Catalogue
Postcards, Australian aborigines, collection in small album, including Aboriginal Kings (3), semi nude females (3), aboriginal camp scenes, men with weapons. Mostly fine. (16)
Estimate $250
SOLD $190
Postcards, Australia, in album, including South Australia (23), including a few early Undivided Backs, Aboriginal from Stuart's Creek South Australia, Adelaide street scenes; Tasmania (26), including a few early Undivided Backs, Hobart and Launceston views, Port Arthur, Latrobe, Mount Lyell smelters, Mount Zeehan; Victoria (34), including American Fleet Visit, Melbourne street scenes and buildings, Ballarat, Olympic Village. Mostly fine. (83)
Estimate $250
SOLD $360
Postcards, Australian Life, collection in small album, including children in goat cart, Camel Train in Central Australia, harvest scenes with horse drawn and steam tractor implements, splitting sleepers, sheep shearing, early bush huts, paddle steamer on River Murray, artist type bush scenes, cricket, visit of Prince of Wales. Mostly fine. (27)
Estimate $150
SOLD $280
Postcards, Australia, collection in small album, including stamp cards showing State Issues with photo vignettes (12); Military, including embroidered silk with Australian flag, 'Australia For Ever, photo card showing Emden raids in India, Australian troops parading for trenches, American Fleet Visit (1908) including parade scenes, official issues of Victorian State Government. Mostly fine. (24)
Estimate $200
SOLD $280
Postcards, Sydney, in album, wide range of views including wharves, Circular Quay, Redfern, Newtown, Farm Cove, Spit, Mosman, Rose Bay, Lavender Bay, Lane Cove River; beaches including Manly, Bondi, Coogee; city parks, animated street scenes, public buildings. Mostly fine. (79)
Estimate $250
SOLD $460
Postcards, Australia, in album, including NSW (39), with Harbour views, later Rose Series, real photo types, street scenes, Blue Mountains and Jenolan Caves; Queensland (9), Woomera spearman from Northern Queensland, National Exhibition at show ground, Toowoomba, Townsville; Western Australia (3); New Zealand (11), scenic views. Mostly fine. (62)
Estimate $150
SOLD $260
Postcards, Western Australia, collection in small album, including backblocks architecture, early Undivided Back types (12), these including Perth racecourse weighing-in paddocks, street scenes of Perth, Swan River bridge, Fremantle Harbour, Government gardens; later issues including street scenes of Perth, Northam, Kalgoorlie. Mostly fine. (21)
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
Postcard, German New Guinea, coin card depicting the complete set of German New Guinea coins from one pfennig to twenty marks. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Postcard, German New Guinea, with the coins of German New Guinea impressed into the card. As New, scarce.
Estimate $50
Passed in
Postcards, German New Guinea, c1906, illustrating Arapokina, landing place; another The entrance to New Guinea, featuring natives in a steamer and rowing vessels. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $50
Passed in
Postcards, British regimental, 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 $50
SOLD $90
Postcards, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Portugal. Tunisia, USA, with the sets of coins of each of the above countries impressed into each card. As New, scarce. (8)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Postcard, Isadora Duncan, American 'Mother of Modern Dance', Union Postale Universelle Russie postcard, in b&w, with Isadora Duncan written in pencil on reverse in both English and Russian, with impressed Russian text stamping at bottom right corner. A few spots of colour loss, otherwise fine and scarce.
Estimate $70
SOLD $50
USA, matt printed images of historic sites by famous photographers, includes Jefferson Memorial by A.Rowe; Lincoln Memorial by Horydezak; and Washington Cathedral by Horydezak, all c1950s in b&w (approx 22x17cm), mat framed. All grey coloured frames are age toned and all images have some areas with surface loss, otherwise very fine. (3)
Estimate $50
Passed in
Qantas travel poster for Japan, c1960, features a large, colourful rooster right on a yellow background, with a Boeing 707 passenger jet in flight at top right and at the bottom is an indication of Qantas' association at the time with B.O.A.C., TEAL and S.A.A. (size approx 99x74.5cm). Some toning and spots at top right corner, some creases, mounting pin-holes in each corner otherwise very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
Passed in
Digger Days Laughing Through The Great War, c1930s (?), a selection of cartoons depicting Digger wit, selected from Smith's Weekly and compiled by Frank Dunne of Smith's Weekly, large magazine format, soft cover, 32pp, with Appreciation statement at front by G.J. ("Snowy") Howell, V.C., M.M.; Australia At War Drawings At The Front, by Will Dyson, 1981, hard cover, large format, 52pp + illustrations, cover page marked to the effect that this is book 44 of only 150 issued. The first with some paper loss at edges and spine of cover, also some foxing on a few pages, otherwise fine, the second with some light foxing, otherwise good very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
England's Battles by Sea and Land, c1863, hardcover, with lithographic images of battles, appears to be some pages missing at front, last page numbered 288, with two signatures at front, one of these is C.M.Ranclaud (Colonel from 1906 and acting NSW Commandant in 1908-09); b&w group photo (19.8x14.5cm) of 23 officers of the 34Bn (Rutherford, Newcastle) in September 1943; also Newcastle Musical Union Second Grand Concert programme 18 June 1891, inside words to Barnett's Cantata of The Ancient Mariner, all of the above items relate to the Newcastle area of New South Wales. The first with stained and discoloured cover and some foxing on some of the inside pages, mostly near the front and back, otherwise good, the second good very fine; the last poor. (3)
Estimate $50
Passed in
Joseph Brotherton signature, on an admission pass, a grey card (approx 16x11cm), handwritten in ink, 'Admit the Bearer to the Gallery of the House of Commons 10th March 1837' and signed J Brotherton, at the bottom right edge is written 'Salford'. Very fine.
Estimate $50
Passed in
British Royalty and other notable persons memorabilia, includes signed photographs of HM Queen Elizabeth II in formal evening gown attire (19.8x28.4cm), with signature on board below and dated 1968; HRH Prince Philip in dress uniform (19.8x28.4cm), with signature on board below and dated 1968; HM Queen Elizabeth II in formal evening gown attire and HRH Prince Philip in dress uniform together (17.6x22.8cm), with signatures of both on board below and dated 1970; Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma in Admiral of the Fleet uniform (15.3x18.3cm), with signature on board below, 'Mountbatten of Burma A.F., Sydney 1974'; blue hardcover (13.5x18.5cm) souvenir gold blocked Royal Visit 1954 with Australian arms above, inside on the right is a photo of HM Queen Elizabeth II in formal evening gown attire, seated, and standing beside her is HRH Prince Philip in dress uniform, on the opposite side, 'Memento of the/Visit of/Her Majesty the Queen/and/His Royal Highness/The Duke of Edinburgh/to/Repatriation General Hospital/Concord/5th February, 1954/Presented by the Repatriation Commission'; photo (11.6x15.4cm) of Field Marshall William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ, Governor-General of Australia, mat framed with timber frame (16.4x20.4cm), all photographs are b&w. All photo mat borders and inside of souvenir folder with foxing, photos unaffected except for last with some very light foxing, otherwise fine - very fine. (6)
Estimate $300
SOLD $400
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
Passed in
Saddam Hussein signature, in blue ink on an official, untranslated document typed in Arabic (approx 21x30cm), c1990s, at top is a printed eagle with shield device and with a patterned border to the page. Small file holes to right margin, rough top edge, otherwise fine, clean condition.
Estimate $200
SOLD $300