Cards removed from an original family album with excellent content from NSW x24 including von Koenneritz with trilingual captions x4; Queensland x20 including McWhirter & Son x7 & 1910 real photo card of Sunday School on Thursday Island; South Australia x25; Tasmania x22 including Walch & Sons x5, Spurling x3 & TE Barker Furrier x4; Victoria x64 with selections from Ballarat x11, Mornington Peninsula x11 including NJ Caire real photo types x6, Healesville x8 & the South-West Coast x8, etc, 1908 Great White Fleet 1d Postal Card superb used; & Western Australia x4 including a marvellous Revivalist card with message "...Many hundreds have taken a stand for Christ and the city has been stirred to its foundations..."; also Australiana x11; many Undivided Backs & real photo types, some postmark interest, generally fine to very fine.  (170) (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

Small box of mostly 1950s Australian & British cards with some excellent real photo types including set (?) of six pre-WWI Fremantle News Agents Association including a cracker of 'Market Street, Fremantle' & 'Palm Lake, Rottnest Island', a few better Rose, Valentine & similar, also a batch of fold-out wallets & May Gibbs 'Flannel/Flower/Babies' (used under cover).  (100 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Small box with NSW x33 including one to Hanoi & a scarce 1907 1d Postal Card with 3-Line Heading 'HAWKESBURY RIVER BRIDGE', Queensland x6 including one court-card size & 1d Postal Card 'Canefield...' underpaid to Germany & taxed, SAust x5, Tasmania x3, Victoria x11 & WAust x2, some Australiana, a dozen New Zealand, then mostly "ladies subjects", condition variable.  (140 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

Box with wide-ranging content including 100 or so Melbourne & Sydney streetscapes & suburbans, country towns, ships & ferries, etc; a bundle of mostly amateur real photo types including towns, industries, rural scenes, military subjects and Renmark (SA) almost postcard-size photographs x13; Aborigines x19 plus moderns x6; other moderns including  groups of splendid reproductions by Queensland Main Roads Board x9 & GPO x20 with emphasis on moving the mails; and Australiana x50+ including artist cards with a lovely Mabel Lucie Attwell, advertising & animals etc; condition variable but many are fine to very fine.  (350 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

Early-1950s family album of mostly Rose & similar real photo postcards x58 and 250+ smaller professional & amateur photographs with an overall very high quality of the prints, mostly Victoria, NSW & South Australia plus a few Tasmania & ACT, very fine to superb.  (300+)

Grade A/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Small box strongest in Victoria with many common cards but in very fine condition & inscriptional error 'At Kilda Road', small numbers from Queensland South Australia & Tasmania with some better views, quite a number of Undivided Backs, also Australiana including by Bush Artists and two rare real photo cards of 'Australian Imperial Camel Corps...Western Frontier Egypt' with French backs & inscriptions on paper labels affixed at the base, condition variable but many are very fine, plus four fold-out correspondence cards with illustrations by Douglas Pratt (some aging).  (73) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

NEW SOUTH WALES: Sydney Central Railway Station group of all-different 1900s-30s views of the 'new' station (completed in 1906) including real photos x8 one showing a steam locomotive & passenger carriages passing under the main signals, others of the interior, Central (Railway) Square on George Street with bustling tram terminus, etc, also a couple of the 'old' station and Pyrmont Bridge x2, a few postally used, condition a little mixed but most are fine to very fine.  (28)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

NEW SOUTH WALES: Sydney Harbour Bridge display from late-1920s to 1950s, the majority being photographs showing early construction with derricks on the span, plus real photo postcards comprising late-1930 with roadway half-completed, 1931 (March) 'SS City of Dehli' passing under the completed bridge with cranes on pylons and 1950s x3 with various ships & ferries, generally fine to very fine.  (30)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

QUEENSLAND: Small box with many better cards including provincial towns & streetscapes some by local producers, bridges, railways, prominent buildings, islands etc, also a few Aboriginal subjects & many mostly professional real photo types including a marvellous multi-view with no fewer than 26 tiny vignettes!, condition variable.  (93)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

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.   (37)

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

QUEENSLAND: Townsville T Willmett & Sons (Townsville and Charters Towers) coloured photographic types featuring streetscapes, transport, the wharves, local beauty spots etc, one creased otherwise very fine to superb unused; and the original 'Souvenir of Townsville' album. Sold at our auction of 2.12.2022 for $271.  (25 + album)

Grade A/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

TASMANIA: Small box of mostly topographicals with many by Walch & Sons or Spurling, a few small local publishers noted, a good number of Undivided Backs & real photo types including several of Queenstown, M&L Series 'Hotel Mt Wellington...1910' that has the appearance of a Niven, marvellous interior of Grattan's Picture Arcade, advert for Leon's Crown Patent Leather Cycle Toe Clips on the address-side (a bit soiled), a few inscriptional errors, etc, condition variable.  (140 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

TASMANIA: 1910 (circa) high quality real photo of Magnet township featuring the denuded hillside, miners' cottages, a brick house, a hotel (?) and in the middle ground LW Wyatt's Store & the Post Office, used under cover with message headed "Magnet" commenting on the aspect of the photo, minor imperfections. A terrific card. [At Mount Magnet, 6km W of Waratah: silver, lead & zinc mining. PO 1.5.1902; burned-down 8.8.1910]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Attractive selection including chromolitho of 'St George's Terrace/Library Institute', Messageries Maritimes 'Governement House' [sic], real photo card of children & maid outside a home at Kalamunda (surface blemishes), King's Theatre (Fremantle) advertising artist card for 'The Woman in the Case' with 'PRINTED MATTER ONLY' h/s, 'Waterhouse Timber Mills/Millers Karri and Jarrah', 'Post Office Broome' with caption also in Japanese, WA 'stamp cards' Zieher flat-plate (unused), VSM embossed with 'Burt Street, Boulder' inset view and Sanatoria Homes (superb unused), and a few others, some postal history/postmark interest, mostly very fine to superb.  (12) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200