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World Picture Postcards continued...

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

1281

PALESTINE: Underwood & Underwood 'Palestine through the Stereoscope' boxed set of 100 stereo cards in the original book-like box. Excellent pictorial record of the Holy Land at the turn of the 20th century. With the original stereo-viewer. An extremely rare & desirable set, for which our vendor paid $1500. (100 + viewer)

Grade A (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$1,000

Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1282

UNITED STATES: Unsorted accumulation in a large carton with loads of 'Linens' but also a quantity of Golden Age cards with many Undivided Backs including a beautiful Colorado group, mostly topographicals including cities, towns, monuments, prominent buildings, public infrastructure, some Alaska & Hawaii etc, strong subject groups of Hotels and Masonic Temples, etc, condition variable but a high propoortion are fine to very fine with plenty of postmark interest among the used material. Weighs 20kg. (few 1000) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15)

Estimate AU$600

Currently Opening at...AU$460.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

Subjects

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

1283

Archive box of "ladies subjects" with a plethora of Christmas Birthday & other Greeting types including many beautifully printed designs, also a quantity of classical art reproductions, humour with a good batch of Bonzo cards, etc, mostly unused and generally fine to superb. Weighs 15kg. (1500+) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8)

Estimate AU$250

Currently Opening at...AU$210.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1284

Box of 'ladies subjects' with good selections of Actresses, Greetings, Glamour, Edwardian Humour,Children, Artist Cards etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (300 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

Estimate AU$200

Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1285

ADVERTISING: Gorgeous mostly British artist cards including for theatre productions x6, hotels x3, Fry's Chocolates x3, E Hamel & Co Artists & Designers, International Horse Show, Simpson's in the Strand, The Life-boat Service, Colleen Soap, White Rose Serges, etc, also real photo cards for an unnamed barber shop & 'OAKHAY DAIRY', generally fine to very. (29) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

Estimate AU$300

Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1286

CHILDREN: Well-developed collection of optimistic charming & whimsical artist cards all by Mabel Lucie Attwell, mostly 1940s to 1960s with some earlier, many with captions in French or English & French, some leporellos, the odd damaged card but the vast majority are fine to very fine unused or used. (280 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12)

Estimate AU$500

Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1287

EROTICA: Box of mostly European artist cards with a classical bent presenting plenty of busty substances, ample derrières & some naughtier bits, plenty of highly suggestive images including same-sex & mixed-race couples, demure damsels with a variety of animals or swans, fevered dreams, lechers & orgies, also some pre-WWII real photo cards including a set of five 'multi-views' of acrobats (they must be!) in improbable poses, and a disturbing group of 1950s card-size photos of "look at me" housewives, mostly unsullied. (170 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10)

Estimate AU$500

Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1288

GLAMOUR & FASHION: Collection by numerous artists in various styles with mercifully few by Asti, sub-sections of romance, family & social commentary including about twenty treasures by Charles Dana Gibson, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. [The illustration is above Lot 1285] (250 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10)

Estimate AU$400

Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1289

GLAMOUR & FASHION: Mostly pre-World War I cards by various artists including Raphael Kirchner erotica x6, etc, most are fine to very fine. A delightful group. (26) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

Estimate AU$300

Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1290

GLAMOUR & FASHION: High quality collection of artist cards including American by Philip Boileau x84 & Harrison Fisher x143, Italian by Busi x12, Coribella x5 & Guerzoni x16 plus sets of 6 by Mauzan x2, Bianchi, Bertiglia & Malugani, French by Xavier Sagar x4 & S Bompard x12, Japanese James Eades & Co (Yokohama) x4, etc, emphasis on fashion with extravagant hats, outrageous costumes (& some very skimpy ones) & many with a romantic or coquettish flavour, generally very fine to superb unused. (340 approx)

Grade A-/A+ (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8)

Estimate AU$500

Currently Opening at...AU$420.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1291

HUMOUR: Terrific mostly World War I military group principally from GB, also from France, Holland, America and Switzerland, famous subjects and series including 'Bystander' types, Tucks 'Me & the Mule' set of 6 and 'Sketches of Tommy's Life' set (?) of 8, plus many we have never seen before, also World War II mostly American Beale & MWM 'linens' plus Australian 'Tea Revives You' x4, etc, fine to very fine. (180 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

Estimate AU$250

Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1292

POSTAGE STAMPS: Zieher and similar cards each with stamps (and four with coins) of various countries, mostly flat-plate but a few embossed, the majority unused and generally very fine. (28)

Grade A/A- (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

Estimate AU$250

Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1293

RAILWAYS: Large box of cards principally from Britain and Europe but with many other countries represented, lots of real photo types, hundreds of train portraits (including artist cards) of famous engines & weird contraptions, stations & infrastructure, etc, mostly unused and generally fine to superb. An excellent lot for the train enthusiast. Weighs 8kg. (1000 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16)

Estimate AU$800

Currently Opening at...AU$600.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1294

SEXISM: Batch of mostly French misogynistic artist cards of women in cages or wearing various contraptions to keep them silent, unused (11); slightly less vicious British mother-in-law cards, all used (8); and three others, generally fine to very fine. (22)

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

Estimate AU$150

Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

1295

SHIPPING: Box of mostly 'portraits' of ships from famous ocean liners to tourist boats, also ferries & commercial vessels, docks & infrastructure etc, includes some artist cards (400 approx); and Civil Aviation mostly post-WWII coloured 'portraits' of aeroplanes from all over the world & a few airports, a few promotional cards for airlines, some minor duplication (200 approx); generally fine to very fine. (600 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18)

Estimate AU$500

Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..May-21, 08:00 PM

General & Miscellaneous Lots

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

2001

Extensive pre-decimal collection with Kangaroos complete in Lighthouse hingeless album with slipcase including First Wmk 2/- Brisbane CTO, 5/- CTO, 10/- (non-contemporary cancel), £1 CTO 'AP24/13' & £2 black-grey & rose (dubious cancel) and Third Wmk set including 10/- grey and pink CTO, £1 chocolate & milky blue CTO & £2 black and rose CTO (with gum; superb), also reasonably complete KGV Heads and later apparently complete to 1965 including Kookaburra 3d M/S with Exhibition cds of 29OCT28 in red & 5/- Bridge CTO (with gum) plus a small range of Punctured 'OS' including KGV Rough Paper Single Line Perf 5d brown, Postage Dues, plus some Australian Colonies, New Zealand earlies with a few Ads-Ons, etc, huge catalogue value. Many fine to very fine stamps throughout, so careful inspection will reward. (100s) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18)

Estimate AU$10,000

Currently Opening at...AU$7,500.00
Closing..May-22, 08:00 PM

2002

Floor Sweepings with bags of used Kangaroos and King George V heads, bulk used predecimal sorted into envelopes in shoe boxes, retired album sheets and Yearbooks 1994 to 1998 but filled with used stamps, FDCs, pages and binders, plus some early ACSC catalogues. Weighs 23kg. (1000s)

Estimate AU$100

Currently Opening at...AU$480.00
Closing..May-22, 08:00 PM

2003

Four cartons including pre-decimal Postage Dues, parcel tags, decimal railway parcel stamps on-piece, Postal Cards, 1956 Olympics FDCs, PSEs, loose on/off piece in tubs, albums & stockbooks, Brooke Bond & Shell trade cards in albums, other bits 'n' bobs including Airmail labels, 1941 Airgraph letter, Petrol Ration coupons etc, condition variable. Weighs 30kg. (1000s) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

Estimate AU$400

Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..May-22, 08:00 PM

2004

Seven cartons of mainly Australian kiloware, offered exactly as submittied by our vendor. Weighs 71kg. (10,000s) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8)

Estimate AU$100

Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..May-22, 08:00 PM

2005

'OS' punctures duplicated array with Kangaroos Large 'OS' to 1/- including 1d blocks of 4 & 6, 5d x2 & 6d x5 and Small 'OS' First Wmk to 2/- x2 including 4d x2, 5d, 6d x4 (one with the Watermark Inverted) 9d & 1/- x2, Second Wmk 2d x8, 9d, 1/- x2 & 5/- x2, Third Wmk to 2/- brown x2 & 2/- maroon x2 including 6d blue x6, etc; KGV Heads to 1/4d with 1d red shades, 4d orange x9 & 4d blue x4 etc; apparently all cancelled in Western Australia, some on piece, condition rather mixed. (280 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17)

Estimate AU$500

Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..May-22, 08:00 PM

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AUSTRALIA