Artist topographicals by Walker of Liverpool for Tasmania x14, Victoria x6, NSW x7, New Zealand x10, South Africa x26, Canada x12, West Indies x5, Britain x26 & a few others, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used or unused. An excellent foundation for a visually stimulating study. (116)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

Advertising for postcard wholesalers mostly British bundle of mainly Topographicals overprinted handstamped or roneo'd on the address side for postcard wholesalers marvellous real photo card for FR Hinkins & Son (Alton); another offering card-stock plus a Wellington & Ward packet with illustrated packet-label & four samples of 'Ordinary Bromide Paper'; then a batch of cards with various forms of 'SPECIMEN' or 'SAMPLE' overprint or h/s on the address side; condition a bit mixed but most are fine to superb. (75)

Estimate AU$250

Exhibitions from Great Britain with 1891 Royal Naval Exhibition Lighthouse with special postmark, 1904 Earls Court x10 & 1904 Midlands artist card of the Exhibition Ablaze; Europe with 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle x9, 1902 Dusseldorf x3, 1910 Brussels x6, 1925 Paris Decorative Arts x3 & 1930 Liege x3; United States 1904 St Louis x2 & 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific x5, condition rather mixed but generally fine to very fine. (63)

Estimate AU$100

Album with many better subjects including topless women, cannibals, warriors, Housing, Sugar Industry, Events, etc, some minor duplication, condition variable but most are fine to very fine & many are postally used. A very good lot. (180 approx)

Estimate AU$300

Shoebox with topographicals noted Tasmania with Hobart 'Highfield Hotel' advertising & 'Native Tiger', Victorian Country & Melbourne suburbs including 'Christian Brothers Boys' St Kilda school real photo, a few from other States, artists cards & American Fleet Visit x4, also New Zealand x25+ noted 'Bell Fall, Wanganui' vignette-view Zieher-type, China x2 both with Hong Kong KGV 4c tied 'SHANGHAI/BPO' cds, USA including San Francisco Fire, British noted 'Birmingham Express at Rugby Platform', then glamour, greetings, children, cats & dogs, etc, many used in Australia including 'ENGLISH MAIL' & 'DEUTSCHE SEEPOST' cancels, postage dues x3, condition variable. (400+)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Large album of African cards with many indigenous studies & other better subjects, noted French & German Colonies, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, British East Africa etc, some real photo types, condition variable but many are fine to very fine unused or used. (250+)

Estimate AU$400

Box of cards with good Australian selection with real photo types including of Maryborough (Vic) School Carnival & of Carlton Football Team (creased; names written on reverse), advertising from Western Australia, etc, also good Military/WWI selection from GB Germany & elsewhere including naval subjects & political cartoons, Pacific Islands including Tonga x4, Singapore x12, Glamour including "Gibson Girls" x14 + similar hand-drawn card from "Cicero" to "Brutus" with a very gay message, Louis Wain Cats x2, Napoleon x16, etc, condition variable.

Estimate AU$500

Europe range with UK 1924 Empire Exhibition x10, France, Jerusalem group x15, Egypt Cairo & Alexandria wallets, Canada Niagara Falls Aerial Cableway & Steamers, USA Washington DC x22, San Francisco miniatures x20, Victoria "Mount Eliza from William Street Jetty" (published by Bon Marché Stores, Perth!) plus Trade Cards Stamina Trousers "Men of Stamina" two sets in original envelopes, mostly unused, mixed condition. (100+)

Estimate AU$100

Six large albums of mostly Australian & British cards featuring Actresses (notably several Australian Talmas), Children, Costumes, Greetings, loads of Royalty with many of the current crop, Sporting Humour including a crude Louis Wain, etc, also Television/Radio "star" cards (not PPCs), a high proportion are very fine; plus Jamaica group x34 in rather mixed condition. (100s)

Estimate AU$500

Carton of PPC Literature about the origins of & collecting PPCs, PPCs of WWI & WWI, "Art Nouveau PPCs", "Edwardian Melbourne in PPCs", "The Postcard Century", etc, most are h/b & generally very fine. No reserve. (14)

Estimate AU$50

Large carton of PPC Literature about the origins of & collecting PPCs, smut including several by Ronnie Barker, Erotica x2, etc etc. Very heavy! No reserve.

Estimate AU$50

EASTERN EUROPE: Large album with Baltic States x32 (many with Russian stamps), Czechoslovakia x51 (many with Austrian stamps), Poland x89 (many with Russian stamps) & some Hungary, many are fine to very fine used or unused, postmark interest including Russian TPOs. (200 approx)

Estimate AU$400

EUROPE: Collection in three large albums including Belgium (200+), Denmark (40+), Holland (120+), Norway (50+), Sweden (60+), a few Iceland & Luxemburg etc, no GB France or Germany, many are fine to very fine used or unused. (500 approx)

Estimate AU$300

FIJI: Nice collection with lots of Suva & Levuka plus mission cards, native studies, some real photo types, etc, condition variable; also moderns x26. (168)

Estimate AU$400

INDIA: Large album mostly from large cities but many from smaller towns, mostly topographical but some better subjects noted, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (270 approx)

Estimate AU$400

MALAYA: Early 1900s used group to USA including Johore 'Gambling Farm', Kedah 'Elephants', Taiping 'Post & Telegraph Office', Penang 'Golf Club', 'Race Course and Grand Stand' & 'Tapioca Mill', Singapore 'Chinese Protectorate', 'Laying Electric Cables', 'Hotel de l'Europe' & 'Prince Arthur of Connaught's Visit', variety of adhesives & cancels, generally fine. (21)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

MALAYA: STRAITS SETTLEMENTS: c.1908 MSN (Nakajima) 'Series 1' to 'Series 5' complete packs of 12 perforated sepia cards with interleaving, the outer covers with minor blemishes otherwise very fine unused. (5 packs of 12)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

SOUTH AFRICA: Two large albums of mostly topographicals from Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg & some from smaller towns, a few Boer War & Goldmining, also a few Rhodesia, condition variable but many are fine to very fine with some postmark interest. (500+)

Estimate AU$350