Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2497
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Handy selections from ACT x26 mostly 1940s & 1950s including Mount Stromlo Observatory group, Cotter Dam, US Embassy, etc; NT x32 mostly 1950s to 1970s including Albert Namatjira group & Cyclone Tracy group; and Western Australia x24 including Murray, Valentine & Royal real photo types; generally fine to superb & mostly unused.
(Qty 82) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00
Closed..Nov-21-2020, 22:00:00 EST
Sold For 190
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2498
Symbol: C
Raphael Tuck 'Oilettes 'AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING' set (?) of 6 scenes by AH Fullwood, unused.
(Qty 6)
ABORIGINES: Mostly real photograph cards including 'THE INMA DANCERS' (topless maidens) x2 from different Trans-Australian Railway series, Corroboree x2, warriors throwing boomerang or spear, man making fire, etc, fine to very fine unused.
(Qty 10)
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2500
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
GOLD MINING: Group with VSM 'Hydraulic Sluicing/Emerald near Gembrook' (a terrific shot), Kerry 'Mining Life - A General Store' festooned with advertising, Harding & Billing 'Gold Getting - Trying a Prospect', also 'PROSPECTOR'S CAMP, FAR NORTH, SOUTH AUST', 'GOLD MINERS CAMP, GOLDSBORO' [sic: = Goldsborough Vic], 'Off to the Rush' in a bullock cart, 'PANNING OUT' and 'A PROSPECTOR'S HUT', fine used or unused.
(Qty 8)
RAILWAYS: Steam locomotives, trains & stations noted Qld Toowoomba 'Spring Bluff' & 'Sydney Mail', SA Clare, Glenelg, Mt Lofty x2 different, Tas Mount Lyell (mining), Vic Castlemaine, Echuca 'Murray Bridge', Flinders Street 'Southern Mail', Gembrook, Monbulk, South Yarra 'Train Passing Through Flood Waters', etc, plus Trams Victor Harbor 'Old Horse Tram', Hobart with 'Wolfes Schnapps' advertising, Ballarat, Bendigo, etc, mostly fine.
(Qty 27) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 150.00
Closed..Nov-21-2020, 22:00:00 EST
Sold For 150
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2502
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
WOOL INDUSTRY: Attractive group with sheep on the land x3, sale yards x2, shearing x4, carting x2, sorting & wool stores x3. Excellent subject.
(Qty 14)
Early Divided Back advertising cards for 'HOTEL MANSION/BAYSWATER ROAD, SYDNEY' (unused), 'COMO HOTEL, COMO, GEORGE'S RIVER' in blue with tourist attractions and railway timetables on the address side (unused), and 'FRONT PORTION OF J RICHARDSON & CO'S PREMISES AT ARMIDALE' (private use inder cover by a member of their staff). Lovely trio.
(Qty 3)
Broken Hill: Two different views of the Railway Station, seven mining views including NSW 1½d Postal Card (stained on the address side) and two photos on one card of the major dust storm on 15.12.1907, five are real photograph cards, a few problems.
(Qty 10)
Byron Bay: c.1910 real photograph cards of 'BYRON BAY JETTY BY MOONLIGHT', 'CAPE BYRON LIGHT HOUSE', and two Best Wishes multiviews both featuring the lighthouse, unused.
(Qty 4)
Jenolan Caves: Kerry & Co Series 76 set of 12 cards of the major attractions within the cave complex, unused but endorsed in pencil with the date on which the various sights were visited, plus the black/green envelope (above-average).
(Qty 12 + envelope)
Jenolan Caves: Kerry & Co Series 79 set of 12 cards of the environs & entrance to the Caves, unused but endorsed in pencil with the date on which the various sights were visited, plus the black/green envelope (faults but presentable).
(Qty 12 + envelope)
Jenolan Caves: Kerry & Co Series 85 'River Cave' set of 12 cards of the major attractions, unused but endorsed in pencil with the date on which the various sights were visited, plus the black/buff envelope (above-average).
(Qty 12 + envelope)
Manildra: Flour Mill & Flour Bags Storage Shed real photograph postcard by ADH Greenwich with printed advertising for 'WORRALL BROS. celebrated granular "Gem of the West Flour"' on face, unused, couple of minor blemishes on back.
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2510
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Narrabeen: c.1920 real photograph card of 'FURLOUGH HOUSE/NARRABEEN NSW' showing groups of adults & children outside the accommodation, unused. [Furlough House, as the name suggests, was an establishment where the wives & children of active servicemen could have a holiday. It is now an aged care facility]
Richmond River: 'TEAK LOG, RICHMOND RIVER' 1907 (circa) real photograph postcard by Fergusson (Sydney) picturing a pile of massive logs and another loaded aboard a horse-drawn timber jinker & dwarfing the children who have hopped on the back for the photo, a timber worker with a two-man cross-cut saw stands alongside, used at 'LISMORE'. A ripper!
Sydney: 1904 Graphic Series giant panoramic card (245x135mm) 'CIRCULAR QUAY...showing Mail Steamers, P&O, Messageries Maritimes, Orient-Pacific, American and Nord-Deutscher Lloyd Lines' to New Zealand with 1d pair & 2d tied by Sydney duplex, a bit soiled/stained but remarkably unfolded. [Intended to be sent as Printed Matter for 1d but the message exceeds the 5 words limit so paid at 2d letter rate per ½oz x2!]
Sydney: 1904 Graphic Series 3-panel panoramic card 'ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW SYDNEY' being a full-width view of the main arena with numerous horses and cattle, 100s of onlookers & legible advertising signs, used Sydney to Adelaide, very minor blemishes.
Sydney: 1907 advertising card for Grace Bros Department Stores showing signage for Wheeler & Wilson Mfg Co Show Rooms & Sewing Machines, miscut with Grace Bros imprint at the top largely omitted, used to 'CROOKWELL' with arrival cds.
Yamba: c.1908 real photograph card of a wood-sawing competition with teams of two attacking fearsome logs with their cross-cut saws, used at 'YAMBA/NSW'. Terrific photograph.
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2517
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Selected cards including vignette views & undivided backs, Zieher-type 'Stamps' with inset view of Queen Street, Dalby 'Cunningham Street' with Post Office, Dunk Island, Gladstone 'Gathering Oysters', Gympie 'Jones' Hill Waterworks Pumping Station', Killarney Post Office, Magnetic Island 'Huts, Picnic Bay', Mareeba Post Office, Mount Morgan 'Steam Shovel' in mine, 'Lakes Creek Meat Works' & 'Boys State School' real photo, Stanthorpe Main Street, Thursday Island group (6) including Grand Hotel, Jetty with shipping, Township colour view & real photo and Quetta Cathedral outside & interior, Thurgoona 'No11 Bore ... 93,120 Gal daily', Toowoomba 'Masonic Hall' & 'Convent' real photographs, Townsville Queen's Hotel, Warwick Langham Hotel, etc, lots of street scenes & shopfronts, a few used, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine.
(Qty 80+)
Brisbane: 1911 Map of Australia with Statistics overprinted on the address side with portraits of KGV & Queen Mary as used for the Commonwealth 1d Coronation Postal Cards over 'WITH THE COMPLIMENTS/OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL/HJ DIDDAMS/MAYOR', unused. A key reference piece for collectors of Australian postal stationery.
Childers: 1912 real photograph card of E Finke's General Store, to GB with 1d tied by 'CHILDERS' cds, very minor imperfections. [The writer states "[This is] our grocer at Doolbe [?] Flat...our next door neighbour on the trap, and Finke on the verandah..."]
Adelaide: GL Mueller (Adelaide) black/blue 'Adelaide Oval with Adelaide in the distance', to Germany with 2d tied by 'ANGASTON/AP10/00/SA' squared-circle. A very scarce pre-1901 Australian card.
Morgan: 1909 real photograph postcard of a large crowd attending what looks like a funeral but is identified by the sender as "...the Foundation Stone laying", 1d tied by 'MORGAN' squared-circle, minor blemishes.
Port Elliot: real photograph postcards of local seascapes x6 & two rowboats on an idyllic waterway, five with cachet 'PHOTOGRAPHER/Golding/PORT ELLIOT' in violet on the reverse, very fine unused.
(Qty 7)
Roxby Downs: 1921 (circa) two real photograph postcards showing flooding at Roxby Downs, unused. [In the 1980s, a township was developed there to service Olympic Dam, the world's largest uranium deposit]
(Qty 2)
Mostly topographicals including by Beattie, Spurling and Walch, also Mount Lyell Tourist Association x6 and Mount Lyell Railway artist cards x11, two different 'North Lyell Disaster' (one damaged), some bumped corners but generally fine to very fine & mostly unused.
(Qty 55) (Image1)
Estimate AU$350
Opening AU$ 270.00
Sold...AU$ 270.00
Closed..Nov-21-2020, 22:00:00 EST
Sold For 270
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2525
Symbol: C
Selected cards including vignette views & Undivided Backs, town & country views including Devonport 'Uncle Leek's Teahouse'; Glenora 'Hop Picking'; Huon 'Bridge and Picnic Hotel', Lebrina 'Amongst the big logs'; Low Head 'Pilot Station'; semi-officials Scenery Preservation Board 'Entally House' and interiors x5; Mount Lyell Tourist Assoc 'Gordon River, Western Tasmania' with steamer; Government Tourist Bureau 'Browns River'; real photograph views of Hobart 'Liverpool Street' with tram & shopfronts, 'Reservoirs, Waterworks', 'Hotel Mt Wellington' & 'Ansett Flying Boat'; New Norfolk 'Bush Inn' hotel; 'Forth Falls' & 'Russell Falls'; Port Arthur 'Isle of the Dead'; etc, a few used, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine.
(Qty 110+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 340.00
Closed..Nov-21-2020, 22:00:00 EST
Sold For 340
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2526
Symbol: C
Hobart: 1908 Undivided Back 'HOBART/TASMANIA' multiview card with 13 tiny but captioned vignettes within the letters, with printed advice for Hobart iomporters & merchants L Susman & Co, to Bothwell with 1d Pictorial tied by Hobart Krag machine cancel. Superb!
Huon: Tasmanian Mail 'The Timber Industry at the Huon' (workers with a massive tree trunk, creases that don't affect the very fine facial appearance), and real photograph type 'Saw Mills, Huon...', unused.
(Qty 2)
Launceston: Launceston Tourist Bureau card printed in blue with views of 'CATARACT GORGE/Looking down' and 'LAUNCESTON FROM TREVALLYN' (bridge), 'The Daily Telegraph' imprint at L/L, a couple of tiny blemishes otherwise superb unused.
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2529
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Group including a lovely unused Niven of 'J KENNON & SONS' & 'CHROME TANNERY' on the Yarra at Richmond, a terrific shot of an old jalopy on Flinders Street with loads of signage, 'Elizabeth Street' with a cable-tram, 'Bourke Street on 8 hours day", artist advertising card for Wertheim's Piano Factory (later Channel Nine's Bendigo Street Studios), etc; also a few Tasmania and NSW; generally fine to very fine & mostly unused.
(Qty 30)
Hume Reservoir: c.1930 'HUME RESERVOIR/RIVER DIVERSION' real photograph postcard showing the wall of the dam near Albury in an advanced stage of construction, a bit soiled, unused. [We expect both the Murray River and the Mitta Mitta River required diversion to permit the construction, which took place between 1919 and 1936]
Kilmore Military Camp: 1912 real photograph card 'KILMORE CAMP 1912' showing the Camp brass band leading the troops on a route march, an officer on his horse watching on, used under cover. A Receiving Office only operated 4.4.1912 until 12.4.1912. [Social message mentions "...Camp Life in Kilmore..."]
Kilmore Military Camp: 1912 real photograph card 'KILMORE CAMP 1912' showing a string of horse-drawn vehicles approaching the Camp along a dusty road with Kilmore in the background, used with part-strike of the shield ' 2 /MILITARY/AP10/12/ENCAMPMENT' d/s (very scarce on cover), minor corner bend hardly detracts.
Sunshine: 'The Railway Accident at Sunshine, Easter Monday 1908, 43 lives lost' real photograph postcard showing the aftermath of the crash with passenger carriage almost totally destroyed, used under cover with message on back, couple of minor blemishes.
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2534
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Western Mail group comprising 'Hannan St/Kalgoorlie', 'Teaming Nor West Wool/to the/Coast', 'TYPES OF/BACK BLOCKS/ARCHITECTURE' multi-view, 'The Track/after/the Winter/Rains', 'A Dairy Farmer's Homestead/at Wongong on/South Western/Railway' and 'His/Christmas Eve', three Undivided-Backs & the others with green Western Mail backs, a few minor defects, unused.
(Qty 6)
1915 real photograph card of Harry Ryding and the sender, both Foundation Members of the Perth Rifle Club in 1899, one wearing a masonic fob & chain, used under cover.
Albany: Local publishers FE Morgan x5 including Undivided Back panorama & coloured multi-view, H Harden and Norman Bros x3 real photograph types, seven others with no publisher including a multi-view & an old jalopy on the unsurfaced Marine Drive, also Murray Views real photograph types No 8 10 12 15 & 20, condition variable.
(Qty 22) (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 125.00
Closed..Nov-21-2020, 22:00:00 EST
Sold For 125
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2537
Symbol: C
Condon: 1908 Falk 'Loading Wool, Condon, Nor-West WA', from a young boy in Perth to his father in Victoria. A truly astonishing photograph of a Tall Ship deliberately beached for the purpose of taking on cargo, standing bolt-upright with a wooden ladder up to the loading port, and emptied carts & horses in the foreground. Condon was the first port serving the Pilbara. This photo was probably taken before the port was developed.
Kalgoorlie: Falk 'Panoramic View...' (used in Saskatchewan!), 'Post Office...' & 'Hannan Street', Bon Marché Stores 'HANNAN ST...', Messageries Maritimes 'Mine Kalgoorlie' (a terrific photo, very fine unused) and a novelty card, minor imperfections.
(Qty 6)
Mundaring: Western Mail 'The Overflow at Mundaring' (Weir) and 'Teaming Nor West Wool to the Coast' (bullock teams drawing heavily laden wagons), the first fine facially but some toning/staining on the reverse, unused.
(Qty 2)
Trans-Australian Railway: 1917 'FIRST MAIL TO CROSS AUSTRALIA OVERLAND/...' card with pale green illustration that we have seen on envelopes but never before on a postcard, a few faults, used. Rare.
Trans-Australian Railway: Rose Series sepia real photograph cards including 'PACKING CHAFF DURING CONSTRUCTION OF LINE', 'SLEEPING CAR, FIRST CLASS', 'DINING CAR', 'OBSERVATION CAR FOR PUBLIC HIRE' (with the future King Edward VIII posing for the camera), 'ARTIFICAL RESERVOIR - 104 MILES FROM KALGOORLIE' and 'FOR OVER 300 MILES LINE RUNS WITHOUT A CURVE', unused.
(Qty 6)
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2973
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Mostly British array with a Theatre group including performers one of Vesta Tilley autographed by her & two beautiful promotional cards for shows, lots of Humour including sets of Children & a Cigars selection, anti-German propaganda, caricature card of Mussolini (and two of his ignominious death, both with faults), and an array of smutty double entendre cards in spite of which this is an enchanting lot.
(Qty 180 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 420.00
Sold...AU$ 420.00
Closed..Nov-22-2020, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 420
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2974
Symbol: C
Large shoebox with pickings, very mixed condition. Weighs 3kg.
(Qty few 100) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 80.00
Sold...AU$ 115.00
Closed..Nov-22-2020, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 115
Sale No: 3
Lot No: 2975
Symbol: C/L
Album with postcards x85 plus travel brochures x17 mostly from a 1980s trip to USA & Canada; also range of WWI-era postcards from France x12 and from Egypt x2, mainly fine.
(Qty 118 items) (Image1)
