue; Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum (2), 1954, one hundred 1/- shares. Some with pin holes and folds, fine - very fine. (20)
Estimate $150
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Sundry, Omeroy Smoke Consumer & Fuel, 191[1], £10 share; William Dawson Company, Ballarat, 191[1], £1 share; Woods-Little Stone Dresser (2), 191[1], £5 share, black and red on pink; Doveton Woollen Mill, Ballarat, [19]18, twenty three £10 shares; Marshall Shoe Company, 19[18], fifty £1 shares; Surrey Engine and Boiler Works (2), 19[20], £10 debenture, blue print; N.Leonard-Kanevsky Proprietary, 192[0], one thousand £1 shares; Internal Combustion Fuel, 19[22], one hundred £1 shares; Union Tablet Company (2), 19[23], £10 debenture, blue on blue; Australian Inventions Limited, 192[3], one hundred £1 shares; Yates & Co.(Australia), 192[4], five hundred £1 shares; Perkins & Co., 19[28], two hundred 15/- shares, blue print with vignette of factory top left; Timor Petroleum, 192[8], fifty five £1 shares; Tasmanite Shale Oil, 192[8], one hundred £1 shares; blue print; Roma Oil Corporation, 19[30], thirty £1 shares; South Australian Oil, 19[31], one hundred 2/- shares, brown print; Golden Fleece (Cracow), 193[2], one hundred 5/- shares, black on grey; NZ Perpetual Forests, 19[33], nine hundred and seventy six £1 shares, blue and orange print; Pioneer Mines, 19[54], one hundred 5/- shares, black on green; Oil Search, 195[9], one hundred 5/- shares, black on green; Carlton Brewery Limited, 19[59], four hundred 10/- shares; Cox Brothers (Australia), [1963], two hundred 5/- shares; Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum, 19[65], one hundred shares; Phosphate Co-operative Company of Australia, 19[67], fifteen $10 shares; Exoil, 1967, one hundred shares; Melbourne Co-operative Brewery, 1970, twenty shares. Some with pin holes and folds, fine - good very fine. (29)
Estimate $240
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Sundry, Standard Quarries, 191[1], one hundred £1 shares, blue on blue; Marshall Shoe Company, 19[12], one hundred £1 shares, purple print; Rutter Process Syndicate, 1913, £50 share; Internal Combustion Fuel, 19[22], one hundred £1 shares; Baquie-Marshall Pneumatic Wheel Limited, 1922, one hundred £1 shares, black on green; Hydraulic Power Press, 1923[4], four hundred £1 shares, black on pink; Marshalls Limited, Richmond, Victoria, 19[27], fifty 7/- shares; Perkins & Co., 19[29], five hundred 15/- shares, blue print; Preston Quarries, 192[9], fifty £1 shares; Jepson Fruit Machinery Company, 192[9], one hundred £1 shares, blue print; Roma Oil Corporation 19[30], fifty £1 shares; South Australian Oil Corporation, 19[31], one hundred 2/- shares, brown on buff; Golden Fleece (Cracow), 193[2], one hundred 5/- shares, black on grey; N.Z. Perpetual Forests, 19[35], two hundred £1 shares, black and orange on yellow; Oil Search, 19[64], one hundred 5/- shares, black on green; Exoil (2), 19-1-68, one thousand shares, and 7-3-69, one hundred shares. Some with pin holes and folds, fine - very fine. (17)
Estimate $150
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Australia banking, Real Estate Mortgage and Deposit Bank, 189[0], twenty eight £5 shares, black print, scrollwork left side. Light folds, pin holes, very fine.
Estimate $100
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Chinese Government, 5 Percent Reorganisation Gold Loan of 1913, brown certificate number 209454, issued by Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, in modern timber frame with glass on both sides (465x350mm), interest coupons visible at back; another 5% Reorganisation Gold Loan of 1913,brown certificate number 311413, issued by Banque De l'Indo-Chine a Paris, in modern timber frame with glass on both sides (465x350mm), interest coupons visible at back; another 5% Reorganisation Gold Loan of 1913, brown certificate number 44348, issued by The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in London, in modern timber frame with glass on both sides (465x350mm), interest coupons visible at back. another 5 Percent Reorganisation Gold Loan of 1913, brown certificate number 750924, issued by Russo-Asiatic Bank, in modern timber frame with glass on both sides (465x350mm), interest coupons visible at back, all certficates printed by Waterlow & Sons and all with the same basic design of Mercury seated at top with ships and peasants around, at either side peasants and oriental buildings. Initials DB or UD on most at top edge otherwise extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $300
SOLD $180
Great Britain, share certificate for Peninsular Company Limited, certificate no.0020, named to John Viret Gooch Esqre, Reform Club, Pall Mall, London S.W., dated 21st July 1864, decorative vignette at side featuring monogram initials of company name, printed on paper with watermark of Bradbury Wilkinson & Co, London, reverse marked with two different transfers of title of shareholding. A few tone spots, otherwise nearly very fine.
Estimate $100
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Great Britain, share certificates, The New Brewery Compy, Carlisle, Limited, 1879, three certificates (2 consecutive) named to Thomas Watson Jackson Carlisle, Esquire, Fellow of Worcester College Oxford, and three to George Mounsey, Kingsfield, Cumberland, all certificates with impressed company seal; also The European & American Steam Shipping Company Limited, share certificate number 25532 dated 4 March 1857, with impressed company seal and company name watermarked paper. One of the certificates named to Mounsey with a tear, otherwise very fine - extremely fine. (7)
Estimate $100
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Great Britain, share certificates, 1888-1952, noted, Eastern Oregon Gold Mining, Nanwa Gold Mines, Edjudina Consolidated Gold Mines, New Callao Gold Mining and Bucaramanga Gold and General Mining. One with tape along one edge and one with edge split, otherwise fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $120
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Great Britain, share certificates, 1935-1949, in Lyndhurst Deep-Level (Gold & Silver) Limited (5) including military holders, namely Major Lionel Arthur Newbold, Lieut. Col. Rupert Havelock Wheatley and Lt. Col. Walter Beckwith Burford; also The Anglican Smelting, Reduction & Coal Company Limited, Nestor, Cheshire, 1858, unissued share certificates for ten shares each (5). Very fine - extremely fine. (10)
Estimate $100
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India, share certificates, 1890-1947, for Bengal Gold & Silver Mining Co, Motapa Gold Mining Company (registered in Southern Rhodesia) with certificate named to Dr Francis Copeland at Calcutta, The Sonapet Proprietary Gold Mining Co (with affixed three Govt of India duty stamps [2x1 anna, 1x4 annas), The Western Patkoon Gold Prospecting Syndicate (with affixed 1x12 annas Govt of India duty stamp), all but the second dated 1890. Fine - good fine. (4)
Estimate $90
SOLD $90
Russia, large bonds, 1884-1917, includes Armavir-Touapse Railway Company 1909 with impressed revenue stamps. Very good - very fine. (9)
Estimate $200
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South Africa, mining shares, noted Government Gold Mining Areas (Modderfontein) Consolidated and others, 1927-1954, some with affixed duty stamps, also option certificate 1951 for unsecured convertible notes in President Steyn Gold Mining Company and a deposit receipt from The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited 1961. Fine - good very fine. (7)
Estimate $100
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