1880s-1950s collection including cabinet cards (80+) one with plan of Collingwood Town Hall, another of a man with bicycle; Paris Panels (2); other photographs (660+) with marvellous 1890 view of H Kelly's two stores at Seville; some interesting early images of St Peters Collage including sports teams, mainly Fair/Fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$350

c.1870-1940s collection with cartes-de-visite x49, cabinet cards x15 one with a tennis motif, large card 16x24cm by Creelman & Co (Sydney), other photographs x29 including WWII Lancaster crew, mainly Fair/Fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

CARTES-DE-VISITE: 1860s-90s range in album, noted 'General Tom Thumb and Wife, Commodore Nutt and Miss Minnie Warren' (dwarves who achived great fame in PT Barnum's circus), Siamese twins, opera singer Therese Tietjens x2, 'The Hon John Pascoe Fawkner, Founder of the Colony' (promoting his claim over that of John Batman), ship 'Somersetshire', church, house; includes photographers from Melbourne x5 & Beechworth x6, mainly Fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

CARTES-DE-VISITE: 1860s-90s collection including Geelong Grammar School (?); Queen Victoria, Prince Albert; a Ballarat trooper; dwarves from PT Barnum's circus (2); a good range of Australian photographers from Melbourne (59), Sydney (2), Ballarat, Sandhurst, Albury (3), Hobart & Adelaide; also UK, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland & Hong Kong, mainly Fair/Fine. The illustration is above Lot 3402. (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

CARTES-DE-VISITES: Nine including Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), Princess of Wales; British Prime Ministers Robert Gascoyne-Cecil & Benjamin Disraeli, Pope Pius IX, Cardinal John Henry Newman, & opera singer Christine Nilsson; also 1927 10"x8" boxing press photographs of Jack Dempsey with trainer Jerry Luvadis and of Tex Rickard with George Getz (promoters of the Dempsey-Tunney fight); plus c.1900 photographs of cross country race & lawn bowls. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

STEREOGRAPHS: Views of Melbourne & suburbs (19), France (32), Spain (9), Switzerland (3), UK (4), Ireland (4), USA (14), Egypt, 1885 America's Cup, others (5), mainly Fair/Fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

BALLARAT: 1869 carte-de-visite photograph endorsed at base 'Mair St Ballaarat in the Year 1869', showing Haymarket Hotel, Yate & Liddell Tent Makers, and a Veterinary Shoeing Forge, with workers and a cart, wonderful street scene in Fine condition. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

VICTORIA: 1870s-80s photographs by Charles Nettleton including 'Carriage Paddock and Lawn, Cup Day Nov.1 1887' & 'Saddling Paddock Oct 29 1887' (each 41x30cm); 'St Peter's, from Parliament House', 'Public Library', 'Observatory', 'Queen's Wharf', 'Victorian Goods Shed', 'Victorian Railway Station' & 'Collins Street (looking West)' (each overall 30x24cm), condition variable but several are fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

TIMBERTOP SCHOOL (Geelong Grammar's bush campus near Mansfield Victoria): 1966 images of groups & scenes at Timbertop x75, various sizes, includes students, staff, buildings & activities; plus envelopes of negatives x100+ which include some of Prince Charles during his time there as an Aussie schoolboy; also group of glass lantern slides of song lyrics x57, mainly Fair/Fine. Ex Geelong photographer Stuart Max Eastwood. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

PRINCE CHARLES AT TIMBERTOP: 1966 group of the new king's time at the school, with images showing Prince Charles x33 & Princess Anne x8; plus a photo of the Queen & Prince Philip during the 1954 Royal Visit; various sizes, mainly fine to very fine. Ex Stuart Max Eastwood. (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

BOER WAR: 'Castlemaine Militia - Transvaal War, October 1899', photograph by A Verey & Co (Castlemaine) with participants identified on the reverse, size 30x25cm, minor faults on the backing page otherwise fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

BOER WAR: Rose's Stereoscopic Views of the Victorian Contingent (12); 2nd Victorian Contingent (11); The Bushmen's Contingent (12) & Imperial Contingent (12), all leaving for the Boer War, mainly Fair/Fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$200