World War I-era cards from Australian serviceman "Gordon" with photographs of him in uniform, Thursday Island x4 including Field Guns Firing, Wonthaggi (Vic) 'Welcome Home' Arch & 'Graham St' & Camperdown 'Manifold St' real photos, etc, then cards apparently collected on his voyage to England via the Panama Canal including from 'St Thomas' (Danish West Indies) real photo, Antigua, Barbados, Jamaica, Martinique, St Lucia, Tobago, Trinidad 'Oil Field at Picton Lakes' real photo, etc, plus British cards noted 'Storm Havoc at Southsea' real photo, most unused but a couple with messages, also 1871 Victorian Railways 'Second Class' monthly ticket, Magpie 'Official War Photographs' cigarette cards x10, etc, condition a little mixed but most are fine to very fine. (Qty 100+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1964 series of privately produced artist cards by John Olday being monochrome cartoons reflecting on his life of political activism, social/sexual mores, medical practices etc, all with hand-written inscriptions & initialled "JO", superb unused; plus two flyers for his exhibition at Adelaide's Royal Admiral Hotel (one with his Sydney houseboat address added to the reverse), and the original plain manilla envelope. Insightful, sardonic, poignant, & often hilarious. [Arthur William ('John') Oldag was an artist & anarchist who was active in Europe during the 1930s & a member of the German anti-Nazi undergound. He migrated to Australia in 1950 but returned to Europe in the late-1960s. He held many exhibitions but never sold any of his works!] (Qty 36)

Grade A/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

ADVERTISING: Attractive pre-WWII cards including 'Cantrell & Cochrane's Dry Ginger Ale', 'Ruins of Fire at Burford's Apollo Works, Hindmarsh' (SA), 'Banking Chamber' Bank of NSW Sydney and 'McLelland's Store, Lambton' (NSW), Hostels NSW 'Cronulla House' & 'Kyamba, J Doyle's Cottage, Woy Woy' and Victoria 'Hermitage on the Black Spur...', Theatres 'The Lyric' (Fitzroy, Vic) & 'Criterion' (Willoughby, NSW), 'Marseilles Tiles by Wunderlich', also a few blotter cards, RKO Radio cards including six of the Seven Dwarfs (light staining), plus Japan 'Formosa Oolong Tea' silk PPCs x3, condition a little variable but many are fine to very fine. (Qty 35) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

QUEENSLAND: Mostly pre-1910 bundle with many better topographical subjects including towns & streetscapes, islands, railways, with aborigines x5, etc, several real photo types noted, a few faults but most are fine to very fine unused or used. (Qty 130 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

QUEENSLAND: Townsville T Willmett & Sons (Townsville and Charters Towers) original album of coloured photographic types featuring streetscapes, transport, the wharves, local beauty spots etc, one creased otherwise very fine to superb unused. (Qty 25)

Grade A/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

TASMANIA: 1916 Liquor Referendum (Closing Hours) three different DIC Photo (Hobart) propaganda cards apparently for the Congregational Church urging a vote for 6 o'clock closing as the least of several evils, unused. [58.7% voted for 6 o'clock & 35.9% for 10 o'clock] (Qty 3)

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100