Sale No: 4
Lot No: 356
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Selected group comprising Western Mail undivided-back 'Great Boulder Mine, Kalgoorlie' showing the minehead and nearby buildings with a huge pile of timber props in foreground & 'Xmas on the Swan River' with vignette view of boating used 1906 in Victoria, Snell 'State School Geraldton' real photo (tiny corner fault), Kidson 'Big Fire in Hay Street Perth 24/4/07' with views of both the fire and the ruins the next day, Austral Stores 'Municipal Gardens, Subiaco' & 'On the Swan River, Guildford' undivided-back used 1906 to Victoria endorsed "per RMS India", Falk 'Perth to Armadale Road at Armadale' used 1911 to London with NSW 1d Arms tied Fremantle cds, also 'The Zoo, South Perth' used 1907 to Victoria, Aborigines around Campfire undivided-back used 1901 to London with 1d Swan tied 'FREMANTLE/TOWN HALL' duplex cancel taxed with Perth 'T/5' hexagonal h/s (central crease), Albany Harden Bookseller 'Terrace' & 'Middleton Beach' plus German Chromolichtdruck 'Post Office Albany' and Bunbury 'Toronto House, HD Dyer Proprietor' hotel (heavily creased corner) used locally in 1909, condition a little mixed but generally fine to very fine.
(Qty 13)
Sale No: 4
Lot No: 357
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Group including Mayrhofer 'Hauling logs at Karridale' steam locomotive, saw-logs on goods trucks & workers and 'Point Walter picnicking grounds', Western Mail 'Teaming Nor'West Wool' & 'On The Wallaby' Aboriginal Boy with billy, Messageries Maritimes 'Perth - Mounts Bay Road', Austral Stores 'Mundaring Weir' used 1905 with 'NORTHAM' cds and 'Serpentine Falls' x2, Falk cards Aborigines x2 different, 'Princess Royal Harbour, Albany' with warships, etc, also a few real photo cards including 'SS Minderoo alongside Geraldton Jetty' (minor bends; stamp partly removed), 'Dunsborough Beach' and Yallingup 'Seascape', 'Canal Rocks' & 'Caves House', also 'Orchard at Mount Barker' semi-official (sky coloured in), Wildflowers x3 (two issued by Tourist Bureau; one with clipped corners), Robinsons (Bristol) 'Loading Wool Cossack' (silverfish damage), etc, condition quite mixed.
(Qty 38) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 170.00
Sold...AU$ 260.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 260
Sale No: 4
Lot No: 358
Symbol: C
1900 Court-size Undivided Back chromolitho with three vignette views of Black Swans, 'Entrance to King George's Sound' with steamship & 'Government House, Perth', printing on address side perversely headed 'SOUTH AUSTRALIAN' and sent to Belgium with SA ½d GPO & 1d red tied 'WALLAROO/SA' squared circle and 'GAND' arrival d/s, plus another showing three vignette views of Kangaroos, Black Swan & Aborigine throwing Boomerang standing in front of Coat of Arms sourrounded by grapes with similar design on address side but without the heading (unused; corner bend), both with minor blemishes.
(Qty 2)
Sale No: 4
Lot No: 359
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Fremantle: Small group including 'High Street' chromo-litho with vignette view of 'King Billy Native' used 1907 (stamps removed & some edge wear), 'From the Lighthouse' undivided-back used 1904 with Ceylon KEVII 6c to France and message headed "Ocean Indien" (light staining), Messageries Maritimes 'Spiffing [sic] Offices' (error for Shipping Offices - they do look quite spiffing! - & the Dalgety Store) and 'Cliff St' with Frank Cadd building & horse-drawn carriages, a batch of Falk cards noted 'Railway Bridge', 'The Oval' showing pageant (minor adhesion), 'South Terrace' with trams, 'Canning Road' stores, etc, plus 'Original Bridge over Swan River' used 1910 to Kuala Lumpur (arrival d/s), 'Railway Station' used 1910 to Ceylon and 'Swan River looking towards Rocky Bay' used 1908 with Swans ½d pair, also Mayrhofer 'Point Walter', News Agents Assoc 'Richmond Hill and Rocky Bay', plus a few others, condition a little variable but mostly fine to very fine.
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Trans-Australian Railway: William Detmold (Fremantle & Perth) 'Typical Road Side Station. Randall's Station - 49 Miles From Kalgoorlie' 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, to Victoria dated "24/10/17" with KGV 1d red tied Perth machine cancel, a couple of relatively minor blemishes.
