Catalogue
Elizabeth I, small vellum indenture, 1580, in Latin still with original vellum ties. Several small dot stains, nonetheless, fine and very scarce.
Estimate $250
SOLD $300
William III, two parchment agreements, one dated 1700, the other dated 1701, each with two rare impressed revenue stamps for fourpence each, the latter with a nice 'arms' wax seal. Fine and scarce. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $190
Queen Anne Indenture, 17 February, 1708 (document states 'in the Seventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne') vellum between Robert Cragg and William Bush for the purchase of a property of two acres in the County of Westmoreland with stamping to show eight pence revenue paid and with three witnessing signatures including one by making his mark. Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $180
SOLD $0
Queen Anne, Indenture, 17 May 1708, vellum, two-page, Tripartite agreement between William Chapman and John Lookor with two x sixpenny revenue stamps plus cypher stamps and three seals. Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $200
SOLD $0
George I, Court Baron vellum in Latin, executed on 17 July 1731, with two shillings and threepence revenue stamp plus cypher stamp. Very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
George II, Abstract of deeds (23 pages), 23 March 1750, for a farm called Howden House in County Durham; George II, Indenture in vellum, 26 November, 1755, for lease of share cropping farm in County of Berkshire with three seals and three revenue stamps each for sixpence; Queen Victoria, Certificate of Acknowledgement, 1875, for Conveyance by married women, Glamorgan, revenue seal for five shillings, two pages; Share certificates, Ingersoll-Rand (Australia), 1929; The New York Central Railroad Company, 1964; Penn Central Company, 1970; Pan American Sulphur Company, 1967 (3). Fine - very fine. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
George III, Indenture dated 28 June 1764, vellum assignment between Ann Wills of Seaborough in the County of Somerset, widow, heir, executrix and collar-maker and Edward Plowman for land and gardens, with rare two shillings and sixpence revenue stamp plus cypher stamp and seal attached. Very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $90
George III, Indenture, 7 May 1819, large vellum from Thomas Price and others to William Mattey, County of Hereford, with seals and revenue stamp for one pound and fifteen shillings. Very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $50
George IV, Court Baron document dated 30 October 1822 whereby The Earl of Ashburnham, Lord of the Manor of Burwash, transfers tenancy from the late John Waters to his son and heir, Benjamin Waters, with one pound revenue stamp plus cypher. Very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
George IV, rent agreement made at Westminister in fifteen days of Saint Martin in the fifth year of the Reign of George the fourth.....and afterwards in eight days of the Purification of the Blessed Mary in the sixth year of the Reign of the said King, for ten messuages, ten dovehouses, 600 hundred acres of land, 500 acres of meadow and 300 acres of pasture, with ten shillings revenue stamp plus cypher stamp. Very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
William IV, vellum mortgage document, 13 February 1833, between Edward Tucker and William Whittle for 'The Manors of Beaminster Prima and Beaminster Secunda', in the County of Dorset, with three pound revenue stamp. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
William IV, Indenture, 7 March 1833, vellum lease between James Hall and others to William Maund in the County of Hereford, revenue stamp for one pound fifteen shillings plus cypher stamp and four attached and undamaged seals. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Queen Victoria, Will and Probate for Robert Curtis of South Perrott in the County of Dorset, 1857, two pages, revenue stamp for ten shillings and large seal of R. Bentley Buckle M.A. Archdeacon of Dorset. Very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
Queen Victoria, Indenture, 17 March 1868, vellum conveyance between John Caseley and Edward Hill for a parcel of orchard land, with five shillings revenue stamp and cypher, with seal. Very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $60
Colony of Victoria. legal documents, including Conveyance of Land, Williamstown, 1853; Power of Attorney, 1853; Deed of Defeasance, Transfer of Land, Form of Application of Loan and handwritten letter all relating to land at Kensington, 1883; Conveyances, Footscray, 1888, 1891, 1897; Epping, 1859, 1888; Mortgage, Parish of Gherang Gherang, 1893, 1896, 1901; Mortgage of Livestock, of cattle, 1889, and of merino ewes, 1890; Conveyance, Ringwood, 1903. Most documents handwritten on vellum. Fine - very fine. (19)
Estimate $180
SOLD $150
Victoria, Lease of a Grazing Area, measuring ninety seven acres in the Parish of Jamieson, County of Wonnangatta to Robert John Bush, signed by Governor Sir Reginald Arthur James Talbot, 1st July 1904, together with Certificate of Correction of name attached; Another., for grazing land, measuring one hundred and ninety seven acres two roods and twenty three perches in the parish of Lang Lang, County of Mornington to George Matthew Stephens, signed by Governor Sir Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, 1st April 1909. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Documents including, Colony of New South Wales, Conveyance of Land, at Deniliquin, 1876, on vellum; Tasmania, The Emu Bay Railway Co. Limited, map (86cms x 53cms) with heavier paper backing, undated, giving timetable and explanatory notes, detailing Emu Bay Railway Line, Government and Private Lines, and Mining Companies (wear on foldlines); Supreme Court of Tasmania, Commission to take Oath Affidavits, 1910; Victoria, Injunction in the Supreme Court of Victoria, 1908; Land Sales poster, Bacchus Marsh, 1909; Judgement in the Supreme Court of Victoria, 1904; Order in Lunacy, 1910; Western Australia, Commission for taking Affidavits, 1910; receipt for payment of legacy, 1932; Australian & New Zeland Luncheon Club in London, Table Plan for the Australia Day Luncheon, January 26th, 1920 with H.R.H. The Prince of Wales as a guest. Good - very fine. (10)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Printed ephemera, including Entitlement to Lease, letter, Sydney, 1887; Pocket Guide to Old Time Dances Coles Book Arcade, Melbourne; receipts, F & W Stewart, 1914, with three Tasmania one penny duty stamps affixed; booklet on The Medals of F.W.Stewart, Launceston; advertising postcard E.Way & Company, Sydney, 1907; Australian Widows Fund, 1901, receipt; Queensland Federal and State Income Tax form, 1942 (torn); N.S.W., Motor Spirit Ration Ticket, 1949, for five gallons, overstamped 'cancelled'; receipt, J.W.Purves, Manly, 1898; Smith Bros, Beaufort, 1897; Victoria, postal notes for 4/-, 1931 (2), Melbourne, payable to Numismatic Society; another for thirty cents, 1966; British Postal Order for sixpence, 1907; money orders, 1929 (2), 1931; postcard from P.O.W. William Alexander Evans, 23 Battn, in GÃ…strow i.M. (Germany) to Miss G.Green, Melbourne, 1918 (bottom left corner missing). Fine - extremely fine. (20)
Estimate $120
SOLD $300
Queensland Police, (Marven Station), Circular Memorandum and District Order Book, No 1, 2 April 1879 to 4 October 1897 (330mm x 210mm), noted District Orders relating to badges; uniforms; 1894 list of all clubs authorised to use totalisators at horse meetings; Sunday trading; licensing re Theatres, Music Halls and Travelling Dramatic Companies and no Victuallers licence permitted to married women; prisoner escort by horse not coach; treatment of lunatics; no railway passes to destitute persons; burial of paupers, seditious publications by Active Service Brigade; analytical and microscopical examination of blood, semen and hair; rules of lawfully taking life of escaping felon; request for donations of items for Police Museum opened in Brisbane; instruction for patrols of all shearing sheds by a constable and a tracker; accounting for aborigines and their gender in each district; and a significantly very important directive regarding the arrest of all half caste aboriginal children (see below). The book is well used with stained cover, missing spine and loose pages but all information, mostly hand-written in ink, is legible and neat, good condition and unique.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $0
Van Diemen's Land, printed cheque form Derwent Bank, Hobart Town, July 4th, 1835, No.-, for ú480 to S. Neil Talbot Esq, signed by Jms. Thos. Leahy, D.Cl 21 Fusiliers. Two spike holes and 5mm tear in top margin, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $100
New South Wales, Government Savings Bank of New South Wales, unissued cheque (2), (19....) and (192..). A large area of foxing on the first cheque particularly on the reverse, a few minor spots of foxing on the second cheque, otherwise good very fine and scarce. (2)
Estimate $60
SOLD $0
Travellers cheques, Australia, Commercial Bank of Australia 5, 10 pounds 1955, 1964; National Bank of A'sia 10, 20, 50 dollars 1975; The Savings Bank of South Australia 10, 20, 50 dollars 1974 - 76; Great Britain, National Provincial Bank 5, 10, 20 pounds 1963; 2, 10, 20 pounds 1964-65 Lloyds Bank Ltd 20, 50 pounds, 1979 - 81. All used. Mostly extremely fine. (16)
Estimate $160
SOLD $0
Victoria. Banking and Insurance, bank pass books (22), mostly Melbourne, dated 1908-1983; Insurance Policies (46), dated 1890-1936, including The Victoria Insurance Company; New Zealand Insurance Company; Automobile Fire & General Insurance; Australian Mutual Provident Society; Queensland Insurance Co. Fine - very fine. (68)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Selections of Australian, cheques, letterheads, receipts, sight notes, telegrams and documents, also includes some U.S.A items. Housed in a black spiral album. Mostly very good - extremely fine. (49)
Estimate $80
SOLD $40
Tasmania, Westfield, group of hand written receipts to Messrs Brown and Son, Launceston 1858 on account of Mr John Burke for ten different deliveries of bags of wheat. Dated from 22 April to 14 May 1858, all tied together with a piece of string. Mostly fine - very fine. (10)
Estimate $90
SOLD $0
Sales receipt, issued for sale of one brown mare, identified, 25 June 1924, two pence duty stamps of Queensland and South Australia affixed; Writ, issued 10 May 1859 for appearance at court of Queen's Bench at Westminster, impressed with stamp of Writ Office Queen's Bench. Fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Australia, decimal training notes government notes "For Training Purposes Only" 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 dollars, two sets; another set 1,2,10,20 dollars issued by "Motivational Sales Promotions" South Melbourne; another 20 dollars issued by decimal promotions East Melbourne; another 10 dollars "Demonstration Money" issued by the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd; New Zealand "Decimal Currency Board" "Practice Money" 2,5,10 dollars. Fine - uncirculated. (19)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Great Britain, consolidated 3 per cent joint stock annuities note for ú4.5.9 dated 26.1.1831 transferrable at the bank of England, scarce. Very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $0
Westminister Bank Limited, night safe deposit bag, black leather with gold blocked name of bank, brass lock by Chubb / London with fish logo, two keys, top brass plate impressed ' Chesterfield Branch / No. 64'. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $0
Commonwealth of Australia, Postal Note, Queensland, 2/6, B 582102, 25 May 1948. Tiny 2mm tear in bottom margin, two pinholes, extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $200
SOLD $200