Sale No: 7
Lot No: 420
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Australian group with bush paintings, several of Kookaburras, etc, also 1930s 'Mailing Album' with six superb real photo PPCs of the Bulli Pass, and a Sydney fold-out souvenir.
(Qty 25 + fold-out) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 160.00
Sold...AU$ 160.00
Closed..Feb-22-2022, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 160
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 421
Symbol: C
Handy batch with a few real photo cards including c.1919 'WELCOME HOME' Arch at Wonthaggi (that on its own is worth our vendor's requested very low estimate), 'Graham St Wonthaggi' & panoramas of Camperdown & Portland, others include Thursday Island x5 including artillery practice!, a few Port Arthur, etc, plus Magpie 'Official War Photographs' cigarette cards x10, etc, condition a little mixed but most are fine to very fine unused.
(Qty 30+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 170.00
Sold...AU$ 200.00
Closed..Feb-22-2022, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 200
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 422
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Trans-Australian Railway group Rose Series c.1920s x4 including outstanding shot of a camel train 'Packing Chaff during Construction of Line', very fine; and c.1950 x5 with lengthy captions on the address-side, one with surface damage otherwise fine to very fine.
(Qty 9)
1906 Sanatoria Home for Consumptive Women 'stamp' cards for NSW Tasmania & Victoria, all unused, and for South Australia & New Zealand (stamp neatly removed) both used & very scarce thus, a few blemishes.
(Qty 5)
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 424
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
1908 Great White Fleet group with blue Ships of the Fleet x9 (one used & very scarce thus), WTP two colourful chromolithos, Marchant & Co 'Uncle Sam in Australia' (humourous map card), colour-tinted 'Martin Place Sydney/USA Fleet Visit' (people & bunting), and American publisher 'USS Battleship Rhode Island...', condition variable.
(Qty 14)
1930s-1940s Rose cards featuring RAAF training aircraft from flimsy biplanes (one flying upside down) to modern bombers including flying in formation, a few minor blemishes, unused.
(Qty 12)
1956 Olympic Games Ivon Studios (Melbourne) European-size 'art nouveau' card by air to USA with Olympics 1/- tied by '.../OLYMPIC VILLAGE' pictorial cds & message in Esperanto; plus Esko Cards Olympics series with views of Melbourne etc; minor blemishes, unused. We don't recall having previously seen any of these cards.
(Qty 12)
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 427
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
ABORIGINES: Attractive group comprising Rose 'Aborigines Australia', H&B 'Fire by Friction', Queensland Government real photo 'Natives in War Paint/North Qld', and no publisher details 'A Mission Station in Australia' & 'Native Village, Murray Island'.
(Qty 5)
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 428
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
ABORIGINES: Attractive Western Australia group comprising Undivided Back 'SW Aboriginals' postally used, Falk coloured 'Young Westralians' (children with kangaroo) & 'West Australian Aboriginals', Falk sepia 'West Australian Natives' in warpaint outside humpy, and Royal real photo cards 'Kimberley Natives' (man & boy with boomerangs) & 'Nor West Natives WA', all but the first are fine to very fine unused. [The last appears to be a ring-in of an African family!]
(Qty 6)
ADVERTISING: c.1906 gorgeous WD & HO Wills chromolitho advertising card for Capstan Tobacco Products, used 'MOAMA' to local property "Wood Park/Altcar", light spotting on the address side.
ADVERTISING: (c.) Robert Jolley advertising cards for Swallow & Ariell Biscuits & Cakes or Jams with photos of 'River Torrens, Adelaide...' or 'George Sound, New Zealand', minor blemishes, unused.
(Qty 2)
ADVERTISING: c.1910 Arthur Yates & Co (Seedsmen) colourful artist card 'YOUR ORDER BY POST/...' with company promotion on the address side, the stamp neatly removed, light soiling on the address side.
CRICKET: Team photos comprising 'Australia/1905' real photo with 'cricket-ball' featuring 15 small photos postally used in NSW, minor surface soiling & a small fault at U/L; 'Australian Cricket Team, England 1934' real photo very fine used in GB; and British '['Plum'] Warner's XI, photo taken on Adelaide Ground 1904', a bit banged-up, used in GB.
(Qty 3) (Image1)
Estimate AU$75
Opening AU$ 85.00
Sold...AU$ 95.00
Closed..Feb-22-2022, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 95
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 433
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
HUMOUR: Group by Hal Gye monochrome x2 & coloured x4; Bulletin 'The Squatters Hornpipe' & First Jockey: "Hullo! I thought you was dead!..."; Phil Taylor 'Adventures of a Jackaroo' x5 & 'Wayback' x2; condition variable.
(Qty 15) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 105.00
Sold...AU$ 135.00
Closed..Feb-22-2022, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 135
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 434
Symbol: C
HUMOUR: I Jaffe (Cairo) WWI Travails of Australian Soldiers in Egypt, all different, very fine unused. Rarely available in this quality.
(Qty 8)
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 435
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
MILITARY: Interesting WWI group including real photo 'General View of Heliopolis Camp, Cairo', Egyptian Gazette 'March-Past: Queensland Light Infantry, Cairo', French 'Preche au Camp Australien' (prayer meeting outside Red Cross tent), a few propaganda cards, five with portraits of soldiers, & a couple of others, generally fine to very fine.
(Qty 16)
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 436
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
MILITARY: WWI nursing real photo group x14 with portraits, seven with groups of invalided soldiers, etc, generally fine to very fine; plus 13 small photographs from the same source. Ex Nurse Katherine Woods (née Trivette) who served in England.
(Qty 27 items) (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 170.00
Closed..Feb-22-2022, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 170
New South Wales
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 437
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Sydney Harbour Bridge group x17 with under construction x2, Opening Celebrations real photo types x3 ('Sth Africa Float', 'Eastern Suburbs Float' & 'Cobb & Co Coach/Passing Dias...' [sic]), various perspectives including a few more unusual shots, etc; also small photographs x17 mostly of construction phases. A good lot.
(Qty 34)
ADVERTISING: 1908 for The Argus Newspaper (Parramatta) with streetscape featuring their premises & tramline plus printed advice on the address side, used to Hornsby, minor blemishes.
ADVERTISING: c.1908 six different advertising cards for Barracluff's Ostrich Farm (South Head) plus one duplicate (used in 1909), some blemishes & light soiling, unused.
(Qty 7)
ADVERTISING: c.1915 Vandyck Studio (Lismore) real photo card for New England Motor Co (Lismore) with the firm's fleet of "cadallacs" [sic] lined up outside HQ, superb unused. Perhaps the most outstanding advertising postcard we have encountered.
BROKEN HILL: Argent 'Broken Hill Proprietary Mine' & 'Underground, South Mine', J Brokenshire 'Hospital Sunday, Central Park', C Day & Co 'Broken Hill Water Supply, Feby 1911', JC Goodhart artist card 'A Broken Hill Dust Storm', Gold & Floral Frames x3, others including 'Public Buildings' with tram to 'South BH', 'Chapple Street, in Flood' with marooned tram (faults but a great photo), condition variable.
(Qty 12) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00
Closed..Feb-22-2022, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 75
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 445
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
HENTY: Semco/L&H real photo group in sepia frames with streetscapes & public buildings plus 'Henty Show, 1910', some blemishes & bumped corners and light damp-spotting on the address sides.
(Qty 9)
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 446
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
STOCKTON: Empire Back real photo card 'Dismantling/Stockton/1.3.08 Pit', minor blemishes, unused. [In 1896, a fire in the coalmine, near Newcastle, killed two workers. Nine workers investigating the blaze died from gas inhalation. The subsequent Inquiry resulted in important workplace reforms]
1916 Pine Creek Railway real photo card 'Engineers taking levels/at the 35 mile washaway/Pine Ck Railway/Jan 26th 1916', minor corner bends, unused; and from the same incident 'Unloading ballast/35 mile washaway/Pine Ck rly/24-1-16', unfortunately damaged at L/R but a super image. Among the best Northern Territory cards we have seen.
Department of Public Instruction view cards 1915 'A Country School Swimming Pool' (the local river; 'PAID/1D 1JY15/BRISBANE' cds), 1922 'Country School Garden' with tiny children (KGV 1½d red-brown punctured 'OS') & 1926 'A Suburban School' (KGV 1d green punctured 'OS'), minor defects. Very scarce.
(Qty 3)
1910 Railway real photo card 'Turning first sod/Dallarnil Rway/29.10.1910", to Mackay with message "...I took it last Saturday at Cordalba. Hon WJ Paget is turning the first sod, a couple of light creases. A super card that is probably a one-off.
1915 Panama-Pacific Exhibition 'Barron Gorge, Cairns Railway', 'Picking Grapes for Market, Roma WQ' and 'View overlooking Woombye, North Coast Line...', all used within the United States at 'BARNETT/MO', 'BERKELEY/CAL' & 'SAN DIEGO/CAL' both with 'PANAMA CALIFORNIA/EXPOSITION/SAN DIEGO 1915' slogan. Rare trio.
(Qty 3)
Very early Undivided Backs comprising German Atlas chromolitho 'Adelaide' (really beautiful), panorama 'Greetings from Adelaide' on pinkish card used in 1903 (stamps neatly removed), Robert Jolley 'Bridgewater SA' to France in 1900 (damp-spotting on address side), and artist card 'The Rotunda' used under cover (small faults). A very scarce quartet.
(Qty 4)
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 452
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Group of Adelaide x4 (one of 'Glenelg Train...' outside premises of Harry Lyons), Hahndorf x3, Port Pirie x3 (one a tinted real photo of the Railway Station), Wallaroo x2 (a festive crowd on the pier & 1936 Centenary Celebrations), Clare, Mannum & Petersburg, also Wine x2, generally fine to very fine.
(Qty 17)
Iron Knob: c.1910 (?) A Pudney real photo cards comprising two of BHP Co locomotives & three of railway work camps, four with non-contemporary ink notations on the address sides otherwise very fine unused. Rare selection.
(Qty 5)
Robert Jolley selection of Undivided Backs from various series including a very unusual monochrome 'Spring Street' (from Treasury across to Her Majesty's Theatre), generally fine to very fine.
(Qty 14)
1910 (c.) real photo card 'Nowa Nowa Railway Station' with steam train arriving & timber trucks on a siding, used under cover with message identifying "...the Bairnsdale to Orbost train..." [Gippsland]
COLAC: 'Colac Free Library' Undivided Back postcard (JM Arnest photo; published by W Selwood, Bookseller) showing the impressive brick building, used 1905 to New Zealand with Bantam ½d green & 1d pink tied by largely fine strike of 'IRREWARRA/VICTORIA' unframed cds plus two part-strikes alongside, a couple of tiny corner blemishes. Irrewarra (2) renamed from Ondit Road PO 5.8.1889; closed 30.6.1973. [6km NE of Colac]
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 460
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
MELBOURNE: Interesting group including lovely chromolitho used in 1902 & a few other Undivided backs, streetscapes including rarely seen views of 'Russell Street, 'Flinders Lane' & 'Little Collins Street', also 'The Glaciarium' with literally hundreds of skaters & 1925 real photo multi-view of the aftermath of a collapsed verandah during Parade for Visit of the American Fleet, generally fine to very fine.
(Qty 15)
WONTHAGGI: c.1912 W Harrison Lee real photo cards 'McBride Avenue', 'Ludbrook's Corner' (an impressive edifice for a country town) & an artisitc view of 'Graham St', the first two a bit soiled, the last very fine used under cover. [Gippsland. On 1.8.1910 Powlett Creek Coal Mine was renamed Wonthaggi]
(Qty 3) (Image1)
Estimate AU$80
Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00
Closed..Feb-22-2022, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 190
World Picture Postcards
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 971
Symbol: C
Bundle with a few NSW & Queensland topos, then mostly "ladies subjects", condition variable.
(Qty 69) (Image1)
Estimate AU$40
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00
Closed..Feb-24-2022, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 75
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 972
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Interesting lot collected by a WWI soldier mostly GB with some very attractive topos including 'Storm Havoc at Southsea/The Damaged Esplanade', Fiji Caine real photo cards x4, Martinique group including artist's card of the volcanic eruption, Malta, etc, condition a little mixed but most are fine to very fine.
(Qty 60 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$50
Opening AU$ 110.00
Sold...AU$ 135.00
Closed..Feb-24-2022, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 135
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 973
Symbol: C
BRITISH GUIANA: 1908-11 by publishers Argosy x3, Smith Bros & RP Kaps, to Victoria x3 or Western Australia x2. Very scarce origin/destination items.
(Qty 5)
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 974
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
BRITISH WEST INDIES: Group collected by an Aussie WWI soldier coming home including Antigua x6 & Jamaica x8, etc, plus real photo cards of 'Tobago', 'St Thomas' (DWI), 'Greenage Harbour Barbados', 'Governor's House St Lucia' and 'Oil Field at Pitch Lakes' (Trinidad; the world's largest natural deposit of asphalt), condition a little mixed but most are fine to very fine.
(Qty 19) (Image1)
Estimate AU$75
Opening AU$ 130.00
Sold...AU$ 160.00
Closed..Feb-24-2022, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 160
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 975
Symbol: C
GREAT BRITAIN: c.1908 Whitford & Sons 'Old English Pottery & Porcelain' No 1-15 & 17, all but one unused, plus used duplicates of No 7 8 & 11, condition variable but most are fine to very fine.
(Qty 19)
GREAT BRITAIN: Album of Edwardian humorous artist cards including by Davey, Neison, Hardy etc, condition variable. Clean fun lot, with no smut.
(Qty 64) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 90.00
Sold...AU$ 130.00
Closed..Feb-24-2022, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 130
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 977
Symbol: C
JAMAICA: 1903-10 by publishers Duperly & Sons x3 (one creased), Sollas & Cocking (creased), Gardner & Co and one with no publisher, all to NSW, some blemishes, postmarks including 'BUFF-BAY' & 'MYRTLE BANK'
(Qty 6) (Image1)
Estimate AU$60
Opening AU$ 46.00
Sold...AU$ 46.00
Closed..Feb-24-2022, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 46
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 978
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
LATIN AMERICA: 1904-13 group from Costa Rica x2, Dominican Republic, Peru x2 &, Puerto Rico, all to Victoria, some blemishes.
(Qty 6) (Image1)
