Small box of mostly better cards with real photo types including 'Comedy King' (Gympie Qld), 'S[tate] S[chool] Inglewood' (Vic, with more students than they have now), Tractor Engine & Hay-Making at Bacchus Marsh (Vic), an Itinerant Merchant with his Advertising-Adorned Trailer & Tent (and his mother-in-law!), Broken Hill AMA Brass Band captioned "1909 Strike" & on back "Men are tied up to the mines entrance...Tom Mann [one of the strike leaders] is in light suit of clothes...they all talk of getting even with the fat man...", and 'Pack Horses, Walhalla' (on treacherous mining track), Mount Lyell Railway artist cards x6, Tuck Oilettes x9 mostly by Fullwood, Shearing & other rural subjects, ships Loongana & Ozone, etc, mostly fine to very fine. (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 420.00
Sold...AU$ 600.00
Closed..Feb-28-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 600
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1307
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Original collection transferred to a modern album with strength in Melbourne & inner suburbs including scarce streetscapes of Queen Street & Flinders Lane, 1904 Test Match at the MCG, Fitzroy Cricket Ground, a few Carlton including Lygon & Elgin Streets, terrific advertising card for Wm & Geo Dean of a massive block of granite for the Burke & Wills Monument (photo taken 1863), VSM real photo card 'Off to the War' with a large column of troops & spectators at every vantage point, 'Tram Terminus Clifton Hill', etc, also some Victorian provincial cards, a NSW group & a few from South Australia, most are fine to very fine.
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1308
Symbol: CPS
Cat No: Collection
Collection residue including a beautiful Howard Smith ship's menu card postally used, ST Gill 'Post Office, Melbourne', Queensland 1906 with BN '336' & 'THURSDAY ISLAND' cds and 1913 Tourist Bureau card with Esperanto caption, 'Hands' novelty card still attached to posting label sent Melbourne to Adelaide, Tasmania Walch & Sons card to Gibraltar, Tuck artist card of Brisbane used 1923 with GB stamps cancelled at Fremantle, trade cards including Liebig chromolithos 'L'Australie' set (?) of 5, also some postal stationery including The World's First Postal Card (Austria 1869 2kr, unused) & 1899 envelope with 'THE PRESIDENT/LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL VICTORIA' Frank in red & enclosed annual greetings card, etc, generally fine to very fine. (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 180.00
Closed..Feb-28-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 180
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1309
Symbol: C
1950s bundle of real photo cards by Rose (mostly), Valentine and Murray Views with strength in Victoria with a good number of Melbourne suburbans, also Echuca, Gippsland, Great Ocean Road, etc, mostly unused & generally fine to very fine, also some 'wallets' of the same period. A terrific lot offering fascinating insights into 70 years ago.
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1310
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Small box with 1908-13 Victorian Easter Militia Camp real photo cards from Ballarat (1912), Burrumbeet (1913), Kilmore (1911, & two undated), Langwarrin (1908), and Wallan (undated), most are unused & fine (8); then a generally bland group but including Seymour Camp (undated, pinholes), a group of Edwardian & WWI portraits including soldiers & an American Indian chief in Sydney, a lovely WWI 'silk' with Patriotic Peacock design & the scarce original insert, etc, condition quite mixed. (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 300.00
Closed..Feb-28-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1311
Symbol: C
High-quality selection from an original but decrepit album with mostly real photo topographicals from NSW x20, Queensland x11, Tasmania x17 including Spurling Mole Creek Caves x7 and Victoria x22 (only one real photo, 1909 'Jack Allan..the Goldfields Consolidated Hero...'), also advertising cards for Continental Tyres x2 & 'Tom Angus/Australia's Scotch [sic] Comedian', the other half are 'ladies subjects' including some beautiful Greetings types & a few humorous cards, generally very fine to superb.
1901 Wrench 'Links of Empire' instalment cards Numbers 1-20 (ex #8) for the Royal Visit to Australia for the Opening of the First Federal Parliament, Numbers 1 to 4 cancelled in London MR30/01, Numbers 5 to 10 posted at the appropriate Australian ports of call, the last with printed 'Posted in Melbourne on the day of Opening of the Federal Parliament' but actually dated one day later, then Numbers 11 to 19 for the continuation from Australia via South Africa to Canada, all posted at the appropriate ports of call including 'ASCENSION/AU30/01' & 'ST JOHNS/OC25/01/NEWFD', and Number 20 of the Royal Yacht 'Ophir' & printed 'Home Again!', a few minor blemishes but fine to very fine. Sold at our auction of 27.2.2017 for $488.
1909 real photo PPCs of naval mourners & pallbearers at funeral of sailors from HM(A)S 'Encounter', a little over-exposed, captions on reverse. [On 5.1.1909, the ship's pinnace, carrying 60 sailors in full marching kit & rifles slung over their shoulders, was run down by SS 'Dunmore' in Sydney Harbour. 15 sailors drowned & were buried at Rookwood Cemetery]
1919 French monochrome cards of Etienne Poulet 1) standing with his mechanic Jean Benoist in front of his Caudron biplane with their names on the engine cowlings, used in France; and 2) the plane preparing for take-off to Australia, unused. [The flight departed Paris 14.10.1919 but was abandoned at Moulmein, Burma. Flight covers are rare, Cat between $9000 & $12,000]
NEW SOUTH WALES: 1905 Sydney Philatelic Club card for 50th Anniversary of the 5d Stamp, to New Zealand with Arms 1d tied by North Sydney cds of 24NO05, minor defects.
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1316
Symbol: CPS
Cat No: Collection
QUEENSLAND: 1911-12 group comprising postcard backs x17 and makeshift postcards x20 all hand-illustrated in India ink & signed in various forms "SH Sheard", most featuring young stylish women or cartoons with very brief messages signed "Saville", the majority apparently posted in transparent envelopes but many are franked ½d only & probably didn't go through the mail, varying degrees of soiling/aging mostly from the acidic paper of the album in which they were originally stored. A unique group, including Lot 893. [Saville Hodge Sheard was a noted cover producer from the 1920s to the 1940s. In 1911, he would have been 30yo and a reasonably accomplished illustrator, although 'copyist' might be more accurate. In 1925 he was convicted of sending pornography through the post & fined £10!]
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: c.1930s mostly Rose & a few Murray real photo cards of Adelaide plus a few from NSW & Tasmania, & a couple of strays, very fine to superb unused.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: 1899 (Apr 20) usage to Germany of small 120x77mm PPC 'Adelaide, Remdle [sic] Street and Arcade' (tram in the foreground). Rare. [Most of the very early cards are chromolitho artist cards]
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1319
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Adelaide three-volume collection in heavy Vario sleeves arranged by publisher including Valentines black & white/sepia (mono) x20 & multicoloured (multi) x36; Donald Taylor Collotype mono x28 & multi x9; JB Sands mono x2 & multi x9; Sands & McDougall mono x20 & multi x15; Harding & Billings mono x5; Rigby mono x8; a beautiful Niven multi for Hookers Furniture; and unknown publishers mono x18 & multi x30; many wonderful streetscapes, unusual aspects and scarce subjects, generally fine to very fine. Weighs 10kg. Ex John Walker. (Image1)
Estimate AU$800
Opening AU$ 600.00
Sold...AU$ 725.00
Closed..Feb-28-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 725
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1320
Symbol: C
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: 1910 rural advertising card for McFarlane Brothers General Store at Cowell (horses & buggy), to Flanville with 'COWELL/S-A' squared-circle, corner bends. Rare. The illustration is above Lot 1318.
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1321
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
VICTORIA: c.1930s superior group of mostly Rose & a few Murray real photo cards of Melbourne, some very scarce suburbans including of Camberwell, Hawthorn, Auburn, Mentone & then outlying settlements such as Greensborough, Warrandyte & Dandenong, also country towns including a nice Warrnambool group, several multiviews, very fine to superb unused; also a few Golden Age coloured cards that are used.
VICTORIA: Box of Ballarat PPCs including Sturt Street, Post Office, Botanical Gardens, Lake Wendouree, City Oval, Lal Lal Falls, Sunnyside Woollen Mills, Water Reserves, Agricultural High School, also snow scenes, statuary, etc, some duplication, mainly fine to very fine. (Image1)
Estimate AU$120
Opening AU$ 90.00
Sold...AU$ 145.00
Closed..Feb-28-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 145
Banknotes
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3279
Symbol:
Cat No: 805)
1991 $2 QEII P52b, broken run of fourteen, 'AC312801'-'815' (ex #805), rev. Maya ruins of Belize, Toucan & Tapiar, Uncirculated, Cat US$525 (2018). (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 130.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 130
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3305
Symbol:
Cat No: Collection
1947-2005 group comprising 1947 20 Chon P6 x16, 100 Won P11b (reprints) x2, 1988 'Socialist Visitor' set to 50 Won P31-38, 2002 100 Won P46a run of 5, plus Specimen Overprints with 1992 5-50 Won P41s-44s, and 2002 200 Won P48s, all Uncirculated. (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 170.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 170
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3306
Symbol:
1992 1-100 Won Specimen set P39s-43s, serials 'II 000000' with Characters [Specimen] overprints in red, Uncirculated. (Image1)
Estimate AU$75
Opening AU$ 60.00
Sold...AU$ 60.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 60
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3313
Symbol:
1985 £10 Queen Elizabeth II P8b, consecutive pair serials 'P/1 299149'-'150', Uncirculated, Cat US$220. (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 100.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 100
Cigarette & Trade Cards
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3542
Symbol:
Cat No: Collection
c.1900-38 collection with 1905 Wills 'Australian Club Cricketers' (64); 1911 Wills 'Prominent Australian & English Cricketers' [48/59] (all with Vice Regal on back); 1928 Wills 'Cricket Season 1928-29' [34/48] & blank backs [40]; 1930 Giant Licorice 'Australian Cricketers' [23/27]; 1932 'Test Records & Prominent Cricketers' [64], mainly Fair/Very Fine. (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 800.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 800
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3543
Symbol:
c.1901-04 Ogdens A Series (31), B Series (25), D Series (7), E Series (5), F Series (2) & others (23), includes WG Grace (3), Ranjitsinhji (4) & Victor Trumper, 15 with tab trimmed, mainly Fine/Very Fine. (Image1)
Estimate AU$350
Opening AU$ 270.00
Sold...AU$ 270.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 270
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3544
Symbol:
1902 McCracken's City Brewery 'English Cricketers', part set [5/10 known], comprising L Braund, HG Garnett, T Hayward, JL Jessop & AO Jones, mainly Fine/Very Fine. Scarce. {In 1907 McCracken's City Brewery joined with six others to form Carlton & United Breweries Ltd}. (Image1)
1911 WD & HO Wills (Australia) 'Prominent Australian and English Cricketers', complete set [59], mainly Fair/Fine, Cat £1180. (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 230
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3547
Symbol:
1921 Trushine Boot and Lino Polish 'Australian XI 1921', part set [5/12], one Fair/Fine, others damaged or creased, scarce set. (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 75
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3548
Symbol:
1926 Wills (Australia) 'Cricketers', complete real photograph set [63], mainly Fine/Very Fine. Cat £696. A difficult set to find in above-average condition. (Image1)
1928 Australian (Giant Brand) Licorice 'English Cricketers' (blue back), complete set [24], mainly Fair/Very Fine. (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 115.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 115
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3551
Symbol:
1930 Western Suburbs Cinemas badges [6/14 known] comprising E A'Beckett, Archie Jackson, P Hornobrook, A Hurwood, WH Ponsford & CW Walker, mainly Fair/Fine (some foxing). (Image1)
Estimate AU$80
Opening AU$ 65.00
Sold...AU$ 85.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 85
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3552
Symbol:
1931 Australian (Giant Brand) Licorice 'South African Cricketers', complete set [12], mainly Fair/Fine. (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 125.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 125
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3553
Symbol:
1932 Allens 'Australian Cricketers' complete set [18] & 'English Cricketers' complete set [18], mainly Fair/Fine. Cat £612. (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 320.00
Sold...AU$ 320.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 320
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3554
Symbol:
1932 Godfrey Phillips (BDV Cigarettes) 'Test Cricketers 1932-1933' complete set [38] plus the two scarce corrected cards: No 18 Douglas Jardine (Surrey and incorrect Warwickshire cards) and No 31 TB Mitchell (two different players), mainly Fine/Very Fine, Cat £200. (Image1)
Estimate AU$180
Opening AU$ 135.00
Sold...AU$ 200.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 200
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3555
Symbol:
1934 Dudgeon & Arnell (Patrol Tobacco) '1934 Australian Test Team', complete set [16], mainly Fine/Very Fine. Cat £216. (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 170.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 190
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3556
Symbol:
1951 Potter & Moore (Australia) 'Famous Cricketers', complete sets of English players [20] & Australian players [20], mainly Fine/Very Fine. (Image1)
1976 $100 Eldorado Proof gold (5.74g, 0.500), cased with Franklin Mint certificate and box. (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 180.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 180
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3299
Symbol:
1976 $100 Eldorado Proof gold (5.74g, 0.500), cased with Franklin Mint certificate and box. (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 180.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 180
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3315
Symbol:
Box containing Proof sets with 1977, & 1979, both with wood outer cases, Proof singles with $10 silver 1976 Ship, 1979 Satellite, $1 silver 1976, Uncirculated sets 1973-74 and singles with $5 1973 Games, and 1976 $10. (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 125.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 125
COINS & BANKNOTES - Collections, Accumulations & M
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3251
Symbol:
World in box, Coins with strength in Australia including KGVI-QEII 1d (2kg), 1937 Crown, 1966 50c round x4; Great Britain 171(?) George I Halfpenny Second Issue S3660, 1773 George III Farthing, 1797 George III 'Cartwheel' 2d, 1812 Wellington's Victories - Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajoz, & Salamanca, copper medallion; India 1882 QV Rupee; South Africa 1923 2½ Shilling; Spain-Valencia 1711 Sise; Banknotes (18) with France 1916 1F Bethune Chamber of Commerce, 1917 50c Ville Du Havre; and USA face value $13, condition variable. (Image1)
Estimate AU$180
Opening AU$ 135.00
Sold...AU$ 210.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 210
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3252
Symbol:
World in carton containing Coins with travellers change (3kg), Australia 20c & 50c commemoratives (f.v. $45+); and Banknotes with Australia 1942 KGVI Armitage McFarlane, 1961 QEII Coombs/Wilson Reserve Bank 10/- x2, £1, & £5 all circulated, 1988 $10 Bicentenary, 1992 $5 Fraser/Cole, 1993 $20 Fraser/Evans prefix 'AAA' (NPA) folds & rust, USA $1 x10, etc, condition variable. (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 170.00
Sold...AU$ 210.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 210
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3253
Symbol:
Cat No: Collection
Box containing World collection in album, strength in Australia with 3d & 6d, Florins (15), decimals including 1966 50c round x3, RAM 2006 Duyfken with silver Netherlands €5 and Australia $5, NPA 1999 $20 Maritime Heritage banknote folder; Great Britain 1982 Unc set; Ireland 1813 George III 10d Bank Token (holed); Latvia 1931 5 latti; Peru 1974 400 soles; South Africa 1964 50c; Sweden 1966 5k; plus Australian Postage Stamps in stamp packs and self-adhesive booklets; condition variable. (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 160.00
Sold...AU$ 270.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 270
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3254
Symbol:
Cat No: 22 Warsaw Mint
Remainders in box including coins with Australia 1966 50c round x9; Israel 1968-1970 Specimen sets; Great Britain KGV-QEII Pre-Decimals to Half-Crown; Poland 10 Zlotych 1932 P Y#22 Warsaw Mint, 1935 Pilsudski P Y#29; USA 1950s-90s change; plus some Banknotes including British Caribbean Territories 1958 $1; and Fiji 1977 5/-; condition variable. (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 180.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 180
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3255
Symbol:
Remainders in box with Australia paper decimal banknotes (F.V. $83) including 1985 Johnston/Fraser $2 x8, $5 OCR-B serials x3, Gothic x4, $10 x3, all around EF; plus World Postage Stamps on FDCs, loose, in albums, condition variable. (Image1)
Estimate AU$120
Opening AU$ 110.00
Sold...AU$ 180.00
Closed..Mar-02-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 180
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 3256
Symbol:
Box containing Coins with mostly Fiji Pre-Decimals KGVI-KEVIII 1d to 2/-; Australia $1 (6) & $2 Banknotes; Great Britain QEII 1d's, and some European travellers change, condition variable. (Image1)
