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Antique trinket box, sterling silver (77mm diameter, 30mm high) spring loaded lid, ornate scroll design on top with plain centre shield with monogram, 'CR', hallmarked for 1910 Birmingham, maker 'TK&F'. Some small bumps but very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $40
Russia, 19th century heavy silver measuring beaker, four hand engraved decorative panels around centre, one with provision for initials, made by Viktor Savinkov, Moscow, 1855-1888, base marked, B.C / 1888 84 R.K. Good very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Russia, ornamental wall plaques in blackened iron (130mm) (2) one features two cossacks seated outside a small house in the woods and having a drink while another cossack courts a maiden in the background, the other features a young female in a country cottage setting in the yard feeding farmyard birds. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $60
SOLD $0
Dutch Seaman's knife, in brass tobacco tin, knife blade concealed in handle and worn on loop suspender from belt, tin with engraved decoration and Dutch inscriptions which roughly translate to 'You understand me and you understand me not' on the lid and on the bottom, 'I had it well and that is all', used on 'Star of Greece' 1888. Engraving worn, tin fine, knife very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Sundry items, includes small pocket knife (6cm) with mother-of-pearl handle; uniface metal tag (13mm) features an observatory with Southern Cross above; a canister tube (17cm) twisted pattern decorated with Scottish crest and thistles, contains two twisted pattern smaller tubes, all in nickel silver; a very worn Roman bronze folles; a copper fob bearing the Pennsylvanian State seal; Captain Cook medal by State Savings Bank of Victoria, 1970, in silver (38mm) (C.1970/22). Roman coin is poor, the rest very fine - extremely fine. (6)
Estimate $60
SOLD $40
Bank of New South Wales, Ingelwood Branch , brass seal stamp, c1890 (28.38mm x 23.58 oval), with turned wood handle (overall height 74.6mm). Very good.
Estimate $450
SOLD $0
The Bank of Victoria Limited, Western Branch, brass seal stamp (26.6mm) with turned wood handle (overall height 95mm). Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
The Commercial Banking Coy., of Sydney. Limited., seals, the first an oval brass company seal with the branch name, 'Kempsey' in the centre, attached to a shaped, lacquered timber handle, seal size 24mm x 35.5mm; the second is identical but with the branch name, 'West Kempsey' and the size is 28mm x 41mm. Both seals have a few small edge bumps otherwise good very fine and scarce. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
The Commercial Banking Co of Sydney Ltd, Western Branch, brass seal stamp (25mm) with turned wood handle (overall height 101.5mm). Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
F Lassetter & Coy Ld, Sydney, seal, oval brass company seal bearing the company's name around the trademark 'A1' above an Imperial crown, attached to a black enamelled turned and shaped handle. Extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $470
F Lassetter & Coy Ld, sign, a large, enamelled, tin plate sign (approx 450mm x 1810mm) painted cream with black sign-written lettering, 'The Cheapest and Best House in the World / for / Hardware, / F.Lassetter & Co. Ld. / Largest Stock / Prompt Delivery We Lead Competition Following' and with the company trademark of a crown (St Edward type) over 'A1', with fourteen neat edge holes for screw fitting, two torn at edge. An important and rare piece of Sydney's history, very fine.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $0
Seals, plastic impression, New Zealand, New Munster (65mm) (2) issued by Numismatic Society of New Zealand; replica of a seal impression, Seal of Simon De Montfort (c.1255), seal of Merton Priory (c.1241) both by the British Museum. Uncirculated. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $20
Coin cabinet, wooden (200mm x 32mm x 240mm) with twelve drawers with bone handles (nine of the drawers with 24mm diameter coin holders, two with later enlargements), brass hinges and carrying handles. Door panel cracked, missing key for lock, fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Coin carry case, attachee style black case, lockable with keys included, with six coin trays each holding 24 crown sized coins, made in Italy by Abafil, model, 'mediodiplomat'. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Explorers cased set by TB Winter Newcastle on Tyne c1890, consisting of compass, pedometer, barometer and ivory thermometer in orginal leather and green felt lined box, the thermometer missing mercury glass.
Estimate $600
SOLD $500
Cricket, Autograph Book, containing a collection of autographs of the touring West Indies team obtained in Brisbane on 21st January 1931 at the end of the third test, includes G.C.Grant the captain, G.Headley, L.Constantine, O.S.Wright, I. Barrow, O.C.Scott, Geo. Francis, F.R.Martin, H.C. Griffen, E.L. St.Hill, and others; the book also includes Sheffield Shield players Bill Brown, and others; a small drawing "Forward" of E. Rees WO II AIC; together with various verses and dittys by about twenty writers.
Estimate $200
SOLD $320
Dinky toys, by Meccano Ltd, in metal, red English buses made in England, No.283 single decker bus and No.289 double decker routemaster bus, both in original boxes. Boxes very fine, buses as new. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $150
Money box, cast iron (155mm high x 110mm wide) Transvaal Money Box, design of President Paul Kruger smoking a pipe, reverse marked 'By Permission of / The Proprietors of / The Westminister Gazelie', c.1900 being a copy of the original made c.1896 which has the reverse marking 'Gazette' not 'Gazelie'. Still a desirable antique item, very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
Black binder with mylar pages with 1890's cheques (4) one and two dollars (R.78, 880 space exploration First Day Covers (9) including Apollo 11 1969 Moree Station with ten autopages, Iraq banknotes (5) 2003 50th Anniversary of coronation fifty cents stamp FDC. Very fine - uncirculated. (21)
Estimate $100
SOLD $40
Political advertising banknotes, for Country National Party, 1930s, Lyons vs Lang, fiduciary inflation note for one million pounds to cash at Cranks Bank, printed by H.Pole & Co, Brisbane, all notes with same serial number Z5436S at left and mismatched Z543S6 at right, overprinted on back in red, 'Danger'. Uncirculated. (10)
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Photo album, c1900, sixteen pages mostly of family studio portraits, some anotated on back, studios include Yeoman & Co, Melbourne., Thomas Kent, Colac., W.H.Smith, Kyneton; scrapbook containing school photos, c1920-1940, family photographs, printed menu 1907 and booklets (4). Good - fine. (2 albums)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Photographs, two old photographs c.early 19th century with group portraits of Herbert Spencer, Charles Lamb, John Ruskin, Rev. Kingsley, Charles Darwin, John Stewart Mill on one print and 9 figures including Lord Lytton, Thomas Carlyle, Lord Macauley, W. Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens and others; originals produced by Thomas and Edmonds 120 Cheapside London. Fine, becoming faded. (2)
Estimate $80
SOLD $0