Catalogue
Share certificates, another five, similar to the previous, 1911-23 all of Sydney (last South Kensington), three for Radium Hill Co. Very fine. (5)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Oil. Australian Oil Wells, 1915; Mersey Valley Oil, 1923; Timor Petroleum, 1925; Roma Oil, 1928; Tasmanite Shale, 1928; Ormildah Oil, 1928; Taranaki (N.Z.), 1929; 1939; South Australian Oil, 1931; Golden Fleece, 1932; Golden Mile, 1933; Point Addis Oil Wells, 1935; Standard Oil, 1940; Natural Gas & Oil, 1941; Enterprise of New Guinea, 1954; Timor Oil, 1957; Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum, 1958; Oil Search, 1958; Lennard Oil, 1969; Exoil, 1969; Bounty Oil, 1971; Associated Australian Oilfields, 1971; Alliance Oil, 1972; Harbourside Oil, 1973; Southern Fields, 1985. Very fine. (22)
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Miscellaneous. Woods-Little Stone Dresser, 1910; William Dawson Company, 1911; Beath Schiess & Felstead, 1920; Surrey Engine and Boiler Works; 1920; St John's Wood Estate, 1922; Union Tablet Company, 1923; Yates & Co (Australia), 1924; Universal Shopping Service, 1926; Dinkum Home Brewing, 1936; Deniliquin Broadcasting, 1939; Olive Oil Production, 1944; Cox Brothers, 1961; Green Acres Golf Club, 1962; Cambridge Credit, 1963; Synthetic Textures, 1970; Weeks Natural Resources, 1971; British Tobacco, 1973; Associated Pulp and Paper Mills, 1979; Clyde Industries, 1980; Trustees Executors and Agency Company, 1981; Hospital Products, 1981; Halwood Corporation, 1991. Very fine. (22)
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
The Polynesia Company Limited, for fifty shares of two pounds each, dated 15th Feb 1869. Good very fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Far East. Badak Company, 1920; Lampeh (Siam) Tin Mines, 1926; Pulo Tin, 1926; New Slak South Tin, 1927; Mavua Rubber, 1928; Asia Amalgamated Tin, 1928; Timor Petroleum, 1928; Tujoh Tin, 1928; British New Guinea Gold, 1934; Gold Mines of Fiji, 1935; Irowat Gold, 1935; Sapphire Creek, 1936; Upper Watut Gold, 1935; Borneo Options, 1939; Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum, 1954. Very fine. (15)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Share certificates, Hawaiian Bell Telephone Comopany, c.1880; 1900 Compagnie General.. Tramways en Chine 1900; 1913 Chinese Govt. 5% gold loan; 1894 Bernard Hughes Ltd., Northern Ireland breadmaker; 1938 Automatic Bread Baking Co, Sydney; 1934 The New Venture Gold Mine, Perth WA; Golden Mile (Cracow) NL, Sydney; 1928 The Lander Oil Field, Sydney; 1930 New Guinea Developments NL, Sydney; 1936 Oriomo Explorations Ltd. Sydney; City of Northcote debentures 1913 £800, 1915 £300, 1925 £142, 1926 £121, 1940, £142, 1942 £81. Very good - extremely fine. (16)
Estimate $60
SOLD $180
Newspapers, Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (1827); The Sydney Morning Herald (1849); The Australasian (1872); Hobart Mercury (1881); The Torres Straits Daily Pilot (1941) (Scarce); The Times, London, (1866); Scientific American (1880). Fine. (7)
Estimate $70
SOLD $100
Photographs, historical photos from the Queensland Museum, views of towns and scenes of yester year in box. (230)
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
Casterton Racing Club, 1883, Annual Meeting, Thursday 3rd May, silk programme (235mm x 150mm), for a six race meeting detailing name of race, prize money, distance, starting times, also names of Stewards, Judge-Francis Henty, printed by E.F.Hughes, News Office, Casterton. Two names handwritten in ink on back of silk, some rust stains, fraying top and bottom edges.
Estimate $200
SOLD $320
Presentation Certificate Department of Public Instruction, Public Schools Demonstration, Sydney, N.S.W. to the American Fleet on its Visit to Australia, August 26th 1908. Trimmed, soiled, pieces missing and tears, good.
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
WWII Burma, trench art P.O.W oil painting (4) on scrap plywood, from tea chests with sketches on back, one of the ship 'Stellapolare'. Paintings are all of the prison. First two with old paper labels on back signed 'Ricefato No 46'.
Estimate $200
SOLD $100
Australia, bag tags from the U.S. Mint, San Francisco, 2500 florins, June 15 (2), 16, 19, 22 (2) 1942 with original envelope, addressed San Francisco, mint tags from Commonwealth Bank. Very good - very fine. (7 items)
Estimate $120
SOLD $130
World postcards, including France, South Africa, Great Britain, mostly early twentieth century, in a custom made fifteen drawer wooden cabinet. (100's)
Estimate $550
SOLD $680
Cigarette cards, mostly cloth type, various themes including medals and decorations, 'arms of the British Empire'. Fine- very fine. (approx 100)
Estimate $70
SOLD $70
Cigarette and confectionery cards, c.1930s (BDV, WD & HO Wills, Godfrey Phillips) featuring Victorian footballers including Syd Coventry, Collingwood; L.Nash, South Melbourne; T.Clarke, Essendon; cricketers, C.V.Grimmett, D.G.Bradman, H.Larwood, W.M.Woodfull. Fair - very fine. (100)
Estimate $170
SOLD $210
Cigar labels, mostly 20th century world wide (100's); Warragamba dam/ Snowy mountains projects booklets (10) plus postcard; 1981 Royal Wedding postcards (7) book and spoof magazine by Not the Nine O' clock News. Fire insurance plaque (250 x 173 mm) Sydney fleece symbol, made in copper sheet, fragile with deteriorating cream paint. Cricket souvenir, The Ashes 1936- 1937 Wrigleys souvenir book and scoring records, unumbered pages (24) illustrated in black & white throughout. The plaque poor, others fine or better. (100's)
Estimate $90
SOLD $120
Adams, Edgar, H., Catalogue of the Collection of Julius Guttag, New York, 1929, 524pp., illustrated throughout; Furber E.A., The Coinages of Latin America and the Caribbean, Lawrence Mass., 1974, 486 pp., illustrated throughout; Newman eric P., and Bressett, Kenneth E., The Fantastic 1804 Dollar, Whitman, Racine, 1962, 144 pp., illustrated; Yeoman, R.S., A Guide Book of United States Coins, 13th (1960) and 22nd (1969) editions; minor publications, Altz/Barton, Foreign Coins Struck at United States Mints; Fuld, A Guide to Civil War Store Card Tokens; Gould/Bressett, Hawaiian Coins, Tokens and paper Money. Very fine, first five hard bound, first book a first edition and rare as such. (8)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Alexandropoulos, Jacques., Les monnaies de l'Afrique Antique 400 av.J.C. - 40 ap. J.C., University of Mirail, Toulouse, 2000, 507 pp., 17 plates. As new.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Auction catalogues, mostly recent including Noble Numismatics 52, 61B. All in one carton.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
(Banknotes), books e.t.c on paper currency, including many lists, soft cover catalogues on Australia and world. In large carton. (approx 130)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Bendall, Simon, A Private Collection of Palaeologan Coins; Galata print, Wolverhampton 1988, 111 pp. As new, rare.
Estimate $80
SOLD $40
Bergmann, Joseph., Medaillen auf Beruhmte und Ausgezeichnete Manner des Oesterreichischen Kaiserstaates von XVI bis zum XIX Jahrhundert, Wien (Vienna), 1858, 304pp. + 681 pp., 25 plates. Very good, two parts hard bound in one volume, rare.
Estimate $80
SOLD $40
Blackburn, Mark A., Dumville, David N., Kings Currency and Alliances; The Boydell Press Woodbridge, UK, 1998, 260 pp., some illustrations. As new.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
(Bohemia), Verein fur Numismatik, Prague, 85 plates (no text) of publication separately bound, (1852-1870), each plate lithographed a few dated, illustrates 744 + 15 coins and medals; Fiala, Eduard., Beschreibung Bohmischer Munzen und Medaillen, Prague 1891, Vol.I, 117 pp., 10 plates, (Hard bound); Katz, Viktor, O Chronologii Denaru Boleslava I a Boleslava II, Prague 1935, 123 pp. and 8 plates; Donebaur, Max., Beschreibung der Sammlung Bohmischer Munzen und Medaillen des Max Donebauer, Prague, 1888, two hardbound volumes as photocopies of the original, 300 pp., 77 plates. Fine, several original editions rare. (5)
Estimate $150
SOLD $220
Boon, G.C., Cardiganshire Silver and the Aberystwyth Mint in Peace & War; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 1981, 287 pp., illustrated throughout. As new.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Brown, Laurence., British Historical Medals, 1760-1960, Volume 1, The Accession of George III to the Death of William IV, Spink, London, 1980, 469 + xxvi pp., illustrated throughout. With dust jacket, nearly as new.
Estimate $150
SOLD $130
Brown, Laurence., British Historical Medals, 1760-1960, Volume 3, The Accession of Edward VII to 1960, Spink, London, 1995, 432 + xxxi pp., illustrated throughout. With dust jacket, as new.
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
[Byrne], Jess Peters, Los Angeles auction sale No.78, Coins and Tokens of the Caribees by Ray Byrne, 1457 lots, 142pps, illustrated throughout; June 13-15 1975; The George Sobin Collection of French Ecus, Joseph Lepczyk Auction sale March 7-8, 1977, 1336 lots, 213 pps., illustrated throughout. Fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Carlise, L.J, Australian Commeorative Medals and Medalets from 1788, Sydney 1983, signed by the author. Anzac Memorial 1917, second edition, Sydney 1917. Fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
Cheung, Dr. Chan, Chin., Paper Currencies of the Straits Settlements, Malaya, British North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, Taisei; Singapore, illustrated in colour throughout, 1991. A new.
Estimate $150
SOLD $70