AUSTRALIAN PICTURE POSTCARDS Australian Picture Postcards
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1290
Symbol: C/L
Cat No: Collection
World War I postcards & ephemera group including 1914-15 Troopships PPCs x4 with AIF cancels and/or censor markings, 1915 real photo of Dardanelles graveyard, 1917 real photo PPCs of Tent Camp in Egypt & Wounded Soldiers in England, plus a selection of greeting cards from various units, 1918 hand-written menu for Sergeants Mess 29th Bn AIF New Year Dinner, 1919 'LEAVE OR DUTY RATION BOOK', also a few pre-war items including 1904 HMS Challenger envelopes sent from Victoria x2, British & American fleet visit PPCs x4, 1910 real photo of military encampment at Albury (NSW), etc, condition variable.
(Qty 35+ items) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 260.00
Sold...AU$ 340.00
Closed..Aug-29-2020, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 340
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1291
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Quality group of better cards with NSW including 'Scenic Railway Katoomba' real photo types x4 different, advertising cards for Cambridge School for Girls & a double-card for Wallaringa Mansions; Queensland 1909 'Queensland Jubilee' with message "Great Rejoicings here at present...", Thursday Island x2; South Australia very early chromolitho of Adelaide (superb unused), 1905 SA Exhibition advertising card for AE Lykke & Co (Painters) and '5CL Australian Boys Club' real photo card; Tasmania Mount Lyell Railway x6 different; Victoria 1906 Consumptive Women (stamps) postally used in NSW; etc, generally fine to very fine.
(Qty 54) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Aug-29-2020, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1292
Symbol: C
Consignment remainders with several Aborigine cards, VSM 'stamp' types x4, artist cards including a Turner, 1908 Visit of the US Fleet semi-officials 'TO/SYDNEY' & 'TO/MELBOURNE' plus stereo card 'March Past...Flemington', real photo "Rats of Tobruk" (soldiers in a dugout), Children, Actresses, Novelties, etc, condition variable. [The illustration is above Lot 1333]
(Qty 100+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 340.00
Sold...AU$ 360.00
Closed..Aug-29-2020, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 360
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1293
Symbol: C
Humorous selection including by Red Nolan x10, Fred Booty, Hal Gye, Norman Lindsay etc, condition variable. Entertaining insights into the human condition.
(Qty 33) (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 270.00
Sold...AU$ 270.00
Closed..Aug-29-2020, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 270
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1294
Symbol: C
1903 (c.) Bulletin Newspaper Series I complete set of 10 cards plus the Supplementary card all with humorous/ poignant illustrations by Phil May, postally used mostly in 1904 in NSW x5, Qld, SA or Vic x2 and two unused, generally very fine. The only complete set we have seen of these classic cards.
(Qty 11)
NEW SOUTH WALES: 1909 Talma (Sydney) 'La Danse des Apaches' complete set of 12 theatrical poses of Bert Gilbert and Lottie Sargent, unused. Very scarce, especially as a full set. [The dance was considered highly erotic but was essentially a romp between a pimp & a prostitute]
(Qty 12)
NEW SOUTH WALES: c.1910 FT & Co series featuring pen & ink drawings of Sydney landmarks signed "KL Farran", plus two duplicates & an extra view that have been hand-tinted & state 'Greetings From/Old Sydney' at U/L, unused. Very scarce. [David Cook stated that all these cards were hand-tinted & had the legend at U/L. Katherine Lillian Farran was b.1875 & the drawings for this series are believed to have been executed c.1906]
(Qty 12)
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1297
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
NORTHERN TERRITORY: Terrific selection including a c.1924 real photo group featuring remote stations at Adelaide River, Avon Downs, Brunette Downs, Lake Nash, Palm Valley & Alice Springs Telegraph Station, also Alice Springs 2-panel panorama, Darwin group including shanty town, meatworks, streetscapes, sauntering locals titled 'Rush to the PO' (!), etc, generally fine to very fine and mostly unused. An exceptional basis for expansion into an important collection.
(Qty 55)
QUEENSLAND: 1918 real photo 'Loco Shed Damaged/Mourilyan [Sugar] Mill' excellent photo of several locomotives among the wreckage caused by a major cyclone, superb used under cover.
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1299
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
TASMANIA: Spurling & Son (Launceston) all-different group of mostly topographicals plus some mining & other better subjects with no Hobart or large towns, all with the view numbers written neatly in red on the face, condition variable but most are fine to very fine on the view-side. [All with varying adhesions on the address side from having been affixed, presumably, in Spurling's own records]
(Qty 64) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 525.00
Sold...AU$ 525.00
Closed..Aug-29-2020, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 525
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1300
Symbol: C
VICTORIA: Attractive Melbourne streetscapes, a few suburbans & country, some reproductions including Walhalla x15, plus some from other States & GB, generally good to very fine.
(Qty 78) (Image1)
Estimate AU$75
Opening AU$ 180.00
Sold...AU$ 250.00
Closed..Aug-29-2020, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 250
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1301
Symbol: C
VICTORIA: Mostly unused selection including a lovely Jolley, ST Gill x2, Williamstown x10, Rochester x5, Daylesford x5, Port Fairy x3, etc, generally fine to very fine.
(Qty 40)
VICTORIA: 1905 Wreck of the 'La Bella' colotype of 'William Ferrier the brave fisherman...' with his facsimile signature, used at Warrnambool with message "...This is the last of the Ferrier cards..."
VICTORIA: 1907 Niven of the Flinders Lane premises of Dodgshun's (Importers & Warehousemen) with printed Season's Greetings & 1d with indistinct perfin tied by Melbourne machine, minor blemishes on the address side.
