ADVERTISING: Marvellous mostly pre-WWI group from Victoria including Sunshine Harvester x2, Cletrac Tractors, MacRobertson Chocolates x3, Adams' Cakes, 'Yalart' Stud x2, Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co and 3LO ('Miss Beppie de Vries'); NSW Lassetter's Encyclopaedia, Exeter Bulb Farm, Anderson's Seed Warehouse, Wyandotte Cleaners and Asco Scales; South Australia Australasian Implement Co, Exchange Tobacco Store and 1910 Exhibition (Castle Salt); Queensland 1910 Jubilee Carnival; etc, mostly featuring products or premises, a few problems but most are fine to very fine.  (27) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

AUSTRALIANA: The Bush, Rural Life, Agriculture etc including the best array we have seen of Regal views with lines of poetry by Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and others (100+ with some minor duplication), mostly Talma actress types, Humour, Mining, artist cards etc, numerous real photo cards including a range of 'A Handful of Australia' types, condition variable but generally fine to very fine.  (300 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

AUSTRALIANA: Small box with good selections of Aborigines x21 and Rural Life, etc, several novelty types etc, most are fine to very fine.  (68) (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

CAVES: Box of mostly Jenolan Caves by Kerry (some with 'JENOLAN CAVES' cds), selections from Mole Creek (Tas), Buchan (Vic), Naracoorte (SA) & Yanchep (WA) plus odds from Cox's Cave (NSW), Loch Ard Gorge (Vic) & Tantanoola (SA), minor duplication, most are fine to very fine unused or used.  (175 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

POSTAGE STAMPS: VSM flat-plate or embossed cards each with stamps of various colonies, and Home for Consumptive Women set of 7 (some toning on the reverse) plus two fine used which are very scarce.  (14)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

RAILWAYS: Superior pre-WWII mostly real photo group of railway stations, rolling stock etc and disasters Rocky Creek Bridge Incident x3, Traralgon Floods x2 and McCallum's Creek Bridge Collapse (faults), etc, most are fine to very fine.      (30) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Archive box of "ladies subjects" with a plethora of Christmas Birthday & other Greeting types including many beautifully printed designs, also a quantity of classical art reproductions, humour with a good batch of Bonzo cards, etc, mostly unused and generally fine to superb. Weighs 15kg.  (1500+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

Box of 'ladies subjects' with good selections of Actresses, Greetings, Glamour, Edwardian Humour,Children, Artist Cards etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine.  (300 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

ADVERTISING: Gorgeous mostly British artist cards including for theatre productions x6, hotels x3, Fry's Chocolates x3, E Hamel & Co Artists & Designers, International Horse Show, Simpson's in the Strand, The Life-boat Service, Colleen Soap, White Rose Serges, etc, also real photo cards for an unnamed barber shop & 'OAKHAY DAIRY', generally fine to very.  (29) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

CHILDREN: Well-developed collection of optimistic charming & whimsical artist cards all by Mabel Lucie Attwell, mostly 1940s to 1960s with some earlier, many with captions in French or English & French, some leporellos, the odd damaged card but the vast majority are fine to very fine unused or used.   (280 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

EROTICA: Box of mostly European artist cards with a classical bent presenting plenty of busty substances, ample derrières & some naughtier bits, plenty of highly suggestive images including same-sex & mixed-race couples, demure damsels with a variety of animals or swans, fevered dreams, lechers & orgies, also some pre-WWII real photo cards including a set of five 'multi-views' of acrobats (they must be!) in improbable poses, and a disturbing group of 1950s card-size photos of "look at me" housewives, mostly unsullied.  (170 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

GLAMOUR & FASHION: Collection by numerous artists in various styles with mercifully few by Asti, sub-sections of romance, family & social commentary including about twenty treasures by Charles Dana Gibson, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. [The illustration is above Lot 1285]   (250 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

GLAMOUR & FASHION: Mostly pre-World War I cards by various artists including Raphael Kirchner erotica x6, etc, most are fine to very fine. A delightful group.      (26) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

GLAMOUR & FASHION: High quality collection of artist cards including American by Philip Boileau x84 & Harrison Fisher x143, Italian by Busi x12, Coribella x5 & Guerzoni x16 plus sets of 6 by Mauzan x2, Bianchi, Bertiglia & Malugani, French by Xavier Sagar x4 & S Bompard x12, Japanese James Eades & Co (Yokohama) x4, etc, emphasis on fashion with extravagant hats, outrageous costumes (& some very skimpy ones) & many with a romantic or coquettish flavour, generally very fine to superb unused.   (340 approx)

Grade A-/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

HUMOUR: Terrific mostly World War I military group principally from GB, also from France, Holland, America and Switzerland, famous subjects and series including 'Bystander' types, Tucks 'Me & the Mule' set of 6 and 'Sketches of Tommy's Life' set (?) of 8, plus many we have never seen before, also World War II mostly American Beale & MWM 'linens' plus Australian 'Tea Revives You' x4, etc, fine to very fine.   (180 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

POSTAGE STAMPS: Zieher and similar cards each with stamps (and four with coins) of various countries, mostly flat-plate but a few embossed, the majority unused and generally very fine.  (28)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

RAILWAYS: Large box of cards principally from Britain and Europe but with many other countries represented, lots of real photo types, hundreds of train portraits (including artist cards) of famous engines & weird contraptions, stations & infrastructure, etc, mostly unused and generally fine to superb. An excellent lot for the train enthusiast. Weighs 8kg.  (1000 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$800

SEXISM: Batch of mostly French misogynistic artist cards of women in cages or wearing various contraptions to keep them silent, unused (11); slightly less vicious British mother-in-law cards, all used (8); and three others, generally fine to very fine.  (22)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

SHIPPING: Box of mostly 'portraits' of ships from famous ocean liners to tourist boats, also ferries & commercial vessels, docks & infrastructure etc, includes some artist cards (400 approx); and Civil Aviation mostly post-WWII coloured 'portraits' of aeroplanes from all over the world & a few airports, a few promotional cards for airlines, some minor duplication (200 approx); generally fine to very fine.  (600 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500