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Australian Picture Postcards

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:277
Symbol:CPS

Consignment remainders with NSW 1906 real photo of the Newtown Oxfords Rugby team; Queensland 1904 Diddams Undivided Back 'QUEEN STREET.../Looking South West (tram) & 1906 National Agricultural Show; Victoria 1905 Wreck of 'La Bella' with 'William Ferrier, the brave fisherman...' & 1906 real photo of Wandong Cyanide Works; and a few others; also scenic Postal Cards from Queensland 1d claret 'Harvesting...' & 'Jondaryan Woolshed' and South Australia 1d 'DAIRY FARM' in crimson (very fine unused), fine to very fine used. (Qty 13)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250



Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 190

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:278
Symbol:C

Small box with ten different 1908 Visit of the American Fleet cards, some Humour & Whimsy, a few non-Australian cards, generally fine to very fine. (Qty 60 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$120



Opening AU$ 170.00
Sold...AU$ 280.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 280

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:279
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection

Small accumulation including New South Wales with Sydney environs & street scenes noted Kings Cross real photo showing Double-Decker Trolley Bus, Middleton's 'South Mine, Broken Hill' real photo, Agent-General 'Disc Ploughs At Work', Bowral 'Bong Bong Street', Murrumburrah ' Vernon Street', etc, Queensland noted 'Greetings from Roma' with 6 vignette views & Jolley undivided-back 'Customs House', etc, Victoria with 'Sheehan's New Treasury Hotel', Jolley undivided-back 'Mitchell River, Bairnsdale' shipping, Melbourne streets, etc, plus Coat of Arms for Queensland & Victoria, Australia Population Map used 1910, etc, condition variable but many fine to very fine. (Qty 60+)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150



Opening AU$ 170.00
Sold...AU$ 480.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 480

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:280
Symbol:C

1901 FEDERATION: Rose Stereoscpic Views of Celebrations/Royal Visit in Melbourne x6 & Sydney x2, all pristine!; also GB 'East Terrace/Windsor Castle' PPC - some soiling - with boxed '[crown]/FROM/The King & Queen/13JUN1918/WINDSOR CASTLE' cachet in violet. (Qty 9)

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$120



Opening AU$ 90.00
Sold...AU$ 90.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 90

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:281
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection

ABORIGINES: Group including Queensland 'Hair dressed in mourning' couple used 1914, 'Aboriginal Camp' and Rose Series Torres Strait islander with head-dress, South Australia real photo card picturing a group of children used 1908 and 'Natives Spearing Fish The Canoe made from the Bark of the Trees' used 1913, Victoria 'Lubras Camp, Maloga' used 1910, 'Wilmot Strahan in his Mia Mia, Warnambool' used 1907, 'Teaching the Young Idea how to Shoot, Coranderk Station' ("near Healesville" added in mss) showing elder & todler with spears & boomerangs used 1906, 'Natives of Lake Tyers, Gippsland' used 1905 plus Rose Series 'Lake Tyers' real photo views x6, Western Australia 'Before the Corrobboree' group with bodies painted used 1907 with 'KATANNING' cds and Trans-Australian Railway 'The Inma Dancers' unused, also VSM 'Greetings from the Antipodes' Nuttal artist series and NSW (King Billy), Victoria (mother & child) & Western Australia (man) displayed inside maps and similar Tasmania card with man smoking pipe used 1906 from Hobart, etc, plus a Rose (Philadelphia) chromo-litho card showing map of Australia and woman with boomerang wearing a red & white dress (both image & map show an ignorance of Australia & Aborigines) and c.1930s photograph of boy with spear & boomerang standing next to railway lines and another of group of aboriginal boys urinating on campfire (annotated "Woolnough" on back; minor bends), condition variable but quite a number are fine and a few very fine. (Qty 32) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250



Opening AU$ 525.00
Sold...AU$ 600.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 600

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:282
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection

ADVERTISING: MacRobertson's Milk Chocolate group comprising 'We've been looking all around for you' x3 different two-part cards with various cartoon "heads" (including a skull) on the top card and "eyeballs" on the bottom card joined together to allow the eyeballs to roll inside the heads (one postally used 1907 from Canterbury, Vic) and 'Pretty Australian Children' x7 different with three postally used from Melbourne between 1905-09, condition a little variable but most are fine. (Qty 10)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200



Opening AU$ 320.00
Sold...AU$ 420.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 420

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:283
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection

ADVERTISING: Wineries Hans Irvine's Great Western Vineyards group including 'Loading Wine ... for export to Irvine & Co London Cellars' showing barrels & steam locomotive pulling train through the vineyard on face and bottles of claret, burgundy & brandy on address side, also 'The "Parramatta" ... christened with Irvine's Australian Wine' Melbourne Punch cartoon, 'Health Food and Hygiene Exhibition, Crystal Palace 1906' and 'Grand Prix, Franco-British Exhibition 1908' showing their trade booths (all unused), plus Springvale Vineyards, Watervale, S Australia (H Buring & Sobels) PPC used in 1906 to Hans Irvine's London representative with 'WATERVALE' squared circle but marked "Not known", then postcard-sized trade cards for Hans Irvine with map of Victoria & 1908 American Fleet Visit greetings on reverse (trimmed on one side) and for PB Burgoyne & Co x2, and finally what appears to be the original mockup artwork for a Hans Irvine trade card advertising 'Melbonia Red Burgundy', condition generally fine to very fine. (Qty 9)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$250



Opening AU$ 625.00
Sold...AU$ 625.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 625

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:284
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection

ARTIST CARDS: Bulletin Newspaper satirical cards 'Benevolent Gentleman...' by AJ Fischer (very fine unused), 'A Prime Minister/...' by Dye and Brother Jones to Cannibal by Hop (both minor blemishes still fine unused), and 'Micky, that woman's changed the whole course of my life' by Norman Lindsay (fine used); also non-Bulletin 'Australian Natives: What ho! She Bumps' by Norman Lindsay (fine used). Fun group. (Qty 5)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100



Opening AU$ 125.00
Sold...AU$ 125.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 125

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:285
Symbol:C

ARTIST CARDS: Bulletin Newspaper cards by Hop x3, BE Minns or Amb Dyson featuring racist subjects, cannibals and fleshy missionaries, fine to very fine used. (Qty 5)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150



Opening AU$ 160.00
Sold...AU$ 160.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 160

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:286
Symbol:C

ARTIST CARDS: May Gibbs Gumnut Babies 'We are the Gumnut Corps/...' & 'The Old Home's in the old place', both very fine unused, larger 'Christmas/Bell/Babies' & 'Flannel/Flower/Babies' both with plain backs (proofs?), and two whimsical Kookaburra sketches 'The Family is well' and 'I think of you by day and dream of you by night' again both with plain backs; plus Maisie Carte "By Gum!" Series #2 3 4 & 6 all very fine unused. (Qty 9)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$120



Opening AU$ 550.00
Sold...AU$ 700.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 700

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:287
Symbol:C

ARTIST CARDS: ST Gill 1850s paintings mostly of Melbourne & inner suburbs but also a few of Geelong Ballarat & Castlemaine, fine to very fine used (9) or unused (10). Very attractive cards. (Qty 19)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100



Opening AU$ 95.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 230

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:288
Symbol:C

ARTIST CARDS: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite fantasy cards featuring fairies, witches & nymphs, two with Australian motifs, the last two used in England otherwise unused. (Qty 8)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$80



Opening AU$ 90.00
Sold...AU$ 160.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 160

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:289
Symbol:C

ARTIST CARDS: Douglas Pratt c.1930s pencil sketches of major landmarks etc in the capital cities, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. Scarce. (Qty 32)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$120



Opening AU$ 100.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 190

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:290
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection

DISASTERS: Batch of flood cards from Victoria with Orbost, Nathalia, Seymour, Mooroopna, Tallangatta, Mildura & Burnley x4 etc, NSW with Tamworth, Maitland & Moree, and a few others, also 1906 'North Sydney Tornado - Ruins of Toomey's Cottage', 1907 Fire at Harrold Colton & Co, 1910 Rainbow Fire (six vignettes), 1925 Visit of the US Fleet to Melbourne with 4 vignettes of aftermath of a collapsed verandah, and New Zealand Union Bank of Australia destroyed by fire; half are real photo types, condition variable but a terrific group. (Qty 25) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250



Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 230

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:291
Symbol:C

HUMOUR: JS Pty Ltd Kangaroo Mother with Joey in Pouch series comprising the pair with speech bubbles '...no good hiding in the Baby's room', 'You nasty, mean little pickpocket' to a theiving Koala, '... Zipper has stuck again' and '... You can't have a radio set in your room' plus Joey asking '... Can I ask Spiny [echidna] here in for a cup of tea?' and '... I should have a front door key', possibly the complete 'set' unused, a couple with very minor blemishes. Attractive & funny too. (Qty 6)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100



Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 105.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 105

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:292
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection

MILITARY: British Naval Ships of the Australian Station annotated selection of the various ships - many in New Zealand ports - & infrastructure, also a few stereo-cards & postcard of a Queensland gunboat on the Brisbane River, generally fine to very fine. Scarce group. (Qty 25) (Image1)

Estimate AU$150



Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 190

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:293
Symbol:C

MILITARY: World War I Gallipoli Campaign real photo card with Kodak back 'Dug-Outs at GALLIPOLI Dardenelles', unused.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$60



Opening AU$ 46.00
Sold...AU$ 46.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 46

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:294
Symbol:C

MINING: Batch from all States, mostly gold mines & infrastructure but also copper, coal, zinc & opal, some local publishers plus artist cards by Tuck and for Mt Lyell Railway (Tas), condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (Qty 38) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300



Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 420.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 420

image Sale No: 4
Lot No:295
Symbol:C

RAILWAYS: Steam locomotives, trains & stations noted Qld Toowoomba 'Spring Bluff' & 'Sydney Mail', SA Clare, Glenelg, Mt Lofty x2 different, Tas Mount Lyell (mining), Vic Castlemaine, Echuca 'Murray Bridge', Flinders Street 'Southern Mail', Gembrook, Monbulk, South Yarra 'Train Passing Through Flood Waters', etc, plus Trams Victor Harbor 'Old Horse Tram', Hobart with 'Wolfes Schnapps' advertising, Ballarat, Bendigo, etc, mostly fine. (Qty 27) (Image1)

Estimate AU$150



Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 160.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 160
image Sale No: 4
Lot No:296
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection

SHIPPING: Group of almost all multi-coloured cards comprising Melbourne Steamship Line 'Duntroon'; McIlwraith, McEarcharn's Line 'Karoola' (b/w) & 'Katoomba'; AUSN 'Kanowna', 'Wodonga', 'Wyandra' & 'Wyreema'; also Robert Jolley cards of the 'Kanowna', 'Manuka', Wimmera' & 'Yongala'; plus Victoria 'Bay Excursion Steamers Ozone, Weeroona & Hygeia' blotter card and 'Loongana off Gellibrand Point, Williamstown' (used with stamp removed) & 'Ozone passing Pile Light, Port Phillip' (used 1907 with some aging marks on back); mostly unused and generally fine to very fine. (Qty 14)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150



Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 180.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 180


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