Two albums & a box with many better cards from ACT x2 (one a multi-view); NSW x100+; Queensland x18; Tasmania x31 including 1908 Franco-British Exhibition 'Packing Rabbits...'; and Western Australia x12; also New Zealand x47 with many Maori subjects; Great Britain including 'Musical Chairs' Cats card by Louis Wain; etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine.
(260 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 500.00
Sold...AU$ 500.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 500
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 882
Symbol: C
Box of mostly pre-WWII cards from all States with numerous better topographicals throughout including suburbs & small towns, lots of real photo types including many early Rose, Valentine & similar, about a dozen Tourist Bureau issues from Queensland & South Australia, etc, also sets of cards in original packets including for Trans-Continental Railway, Ballarat, Tasman Peninsula, Adelaide & Mount Gambier, plus Sydney Harbour Bridge Numbers 1 & 3, generally fine to very fine.
(500 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$750
Opening AU$ 1,900.00
Sold...AU$ 1,900.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 1900
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 883
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Boer War Empire 'Grand Card' (204x139mm) of 'Bushie' the troops' canine mascot; World War I group x13 including Anzacs in France & Egypt, Victory Parade in London etc; and Australian Cricket Teams portrait cards for 1905 x2 different, 1921 (faults), 1926 and 1934; some minor problems but generally fine to very fine unused.
(19)
Small box of Golden Age cards with strength in Tasmania, a few real photo types, also noted Thursday Island and Northern Territory x2, generally fine to very fine.
(100 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 260.00
Sold...AU$ 260.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 260
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 885
Symbol: C
Album of cards with a good number of better subjects including Trans-Australian Railway, a couple of Post Offices and railway stations, streetscapes, country towns, etc, also some ladies subjects, generally fine to very fine.
(250 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 360.00
Sold...AU$ 420.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 420
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 886
Symbol: C
Box of cards from South Australia x19, Tasmania x9, Victoria x35 and Western Australia x8 with many better subjects including 1920s Bacchus Marsh flooding, Niven advertising card for Great Western Vineyard (corner fault), VSM stamp cards x4 and quite a few real photo types; also 120+ miscellaneous cards mostly ladies' types with many actresses including a few Talma (Melbourne); condition variable.
(180+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 270.00
Sold...AU$ 340.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 340
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 887
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Attractive batch of early Undivided Backs from New South Wales x28 (including Kerry Blue Mountains group), Queensland x1, South Australia x3, Tasmania x3, Victoria x1 and Western Australia x1, several Robert Jolley types noted, condition variable but many are fine to very fine.
(37) (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 300.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 888
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Very fine group including some better topographicals, 1906 & 1907 ANA Exhibition cards, 1908 Visit of the American Fleet F&J set of 12 ships, comic card by Fred Booty, etc, also French WWI Ruins x40+ & a pre-war group, South Africa Valentine's Cape Province x8, England including top-quality real photo cards of Devonport & Region x11, etc, mostly unused & generally fine to very fine.
(200+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 260.00
Sold...AU$ 300.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 889
Symbol: C
Undivided Backs for South Australia x5 (Donald Taylor x4), Victoria x3, and Western Australia x8 (Austral Stores x5), three used with minor defects, otherwise fine to very fine, unused. Scarce material.
(16)
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 890
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Mostly New South Wales with real photo group including several of Parramatta, swimmers at Bondi watched by men in street suits!, 1908 flood around Newcastle Gas Works, circa 1908 "Frozen Falls - Katoomba" and circa 1912 of HMS 'Drake' with flags & crudely drawn maps of UK Australia & New Zealand (unused); also RP of 'HC WEBSTER/BAKER' (Rockhampton Qld), 1903 'England v South Australia, The Oval, Adelaide', Western Australia tourism series 'The Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie', three novelty cards, etc, a few with album adhesions on the address-sides otherwise fine to very fine.
(43) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 190
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 891
Symbol: C
Undivided Backs by Robert Jolley x6 (one with rounded corners) & various other publishers, mostly fine.
(12) (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 115.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 115
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 892
Symbol: C
NEW SOUTH WALES: Attractive batch with many towns, streetscapes, caves, waterfalls etc, a few real photo types including 1907 Kempsey Fire, etc, some address side blemishes otherwise fine to very fine used or unused.
(150 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 250.00
Sold...AU$ 260.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 260
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 893
Symbol: C
NEW SOUTH WALES: Undivided Backs for Giovannardi x2, Robert Jolley x6 and Swain x5, and No Publisher with 'Private Post-Card' header x6, all different mostly urban scenes or harbour views, fine to very fine unused. Scarce material.
(19)
NEW SOUTH WALES: 1910 (circa) NSW Government Tourist Bureau cards of the Hawkesbury River & Newport Village, each with promotional message for "... one of the best single-day trips ...", unused.
(5)
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 895
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
QUEENSLAND: Intelligence & Tourist Bureau semi-officials all-different group in black, brown, blue or violet with a range of different stocks including very thin card and backs in various colours many with descriptive text dated 1906-09, views include Geraldton Banana Train, Bundamba Coal Mine, The Bluff Colliery, Toowoomba Ruthven Street with a large crowd, Bundaberg Sugar Cane Cutting, Cairns Wharves with ship, Central Queensland Sawmill & Woolshed, Queensland Woollen Co factory at Ipswich, Brisbane Observatory x2, etc, most are unused, some used under cover, and a few postally used in Queensland, NSW, Victoria & the UK, condition a little variable but most are fine to very fine. A very difficult group to assemble.
(55)
QUEENSLAND: Intelligence & Tourist Bureau cards with AJ Cumming imprint, all but one with framed green scenes including waterfalls, railways, prominent buildings & agriculture, sixteen with promotional messages on the reverse (one in Esperanto), a few with minor blemishes or a little aged but generally fine unused.
(19)
QUEENSLAND: 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition cards with AJ Cumming imprint, all with framed green scenes including Brisbane & provincial towns, Thursday Island, prominent buildings, agriculture, rural scenes etc, all with promotional messages on the reverse, some minor blemishes & a couple with light water-stains on the reverse but generally fine to very fine unused. [Cards such as these have in the past sold for $200+ each: this is a great opportunity to start on a now under-appreciated area]
(24)
QUEENSLAND: Attractive bundle with some unusual views including Atherton Tablelands selection, VSM stamp cards with views x6 plus the original packet (faults), some real photo cards including 1911 Mossman Cyclone x4 and Flooding at Cunnamulla, etc, one with very fine 'BROADMOUNT' cds & BN '585' (rated RR), some toning/soiling on the address sides otherwise fine to very fine used or unused.
(80 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 320.00
Sold...AU$ 320.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 320
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 899
Symbol: C
QUEENSLAND: Thursday Island real photo cards with three different panoramas and views of Main Street, Victoria Parade & Douglas Street (a colotype), two used (one under cover, the other with the stamp neatly removed) and four unused (one with light toning on the reverse). Very scarce cards.
(6)
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Wide-ranging array including better Adelaide & Suburbs views, a few Post Offices, rural towns, one with 'Denial Bay' corrected to 'Murat Bay', Tourist Bureau types x20+, 1940s-1960s Rose (mostly) & Murray real photo cards with some minor duplication & a few from other States, etc, generally fine to very fine.
(220 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$350
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 400.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 400
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 901
Symbol: C
VICTORIA: Wide-ranging array including better Melbourne & Suburbs views, a few real photo types including Yea Post Office & Library plus a fantastic shot of the Post Office & Store at Kongwak, a couple for the Visit of the American Fleet, advertising cards for Federal Palace Hotel and Mutual Stores, 1907 inscribed 'Mother Goose Pantomime' with message headed "Her Majesty's T[heatre]", generally fine to very fine.
(120 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 260.00
Sold...AU$ 420.00
Closed..Feb-21-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 420
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 902
Symbol: C
VICTORIA: Small packet of Melbourne scenes Undivided Backs x11 including by Robert Jolley x6, generally very fine unused or used.
(38) (Image1)
