Collection of humorous cards by many hands including Fred Booty, Red Nolan, Fred Nicoll, etc etc, stated to all be Australian - and most are - but we have our doubts, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Eve Pryor.
(Qty 220 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 210.00
Sold...AU$ 460.00
Closed..May-19-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 460
Sale No: 5
Lot No:517
Symbol:C
Australiana album with plenty of pro-British patriotics, State arms & emblems, 'Sundowners' (swagmen) x6, etc, generally fine to very fine.
(Qty 64) (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00
Closed..May-19-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 190
Sale No: 5
Lot No:518
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection
Art Series two groups of anthropomorphic native fauna 'What ho! She Bumps' (rowing & fishing) & 'Taking down the poor Bushies...' (bar scene with card sharps & a flower-selling platypus) both by Norman Lindsay, the first with minor blemishes & the second with the stamp neatly removed.
(Qty 2)
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.
Robert Jolley (Melbourne) Undivided Backs from various series all different views from South Australia x6 & Victoria x5, a couple of minor defects but generally fine to very fine used or unused. Beautiful cards. [In our opinion, Robert Jolley was the most accompllshed and artiistic of the early PPC publishers in Australia]
(Qty 11)
1910 (c.) rather amateurishly drawn advertising card for Grand United Order of Oddfellows Friendly Society, very minor blemishes, unused. [You would think an operation with capital of £1,500,000 and yearly income of £400,000 could afford a competent artist to design their promotional materials!]
1915 Gallipoli Landing at ANZAC, real photo of Soldiers on the Beach, and artist card 'The Storming of the Dardanelles' (Bugler) by R Hawcrdige, all unused; 1915-16 Xmas & New Year Greetings card 'From/ANZAC' (unused, minor toning within), and novelty card to a soldier on the Western Front (sent under cover).
(Qty 5)
1917 (c.) Australian Comforts Fund 'Our Boys at the Front' ten different plus of the Fund's mansion HQ at Amesbury, some soiling/tonespots, unused.
(Qty 11)
1920 (c.) Sayers Allport & Potter humorous advertising card for SAP Rabbit Poison 'That's why I'm the only rabbit on the run!', minor blemishes, used in South Australia with the stamp removed. [Sayers Allport & Potter was a Sydney-based wholesale pharmaceutical & veterinary supplies business, catering mainly to the rural sector. They were notorious for SAP, a phosphorus-based rabbit poison]
1930 two real photo cards of Amy Johnson (one 'With the/Compliments of/TIT-BITS': oh dear!), another of her piloting the 'Jason' over the Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction, and 'Johnnie/From a photo taken on arrival at Brisbane', the last two with minor blemishes, unused. [Amy Johnson & her husband Jim Mollison were aviation's glamour couple in the early 1930s. In 1930, 'Johnnie' became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia]
(Qty 4)
ARTIST CARDS: Group by Vasco Loureiro comprising Boarding House Series x5 + a duplicate with newspaper cutting for his trip to the Christchurch Exhibition to his sister in Kew & signed "Vasco", 'Under the Clock' x3, '.../100/eyes/on/Argus Sauce', caricatures of Sir Drummond Fife and 'Charles', & five other cards, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. Ex Eve Pryor.
(Qty 17) (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 270.00
Sold...AU$ 270.00
Closed..May-19-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 270
Sale No: 5
Lot No:532
Symbol:C
AUSTRALIANA: Tuck Oilettes artist cards by Fulwood or Taylor Ghee featuring Gold Mining, Sawmilling, Sundowners (swagmen), etc, condition variable.
(Qty 10)
STEREOCARDS: George Rose group from NSW x5 including Jenolan Caves x2; Tasmania x5 including panoramas of Hobart & Launceston; and Victoria scenery near Lorne x2, in the Grampians x2 & at Childers (Gippsland); mostly very fine.
(Qty 15)
STEREOCARDS: George Rose Views of Celebrations/Royal Visit in Melbourne x6 & Sydney x2, all pristine!; also GB 'East Terrace/Windsor Castle' PPC - some soiling - with boxed '[crown]/FROM/The King & Queen/13JUN1918/WINDSOR CASTLE' cachet in violet.
(Qty 9)
STEREOCARDS: George Rose group for 1901 Commonwealth Celebrations/Visit of the Duke of York in Sydney x3, Melbourne x3 & Hobart x5 (very scarce; one damaged); also 1911 Coronation of KEVII in London x2; most are very fine. A very desirable group.
(Qty 13)