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N.S.W. transport tickets, book of fifty tickets, Lindfield Omnibus Service, Lidfield to Newport Beach, grey coloured (50mm x 100mm) return fare for children under 12, two shillings and sixpence all overwritten in red, one shilling i.e. 1/-, c.1950's; book of two hundred tickets, 2601-2800, ten missing, The Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Co Ltd, Palm Beach to Patonga, white (38mm x 75mm) imprinted with red letter C for child fare; book of two hundred tickets, 12602-12800, five missing, Stockton Ferries Pty Ltd, pink coloured with image of ferry in background (38mm x 79mm), Stockton to Newcastle, child fare. Apart from the top ticket on each book, all uncirculated and scarce. (3 books)
Estimate $80
SOLD $30
Ferry tickets, a large selection of various types of ferry tickets such as Brisbane City Council Queensland Vehicular Ferry Service, Brisbane Cross River Ferry Services, Neale Cruises (2 types), Short Road Ferry (Williamstown), Austins Ferry, Hayle's Magnetic Island Pty Ltd freight, Bundeena & Port Hacking Ferry Service Pty Ltd, State Transit Authority (Sydney 15, 14 different) (Newcastle - Stockton 4 different), Sydney Ferries (2 different), Stockton Ferries Pty Ltd (4 identical), Urban Transit Authority of N.S.W. (17 different), Rosman's Ferry Service (6, 4 different) and The Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Co Ltd (2 types), Stradbroke Ferries. Very fine - extremely fine. (59)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Trains and Tramways Tickets, various States, many scarce issues all mounted on sheets in an album as well as two Weekly Ticket books issued by A.J. Wagg Lindfield Motor Service, one red and the other grey. An interesting selection. Very fine. (196)
Estimate $200
SOLD $100
Government Time Table and Fares, (68mm x 88mm) from 28th January 1890 comprising 81 pages of detailed information for Sydney tramway network at the time; Tram Timetables Waratah Line (Newcastle) 1950 commencing February 27. Very fine, the first item very scarce. (2)
Estimate $250
SOLD $0
South Australian Railways & Tramways Assn, badge (37mm x 25mm) in enamel and copper-plated bronze, ensigned by a crown with loop suspension, impressed on reverse with number, 1640, by P.J.King, Melbourne; Municipal Tramways Trust, Adelaide, South Australia, employee passes, oval green enamel and bronze badge (30mm x 20mm) loop suspension, impressed no.0070 on reverse, made by A.J.Parkes, Brisbane; another circular red and white enamel and bronze badge (23mm) loop suspension, impressed no.2385 on reverse, made by A.J.Parkes, Brisbane. Very fine - extremely fine, the first rare. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Brisbane Tramways, employee pass, hexagon shaped with black and yellow enamel (9, two with enamel missing, one of these stamped DUP) impressed number on reverse, two also impressed with DUP (duplicate) and one with A (apprentice); another but round with blue and white enamel (5) impressed number on reverse; another but oval with blue and yellow enamel (7, three impressed with D.U.P.), impressed number on reverse of four, three impressed with D.U.P, one with impressed number and two with engraved number; Municipal Tramways Trust, Adelaide, South Australia, oval bronze badge with green enamel, by A.J.Parkes, impressed serial number on reverse; another but round, gilt with red and white enamel (3) by A.J.Parkes, impressed number on reverse. All badges with suspension loop, two broken. Fine - very fine. (25)
Estimate $90
SOLD $60
Invercargill tram pass, for gas worker, 1912-1920, rectangular brass plate (38mm x 20mm) impressed T/25 with attached leather button-hole strap for wearing; Corporation of Invercargill, NZ, 1871, Tramway pass in silver (26mm) impressed no. 12 on reverse, holed for suspension. Fine - very fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $110
Dog registration tags, all different, five enamelled, 1928-1984, includes South Australia District 5 1948-49, engraved and impressed design; Strathfieldsaye 1975; Heidelberg 1941-42; Wyong 1986; Holroyd 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984; Monaro 1976; South Australia District 90, 1937-38, leather strap attached; South Australia District 128, 1928-29 leather strap attached. Fine - very fine, some very scarce. (11)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
South African tokens, Mine Stores (Natal) Ltd subsidiary store, red celluloid (23.5mm) ZNC monogram (2) (Theron N22, 10C); Duchen Brothers, celluloid tokens with DB monogram pre 1945, two shillings, black (31.2mm) (3), one shilling, red (28.4mm) (9), threepence, black (18.6mm) (3) (Theron N5); City Tramways Co Ltd, celluloid tokens for joint use, halfpenny, yellow (25mm) (2) reverse, 'Cape Town Tramways / Private & Picnic / Parties / Catered For / Motor Buses', halfpenny, pink (25mm) (2) reverse, 'Cape Town Tramways / Cape Point / and / Hout Bay / Motor Bus Trips'; City of Dartmouth ferry passes, adult fare (2, one brass (28mm) and one in aluminium (23mm)); Delaware River ferry and riverbus token in brass (25mm); Camden Ferry Co. Philadelphia in brass (20mm) centre hole and suspension hole; Norfolk County Ferries in nickel (20mm); Mare Island Ferry in bronze (23mm); Hampshire Transport Scheme for five pence in green plastic (24mm); Honolulu Rapid Transport Company in nickel (22mm); Toronto Harbour Commission / Toronto City Airport token in nickel with copper centre (25mm); Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Co Ltd, Manly Ferry turnstile token in nickel (30mm) (4); Mortdale Car Shed pass in aluminium (35mm) with E.T.R. at base, holed for suspension, impressed 3032; VR (Victoria Railways) Duty Pass no. 155 in bronze (42mm) holed for suspension, reverse N.Melb / and / Flinders - S. The last item corroded with a gouge in obverse, others fine - uncirculated. (36)
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
South Africa, Cape Town, City Catering Department, sixpence, shilling, two shillings and sixpence (Theron C.2), J.W.Irwin, halfpenny, 1879 (Theron C.5) traces of mint red, Katberg Sanatorium, Katberg Cross Award of Merit (not listed); Orange Free State, Jagersfontein Municipality water token (Theron O.5), DAH (Die Afrikaanse Handelshius) bakelite tokens, threepence, shilling, two shillings (Theron O.14). Fine - extremely fine. (10)
Estimate $100
SOLD $220
Transport tickets, an assorted collection, mostly train tickets, but also some bus tickets and a few railway parcel stamps, many unusual names of stations, includes adults, economy, childs, excursion, weekly and souvenir tickets, some for Australian Railway Historical Society trips and New South Wales Transport Museum, an interesting lot mounted in an album. Very fine. (252 pieces)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Train tickets, a large quantity of mostly Queensland - New South Wales, also selected special items such as Deniliquin & Moama Railway (first private railway in N.S.W.), free pass - first class, issued to J.G.Evans Esq. M.P., 1st January 1902; Wynyard to Gordon Via Bridge, ticket no. 000, 20 Mar 32 (this is first ticket from Gordon used on that date to Wynyard to cross the Harbour Bridge which was only opened on the previous day 19 March); souvenir ticket for 50th anniversary vintage train tour, Telgraph Point to Kempsey 25 November 1967; souvenir ticket for Eastern Suburbs R e 1979; souvenir ticket for Tangara 31 January 1988; souvenir ticket for Olympic Park Station Opening 8 March 1998. The first two items very scarce, fine - extremely fine. (107)
Estimate $150
SOLD $50
China, small collection of eight coins, as described below presented in a book format by Margaret Scott (nee Wright), with descriptions; collection consists of uncertain period Chou Dynasty, Warring States, "Ch'ing" series, plain type, odd shaped medium of exchange and also known as "bridge money", (c.1000-500 B.C.), length 106 mm., (cf.Coole 6720, Vol.5 p.477, Not in Sch. or TFP); Chou Dynasty, Large "Ch'i" series (from the Duchy of Ch'i during the Chou Dynasty), Warring States, pointed type, (c.476-221 B.C.), five characters knife money, obv. Qi - Fa Hua (Qi legal money), rev. ten and Shang, length 187 mm, (Coole 6204 Vol.5 p.177, Sch.45, TFP 351-3, Hartill 4.6); another Ming knife (400-220 B.C.), length 140 mm, (cf.Coole 7226 Vol.6 p.132, cf.Hartill 4.cn); another straight knife (300-250 B.C.), length 125 mm., uncertain symbols (cf.Hartill 4.60-4.70); Flat handled round shouldered arch foot spade money (400-300 B.C.), height 64 mm., (Sch.1, TFP 301, Hartill 3.10); another similar but pointed foot spade (350-250 B.C.), height 51mm., (Hartill 3.93, TFP 105); another flat handled square foot spade, (350-250 B.C.), height 53mm., (Hartill 3.182, Sch 13-27, TFP 16); another Wang Mang (A.D. 7-22), similar spade with top hole, value 900, height 49mm., (Hartill 9.28, TFP 482-3). Mostly fine or better, several very scarce. (8)
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $1,000
Sweden, Karl XII, copper plate half daler 1715 (KM.PM32). Flat on bottom of centre mark otherwise good very fine and rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $900
Sweden, Karl XII, copper plate for two dalers, 1716, Avesta mint, counterstamped 1718 in Stockholm to increase value by 50 per cent (KM.PM46; Tingstrom p.288). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,200
Sweden, Frederick I, copper plate, half daler 1731 (KM.PM65). Good very fine.
Estimate $400
SOLD $600
Sweden, Frederick I, copper plate, one daler 1731 (KM.PM68). Good very fine and rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $800
British Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz, Temotu Province red "Feather Money" or "Tavau" (6cm x 4.5cm), in glass frame. (6 sections)
Estimate $150
SOLD $150
Coins of the world, mostly in cupro-nickel, housed in National seven board Wayte Raymond album (circa 1947) titled Pure Nickel Coins. Countries include Syria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Romania, Thailand, Turkey, Belgium, Ethiopia, Danzig, China, Lithuania, Finland (21 uncirculated) Latvia, Poland, Luxembourg, Iraq, Japan, Italy, Basque Spain. Some scarce in mint state, overall fine - uncirculated. (91)
Estimate $300
SOLD $750
World coins, tied to boards with typed descriptions or, in case of China, in a glazed frame, includes silver dollars (4) 1912-1932 period; Thailand, bullet money in silver, packsaddle in silver; coins of Edward VIII; Zeppelin three mark 1930, nickel coins of Canada; nickel brass threepences, each series regularly displayed in the 1950's at 81 Clarence Street. Fine - uncirculated. (approx 60)
Estimate $300
SOLD $800
Germany, (Weimar Republic), three reichsmark 1930D (KM.67) (Graf Zeppelin Flight). Toned, uncirculated.
Estimate $120
SOLD $110
Israel, mint set, 1949 (KM.MS1). In plastic case of issue, uncirculated.
Estimate $70
SOLD $130
World coins, assorted in envelopes includes German minors including notgeld tokens (1920's - 1930's), Estonia, Belgium, Austria 1955 silver issues, Holloway tokens (10), Great Britain penny and two pence 1797, German East Africa (nickel) (2), Australia florins 1936, 1946. Poor - uncirculated. (approx 120)
Estimate $300
SOLD $340
Australia, to Commemorate the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1901, in silver (43mm) by W.J.Amor Sydney (C.1901/39), reverse, The Father of Australian Federation. Toned, small edge bruise at 11 o'clock, good extremely fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $600
Australia, to Commemorate the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1901, in silver (44mm) by W.J.Amor Sydney (cf.C.1901/39), reverse, The Father of Australian Federation. Toned, good extremely fine.
Estimate $600
SOLD $750
Australia, to Commemorate the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1901, in bronze (44mm) by W.J.Amor Sydney (C.1901/39), reverse, The Father of Australian Federation. Toned, good extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $300
SOLD $420
Australia, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, 1935, in copper (51mm) by Stokes Melb (C.1935/6), issued by the Numismatic Society of Victoria. Uncirculated.
Estimate $300
SOLD $270
New Zealand, Otago Diamond Jubilee medal in white metal (22mm) 1848-1908 (M.1908/1)(2); Otago Centennial medals 1948 in oxidised silver and bronze (2) (51mm) by J. Berry; another in gilt bronze (22mm) (3); Canterbury Centennial medals, 1850 - 1950, in oxidised silver (2) and bronze (2) (51mm). Extremely fine - uncirculated. (12)
Estimate $120
SOLD $180
Great Britain, Fire mark of the Bristol Fire Office c.1800's in tin (22cm x 17cm)(cf.Bulau.644); another, Norwich Union in copper (cf.Bulau.719). Good. (2)
Estimate $250
SOLD $340
Great Britain, Fire mark of Norwich Fire Office c.1800's in lead (17cm x 14cm)(cf.Bulau.700). Good.
Estimate $150
SOLD $220