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Documents, Van Diemen's Land, letters dated 1829 (2); Supreme Court judgement, dated 1849; Government debentures dated 1867 (2). Fine. (5)
Estimate $80
SOLD $60
Cheques, used, mostly Tasmanian banks, Commercial Bank, Hobart Town, 1839; Commercial Bank of Tasmania, Launceston, 1926; Bank of Van Diemens Land, Launceston, 1869 and 1871; English, Scottish & Australian Chartered Bank, Clare, 1864 and 1909; Bank of Australasia, Prahran, 1909; Bank of Victoria, 1918; National Bank of Australasia Limited, Cobram, 1937; Bank of Adelaide, Brinkworth, 1977; Union Bank of Australia, Second of Exchange, Launceston, 1881. With folds, some with spike holes, fine - very fine. (11)
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
Victoria, Promissory notes, 1855-1892, includes David Bottomley, auctioneer, Melbourne, 1855 (2); Warne & Reid, Melbourne, 1878; John T Tonkin & Son, Melbourne, 1890 with bank stamps from Real Estate Bank Limited, Melbourne; London Bank of Australia, Melbourne; Bank of New South Wales, Melbourne; National Bank of Australia, Kapunda; English Scottish & Australian Chartered Bank, Clare. With folds and creases, pin holes, fine - very fine. (8)
Estimate $120
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Colony of Victoria, Miner's Right, No.73, issued In Ballarat to James F Hill, 16th July 1895. With folds and spike holes, very fine.
Estimate $40
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Victoria, Miner's Right, No.189, Ballarat, issued to R.Rowe, 3 Apr 1902 in force until 4 Apr 1903; Convict Department, unissued Pass form, 184-; together with, Great Britain, postcard in Memoriam for King George V; Santiago de Chile, El Banco Chileno Garantizador de Valores, one thousand pesos, 8% Bond, unissued, green and black print on white, with all coupons attached. First item with folds and creases, staining to top and bottom edges, last item with folds, very fine - uncirculated. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
New Zealand, Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition 1898-99, receipt for ?10 on exhibition letter head, Souvenir book published by Archibald Clark & Sons Ltd, Youth Season ticket costing half a guinea; Christchurch International Exhibition 1906-07, stamps and "Top of the Tower" cachet. Very fine. (8)
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
Banking ephemera and documents, The Bank of New South Wales circular note for twenty pounds, Adelaide 18-; Circulat letter of credit, London 19-; Letter of Patent for W. Montiflay, Bourke St Melbourne, 1889; sharescript, North Broken Hill Silver Mining Company; Charles Laffitte & Company, Limited one share of twenty pounds; Travellers Cheques, specimens from National Australia Bank, twenty, fifty and one hundred dollars. Fine - uncirculated. (8)
Estimate $120
SOLD $180
Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, Instructions for Agents and Correspondents, regarding Circular Letters of Credit, 1957 and Letter of Introduction with specimen samples, Limited Cheques, 1957 and 1979, Sterling Travellers' Cheques, 1961, with colour samples of two, five, ten, twenty and fifty pound sterling. With folds, very fine (4)
Estimate $80
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Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia, instructions for the handling of traveller's cheques in English currency, 1961 and 1967; Commercial Bank of Australia Limited, advice on the issuing of traveller's cheques with specimens of the five, ten, twenty and fifty pound cheques. Good very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
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A group of specimen Australian currency traveller's cheques, English Scottish & Australian Bank Limited, set of three, two, five and ten pounds; plus five, ten and twenty pounds (2); State Savings Bank of Victoria, five and ten pounds; Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia, ten pounds; Savings Bank of South Australia, ten dollars; English, Scottish & Australian Bank Limited, ten, twenty and fifty dollars. The twenty pounds with adhesive marks on back corners, otherwise good very fine - uncirculated. (14)
Estimate $100
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Traveller's cheques, used, National Australia Bank, South Australia, ten, twenty and fifty pounds, 1962, 1975; Commercial Bank of Australia Limited, five and ten pounds, 1964; together with a group of un-used cheques, National Bank of Tasmania Limited, 188-, Bank of New South Wales, Launceston, 192-, Commercial Bank of Tasmania, Hobart, 18--, Commercial Bank of Tasmania Limited overwritten on Bank of Australasia cheque, 189-, Union Bank of Australia Limited, Dubbo, 19--, State Savings Bank of Victoria, Footscray, 1900, Australian Bank of Commerce Limited, Coonamble, 192-. Some with folds or creases, Union Bank cheque with tape repair to left side, very fine - good very fine. (13)
Estimate $200
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Thomas Cook, specimen traveller's cheques, in folder of Instructions for Paying Agents, April 1978, printed in English, French and German, includes twenty and one hundred pounds sterling; fifty Australian dollars; ten and five hundred Unites States dollars and twenty Canadian dollars, all over stamped 'Specimen No Value'in red'. Cheques uncirculated, folder with wear to folds. (6)
Estimate $120
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Decimal currency training banknotes, (1985 - 1996), two dollars - one hundred dollars; travellers cheques, The Commercial Bank of Australia (6), 1960's. Extremely fine - uncirculated. (12)
Estimate $40
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Documents, banking, finance, insurance, commercial exchange, British and Australian, mostly early twentieth century. Sold with Collector's list, fine - extremely fine. (10)
Estimate $80
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Portals, calendars, with watermarks 1987 John Constable, 1988 Australian Bicentenary, 1989 Jem Mason, 1990 Thomas Hardy; watermarks (2), marriage of Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, 1981; Simon Bolivar Bicentennial, 1983; book, 'Portals, 250 Years of Papermaking' by Sir Francis Portal, Oxford, 1962, hard bound, 98pps. General wear to the watermark folders, otherwise good condition. (8 items)
Estimate $200
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China, Republic, tax reciepts, 1920 Beijing revenue receipt, one cent stamp affixed; 1940's tax receipt, three Fu Xing Pass 2 cent stamps affixed. The second hole punched, with pinholes, fine; very fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
British North Borneo, The Lobuan & Borneo United Opium Farm, share certificate for $2,000, 10th April 1904, issued by Chee Swee Cheng. A few small worm holes and a burn in the upper middle margin, otherwise nearly very fine.
Estimate $80
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Debentures, Anglo-Australian Investment Finance & Land Comy Limited of Sydney, for ?100, dated [fourteenth April] 18[91], due 1st July 1901, black print, ornate border and scrollwork left side, vignette of map and Australian landscape top centre, with eighteen of twenty one coupons attached; Iron, Steel and Metals Manufacturing, Melbourne, mortgage debenture for ?100, dated [tenth November] 190[8]; Domara River Plantations Limited, Second Mortgage Debenture for ?50, 19[29]. With folds and creases, soiled and small tears down left edge on first, second with folds, spike hole and tears to right edge, last with ink stain left side edge, fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $50
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Insurance, Colonial Mutual Fire 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 $50
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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 $80
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Austria, New Grand Imperial Loan Distribution, of 42,000,000 Florins, Reimbursable with a Capital of 129,239,200 Florins, combined with 146th Frankfort Prize & Premium Distribution of 1,967,900 Florins, to take place on the 1st July 1864 at Vienna, black print on grey within border, on thin paper (44.5x27.5cm); Kingdom of Bohemia, The Bohemian Coal Mining Company, in the District of Rakowitz, for one share, No.1929, 1858 (in words), black on thin cobalt blue watermarked paper. First with folds, two small holes and light foxing on two folds, wallet marks on one folded rectangle area, otherwise extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $50
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World, Peruvian Mining Company, for one share, No.4596, issued London 28th March 1825; Belgium, Companie Belge des Mines d'or Australiennes, for 250 francs, 1897, Action de Capital No.03546, brown on brown with two of thirty coupons attached; Action de Dividende No.21884, black on green, with three of thirty coupons attached; France, Societe Fonciere de Paris, 1926, for 250 francs, green on patterned green, with fifteen of thirty coupons attached; Societe Forestiere Franco-Australienne, Paris [1921], black on patterned green, with all twenty five coupons attached (No.1 torn and repaired with tape); Aktiebolaget Kreuger & Toll, participating debenture for five hundred kronor, Stockholm 1st July 1928; black on mauve; India, Swadeshi Cotton Mills Company, Uttar Pradesh, bank order, 197[1] (5). With pin holes, folds, some with tape repairs, good - good very fine. (11)
Estimate $70
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Sundry, 1920-1970s, Alliance Holdings, 1969; Artarmon Estate Limited, profit sharing receipt, 1922; A.Barrett's Proprietary Limited, 19[26], 19[27]; Australian Factors, 19[64]; Automobile Advance and Agency Company, 19[55]; Berriquin Holdings, 19[68]; Browse Island Company, 192[1]; Chevron Sydney, 19[67]; Commercial & General Acceptance Limited, 1960, 1965, 1966; Commercial Trading Pty Limited (typed), 19[48], 19[49]; Combined Resources, 1969; Commercial Guaranty, 1965; Cox Brothers (Australia) (7), 1956-1969; Davys Proprietary Limited, 19[26]; Decmar Corporation, 19[61]; Derrin Bros (Holdings), 19[61]; Drylec Limited (4), 195[4], 19[59] (2), 1965; Dobell (Q'LD) Pty Ltd (typed), 1954; J.T.Dunston Pty Ltd, 19[39]; Five Arrows Australia Resources Trust, unissued; Great Western Consolidated, 1969 (3); Mainline Corporation, 1969, 1970; N.B.H.C. Holdings, 1971; Nema Holdings, 1975; H.G.Palmer (Consolidated), 1969; Penworth Limited, 19[38]; Randwick Estates Limited (typed), 19[37]; Soltex Holdings, 19[69]; Surrey Engine and Boiler Works, 19[20]; United Distributors, 19[26], U.E.B. Industries, 1970; Waters Trading Co, 9[47]; Willsford Limited, 19--, unissued; Wytex Proprietary, 19[46]. Housed in a four ring binder, some with pin or punch holes, folds, two with edge tears, fine - extremely fine. (50)
Estimate $140
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Spain, Royal Treasury Bond, Series A No.477 for one hundred reales vellon, with interest of 6% per year, repayable as preferential debt by the Public Treasury in the first five years of the pacification of the kingdom, issued at Bayonne, first of November 1873. Creases, folds, edge nicks and a few letters written on reverse, otherwise fine.
Estimate $80
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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 $200
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Western Australia, Telfer Project, lightly gold plated, felt backed coaster (95x95mm) celebrating the record gold production for the month of December 1987 of 33,191 ounces and for the year of 1987, of 238,699 ounces. Good very fine.
Estimate $50
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Transfers, Victorian Government Inscribed Stock, 4% Loan, 1884; New Zealand Consolidated Stock, ?4 percent, 1895; Queensland Stock ?4 percent, 1899; ?2:15s percent Consolidated Stock, 1903; New South Wales Stock ?4 percent, 1905; Western Australia Government 3?% Inscribed Stock, 1908. With folds, very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
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Consolidated Concrete Limited, fifty pound share, 1928, with green embossed adjudged duty stamp; East Murchison, receipt for ten shares, 1900, with 1d postage stamp affixed; South Star Gold Mining Co., receipt for 10th call, 1872, with 1d duty stamp; Victoria Insurance Company Limited, receipt, 1898, with three 3d duty stamps affixed; Trans Australia Airlines, London, Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia cheque, 1964, with embossed 2p stamp. First item with taped repair to centre fold, some with pin holes and folds, very fine. (5)
Estimate $70
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Debentures, Great Cobar Limited, one fifty pound share, 1906, black and red on white, with five coupons attached; Pilbara Copper Fields, Second Mortgage Debenture, one twenty pound share, 1917, brown on cream; Chevron Sydney Limited, First Mortgage Debenture, Melbourne Register, for one thousand pounds of stock, 1959, black, red and green on cream. With folds, godd very fine. (3)
Estimate $50
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