Small box with a diverse group including mission cards from Solomon Islands & Rhodesia & a few Methodist missionaries, some very attractive shipping cards with Dutch KPM group including two versions of a Port Moresby artist card & a superb 1911 advertising card used at Singapore with Straits perfin, a few New Guinea including Orient Exhibition 'An Island Station...', 1938 boring real photo card of a Nauruan beach, PNG 'maximum' cards for the 1952 Pictorials 9d Copra-Making & 1/6d Rubber-Tapping, etc, plus a few photographs, generally fine to very fine. Ex Rev Roger Lee. (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Shoebox of mostly 1930s & 1940s multi-view wallets, the majority with PPCs but some small types with concertina photos, large cities, smaller towns, tourist traps, etc, mostly American but some from Canada & a few others, some postal history content, condition variable. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Large carton of Archival Survival boxed albums x2 & empty album binders x11, also a batch of unbranded 3-pocket pages & a smaller numer of Ultra-Pro 4-pocket pages. Virtually as-new. 

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Estimate AU$50

Miscellaneous batch of Cats x35 in rather mixed condition; Tuck Firefighters x6; GB WWI submarines x3, very fine; Postmen of the World x5 & a trade card; scarce H&B Children's Alphabet 'E' H' 'N' & 'R' by Mabel Edmonds; Shirley Temple x3; etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

Collection of mainly European cards, strength in Spain including bullfighting (22); also Germany, Hungary, France; 'Advice to Sportsmen' series x3 including cricket & soccer; plus Australia x17, UK x28 & USA x7, mostly fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Box of cards from all over the World including Batum, West Indies, Reunion, the Levant, South America, New Caledonia, Syria, Corsica, Alsace, Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina etc, many to Fiji some of them redirected to Australia, many others to Australia & a few to Canada, postmark & postal history interest, condition variable but most are fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Box of stereo cards x50 in very mixed condition, the best of them are of children getting up to mischief; also 19th century cabinet cards x8. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Box of mostly German & other European cards with many real photo & multi-view types, the best of them from the 1950s provide fascinating insights into German Reconstruction & how places have changed over the past 70 years, mostly unused but with some postmark & postal history content, generally fine to very fine. Better than it sounds! (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Quality group of African cards from Ascension Undivided Back (UB) 'Captain's Offices/Barracks...', very fine unused; Bechuanaland 'Waggons outspanned near Tsau, Lake Ngami' (stamp removed), 'Native Huts, Palapye' UB, 'A Native Stadt in Bechuanaland' unused, & real photo 'Serowe Native Town' aerial view unused; Gambia UB 'Government Place' crossed-through & endorsed "General view of town taken from the clock tower at Barracks" to GB with KEVII 1d; Gold Coast real photo of natives & European foreman at "Roaster Plant/Shaft No 3/Bibbianna" (error for Bibiani), sadly soiled & creased; St Helena UBs of 'Government House' (stamp carefully removed) & 'Main Street, Jamestown' (with boxed 'PAQUEBOT' handstamp of Cape Town) plus 1923 real photo of a ship standing off the landing stage; Seychelles 'L'interieur de l'eglise...Anse Boileau', unused & UB 'Mahé - Port Victoria' unused with KEVII 3c on the view-side; Sierra Leone 'Susan's Bay...' unused with KGV ½d & fake Freetown cancel; South Africa UB 'The Mailboat's Arrival, Cape Town...', used & unused artist card of the Voortrekkers; Tangier 'Governor's House; new and old court House' UB to Germany with 'CASABLANCA' duplex plus 'TANGIER' & 'GIBRALTAR' transits; and Tanganyika panorama of Dar es Salaam, unused; also French card with map 'Territoire Militaire de l'Afrique', unused; (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Original pre-WWI family collection in wonderful condition stripped by us from the album that was literally falling-apart, lots of GB content including Weldon's Bazaar advertising cards for Coronation of KEVII set (?) of 6, a splendid Welsh group principally of Swansea but a number of others, also some Australia including a couple of Melbourne suburbans & South Australian real photo card 'Coast/where bodies from/Clan Ranald/came ashore 31.1.09', also some greetings types. If only all postcard collections were this fine.

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Estimate AU$300

Original family collection much apparently acquired while travelling to Britain, Unites States with equal numbers of 'linens' & 'chromes' & we noted two baseball subjects, Spain with a group of Barcelona real photo cards including for the 1929 Exposicion, Egypt with a terrific real photo group featuring high-grade photography, a few from Eastern Europe & Turkey, a good Greek selection, etc, also some beautiful Greetings types & other 'ladies subjects', finally 'RMS Titanic. Wrecked in mid-Atlantic by Collision with Iceberg. April 15th 1912' (small faults) with message of 15.8.1912 "This as you will see is the ill-fated Titanic". (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

Box of British Empire cards from many origins including Aden x25 & Gibraltar x11 both with many unusual views, Fiji x13 & other Pacific Islands includng Penrhyn, Burma x3, Rhodesia x2, several BWI including Trinidad Caves x2, South Africa x37 with a group of Durban real photo types, etc, many indigenous subjects, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Weighs 1kg.

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Estimate AU$400

Range of East Asian cards from China x5, Hong Kong x9 mostly real photo types, Philippines x27 including a 1920s group of Beauty Queen portraits, Dutch Indies x10 including KPM cards x7, singles from Thailand, Macao, Cambodia & Laos, also modern Taiwan x6 (all but one are c.1950s of the aboriginal Amis people), many indigenous subjects, mostly unused & generally very fine.

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Estimate AU$400

ADEN: Small collection with a wide range of subjects many of which we have not seen before, numerous c.1920 real photo cards, fine to very fine unused. A very appealing lot.

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Estimate AU$400

ADEN: 1922 Beagles Visit of the Prince of Wales (later KEVIII) 'HRH Landing from HMS Calypso...', 'HRH Receiving a Presentation Casket...' & 'HRH's Triumphal Progress...' (with banner 'Tell Daddy We Are All Happy Under British Rule', obviously from a white resident), fine to very fine; and a real photo PPC endorsed on reverse "[HRH] on the Sacred Carpet at Aden", minor bends but rare.

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

CANADA: Box of mostly Golden Age topographicals from numerous publishers, strength in Quebec Ontario & British Columbia but we noted cards from all other Provinces except Prince Edward Island plus strays from Newfoundland & North West Territories, Undivided Backs, real photo types, a few multiviews & some American-style 'linens', loads of Beauty Spots but also Public Buildings, Bridges, Towns etc plus a selection of Department of Emigration cards encouraging new settlers, generally fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$800

CANADA: Collection in two albums with a plethora of mountains, lakes & waterfalls interspersed with numerous scenes in cities & larger towns, a good number of Undivided Backs & a high proportion of real photo cards, some American-style 'linens', generally fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

CANADA: Small album of mostly Beauty Spots from Lakes to the Rockies but including many of cities & towns plus a batch of Prince Edward Island views, many amateur & professional real photo cards & a few photographs, generally fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

CANADA: Canadian Pacific Railway cards from various series & publishers including CPR themselves, Bowen Sutton, Byron Harmon, Valentine etc, with a good number of real photo cards, also some American-style 'linens', generally fine to very fine+. (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

CEYLON: Small box with good sections of Colombo Apothecaries and Skeen Photo cards plus many other publishers (no Platé) including Andrée, Ponambalem, F Skeen, Tuck and Uduman plus some hotel advertising cards & a few anonymous types, many streetscapes & other city views plus many indigenous subjects, minor duplication, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

COLONIAL AFRICA: Solid group with British comprising Rhodesia x35 (mostly of Victoria Falls & Animals), KUT x19, Gold Coast x8, & Sierra Leone x14; French with Algeria x32 (mostly superb!), Morocco x16 & Senegal x10; Portuguese x9; Spanish x12 (mostly Islands); and strays or unidentified x10; condition variable but many are fine to superb. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

EGYPT: Sizeable box of mostly Golden Age cards from numerous local publishers, French LLs etc, with large numbers of Pyramids/Sphinx & other ancient monuments/ruins, Suez Canal & Port Said, churches & mosques, and daily life including indigenous studies, many beautiful cards, condition variable but a high proportion are fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

EGYPT: Cairo Postcard Trust sepia views of Heliopolis in colourless embossed frames with many street scenes, trams, public buildings, Luna Park and Palace Hotel, fine to very fine unused.

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Estimate AU$100

FIJI: Album with numerous indigenous subjects inclu\ing portraits, housing, boats & crafts, towns & villages & several of Rotuma (Fiji's northernmost island), Colonial buildings including a terrific group of Suva's Grand Pacific Hotel, several missionary cards, many by local publishers, fine to very fine.

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Estimate AU$600

FIUME: Substantial collection with a high proportion of Hungarian-language Undivided Backs including many Gruss aus & similar types many used pre-1901, plus neighbouring Croatian towns of Rijeka, Trsat, Kraljevica, Crikvenica, Buccari & Abbazzia, numerous cards with ethnically diverse spelling of the town names & a few with captions partially obliterated by overprinting, good postal history & postmark content, some attractive reprints, generally fine to very fine. A wonderful collection full of social history references. Ex Aldo Paladino from Melbourne, who was born in Fiume. (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000