Catalogue
Conveyance, regarding land in Surry Hills in 1793 (later copy); 1829 Will & Testament of James Wright, settler of Parramatta; Maps, Coast of Peru by Officers of H.M.S. Beagle 1836, pub 1865, impressed map of parts of Tahiti. Very fine. (4)
Estimate $70
SOLD $80
New South Wales, legal documents, including Mortgages, 1862 (2); Certificate of Title of land in Tamworth, 1876; Conveyance of Land, 1887 and 1895. Handwritten on vellum. Very fine. (5)
Estimate $130
SOLD $100
New South Wales, legal documents, including Indenture of Will (3), G.A.Griffiths, 1872; S.Watson, 1892; H.Osborne, 1900; Deed of Covenant between A.Crawford and the Bank of Australasia, 1885; Memorandum of Agreement between A.E.Spearing and F.Spearing, 1898; Probate Engrossment for the Will of George Brett, 1936. Very fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Sands Commercial and General Sydney Dictionary 3rd ed 1863, Sydney John Sands 1863, pp 335, iii, 111. Original brown buckram boards, loose; gilt.
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Queensland, Session 1 of 1871 Queensland Journal of the Ligislative Council, bound by the Government Printer; Supplements to Gazette etc 1890-1911 4pp; photos (310) ex Queensland State Library (modern copies). (315)
Estimate $80
SOLD $100
Newspapers; 1866 Australasian; 1872 Times; 1929 Daily Mail (Kingsford-Smith) article only; 1843 S.M.H. (paragraphs by W.C. Wentworth, J.D. Lang, Macarthur and Lawson); 1878 Boys of England (first weekly comic), 1894 Boys, 1866 All the Year Round, journal by Charles Dickens, 1932 L'Illustration. Fine - very fine. (8)
Estimate $80
SOLD $80
Newspapers, The Herald (Melbourne), November 11, 1918, Extraordinary Edition, single sheet, 2pp., Germany Surrenders to the Allies; News Chronicle, Monday, September 9, 1940, 6pp., front page headline London Bombed Again Last Night. Good - very good. (2)
Estimate $70
SOLD $0
Melbourne Centenary 1934-35, The Official Guide and Souvenir, pp.223; contains details about a wide range of subjects including education, religion, public utilities, agriculture, secondary industries, institutions, pleasure resorts, sport, places of interest, the Stock exchange, defence forces., the theatre, the media plus information about the railways, tramways, police, fire brigade, post office, gold mining, wool, wheat. Contains a good selection of period advertisements and photos; 1934 - a Year in the Life of Victoria, an exhibition to celebrate Victoria's 150th anniversary 1984/85, exhibition guide pp.64, illustrated in colour and black and white. (2)
Estimate $70
SOLD $0
Centenary of Queensland, Centenary Cavalcade 1859-1959, a Record of the Principal Events Staged in Connection with the ... Celebrations and an Abridged History of Queensland ... 1959, 172pp.; Wood, Ronald, Looking Up, Looking Back at Old Brisbane, 1987 (Bicentenary publication), 8Opp. Brisbane's Buildings; a group of period Queensland travel brochures (13); period motoring maps and brochures and atlas from most states including Queensland (12). Fine - extremely fine.(27)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Royal Visit and Bicentennial Souvenir Programmes, the Royal Visit 1952, pp.38; the Royal Visit to New South Wales, 1954, pp.32; Australia Official Handbook, 1953, pp.109; Bicentennial Celebrations, New South Wales Government Programme 1988, pp.12; the bicentenary, The Official Magazine, 1988, pp.175 (511; together with a collection of twenty black and white photographs of the Royal Visit to Sydney in February 1954 by the Queen and Prince Phillip. Includes the various city street decorations, triumphal arches and sights they visited. (6)
Estimate $70
SOLD $0
Burns, Philp and Company, guidebook 'The Ships of Burns, Philp and Company by Ronald Parsons, Magill, South Australia, first printed Dec. 1978, 68 pages, illustrated, a very helpful guide to all the ships of the company plus an outline history of the company's shipping interests; together with a Burns, Philp & Company Limited seasons greeting card depicting facsimilies of a Thursday Island five pounds and Australasia New Hebrides Company one pound currency notes affixed to the inside front and back cover. (2)
Estimate $60
SOLD $0
Newcastle, N.S.W., two original photographs taken by R. Snowball relating to the Dduley Mining disaster of 1898 which killed 15. Descriptive information on back of mounting boards, very fine and interesting. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
Photographs and postcard albums, Including photographs of the Australian East coast, ACT Buchan Caves, family photos, country scenes of Burrundulla and surrounds, Sydney and Melbourne scenes also Forbes noted (four albums, mixed condition), plus a black and white photographic album containing photographs of exteriors and Interiors of Great Britain and European cathedrals, churches, abbeys and castles, a wide and diverse collection (144 photographs), Poor - extremely fine. (Five albums)
Estimate $100
SOLD $40
Agricultural Shows, selection of programmes, books and booklets, including, 100 Years of Shows, the Story of the Cooma Show 1875-1975, 48pp. (Includes illustrations of medallions and certificates); Royal Easter Show programme, Sydney March 29th to April 9th 1947, 258pp; Royal Agricultural Society of Sydney, The Royal Easter Show, colour booklet, 32pp, 1974; Mant, Gilbert, The Big Show, 150th Anniversary Royal Agricultural Society of New South Vales, North Sydney, 1972, 136pp.; Somer, H.M., Short History of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales, published In the Royal Australian Historical Journal, Vol. IX, Part VI Sydney 1923, 309-332pp. Fine - new. (5)
Estimate $70
SOLD $0
Australian Mutual Provident Society, Endowment Policy dated 1869 with handsome vignette of Sydney Harbour. Policy in the name of O.H. Hedberg of Hobart, the token issuer, extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
The Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia, large (62.5x50cm) presentation certificate, awarded by the Grand Council of Tasmania to Past Mistress Sister Muriel Rae of the Loyal Coronation Lodge No.3 on 17th July 1935. Black and white ornate certificate produced by John Sands, Sydney. Mounted on cardboard for framing and hanging, minor water stain and small hole on bottom white border below the design otherwise very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $0
Lepper, John H, and Crossle, Philip, History of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ireland, volume 1, Dublin, Lodge of Research CC. 1925, 542pp., fully illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with photographs, line drawings and tables plus over 80 plates illustrating all aspects of Irish Grand Lodge history, including medals, jewels, seals, (W.Aust. 1896 seal illustration noted), certificates, early books, and manuscripts, buildings, chairs, aprons etc. plus index. Important work, rare.
Estimate $150
SOLD $120
Australia, mostly decimal MUH in springback loose leaf album, noted mint specimen navigators (2 sets), 1966 decimal set, pre-decimal navigator to £2, coils, plateblocks, pre-decimal and decimal booklet panes, high CV and varieties, Melbourne Emergency Mailing Service to $1, Postage Due to 5/-. MUH and mint. (several 100)
Estimate $400
SOLD $440
Australia, an accumulation of post office packs and FDC, and MUH stamps, all housed in box, together with a selection of mostly FDC's from other countries PNG, USA, and New Zealand, Christmas Island etc. (100's)
Estimate $200
SOLD $250
Australia, decimal post office packs 1969-late 1990s, stored in large photo-album, also quantity of MUH and CTO decimal Australia to $10. (over 110)
Estimate $180
SOLD $230
Australia, 20 cent ferries vertical strip of twenty, five have bttom margin Australia title obstructed or even missing on one. Good exhibit item.
Estimate $200
SOLD $140
Australia, gemstone series no value printed single, 1965 Xmas, 5d gold print missing plus normal for comparison. MUH; FU. (3)
Estimate $60
SOLD $40
Western Australia, two officially franked envelopes for the Cooldardie Exhibition 1898; Mines Dept 1897; Premiers Dept, Ship Mail Room Perth 1899; various post cards, used and unused (two different intact packs of 12) of South Australia advice cards, letters include one from C. Todel re SS Oratava, Kalgoorlie postmarked card from Cobb & Co., also minor stamps mostly mint of Z.A.R., Ceylon, Malta, Australia, including used copy of penny black Transvaal Edward VII booklet still with six one penny stamps. An interesting parcel.
Estimate $300
SOLD $400
Australia POst annual collections, 1981 - 1990, includes additional 1988 set with torn inside cover. (11 sets)
Estimate $150
SOLD $160
Sydney Harbour Bridge, extensive collection of postcards relating to the building, opening and later scenes of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, contains postcards depicting a 'scale model' of the bridge; Milsons Point, North Sydney prior to the bridge being built, various scenes showing the bridge being built (34); decorated float on opening day; postcard with Harbour Bridge stamp posted during the month of opening; scenes depicting the bridge, the bridge and various ships passing beneath, views from the bridge including several miniature postcards (51); modern cards (7) all housed in a blue photo album, mostly extremely fine, fine - uncirculated. (101)
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $0
British Commonwealth, The Philatelic Album, loose leaf containing blocks and singles of MUH, mostly QEII with varieties and flaws noted on each page of the layout . MUH and mint. (about 200)
Estimate $50
SOLD $130
Great Britain, an accumulation of post office packs, collector year sets, FDC's, and MUH stamps, to £10, all housed in box. MUH, used. (100's)
Estimate $300
SOLD $540
Pacific Islands, World War II, a group of Pacific Islands covers, including Australia, USA and China (1940-45) all addressed to 'Pacific Publications Pty Ltd' in Sydney, consisting of Fiji (8), one with 'opened by examiner' sticker; New Zealand (8) including cover with 2/6 tied with '...ouru Military camp' CDS; Tonga; China; USA (4) including a cover 'Returned for Postage - 05c', another from 'The Pacific Guano & Fertilizer Co. Honolulu, Hawaii, Australia' (5). Very good - very fine. (27)
Estimate $150
SOLD $130
Papua, various Lakatoi issues, includes 1919-1931 set to 10/-, Air mail O/P 3d (both types) - 1/-, 1931 O/P 5d to 1/3 and several New Guinea birds (6) to 6d. Mostly MUH, several with paper toning. (31)
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Papua New Guinea, various issues in mint sheet book, mostly as blocks decimal and pre-decimal noted imprint block of four and single of £1 brown, imprint block of 1/7 cattle, etc. decimal issues in blocks etc to 2 kina etc. MUH (100's)
Estimate $400
SOLD $400