Bundle of mostly better topographicals & subjects from NSW x42 with several Undivided Backs & good railway content, real photo cards of Coonabarabran Bridge & 'Steel works/Waratah'; Queensland x40 including Thursday Island x7 (plus four small photos), real photo types 'Tram Terminus, Toowong' & 'Nambour 1920' (not a PPC) & a few Tourist Bureau cards (one with Qld/Kangaroo combination franking); Tasmania x25 including Mount Lyell Railway x2, 'New Golden Gate Gold Mine' & real photo of Bream Creek Butter Factory; and Western Australia x19 including 1902 'Jetty, Fremantle' (to Sweden), 'Post Office Boulder City', three Western Mail views including 'Great Boulder/Mine'; also 'Australiana' x23 including Bulletin cards by Frank P Mahon (small tear clear of the view) & Norman Lindsay, a couple of Zieher/VSM 'stamp cards'; etc, generally fine to very fine used or unused. (Qty 139) (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

Eclectic range in album with many advertising cards includng for Singer Sewing Machines, Bensdorp's Royal Dutch Cocoa (beautiful chromolitho cards with the Melbourne importer's imprint), Fry's Cocoa, 'Milkmaid' Milk, Swallow & Ariell, also Harding & Billing 'wallet card' with three-panel panorama of Melbourne, Boer War patriotics, Pacific Islands with indigenous studies, some non-smutty humour including a Bulletin card by 'Hop', etc, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. (Qty 80 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

Two large albums of mostly Australian cards with numerous real photo types including towns & disasters, several mostly boring Niven topographicals & a few beautiful Jolleys, a few attractive advertising cards including for Melbourne architect A North and Swallow & Ariell's 'Cake Walk', some overseas content including better cards from New Zealand & Pacific Islands, generally fine to very fine. (Qty 400 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

ADVERTISING: Interesting group for ABC Radio x4 (one with inscription obliterated & overprinted re Royal Commission hearings in Hobart, Parramatta Argus, Barraclough's Ostrich Farm x6 (blemishes), Mills Scaffolds x6, Australian Museum (soiled), and artist cards for Grand United Order of Oddfellows, Preservene Soap and Arthur Yates & Co, also envelope for Hydro Majestic Hotel (creased), fine to very fine except as noted. (Qty 22) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

c.1950s Australian Postcards and Viewcards comprising scenes, various greetings and Real Photo types including Valentines. One for a show or market dealer. (Qty 100+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

NEW SOUTH WALES: Selection of better cards with four very early Undivided Backs (one a German instalment card of Farm Cove), five Dubbo railways cards, 'Port Kembla Industries' aerial view, five hand-tinted Hurley cards including 'Empire Day Celebrations', generally fine to very fine. (Qty 15)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$125

NEW SOUTH WALES: Newcastle & the Hunter Region selection with real photo views x7, NSW Government Tourist Bureau x2, Favorite [sic] Series x7, Greetings from Newcastle x2, Eight Hour Day Parade (stained), etc, some coalmining content, generally fine to very fine (Qty 33)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$240

QUEENSLAND: Intelligence & Tourist Bureau cards x23 from various series with Franco-British x7 & Panama-Pacific x3 & including some very scarce scenes, a few others including 1910 real photo card 'Turning first sod/Dallarnil Rway/29.10.1910', generally fine to very fine. (Qty 26)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

QUEENSLAND: Excellent batch of mostly Queensland aborigine cards featuring Yarrabah Mission, Herbert River & Bellenden Ker including real photo cards x8, plus kanaka subjects x5, generally fine to very fine. ['Kanaka' was the name given to Pacific Islanders who were often taken by force to work in the Queensland canefields, a practice known as 'blackbirding'. It was promoted as indentured labour but was effectively a form of slavery] (Qty 37)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Bundle of mostly better topographicals & subjects including a few Northern Territory, many real photo types, streetscapes, excellent railways group including Trans-Australian Railway x3, a couple of superb Robert Jolley cards, 1908 1d Postal Card for Visit of the American Fleet (damp-spotting on the address-side), etc, generally fine to very fine used or unused. (Qty 80 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

TASMANIA: 'Stamp' cards comprising VSM (Melbourne) flat-plate & embossed both unused & used, Cyril Dillon with views of Hobart or Launceston both unused, & Consumptive Homes unused (very scarce). (Qty 7)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

TASMANIA: Collection in two old-time albums with streetscapes, suburbs, towns, Derwent Lighthouse, Launceston Post Office, German shipping PPC of Beauty Point etc, some minor duplication, address sides unchecked for stamps & postmarks, condition variable but generally fine. (Qty 300+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

TASMANIA: Exceptional collection of mostly amateur real photo cards with streetscapes, suburbs, towns & hamlets including Maydena, Kempton, Dover, Brighton, Waratah (damaged) & Scottsdale, Mount Chappell Island x2, Flinders Island Butter Factory, hotels, rural views & beauty spots including several West Coast noted, events including Hobart Regatta x2 (one, creased, identified as 1913), 'Fire at GP Fitzgerald's Hobart', etc, many unfortunately over-exposed as should be expected for such collections, also some Rose and Valentine B&Ws, address sides unchecked for stamps & postmarks, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. An exceptional, socially & historically interesting lot from our least populous State. (Qty 250 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$2,000

VICTORIA: Bundle of mostly better topographicals & subjects with streetscapes, 'Palace Hotel, Torquay', 'Lower Fern Tree Gully', 'Walhalla Train on Thompson Bridge' (the locomotive is pushing the carriages), three superb advertising cards for Young & Co Grain Merchants (Ballarat), real photo types including 1908 'Railway Accident at Sunshine', 'Bush Fire Foster' (unfortunately creased), Montrose Post Office & General Store and 'Water Supply at Ouyen', early Rose 'Flinders Street & Railway Yards' showing the original Princes Bridge Station buildings, etc, generally fine to very fine used or unused. (Qty 30) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

VICTORIA: Melbourne Suburban with Brighton (with amended inscription), Caulfield Military Hospital x3, 'Edith Vale' [sic], Footscray x3, Glenhuntly, Kew x5, Williamstown x3, & Yarraville, also South Yarra 1907 'Train passing through Flood Waters' & 1908 Sunshine Railway Disaster x2, generally fine to very fine. Very scarce material. (Qty 21) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

VICTORIA: Rural towns with Benalla x3, Bendigo x6 (three with trams), Bright x3, Daylesford x8, Donald x4, Echuca x3, Hepburn Springs, Nagambie x3 & Seymour x2 (almost certainly Nivens), also real photo 'Shifting Day Simpson's Creek' (Gippsland, small corner fault), 'Great Southern Mine, Rutherglen', 1d Postal Cards 'Bourke St' & 'Phantom Falls', & a couple of others, generally fine to very fine. (Qty 40) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Box with many better cards with streetscapes, goldmining, Rottnest Island x2, many local publishers including Falk, Detmold, Austral Stores, AO Charlton 'Gresham Hotel...' UB (unfortunately stained) & Western Mail 'The Overflow at Mundaring' (stained on address side) and 'Teaming Nor West Wool to the Coast', also Messageries Maritimes x2, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (Qty 51) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

WESTERN AUSTRALIA: 1904 Harding & Billing three-panel panorama PPC of Kalgoorlie to Germany at 1d Printed Matter rate, minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100