Catalogue
Silver pencil, Wahl Eversharp, U.S.A. circa 1935.
Estimate $60
SOLD $40
Fountain pen, Eversharp, USA with 14 carat gold nib, marbled brown barrel.
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
Handstamp in brass (26mm x 20mm), Bank of Australasia / 1855 / By Royal Charter. Very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $200
Silver cup, by Gaunt (98 x 123 x 89 mm), 155 grams, inscribed I.C.E. in monogram (Indian Colonial Exhibition, hallmarked. Very fine.
Estimate $90
SOLD $250
Toorak College, Junior Swimming Championship trophy, 1928, in silver (130mm) won by Valerie Gleeson. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Stereograph viewer, with assorted Rose stereographs, mostly Australian WWI military and trave scenes. Some cards damaged, good - very fine. (29)
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Stereographs, by George Rose, Australian Commonwealth Celebrations, Duke of York Celebrations. Very good. (65)
Estimate $200
SOLD $0
singapore. special album of black and white photographs of Singapore entitled 'Souvenir of Singapore 1914' and 'Presented with Compliments by F.P.Baur, Manager, Grand Hotel de l'Europe'. The album (25x16cm) contains twelve scenes of Singapore including the exterior and interior of the hotel, the Cricket Club, Town Hall, Supreme Court and Europe Hotel, Anderson Bridge, Harbour View, Market Scene, Chinese Quarters, Impounding Reservoir, Chinese Temple, Rubber Tapping, Plying Restaurant and Botanical Gardens; light card covers with gilt lettering and interleaves between each photo, the spine and back cover worn and torn, otherwise the interior complete and all photographs clean and in good condition. A rare early 20th Century photographic record of Singapore.
Estimate $150
SOLD $280
Royal Visit 1954, a collection of twenty black and white photographs of the Royal Visit to Sydney in February 1954 by Her Magesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh; includes the various city street decorations and triumphal arches and sights they visited. Mounted with photographic mounts on album pages. Extremely fine. (20 photographs)
Estimate $70
SOLD $0
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
Reports, including Australian Mint, 1855; Report from the Select Committee upon Address for the Establishment of a Mint, 1859; Report from the Select Committee upon Royal Mint, 1860-61; Silver Coinage, 1871; Royal Mint, 1874; Melbourne Mint, 1874; Despatch Notifying the Appointment of Mr Vernon Delves Broughton as Deputy Master of the Melbourne Mint, 1877-8; Melbourne Mint 1884; 1885; 1886; 1888; 1889; 1890; Proposed Coining of Silver at the Melbourne Branch of the Royal Mint, 1890; 1891. Silver and Copper Coinage Sent to Deputy Master of Mint Melbourne, 1880. Very good - very fine. (17)
Estimate $250
SOLD $0
Reports, mostly relating to the Sydney Mint including, Sydney Mint - Return Relative to Revenue and Expenditure, 1856; documents in Reference to Officers' Salaries, 1859; Despatch Respecting, 1863; Correspondence, 1870; Letter Respecting Proposed Discontinuence of Mineral Assays at; 1872; Issue of New Silver Coin - Dates of Issue and Mode of Payment, 1875; also Tasmania, Intercolonial Judgments Bill : Despatch from Govenor of Fiji, 1879; N.S.W., Despatch Relative to Fijian Islands, 1860 (2). Very good - very fine. (10)
Estimate $150
SOLD $170
Bank of Victoria, transfer document, from the Bank of Victoria, 3 Threadneedle Street, London to the Manager of the Bank of Victoria, Geelpong, trnasferring £100.5.1d by Messrs Baclay and Co. dated 14th February 1867; coat of arms of the bank at top centre, 'B of V' watermarked paper, one penny impressed duty stamp. Very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $60
Australian cheques, a selection of cheques from the National Bank, Bank of Australasia (including the Maralinga branch), Commonwealth Bank, E.S. & A., Citibank, Advance Bank, Bank of New South Wales and a Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney 189.; plus a Commonwealth of Australia one pound war savings cetificate issued in August 1944. fine - uncirculated. (41)
Estimate $70
SOLD $0
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, special invitation to the official opening of the A.N.Z. Banking Museum by the Governor of Victoria, His Excellency Rear Admiral Sir Brian Murray, K.C.M.G., A.O., K.St.J. accompanied by Lady Murray on Tuesday 21st May 1985 at the Gothic Bank premises, 388 Collins Street, Melbourne. Beautiful ornate multicoloured certificate (32 x 40.5cm) including vignettes of the old Gothic Bank and the Bank's new multi storied headquarters within an ornate border. A nice item nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $70
SOLD $50
Indenture, between Joseph Downing and his intended wife Elizabeth Warner, regarding land holdings in the City of Coventry, dated 21st June 1797, handwritten on vellum, seals intact. Very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $110
Miners Rights, State of Victoria, Ballarat, complete set by year from 1898 to 1907 except 1899 and 1902; all issued for a fee of two shillings and sixpence. mostly very fine - extremely fine. (8)
Estimate $70
SOLD $0
Petrol Coupons, Victoria, Motor Spirit Ration Tickets, series B, for two, five and forty-four gallons, issued by the 'Forrestry Commission of Victoria' and overprinted in red with the initials 'F.C. VIC.' in a circle twice on the front and the back of each coupon. Apparently unpublished, uncirculated, a rare set. (3)
Estimate $70
SOLD $80
Lottery tickets, Cuba, a group of National lottery tickets 1947-1957, all different designs and dates, colourful series. Very fine - extremely fine. (8)
Estimate $40
SOLD $0
The City of Melbourne Gas & Coke Company, one five pound share, numbered 8941, dated Oct 23rd 1857, to William Henty of Hobart Town. Extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
The City of Melbourne Gas & Coke Company, one five pound share, numbered 8942, dated Oct 23rd 1857, to William Henty of Hobart Town. Extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100