Offshore Islands Murray Views '...Bauers Bay, South Molle Island' (corner crease, used under cover) & 'Purtaboi Island...' (writing heavily impressed, used under cover), and no publisher 'THURSDAY ISLAND' panorama (fine used with 'THURSDAY ISLAND' cds) and 'TSS Katoomba at West Molle Island...' (fine unused).
(Qty 4)
Intelligence & Tourist Bureau black & white '...BRISBANE FROM OBSERVATORY' and 'BRISBANE RIVER, SHOWING VICTORIA BRIDGE', green frame 'Barron Gorge...', and coloured 'Swan Creek, Killarney...' (used), 'Bullock Team at Lowood...' (for Franco-British Exhibition) and 'Millstream Falls...' (soiled on reverse), fine to very fine unused.
(Qty 6)
Town views comprising Ipswich (a terrific scene featuring Mutual Life Association, F Goleby Saddler and WT Pratt Jeweller), Townsville x2, Toowoomba x2 (one of the Post Office) and Roma (soiled on the reverse) plus Murray Views Burleigh Heads and Coolangatta, fine to very fine used or unused.
(Qty 8)
Railway Stations real photo cards of Atherton (Murray Views), Kuranda (Murray Views, plain back so probably a proof; creased), 'Remilton's Hotel & Kuranda Station' (Owen Whittick) and Warwick (J DeConday, Warwick), and two other very different shots of Warwick Station by local publishers James Millar and F Barton (used to Ceylon with superb 'KANDY' arrival cds).
(Qty 6)
1904 Diddams (Brisbane) Undivided Back 'QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE/Looking South-West' ¾-view with a tram in the foreground, underpaid to New Jersey with very fine '5/CTMS/T' h/s & American 'COLLECT/POSTAGE - 2 CENTS' h/s, damaged 2c Postage Due affixed.
1906 advertising card for the Crown Separator Company (Queensland Branch) with illustration of children pouring milk into the machine, a bit soiled on the back & a little reduced, from Toowoomba to 'BLI BLI' with scarce unframed cds applied on arrival. A rare & very attractive card.
1909 Esperanto card 'UNO FAMILIO ENLANDANA' (Aborigines or Kanakas) with the message written in Esperanto, to Bulgaria with two different Bulgarian datestamps, minor crease. Scarce destination.
1911 colourful chromolitho advertising card for 'ORIGINAL/MEYS/SEPARATOR' featuring John Bull, 'HOCKLEY & CO' agent's h/s below the illustration, faint typed message in green from Hockleys. Beautiful card.
1925 Murray (Gympie) ? real photo "Rocky Mail Disaster", a terrific photo showing damage to the railway line on the trestle bridge, wreckage of several carriages in the ravine, plus an array of workers &, gawkers, unused. [The disaster occurred on 10.6.1925, south of Gympie, when the overnight mail train from Brisbane to Rockhampton was partly derailed. At the time, it was the worst railway disaster in Queensland, with 9 killed & 48 injured]
Brisbane: 1903 Diddams (Brisbane) 'HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BRISBANE' at an angle with fancy frame, to Austria with ½d tied by Barred Numeral '580' of 'GEORGE STREET' (cds alongside), very fine.
Brisbane: 'Queen Street, Brisbane' vignette view (VSM, Melbourne) on Zieher-type card surrounded by Queensland stamps images, unused.
Grade A
Estimate AU$50
Opening AU$ 38.00
Sold...AU$ 38.00
Closed..Oct-11-2020, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 38
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1776
Symbol: C
Brisbane: 1905 advertising PPC for 'Lennon's Hotel, Brisbane' with vignette view of the hotel, to Sydney with 1d cancelled by 'GPO' killer & Brisbane Pillar Box 'PB' octagonal d/s alongside, minor corner bends.
Great Barrier Reef: c.1921 real photo card of a huge flag above a makeshift wooden structure populated with sailors, endorsed on reverse "Triangulation mark/Flag/Double Island". [Double Island is within the Great Barrier Reef, about 30km N of Cairns. It was visited by HMAS Geranium during a coastal survey]
Gulf of Carpentaria: c.1920 real photo card endorsed on the address side "Tide Pole Readers from HMAS Geranium surveying Gulf of Carpentaria", very fine unused. HMAS Geranium was decommissioned after WWI but was brought back into service to conduct coastal surveys, mainly in WA and Queensland waters, minor blemishes still fine unused.
Gympie: 1909 Shell Series 'Upper Mary St, Gympie' marvellous animated streetscape with stagecoach plus legible signs of Massey Harris Depot and John Cass Boot Palace, to Melbourne with 1d tied by very fine Barred Numeral '342' of 'PIALBA' (cds alongside), bumped corners.
Mount Morgan: Lundager (Mt Morgan) 'Steam Shovel at Work, Mt. Morgan' showing steam shovel with Mt Morgan Gold Mining Co emblazoned on its boom loading ore onto railway trucks pulled by steam locomotive, used 1907 with Queensland 1d orange tied 'ROCKHAMPTON' duplex cancel, couple of minor blemishes.
Thursday Island: Various publishers comprising four different panoramas (one Undivided Back with message "This is the only kind of picture postcard I have found here!..."), 'PEARLING BOATS...', WR Moseley 'Sorting and Stacking Pearlshell' and a card with two views, fine to very fine unused or used.
(Qty 7)
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1782
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Thursday Island: Real photo cards comprising three different panoramas - one stained - with 1d tied by 'THURSDAY ISLAND' cds, 'The RC Church...' and a large group of natives below a palm grove, the last two are very fine unused.
(Qty 4)
Thursday Island: 1909 real photo card 'FEDERAL HOTEL/THURSDAY ISLAND' next door to 'BURNS PHILP & CO' with date '1899' over the entrance, to Adelaide with South Australia 1d tied by very fine 'PORT DARWIN/SA' squared-circle, very fine.
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1785
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Thursday Island: Group with real photo of the Grand Hotel & a Yachting Regatta, view from the sea featuring the Grand Hotel, 1920s panorama & 'Government Jetty...' back to the town, all very fine unused; plus 1931 'West End...' & 'The Govt Wharf...' (with a large ship) both used to the USA.
(Qty 6)
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1786
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Torres Strait Islands: Aboriginal group including French mission card 'Ecole de THURSDAY ISLAND - Nouvelle-Guinee' (geographically challenged), Mowbray 'Drinking from Cocoanut/Torrens [sic] Strait Native' (plain back; proof?), real photo 'NATIVE FEAST, TORRES STRAIT' & c.1940s' Spear Throwing/Palm Island', Intelligence & Tourist Bureau 'A Native Village on Murray Island' and 'NATIVE DANCER AND MUSICIAN, MURRAY ISLAND' (faults still presentable), condition variable. Scarce lot.
(Qty 8)
