Aborigines selection with many portraits including studio shots, various from Trans-Australian Railway series, two Thursday Island cards, a Czech card (!) of Aboriginal women, artist cards including c.1899 chromolitho of Fremantle & 'King Billy Native WA' (minor blemishes; a better example sold at auction in 2015 for $264) and set of 12 artist cards derived from photographs by Charles Kerry & Nicholas Caire, also concertina folders with six photos of 'North Australia' & six Albert Namatjira paintings, and six Liebig trade cards, condition variable. Scarce material. (51 items)

Estimate AU$1,000

Entertaining collection of humorous artist cards from Stuart Allan to Harry Weston including Fred Booty, WM Bourke, G Brandt, Cyril Dillon, R Gilbert, Hal Gye, WR Hamilton, "Handy", G Kingsley-Smith "The Lizard", Red Nolan, Charles Nuttall, David Souter and George Taylor, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Many are very scarce. (125)

Estimate AU$600

Range with some better NSW views including a fantastic real photo of shearers at smoko, also Kerry 'Pine Avenue/Norfolk Island', VSM "Stamps" cards x4, advertising cards including for Singer Sewing Machines, Swallow & Ariell's Biscuits, Viceroy Tea & SAP Rabbit Poison, Talma Acresses x5, etc, also two very fine & informative photographs (175x90) of a NSW (?) streetscape, condition variable. (58)

Estimate AU$250

Entertainment group of mostly Talma cards plus a few Falks & others of actors & acresses including Tittell Brune, Madame Melba and JC Williamson, several Art Nouveau types, also a few "stills" including the cringeworthy 'There's a New Coon in Town' & 'The Golliwoggs', condition variable but most are good to fine used or unused. (33)

Grade A/A-

Estimate AU$100

1905 (c.) 'All up a Gumtree' (kookaburra & fairies) artist card by Ida S Rintoull, used to London in 1905, a little soiled. Rare.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1915 (c.) May Gibbs 'Hope you're still going strong' (Gumnut Babies playing Badminton), unused.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

NEW SOUTH WALES: c.1905-30 Sydney beaches & swimming, noted Manly, Bondi, Coogee & La Perouse. Ex Harry Gallagher, Australia's swimming coach at the 1956 1960 1964 & 1968 Olympics. (61)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

NEW SOUTH WALES: SNOWY MOUNTAINS: High quality group of scarcer cards including 'School Children on Ski, Kiandra', other skiing cards, 'Cooma Arrival of Sir Harry Rawson', Hotel Kosciusko x2, etc, many real photo types including Adaminaby & Cooma multi-views, 'Kyloe Boiler F in Commissioner Street' (Cooma), 'Sharp Street, Cooma', 'Post Office Cooma' & a couple of Snowy Mountain Authority subjects, mostly fine to very fine & mainly unused. (33)

Estimate AU$500

QUEENSLAND: All-different cards of Customs Houses at Brisbane x11, Bundaberg x2, Mackay x2, Maryborough x3, Rockhampton x3 & Townsville x4, a couple of Undivided Backs & a few are real photo types, fine to very fine & mostly unused. (25)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

SOUTH AUSTRALIA: High quality selection of mostly real photo cards including of Milang PO, 'Marino...remains of Old Railway', 'The Meat Store' (Pinnaroo), Jamestown, Streaky Bay, 'St Patrick's Day Sports 17.3.16 Spalding', Loxton apparently in flood, Mount Torrens, and a Murray Bridge multi-view, many of Adelaide Beach Suburbs, also 'Eucalyptus Oil Factory, Cygnet River, KI' (stained on reverse), Women's Christian Temperance Union x2, 'Motor Car Stand, Currie Street', 'View of Walter and Morris' Premises from Lipson Street' advertising card, etc, plus real photo cards of Railway Stations at Alberton, Brinkworth, Exeter, Laura & Quorn, mostly very fine to superb. (59)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

VICTORIA: 1900 Victorian Contingent to the Boer War 'CANDIDATES' (a little soiled) & 'RIDING TESTS' both apparently from a training camp at Ballarat, and 'CAPTAIN DJ HAM' unused. Rare trio. (3)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

VICTORIA: Dandenongs & Foothills selection of mostly real photo cards including 'Belgrave South/Post Office Store', Dickinson Belgrave 'Post Office and Store Belgrave', Croydon 'General Store', 'Mechanics' Inst' & 'Croydon Hotel', Lilydale 'Main Road' & Interior of Railway Refreshment Room, and Ringwood 'Main Street', 'Post Office', 'Methodist Church' & 'Cool Store', etc, generally very fine & mostly unused. (24)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

VICTORIA: Mornington Peninsula mostly early Rose & Valentine real photo cards with Seaford animated beach scene, Frankston with 'The Main Street', 'The Mile Bridge', 'A Pioneer's Retreat', 'Fishing Kananook Creek', 'Camp Life at Frankston' & two intrepid Rabbit Hunters!, Dromana with 'Hotel Dromana' & 'Barnes Corner', Rosebud with 'Leisurelands', 'Parkmore', 'Cattle on Rosebud Road' & multi-view, Rye with 'Hotel Rye', 'Pt Nepean Road', 'Nepean Highway' & a panorama, Sorrento with 'Whitehall' & 'The Oriental Guest House', Flinders with 'St Andrews', 'Oaklands', 'The Bungalow' & 'Cook Street', Somers 'Children's School Camp', etc, mostly unused & generally very fine. (55)

Estimate AU$600