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Indenture of Lease, very large document on vellum with elaborate drawn Royal crest at top left corner, executed in the 8th Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Anne, Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland, 19 March 1709, between John Browne the younger of Weston in the County of Leicester, Yeoman and William Boone of Weston, Yeoman and Richard and Thomas Parsons of London, signed by the two first parties and sealed, with affixed VI Pence duty stamp, Royal Monogram stamp on back and with witness signatures to the sealing and delivery. Fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Bill of Exchange issued by Lachlan Macquarie's father, handwritten in ink and dated at Ulva 22 Agust (sic) 1767 for £19:10 sh, To Mr William Craige/Senior/Merch: in Belfast, Sir, Two days after sight pay Mr John McDugale Merch; in Campbelltown or Order within your office The sum of Ninteen (sic) pounds Ten sh British for value in Cash received, which place to the Acct: of--------- Sir/Your Hule:Sevt (Humble Servant)/ Lach:MacQuarie, and on the reverse top right corner is written, 'McQuarys (sic)/Draught (British variant of Draft)/in favour/of/W McDugale'. With folds and a few small stains on reverse but in excellent condition for its age, good very fine and very rare.
Estimate $4,500
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Articles of Partnership, 1784, being a large vellum agreement for a business partnership between James Taylor of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, ironmonger and Spencer Speers, also of Liverpool, for a period of fourteen years commencing on first day of May 1789, no signatures and duty stamps removed. Foxing, good.
Estimate $50
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Australia historic newspapers, The Austral-Asiatic Review "Open To All Parties-Influenced By None", Vol.5, Tuesday, November 26, 1833, No.240, printed and issued in Tasmania for the outstanding journalist of colonial times, Robert Lathrop Murray; The Empire, Sydney, Thursday, May 20, 1852, published by Henry Parkes, noted on front page are some ads for the auction of pistols and other weapons by Mr George A.Lloyd in his rooms in City Mart, George Street. The first with some writing on the front and with marginal repairs, both with folds and ageing but scarce, good. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
NSW historic newspapers, The Illustrated and New South Wales Agriculturist and Grazier No.7 Vol XVII, Saturday, July 10, 1880 includes a feature on bushranger Ned Kelly with extra supplement with large images of Kelly, his armour and some scenes of his victims and his capture; another but No.9 Vol XVII, Saturday, September 4, 1880 featuring the trial of Kelly. Some tears, and separation at left edge, otherwise good. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
Tasmanian historic newspapers, The True Colonist, Van Diemen's Land Political Despatch, and Agricultural and Commercial Advertiser, Vol.I, Hobart Town, Tuesday, December 16, 1834; The Cornwall Chronicle, Commercial and Agricultural Register, Vol.7, Wednesday Evening January 20, 1841; Cornwall Chronicle Commercial, Agricultural, and Naval Register, Vol.XVII-No.1783, Saturday Evening, September 20, 1851; The Cornwall Chronicle with which is incorporated the "Launceston Times", Vol.XXXVII, No.3979, Launceston, Wednesday Morning, October 11, 1871; Hobart Town Advertiser, Tuesday, December 14, 1852, No.1323; another, Tuesday, July 18, 1854, No.1806; another, Wednesday, May 15, 1861, No.8904. Some tears and loss of paper, poor - fine. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Tasmania, 1826-1868, a collection of Government Acts including 1835 Currency Exchange Act, Proclamations, Land Documents along with two newspapers, The Mercury, October 21st 1865 and The Tasmanian Times, October 24 1868. In folder, very fine. (approx 28 items)
Estimate $120
SOLD $70
Mortgage of premises in Oatlands, Van Diemen's Land, 1837, two large vellum indenture documents joined together and signed under seal, one a mortgage of premises document dated 2 January 1837 from George Dudfield of Oatlands in Van Diemen's Land and Elizabeth his wife for the supply of goods worth nine hundred and sixty four pounds nine shillings from Joseph and Judah Solomon, this also bears a witnessed statement from Elizabeth that she fully understands the purpose of the document, also the large attached document dated 9 June 1842 with Judah Solomon and Joseph Allport of Hobart Town, solicitor, and Joseph Solomon dissolving the partnership between the Solomon brothers, this witnessed by William Douglass, clerk to Messrs Allport and Roberts, solicitors, Hobart Town. A few tone marks and stains on reverse, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $300
Colony of Tasmania Police Office Launceston, 1869, conviction notice printed with Royal arms at top and basic details and then with other information handwritten, the notice named for Annie McCaffrey alias Garvin for feloniously stealing a shawl at Launceston and sentenced to six months hard labour, dated 13 July 1869 and signed by Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, Thomas Mason and Henry E.Lette. Two edge splits at top, some rust spots and toning especially on the outside folds, otherwise fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Australian Colonial Police Forces and Prisons, a large quantity of government published Houses of Parliament documents, 1850s-1890s, includes issues for NSW, Victoria and Tasmania (Municipal Police 1879, Rural Police 1867 and Territorial Police Force 1867), noted Queanbeyan Police in NSW 1859, Worked Performed by Prisoners in Parramatta Gaol 1858, copies or extracts of correspondence which has passed between The Secretary of State for the Colonial Department and the Governors of the Australian Provinces on the subject of Secondary Punishment 1835, A Bill to Abolish Capital Punishments in NSW 1859, Alleged Killing of Station Blacks (by Native Troopers) NSW 1867, Native Police (NSW 1858), a Supplement to the NSW Government Gazette 1858 outlining the boundaries of all police districts, NSW gazette issue published in 1865 offering rewards for and detailing the crimes and description of bushrangers Benjamin Hall, John Gilbert, John Dunn and Daniel Morgan; also a Bill to regulate the admission of persons to practise in Courts of Law (NSW 1895), and Regulations for Mining Officers in the District of Ballarat 1869, and an unnamed Department of Prisons, Order to Visit Gaol (British). Good - fine. (lot)
Estimate $200
SOLD $220
Tasmania, Tasmanian Government Debenture for £500, No.1118, Hobart Town, 31st October 1867, Coat of Arms top centre, blue print and ornate border (43 x 28.5cm) with 'PAID' overstamped in red twice in signature fields and 'London / 9 3 68 / P' stamp in black near Coat of Arms. With pin holes, spike hole in left border, folds and creases, very fine.
Estimate $180
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Tasmania, Tasmanian Government Debenture for £100, No.1072, Hobart Town, 31st October 1867, Coat of Arms top centre, blue print and ornate border (44.5 x 29.5cm) with 'PAID' overstamped twice in red in signature fields, two one shilling transfer stamps for 1892 and 1893 affixed top left side. With pin holes, folds and creases, wear to edges, very fine.
Estimate $80
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Tasmania, Land Order Warrant, No.081, issued to Henry James Herman age 33 years, and his wife Louisa Herman, age 32 years, of Andover, Hampshire to emigrate to Tasmania paying full cost of the passage to Tasmania, dated [Westminster], [23rd May] 18[79], signed by the Agent for the Board of Immigration, written in red '2nd Class per S.'Darling Downs'. With folds, holes in foldlines, 4cm tear bottom edge, soiled, fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $80
Tasmania, Bank of Van Diemen's Land Limited, in Liquidation, second call of £1 per share, received from [S.Rheuben] the sum of £8.0.0, [4th March] 189[6]; together with correspondence to Mr Solomon Rheuben of Hobart from the Bank of Van Diemens Land Limited in Liquidation, 1st April, 18[97], and solicitors Horace Walch, 189[8] and Dobson, Mitchell & Allport, 1900 (2). With pin holes, folds and tape marks on top corners on back of first, fine - very fine. (5 items)
Estimate $80
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Banking Ephemera, includes mostly nineteenth and early twentieth century United States cheques, savings certificates, chits and stock receipts from various banks and corporations, some European included. Fair - extremely fine. (73 items)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Banking ephemera, cheques, Tasmania, mostly The National Bank of Tasmania, all late ninetenth and early twentieth century. Good fine - extremely fine. (29)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
The Anglo-Australian Investment Finance & Land Compy Limited (of Sydney), debenture no.1883 for one hundred pounds, due 1st January 1900 and issued 31st October 1890 to Mrs Helen Potter of 2 Bolton Gardens S.W., with interest coupons nos 7-20 attached, vignette at side and another at the top showing a scene of the Australian landscape featuring an emu and a kangaroo, a native, two miners at work and a globe with a map of Australia, with an impressed duty stamp of two shillings sixpence and an impressed seal of the company in England, also stamped For the Receiver. Some loss of paper and edge tears, otherwise fine.
Estimate $500
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Insurance, Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited, policy issued to Michael Bolger, farmer, of Trentham, Victoria, for the sum of £250, dated twenty-eighth November 1888, with vignette of two seated female figures top centre; Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society, policy issued to Christina Pollock for a dwelling in Marion St, Leichhardt, sum insured £200, dated thirtieth May 1896, with vignette of the Society's Head Office building corner Pitt and King Streets, Sydney, and a NSW one shilling duty stamp affixed. With folds, creases, some edge tears, small stain top right side on first policy, fine. (2)
Estimate $80
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Mount Morgan Gold Deposits, Queensland, 1892, the third report by Robert L.Jack, Government geologist with two maps as presented to both Houses of Parliament, a printed report of 15 foolscap size pages and large fold-out maps. Some tears and string binding missing, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Great Britain, typed letter from British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, dated 20th December 1920, to T.J.Bennett Esq, C.I.E., M.P. advising him of the award of a Knighthood, on letterhead of 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, signed personally; a Home Office typed letter from H.R.Boyd a civil service member of the Home Office, dated 26th January 1921, to Thomas J.Bennett Esq, C.I.E., M.P., advising of arrangements for having the Knighthood conferred at the hands of the King, signed personally; a handwritten letter signed personally by British Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, dated 23.XII.23, to Sir Thomas (Bennett CIE, MP), on letterhead of 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, the letter thanks Sir Thomas for his support even though the election in November 1923 was lost, in the Prime Minister's envelope hand addressed to Sir T.J.Bennett C.I.E. and postmarked Dec 27 1923; various European and Middle Eastern postcards (10), c1907, addressed to Miss Brooke -Jones; handwritten notes in an OHMS India Office envelope addressed to T.J.Bennett; three watercolour paintings (25x17.5cmm [2], and 23x15.2cm), featuring historic buildings in English counties, in an envelope printed for The Society for Nautical Research at Greenwich, and with handwritten note on front to 'Lady Bennett with the compliments of Sir Charles Ollivant'; Commonwealth Parliamentary Association lapel badge in enamel and nickel, by Spink, London. The envelopes torn and the watercolours with some foxing, otherwise very good - extremely fine. (19)
Estimate $70
SOLD $70
Italian Republic (Napoleonic), (1802-05), The Minister of Public Treasury of the Italian Republic, 2-page document No.3971 hand printed and written in ink, dated Milan 1st September 1803 Year 2, text mostly in Italian addressed to Citizen Mesny Pagatore general of the French troops stationed in Italy, with a three-line later addition in French by a different writer being a receipt by the cashier of the Cisalpine Treasury to be dismissed against the receipt of the taxpayer, signed at end, 'Veneri' and another (signature indistinguishable). Some small edge tears and loss of paper, spike hole mark as usual and light foxing but in excellent condition for age, fine.
Estimate $90
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Souvenir Model of The Panama Canal, c1910s, in cardboard folder cover (when open, approx 23x34cm), in colour with map and profile of the canal, back addressed, 'Mrs J Lewis/Metz/N S W/Australia' and at bottom right corner is signed, 'C.Lewis/2592'; also The Truth About Samoa, Facts Stated by Soldier and Ex-Resident on plantation slave labour in Samoa, 7pp paper issued 1919 by the Government of New Zealand following the occupation of Samoa in WWI. Some paper loss on the spine of the first, otherwise fine, the second with a few rust marks from rusty staples at edge, otherwise extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $60
SOLD $30
USA historic newspapers, various issues 1861-1865 featuring reports on the American Civil War, includes The New York Herald (2), The New-York Times (4), The New-York Tribune (3), Boston Daily Advertiser; also The Philadelphia Inquirer, Public Ledger, Wednesday Morning August 15, 1945, with headline 'PEACE' and includes 16 of 26 pages with complete war history, maps and pictures. Some tears and paper loss at edges, otherwise good. (11)
Estimate $50
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Australia, Souvenir of the American Fleet's Visit to the Commonwealth of Australia, 1908, large pictorial booklet with a fold-out b&w photograph of Sydney harbour taken from North Sydney; Souvenir of the Visit of the American Fleet to Australia & New Zealand, 1908, pictorial booklet, 3rd edition; Souvenir Illustrative of the Celebrations in connection with The Visit of The American Fleet to Sydney, 1908, pictorial booklet. Fine - good fine. (3)
Estimate $60
SOLD $60
Australia, historic documents, includes Menu for The Quarterly Luncheon of the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Sydney, Alderman Isaac Ellis Ives, at the Town Hall on Thursday, 9th Septr 1897; Young People's Industrial Exhibition May 1901, During the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, First Order of Merit, named to, 'Harold C. Williams/Physical Drill with Arms'; The Commonwealth of Australia, Inaugural Celebrations at Sydney, 1901, printed programme booklet; invitation for the Commonwealth of Australia Inaugural Celebrations and to attend a Pyrotechnical Illumination of Sydney Harbour on the 4th January, 1901, unnamed; invitation for the Commonwealth of Australia Inaugural Celebrations and to attend a Naval & Military Banquet in the Town Hall, Sydney on 5th January, 1901, unnamed and glued to a board; Australian Commonwealth Celebrations, The Government of Victoria, invitation to Royal Review at Flemington on Friday 10th May 1901, named to 'Mr W. Lowrie', in the form of a large and colourful board certificate suitable for framing. Some foxing but mostly fresh colours and very fine or better. (6)
Estimate $150
SOLD $140
The Brisbane Tramways Company, one penny ticket, imprint Watson Ferguson & Co Brisbane, serial on back B/X 165717 c1880. Very fine and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
Government Tramways, NSW, 3/4d, Railway and Bent St. ticket in red, c1890. Very fine and very scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
NSW Tramways Department, iron T key for locking tram c1920. Fine and rare.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Government Railways, NSW, parcel stamps, different decimal denominations, all used and stuck to backing paper. Very fine. (9)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Victorian Football League, Scanlen's Football Gum cards, first of the series, 1963, complete set of 18 cards, very rare as a complete set, No.14 card, Len Fitzgerald, hand coloured on reverse with green ink over 'Scanlen's Football Gum' and 'Have fun with Scanlen's Gum'. Good - fine. (18)
Estimate $2,500
SOLD $7,000