Small group including Port Pirie (SA) 'Harbour View', 'Railway Station' [train], 'Masonic Hall & Fire Brigade' & 'Alexander Street' real photo cards, 'Across Australia on one set of Dunlops' advertising card showing early-model car 'Bogged in mud crossing Salt Lake, WA', American Fleet 'USS Virginia' used 1908 from Melbourne, WWI soldiers photos x6 plus honour guard with flags (location unknown), various other topographical, artist & greetings cards, condition variable but mostly fine. (40+)

Estimate AU$200

Early aviator real photo cards comprising Harry Hawker (British card), Bert Hinkler (advertising for 'Old Court Whisky' on address side) & Charles Ulm landing x2; also 1938 RAF England-Australia world record long distance flight x8; unused. (12)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Railways group of stations, trains, bridges etc from NSW x16 including 1934 'Royal Train...' and real photo types including 1906 'First Train Leaving New Central Station...' x2 different, 'Arrival of Mail Train, Tenterfield' & 'Clarence River Train Ferry' (amazing!); Queensland x11 including 'Interior of Railway Workshops...', 'Boonah Railway Station...' & 'Stanley St Station - Rockhampton'; South Australia x12 plus 1d Postal Cards 'ADELAIDE RAILWAY STATION' & 'VIEW/OF/SOUTHERN RAILWAY' (both very fine unused); Tasmania 'Ring River Bridge Emu Bay Rly' & '...Doublebarrel Abt System Mt Lyell Rly'; Victoria x13 including 1920s 'Upwey Railway Station' (with Puffing Billy) & '800 Ton Wheat Train Leaving Woomelang'; and Western Australia Falk 'Off to the South Beach, Fremantle'; a few faults but generally fine to very fine. A very good lot. (55)

Estimate AU$500

Artist cards including Birds x9, Hutchings x3, Turner x5, Harry Weston x2, Tuck 'Oilette' x14 (including Fulwood x7) featuring rural activities & mining, etc, condition variable. (46)

Estimate AU$200

Interesting group with better cards including Military/Patriotic, Aborigines, Theatre, topographicals including company premises, a couple of Nivens including 'Old National Bank - Stuck up by the Kellys...Euroa', etc, condition variable. (62)

Estimate AU$300

1906 (c.) Regal 'The Kelly Gang - From an original Photograph', unused. [Now believed to be a still from 'The Kelly Gang', the world's first feature-length film]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1906 (c.) Prebble & Moad artist cards by Vasco Loureiro comprising 'Boarding House Series' x6, and three others, some soiling. Very scarce. (9)

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1906 Consumptive Homes 'stamps' cards for the six States, four of them used at Sydney in -.2.1906 & very scarce thus; also NSW 1d Postal Card 'TOWN HALL - SYDNEY'; and Zieher Hong Kong 'stamps' card (superb unused). (8)

Grade A+/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1908 Visit of the US Fleet group including Victoria 1d & 1½d PO issues & Commonwealth stampless '.../TO/ MELBOURNE', two WTP chromolithos used to Tasmania or Natal, HH Stratton (Chattanooga) views of Sailors Disembarking at Port Melbourne, Marching to Melbourne and Welcome to Blackheath NSW, Wellman & Co (St Kilda) Flags & Fleet, and an ugly hand-tinted card; also hand-drawn Flags & Fleet card from NZ (visited 9-15.8.1908), Japanese Department of Communications Admiral Sperry Eagle & Flags x2 (one with very fine commemorative cds); then thirteen US cards of Ships of the Fleet; generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. [See also Lots 1533 to 1547 in Part Two] (26)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1915 (c.) May Gibbs Gumnut Babies 'The/Girls/I left/behind/me' (marching off to war), 'Hope you're still going strong' (tennis), 'We're still/above water!' (surfing on a gumleaf), 'I'm still at the same old game!' (cards) & 'We like Australia' (postally used); also plain backs - originals, not modern reproductions - 'A Bottlebrush Babie' (sic; toned on the reverse) & 'Flannel Flower Babies' & 'Flannel/Flower/Babies/Grow/in Australia/(They bring love)' x2, unused. (8)

Grade A-/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1915-17 different patriotic artist cards by Maisie Carte, some soiling. (6)

Grade A-/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1919 (Dec) real photo cards x15 featuring Ross & Keith Smith's Vickers 'Vimy' arriving at Darwin including shots of the large crowd, the plane & the crew, three with R Rohrer imprint & one is a PPC-size photo; five other related cards (one damaged), and two other items. A very good lot. [10.12.2019 marks the centenary of the first England-Australia flight, an epic achievement that earned Ross & Keith Smith the 'Daily Mail's £10,000 prize for the first plane to complete the journey] (24 items)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

1920 (Aug) Rohrer (Darwin) real photo cards of Ray Parer's arrival at Darwin to complete the first single-engine flight between England & Australia, all but one with notations on the address side, unused. [No mail was carried, which has caused this important flight to have been largely forgotten] (6)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

NEW SOUTH WALES: Interesting range including many real photo cards noted Balmain 1912 Rugby League team photo, Lithgow Small Arms Factory interior views x6 (plus photographs x6), Sydney Harbour Bridge x2, Austinmer Beach x3, Neutral Bay x2, also John Heine & Son Can Making Factory advertising card, etc, mostly fine. (60+)

Estimate AU$200

NEW SOUTH WALES: Group of Railway Stations & Railway Bridges, several are Undivided Backs, condition mixed. (20)

Estimate AU$120

NEW SOUTH WALES: BLUE MOUNTAINS: Caves & waterfalls etc by various publishers, unused. (27)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

SOUTH AUSTRALIA: State Tourist Bureau & Intelligence Office cards from various series up to the 1950s including nine early chromolitho views, condition variable, mostly unused. (19)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

SOUTH AUSTRALIA: 1912 GL Marchant (Adelaide) series of real photo cards of a fancy dress party featuring swells & dandies, clowns & pierrots, sundowners & bushrangers, black face & drag, captions on reverse identify many of the participants, fine to very fine. An exceptional social history group. (12)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

SOUTH AUSTRALIA: 1927 real photo PPCs of 'Tarcoola Township', 'Tarcoola Blocks Mine', 'The Tarcoola School Children', 'A Picnic on Wallabine Rocks', 'Carting Water to Head of Line' (massive camel train), 'The ...Battery: notice our Tennis Court...', 'Wild Blacks. The People at Head of Line Clothed them for the Photo', another of laden camels at rest, all unused; and two small railway-related photos. (10 items)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

TASMANIA: 'Mount Lyell Railway' series x10 showing view of the mines & railways around Queenstown, Tourist Bureau 'Drifting Mists, Mt Olympus', Hobart Map, Memorial Church & Waterworks, 'Wrest Point Hotel' real photo used 1941, 'Shot Tower, Browns River', etc, many used with 1d Pictorials plus a bundle of greetings cards similarly used, postmarks include 'GORDON', 'RANELAGH JUNCTION', 'HUONVILLE' etc, condition variable. (90+)

Estimate AU$300

TASMANIA: Outstanding group of real photo cards including 'First Tram To Run In Liverpool St Hobart 25th June 1914' (WJ Little), 'Palace Theatre Hobart' (WJ LIttle), 'Queens College Hobart' sporting team (PJ Baily), 'Goods Shed Ocean Pier Hobart' (WJ Little; creases), 'Hotel Mt Wellington' x2, Horse-drawn Excursion Coaches x2 (one captioned 'Webster Rometch Ltd/Tourist Bureau Hobart'), Excursion Boat 'The Waldemar and Nubeena Racing', 'Kingston' x2 (Baily), 'Huonville' x4 (Baily) including Post Office, 'St James Church Ranelagh', etc, a number used with 1d Pictorials & postmark interest, a few over-exposed and/or with minor blemishes but condition generally fine. (29)

Estimate AU$500

VICTORIA: Range of scarce inner-suburban views of Carlton, Clifton Hill, Preston & Northcote, also noted 'Wharf Echuca', 'Narrow Gauge Rly Gembrook' and some real photo cards including 'Royal Hotel' (Upper Fern Tree Gully; wonderful view), vignette view of snow at Wandin South, Swan Hill with paddle steamer, etc, some used, condition variable. (40+)

Estimate AU$200

VICTORIA: FW Niven advertising cards for Hepburn Springs (3 views, used with stamp neatly removed), Hoadley & Co Jam Factory (used), and Great Western Vineyard (unused). Beautiful! (3)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$180

VICTORIA: Customs Houses at Geelong, Melbourne x5, Swan Hill (+ a photograph), Williamstown & Yarrawonga x3 (two are real photos) plus associated postal history & ephemera.

Estimate AU$100

VICTORIA: Collingwood: Group of mostly streetscapes with stores including Foy & Gibson, condition variable, mostly unused. (10)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150