Catalogue
Postcards, Australia, interesting collection in album, including Aborigines (5) with WA natives, corroboree; Pioneering life including camel transport (2), horse and oxen teams, bush home, in a mulga bog, felling a giant tree, River Murray steamer, hydraulic gold sluicing, Kalgoorlie mine; Artist bush scenes; USS Kansas from 1908 Fleet visit; real photo family groups. Generally fine. (48)
Estimate $250
SOLD $200
Postcards, New South Wales, collection in album, including Sydney animated street scenes, city buildings, Botanical Gardens, Balmoral, Clifton Gardens, Coogee, Bondi, Manly (4); Circular Quay and Farm Cove, Harbour views including Lane Cove, Lavender Bay, The Spit, Neutral Bay, Harbour Bridge; Kurnell, Stanwell Park, Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains; Auburn, Campbelltown, Camden, Dubbo, Forbes, Newcastle, Wagga. Generally fine. (84)
Estimate $300
SOLD $260
Postcards, Queensland (32) and Tasmania (12), collection in album, including Brisbane street and river scenes, Exhibition Grounds; Cairns and other North Queensland, Childers Sugar Mills (1915 Panama Pacific Exhibition), Woombye (QIT Bureau); Tasmania including Hobart, Port Arthur and Launceston. Generally fine. (44)
Estimate $150
SOLD $120
Postcards, Victoria, collection in album, early period (38) mainly Melbourne including animated street scenes and public buildings; later Real Photo types (33) from Rose and Valentine Series including Melbourne streets and buildings, Shepparton, and others including a group of nine of Kiewa Hydro-electric project. Generally fine. (71)
Estimate $250
SOLD $180
Postcards, Western Australia (15) and South Australia (42), collection in album, including Undivided Back Kalgoorlie Mine (3), Fremantle Bridge, Wharf; later including Albany, South Beach Fremantle, Perth views including Racecourse; Adelaide including animated street scenes, buildings, Botanical Gardens, a few country types, vineyards, few Real Photo types. Generally fine. (67)
Estimate $250
Passed in
Postcards, Papua New Guinea, collection in album, many issued by Sacred Heart Fathers, locations including Arapokina, Hanuabada, Mekeo, Port Moresby, Onongue, Yule, including scenery, ceremonies, natives, missionaries, (23 plus 6 duplicates); other Pacific countries (11) including Fiji, Cook Islands, Solomons, Carolines. Generally fine. (40)
Estimate $200
Passed in
Postcards, Military, Great Britain, collection in album, all coloured types showing ceremonies and uniforms, including Harry Paine (10), and other Tucks Oilette and similar series, Valentines series including Conrad Leigh (6), and other publishers. Generally fine. (56)
Estimate $250
SOLD $150
Postcards, Royal Mint, group of cards, circa 1910, showing aspects of coin production, including melting, annealing, rolling, pressing, weighing. Mostly unused, very fine. (13)
Estimate $60
Passed in
Postcards, Paris Mint (Hotel des Monnaies), collection in album, circa 1910, from several series, showing all aspects of coin and medal production and quality control at the mint, from metal foundry to final testing, many interesting views of machinery and procedures, including 5 duplicates. Unused, very fine. (68)
Estimate $250
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France, postcards, an extensive collection of postcards c.early 1900s (144), noted (56) of Versailles, (33) Dreux, Paris (13, including 9 of Paris flooded), and a folder of the city Albert (France) in WWI (Battle of Amiens) many photos of before and after the war; together with a leather gilt bound (1899) copy of a Golden Treasury Series, 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' (the Astronomer-Poet of Persia) in English verse; together with a permanant yearly calender, framed for viewing. Mostly fine or better. (146)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Postcards, Airships, collection in album, early French dirigibles in flight and on the ground with spectators, including Adjudant-Vincenot, Clement-Bayard, Le Lebaudy, Liberte, Malecot, Patrie, La Republique, Ville de Nancy, Ville de Paris, and military balloons. Generally fine, many used with stamps. (62)
Estimate $300
Passed in
Postcards, Aviation, mostly France, album with early period cards with a wide range of biplanes and monoplanes, many with vignettes of pilots; views of aerodromes with crowds watching planes; military planes; later Real Photo types showing early commercial airlines. Generally fine. (60)
Estimate $300
Passed in
Postcards, woven silk (2), General Douglas Haig coloured portrait and arms, another of a soldier seated with his family; FAB series card for Clan Stewart; early German cards (2) depicting children with musical instruments; Embroidered silks of WWI period (35), a good range of types including patriotic with flags, Bonne Annee, Christmas, Birthday, family members. Generally fine. (40)
Estimate $250
SOLD $150
Cigarette cards, Sniders & Abrahams, Natives of the World, 1904-1908, set of twenty five cards. Good - very good.
Estimate $350
Passed in
Cigarette cards, Thomson & Porteoius - Luntin Cigarettes, 1916, V.C. Heroes, part set 25/41. Very good - extremely fine. (25)
Estimate $150
Passed in
Cricket, John Player & Sons, album with cigarette cards of Cricketers of 1938 Australian and Great Britain teams in the 1938 Australian tour in Great Britain, including Barnes, Bradman, Brown, Fingleton, Hassett, McCabe, O'Reilly, Compton, Hutton, Hammond etc., also printed coloured cartoons on cricket by Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie (1880-1967) an editorial cartoonist as part of his series on "The Rules of Cricket" produced c.1910 (The Boundary" (illustrated), "Lost Ball", "The Fieldsman", "The Innings", The Bowler", "Caught" etc. in all 10 coloured printed cartoons; lot also includes (6) steel engravings by sir E. Landseer on dogs with attached stories. Fine. (lot)
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
Cigarette cards, W.A.& A.C. Churchman, Ipswich, set of fifty five Can You Beat at St Andrews, includes 'Holed in One' card, plus nine with red imprints; Will's Cigarettes, Wild Animals of the World, part set 27/50. Good - very fine. (82)
Estimate $200
Passed in
Cigarette cards, Will's, War Incidents, 'A' series, part set 40/50, no duplication; 2nd series, part set 33/50; Havelock cigarettes, 1915, War Incidents, 10/50. Very good - extremely fine. (83)
Estimate $150
Passed in
Sweetacres Champion Chewing Gum cards, Favourite Dogs, 1932, part set 40/48; Triumph, Modern Motor Cars, 1926, cpmplete set of 32 cards. Good - very good. (72)
Estimate $200
Passed in