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Burma, Opium scales with the wooden casket, 19th century. Fine and rare.
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Nigeria, round ring Birmingham issue 'Manilla' 60mm., issued from end of 15th - mid 20th century, (Opitz p.210-1). Very fine.
Estimate $40
SOLD $0
Solomon Islands, primitive money known as 'Kapkap'; diameter 100 mm, with many different shells attached. Very fine and scarce. (4)
Estimate $120
SOLD $90
Sydney 2000 Olympics, various collectors pins (15), including Atlanta 1996 pins (2); Gallipoli commemorative school medals (2); Also a small collection of medallions and badges (10) including America's Cup error winners medallions, 1983 (2). Mostly extremely fine. (31)
Estimate $50
SOLD $0
Royal and Ancient Order of Buffaloes, Lodge Pride of Glebe, impressive cloth and leather collar chain containing eighteen gold plated badges with a central medallion, awarded in 1968; another sash containing seven medals from the Glebe RAOB. All awarded to Bro. E.M. Cox R.O.H. from 1950-1971. Fine - extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Meccano set No.3, nearly complete in original box, with instruction manuals. Box missing sides. Very good.
Estimate $120
SOLD $130
Sydney Harbour Bridge Memorabilia, 'Official Souvenir (book) and Programme' for the opening of the Bridge on the 19th March 1932. Contains a wealth of infomation and photos of the Bridge and Sydney. Including sections on aviation, banking, transport, aborigines, sport radio, architecture, education and much more. As well as details about many Australian companies, 180 pages. Together with 'Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The Photography of Henti Mallard', contains nearly seventy photographs taken during the Bridge's constructuion. Scarce. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Sydney Harbour Bridge Memorabilia, 'The Sydney Mail Souvenir Bridge Number' Wednesday March 16th 1932, special 68 page edition for the opening of the Bridge. Contains a large selection of photographs and advertisements and includes an artists impression in colour of the Bridge and opening ceremony on the cover. Front and back page loose with some tears, rare.
Estimate $70
SOLD $50
Sydney Harbour Bridge Memorabilia, Including the 'Sydney Harbour Bridge Needle-Book' containing needles and an artists impression of the Bridge in colour on the front. Large (245 x 145mm) b & w photograph of a commercial ship going under the Bridge. Large (208 x 142mm) colour postcard taken from Circular Quay with ferries and the Oriana in the foreground and the Bridge in the background. 'Modern Views in Colour' souvenir folder with several views of the Bridge. Chrome plate cigarette box with a picture of the Bridge on the front. Souvenir bottle opener with a miniature model of the Bridge attached to the back. Souvenir bottle opener with a picture of the 'Sydney Harbour Bridge & Opera House' attached to the front. (7)
Estimate $70
SOLD $90
Sydney Harbour Bridge Memorabilia; a group of original photographs showing the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, just prior to and after the joining of the main arch, as well as work on the pylons. Together with pictures of ships and ferries approaching and going under the Bridge. several photos with pencil descriptions on the back. (15)
Estimate $120
SOLD $140
Sydney Harbour Bridge Memorabilia, N.S.W Government Tramways, Sydney Harbour Bridge tram tickets (red print) for one penny; fourpence (section); eightpence (1st and 2nd sections) and ninepence (1st and 3rd sections). All with additional Red 'S' for Weekend Surcharge. rare. Fine-Very Fine. (4)
Estimate $70
SOLD $50
Sydney Harbour Bridge Memorabilia, N.S.W Government Tramways, Sydney Harbour Bridge tram tickets (black print) for threepence (section); sixpence (1st section), sevenpence (1st and 2nd sections) and eightpence (1st and 3rd section). rare. Fine- very fine. (4)
Estimate $70
SOLD $0
Petrol coupons (Motor Spirit Ration Tickets) 1941- 49, selection from all states and most types (except Queensland), includes 1 gallon (6) 2 gallons (9) and 5 gallons (2) Mint and used. (17)
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Australian 'funny money', a wide selection containing political, advertising, store, entrance, etc., some duplication, includes Bank of Australasia cheque of 1899, mostly different. Extremely fine - uncirculated. (67)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Coin postcards, German New Guinea, Bulgaria, Spain, Transvaal (Z.A.R - South African Republic). Extremely fine - uncirculated. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Postcards, lettercards, Fleet Visit, 1908, Pears, Town scenes, Hobart, Castlemaine, Australian Animal series, Bulletin Postcard series 2A, Hop, Tin Can Mail Tongan Islands. Good - very fine. (34)
Estimate $300
SOLD $320
Assortment of silk cigarette cards, badges, Freemasons jewells, enamelled coins (2), Australian Rising Sun badges, shoulder titles. Good - extremely fine. (86)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Cigarette cards, W.D.& H.O.Wills (1933), Victorian Football Association, footballers including W.Koop - Prahran, C.Mears - Coburg, E.Brewis - Preston, J.Dowling - Brunswick; also BDV cigarette cards (2). Good - very fine. (80)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Cigarette cards, Australian Rules Footballers (1933); Victorian Footballers including Wills, Godfrey Phillips, Standard and BVD. A wide range of players and clubs including Carlton, Collingwood, Geelong, St Kilda (60); Australian Test Cricketers including Bradman, a wide selection of issuers (20). Fine-very fine. (80)
Estimate $400
SOLD $0
Phone cards, an accumulation of phone cards in three albums from numerous countries, collected over the past twenty five years. Mostly from New Zealand, Germany, USA, PNG, France, Greece, Japan, England, Moldova, North Korea and various islands including Tonga and Solomon Islands; Kirabati (stamp cards) and other countries issues in special folder as multiples of Specimen issues. Mostly very fine. (469 phonecards, approx. 100 stamp cards)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Newspapers, Sydney Gazette & NSW Advertiser, 1827, Australasian, 1866, Sydney Morning Herald, 1849, The Times of London, 1866, The Post Record, 1944, Hobart Mercury, 1884, Mercury Supplement, 1897, Scientific American, 1903, The London Magazine, 1743, The Builder, 1916. Good - fine. (10)
Estimate $50
SOLD $160
Banking documents; Union Bank of Australia, sight note, third of exchange, Christchurch New Zealand 17th January 1886, £690.13.3; British Postal Order 1/- 21 Dec (19)17; The Commercial Bank of Australia Limited, specimen circular letter of credit for U.S. dollars. Very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Banking ephemera including passbooks, London Chartered Bank of Australia, 1892; State Savings Bank, 1917; 1922, 1925, 1928, 1935 and 1937; Commonwealth Bank, 1928 (2); The Savings Bank, 1904; National Bank of Australasia, 1930; cheque book, 1964, second and third of Exchange, 1882; promissory notes, 1888 and 1895; documents relating to the London Chartered Bank of Australia (6); together with receipts, memos, letter. Mostly from the state of Victoria. Good - very fine. (30)
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Bank of New South Wales, bank draft cheque (duplicate) issued from Cooktown 4th May 1896 to the Manager in London. Very fine.
Estimate $30
SOLD $40
Cheques & invoices, The Australian Leather Journal Melbourne, 1905, The United Insurance Company, Sydney, 1889, GR Wills & Co, Adelaide, 1914, Excavating Machinery, 1919, Gippsland & Northern Co-op, 1953, Australian National Creditmens Assn, Perth, 1942, R.P. Furmage, 19--, National Bank of Tasmania, 1893, Union Bank of Australia, 1919, Colonial Bank of Australia, 1893, 3 colours, Punjab Banking Co., 18--, North British & Mercantile, 1870, Polish 1930, Russian 1915. Travellers Cheques, State Bank of India, Unissued Commercial Bank of Australia. Fine - extremely fine. (44)
Estimate $60
SOLD $80
Late 19th century bank cheques, in Hobart coin fair cardboard presentation envelopes (42); Also a bundle of decimal training notes. Mostly extremely fine. (100's)
Estimate $50
SOLD $90
World cheques 19th and 20th century, a selection from Australia, Africa, Great Britain, U.S.A., Canada, Middle East. Very good - extremely fine. (29)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Cheques, a collection of 194 cheques drawn on various banks in Palestine and Israel mostly from the 1950's several earlier all housed in plastic sheets many with extensive additional notes articles etc that cheques some relating to the next lot in this sale (180); additional Judaica cheques (14). (lot)
Estimate $400
SOLD $210
Cheques and shares etc in a large folder, an extensive collection of cheques from Israel from 1900's to 1960, many with annotations of the writer of the cheques many of significance including Barbash, Remez, Salant, Yanait, several issued on the Anglo-Palestine Company Limited of Jaffa in 1903 (4), 1906 (2), 1907, 1909, 1911, 1912 (3), 1920, 1922 etc.; others on Jewish Colonial Trust 1934, American Zionist Medical Unit for Palestine 1920, Barclays Bank Limited, others for UNRWA for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, National Bank of Egypt; shares in the Jewish Colonial Trust, other exchange documents, USA cheques of 1867 and 1880, etc. An important offering of material mostly prior to 1948 before the state of Israel. (92)
Estimate $400
SOLD $380
New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, an act of the Parliament of Great Britain 19th July 1823 as 'An Act to provide, until the First Day of July 1827 and until the end of the next Session of Parliament for thew better Administration of Justice in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and for the more effectual Government thereof; and for other Purposes relating thereto. [19th July 1823]'. 22 pages bound to original cardboard cover, inscribed Butler (Gamaliel Butler).
Estimate $100
SOLD $140