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Cartophily, the hobby of picture card collecting, a collection of various cartophily literature from Australia including, 'Collecting Picture Cards - The Hobby of Cartophily' (40); 'Cigarette Cards Australian Issues & Values'; 'Australian Posatcard Catalogue-1984 (9); 'Collecting Australian Postcards', (3); 'Picture Postcards in Australia 1898-1920' (3); ''Australia Postcard Catalogue 1987 (18) and more. Fine. (81)
Estimate $120
SOLD $80
Cavill, Cocks and Grace, Australian Jewellers, Gold & Silversmiths, Makers & Marks, 336pp, illustrated, 1992. Foxing on front and back fly leaf pages, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $150
Corfield, J., The Australian Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Boxer Uprising 1899-1901, 256pp, 2001. Very fine.
Estimate $50
Passed in
Africa, a huge assortment of literature from all over Africa, mainly travel & story books detailing the features of the countries including, Angola, Africa, Congo & Ruanda, Ethiopia, Gambia, Nigeria, Serengeti & Somaliland and many more. Fine. (lot)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Borneo, an assortment of travel literature from Borneo including Sarawak to Brunei with titles, "Vanishing World, the Ibans of Borneo"; "Borneo, the Worlds Wild Places/Time-Life Book"; "James Brooke of Sarawak"; "A Biography of Sir James Brooke"; "The White Rajahs"; "Queen of the Head Hunters"; "Men of Sarawak"; "Our Neighbours-Sarawak, Brunei & North Borneo"; "Retreat in the East" and many more. Fine. (31)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Burma, a collection of travel literature featuring Burma including, "Behind the Burma Road"; "A Tiger for Breakfast"; "We the Burmese"; "Guns Through Arcady Burma and The Burma Road"; "Burma through the Centuries"; "Return to Burma"; "The Indian Minority" and more. Fine. (14)
Estimate $50
Passed in
India, "The Cycopedia of India, Biographical-Historical-Administrative-Commercial", published by The Cyclopedia Publishing Coy. Calcutta, 1907, 1908 & 1909, Vol. 1-3. A rare and beautiful collection, hardbound with gilt spines, some little wear, but otherwise fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $280
India, a large assortment of publications, mainly travel books featuring India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, titles include, "Plain Tales from Raj"; "Journey Through Pakistan"; "Kodaikanal 1845-1945"; "A History of India"; "A vision of India'; "Pattern of the Tiger", and many more. Fine. (lot)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Malaysia, an assortment of mainly travel literature from Malaysia including, "The Younger Traveller, Malaya and The China Sea"; "Journey into Malaya"; " North From Malaya"; "Federation of Malaya Annual Report 1956"; "The Jungle is Neutral"; "Peeps at Many Lands Malayan States", and many more. Fine. (lot)
Estimate $80
Passed in
Nepal, an assortment of travel literature from South Asia including, Nepal, Himalayas, Tibet and Katmandu with titles including, "The Himalayas"; "Journey to Katmandu"; "The Fabulous Flemings of Katmandu"; "The Waiting Land"; "The Great Himalayan Passage"; "Bibliotheca Himalayica, Nepal", Perceval Landon and many more. Fine. (43)
Estimate $80
SOLD $170
Singapore, an assortment of travel literature of Singapore from its start to fall after the war and beyond including, "Raffles of Singapore"; "Raffles of the Eastern Isles"; "Why Singapore Fell"; "Singapore an Illustrated History 1941-1984"; "The Fall of Singapore 1942"; "Characters of Light, Early Buildings of Singapore"; "The Land Transport of Singapore, from Early Times to Present Day" and more. Fine. (27)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
World, an assortment of publications including, "A little Piece of England"; "The New Zealand Economy"; "The Aviators"; "The First Royal Tour 1867-1868"; and many more. Fine. (15)
Estimate $50
Passed in
Australian States, a variety of issues and denominations, mostly with portraits of Queen Victoria. In an album, used/ cancelled - very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $190
Australia, album of singles from 1913 roos, includes fine used robes set, MUH Navigators pre-decimal set, imprint blocks, 1940s, 1950s, coil issue decimal paper varieties described, decimal paintings set of six, decimals to 1984 (total 333); album with blocks, panes of decimal, 1975-1980; album with blocks, 1981-1984 (F.V.$295); Australia Post 1788-1988, boxed five book set; Australia Post Year Book 2006. Fine U - MUH. (100s)
Estimate $700
SOLD $450
Australia, pre decimal imprint blocks and larger parts of sheets in pages, mostly George V and 1930s commemoratives, all in low values, also FD Covers including Flight covers, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, USA; noted two George V 1/4 MUH singles, 1/- ANZAC, all from one family of collectors. Used to MUH. (100s)
Estimate $300
SOLD $230
Australia, pre decimal and decimal on Hagners and in three albums, mostly used, includes some MUH panes and imprint blocks of 1940s, Australia Post packs and Year Book (5); FDCs, also world, a large accumulation, all in one plastic bin. Used - MUH. (1000s)
Estimate $500
SOLD $700
Australia, decimal sheets part sheets, 1978, $4 painting x 10; FDCs (F.V.$150), world stamps in two Embassy stamp albums. Used - MUH. (100s)
Estimate $80
SOLD $140
Australia, a large variety of mostly decimal stamps in albums (8); an album of First Day covers; a variety of Australia Post mint packs and loose First Day Covers. Used - MUH. (100s, approx 17kg)
Estimate $250
SOLD $600
Australia, The Bicentennial Collection, The Colonial Collection, Sydney 2000 Gold Medalists Collection, Australian Rugby 100 years postpack, several bundles of cancelled pre decimal lower denomination stamps; mint five dollars PNC, 1996. Used - MUH. (6)
Estimate $80
SOLD $60
Australia, a variety of Post Office packs (approx F.V: $520.00); also, mixed world stamps on sheets (247). In envelopes with collector's lists, MUH. (100s)
Estimate $150
SOLD $340
Australia, Post Office packs, a variety of commemorative issues, mostly Olympic and Commonwealth Games related (approx F.V. $595.00). MUH. (100s)
Estimate $150
SOLD $360
Australia Post, yearbooks, 1981-9, 1991 - 2001, 2003, 2005-10; Sherwood Year Collection including £1 Robes, £2 Arms and £2 Navigator; Australian Antarctic Territory, 1957 - 1980, total, five folders plus empty folders (3) 1913-36 series; also Bi-Centennial collection five book set in slip case. Mint - MUH. (33 vols)
Estimate $750
SOLD $1,400
Australia, Australia Post Year Books, 1981-87, 1996; a variety of mint post packs (mostly 1980s); an assortment of mostly cancelled world stamps, includes an incomplete New Zealand collector album, 1930s-80s (all low denominations). Used - MUH. (100s, approx 16kg)
Estimate $300
SOLD $380
Australia, Australia Post Year Books, 1988 - 1995, 1997 - 2013. MUH. (25)
Estimate $300
SOLD $850
Australia, Australia Post Year Books, 1989-96, 1999; also three albums of mixed mostly cancelled world stamps. Used - MUH. (12)
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
Australia, Australia Post Year Book 1984; 1788-1988 boxed set; theme books with WWII commemoratives and trains (5); Lighthouse stock book with used fom low value roos and George V; $10 (Adelaide Botanical Gardens), eighteen Chinese made stockbook albums with stamps of the world, including Australia, three Lighthouse albums with world stamps neatly arranged, mostly MUH, and a cake tin with loose stamps. Used - MUH. (1000s)
Estimate $500
SOLD $400
Australia, and world, including 1988 First Fleet packs, folders of Russia, Poland, Japan Expo 70 mini sheet, Germany, CTO on paper, stock book and three empty albums. Used - MUH. (100s)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Australia, albums of First Day Covers (4); album of Pacific Island issues; Lloyd's Collection 1734 - 1984 in album; Australia Post packs (6); Australian Antarctic Territories year set; Lighthouse stockbook album of world stamps. Mint - MUH. (lot)
Estimate $300
Passed in
British Commonwealth, a large variety of issues and denominations. In a large stock book. Used/cancelled - extremely fine. (100s)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
British Commonwealth, a large variety of issues, includes, India and Sub Continent countries, Kenya, Malaya, Malta, Nigeria, Singapore and South Africa. Mostly used/cancelled. (1000 +)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70