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Australia, kangaroos, C of A watermark, 1934 issue, Ã…â€Å‣2 pair with John Ash imprint, (SG 138). Well centred full original gum.
Estimate $5,500
SOLD $5,100
Australia, kangaroo, C of A watermark, Ã…â€Å‣2, 1934 issue, (SG 138). Centred low, full original gum with hint of hinge.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $1,100
Australia, 1913, 6d Kookaburra. MUH.
Estimate $80
SOLD $80
Australia, 1928, 3d Kookaburra M/S of 4 stamps. Gum toning otherwise MUH.
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Australia, 1932, 1/- Lyre bird, another OS overprint. MUH, OS mint. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Australia, 1932 5/- bridge. CTO, fine used with full gum.
Estimate $300
SOLD $0
Australia, 1937 high value robes to Ã…â€Å‣1, thick paper, another set thin paper, 1949-1952 arms set to Ã…â€Å‣2, 5/- cattle white paper, another cream paper, mint. MUH. (12)
Estimate $200
SOLD $320
Pre-stamped letter addressed to Mrs Benjamin Lee, Parramatta from Alexander Langmire for R.S. Mort, with General Port Office Sydney cancellation May 19/1845 and Parramatta New S. Wales May 19/1845, the letter is dated 19 March 1845 is one double sheet and is written requesting a deed for a property which was owned by Wm Moffit. Fine and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $180
Australia, decimal mostly as P.O. stamp packs (approx. 50), a few booklets, sheets and a Chinese album with MUH and used, a few other countries. MUH, used. (100's)
Estimate $350
SOLD $400
Accumulation of Australian decimal stamps mostly booklet folders including Christmas 1991(5), stamp show 1989(4), Bush Nativity 1990(6), living together(13), cycling(29), skateboarding(10), urban environment(10), also mint stamps, thirty eight cents-one dollar twenty cents, mint however mounted on paper. M-MUH (125 folders, 298 stamps).
Estimate $450
SOLD $440
Austalia and world, includes mint paintings dollar (52), sheet of Cook five cents (1970) and thirty cents (20) plus mint issues of Nauru, West Indies etc. and in interesting N.E.I. flight cover Batavia 11.5.31. (lot)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Australia, Sydpex 1980, various items including essays by R. Bates of Lord Howe Island (one signed), (4 stamped SPECIMEN), others (14 as 2 x 7) as uncut M/S of four essays in various stages of colour printing one set signed by R. Bates, a selection of FDC's and admission tickets related to Sydpex. (lot)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Box containing stamp albums, catalogues, the Shell Company of Australia books on Australian birds/flowers (2), Australian art in the sixties (1860'S), a book of engravings including paintings by S.T.Gill, T.Baines, views of Pietermaritzburg published by Valentine and Sons, Cape Town, Rothmans of Pall Mall diamond jubilee 1890-1950 folder containing illustrations by R.Whistler, souvenir booklet Federation of Australia 1901. Fair-fine.(33)
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Australia, Pre-stamped envelopes c.1980 with much duplication, some with association with Sydpex and all postally used, also letter cards, NZ postal stationary pack, Philas House appeal cancelled M/S (12) CTO's, old post cards (50), Sydpex M/S MUH numbered sets (3), new letter wrappers, air mail aerogrammes (unused approx. 30), PO pre-stamped postcards in packs (3). (100's)
Estimate $70
SOLD $70
Thematic, trains, stamp collection in Chinese album, on leaves and a few cover, M/Sheets from Nauru and pamphlets (2), banknotes with trains on them (mostly China), (10) etc. MUH, used. (100's)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Hawkesworth, John, 'An Account of the Voyages...For Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere', 3 volumes, Volume 1 with engraved frontpiece, Volume 2 with two engraved folded plates, Volume 3 with engraved folded frontpiece, octavo, London, 1773. All with some foxing, staining and offsetting, rebound in full green gilt tooled leather, edges stained green.
Estimate $500
SOLD $220
Hunter, John., 'An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and the Southern Ocean since the publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the official papers, Including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of lieut. Ball; and the Voyages From the first sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792.' Illustrated with 17 maps and views, London dated January 1, 1793, (Wantrup 14a, F.153). Cover with some toning, mostly a clean copy attractively rebound in half leather, fine and rare.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $2,700
Landsborough, William, 'Journal of Landsborough's Expedition From Carpentaria, In Search of Burke and Wills', with photogramme and map (rebacked onto cloth and inserted in a pocket inside back cover), Wilson & Mackinnon, Melbourne, 1862, (Wantrup 174a, F.11329). Rebound retaining original card covers with are stained, otherwise very good and scarce.
Estimate $300
SOLD $300
Giles, Ernest., 'Australian Twice Traversed. The Romance of Exploration, being A Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876', Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1889. Two volumes, octavo, as issued uncut, grey-green cloth boards lettered and decorated in gilt and black, with portrait, 20 plates, 6 folding maps, Volume 1, pp.lx, 320, Volume 2, pp.xii, 364, (Wantrup 202a, F.9914). Fine and rare.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $0
Johnson, J.C.F. 'An Australian Christmas', 2nd edition, Adelaide 1889, with bookplate of Henry L. White of Belltrees, Scone, NSW. Staining and damage to cover, contents fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $10