'Golden Age' cards removed from an original but decrepit family album with numerous Undivided Backs including from Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Egypt & France 1900 Paris Exposition x12, odd cards from Canada, South Africa, India, Singapore, Philippines, Korea, China & Japan etc, the other half are 'ladies subjects' with Art, Actresses, Children, Relationships & Animals including an unusual Louis Wain of Cats & Canaries, condition a bit variable but many are fine to very fine.  (150 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

British Empire selection with many better cards including indigenous subjects, from North Borneo x2, Sarawak x4, Singapore x25, Aden x3, Gibraltar x11, Cyprus x2, Tanganyika x3, Sudan x2, South Africa x15, Gold Coast x2, Sierra Leone x6 & a few others, generally fine to very fine.  (80+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

Modern advertising & promotional postcards and small flyers accumulation in three archive boxes, mainly Australian but some World, including various albums sorted by subject. Lots of thematic interest here and deserves a look. Weight 35kg+.  (Qty) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Small box with a diverse group including mission cards from Solomon Islands & Rhodesia & a few Methodist missionaries, some very attractive shipping cards with Dutch KPM group including two versions of a Port Moresby artist card & a superb 1911 advertising card used at Singapore with Straits perfin, a few New Guinea including Orient Exhibition 'An Island Station...', 1938 boring real photo card of a Nauruan beach, PNG 'maximum' cards for the 1952 Pictorials 9d Copra-Making & 1/6d Rubber-Tapping, etc, plus a few photographs, generally fine to very fine. Ex Rev Roger Lee.  (37 + photos) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

ADEN: Small collection with a wide range of subjects many of which we have not seen before, numerous c.1920 real photo cards, fine to very fine unused. A very appealing lot.  (100 approx)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

ANTARCTICA: 1907-08 British Antarctic Expedition 'THE RETURN OF THE SOUTHERN PARTY' (Wild, Shackleton, Marshall & Adams), unused. [Kevin Dwyer's example sold at our auction of 13.9.2008 for $220]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

ANTARCTICA: 1907-08 British Antarctic Expedition 'SS Nimrod' with inset portrait of 'Lieut Shackleton' at upper-left, light toning on the reverse, unused.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

ANTARCTICA: 1910-13 British Antarctic Expedition 'Captain Oates' portrait by HG Ponting, minor blemishes on the reverse, unused.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

ASCENSION: c.1910 set (?) of 12 with captions on white panel at right including settlements at George Town & Green Mountain, buildings including Sanatorium, Admiralty Cottage, Telegraph Station, scenery including 'Devil's Ash Pitt [sic]' & the remarkable 'Turtle Turners/and Turtle', and a couple from another series, all with major adhesions on the reverse but facially very fine.

Grade A-/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

BALKANS: Fascinating group from Albania x9; Greece with Athens x36 mostly Acropolis & other ancient monuments, Crete x5 & Salonika x24 with several World War I subjects & 1917 Great Fire x2; pre-Yugoslavia x42 with cards from Bosnia Croatia Macedonia & Serbia; & a few unidentified, many Undivided Backs & real photo types, ethnic subjects, etc, generally very fine to superb.  (120 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

BENELUX: Box of cards mostly from Belgium x280+ with many World War I subjects including Patriotics & a mostly humorous Camp Beverloo group x12, advertising cards for Lebrun x12 & Toselli x30 featuring tourist destinations in Italy & Croatia etc; Luxemburg x8; and Netherlands x56 including some marvellous Art Deco advertising; condition variable but most are fine to very fine.  (350+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$350

BRAZIL: Small box with a high percentage of 1930s real photo cards & postcard-size photographs, numerous shots of Rio de Janeiro including unusual aspects, also Santos, Sao Paolo & Recife, some indigenous subjects, generally very fine to superb.   (150 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

CANADA: Mostly topographicals from all Provinces with strength in Quebec, many small towns & streetscapes, railway stations, hotels, beauty spots, winter sports, etc, several lovely advertising cards & First Nations x14, generally very fine to superb.  (250 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

CANADA: Canadian Pacific Railway cards from various series & publishers including CPR themselves, Bowen Sutton, Byron Harmon, Valentine etc, with a good number of real photo cards, also some American-style 'linens', generally fine to very fine+.  (63) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS: Calypso collection from Bahamas x34, Barbados x12, Bermuda x42, Jamaica x16, Trinidad x28 & a few others, many hotels, agriculture & exploitation of native labour etc, generally very fine to superb.  (162) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

CEYLON: Attractive selection from various publishers (no Platé) including Andree, Colombo Apothecaries, John, Ponnambalem, Sadoon, Tuck & Uduman etc with a wide range of indigenous & Colonial subjects, condition variable.  (120 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

CHINA: Bundle with real photo types of Chinese people, occupations & customs, many Italian Mission cards, West Lake Exposition x3, Hong Kong x59 & a few Macao, etc, about 40% are PRC 1950s-1970s including Communist propaganda, Chinese theatre & opera, economic development, etc, mostly fine to very fine unused.  (200 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

CHINA: Engaging group with executions x4, real photo types x12 including Chinese culture, a few Hong Kong etc, also two of Chinatown in San Francisco, condition variable but some are fine to very fine & a few are postally used.  (29) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

EASTERN EUROPE: Box of cards from Bulgaria x7; Czechoslovakia x28; Hungary x25; Poland x33; Rumania x25; Russia x30 including 1905 Revolution, Crimea & Occupied Baltic States; Soviet Union x120+ including Cosmonauts & loads of Propaganda, also 16 moderns of Fabergé eggs; and a few others; some are Postal Cards, a good number of Undivided Backs, many beautiful cards, condition a bit variable but generally fine to very fine.  (280+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

FRANCE: Appealing collection with World War I x100+ including a group of Victory Celebrations, advertising including Moet et Chandon x6, early Aviation plus cards with aeroplanes or airships added, railways & stations, winter sports, terrific groups of urban flooding & Carnevals de Nice, etc, many Undivided Backs & real photo types, some postmark interest, generally very fine.  (500 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

FRENCH COMMUNITY: Box of cards mostly from Algeria Tunisia & Morocco with a few from Senegal, Madagascar, Lebanon & Indo-China, strength in Arab culture & lifestyle with some very interesting subjects including fascinating medical treatments, many Undivided Backs & some real photo types, a beautiful group of artist cards, mostly unused & generally very fine to superb.  (200 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

GERMANY: Third Reich collection with Aryan propaganda, events & patriotic song-lyrics, achievements, Krupp factories, etc, Hitler x25 including socialising with Mussolini, almost two-thirds are World War II subjects with portraits of soldiers & officers, munitions, aircraft including weird contraptions, decorations & death, etc, some 1945 cards show destruction of Nuremberg & Berlin including the Fuehrer-Bunker, some artist cards including anti-Nazi card of a worker chained to a swastika, a high proportion are real photo types, very fine to superb.  (180+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

GERMANY: World War I batch with Army, Navy, Air Force & patriotic subjects, POWs, beautiful artist cards including by Emil Huber x5, Feldpost postmark interest, also a few earlier military subjects, generally very fine.  (49) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

GERMANY: Mostly topographicals including unusual city scenes, streetscapes & villages, subjects include railways & trams, exhibitions & occupations, Gruss aus types x10, a good number of Undivided Backs, some beautiful artist cards & so on. Many are from the Third Reich with some postmark interest. A few problems in the earlier material but generally fine to very fine.  (300+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

GREAT BRITAIN: Box of English mostly topographicals with very few London views, many small towns, local pubs, provincial hospitals & town halls, street scenes, an attractive shipping group, a couple of processions & several Franco-British Exhibition, many Undivided Backs & several real photo types, also Ireland - mostly Ulster - x14, some postmark interest, generally fine to very fine.   (120 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200