Accumulation with 1880s cabinet cards x5 including two G Bridle photos of a rural township (Illawarra NSW region ?), NSW 'School of Arts' real photo card postally used 1910 endorsed Germanton, Mildura Vic Rose Series x 6 including 'Pleasure Steamer Avoca' & 'Irrigated Vineyard', lots of moderns many postally used including inwards airmails to Australia from Yugoslavia (1954) & Pakistan (1955), etc. Also bundle of 1970s National Bank calendars with Australian views including by ST Gill etc, 1860s The Sunday At Home 'A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading' bound volume (cover missing), swap cards, etc. (100s)

Estimate AU$200

Interesting lot including NSW 'Royal Prince Alfred Hospital/Seasons Greetings' with large Red Cross, 'St Enoder, Nowra/Accomodation for Tourists' advertising bowling, tennis & croquet greens & 'Wharf, Paterson River' with Steamer "Maric", Queensland 'Bingera Sugar Mill' x2 one with steam locomotive, 'Remilton's Kuranda Hotel', 'Dunk Island' & 'Greetings from Charters Towers' Racecourse, Deep Mines, Gill St etc vignette views, South Australia 'Bordertown Hotel' & Port Pirie train real photos, 'Bordertown Post Office Flooded' plus two Northern Territory, Victoria 'Women's Work Exhibition 1907' conductor & 'Advance Sporting Budget Photo Cards' advert featuring racehorse, some postally used noted 'UP TRAIN' cds, etc, condition mixed but many fine. (68)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Artists & Subjects range noted 'Blinky Bill' Koala & Kangaroo comic, BE Minny Aboriginal couple, 'Familiar Australian Singers' advert for Singer Sewing Machine Co plus 12 more individual birds cards, Tuck's Oilettes of Mining & Wool Industry in Australia x14, Weston Series 'The Bullocky' & 'The Musterer' then various Australian Series bush scenes by JA Turner & others, etc, condition mixed but mostly fine. (68)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

Artists group comprising Maisie Carte Patriotic x3 'We don't want to lose you ...', 'My Favourite March' & 'Something Doing' wounded birds, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite 'Fairy' cards x8 including 'The Fairy Bridget and the Kookaburra', and May Gibbs 'Gumnut Babies' Sports x3 Surfing on Leaf, Tennis with Spiderweb Net & Football kicking Gumnut and Patriotic x3, a few with minor blemishes but mostly very fine.

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

ADVERTISING: Alcohol group including Burgoyne's Australian Wines multi-colour advertising card plus real photo view of Mount Ophir, Rutherglen Winery x7, '"Old Smuggler" Bottle/Gaelic Whisky/The Spirit of Australia' with Map, 'Cascade Ale/Better Than/Best British', 'Begg's Is The Best Whisky' advertisment based on playing cards, 'Ainslie Whisky' pencil rub cards published by Stewart Black Novelty Print, Sydney x3 one for American Fleet Visit, also some British cards noted 'Black & White' Whisky x2 one with 'Polo Game' view and Bottle illustration on address side used 1905 from Forbes, NSW, 'John Haig' gunslinger advert, etc, generally fine to very fine. (21)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

ADVERTISING: 1905 Swallow & Ariell's postcard with full-colour illustration (lemon squash bottle) on address side & JA Turner painting on view side, local usage to "Ballarat Dairy" requesting an order, couple of minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

ADVERTISING: 1905 postcard-size Bendigo Tramways 'Souvenir/Tram/Ticket/RAILWAY/PICNIC/Sept 16th/1905' with vignette views of Tramcar, PowerHouse, Engine Room & Boiler Room, illustrated advert on back for Henderson & Goodisson Homewares, for travel from Bendigo Cemetery to Eaglehawk & validated with punch-hole at base, later posted Brighton-Goornong, a couple of minor blemishes. [Much scarcer than the similar Ballarat card]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

ADVERTISING: 1930s Radio Station promotional issues including 'ABC Wireless Symphony Orchestra' real photo, 2UW's 'Mrs 'arris & Mrs 'iggs' with the compliments of Tooheys, 3UZ's 'Mrs 'olmes & Mrs Hentwhistle' (stain), 3LO x2, 5WS 'Uncle Vic' and 5DN Autograph card signed 'Uncle Bert' among others, 7ZL Donkey 'Co-operation' plus two 'Dad & Dave' program cards one advertising 'Wrigley's, makers of PK ...' (blank back), condition variable but generally fine. It seems that if you weren't a "Mrs", a "Dad" or an "Uncle" you didn't get on air! (10)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

ADVERTISING: 1930 Burns, Philp & Co Limited (Fremantle) advice card with full-colour illustrations of 'Dog's Head', 'Bass's Austral Ale' & 'Guiness Stout' beer bottles on view side, local usage with Perth slogan cancel. One of the most eye-catching alcohol advertising items we have seen.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

AMERICAN FLEET VISIT 1908: Group including Sydney 'Adam's Marble Bar' with Yankee Fleet poem on address side used 'SP4/08' (some blemishes), then unused noted Wellman & Co, St.Kilda (Vic) 'People of the Southern Cross' ships & flags, 'Australia Welcomes The Fleets' card With Compliments From Tye & Co (pin holes), vertical format 'Australia Greets America' Kangaroo & Uncle Sam vignette view & 'Admiral Sperry' small portrait, etc, unused except the first, condition variable but mostly very fine. (11)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

AVIATION: 1910 (c.) Donald Taylor Collotype (Adelaide) 'Souvenir of Balloon Ascent' advertising card for Arab Self-Raising Flour & Viceroy Tea showing large balloon above Adelaide park filled with onlookers, couple of very minor marks, unused.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

AVIATION: 1914 AB 'Wizard' Stone card headed 'AUSTRALIA'S/FIRST AERIAL MAIL' for proposed Melbourne-Sydney flight which did not take place due to the plane crashing & injuring Stone, carried by rail instead with Kangaroo 1d tied Sydney 'AUG24/1914' roller cancel on arrival, message reads "Hope the Stone will have sufficient impetus to carry this to you", minor toning, AAMC Cat $800.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

AVIATION: 1920 real photo card showing Ross & Keith Smith's Vickers Vimy bi-plane at Sydney's Mascot Aerodrome with crowd of onlookers endorsed on back "...taken on the day he left for Melbourne", fine condition (scratch at U/R is on the negative), also 'Anglo-Australian Flight' real photo card of the two brothers plus W Watson Boyes card with poem calling for a Lighthouse-type monument to be erected for them, unused, the latter two with minor blemishes. (3)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

ENTERTAINMENT: Group including 'Charles Chaplin' x2 with 'Armadale Theatre' & 'Lyric & Empire Theatres, Brunswick' advertising printed on back respectively, two Tasmanian real photo cards of Yello Cab "Boat" on river & Policemen in black-face, batch featuring Melbourne chorus girl Pansy Montague with a number signed with her stage name "La Milo", Paramount Pictures Leading Ladies x4 three with printed advertising on back for Queensland theatres and the other 'Souvenir of the Brisbane Exhibition 1920', Chips Rafferty autographed head-shot (blank back), etc, condition mixed but many fine. (38)

Estimate AU$300

NED KELLY GANG: Colonial Picture Combine 'Sticking Up Younghusband's Station' from The Story of the Kelly Gang advertising card plus five more images including 'Capture of Ned Kelly', 'Death of Dan Kelly & Steve Hart' & 'Sticking Up the Euroa Bank' from an unidentified publisher, also Regal 'Steve Hart, Dan Kelly, Ned Kelly' on horseback captioned "from an original photograph", some with a few blemishes. (7)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

NEW SOUTH WALES: Advertising group including multi-coloured cards for 'SAP' Rabbits pesticide (plus a b/w with dead bunnies), 'Grand United Order of Oddfellows Friendly Society' used 1911, 'Lassetters' Buyer's Encyclopedia' with 1d Arms 'L/S' perfin used 1909, 'Colman's Mustards' used 1905, 'Ship Brand Corn Flour' used 1923 & 'Ernest Hillier Chocolates' (stamp removed), also 'Dayton Moneyweight' scale for 1905 Royal Agricultural Show, Automobiles 'Arthur Cocks' used 1906 with 'AC/&Co' perfin (undivided back) & 'Gray' £295 car real photo, 'Mills Scaffolds' x2, etc, condition mixed but mostly fine. (22)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

NEW SOUTH WALES: 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge Opening Celebrations real photo cards comprising Bridge x2 one with RMS 'Strathnaver" & Ferries, the other with SS "Gwydin", also Procession x7 including 'Cobb & Co Coach Passing Dias' [sic] with double-decker bus behind, 'Aboriginals' [sic], 'Hon JT Lang Premier NSW', 'Guard of Honour' plus three of various floats, very fine unused. (9)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

QUEENSLAND: Small group of better cards including real photos of 'Railway Hotel' Harrisville & 'School of Arts, Normanton', 'Greetings from Mt Perry' with vignette views of Copper Mine, advertising cards for 'Morrows Pure Food.../Jubilee Exhibition 1909', 'Howard Smith/SS Bombala', 'Charles Spurgin/Hairdresser & Tobacconist', 'CA Stephan/...Sadlery', etc, also 'Paronella Park, Mena Creek Pleasure Resort' envelope enclosing photos x4, condition variable but mostly fine. (16)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

QUEENSLAND: 1905 FW Niven & Co advertising card for 'Australian Hotel, Corner Queen & Albert Streets, Brisbane/Peter Valley Prop.' with two trams, a horse-drawn carriage & an early model car out front, to New Zealand with QV 1d tied indistinct cancel, some aging marks on address side only.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

QUEENSLAND: c.1910 Lenard's Pictureland Mount Isa real photo card showing theatre almost completely destroyed after storm (so noted in pencil on back) with man on bicycle surveying the damage, couple of tiny blemishes on back only, unused. Great card!

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

QUEENSLAND: 1922 Foster Photo real photo card 'Kingaroy Ambulance Car in difficulties on the Crawford Rd 4-5-22' showing Red Cross Ambulance over-turned on side of road with the roof caved-in, couple of tiny corner bends mentioned for accuracy only. Fantastic card with wonderfully understated caption; hopefully nobody was injured.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Small group of better cards including real photos of Hergott Springs railway station & 'MM Hamden Universal Provider' Murat Bay shopfront with 'Kodak' hoarding, also Renmark 'Flood Time 1917' with car on semi-submerged cart being pulled by horse team(!) plus advertising with 'Sunbeam Cots' at Adelaide Children's Hospital, 'SS "Tyro" passing under Murray Bridge', 'Castle Salt' bagging salt on Yorke Peninsula & 'Exchange Tobacco Store' list of record temperatures on GPO card, etc, condition variable but mostly fine. (13)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

SOUTH AUSTRALIA: 1905 Adelaide Exhibition 'Committee of Exhibition on Electric Tram Car March 31, 1905' card showing small electric motor on rails with driver pulling two open carriages, Wine Kiosk in background, used 1905 with 1d tied Adelaide cancel, couple of minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

SOUTH AUSTRALIA: 1919 real photo PPC of Harry Butler & dignitaries with his monoplane "Red Devil" before departure from Adelaide to Minlaton, unused. Superb!

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

TASMANIA: Small group of better cards including 'Tasmanian Government Railways' tourist promotion with ship & train, Hobart-Wellington stagecoach & 'Martin Cash Bushranger' with pistols & handcuffs real photos, 'F&W Stewart Jewellers' Launceston shop interior, 'North Lyell - Waiting for news at mouth of tunnel' mine fire, 'Gold Mine Beaconsfield' x2 pumping plant & main stoke hole, etc, mostly fine to very fine. (11)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300