ADVERTISING: Melbourne businesses group comprising J&A Boyes 'Novelty Catalogue' with multi-coloured Victorian steam locomotive, George & George 'Federal Emporium' with premises & GPO mail coach outside (undivided back; used 1906), Tye & Co 'The Brick Villa Niagara' multi-coloured with early-model automobile, Wertheim 'Piano Factory' multi-coloured, Thos Evans Tent Maker canvas canopy, Malthoid 'The New Flinders Street Railway Station', Suttons Boots 'Look Before You Leap' four-act play performed by boots, Lincoln Stuart & Co 'Extreme Measures' comic showing tailor with large client, Oriental Cafe 'Two First Class Courses 9d' with cartoon rickshaw, Craig Williamson 'Elizabeth St' showing premises, and A Edments 'Melbourne Supply Stores' by Niven (corner faults), also Ince Bros postcard-sized patriotic trade card, condition generally fine to very fine unused (except as stated). (Qty 12)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

ADVERTISING: The Beehive Clothing Co, 92-94 Elizabeth St Melb 'The Law Forbids You/Get Dressed at ...' showing a rotund man in a rather racy red & white striped bathing costume with top hat & umbrella walking a small dog being accosted by a policeman, printed by Mason, Firth & McCutcheon, unused & fine with a couple of very minor blemishes. The card goes on to explain that this is 'The Celebrated Poster ... objected to by the Hon. Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria'.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

ADVERTISING: Mitchell & Co West Footscray 'The Melbourne Zoo Elephant Ploughing with the famous Mitchell No.14 2 Furrow Plough' with handlers and ploughman, almost certainly published by FW Niven but without imprint on address side, fine unused with just a couple of very minor blemishes on back. Beautiful!

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

ADVERTISING: The Regal Cafe, 65 Swanston St, Melb 'Interior of one of our Up-To-Date Dining Rooms' with waitresses and table settings, published by FW Niven, very fine unused.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

ADVERTISING: Swallow & Ariell's Biscuits & Cakes 'Above All Others' showing an airship carrying boxes of biscuits above the company's Melbourne factory buildings, very fine unused. Gorgeous!

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

ARTISTS: Fred Booty coastline group comprising 'Wreck of the George Roper' used 1908 from Bundaberg (Qld) to Malvern (Vic), 'Needle Rock off Cape Schank', 'Rough Sea near Lorne' and 'Rough Sea, Flinders', the latter three addressed but apparently sent under cover, a couple with very minor blemishes. [Fred Booty is much better known for his often hilarious comic cards] (Qty 4)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

ARTISTS: Hand-Painted Watercolours with vignette views of ' "Kitty" Gippsland Lakes' showing the famous aboriginal fisher-woman in her canoe on the lake and of 'The Old Red Bluff, St Kilda' with a steamship on the horizon, both surrounded by native flowers and inscribed 'Greetings', unused, plus by other artists 'Battery Pt, Portland' and 'Chelsea, Vic' with bathing box used under cover with 1912 message, minor blemishes. Delightful! (Qty 4)

Grade A-/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$80

SCHOOLS: Selection of all-different with many real photo types including of Coburg High School, Gapsted State School, Middle Park SS, Yarram SS, Lurg (small corner bend otherwise superb!), Technical Schools at South Melbourne & Warrnambool, etc, also private schools Carey Grammar, Caulfield Grammar (creased), Geelong Grammar, Mentone Grammar, Methodist Ladies College, Scotch College, Xavier College and St Keiran's at Moe, and a few others unidentified but believed to be in Victoria & a photo of a c.1950s reunion at Homebush Lower, generally fine to very fine. A very good lot. (Qty 26) (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

TRAMWAYS: 1910 (circa) pair of real photo cards being different views of a crash between an 'M&MTB' [Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board] electrified tram and a cart loaded with sacks, one showing the front of the tram with smashed windscreen & the cart being unloaded in the midst of a group of onlookers with the conductor's back facing the camera, the other showing the side of tram partly torn away with man standing on the running board and skid-marks indicating the cart had been pushed quite some way down the road, both with some bends & aging marks. [The signage on the cart reads '..RRIE' (= Glenferrie Road) so we expect the incident was in Kew Hawthorn or Malvern](Qty 2)

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

TOWN VIEWS: Selection comprising 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$100

Ballarat: Small group including 'Post Office & Burns' Statue' showing trams with Havelock tobacco advertising, Sturt St', 'Public Reserve, Sturt Street', 'Bridge Street' with shops & signage, 'School of Mines', Snow Scenes x2, Valentines 'gold' greetings 'Sturt Street looking East', ... looking West' & 'Botanical Gardens', 'Water Reserves' x3 different, also 'Llanberis Mine' showing minehead, buildings & battery works, 'Eureka Stockade', 'Through Fairyland, Lake Wendouree' & 'Xmas Greetings/Lake Wendouree/Sturt Street' multi-view both with excursion boat, etc, condition a little mixed but many fine. (Qty 19)

Grade A-/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Ballarat: 1905 Electric Supply Coy of Victoria Ltd/Ballarat Tramways souvenir 3d tram-ticket card for opening of the electric tram system in Ballarat, used on the tram as signified by the punch-hole & later posted, a few bends & corner creases still a most attractive item. Very scarce.

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

Colac: 1910 (circa) real photo of a 'Patent Water Balast Motor Road Roller' manufactured by Barfoot & Perkins Ld, Peterborough, England and mechanic with oil can standing alongside, the side view shows details of the petrol engine, steering wheels, accelerator pedal, gears & chain drive, 'ERNEST BUGG/COLAC' h/s on 'Kodak Austral' back, a few aging marks on back.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Geelong: Group including 'Geelong Fire Station' Niven-style card (a few blemishes), 'Geelong Tennis Club Easter Tournament 1907' showing play in progress, 'Queen Victoria Statue Unveiling Ceremony' Unidvided Back multi-view used 1904, 'Malop Street' with Victoria Hotel, 'Moorabool St' x4 different with shops & signs (one an Undivided Back used 1905 to NZ), 'The Coloseum' theatre real photo, 'Yarra Street Wharf' with shipping, 'Johnstone Park x2 (one a multi-view), 'Geelong College' used 1908 (delaminated corner), 'Church of England Grammar School' used 1905 & 'Flinders School' dated 1908, 'Princes Bridge', 'Fyansford Bridge' with quarry, 'Barwon River' with factory, a few Rose & Valentines real photos of Eastern Beach, etc, also 1908 Merchant Eyesight Specialist advertising card with 'PAID AT GEELONG/½D' cds, condition a little mixed but many fine. (Qty 28)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Gippsland: Group including Bairnsdale 'Main Street' x2 different, Inverloch real photo 'Venus Bay', Sale Hammond real photo 'Canal in Flood 1909' with excursion steamer in background, also 'Steamer Omeo Paynesville/Beach at Lakes Entrance' & 'Cunninghame and Lakes Entrance' multi-views, 'Steamer leaving ..', 'Swing Bridge', 'Raymond Street South', 'Bishopscourt' house, etc, Walhalla WH Lee real photo 'Pack Horses' carrying mining gear, Warragul ' Railway Station', Wonthaggi real photo 'McBride Avenue', plus 'Hazeldene', 'Lake Bunga' and real photos of Buchan church & township and Kalimna Hotel, etc, condition a little mixed but mostly fine to very fine. (Qty 32)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

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$140

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$200

Gippsland: Buchan with Bulmer real photo cards x4 including 'FAIRY CAVE...', Rose x4 including 'Niobe's Bower Royal Cave', and Valentine 'The Pyramid...', fine to very fine unused. (Qty 9)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Gippsland: Lake Tyers/Toorloo Arm group with a Bulmer real photo card, Victorian Railways Tourist Series x2 (one of aborigines spear-fishing), NJ Caire with two rowboats, and five others, fine to very fine used or unused. (Qty 9)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$80

Gippsland: Lakes Entrance/Cunninghame real photo types of "REEVES RIVER CUNNINGHAME" (pleasure craft), Bulmer x2 (one an excellent panorama of the town from Jemmy's Point) and Valentine x2 (one of the town from the Lookout Tower), plus coloured views Victorian Railways Tourist Series x2 and WTP 'Cunninghame' with bridge at entry to town, fine to very fine unused. [Cunninghame was renamed Lakes Entrance on 1.1.1915] (Qty 8)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$120

Gippsland: Morwell Brown Coal Mine real photo cards of local scenery No 3 4 8 & 9, very fine unused. (Qty 4)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$80

Gippsland: Omeo real photo types comprising an excellent view of the town inscribed in pencil "TAKEN FROM THE HILL", another of houses along the Bingo Track & a third "View of New Road" (corner fault), then a series of 20 local views and landmarks, very fine unused. (Qty 23)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Gippsland: Phillip Island Ajax Series 'Cowes from the Pier', real photo seascapes x3 (over-exposed), Valentine's 'PENGUINS', Photo Shop 'PARADE OF THE PENGUINS' & 'Seals on Seal Rocks', and Rose seascapes x7 including of Seal Rocks, mostly unused & generally fine to very fine. (Qty 14)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$80

Grampians: Rogers real photo types mostly of Grampians beauty spots including extraordinary rock formations, many including tourists, very fine unused. (Qty 19)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$120

Healesville: Group of hotels & guest houses starting with a beautiful multi-view artist advertising card for the 'Grand Hotel' (unfortunately a few aging marks, mostly on back) and two multi-view advertising cards for 'The Hermitage on the Black Spur' (one dated 1912) all Undivided Backs, then real photo cards of 'Blackwood House', 'The Ferns' & 'The Cascades, Myer's Creek', two early Rose real photos of 'Chalet Carinya' & 'Kyraneuk' with observation tower, plus later Rose real photos of 'Bethany', 'Greenhills', 'Marna House' & 'RACV Country Club', all either unused or used under cover, condition a little variable but mostly fine to very fine. (Qty 12)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100