Canberra: Federal Parliament House real photo Opening Day Celebrations showing crowd of automobiles and buses in unsealed dirt parking lot with newly-completed building in background and visitors walking towards it, unused, minor surface fault at L/R.
Canberra: Federal Parliament House real photo Opening Day Celebrations showing throng of onlookers outside the newly-completed building watching the dignitaries holding ceremony on its steps beneath Australian & Union Jack flags, unused, corner bend at L/R.
Canberra: Telopea Park School real photo showing buildings & classrooms sitting in a field, unused, very minor blemishes. Telopea Park School was founded in 1923, and is the oldest school in Canberra.
Canberra: Civic Centre real photo showing building with 'Snow's' signage and 1920s auromobiles parked out front, unused, couple of very minor blemishes.
Canberra: Hotel Canberra real photo showing cluster of low-rise buildings with Model T Ford passing by on partly made road still under construction, used under cover with message dated "Canberra/2.6.27" on back, minor blemishes.
Canberra: Hotel Wellington real photo showing building from vacant lot across the street & nice touring automobile out front, unused, couple of very minor blemishes.
Canberra: Albert Hall real photo showing building from across the street which boasts what appears to be an early roundabout, couple of very minor blemishes, unused. [For many years, the home of Canberra's biennial stamp exhibitions]
Canberra: 1927 'Opening of the First PARLIAMENT at CANBERRA ...' real photo over-sized card with panoramic views of Parliament House & Military Review, Canberra 1½d tied by 'PARLIAMENT HOUSE CANBERRA/9MY27/ FCT' cds being the First Day of Issue hinged in place below, a couple of very minor bends. [A similar card in very fine condition sold at our auction of 29.8.2020 for $958]
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1691
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Canberra: 'CANBERRA, May 9, 1927' Rose Series real photo card with aerial view of Parliament House (opening day; hidden behind trees), Government House and a sparse group of new 'model homes' dotted in the surrounding countryside, Canberra 1½d tied by 'CANBERRA/16MY27/FCT' cds affixed on back, couple of very minor bends.
Canberra: 1927 Royal Visit of the Duke & Duchess of York set of 6 each with inset images of their Highnesses (later KGVI & Queen Elizabeth) and views of Parliament House, Speaker's Chair, Government House, Hotel Canberra, Hotel Acton and Cotter River Dam, a couple of minor blemishes.
(Qty 6)
Cotter Dam: Spillway & Dam real photo showing the gorge and surrounding hills, used under cover with message dated "30/12/35" on back, couple of minor blemishes.
Duntroon: Royal Military College real photo (Howard & Shearsby, Yass) view of buildings & layout from the observatory, unused, a few blemishes mostly on back.
Duntroon: Royal Military College real photo close-up view of barracks with college buildings in background, used under cover with message dated "Dec 1913", couple of minor blemishes.
Duntroon: Royal Military College real photo (Howard & Shearsby, Yass) view of path to barracks with college buildings at left, couple of minor blemishes.
Duntroon: Royal Military College real photo (Lord Dudley, 27.6.1911) view of cadets, officers & dignitaries on parade ground for passing-out parade with spectators behind fence and college buildings in background, used 1912 with NSW 1d Arms tied by just-discernable 'QUEANBEYAN' cds, couple of minor corner bends.
Duntroon: Royal Military College three real photo cards showing different views of cadets, officers & dignitaries on parade ground for passing-out parade with spectators and buildings in background, unused, couple of minor blemishes.
(Qty 3)
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1701
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Duntroon: Royal Military College real photo (Nada Studios, Sydney) showing group of cadets in dress unirforms endorsed "Staff Cadets/2nd Class 1913" on view side and "RMC Duntroon, Fed Territory 2/2/1914" on reverse, unused, minor surface fault at U/R.
Flood scenes mostly in rural areas notably Victoria real photos of the Yarra flooding at Burnley/Richmond x5, also NSW main streets at Maitland c.1960 ? (creased), Moree 1910 & Tamworth c.1910 (?).
(Qty 14)
WWII hand-illustrated in blue ink "HITLER DER/SCHWEIN" signed "Dudley Anderson" on the reverse of an Australian Red Cross postcard, minor blemishes, unused.
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1661
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Wool Industry group from rearing and drafting sheep to shearing & classing the wool, various publishers including Kerry x2, postally used or used under cover.
(Qty 9)
Charles Kerry Pioneer Life Series 'Discharging Cargo on the Darling' (a fine action shot), 'A Camp in the Back Country' (reminiscent of the Last Supper), 'A Bush hut' with bullock team & an empty cart), 'A Halt with the Packs' (packhorses) & 'Clearing Scrub Lands' (with a row of tents in the background), a few blemishes, four unused.
(Qty 5)
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1663
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Aboriginal group including 'After the Kangaroo Hunt', Kerry 'Mystic Bora Ceremony' and c.1905 'artist' cards x6 that are probably the ugliest cards ever produced by his studio, a large group of women & children at 'FINKE RIVER', 1906 'LAUNCESTON CENTENARY' with Captain Patterson being greeted by unfriendly inhabitants, and a couple of others, condition variable.
(Qty 15)
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1664
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Aboriginal group all Undivided Backs including AAA 'A Native Beauty' & 'After a Bee's Nest' (yep, climbing a tree for one bee!), Kerry 'Aboriginal Piccaninnies' & 'Group of Black Trackers', humpies x2 & a couple of others, condition variable. Oozing racism & paternalism.
(Qty 8)
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1665
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Mable B Edmonds group of young women including several obviously inspired by Charles Dana Gibson's 'Gibson Girl', some faults & a bit grubby. Very scarce.
(Qty 11)
Rural scenes artist cards by ET de Closay including 'THE MAIL COACH', 'THE HAWKER'S TEAM', 'THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER' & three others, generally fine to very fine.
1902 (c.) The World Belongs to the Germans Undivided Back idealised artist card of a golden-haired maiden preaching the Good Word to a couple of enchanted First Australians initialled 'ED' (Emil Doepler), a lovely chromolitho card despite the racist and imperialist overtones, unused.
1902 (c.) Ludwig Fuchs Undivided Back artist card with five vignettes of an Aborigine, a Kangaroo, Native Housing reminiscent of Papua, a Pioneer Wagon & a Cargo Ship, unused.
1904-05 Bulletin Newspaper artist cards by Hop x3, BE Minns or Amb Dyson featuring racist subjects, cannibals and fleshy missionaries, fine to very fine used.
(Qty 5)
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1672
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
1908 Great White Fleet Sydney group with CB & Co arrival of the Fleet (used), WTP chromolithos - beautiful cards - featuring the Fleet & Town Hall and The Fleet & Admiral Sperry (both used; one states "...had a splendid view of the Fleet coming in...such crowds in town..."), Walter Davies (Enmore) 'Admiral Sperry arriving at Review' and 'USA Marines passing The Exchange' and Empire hand-tinted real photo 'REVIEW, CENTENNIAL PARK', a few blemishes but generally fine to very fine.
(Qty 6)
1909 Art Series 'AUSTRALIAN NATIVES - The Picnic' by Norman Lindsay with his 'signature' at L/L, a mob of anthropomorphic birds & animals divvying up lunch, used to New Zealand.
1925 British Empire Exhibition 'AUSTRALIA WINS THE TEST - IN BUTTER' being a photo of a marvellous butter-sculpture of English batsman Jack Hobbs being stumped at the wicket at the Sydney Cricket Ground, small surface fault, unused. [Sir John Berry Hobbs was a highly successful batsman. In the pre-Bradman era he was widely considered the pre-eminent batsman in the world]
1934 Royal Visit to Australia real photo card (plain 'Agfa' back) depicting route taken by the HMS Sussex from Marseilles (France) with list of ports visited & dates plus inset photos of the ship, HRH Duke of Gloucester (Prince Henry) and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, very fine unused.
1934 Australian Broadcasting Commission self-congratulatory card for assistance given to the Dutch plane 'Uiver' that helped it avert a mid-air crisis and land safely at Albury (NSW) with facsimile telegrams plus photos & facsimile signatures of the pilots, unused. Very scarce. [This incident occurred in the closing stages of the MacRobertson Air Race, that was won on handicap by the 'Uiver'. Later in 1934, the plane crashed during a flight from Holland to Java, killing all seven on board]
1940 'Kangaroo and Young' linen postcard with Kangaroo 9d violet CofA Wmk affixed on view side tied 'CLAREMONT/15JU40/WEST-AUST' cds to produce a private 'Maximum Card'.
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1682
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
HUMOUR: Taylor group with 'Wayback' (a bushie visiting the Big Smoke for the first time) x2 & 'ADVENTURES OF A JACKEROO' (newly arrived, wet behind the ears, not a clue) x5, some blemishes.
(Qty 7)
Railway stations comprising Central, suburban Ashfield Granville & Summer Hill, Albury x2, Balranald real photo, Cootamundra, Cowra, Eskbank, Kiama, Mudgee, Tenterfield with local solicitors' advice on the reverse (unused) & Wagga Wagga, mostly fine to very fine.
(Qty 14) (Image1)
Estimate AU$80
Opening AU$ 250.00
Sold...AU$ 250.00
Closed..Oct-11-2020, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 250
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 1703
Symbol: C
Islands Regal 'SYDNEY HARBOUR, SHOWING GARDEN ISLAND', Rose 'STOTT'S ISLAND, TWEED RIVER...' and 'Sword-fishing Grounds, Montague Island, Narooma Entrance', all fine unused; plus PPC-size colour photo of 'MT WARNING FROM CONNOR'S ISLAND...'
(Qty 4)
Post Offices at Broken Hill (Argent Series, unused), Newcastle (Hunter Newcastle, used) and real photo of Tenterfield (used under cover with message "...The photographer...ran last Sunday to catch the train...he died about five minutes after it started" ! )
(Qty 3)
Town views comprising Bathurst, Broken Hill x5 different, Glen Innes multi-view, Kyogle real photo, Murwillumbah x2, Newcastle, Nowra and Wagga Wagga, fine to very fine used or unused.
(Qty 12)
Chromolithos with Undivided Backs, one produced in Germany has plate-burnishing around the edges & a small surface abrasion, otherwise fine to very fine unused (3) used or used under cover. Scarce & beautiful early cards.
(Qty 5)
Robert Jolley (Melbourne) Undivided Backs 'Lands Department Sydney' (unused), and Manly bi-view (underpaid to Sweden and taxed). Scarce & beautiful early cards.
(Qty 2)
