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U.S.A., 1879 Nevada State Controllers Warrant state prison fund; 1893 Montana State warrant with vignette of wood burning passenger train; assorted U.S. postal items c.1900, telegram (2), postal card, registry receipt; 1869 cheque trawn on First National Bank of Trenton with duty stamp; Receipts 1896, 1899 with attractive vignettes Charlestown S.C., and Thompsonville Ct. (9)
Estimate $40
SOLD $10
Share Warrants with coupons attached, Queensland Copper Mining, 1906; Whim Well Copper Mines Limited, 1911; Mount Elliott Limited, 1912 (3). Written in English and French. (5)
Estimate $150
SOLD $60
Share warrants with coupons attached, Queensland Copper Company 1907; Whim Well Copper Mines, 1910; Mount Elliott Limited, 1912 (2); Camp Bird Limited, 1938. Written in English and French. (5)
Estimate $150
SOLD $80
Great Britain, Charles II, 1674, document on vellum with wax seal attached; George III, 96 year lease on vellum with four seals and four witnessing signatures, very large document 'This Identure...' with map of area in Upper Mary le bone street, with blue duty seal; another 1798 on vellum, with lion wax seal of Richard Mortimer for £42, with blue duty seals. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Colony of Victoria. Supreme Court, Warrants on Fieri Facias, in association with Edward De Carle, dated 1832; George Nichols, dated 1854; George Petty, dated 1862.
Estimate $250
SOLD $0
District of Port Phillip. Early legal document awarding damages to the Bank of Australasia of one hundred and forty eight pounds six shillings and one penny, dated 18th November 1842. Rare.
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Melbourne. Pentridge Gaol, first Government document relating to the penal establishment at Pentridge, 1851.
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
South Australia. Copy of an Act, No.1, 1852, providing for the Assaying of Uncoined Gold, and to make Bank Notes, under certain conditions, a Legal Tender; assented to 28th January 1852; and another, No.14, 1852, an Act to repeal part of Act, No.1, to provide that Stamped Gold shall be a Legal Tender, assented to 23rd November 1852. Rare. (2 documents)
Estimate $1,100
SOLD $1,250
South Australia. Assay Office Returns, estimates of receipts and expenditure for the year 1852, including the necessary expenses for the gradual conversion of the Assay Office into a local mint, together with table showing the amount of gold dust received monthly into the Assay Office from the period of its commencement to the 24th August, 1852.
Estimate $250
SOLD $0
Land Grant by Purchase, to Hugh Short of Melbourne of two roods in the County of Bourke, Parish of Wollert, signed and sealed by Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe, 3rd October, 1853.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Conveyance of Land, George McKnight to Charles Edmond Dean of part of an allotment in the City of Melbourne, dated 8th December 1853; Another., Joseph Garnault Vaulier to John Richardson and Walter Gardener in trust for Mary McQuirk of part of allotment in the Parish of Prahran, dated 1st September 1854; Another., Frederick Taylor to Jacob Odgers of land in the Parish of Guildford, dated 15th September 1858. All handwritten on vellum. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Victoria. Gold Regulations, 1854, Rules and Regulations made by the Lieutenant Governor and Executive Council respecting the issue of Licenses for Mining and other purposes; Gold Mining Regulations, as revised 12th June 1855; Amended Gold Mining Regulations, as ordered by the Council to be printed, 28th November 1855. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $250
Discovery of Gold in Victoria, Report from the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Claims for the Discovery of Gold In Victoria, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, Supplemental Evidence. Printed 1854 and 1855.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Riot at Ballaarat, report of the Board of Enquiry, on the investigation into the circumstances connected with the murder of James Scobie, and the burning of the Eureka Hotel. Printed 21st November 1854.
Estimate $200
SOLD $0
Documents relating to the Eureka Rebellion, 1854-56, including Public Disturbances Prevention Bill, 1854; Martial Law Indemnity Bill, 1854; Retiring Allowance to Mr J.L.Foster, 1855; Copies of Correspondence respecting American Citizens who were supposed to have participated in the late riots at Ballaarat, 1855; Ballaarat Outbreak, Petition, 1855; Letter from W.H.Wright, Esq., 1856; Report from the Select Committee on Ballaarat Compensation (Bentley's Hotel), 1856; Claims for Compensation for Injuries inflicted by the Military or Police at Ballaarat, in December 1854, 1856. (9)
Estimate $150
SOLD $180
Colony of Victoria. Early legal documents relating to certain banks, including English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank, National Bank of Australasia, Oriental Bank Corporation, Bank of Victoria, Bank of New South Wales, London Chartered Bank, Union Bank of Australasia, Colonial Bank of Australasia, dated between 1854 and 1875. (9)
Estimate $200
SOLD $0
Land Grant by Purchase, to William Tait of Ballarat of one acre two roods and one perch in the County of Ripon, Parish of Dowling Forest, signed and sealed by Lieutenant Sir Charles Hotham, 1st March, 1855. Seal slightly damaged.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Victoria Government Gazette, January 12, 1855., including Reward Notice for the Apprehension of Frederick Vern in connection with the riot at Ballaarat; also Tender notice for parties willing to supply Official Seals and Stamps for the use of various Government departments.
Estimate $70
SOLD $180
Land Grant by Purchase, to James Fitzpatrick and Patrick Long of ten acres in the County of Bourke, Parish of Gisborne, signed and sealed by Major General Edward Macarthur, 31st May, 1856.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Land Grant by Purchase, to George Parker of Minersrest of two roods in the County of Ripon, Parish of Dowling Forest, signed and sealed by Governor Sir Henry Barkly, 7th May, 1858.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Dandenong, Victoria, 1858-9, a Report of a visit to the new gold workings beyond the Dandenong Ranges by Clement Hodgkinson, together with lithographed map.
Estimate $70
SOLD $100
Conveyance of Land, Hugh Short and Thomas Latham to Mrs Mary McDonald of land in the Parish of Wollert, dated 1st April, 1859; Another., Josiah Strickland to Henry Ricketson of land in the Parish of South Deniliquin, dated 27th November, 1876; together with mortgage, Letter of Administration, probates, all relating to the Colony of Victoria dated between 1862 and 1894. All handwritten on vellum.(6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Progress Report of the Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria, for 1861, detailing the expedition of Burke and Wills from Menindie and the difficulties encountered. Together with Royal Society of Victoria envelope. Rare.
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Exploration Expedition, Report of Commander Norman, of H.M.C.S. 'Victoria' together with copy of his journal on the late expedition from Melbourne to Albert River, Gulf of Carpentaria, from 4th August to 29th October 1861, as presented to Parliament, 1861-2.
Estimate $200
SOLD $0
Legal Documents, Agreements, 1867, 1886, 1888, 1898, 1899, Probate Christina McMaster 1897, Letters of Administration Louisa Dans 1884, Alexander Cameron 1887, Lindsay Fawcett 1898, Lease of a farm, James and Sir William Macarthur to Mr. Timothy Keane 77 acres at Upper Camden, Feb. 11, 1862; Deed of Partition 1871 (3), 1887; many on vellum. (14)
Estimate $60
SOLD $100
Legal Documents, Power of Attorney, 1868, 1873, 1876 (2), 1879, 1886, 1897, Probate Mary Leslie 1886, Lou Hughes 1893, I.A. Williams 1866, William Henry Lawson 1919; Copy of Will John Elly Begg 1887, Declaration 1868, Copy Order 24 June 1865 in Chancery Hume et al v. Pepe et al; Copy Deed Holland et al v. Hume et al, 1866; many on vellum. (15)
Estimate $60
SOLD $50
Conveyance of Land, Mary McDonald to Mary Fitzgerald of a parcel of land in the Parish of Wollert, dated 8th March 1870; Another., Anne Ryan to Thomas Callaghan of a parcel of land in the Parish of Wollert; Another., Thomas Callaghan to Joseph McCarter of a parcel of land in the Parish of Wollert; Deed of Gift of Land, Samuel Edward Freeman to Eliza Freeman of parcels of land in Richmond, Collingwood and Myrtleford, dated 20th July 1863; Probate, in the will of William Boyd, Kensington, dated 28th July 1894. All on vellum.(5)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Legal Documents, Morgage 1877, 1878, 1884, 1885, 1886, Further Charge 1847 Unwin to Brown, Contract, 1861 Brown to Bank of Australasia; Reconveyance 1880, 1887, Appointment of New Trustees, 1883, Conveyance 1857, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1889, 1898, all on vellum. (16)
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
Legal Documents, Deed of Partnership 1887, Appointment of New Trustees 1867, 1885, 1898, 1901, 1904, 1906, Mortgage 1890, Attested copies of Title Deeds of John Nicholson of Balmain, Sydney 1836 endorsed in 1842; Abstract of Title of land Bathurst, 1875; many on vellum. (10)
Estimate $60
SOLD $50
Various documents relating ro trade marks, patents and copyright, incorporation, dated 1904 to 1932.(7)
Estimate $80
SOLD $0