Catalogue
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
Commonwealth of Australia, Postal Note, Queensland, 5/6, B 524642, 5 July 1948. Extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $250
SOLD $300
Postal notes, Territory of Papua, no.2205, seven shillings and sixpence, issued at Port Moresby, 25 May 1936, payable only in the Territory of Papua and Commonwealth of Australia; Commonwealth of Australia, postal note, the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, no.035252, six shillings, issued at Angoram, 10 May 1965. The first note was recovered from a bombed post office during WWII, it has two triangular cut-out cancellations and is damaged across the lower edge hence graded as very good but still scarce, the second note is extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $300
Gold Extraction Report 1860-1, Mr Wilkinson's Patent, a report printed on 25 June 1861 for the Legislative Assembly of the Government of Victoria detailing Wilkinson's 'Patent for the Extraction of Gold from Quartz', 8pp. Good very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Miners Rights, Victoria, Ballarat, 14 June 1902; another 4 September 1907; another 31 March 1919; all with 2/6 fee; first and third "Ballarat" in rubber stamp, second printed 'Ballarat" all with different government printers or acting Government printers. Third miners right issued to "Frederick Thomas Stokes". Very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $90
Miners Rights, Victoria, Ballarat 20 August 1902; another 2 July 1909 another 4 June 1916; all with 2/6 fee, first with "Ballarat" ink rubber stamp, second and third with "Ballarat" printed, first Robt. S. Brain Govt. Printer, second J. Kemp Acting Government printer, third J. Kemp Government printer. Very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Miners Rights, Victoria, Ballarat, 9 April; another 14 January 1903; another 4 July 1904 all with 2/6 fee; first with ink rubber stamp "Ballarat" others printed; all Robt. S. Brain Government printer. Very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $90
Miners Rights, Victoria, Castlemaine Hurstbridge 8 November 1932 fee 2/6 H.J. Green Government printer; New South Wales, Armidale, 24 June 1925, fee 5/-; another Hill End 18 January 1947, fee 2/6; another, Lightning Ridge 31 August 1971, fee one dollar, second rare. Fine - extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $130
SOLD $0
Railway related documents, N.S.W. Govt. Railway and Tramway Institute certificate awarded for a pass in English 1928 (205mm x 240mm) very colourfully decorated; Railways Ambulance Corps Department of Railways New South Wales Certificate of Efficiency towards qualifying for Life Membership Medal 1954 (170mm x 205mm) black and red on white; another for Certificate of Efficiency towards qualifying for Gold Bar (170mm x 205mm) one dated 1947 the other 1952 (2); New South Wales Government Railway and Tramway Ambulance Corps Certificate for second efficiency examination towards qualifying for Gold Bar (153mm x 153mm) dated 1927 and scarce; New South Wales Government Railways Institute Eisteddfod Certificate of Commendation (200mm x 210mm) dated 1941 and an attractive design; Rotating Guide (260mm) of 48 cities in N.S.W. issued by Department of Railways New South Wales in 1956 with all relevant information about train travel on the reverse and on the colourful front section is a plethera of information available at the simple turn of the guide to the relevant town, printed by North Sydney Printing Pty Ltd. Very fine. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
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 $70
SOLD $0
Victorian Railways, Albert Park and Melbourne, monthly ticket, first class, to 1 Dec 1906. Very good and rare.
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
Victoria, Victorian Taxi-Bus services Melbourne to Kew, Northcote, Brighton, Lakes Entrance tickets for 5d, 5d, 9d, 25/- in pairs (8); Melbourne & Victorian Tramways Board 2d ticket, pair; Tasmania, Transport Commission, Trans Derwent ferry tickets adult, child; Bellerive Ferry Service, adult, student, child set of 3; motivational sales promotions, South Melbourne, decimal changeover educational notes, 1, 2, 10 & 20 dollars set. Mostly very fine - uncirculated. (19)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Victoria, Melbourne Dance Hall, Palais de Dance, selection of admission, dance and pass out tickets & checks, all different. A rare group. Very fine - extremely fine. (8)
Estimate $90
SOLD $0
Victoria, Dated 1885-1929, mostly Melbourne related; including Deed of Gift; business letters; receipts; Registration of a Firm; Birth Certificate; Agreements; Memorandums; Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works Notices; Interest Statements; Land Sales poster, Bacchus Marsh, 1909; booklet 'A Short History and Description of Parliament House, Melbourne', 1886, bottom right corner of each page damaged. Fair - very fine. (32)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Ferries, Balmain Steam Ferry Company Limited, certificate no. 912, for one hundred shares at fifteen shillings per share, dated 22 February 1889, embossed with company seal which bears an image of a ferry inside two concentric circles between which is the company name, issued to Leonard Dodds. Very fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Ferries, The Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Company, certificate no.637, five thousand shares, 4 October 1932 together with attached Transfer and Acceptance form dated 10 December 1937 transferring deceased estate holding to purchaser and new share certificate no.2932 dated 7 January 1938, both named to Arthur Howard-Smith, first item depicts a ferry and bears a New South wales five shillings impressed stamp; photocopy of share certificate, The Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company Limited, 4 June 1954. Very fine and rare. (3)
Estimate $180
SOLD $240
Melbourne & Suburban Railway Company, ten pound shares in favour of David Scallan of Melbourne, No.10523/6 and 10536/8, dated 5th November 1859. Extremely fine. (7)
Estimate $350
SOLD $850