ADVERTISING: Swallow & Ariell Cake Walk cartoon card, & a standard PPC with their advertising on the reverse; A.I. House Coal (woman in front of fire) used in 1911; Hoyt's Pictures 'Funeral of King Edward VII' printed by Fraser & Jenkinson (Melbourne); and PPC-size trade card for Longmore's Chemists (Melbourne) 'Henley[-on-Yarra] House Boats 1912'. Scarce to rare group.  (5)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

NAVAL: Batch of mostly real photo cards of HMAS 'Australia' x2, 'Challenger' x2 (in Brisbane or Hobart), 'Encounter' x2 (at Thursday Island or in dry dock at Sydney), 'Euryalus' x2, 'Melbourne', 'Powerful' x3 and 'HMAS Yarra in dock after collision' (with HMAS 'Huon' in the Adriatic), also 'Battle-Cruiser Renown/Australian Tour 1920' and six with unnamed ships at Sydney x5 or Brisbane, fine to very fine.  (20)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

RAILWAYS: Marvellous batch of railway stations with Melbourne & Sydney suburbans including very fine 1911 1d Postal Card 'FLINDERS ST MELB' (expansive railyards), character-filled rural stations, passenger & goods trains, Trans-Australian Railway group including several views we have not previously seen (and we thought we knew all of them), many from local publishers, generally fine to very fine.  (79) (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

SHIPPING: Entrancing collection with many artist/advertising cards for the various coastal & international shipping lines, some Undivided Backs & many real photo cards, a group of Sanitarium PPC-size trade cards, some faults but most are fine to very fine. Another excellent lot. Weighs 4kg.   (290 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

ANIMALS: Donkeys of the World from Malta, Antigua, Jamaica, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Libya, Palestine, Canary Islands, Argentina, etc, fine to very fine. Excellent basis for a new collection.  (53) (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

ARTIST CARDS: Marvellous collection of Glamour, Romance, Haute Couture, Pierrots, Children etc with numerous magnificent Art Nouveau, Impressionist, Modernist & other schools, techniques include chromolitho, embossed & serigraphs, generally very fine to superb. Bellisimo!   (200 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

ARTIST CARDS: British Bruton Galleries editions of saucy cards all by Raphael Kirchner, a few minor blemishes, unused.  (7)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

ARTIST CARDS: German erotic cards juxtaposing naked women with various animals by Richard Muller, very fine unused. [Muller was an important inter-war artist who mixed Surrealism & Romanticism to create weird & often grotesque images, characterised by the Nazis as "degenerate art"]  (5)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

ARTIST CARDS: Bundle of Dalkeith's Classic Posters Series being modern reproductions of vintage poster art from France England America & Germany mostly with the artists identified including Mucha, Toulouse-Lautrec, Berthon, Schreiber, Cassandre, Kley, Grun etc, styles include glorious Art Nouveau Cubism & Art Deco, subjects include Advertising, Aviation, Cycling, Motoring, Cabarets etc, superb unused. Magnifique!   (77)

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

AVIATION, CIVIL: Collection of aeroplane portraits mostly American but many from Europe & elsewhere, a few of pioneer contraptions through to early versions of the Boeing 747 & Concorde including flying boats, many of interiors & a few schematics, airline advertising, about 40% are US municipal airport 'linens', generally very fine to superb.   (200 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

CEMETERIES: Box of mostly British & European cards but with others from China, India, Egypt, Hong Kong, Malta & Panama etc, includes headstones, monuments & elaborate tombs, generally fine to very fine unused or used. A fascinating, if somewhat ghoulish, theme.  (100 approx)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

CHILDREN: Collection of mostly artist cards predominantly from Europe & America with a surfeit of cuteness, favourite themes are universal innocence, young romance, role playing, sporting prowess plus numerous age-inappropriate themes, a fair amount of sometimes unintended humour, numerous Greetings types, etc, generally very fine to superb.  (600 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

CRICKET: Australian team photos 1878 (1930s ABC 5CL issue), Bolland 1921 & 1926, and 1956 real photo PPC (signed on the reverse "Len Maddocks" and "Ron Archer", soiled & creased), then portraits of English & County players x16 from various series, Philco real photo PPC of the 1907-08 MCC Test Team, and two hilarious Kinsela artist cards, generally fine to very fine.  (23)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

HUMOUR: 'A Frog's Life' hilarious set (?) of artist cards by E Wessel (Brussels) featuring Frogs in love, playing sport & motoring, superb unused.  (8)

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

HUMOUR: c.1910 German "tits & bums" artist cards walking a tightrope between the humourous & the disgraceful, unused.  (6)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$120

JUDAICA: Batch of Synagogues, 'Jewish Streets', Rabbis & other portraits, etc, from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Bulgaria, Italy & France, German cards including Deutsch-Israelitischer Gemeindebund x5, some artist cards including Old Testament subjects, generally fine to very fine. A very interesting lot.  (51) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

LIGHTHOUSES: Fascinating bundle x60 of cliffside, end-of-pier & out-at-sea structures from America, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland (really!) & Cuba; also Windmills x9; generally very fine to superb.   (69) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

MILITARY - BOER WAR: 1900-01 Underwood stereo cards of various Boer War engagements & events including 'Cronje's men at Modder River...' (Boer POWs), 'NSW Medical Corps moving to the front...', 'NSW Lancers bringing Boer Prisoners into Pretoria', 'Australian Mounted Rifles [at] Belmont', 'South Australian Infantry lined up for inspection...', most with multi-lingual captions on the reverse, generally very fine; also Falkner & Sons (London) artist cards x4 of the Grenadier Guards including two Boer War subjects, superb unused.  (16)

Grade A-/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

MOTORING: 1930s-1960s collection with many car 'portraits' - many with blank backs (proofs?) - including advertising of new models, freeways, rural highways and suburban streets, charabancs, buses and infrastructure, working vehicles etc. About half are American & the balance are European mostly from Italy, a good percentage are real photo types, generally very fine to superb. One for the rev-heads and nostalgia junkies.  (250 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

MUSIC: Range with English Brass Bands x7, Pipe Bands x4, Royal Welsh Male Choir, Corrick Family of Entertainers x3, The Musical All Blacks of Maori Land, Beagles humorous 'An Orchestra Recital' monochrome & coloured sets of 6, etc, condition variable but most are fine to very fine.  (50 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

NAVAL: Large album mostly of warships with strong Australian content including British ships on the Australian Station, WWI troopships, duplicated group of WWII Japanese midget submarine sunk off Sydney, etc, then predominantly British & a few New Zealand & other countries, nice group of portraits of sailors, many real photo types, generally fine to very fine. An excellent lot. Weighs 2½kg.  (136 plus some reproductions & a few moderns) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

NUDITY & EROTICA: Mostly 20th century artist cards of overtly sexualised subjects with harlequins, romance, voyeurism, seduction etc, the more artistic tend to be European cards but strength is in American 'naughty' types many of which have plain backs (proofs?) including a batch of mini-cards, also a few smutty Bamforths, condition a little variable but most are fine to very fine.  (175 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

NUDITY & EROTICA: 1920s to modern mostly photographic cards with numerous highly suggestive motifs including passion, mermaids & water sports, bikini babes, Italian actresses, etc, many American plain backs of starlets in various states of undress, generally fine to very fine.  (150 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

NUDITY & EROTICA: The Classic Nude featuring paintings from the Rennaisance to early-20th century by Titian, Goya, Rupert Bunny & a host of lesser names, about 60% are of statues including a booklet of Italian phallic stones (!), the majority are from France Italy or Germany, generally fine to very fine.  (120 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

NUDITY & EROTICA: Mostly photographic cards from c.1920s to modern, mostly of topless women but including many leaving nothing to the imagination, about 40% are 'ethnic' cards from Africa, the Middle East & Pacific islands, generally fine to very fine.  (150 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000