Catalogue
Banking. The Centennial Land Bank Limited, Melbourne, 19th July 188[8], one hundred £5 shares, black on buff, with vignettes of Melbourne Exhibition Building and Indigenous hunting scene, overprinted 'First Issue' in red, broker's stamp top right side. With folds and pin holes, good fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
National Bank of Tasmania Limited, second of exchange, Launceston, (5th Oct) 190[5], for £40, brown on white, with vignette of sailing ship and whale top centre and left side. With pin holes, nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $250
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Sundry. Equitable Co-Operative Society Limited, 31st July 18[82], two hundred £1 shares, black on white, overprinted 'Paid Up' in mauve front and back. Light folds, pin holes, good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Sundry. The City Property Company Limited, 2nd February 188[7], fifty £5 shares, black on buff, with vignette of early City of Melbourne Coat of Arms in top centre and left side. With light folds, some creases, pin holes, good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Sundry. The Woods-Little Stone Dresser Limited, 19[10], £5 share; William Dawson Company, Ballarat, 191[1], five £1 shares, overprinted 'Fully Paid Up' in red; Standard Quarries, 191[1], one hundred £1 shares; Australian Farms Limited, 191[3], one hundred £1 shares; Surrey Engine and Boiler Works, 19[20], £10 debenture; Internal Combustion Fuel, 19[22], one hundred £1 shares; Union Tablet Company, 19[23], £10 debenture; Yates & Co (Australia) Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, 192[4], ninety one and five hundred £1 shares, overprinted 'Ordinary' in red; Perkins & Co Limited, 19[29]; Preston Quarries, 192[9], fifty £1 shares; Marshalls Limited, 19[36]; Cox Brothers, 16.6.65, 8% debenture stock; Manango Limited, 01/07/86, two hundred shares; Monitronix Services, 19[89]; Parke Rotary Shears, 1997, one thousand two hundred and fifty $1 shares. With folds and pin holes, fine - very fine. (16)
Estimate $140
Passed in
Victoria sundry. The Melbourne Patent Stearine Candle Company Limited, one £300 share, issued to Adalbert Kruge of Melbourne, signed by Henry Henty and Frederick Lamb as Directors, dated 3rd January 1866 [date written], black on buff. With folds, pin holes, good very fine and rare.
Estimate $250
SOLD $320
Sundry. Latrobe Street Property Company, (Melbourne), 7th August 1889, £150 share, black on buff. Light folds, pin holes, good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Victoria sundry. The Polynesia Company Limited, Melbourne and Fiji, 15th Febry 18[69], ten £2 shares, black on white, vignette of palm trees and island plants left side. With light folds, 8mm tear and rust spot bottom edge, light foxing to upper edge, otherwise very fine and rare.
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
Sundry. The Young Wallsend Coal Mining, Newcastle, 1888 (dated in words), fifty shares, overprinted 'Fully Paid Up' twice in blue; Standard Quarries, 191[1], one hundred £1 shares, overprinted 'Ordinary' in red; Doveton Woollen Mill, Ballarat, [19]18, twenty nine £10 shares, vignette of a sheep top centre; Preston Quarries, 192[9], fifty £1 shares; Bay Steamers Limited, 19[35], four 5/- shares; Carlton Brewery Limited, 1947 (dated in words), one hundred £1 shares; Dinkum Home Brewing Company, £10 debenture, 1935[6], with sixteen interest coupons attached. With folds, pin holes, very fine. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
China, Republic, WWII patriotic aviation bond, five dollars, Year 30 (1941) (Schwan & Boling 8131) with impressed seal. Creases and folds and central edge split at top and bottom, fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $140
China. Shanghai Power Company, incorporated in Delaware, certificate for twenty shares, silver preferred stock, 1948, No 22435, black and green on white, vignette of pagoda and city scene with train, lorry and river, text in English and Chinese, printed by the American Banknote Company. Pin holes, light folds, very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
China. Country Club, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, debenture for one hundred taels Shanghai sycee, issue of 1901, blue and red on buff, with four handwritten transfers on back dated 1915, 1920, 1936, 1948. With pin holes, folds and creases, 8mm cut to right edge, very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
Far Eastern sundry. Badak Company, Jeneri, Malay Peninsula, 19[20], fifty £1 shares; New Salak South Tin, Malay Peninsula, 192[7], one hundred £1 shares; Lampeh (Siam) Tin, Southern Siam, 192[8], one hundred £1 cumulative preference shares; Mavua Rubber Estates, 1927[8], £100 debenture; Timor Petroleum, Timor, 192[9], ten £1 shares; British New Guinea Gold, 19[34], £5 share; Irowat Gold, New Guinea, 193[5], one hundred 2/6 shares; Borneo Options, 193[9], two £ vendor's shares; Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum, 1954, one hundred 1/- shares. With folds, pin holes, fine - very fine. (9)
Estimate $100
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Union of South Africa, Transvaal Province, West Rand Unified Limited, Transvaal, 1912, certificate number 3 for one thousand shares in name of Nellie Melba of Melbourne with Government of the Cape of Good Hope revenue stamps for one shilling and sixpence affixed; Royal Albert Hall, Special Sunday Concert, MELBA, 28th Sept., 1919, ticket stub for Upper Orchestra East. Good very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Australia, 4th Light Horse, Pass, 1933, No.6412, blue card (80 x 34 mm), perforated along top side; military canteen chits, Sydney Harbour H.M.A.S Watson, Wardroom Mess, one cent, blackprint on white paper, five cents, black print on blue paper; Royal Australian Army Pay Corps, Decimal Currency Training note, ten dollars. Fine - uncirculated, first is rare. (5)
Estimate $150
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Australia, military canteen chits, Sydney Harbour, HMAS Kuttabul Wardroom Mess, one cent, HMAS Watson Wardroom Mess one cent (both blackprint on white paper); Royal Australian Army Pay Corps, Decimal Currency Training Note ten dollars. Uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $60
SOLD $40
Australian Defence Canteens Service, Canteen Orders, two shillings, NSW issue, first prefix, N 716481, date stamp, 'Bankstown, N.S.W. 24NO43', named S.8057 O/S Clive Lawrence; another, N 922499, 'Berridale, N.S.W. 21DE45', unnamed; second prefix, N/1 527805, 'Mil.P.O. Cowra, 2JY45', unnamed. Very fine; very good; nearly very fine, all scarce. (3)
Estimate $500
SOLD $620
Australian Defence Canteens Service, Canteen Order, five shillings, New South Wales issue, first prefix, N 637354, date stamped, 'Robertson, N.S.W. 22JA44', named on front, NX13987 Pte. J.K. Boyes. Tone spots, small tear in bottom margin, otherwise fine and rare.
Estimate $250
SOLD $160
Australian Defence Canteens Service, Canteen Orders, two shillings, Victorian issue, first prefix, V 293175, date stamp, 'Glen Iris, Vic. 16DE41', unnamed; another, V 452001, 'Bourke St. East Vic. 30SE42', unnamed; second prefix V/1 186123, 'G.P.O. Melbourne. Vic.Aust 4SE44', typed name VX45628 P.G. Dobie. Very fine; poor; extremely fine, all scarce. (3)
Estimate $500
SOLD $660
Australian Defence Canteens Service, Canteen Order, five shillings, Victorian issue, first prefix, V 767198, date stamped, 'Sandringham S.8 Vic.Aust.13OC44', named VX77753, J.A.L. Horn on the front, rubber stamped on back 'City of Sandringham Patriotic Fund'. Very fine and rare.
Estimate $350
SOLD $200
Australian Defence Canteens Service, Canteen Order, three shillings, Western Australian issue, first prefix, W 004020, date stamped 'Moora, West.Aust.13DE41', unnamed. Good very fine and rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,750
W.A. Government Tramways, Expeditionary Force Tickets, (40mm x 20mm) 'good for one ride on date punched', calendar dates on back. Very fine and rare. (2)
Estimate $60
SOLD $100
Belgium, WWII, Malcolm Club in Brussels, chit for Snacks, number E 14536, printed by Tickets Maurice, Brussels. Very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $120
Canada, Officers Mess, H.M.C.S. Peregrine, chits for five and ten cents. Uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $60
SOLD $50
North China, NAAFI C.445, Race Course Shanghai, Supper Coupon for 6 cents, no. C 04801. Extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
North China, NAAFI C.445, Race Course Shanghai, Supper Coupon for 8 cents, no. F 07793. Extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
North China, NAAFI C.445, Race Course Shanghai, Supper Coupon for 10 cents, no. H 09461, written on back $1.84. Good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $170
North China, NAAFI C.445, Race Course Shanghai, Supper Coupon for 20 cents, no. M 004151. Small piece missing at corner of tear-off edge, otherwise good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $170
France, 11th Royal Fusiliers, voucher for 20 centimes, 07994, WWI issue; Ministry of War, prisoner of war issue 10 francs, number A 0,936,660, c1940s. Uncirculated; pin holes, very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Germany, WWI, POW camp linen note, two mark, 1.3.1916, No.6673. Very good and scarce.
Estimate $50
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