Catalogue
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
Passed in
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
Passed in
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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Australian and World Numismatic Literature, Pick & Rixen, Papiergeld Spezialkatalog Deutschland, Battenberg, 1991; Barac, B., Banknotes of the States of Yugoslavia, 1767-2002, Zagreb, 2002; Beresiner, Yasha, A Collectors Guide to Paper Money, London, 1977; Currencies in Old Shanghai, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Lao Shang Hai Huo Bi, 1998; Wong, Hon Sum, The Japanese Occupation of Malaya (Singapore) and its currency, Singapore December 1996, 192pp; The John Jay Pitman Collection, Pt.2, David Akers Numismatics Inc, 1998; Spink Australia, Sale 27, Australian & World Coins, 1989; Briggs, Dr David L., Australian Silver Based Coinage 1910-1964; Australian Pre-Decimal Federation Banknotes 1901-1966; Book 3 Australian Tokens Including Q Tokens; Book Four, Australian Tokens and Coins Including T Tokens; Private Issued Banknotes of Australia 1817-1910, ringbound. Very fine. (12)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Kent, J.P.C, Hirmer, M., and Hirmer, A., 'Roman Coins', London, 1978, 368 pp., profusely illustrated, green hardcover with dust jacket. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Meshorer, Ya'akov, Jewish Coins of the Second Temple Period, Tel-Aviv, 1967, 184pp, 32 plates; Reifenberg, A., Israel's History in Coins, From the Maccabees to the Roman Conquest, London, 1953, 46pps, with plates, 1st edition; Price, Martin Jessop,Coins,an illustrated survey 650BC to present day, published London BM, 1980, in case. Very fine. (3)
Estimate $80
SOLD $80
Numismatic Literature, "Rigby's Aust. Coin Collecting & Banknote guide", signed limited edition 75/150, by Greg McDonald; "How to buy and sell Australian Coins and Banknotes", signed limited edition 75/100, By Greg McDonald; "The 'Daly' Guide to New Zealand Coins and Banknotes", 1981 ed., By Brian J. Daly; "The Pocket Size Australasian Handbook of Coin Collecting", 3rd ed., by Alan J. Patterson; plus 2s. 6d Ballarat Miner's Right (2), dated 4/4/1901 & 2/8/1907; assorted banknotes, Central Bank of China, 1930, 10 & 20 Customs Gold Units notes; Japanese Invasion Money, 10 pesos; Papua New Guinea, two kina AAH; Australia, Johnston/ Stone, one dollar (2); USA, series 1977, one dollar (2); Hong Kong, one cent. Fair - nearly very fine. (15)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Seaby, Roman Coins and Their Values, 1988 edition; Sear, D., Roman Coins and Their Values, Millennium edition, 2000; Vol II, 2002; Volume III, 2005; Volume IV, 2011; Sear, David R., Greek Coins and their Values, Volume II (Asia and Africa), 2012. Very fine. (6)
Estimate $150
SOLD $120
Standard catalogue of British coins of England and the United Kingdom 2000-2021 period (missing 2015) pre-decimal issues and separate decimal issues (2016-2021), as packaged. Very fine. (27)
Estimate $200
SOLD $260
Collecting Supplement, 1907, March - June, bound volume 1, for collectors and connoisseurs, illustrated. Worn binding, interior very fine.
Estimate $50
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"The National Geographic Magazine" Volume LXXXIV number four, October, 1943. Very fine.
Estimate $50
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The Grand Fleet, 1914-16, Its Creation, Development and Work, Admiral Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, London, 1919, hardcover, 517pp, 9 plates and 13 plans and diagrams. Very fine.
Estimate $50
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China, Its Marvel and Mystery, T.Hodgson Liddell, with 40 Illustrations in Colour By the Author, London, 1909, hardcover, 202pp, colour illustrations. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
Myths of China and Japan, Donald A. Mackenzie, London, 1923, hardcover, 404pp, illustrated; A Corner of Cathay, Studies From Life Among The Chinese, London, 1894, hardcover, 286pp, illustrated; Intimate China: the Chinese as I have seen them, by Mrs Archibald Little, London, 1899; China and its Resources and Peculiarities, Robert Mudie, London, 1840, hardcover, 198pp; Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission, Marshall Broomhall, Melbourne, 1901, 328pp, illustrated; Chinese Temples and Deities, Evelyn Lip, Singapore, 1981, softcover, 107pp, illustrated; A Wonder of the World, Treasures of the Nation, Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shihuang, Hong Kong, c.1970s, 137pp, illustrated; Beijing Scenes, Beijing, 1983, 80pp, illustrated; The Five Thousand Dictionary, Chinese-English, C.H.Fenn, Cambridge Mass, 1972, 696pp; Our Journey Around The World, An Illustrated Record of a Year's Travel of Forty Thousand Miles Through India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, France, Spain, Etc, Rev Francis E Clark, Hartford, 1897, hardcover, 641pp, illustrated; A Concise English-Chinese Dictionary, 1972, hardcover, 1211pp; The I Ching, or Book of Changes, Richard Wilhelm Translation, Princeton, 1977, hardcover, 740pp; Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, J.M.Scott, Geneva reprint, c.1970s, hardcover, 517pp, illustrated. Very fine. (13)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
The Unveiling of Lhasa, Edmund Candler, London, 1905, 304pp hardcover, illustrated; The River of Golden Sand, Being The Narrative of a Journey Through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah, London, 1883, hardcover, 332pp, illustrated; Peking to Lhasa; The Narrative of Journeys in the Chinese Empire Made by the Late Brigadier-General George Pereira C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O, London, 1925, hardcover, 287pp, illustrated; A Tibetan-English Dictionary, by Sarat Chandra Das, Delhi, 1979, hardcover 1373pp; The Gods of Northern Buddhism, Alice Getty, New Delhi, 1978, hardcover, 220pp, with illustration plates; A Portrait of Lost Tibet, Rosemary Jones Tung, London 1980, hardcover, 224pp, illustrated; Sacred Tibet, Philip Rawson, London, 1991, hardcover, 96pp, illustrated; Heritage of Tibet, W.Zwalf, London, 1981, softcover, 144pp, illustrated; Ladakh, The Trans-Himalayan Kingdom, Rajesh Bedi & Ramesh Bedi, new Delhi, 1981, hardcover, 192pp, illustrated. Very fine, some rare. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Australian Stamps, a selection of pre-federation c.1850's state stamps, plus 1913 - 1936 Australia, including several varieties of George V, and mint blocks, all neatly displayed in a binder album with owner's handwritten annotations. Used - MUH. (100s)
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $900
Australia, King George V, predominantly 1d penny reds, 1/2d limes and yellows, a few random assorted others mixed in, cancelled blocks of 4 and 6, pairs, and singles, with collector's research on shade variants, in a folder. Used - MH. (approx 1000)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Australia, Sydney, Harbour Bridge opening, 1932, 2d (2), 3d, 5/-, plus OS overprint pair. Used - MH, CTO 5/-. (6)
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
Australia, pre-decimal blocks and singles, King George V Silver Jubilee, 1935, 2d, 3d, 2/-.; Captain John Macarthur Centenary, 1934, 2d, 3d, 9d.; Centenary of Victoria 2d, 3d, 1/-.; Centenary of South Australia 1936 2d, 3d, 1/-; Assorted pre-decimal commemorative stamps including ANZAC, Kingsford Smith; Pre-decimal colour blocks of assorted Australian wildlife.; Decimal series, 1960s, assorted wildlife.; Various Queen Victoria pre-decimal.; King George VI 3d block.; King George V Colour Prints 1d - 2/-.; Queen Elizabeth II decimal definitive series 1c-10c.; Pre-decimal harbour bridge.; Collectors sheets, some partially completed. Used-MUH. (approx 150)
Estimate $400
SOLD $240
Australia, pre-decimal and decimal blocks, sheets, and singles on envelopes, 6d, 5/-, 10c, $1, 1940-1980, many envelopes are the personal correspondence of Peter Olorenshaw once he had moved to NSW. Used - MUH. (30)
Estimate $30
SOLD $90
Australia, pre-decimal and decimal stamps, King George V, 1 1/2d rose-carmine, 4d greenish-yellow, 4 1/2d violet.; 1950s 3 1/2d and 2d.; Assortment of decimal stamps 4c - 41c, floral and animal designs.; G.H. Reid and Lachlan Macquarie portraits, 5c - 22c.; Envelopes for Australian National Philatelic Exhibition 1959 and First Official Air Mail Australia to Papua 1934.; Collector books for Silver Jubilee, Green Coupon Collecting Book & Gold Star Coupons Collection book including gold star stamps.; Assorted tourism information for NSW and SA all pre-decimal.; Pacific Explorer 2005 World Stamp Expo Mini-sheets with printing errors. Used - MUH. (120)
Estimate $150
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Australian Stamps, 1938-1953, a thorough collection inclduding errors and varieties, some mint blocks and full sheets, plus two FDC's, all thoughtfully laid out in a binder album with owner's handwritten annotations. Used - MUH. (100s)
Estimate $600
SOLD $1,300
Australian Stamps, 1953-1973, a balanced collection, includes mint blocks and collectable covers (5). Used - MUH. (100s)
Estimate $300
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Australian Stamps, 1973-1979, including mint blocks, CTO's, FDC's, and stamp week specials, a balanced collection. Used - MUH. (100's)
Estimate $200
Passed in
Australian Stamps, 1985-2000, used and mint, multiple sets and blocks, mini sheets, booklets, collectable covers, housed in 5 albums, plus a 1988 AusPost Bicentennial Collection folder, and a clip seal bag of sets and booklets (80). Used - MUH. (1000s)
Estimate $800
SOLD $480
Australian Stamps, predominantly decimal issues, first day covers, stamp packs, postcards, and philatelic stationery. Fine - MUH. (299 packs)
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
Australia, range of specialist issues, 1970s-1990s, includes 1970 Cook m/s (2), Anpex and other overprint, 1971 Xmas pane of 25 (cream paper) (MLH), 1984 Wapex & Ausipex items, 1986 Stampex Click Go the Shears strip, 1986 Navigators m/s overprint, 1986 Southpex, large range gutter blocks 10 including Sydpex Early Years, Auststamp 90 gutter & pair, 1993 Australia Day, 1994 War PMs, 1995 Australia Remembers I & II, 1996 Military Aviation & QEII, 1999 Citizenship, Romance & Snowy, 1990 m/s NZ overprint, 1991 Phila Nippon m/s CTO, 1995 Kangaroo & Koala P&S sets Syd 1995, 1997 Classic Car booklets. Mostly MUH. (39)
Estimate $100
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Australia, collectors albums with 100s of stamps per an album, mostly pre-decimal with some decimal albums, two entire albums of Northern Territory issues; Australia Post year set books including 1993 (2), 2002, 2000 (2) and Antartica. Used - MUH. (15)
Estimate $250
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Australia Post, year books, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005. MUH. (25 sets)
Estimate $500
SOLD $360
Australia, year books 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995; Australian bicentennial collection 1788-1988, missing one book. All in folders of issue, MUH. (11)
Estimate $150
SOLD $120