'Semi-Official' group of black & white or coloured Garden State cards featuring agriculture & other rural subjects, condition variable used or unused. (Qty 19) (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

Selection of town views 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$65

1907 (c.) Mason Firth & McCutcheon 'Pretty Australian Children' set (?) of six different each overprinted for MacRobertson's Milk Chocolate, three are unused. (Qty 6)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$75

1908 Visit of the American Fleet Victorian Government complete set of 12 featuring Melbourne, Mining, Education including School Cadets, etc, condition variable, unused. (Qty 12) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1910 (c) illustrated advertising card for Henry Berry & Co and 'Invicta' Malted Self-Raising Flour, unused. On unusually thick stock.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1910 (c.) 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 the 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. Terrific social history. [The signage on the cart reads '..RRIE' (= Glenferrie Road) so we expect the incident was in Kew Hawthorn or Malvern] See also Lot 589. (Qty 2)

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1911 illustrated advertising card for Preservene Soap presenting a very modern telephone conversation between Mrs Earth & Mrs Mars (seriously!), two small filled spikeholes otherwise very fine used.

Grade (A) (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1914 real photo 'Shifting Day Simpson's Creek' used under cover with message headed "Railway Construction Camp/Newmerella/via Cunninghame/1.6.14" states "...The other side here gives you an idea of the woes of shifting. Kitchen pulled down everything all over the place", minor corner bends. [Excellent Gippsland card. Cunninghame was renamed Lakes Entrance 1.1.1915]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1918 Rose real photo cards of Caulfield Military Hospital, three different, used under cover. (Qty 3)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1950 (c.) illustrated advertising cards for John Lysaght's Mills Scaffolds set (?) of 6, unused. (Qty 6)

Grade A/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

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$65

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$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$125

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$50

Lilydale: Real photo 'LILYDALE FROM TOWERS' panorama showing David Mitchell's quarry - now Lilydale Lake - in the distance & prominent sign for 'BEREFORD/CHEMIST', 'Castella Street from Main Street' (showing Morey & Co Ironmongers, 'Main Street looking West' (little more than a dirt track), 'Shire Buildings' that more prominently features a band playing outside the Athenaeum Library, and 'Public Baths' (essentially a dam; creased). (Qty 5)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

Melbourne Robert Jolley Undivided Backs from several different series, some soiling but generally fine to very fine. In our opinion, Jolley was the most accomplished of the early Melbourne PPC publishers. (Qty 17)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

Melbourne 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$75

Melbourne 1899 McCarron Bird chromolitho 'FLEMINGTON RACE COURSE', very late usage in 1903 with 'GAYNDAH/QUEENSLAND' arrival cds.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

Melbourne 1899 McCarron Bird chromolitho 'St Patrick's Cathedral/SALVE! Melbourne', very late usage in 1904 to Scotland, minor blemishes. [The card shows the building as it was in 1899 and "on Completion" with three commanding spires, that were not actually added until the 1930s!]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

Melbourne Suburban - Balwyn: c.1920 'WHITE HORSE ROAD BALWYN' Valentine's real photograph postcard showing an electrified 'No 66' tram heading to 'MONT ALBERT' on dirt road alongside horse-drawn buggy, sent under cover with writing indents on the face. Very few early Balwyn cards have been recorded. ['Bal' (Gaelic) & 'wyn' (Saxon) = home of the vine. The message states "This is a view of the town of Balwyn but it [the town] is not very good. It has grown considerably since this was taken...". The tramline was extended to Mont Albert on 30.9.1916. In 2011, Balwyn's post office was saved by the intervention of the local member, now Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$40

Melbourne Suburban - Brighton: c.1920 'BAY STREET LOOKING EAST MIDDLE BRIGHTON' [with 'MIDDLE' erased] real photograph postcard published by JC Simmons Newsagent (North Brighton) showing shopfronts including 'IRONMONGER', two vintage automobiles, horse-drawn carts & a bicycle, unused.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$40

Melbourne Suburban - Carrum: O & Co 'Carrum Township' with unmade Nepean Highway & 'CARRUM CAFE & TOURISTS RES[THOUSE ?]' and 'POST TIME' with children outside the newagency that was also the Post Office, WW Miller & Sons 'Camping at Carrum, and Rose 'NEPEAN HIGHWAY LOOKING SOUTH with 1940s cars & 'CARRUM/SERVICE STATION' (some faults). (Qty 4)

Grade A-/C (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

Melbourne Suburban - Chelsea: Two different 1940s Valentine's of essentially the same view of the clock tower on 'NEPEAN HIGHWAY' or 'POINT NEPEAN ROAD' (this with railway infrastructure, unused), and real photo multiview of the clock tower, pier & hall at Chelsea Park. [The clock tower was erected in 1934 as part of the Victoria/Melbourne Centenary Celebrations] (Qty 3)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$40

Melbourne Suburban - East: comprising 'Burke Road, Camberwell, Looking South' (unused), 'Gardens, Canterbury' (featuring Canterbury Hall, unused), 'Albany Crescent, Surrey Hills' (used under cover) and 'White Horse Rd, Box Hill from the Fire Tower' (used), fine to very fine. Very scarce quartet. (Qty 4)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$65

Melbourne Suburban - Fitzroy: c.1910 colour views all from the same series 'Brunswick Street looking South' with lots of signage; 'Gertrude Street' (with tram & lots of signage); tree-lined 'Napier Street', wide intersection on 'Nicholson Street' with tram (unused); 'Victoria Street' with signage for Wertheim Pianos (unused); and 'Northcote from North Fitzroy' over ramshackle bridge across the Merri Creek. Good lot. (Qty 6)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$80