ARTIST CARDS: Three-volume display collection of JA Turner cards featuring rural, outback & mining scenes, all 46 views are represented plus duplication of designs from various series differentiated by colours, backs & captions including addition of advertising, generally fine to very fine. Very difficult to replicate. Weighs 8kg. Ex John Walker. [NB: card No 32 'News from Town' is known from reprints only, was not officially issued & is not included] (Image1)

Estimate AU$850

AUSTRALIANA: Large bundle featuring the Wool Cattle & Timber Industries plus some Agricultural subjects, Horses, etc, a few real photo & artist cards, generally fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

BUSHRANGERS: 1907  (circa) Regal Post Card Co 'The Kelly Gang - From an original Photograph'; plus Beattie Studios, Hobart 'Cash, The Tasmanian Bushranger', both very fine unused.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

MILITARY: WWI comprising a group of 15 portrait cards of Willoughby (NSW) soldiers, mostly identified including five of whom died in action; Gallipoli x6; Daily Mail and ACF types x7; various Soldiers Clubs x6; Military Hospitals in Australia x5 or GB x2; 1916 'The King...Inspecting Convalescents'; and Rose stereo card 'The Farewell Parade...The Troops passing through Coburg' (a terrific photo); & a few others plus five items of Ephemera; generally fine to very fine.

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

MILITARY: WWI humorous artist cards comprising Photochrom Anzac Silhouette Series x4, a bit grubby; and by "Pat" x5, "Hal Ballment" (?) 'Au revoir Gallipoli but not good bye", all these are very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

MILITARY: Quality WWII group comprising Departing Troops x4, RAAF aircraft & aircrew x8, Australian POWs in Germany x2 with camp cachets on the reverse & a few pinholes, and ACF 'Cheer-Up Hut & Hostel' multiview, fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

NAVAL: Batch of mostly real photo cards of HMAS 'Australia' x2, 'Challenger' x2 (in Brisbane or Hobart), 'Encounter' x2 (at Thursday Island or in dry dock at Sydney), 'Euryalus' x2, 'Melbourne', 'Powerful' x3 and 'HMAS Yarra in dock after collision' (with HMAS 'Huon' in the Adriatic), also 'Battle-Cruiser Renown/Australian Tour 1920' and six with unnamed ships at Sydney x5 or Brisbane, fine to very fine.

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

RAILWAYS: Marvellous batch of railway stations with Melbourne & Sydney suburbans including very fine 1911 1d Postal Card 'FLINDERS ST MELB' (expansive railyards), character-filled rural stations, passenger & goods trains, Trans-Australian Railway group including several views we have not previously seen (and we thought we knew all of them), many from local publishers, generally fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

SHIPPING: Attractive batch of cards featuring the 1908 Visit of the American Fleet including six beautiful WTP chromolithos, Postal Cards for Victoria 1d unused and used and Commonwealth formular issue 'TO/MELBOURNE' postally used & very scarce thus, etc, also 'Battle-Cruiser Renown/Australian Tour 1920' (peripheral damage) & 1925 Visit of the American Fleet real photo of Collins Street, coastal shipping, Murray River paddle-steamers, and some yachting cards, some minor duplication, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

SHIPPING: Entrancing collection with many artist/advertising cards for the various coastal & international shipping lines, some Undivided Backs & many real photo cards, a group of Sanitarium PPC-size trade cards, some faults but most are fine to very fine. Another excellent lot. Weighs 4kg. (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,500

THEATRE: Edwardian Actresses (mostly) & Actors all from various Talma & Co series including Gold Backgrounds, Fancy Frames, 'Artist' Cards, etc, about 40% feature Miss Tittell Brune, many of Maud Jeffries, Grace Palotta, Nellie Stewart and Maesmore Morris, plus cameo appearances by Jessica Deane, Margaret Thomas, Miss Chiloni, Nance O'Neil, Jessie MacLachan, May Flower, Daisy Holly, May Garstange, Delia Mason, Douglas Gerrard, Julius Knight, George Lauri, etc, a marvellous array of costumes, some with facsimile signatures, a small number with defects but generally fine to very fine. A veritable "Who's Who?" of the Australian stage. Weighs 1kg. (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

ANIMALS: Large box of Cats, Dogs, Horses, Donkeys, Sheep, Cattle, Fish, Camels, Butterflies, etc, including working animals, domestic pets, etc, many artist cards including by notable talents, numerous real photo cards & postcard-size photographs, some humorous types, strength in English & European cards but many other countries also represented including a good number of Australian rural subjects, some mostly minor duplication noted, condition variable but a large number are fine to very fine. Weighs 7kg. (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

ANIMALS: Donkeys of the World from Malta, Antigua, Jamaica, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Libya, Palestine, Canary Islands, Argentina, etc, fine to very fine. Excellent basis for a new collection. (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

BIRDS: Large box of Game Birds, Farm Birds, Domestic Pets, Wild Birds etc, mostly artist cards including Birds of Paradise, cards adapted from John Gould's studies in Asia & the Pacific, and Tuck 'Oilettes', also a bit of humour, generally fine to very fine. A very attractive lot. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

CEMETERIES: Box of mostly British & European cards but with others from China, India, Egypt, Hong Kong, Malta & Panama etc, includes headstones, monuments & elaborate tombs, generally fine to very fine unused or used. A fascinating, if somewhat ghoulish, theme.

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

CHILDREN: 'Sitting Pretty!' collection of mostly real photo cards plus some PPC-size photographs all of infant children from newborn to about 12 months of age, a mixture of professional & amateur portraits plus some candid shots, strength in Australian cards but many from overseas, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. A marvellous insight into Edwardian costumes for our youngest members of society. (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

CHILDREN: 'Sitting Pretty!' Part Two of the collection of mostly real photo cards plus some PPC-size photographs from toddlers to teenagers, a mixture of professional & amateur portraits plus some candid shots with lots of 'Daddy's Little Princess' types & as many 'Mother's Handsome Little Man' shots, also some Twins, moods from "I-wish-I-wasn't-here" to "Look at me!" and from the embarrassingly awkward to the ready-for-stardom, many of kids in fancy dress or amusing school production outfits, a good number of school portraits one of an all-girls class with a single aboriginal child in Western garb, a few Barnardo Homes shots & other publishers' cards, including some with plain backs in the nature of proofs (one marked-up for hand-colouring), strength in Australian cards but many from overseas, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. An enchanting subject and first-rate social history. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

CHRISTIANITY: Box of cards ranging from portraits of Popes & Archbishops to American 'naughty' cards guilting back-slidden adults and children for not attending church or Sunday school, numerous beautiful cards from Art Nouveau 'Virtues' to reproductions of Old Masters, also Hymns & Tracts, Processions & Congregations, some Christmas & Easter cards, surprisingly few Churches & Cathedrals, mostly European British & American but some Australian & oddments including from South Africa & Thailand, generally fine to very fine. Weighs 6kg. (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

CRICKET: Australian team photos 1878 (1930s ABC 5CL issue), Bolland 1921 & 1926, and 1956 real photo PPC (signed on the reverse "Len Maddocks" and "Ron Archer", soiled & creased), then portraits of English & County players x16 from various series, Philco real photo PPC of the 1907-08 MCC Test Team, and two hilarious Kinsela artist cards, generally fine to very fine.

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

HOTELS: Terrific pre-WWII collection of Grand Hotels, Village Hotels & Tourist Hotels from Great Britain including ancient inns, Europe, America, Canada, Japan & other Asia, many interiors & in-hotel restaurants, some beautiful advertising types including artist cards, a good number of real photo cards, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Weighs 2kg. (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

HOTELS: Box of mostly European establishments from tiny pensiones to grand hotels, condition variable.

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

HUMOUR: Wide-ranging collection of mostly tame British cards plus some from Belgium & France, plenty of chuckle-inducing cards & no smut, subjects include romance & relationships, children, military, motoring & swanking, noted a few by Cynicus, Fred Booty, Red Nolan and Charles Dana Gibson, generally fine to very fine. Weighs 1kg.

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

LIGHTHOUSES: Box of mostly British facilities including some small structures, also from France, Canada, United States & South Africa, condition variable.

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

MARILYN MONROE: Oversize postcards including a few reprinted photos from when she was still Norma Jean Baker, numerous sultry & sex-kitten poses, some printed outside America, also a couple of Elvis Presley, mostly unused & generally very fine.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

MILITARY - BOER WAR: 1900-01 Underwood stereo cards of various Boer War engagements & events including 'Cronje's men at Modder River...' (Boer POWs), 'NSW Medical Corps moving to the front...', 'NSW Lancers bringing Boer Prisoners into Pretoria', 'Australian Mounted Rifles [at] Belmont', 'South Australian Infantry lined up for inspection...', most with multi-lingual captions on the reverse, generally very fine; also Falkner & Sons (London) artist cards x4 of the Grenadier Guards including two Boer War subjects, superb unused.

Grade A-/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$200