Railway selection comprising Perth Central x5 including Falk x3, Fremantle x2 by Falk or Anderson, and Trans-Australian Railway x7, mostly unused.
(Qty 14)
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1953
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Goldmining group comprising Falk 'GREAT BOULDER GOLD MINE...' (unused) and Western Mail 'Grat Boulder Mine...' & 'Hannan Street...' (both used, stamps removed), Perfection 'South Kalgurlie' (superb unused) and Messageries Maritimes '...Mine Kalgoorlie' (unused), also Standard artist card 'Diver Hughes finding the Entombed Miner...' and HC Dun 'The Golden Eagle Nugget [sic]...' (used under cover; faults).
(Qty 7)
William Detmold (Fremantle & Perth) 'MARKET STREET, FREMANTLE' featuring the Post Office and advertising for Bird's Custard and Wertheim (superb), 'A SETTLER'S COLLEGE IN THE HILLS' (very fine) both unused, and 'ST GEORGE'S TERRACE' featuring many horse-drawn vehicles & an early automobile, used by a child in 1923 (light crease). A beautiful series.
(Qty 3)
P Falk & Co 'Horseshoe Bridge & Railway Buildings', 'Russell Square, West Perth', 'Loretto Convent, Osborne' with nuns & girls occupting all vantage points, 'Fire Brigade Station, Fremantle', and rural views including 'The Helena Bridge, Guildford' with the Swan River in flood, all but the first two with white borders, a few problems but most are fine to very fine, two are unused.
(Qty 10)
Daily News Undivided Back 'A Blackboy/WA' with 'RAE BROS' imprint at L/L of the photo featuring a huge example of this prehistoric plant towering over a very tall gentleman, unused.
Post Offices at St George's Terrace, a beautiful Art Series card; Geraldton E Snell (Stationers' Hall), soiled on the reverse but unused; and Fremantle a delightful Detmold card with advertising for Bird's Custard and Wertheim's, unused.
(Qty 3)
Goldmining P Falk & Co (Perth) 'Dryblowing for Gold, Boogardie, East Murchison' (unused), and 'A Miner's Camp at the Boulder' (used, faults); and Mackay's real photo 'Great Boulder Gold Mine, Kalgoorlie' (unused but faults mostly on the reverse). [Boogardie is 8km NW of Mount Magnet]
(Qty 3)
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1960
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Miscellaneous group including Bunbury x4, Geraldton, 'A Timber Village, Newlands', 'Falling [sic, error for 'Felling'] Karri at Karridale Timber Station', 'Swan River above Guilford' [sic; error for 'Guildford'], 'Australian Aborigines Spearing Fish' at Albany, Log Hauling x3, etc, condition rather mixed but several are fine to very fine.
(Qty 16)
Rae Bros pictorial envelopes 'LANDING GARDEN ISLAND' (excursioners), 'PEPPERMINT GROVE' (bathing at a Swan River beach) and 'ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL', some soiling/spotting, unused. Very scarce.
(Qty 3)
1904 Western Mail (Perth) 'Teaming Nor West Wool/to the/Coast' scene of two heavily laden wool jinkers and their 10-bullock teams, used under cover & very fine.
1917 Tuck & Sons fold-out Letter Card with eight views including 'Albany from Railway Bridge' showing Railway Station & Goods Wagons, to New Zealand with KGV 1d red tied Perth cds, some aging marks & rusty staple.
Albany: Batelier Bros (Albany) 'A Ramble Round Albany' series 'Lower Terrace, Bandstand and Post Office' with plain back suggesting it is a proof, light spotting mostly on the reverse.
Albany: Sepia view of 'Breaksea Island Lighthouse, Albany' no publisher but reminiscent of a Valentine card of Bunbury in Lot 295016, a little aged, unused. [Breaksea Island is at the entrance to Albany's harbour. The lighthouse, built in 1901, replaced a convict-built structure erected in 1858]
Denmark: real photo multiview with 'OLD BRIDGE...', 'TRAIN LEAVING DENMARK', 'CHURCH, AGRICULTURAL HALL & LIBRARY', 'WATERFALL' & 'DENMARK WA' incorporating season's greetings, very fine unused. A cracker!
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1968
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Fremantle: 'North Fremantle' postcard (published by Robinsons Ltd, Bristol) showing the Swan River dual bridges and shipping, to Sweden with Swans ½d green & 1d red tied 'FREMANTLE/JY19/02/WA-PO' duplex cancel paying foreign rate, 'SMR/PERTH' [Ship Mail Room] transit on view side and Stockholm arrival d/s, minor blemishes.
Perth: P Falk & Co 'Wellington Street looking East' with tramlines, railway station and advertising for Levi Green Ironmonger and Taylor & Co Men's Outfitters, and '...looking West' with tramlines, horse-drawn vehicles and advertising for Stewart & Freeman Chemists and Mont a Piete Pawnbrokers, very fine unused. Lovely pair.
(Qty 2)
Perth: 1900 Undivided back beautiful chromolitho of 'PERTH' showing busy streetscape, to Austria with ½d & 1d tied by Fremantle duplex, three different Vienna cds.
Trans-Australian Railway: 1917 Trans-Australian Railway Rose Series real photo 'MEETING OF TRACKLAYERS FROM EAST TO WEST OCT 17 1917' with hundreds of staff milling around to celebrate, very fine unused. Exceptional social history.
Trans-Australian Railway: 'Engine Watering at 26,000 Gallon Tank at Kalgoorlie' (William Detmold, Fremantle & Perth) showing steam locomotive with construction material in foreground, 'Great Trans-Continental Railway ... will be officially opened on November 12th 1917' printed on back with details of construction costs, times, distances between capital cities and fares, unused, couple of very minor blemishes.
Trans-Australian Railway: 'Typical Road Side Station. Randall's Station - 49 Miles From Kalgoorlie' (William Detmold, Fremantle & Perth) showing crew & passengers standing beside steam locomotive with station building alongside, 'Great Trans-Continental Railway ... will be officially opened on November 12th 1917' printed on back with details of construction costs, times, distances between capital cities and fares, unused, couple of very minor blemishes.
Trans-Australian Railway: 'Wirrappa Reservoir. Capacity: 5,000,000 Gallons' (William Detmold, Fremantle & Perth) showing reservoir under construction, plus 'Reservoir 104 Miles From Kalgoorlie. Capacity: 7,000,000 Gallons' showing workers & horses in what is just a depression in the gound with construction yet to commence, and 'Sand Hill in Ooldea District. Approximately 428 Miles From Port Augusta' [South Australia] showing loaded camel train, each with 'Great Trans-Continental Railway ... will be officially opened on November 12th 1917' printed on back with details of construction costs, times, distances between capital cities and fares, unused, couple of very minor blemishes.
(Qty 3)
Wagin: J Butterick (Wagin)/Tucks view of the town featuring 'STUBBS & JEFFREYS/TIMBER & IRON YARD', unused; and 'Railway Station, Wagin' featuring Tunney's Wagin Hotel apparently after a flood, underpaid to Germany & taxed, the 1d stamp neatly removed.
(Qty 2)
