Sale No: 240
Lot No:313
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection
Eclectic group mostly Queensland (hardly any Brisbane) noted 1909 'Church of England, Ipswich', some real photo cards including 'Central State School, Mackay' & 'Gray Street, Crow's Nest', various Townsville & Islands scenes, also Sydney 'Book Post' panorama cards x8, then lots of 'moderns' from the 1950s onwards, etc, condition variable but mostly fine.
Box with many rural & agricultural scenes plus a good range of bush-artist cards, military, ships, automobiles including some photographs, etc, generally fine to very fine.
(150 approx)
Sale No: 240
Lot No:316
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection
Beautiful group of Robert Jolley Undivided Backs each with State emblem plus black & white view, all States represented, plus one from a different series, fine to very fine unused.
(15)
Sale No: 240
Lot No:318
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection
Attractive bundle of mostly topographicals from NSW x38 including several Jenolan Caves, a few Undivided Backs, advertising cards for 'The Ivanhoe/Blackheath' & 'Hotel Masnsion/Bayswater Road'; Queensland Undivded Backs x3; South Australia x15 with several Undivided Backs including 'Adelaide from a Balloon' x3 different; and Western Australia x11 mostly Undivided Backs and Caves Board of WA 'Crystal Terrace'; generally fine to very fine used or unused. A very good lot extracted from an original collection.
(67)
Shipping steamships 'Hygeia' at Sorrento & Mornington piers, 'Weeroona' excursion steamer on Port Philip Bay, 'Excelsior leaving Moorabool St Pier' Geelong, 'Coonawarra' paddle steamer at Echuca, 'TSS Canberra, Howard Smith Ltd', 'SS Ramornie', 'P&O SS Mongolia', 'RMS Aorangi Canadian-Australian Royal Mail Line', 'AUSN SS Suva', 'Melbourne Steamship Line TSMV Duntroon', 'Orient Line SS Orsova ... Dining Saloon' advertising card, plus 'HM Submarine No.2' & 'HMS Powerful', also Sydney Circular Quay & Harbour ferries, Outer Harbour, SA wharves, Hobart 'Ocean Pier' real photo, Bairnsdale (Vic) pier, etc, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine.
(30+)
Advertising including cards for Barraclough Opticians 'The Federal Judges Wear Our Glasses', Barracluff Ostrich Farms x2 different, SAP Rabbit Poison 'This is no place for us ...', Duguid Land Agents (Sydney) horses, Bridestone Estate Lavender (Lilydale Tas), Commercial Hotel (Rockhampton), Ball & Welch (Melbourne), Bensdorp Royal Dutch Cocoa (Melbourne), RB Lawrence Dyer 'Don't Die with Fright ..!' (woman with handgun), J Bartram 'Milking Machine', 'Dug-Out' Allied Services Club (Melbourne), various performers & plays noted 'Woman in the Case' x2 different, etc, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine.
(30+)
Suffragettes 'Senate Election. Vote for the Woman Candidate, Who Polled 51,497 Votes in 1903. Vida Goldstein'; also Rose Stereographs No.11950-51 'Great Suffragette Demonstration in London. Mrs Fisher, Mrs McGowen and Miss Vida Goldstein from Australia' & 'Great Suffragette Demonstration in London. The Empire Car (different Colonies) passing through Trafalgar Square'. Rare Australia-related suffragette items. (3)
Sale No: 240
Lot No:322
Symbol:CPS
Cat No:Collection
1908 Visit of the American Great White Fleet selection including Victoria 1½d (unused), semi-official cards with 'TO/SYDNEY' or 'TO/MELBOURNE' at L/L, WTP chromolithos x5, REM artist card, Wellman (St Kilda) Fleet n Flags, Stratton (Tennessee) of American sailors marching through Sydney & on R&R at Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, etc, mostly unused. A very attractive group.
(18)
Sale No: 240
Lot No:323
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection
1908 Visit of the American Great White Fleet attractive group with Ships of the Fleet by W&B in blue (x14 different + one with advertising for ANA Sewing Machines) or F&J chromolithos x4, also WTP chromolithos x6 different (one damaged), 'Victoria: God's Own Country' card (trimmed at left, possibly because it exceeded size-limits), 'Drink Resch's Lager & Ales' (corner fault), and a few others, mostly unused or used under cover, condition variable; plus eleven sub-standard duplicates.
(41)
1908 Visit of the American Great White Fleet selection noted USS 'Ohio' with ANA Sewing Machines advert, USS 'Georgia' used under cover, USS 'Virginia' real photo card, 'Australia Greets America' x2 slighty different one from Melbourne with message "... fleet arrived yesterday it is all stars & stripes & souvenirs ..", 'Uncle Sam in Australia' humorous card, 'Sydney Town Hall USA Fleet Visit' decorated with flags, 'Sailors Excursions to Black Heath [sic] ... August 22, 1908', 'American Fleet Passing Through Magellan Straits' with Wolfe's Schnapps advertising unused, F&J 'Georgia' & 'Vermont' battleships, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine.
(11)
Sale No: 240
Lot No:325
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection
1917Australian Comforts Fund group of real photo cards of troops in France including officers, stretcher bearers, town ruins, entertainment etc, unused, condition quite mixed. Scarce.
(20)
Sale No: 240
Lot No:326
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection
NEW SOUTH WALES: Wide-ranging group of mostly topographicals including smaller towns, caves, beaches, mining, Blue Mountains & waterfalls, etc, condition variable but generally good to very fine.
(150+)
Sale No: 240
Lot No:327
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection
NEW SOUTH WALES: Small group of better cards including real photos of hotel with fully-laden stagecoach outside (location unidentified; used 1906 with NSW 1d), 'Cycling at the Kindergarten Tooronga Zoo' with Monkey on Bicycle, Molong store display with products, 'Lachlan Street, Forbes' with J&W Thomas Grocers & Drapers store, 'Railway Station, Cobar' with steam locomotive & train, 'First Engine Driver, NSW Railways, 1855', 'Screen at Colliery, Newcastle, NSW', 'Wallaringa Mansions' Neutral Bay & 'Bernley' Potts Point private hotels advertising cards, etc, generally fine.
(12)
- New South Wales: Selection including vignette views & undivided backs, real photos Bathurst main street with McSorley Hotel, Broken Hill 'Camels loaded for Outback' carrying Onepah Station trunks, Burrinjuck Dam x4 under construction & in flood, Campbelltown 'Presbyterian Manse' sent 1908 to USA with postage due, Katoomba Sans Souci guesthouse, Tocumwal hay cart, lots of other town & country views including Lithgow Pottery & Brick Works, Grafton Ferry on Clarence River, Murwillumbah 1907 'Main Street after the fire', Singleton 'J Moore & Co Stores', Tamworth Peel Street under flood, as well as plenty of Sydney Streets, Harbour Bridge, Beaches, Blue Mountains & Jenolan Caves, etc, many used with possible postmark interest and some tax markings, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. The illustration is above Lot 327.
(160+)
Sale No: 240
Lot No:329
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection
NORTHERN TERRITORY: Group including 'New Jetty' undivided-back endorsed "Darwin" with railway tracks & steamer docked unused, South Australia flag series with NT vignette views of 'Ant Hill' with sightseeing coach, 'Railway Bridge over Adelaide River' & Boab Tree 'Marked by Gregory's Exploring Party 1856', Blackwood (Darwin) 'Groups of Anthills' & 'Artesian Bore' unused, Sanbride 'Adelaide River' & 'Adelaide River Bridge' unused, real photos Alice Springs PO (circa 1950), DB Neck 'Simpson's Gap, McDonald Ranges', Tomkins 'Alice Springs from ANZAC Hill' and Murray Views 'Hotel Darwin & Christ Church' double-view & 1959 'Glimpse of Mt Olga' airmail to Melbourne, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine.
(13)
QUEENSLAND: Attractive bundle of mostly topographicals with no Brisbane, good selections from Ipswich, Mackay, Cairns, Townsville & Toowoomba plus many from smaller towns, a few aboriginal subjects, railways, bridges etc, some local publishers, generally fine to very fine used or unused.
(100+)
QUEENSLAND: Bundle of mostly 1940s & 1950s cards including many real photo types, some with plain backs (proofs?) etc, several of islands, mostly unused & generally fine to superb.
(56)
- Queensland: Intelligence & Tourist Bureau issues with No Imprint x3, Cumming Imprint x19 or Vaughan Imprint x3, also 1908 Franco-British Exhibition types x16, wide range of subjects including scarce types & many coloured views, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused.
(41)
- Islands: Intelligence & Tourist Bureau issues x3, 1908 Franco-British Exhibition types x4 (one used in England), & three others, mostly fine unused.
(10)
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Box of mostly 1940s & 1950s cards including many Rose cards with minor duplication in superb condition, other real photo types, etc, mostly unused & generally fine to superb.
(100 approx)
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Selection including vignette views & undivided backs, Tourist Bureau 'Vineyard', 'Wool Sale', 'Salt' mounds & 7 more, 'Driving Camels in Harness', Adelaide Oval real photo, Zieher-type 'Stamps' with inset view of Rundle Street, town & country views including 'Beetaloo Reservoir' real photos x2, Crystal Brook 'Bowman Street', Goolwa Cadell Street, Hotels & Institute, Port Lincoln 'St Thomas Church', Renmark 'HH Holden, Bookseller, Chemist' shop, Semaphore 'Convalescent Home', etc, lots of street scenes & shopfronts, quite a few used with possible postmark interest, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine.
(100+)
TASMANIA: Box of mostly 1940s & 1950s cards including many Rose cards with minor duplication in superb condition, other real photo types, etc, mostly unused & generally fine to superb.
(70 approx)
TASMANIA: 1912 Niven with a fantastic photo of staff & vehicles outside 'FINLAYSON BROS DEVONPORT' workshop, address side with Finlayson Bros advice & Pictorials 1d pair with 'TPO No 6' cds, faint bend. A cracker!
VICTORIA: Shoebox of mostly topographicals with good sections from Melbourne with excellent streetscapes, Suburbs, Gippsland, Alpine Regions including Kiewa Hydro-Electric Scheme, Mornington Peninsula, Phillip Island, Ballarat, Great Ocean Road, Daylesford & Hepburn Springs etc, artist cards by ST Gill x12, many better subjects including mining, agriculture, advertising, public buildings, construction of Lake Eildon, etc, many 1940s-1950s Rose cards with some duplication, condition variable but generally good to superb.
(400 approx)