Aborigines selection with many portraits including studio shots, various from Trans-Australian Railway series, two Thursday Island cards, a Czech card (!) of Aboriginal women, artist cards including c.1899 chromolitho of Fremantle & 'King Billy Native WA' (minor blemishes; a better example sold at auction in 2015 for $264) and set of 12 artist cards derived from photographs by Charles Kerry & Nicholas Caire, also concertina folders with six photos of 'North Australia' & six Albert Namatjira paintings, and six Liebig trade cards, condition variable. Scarce material. (51 items)

Estimate AU$1,000

Entertaining collection of humorous artist cards from Stuart Allan to Harry Weston including Fred Booty, WM Bourke, G Brandt, Cyril Dillon, R Gilbert, Hal Gye, WR Hamilton, "Handy", G Kingsley-Smith "The Lizard", Red Nolan, Charles Nuttall, David Souter and George Taylor, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Many are very scarce. (125)

Estimate AU$600

Range with some better NSW views including a fantastic real photo of shearers at smoko, also Kerry 'Pine Avenue/Norfolk Island', VSM "Stamps" cards x4, advertising cards including for Singer Sewing Machines, Swallow & Ariell's Biscuits, Viceroy Tea & SAP Rabbit Poison, Talma Acresses x5, etc, also two very fine & informative photographs (175x90) of a NSW (?) streetscape, condition variable. (58)

Estimate AU$250

Entertainment group of mostly Talma cards plus a few Falks & others of actors & acresses including Tittell Brune, Madame Melba and JC Williamson, several Art Nouveau types, also a few "stills" including the cringeworthy 'There's a New Coon in Town' & 'The Golliwoggs', condition variable but most are good to fine used or unused. (33)

Grade A/A-

Estimate AU$100

1905 (c.) 'All up a Gumtree' (kookaburra & fairies) artist card by Ida S Rintoull, used to London in 1905, a little soiled. Rare.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1915 (c.) May Gibbs 'Hope you're still going strong' (Gumnut Babies playing Badminton), unused.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

NEW SOUTH WALES: c.1905-30 Sydney beaches & swimming, noted Manly, Bondi, Coogee & La Perouse. Ex Harry Gallagher, Australia's swimming coach at the 1956 1960 1964 & 1968 Olympics. (61)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

NEW SOUTH WALES: SNOWY MOUNTAINS: High quality group of scarcer cards including 'School Children on Ski, Kiandra', other skiing cards, 'Cooma Arrival of Sir Harry Rawson', Hotel Kosciusko x2, etc, many real photo types including Adaminaby & Cooma multi-views, 'Kyloe Boiler F in Commissioner Street' (Cooma), 'Sharp Street, Cooma', 'Post Office Cooma' & a couple of Snowy Mountain Authority subjects, mostly fine to very fine & mainly unused. (33)

Estimate AU$500

QUEENSLAND: All-different cards of Customs Houses at Brisbane x11, Bundaberg x2, Mackay x2, Maryborough x3, Rockhampton x3 & Townsville x4, a couple of Undivided Backs & a few are real photo types, fine to very fine & mostly unused. (25)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

SOUTH AUSTRALIA: High quality selection of mostly real photo cards including of Milang PO, 'Marino...remains of Old Railway', 'The Meat Store' (Pinnaroo), Jamestown, Streaky Bay, 'St Patrick's Day Sports 17.3.16 Spalding', Loxton apparently in flood, Mount Torrens, and a Murray Bridge multi-view, many of Adelaide Beach Suburbs, also 'Eucalyptus Oil Factory, Cygnet River, KI' (stained on reverse), Women's Christian Temperance Union x2, 'Motor Car Stand, Currie Street', 'View of Walter and Morris' Premises from Lipson Street' advertising card, etc, plus real photo cards of Railway Stations at Alberton, Brinkworth, Exeter, Laura & Quorn, mostly very fine to superb. (59)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

VICTORIA: 1900 Victorian Contingent to the Boer War 'CANDIDATES' (a little soiled) & 'RIDING TESTS' both apparently from a training camp at Ballarat, and 'CAPTAIN DJ HAM' unused. Rare trio. (3)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

VICTORIA: Dandenongs & Foothills selection of mostly real photo cards including 'Belgrave South/Post Office Store', Dickinson Belgrave 'Post Office and Store Belgrave', Croydon 'General Store', 'Mechanics' Inst' & 'Croydon Hotel', Lilydale 'Main Road' & Interior of Railway Refreshment Room, and Ringwood 'Main Street', 'Post Office', 'Methodist Church' & 'Cool Store', etc, generally very fine & mostly unused. (24)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

VICTORIA: Mornington Peninsula mostly early Rose & Valentine real photo cards with Seaford animated beach scene, Frankston with 'The Main Street', 'The Mile Bridge', 'A Pioneer's Retreat', 'Fishing Kananook Creek', 'Camp Life at Frankston' & two intrepid Rabbit Hunters!, Dromana with 'Hotel Dromana' & 'Barnes Corner', Rosebud with 'Leisurelands', 'Parkmore', 'Cattle on Rosebud Road' & multi-view, Rye with 'Hotel Rye', 'Pt Nepean Road', 'Nepean Highway' & a panorama, Sorrento with 'Whitehall' & 'The Oriental Guest House', Flinders with 'St Andrews', 'Oaklands', 'The Bungalow' & 'Cook Street', Somers 'Children's School Camp', etc, mostly unused & generally very fine. (55)

Estimate AU$600

Album with strong New Zealand content including Maoris & a Tourist Bureau card we haven't previously seen, US Leather PPCs x5 used, some early French Exposition advertising cards, 1908 Visit of the American Fleet x2, Tuck 'England & Japan' set of 6 (superb!), humour including non-PC sexist types, "Kewpie Dolls" by Rose O'Neill 1970s reproductions, etc, condition variable. (200+)

Estimate AU$300

Box of World cards with useful Australia, New Zealand, USA including some very attractive non-linens, German Royalty group, "ladies subjects", etc, generally fine to very fine. (150 approx)

Estimate AU$250

A real "mixed bag" with WWII propaganda cards including by Tony Rafty x4, "Smits" x2 & "Adri", two Edith Cavell cards one a "silk" with plain back, 'Sinn Fein Rebel Leaders under Arrest', 'Nearer My God To Thee' Titanic card, British diecut card with foldout views used to Australia with attached packet tag, advertising including 'My Goodness - My Guiness' x2 (originals, not the common reprints), etc, also some crummy Australian Post Office packs etc, condition variable.

Estimate AU$300

Novelty cards comprising two kaleidoscope cards in remarkably fine condition, a French card with fold-out flowers (small repair otherwise very fine), 1872 British small New Year card, & 1880s (?) chromolitho Christmas cards x3 in fabric folder (the cover stained). (5)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Europe selection including Heligoland three 1887 private 'Island' views cards with British 'HELIGOLAND' cds, Germany 1880s Postal Cards & PPCs with woodcut illustrations on reverse of Bastei-Brucke, Schneekoppe & 'Gruss vom Inselberg', Fiume with Undivided Backs x6, Trieste Undivided Back with Domenico Rossetti illustrations on both sides & 1911 busy scene at Grado with Austrian stamp & 'GRADO' cds, Zara street scene & Dalmatia Costumes x3, Panorama cards from Bulgaria x2, Chile, Germany x2, Hungary, Romania, Russia, USA & 'Sierra Leone - Barracks of...West African Regiment', a few problems but mostly fine to very fine. (39)

Grade A/B

Estimate AU$200

Graves from Britain, India including elaborate Mughal Tombs, China/Hong Kong, Russia, Tonga etc, Peruvian "headstone" with an automobile (!), etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine; also German coloured artist cards depicting Medieval Punishments with Stocks, Ducking Stool & various other humiliations; and FA Ackerman set of cards bearing c.1848 woodcuts by Alfred Rethel in the style of Dürer depicting 'Death', unused. (142)

Grade A/A-

Estimate AU$150

Artist "glamour" cards group comprising Jack Abeille 1898 Fashion Through the Ages x7, 1898 Bathing Costumes x3, 1899 Bathing Costumes x3 and 1899 Caprice Flowers 'La Tulipe' & 'La Violette' all Undivided Backs (Cat £60 each), M Munk (Vienna) early-1900s Divided Backs Erotica Topless Ladies & Amazing Hats x8 (a few minor blemishes), Stylish Ladies with Plain Backs x 6 (proofs?, plus one of these designs - Divided Back - used under cover in 1907), plus E Louis Lessieux 1900 Dancing Through the Ages set of 6 with Undivided Backs (undercatalogued at £40 each), then group of Charles Dana Gibson Snap Shots 'Gibson Girls' & Studies in Manners/Class, mostly used; also his Henderson & Sons 'Pictorial Comedy' Sets No 10 & 11 each of seven 'framed' cartoons, unused & fine to superb condition except as noted. (69)

Grade A/A+

Estimate AU$400

Religion mostly British with a small selection of Churches & a good array of Ministers & Bishops, excellent Salvation Army group including an Indian Mission card (a great shot!) & five different Bands, etc, also several sets of devotional cards, 'The Volunteer Organist' set of 4 & Misch & Co 'The Holy Scriptures in Pictures' complete set of 60 plus Italian sets of 10 Popes & 10 Saints (absolutely gorgeous cards in superb condition) in their original envelopes, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine & many are superb. (180+)

Grade A-/A+

Estimate AU$150

Olympics 1908 London x7 & 1912 Stockholm x11 also Nordisk Kunst soccer match (adhesions on reverse), a Russian card of the finish of the 1500m race (a bit soiled) & two other non-Olympics, condition generally fine. (22)

Grade A/B

Estimate AU$120

Horse Racing group with racecourses, race finishes, steeple-chases & horse portraits, condition variable. (27)

Estimate AU$200

Accumulation of Australia & World including NSW Wedderburn Weir & 'Umberumberka Weir, Broken Hill' real photos, 'Numurkah Weir' (Victoria), Tweed Heads/Coolangatta x6 attractively framed, Military with Punch Cartoon's "New Rake's Progress" fine set of 12 in battered envelope plus four more nicely framed, smutty Humour, a few Nudes, Greetings, also Advertising with ephemera including ship & travel brochures, Daily Graphics "Special War Cartoons" booklets #2 3 4 & 5, 1964 Newsweek magazine featuring Warren Commission report on the JFK Assasination,etc, condition mostly fine. Weighs 10kg. (200+)

Estimate AU$300

INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITIONS: Outstanding collection with 1905 Liege x4, 1906 Marseilles French Colonies x27, 1906 Milan x12, 1907 Dublin x5, 1910 Brussels x6, 1911 Roubaix x6, 1911 Charleroi x6, 1913 Ghent x23 (seven with the Expo slogan cancel), 1915 Panama-Pacific x9, 1922 Marseilles French Colonies x22 including Detaille artist cards x7, 1924-25 Wembley Tuck Oilettes x5, 1929 Sevilla/Barcelona x3, 1930 Liege set of 10 in folder, etc, some Art Nouveaux & Art Deco content, mostly unused & generally very fine to superb. A beautiful lot. (160+)

Grade A/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$600