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Victorian and Melbourne Centenary Celebrations, 1934-35, multicoloured poster (1270mm x 1100mm) showing the City of Melbourne and the Yarra River, overviewed by the ghost of John Batman, another smaller poster (630mm x 500mm) same design, printed by Troedle & Cooper Pty Ltd Australia. First poster torn top right hand corner, also a few tears through border, both posters with full colours, good fine - very fine. (2)
Estimate $160
SOLD $210
World War II, patriotic poster (1000mm x 645 mm) the theme 'Make Them Proud of You - Join the A.I.F.'. Very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $130
Poster, framed (760 x 510mm) Berthold Wolpe at the V & A, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, 19 November 1980 - 31 January 1981; also a watermark of President Eisenhower (150 x 110mm), and books including, Pear, Cyril., The Dunera Scandal; Patkin, Benzion., The Dunera Internees; Bartrop, P.R., & Eisen, G., The Dunera Affair; Bulless, M.H.R., The Hay Internment Camp Notes; Fitzgerald, A., The Italian Farming Soldiers. Very fine - extremely fine. (7)
Estimate $220
SOLD $0
Snowy Mountains, Hydro-Electric Authority, Conducting Officers'Manual, March 1965, 270 pages, covering the various parts of the scheme. Includes a general introduction to the project, a history, economic benefits, power transmission system, water distribution, irrigation, Authority's program, project details and the indirect activities and features of the scheme. Contains diagrams, graphs etc., plus an index, a rare manual from this famous Australian engineering feat.
Estimate $80
SOLD $140
Victorian Railway Tickets, a collection of obsolete Victorian first and second class railway tickets, containing many special tickets for platforms, pram, cloak rooms, specimens, VFL, Melbourne Cup, Melbourne show and special event and rail tram tickets and monthly passes. (18). Mostly extreamley fine to Uncirculated. (168)
Estimate $150
SOLD $140
Australian and World airline brochures, ticketys, coasters, maps, boarding passes, luggage labels, menus, matches and related memorabilia; includes Qantas, B.O.A.C., Ansett, KLM, Thai, Air New Zealand and Pan Am; contains two Ansett commemorative forty years service coasters (1936-1976); a Qantas flight guide folder (c.1972) with postcards envelopes, stationary and a Qantas `kangaroo' pin; also the Herald and Weekly Times commemorative 50th Anniversary Dinner menu and invitation to commemorate the First Trans-Pacific FLight by Kingsford Smith, Ulm, and American Lyon and Warner in 1928, dinner held in Melbourne on the 14th June 1978. fine - uncirculated. (43)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Reproduction print, framed and glazed (640 x 460mm) of the first banknote issued by the National Bank of Australasia when it reopened for business on 26th June 1893 after reconstruction following the 1893 land boom. Extremely fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $210
Reproduction print, framed and glazed (650 x 495mm) of the first banknote issued by the Colonial Bank when if was founded in 1856. Extremely fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $210
Portrait watermarks, various sizes, mostly in commemorative calender folders, of famous people and places, including Simon Bolivar, George Stephenson, John Sheffield, John Constable, Queen Elizabeth II, Winchester Cathedral, Sir Thomas Moore, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, General James Oglethorpe, King George II, Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Cartiere Enrico Magnani, Allan Ramsay, Captain Arthur Phillip, John Maynard Keynes, Edmond Halley produced by Portals the Paper Makers, suppliers of the bank note paper to the Bank of England. Some duplication. Extreamly fine. (30)
Estimate $200
SOLD $190
Portrait watermarks, framed and illuminated, of Queen Elizabeth (560mm x 440mm) and Abraham Lincon (575mm x 440mm) produced by Portals the Paper Makers of Overton, England, suppliers of bank note paper to the Bank of England. (2)
Estimate $500
SOLD $0