Sale No: 236
Lot No: 331
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Wide-ranging selection with Agriculture/Wool including Sydney Mail 'On the Land' {7/16}, Fauna including All About Australians x7 (mostly unused) & Kangaroos group, Theatre including several Talmas and Freaks, Children, The Bush/Settlement, Aviation including Harry Hawker in London x2 & 1934 Autogiro flight, some artist cards & humorous types, novelty types including leather cards x4 (one anti-Semitic), also Rose Series PPC envelopes x5, condition variable but many are fine to very fine.
(160 approx)
Useful bundle with some real photo types including 'HARPER'S BAY, GIPPSLAND LAKES' with Double Caption, scarce suburban 'Baptist Church, Armadale', Victoria Consumptive Homes card, advertising types for Cairns Hotel, Illawarra & South Coast Steam Navigation Co and Continental Tyres, etc, also some GB & New Zealand including a couple of better topos, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine.
(60 approx)
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 333
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Original album with lots of glamour, comic & greeting cards but noted better real photos including Australian WWI soldiers in uniform, early motorcycle & sidecar and hunting party with shotguns, also Australian Comforts Fund 1916 Christmas card, WWI silk, W Sandford Ltd (Lithgow), NSW blast furnace, tennis match, a few foreign including GB West Ham Infirmary real photo group, condition mixed but many fine.
(100s)
Attractive bundle of mostly better cards including a few advertising types including for Viceroy Tea ('Adelaide from a Balloon'), three-panel panorama of Brisbane, AE Barker (Burnie) 'Burnie Wharves', Taylor Collotype (Adelaide) 'Arched Rock...' (Kangaroo Island), etc, a few faults but most are fine to very fine.
(39)
Small box of mainly topographicals with many better cards including local producers, real photo & advertising types, condition variable but generally fine, some postmark interest. Ex 'Tamiami'.
(90 approx)
1905 Marcker & Co (Sydney) complete set of 'Sanatoria Home for Consumptive Women' cards for the six States plus New Zealand, Tasmania soiled on the reverse, New Zealand postally used - rare thus - in 1905. Scarce.
(7)
1908 Visit of the American Great White Fleet comprising CB& Co x2, South Australia 'Australia Welcomes Americans 1908' and 1d Postal Card used, WP Series 'USS New Jersey' used in SA, Oceanic Post Card Co, hand tinted patriotic, F&J 'New Jersey' and 'Kansas' unused, condition overall very fine.
(8)
1915 (c.) May Gibbs 'We'll keep the Billy boiling, dear, till you come marching home' illustration of Kangaroo & Joey tending the fire, insignificant blemishes, unused with plain back (proof?). Rare.
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 343
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY: Good range of cards with a few very early views including panoramas, suburbs of Acton, Ainslie & Eastlake, Cotter Dam, War Memorial under construction, etc, a few rare real photo types, some 1950s cards, generally fine to very fine. A very difficult group to assemble.
(86)
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY:Real photo 'Jervis Bay The site of the/Naval College' (tent town), 1927 'Hotel Canberra from Secretariat Buildings' & two of Parliament House plus larger 1927 'Opening of the First PARLIAMENT...' with no stamp affixed & rare thus; also c.1927 'Canberra/Federal Territory' unused wallet of views, and Harbour Bridge Opening Procession real photo card used at 'JERVIS BAY/NSW'.
(7)
NEW SOUTH WALES:SNOWY MOUNTAINS: Government Tourist Bureau 'Kosciusko, the Old Way...' (stagecoach, postally used) & 'Kosciusko, Jumping on Ski' (unused), also K&Co real photo 'Main Street Nimitybelle' (unused).
(3)
NORTHERN TERRITORY: 1931 real photo cards of Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain Matthews landing at Darwin, planes of Kingsford Smith & Captain Matthews on the landing strip, crowd arround Matthews' plane, Matthews with two locals (and two other cards unfortunately a bit cut-down), & PPC-size photo of locals with Scott's plane, pencil notations on the address side, unused.
(8)
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 356
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
SOUTH AUSTRALIA:Real Photo group comprising Clare (1936 Centenary procession), Gawler (1914 street scene, the sender marked with an 'X'), Hindmarsh (c.1907 street scene including Post Office, postally used), Keith ('Wylie's/Up-To-Date Store' & Post Office), Mannum (opening of the Institute 'by the Governor of Australia' ?), Valentine's 'Main Street Murray Bridge', Penola (horse-carts outside 'Bruse's Criterion Hotel', message in code), Port Augusta (1907 shipping, postally used with message "What do you think of our Port...they are loading wheat..."), Port Pirie (c.1907, postally used with message "Photo of Guard of Honour Cadets...to receive His Excellency..."), Springton (charabanc outside Springton Hotel), Tumby Bay JH Secombe Undivided Back (street scene with McFarlane Bros store) and Wallaroo (1907 busy wharf scene, postally used to a ship's passenger at Durban, Natal), some minor blemishes but an exceptional group.
(11)
SOUTH AUSTRALIA:Adelaide x13 including 'Harrold Colton Fire Feb 5 1907', 1907 Fire Brigade Drill (a superb photo), 'Annual Christmas Dinner...provided by...Sunbeam Society of South Aus', advertising card for FJ Koehncke Art Dealer & Picture Framer, 'Theatre Royal', WWI YMCA Visitors Bureau, 'Chris' Eagle Hotel' & Children's Hospital; Suburbs x5 including 'Electric Car Terminus North Adelaide' & a brick church at Parkside with a corrugated-iron wall!, several real photo types & a few Undivided Backs including c.1898 unusual size (unused); & Country x13 including real photo types of Balaklava, Blumberg, Maitland, Mannum in flood, Noarlunga, Port Lincoln & Quorn plus 'Depg KI [= Departing Kangaroo Island] Volunteers/SEP 23.14', mostly unused. Another very good lot.
(34)
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 359
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
SUBJECTS- ABORIGINAL CARDS: Group including 'All About Australians' x2, Austral 'Central Australia Black Boys', 1906 Launceston Centenary artist card, Australian Museum set of 6 (atrocious production standards), various portraits, etc, some overtly racist types including set of 6 'humour' cards by George Taylor (soiled), and a couple of strays.
(31)
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 360
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
SUBJECTSADVERTISING: Entertaining group including 1912 'A Zeynard's Liliputaner Circus' x2, WF Roberts (Adelaide), Taylor's Jam (NSW), Geo Hudson & Son Timber Merchants (NSW), Milkmaid Milk used in Tasmania, several 1960s types for auto garages, etc, also NSW trade cards for Eden Photo Studios and Colonial Mutual Assurance ('Don Athaldo, the World's Strongest Man'), a couple are defective but most are fine to very fine. [See also Lot 370]
(24)
SUBJECTSHUMOUR: Album of cards including by Booty, Collis, Nolte, Bourke, Handy, Gilbert, Maisie Carte, Nicoll, Nuttall, Taylor, Maybelle Edmonds, Vasco Loureiro - including 'The Boarding House' set of 6 - and J Muir Auld etc, some minor duplication, condition variable, also c.1940s mini-comic cards with risqué subjects x28 (some soiling), & a complete packet of Belgian 'Manneken-Pis' comic PPCs.
(180 approx)
SUBJECTSLIGHTHOUSES: Mostly pre-WWII batch with strength in NSW & Victoria coastal installations, also noted Port MacDonnell (SA), Magnetic Island (Qld) & Rottnest Island (WA), etc, some Rose & Valentine types & some amateur real photo cards, generally fine to very fine.
(68)
SUBJECTSMINING: NSW 'Building Ore-Shoot, Broken Hill Mines', fine used in 1908; NT 'Copper Ore in Transit', very fine; Queensland 'Sapphire Mining at Anakie', minor blemishes; and Tasmania 'Smelters, Mt Lyell'; a few blemishes, postally used in 1908. Rare cards.
(4)
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 365
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
VICTORIA:Small group with Niven 'CT Peters Boot Expert...Albert Park' storefront (some marks on back) then lovely range of real photo cards including 'Cape Otway Lighthouse', Portarlington group with 'Post Office' & 'St Patrick's Church' privately produced plus Rose Series 'Post Office', 'Main Street" and 'Boats at Pier' (steamer 'Courier' with sign for 'Melbourne & Geelong Steamers Daily'), Drysdale pair including 'G McCulloch Grocery' storefront & coach, Terang 'High St', Apollo Bay 'Wild Dog Creek', etc, condition generally fine.
(25)
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 366
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
VICTORIA: Group including early Valentine's of Hampton x3 & of a car racing across St Kilda Junction, four Luna Park St Kilda views including two rare Whitney Bros, real photo types of Cheltenham, Hampton & Mordialloc, and 'State School Bentleigh 1927' advertising card for JF Brady Real Estate Agents, mostly unused. A very good lot.
(12)
VICTORIA:1901 Boer War 'VICTORIA AUSTRALIA' patriotics with heraldic emblems & portraits of Kitchener, MacDonald, Carrington & Baden-Powell, unused. Rare. [See also Lot 339]
(4)
VICTORIA: 1911 real photo card 'Wave Breaking Over "Speculant" 10/2/11' showing the steel-hulled sailing ship aground on Cape Patten and being pounded by breakers, unused, couple of very minor blemishes. The "Speculant" rounded Cape Otway on 9.2.1911, but a heavy sea & south-easterly winds drove her ashore at 3am on 10.2; fortunately no passengers were on board and the crew were able to save themselves, walking 6 hours to reach Apollo Bay.
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 370
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
VICTORIA:ADVERTISING: Very scarce group including Boer War patriotic with WC Peacock & Brother overprint for the 1900 Melbourne Royal Agricultural Show, Yalart Cattle & Horse Stud x2, Australian Mercantile Wool Brokers (premises), Sunshine Harvester ('A Sunshine Traction Ploughing Plant'), Shell Motor Oil (the Newport Refinery), Gant Motors (Ford Dealers) with Double Overprint for 'Care of your FORD Car' lecture, etc, also 1905 Ballarat Tramways PPC-size 3d ticket postally used to New Zealand (faults), most are fine to very fine. [See also Lot 360]
(10)
VICTORIA:FW Niven advertising cards for Britannia Tie Manufacturers, bumped corners & the stamp removed; Cobb & Co, soiled back & light crease, unused; and Corden & Co Butchers & Bakers, scarce 'PAID MELBOURNE/ ½ /10' cds. Rare cards.
(3)
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 372
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
VICTORIA:APOLLO BAY: Fabulous group of real photo cards mostly privately produced including WWI 'Peace Celebrations' poster advertising the "Apollo Bay Brass Band" plus two views of the local march with flag & band, two horse-drawn coaches 'On the Road to Apollo Bay', views of the township, pier, beaches & the Great War Memorial outside local church, 'Souvenir of Apollo Bay' with vignette views, also bridge 'Near Elliott River', 'Wild Dog Creek', 'Skene's Creek', etc, condition generally fine. Wonderful social history that would be impossible to replicate.
(29)
VICTORIA:MELBOURNE: Folio with many better cards including streetscapes with identified businesses, theatres, opera house, cathedrals, Eastern Market & Produce Markets, Mission to Seamen, Henley-on-Yarra, other river views including 'Upper Jarra' error, etc, several Undivided Backs including by Jolley, also 1d Postal Card 'FLINDERS ST' with very fine strike of the rare 'TPO 15/DOWN...' cds, condition variable but many are fine to very fine.
(103)
VICTORIA: Album with many unusual CBD views including of Flinders Street & Market Street, many with businesses identified & some with other advertising, several Undivided Backs including Jolleys, condition variable but many are fine to very fine.
(200+)
VICTORIA:MELBOURNE SUBURBS: Large album including Armadale, Brighton, Camberwell, Cheltenham, Clifton Hill, Dandenong, East Melbourne, Footscray, Frankston, Heidelberg, Kew, Malvern, Mordialloc, Northcote, and Port Melbourne, street scenes, churches, schools, post offices, recreation grounds, etc, condition variable, a high proportion are unused, some soiling but generally fine to very fine. Very scarce material.
(78)
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 378
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Bundle extracted from a postmark collection with better views, subjects & local publishers including from Busselton, Geraldton, Guildford & Kalgoorlie, condition variable but all are presentable to fine.
(43)
