Catalogue
Victoria, Melbourne, bills of exchange (1887-1903), Tatlow Bros £19.5.0 dated 1.1.1887 "For Collection and Return by Warrant" sticker attached; C.L. Thos Smith £70.11.4 dated 16.6.1892 (includes Victorian stamp duty adhesive stamps for sixpence and one shilling and Tasmania one shilling); M.Coote & Co £5.6.6 dated 5.8.1896 (with National Bank of Australasia "For Acceptance and Return - Collection" sticker attached); Duck River Farmers Co-op Assn £53.11.3 dated 18.1.1904. most with impressed or adhesive duty stamps. Fine - very fine. (4)
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
Tasmania, Launceston, bills of exchange, cheques (1888-1918), A Ferguson £8.4.6 dated 1.2.1888; Dodgshun Sons & Co £11.9.8 dated 1.5.1895; Johnstone & Wilmot, £9.5.4 dated 1.7.1899; Irvine & Mc Earchern £7.14.9 dated 1.7.1897; P.O. Fysh & Co £8.1.7 dated 1.7.1918 (with purple impressed sixpence duty stamp); The Commercial Bank of Tasmania unissued cheque form 19.... Others with impressed or adhesive duty stamps. Very fine - extremely fine. (5)
Estimate $120
SOLD $140
Victoria, Melbourne, bills of exchange, (1889-1904) James McEwan & Co £22.4.5 dated 1.2.1889; Eliza Tinsley £7.9.3 dated 21.4.1904; T. Brumton & Co £15.0.0 dated 31.10.1904. All with impressed or adhesive duty stamps. Very fine. (3)
Estimate $60
SOLD $90
Victoria, Melbourne, bills of exchange (1892-1918), Atkinson, Bleasby & Hutchinson £14.5.6 dated 1.11.1892; James Gillespie and Co £10.6.6 dated 28.1.1892; Fisher & Co £20.9.7 dated 66.10.1918; T. Brunton & Co £8.4.9 dated 19.10.1918. Most with impressed or adhesive duty stamps. Fine - very fine. (4)
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
N.S.W., Sydney bills of exchange, Gibbs Bright & Co £135.1.3 dated 1.11.1895; The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited £3.11.6 dated 21.6.1913. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $60
SOLD $100
Australia, wide selection of discount vouchers, chits, store, credit certificates, coupons, entrance tickets and other "cinderella" items. Griffiths Bros' Ltd, 30 Flinders St. Melbourne, half coupon; Foys Bourke Street only "Swap Exchange Headquarters card; Wallace "Tokens" and United Discounts quality coupon one unit noted. Good - uncirculated. (59)
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
Miner's Right, 5/-, Ballarat, Victoria, to Sarah Gear, 5 March 1896, and another to J. Ready, issued 9th January '97, both by Authority; Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne; another 2/6, 25th July 1914 for one year. Very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $120
Victoria, miners rights, Ballarat, for two shillings and sixpence, dated 21 August 1901; 6 April 1905; 3 September 1906; 8 May 1918 all with endorsements and or attachments on the back. Mostly fine - very fine. (4)
Estimate $140
SOLD $180
Great Southern and Western Railways, Free Pass - Second Class for travel from 1st August 1885 (available for brake van), between Sydney and Picton, Springwood, Richmond and Hurstville, "On Service" black print on green paper (158mm x 98mm). Very rare. Fine.
Estimate $130
SOLD $0
Great Southern and Western Railways, Free Pass - Second Class for travel from 1st to 30th September 1885, between Sydney and Picton, Springwood, Richmond and Illawara Line. Very rare, very fine.
Estimate $130
SOLD $0
Victorian Railways, Albert Park and Melbourne, monthly ticket, first class, to 1 Dec 1906. Very rare. Very good.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Geelong, Jubilee Juvenile & Industrial Exhibition Certificate, 1887 - 8, to A. Churdon for Herbarium" (50 x 40 cm) on paper slight staining and foxing otherwise fine; Vellum document for assistant Cook, 26th October 1853 (London) (50 x 39 cm); Poster size reproduction of Australian Colonial public notices (8) and scenic views (12 , World War I recruiting poster, plans of old fortifications in NSW; Siege of Tobruk chart maps, history (4), other charts including colour patches for A.I.F all wall map size (5). Fair - fine (approx 35)
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Fisherman's License, N.S.W Government Fisherman's Licence dated 12 April 1934; N.S.W. Government Fishing Boat Licence dated 28 January 1931, both issued at the Treasury, Sydney for a five shillings fee. Fine - very fine. (2)
Estimate $90
SOLD $0
Legal Documents, In the Supreme Court of NSW, Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, Probate on the will of George Craig, Sailmaker of Kensington Street, Sydney, issued 11 February 1885 on vellum, fitted with seals, etc.; another portion of a legal document signed by Sir George Gipps Governor NSW 13th January 1841 also signed by Colonial secretary and with State seal. Fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Colony of Victoria. Certificate of Title to Thomas Lang of 52 Elizabeth St, Melbourne, and others to a piece of land measuring sixteen acres, two roods and twenty perches in the County of Dalhousie Mining District of Sandhurst, dated 4th August 1885, with a one pound duty stamp. Very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $0
Great Britain, Oriental Bank Corporation, share certificate for £25, No.16816, issued 16 December 1851, printed by Perkins Bacon & Petch, London, details veso of transfers. Extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
New South Wales, Funded Stock, Certificate of Allotment No. 33 to Andrew Loder £500 paid, for four per cents, 25th August 1873, Geo. A. Lloyd Colonial Treasurer watermarked form "New South Wales/ Government Debenture/1859" Good very fine and rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $0
Tasmania, Tasmanian Government Debenture for £100 sterling No.685 issued 31st October 1867 and stamped several timnes "Paid", signed by the Colonial Treasurer and Governor in Chief of the Colony of Tasmania Sir Thomas Gore Browne with various other signatures. Set for repayment on July 1, 1894 with interest set at "six pounds per centum per annum". Very fine and very rare.
Estimate $250
SOLD $0
Tasmanian Government Treasury Bill, for One hundred pounds sterling, No.326, dated at Treasury, Hobart, 8th December 1892, with watermark, Bill Issued by the Government of Tasmania. two circular holes for cancellation through signatures and stamped Paid. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Banking and Building Societies, Federal Bank of Australia Limited, 29th October 1885; Real Estate Bank Limited, 15th October 1889; City of Melbourne Building Society, 1891. Very fine and rare. (3)
Estimate $80
SOLD $190