Major floods comprising Semco 'Murray River in Flood, Mildura' (used under cover), Niven/Colliver 'Main Street, Mooroopna' (creased; used in 1909), H McDonald 'Blake Street, Nathalia in flood 1916' (unused, creased), 'High-St, Seymour' (used c.1910, stamp removed) & Bernicke (Tallangatta) 'Tallangatta Township' (unused). (Qty 5)

Grade A-/C (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

Mining group comprising views of mines at Ballarat x2, Bendigo x2, Chiltern, Eaglehawk, Rutherglen, Stawell, Walhalla x4 and 'Miners Crossing the Creek, Warrandyte' (the 'creek' is the Yarra River!), fine to very fine & a few are unused. Good lot. (Qty 13)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Post Offices group comprising Avoca (creased), Bacchus Marsh, AW Burman Bairnsdale, Ballarat x2, WW Rickards and Rose Echuca, Miss Killeen Leongatha, H Harstedt Maryborough, Nhill, Numurkah, Stawell, H Harrigan Wangaratta, CV Davies Wonthaggi, Yackandandah & A Ferguson Yarrawonga, a few problems but generally fine to very fine used or unused. (Qty 16)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$350

Robert Jolley (Melbourne) Undivided Backs all different from four different series, one a bit aged the others very fine unused. By far the most artistic of the early publishers. (Qty 5)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$125

Town views including Mildura, Yarram, Castlemaine, Bethanga Lower (real photo with Undivided Back), Hamilton, Chiltern, Healesville, Omeo x2 (one creased), etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used. (Qty 12)

Grade A/C (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Town views of Apollo Bay (Robbins), Bendigo (REM), Daylesford and Kaniva plus real photo types of Bairnsdale (Bulmer), Diamond Creek (Frazer & Vallance), Lang Lang (Super Series) & Omeo (Rose), very fine unused. (Qty 8)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$160

Railway Stations at Armadale (little changed 110 years later), Euroa, Footscray x2 and Mildura plus real photo types of Beechworth, Camberwell, Croydon, Maldon and Newmarket (a terrific animated scene of the original 1886 buildings that were replaced in 1925, unfortunately creased) plus '9AM EXPRESS/CHILTERN' and Rose Train crossing the Murray River at Echuca, mostly fine to very fine. A very good lot. (Qty 12)

Grade A/C (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1895 1d blue postal card with advertising for Havelock Tobacco and Foster's Beer local commercial usage at Melbourne on NO20/95, bumped corners; plus an unused example with minor soiling. [The infamous 'Beer n Baccy' card was issued 1.11.1895 but caused such a public outcry, especially from the Temperance Movement, that all stocks were withdrawn on 19.11.1895. This usage is the first day after that] (Qty 2)

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1900 Robert Jolley 'LIFE ON THE GOLDFIELDS, VIC' purple view with elaborate blue border, to Germany with scarce franking of 1½d yellow-green tied by Melbourne cds of 2.10.00, corner crease at L/L. A beautiful card. [Pre-1901 Australian cards are very scarce]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

1904 Undivided Back chromolitho cards for Bensdorp's Royal Dutch Cocoa & Confectionery each with 'Sole Importer/ A LEIBNER/Melbourne' incorporated in the design, two feature pipe-smoking, a few blemishes, one postally used at 'BERWICK', the others unused. (Qty 4)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1907 (c.) advertising card for Humphrie's [sic] Patent Bracket & Scaffold Co (Melbourne) with terrific shot of a fine Edwardian home under construction with a dozen riggers posing for the camera, a couple of small surface faults, unused.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

1907-10 Railway Disasters comprising McGeehan (Prahran) 'Train passing through Flood Waters/South Yarra 25-1-07', used 14MR07; real photo 'The Railway Accident at Sunshine/April 20 1908 over 40 Lives lost' sent under cover with note that the incident was on Easter Monday; and Marlborough Art Co 'Elsternwick Express Disaster at Richmond Railway Station July 18 1910', minor faults, unused. (Qty 3)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1908 FW Niven & Co (Melbourne) children with a goat-drawn cart advertising 'GOLDFINDER/SOAP', bumped corners & light soiling on the back, unused.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

1909 FW Niven advertising card for The Melbourne Coffee Palace, minor soiling on the back, to Wagga Wagga (NSW) & forwarded to 'GANMAIN' (arrival cds). A lovely 'Niven'. [The Coffee House Movement originated in Scotland. The aim was to provide hotel accommodation without the lure of liquor. By 1888 there were more than 50 of these temperance establishments in Melbourne alone]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1910 (c.) real photo with Kodak back of an impressive derailment of a railway locomotive & passenger carriages with numerous bystanders (passengers?), diagonal crease at left doesn't greatly detract, unused. The location is believed to be in Victoria, and possibly in Gippsland.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

1910 (c.) postcard-size advertising card for Young's Customs Brokers & Forwarding Agents with a great photo of the firm's fleet of delivery trucks line-up outside their premises at the Flinders Street Viaduct (aka the Banana Alley Vaults). Superb!

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1934 'FIRST AUSTRALIAN AUTOGIRO FLIGHT/...' flown Melbourne-Portland with KGV 1½d brown cancelled on arrival with 'MOO PORTLAND/VIC' cds, unusually fine.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$40

1940s (?) Collegiate Etchings & Fine Arts Co set (?) of Explorers & Pioneers artist cards by James Flett comprising John Batman, James Cook, John Pascoe Fawkner, Matthew Flinders, Edward Henty and William Lonsdale, unused. Superb! [The publishers must have failed quickly & sunk without a trace for they are unknown to Professor Google] (Qty 6)

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1947 Pan-Pacific Jamboree (Yarra Brae) featuring the flags of Australia and ten other participating nations including Lithuania (!) and the newly divided India & Pakistan, unused. Superb!

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

Ballarat District: 1910 HI Summerscales (Ballarat) untitled card of a traction engine pulling three carts laden with wooden slats, & a portable loo (?), used; plus a different coloured version of the same photo titled 'Mount Warrenheip near Ballarat', unused. Very fine pair. [The engine has a nameplate 'GEORGE'. It was manufactured by the Leeds firm John Fowler Steam Plough Works] (Qty 2)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

Belgrave: 'Puffing Billy at Belgrave' real photo (Rose Series) showing station & platform with passengers alongside train pulled by steam locomotive, unused, couple of minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

Berringa: 1912 real photo of a premises destroyed by fire, very fine used under cover, the message headed "Berringa" states "...This...is what is left of the Kangaroo plant..." [The town was known as Kangaroo into 1900. Gold mining was the major industry & the 'Kangaroo plant' was probably related to this activity. Golden Plains Shire]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

Diamond Creek: WG Gray advice card with photo of staff at Allwood Nurseries preparing large orders for transport, to Abbotsford with KGV 1½d tied by Melbourne slogan cancel, corner crease. An exceptional advertising card. [The nursery was renowned for supplying exotic plants from around the world]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$80

Gippsland: Scenery at or near Wilson's Promontory, San Remo, Beaconsfield, Tarra Valley, Inverloch, Bulga Park, etc, many are real photo types, generally fine to very fine used or unused. (Qty 30)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

Gippsland: River views on the Albert River with people on the riverbank, Bulmer Genoa River, Mitchell River x5 (two with groups of houses), Snowy River with old man in boat, Bulmer real photo Snowy River x2, Tambo River with a tourist boat, Thompson River x2 one with 'SWING BRIDGE OPEN, SALE', and CH Tuckey real photo 'Wallagaraugh River, Mallacoota' (never heard of it!), fine to very fine used or unused. (Qty 14)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250