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Norfolk Island, complete collection from 1947-1996, in two Seven Seas hingeless albums with slip covers, including a few booklets; HRH The Princess of Wales 21st birthday albums displaying stamps from various British Commonwealth countries. MUH. (approx 100s)
Estimate $150
SOLD $160
Papua New Guinea, collection in Seven Seas albums, in cliplock folders, mostly MUH, from 1961-1990; together with small Norfolk Island philatelic bureau 'Bicentennial Log Books', (3). MUH. (approx 250)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Papua New Guinea, Post Office packs in three cliplock albums by Lighthouse and encased, dates from 1973-1995. MUH. (approx 100s)
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
Territory New Guinea, 1d O/P O.S., 2/-, Bulolo ?2 and ?5; PNG ?1 specimen; also Australia 6d, 1st wmk perforated OS. MUH. (6)
Estimate $300
SOLD $420
Portugal and Colonies, a variety of issues and denominations, in three stockbooks. Used - MUH. (100s)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Vatican, a variety of issues and denominations. Mostly MUH. (100s)
Estimate $60
SOLD $50
World stamps, a variety of nations and denominations, includes a proportion of used/cancelled, in two albums; also, empty Lighthouse stamp albums (2). Used/cancelled - MUH; as new. (lot)
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
World stamps, an assortment from a variety of nations, c1890s-1980s, many cancelled, countries include Albania, Bulgaria 1879-1970, China (one Manchuria, Taiwan); Brazil and South America; British Commonwealth (Queen Victoria); North Korea; Australian framas 1984-91. Used - MUH. (approx 3000)
Estimate $350
SOLD $210
World stamps, an accumulation from many nations, includes cancelled (mostly) FDC's and MUH, partly arranged in envelopes by country. In a carton, used - MUH. (1000's)
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
World stamps, a range of nations, includes, Australia several decimal mint sheets (approx F.V = $100.00); other nations having a large proportion cancelled, includes used envelopes. In a plastic storage container, used - MUH. (1000s)
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
British Honduras, Postal Orders, crown agent watermarked paper, 25c (1c) KGVI unissued, 25c (1c) KGVI issued 20/10/75 Belize City, 50c (1c) KGVI issued, all with counterfoils. Extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $50
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Jamaica, Postal Orders, 10c, 20c, 30c, all issued Kingston 11/7/91; 40c, 50c both 6c surcharge unissued; 80c (4c) issued Kingston 11/7/91; $1 (7c) Halfway Tree 7/11/90; $2 (5c) Halfway Tree 7/11/90; $4 (7c) Constant Spring 23/9/82; $6 (9c) Halfway Tree 23/9/82; $8 (11c) Halfway Tree 7/12/90; $10 (11c) Halfway Tree 7/12/90; $20 (20c) Halfway Tree 7/12/90; $50 Savanna 12/3/90; $100 Savanna 12/3/90; all with counterfoils. Nearly uncirculated - uncirculated. (15)
Estimate $100
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New Zealand, Postal Note, Type 7c-4, 1940, two shillings and sixpence (2d), issued Lower Hut 13/11/41. Some light foxing, good fine and scarce.
Estimate $50
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New Zealand, Postal Note, type 7E 1945-61, two shillings (2d), issued New Market 4/7/1955. Some foxing, 2mm tear left edge, 3mm tear right edge, fine.
Estimate $30
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New Zealand, Postal Note, Type 7E-9, 1945-61, five shillings (3d), issued New Brighton 10/10/58. With 10mm tear right edge, fine.
Estimate $30
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Papua New Guinea, Postal Orders, errors, paying office 26/11/79, issued 10 toea (5t) Port Moresby 26/11/79; unissued 50 toea (10t); unissued 10 kina, forty surcharge; unissued 20 kina (40t). The first extremely fine, others uncirculated. (4)
Estimate $80
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Postcards, shipping and maritime related, c1930's - 1960's. In a Lighthouse album, good fine - extremely fine. (approx 430)
Estimate $100
SOLD $620
Postcards, an album of USA, sights and scenes (approx 110); another, Europe and UK, sights and scenes (approx 100); Military related, in album pages (approx 110), all c.1930-60. Fine - very fine. (approx 300)
Estimate $80
SOLD $90
Banknote albums (3); single file postcard albums (10), all Lighthouse. Very fine. (13)
Estimate $60
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Bills of Lading, ship "Le Saint Andre", 12th March 1788, cargo of cotton ball, Port of Marseille to Agde, France; another, ship "Lamsitie" (friendship), 21st February 1792, Capt. Vant Michel, Marseille to Agde, France. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $70
SOLD $50
Bill of Lading, ship "La Sainte Famille" (The Holy Family), cargo of candles, December 1809, Marseille to Agde, France. Very fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $30
Bill of Lading, Ship "La Jeone Honorine", Capt. Pierre Callan, cargo of soap, from Marseille to Agde, France. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Cheques, Cashier of the Commercial Bank, Hobart Town, 25 March 1839 for ?175.19.2; Melbourne, 31st July 1855 for ?50, pay five months after date; Australia, July 2nd 1855, five months after date pay ?27.10 to Mr Samuel Bottomley, Auctioneer, 107 Elizabeth St; Bank of Van Diemen's Land, 1871, payable to Messrs Ritchie & Parker, with Queen Victoria, Tasmania, one penny stamp affixed; unused cheques, Commercial Bank of Tasmania Limited 18--; another, handwritten over The Bank of Australasia, 189-; The National Bank of Tasmania Limited, Launceston, for the Full Moon T.M.Co. 188-. Fine - very fine. (7)
Estimate $100
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Cheques, used and unused, 1874-1977, including Australia Bank of Commerce Limited, Bank of Adelaide, Bank of Australasia, Bank of New South Wales, Bank of Victoria, Commercial Bank of Tasmania, Commonwealth Bank, Commonwealth Trading Bank, English, Scottish & Australian Chartered Bank, National Bank of Australia, State Savings Bank, Union Bank of Australia, English, Scottish & Australian Bank; together with used Traveller's Cheques (5) for five and ten (2) pounds, c1960s, twenty and fifty dollars, c1970s. Three cheques with pin or spike hole, another two with creases and tears to edges, fine - good very fine. (19)
Estimate $100
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Specimen Travellers' Cheques, including English, Scottish & Australian Bank Limited, for two, five, ten and twenty pounds Australian currency; Commercial Bank of Australia Limited (May 1972) pamphlet in English and French with specimen sterling travellers' cheques for five, ten, twenty and fifty pounds affixed; Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia (June 1961), pamphlet with illustrated fifty pound travellers' cheque and a cheque for ?10A; Bank of New South Wales (September 1, 1961) pamphlet in English and French with colour illustrations of two, five, ten, twenty and fifty pounds sterling. With some folds and creases, foxing and small tears to edges, fine - very fine. (8)
Estimate $200
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Bonds, various Belgian and French companies, all with coupons attached, c.1920's (17); Magazines, all c.1950's "The Illustrated London News" (4) "The Sphere" (6). Fine - extremely fine. (27)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Australia, Melbourne, Penal Department of Victoria, Convict's Ticket of Leave on vellum, issued by the Inspector General of the Penal Department, to John Edwards, 18 November 1862, (20.5 x 32 cm document size), in custom frame with glass back and front, (39 x 52 cm). Very fine and very rare.
Estimate $1,500
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Colony of Victoria, Miner's Right, district of Ballarat, book No.89, No.919, 5/-, dated 26th May [189]7, issued to Victoria Shield (?), Ballarat, signed by A.C.Bell. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
A group of documents, dated 1844-1897, including a Wholesale Dealer's Licence in Wine and Spirituous Liquors, Launceston, Van Diemens Land, 1844; Colony of New South Wales, Conveyance and Assignment of Assets of real and personal assets of an insolvent estate of the firm formerly trading under and using the name of Hughes and Hosking, Sydney, 1848; Colony of Victoria, Memorandum of Transfer, Melbourne, 1866; Tasmania, approval for a Public House Licence for the Launceston Club Hotel, 1868; Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Melbourne, policy for household furniture and effects including two pianofortes, St Kilda, 1881; Colonial Mutual Insurance Company, policy for a building in Campbell Creek, 1884; Australian Alliance Assurance Company, Fire Policy, 1886; Lease Agreement between the London Bank of Australia Limited and Duncan Shaw Smith, North Melbourne, 1895, with Victoria duty stamps of 2/6 (2), 5/- (2) and 10/- affixed; Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company, Fire Policy, 1898, for the Honorable Robert Hoddle Drieberg White, for seven properties in Fitzroy, 1897. With folds and creases, very fine - good very fine. (9)
Estimate $150
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Letters Patents (2), both printed on vellum, to Mr Jacob Charles Leony of Melbourne, for an 'Invention for Improvements in preserving animal and vegetable substances' in the Colony of Victoria, where he wishes to obtain a Royal Letters Patent, signed and dated 27th June 1873, with Victoria statute stamps for 10/- and ?1 (2) affixed; and in the Colony of Tasmania where he wishes to secure a Special Licence within the said Colony for his invention, signed and dated 13th September 1873; together with Deed of Agreement and Assignment, handwritten on paper, between Mr Jacob Charles Leony and Messrs John Clayton and others, to sell and assign to other parties one half share and interest of and in the said invention, signed and dated 25th July 1873, with Victoria 10/- statute stamp affixed. With some creases, foxing to second document and tears along centre fold line on last, fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
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