Random selection of mostly better cards from many countries including a lovely group of French LL views of Toulon & Military Band at St Helier on Jersey, real photos of Madagascan boy with crocodile, a crowd at the base of the frozen Niagara Falls and 1931 In Remembrance of Submarine 'Poseidon' sunk off Wei-Hai-Wei, Jetty at Nossi-Bé, native studies from Samoa Gilberts Niue & Jamaica, GB Edwards & Co 1907 'Fatal Tram Accident in Birmingham', etc, one with Straits 3c tied by 'ORCHARD RD SINGAPORE' cds, generally fine to very fine used or unused. (Qty 42) (Image1)

Estimate AU$350

Excellent novelty group including New Zealand photos affixed to carved timber cards x3 all sent through the mail! plus 1926 Dunedin Exhibition illustration printed on timber, United States printed on leather unused x2 & Canada handpainted on leather to New Zealand, Portugal printed on balsa x2 (one sent through the mail), WWI 'silks' x12 (unusually clean group, including New Zealand subjects x2) & PPC-sized 'silk' of Edith Cavell & her dogs, various with tiny packets of fold-out views x7 including WWI, etc, and a few modern types, fine to very fine. [See also Lot 1512] (Qty 36)

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Estimate AU$500

Eclectic balance of consignment with Norfolk Island real photo cards x2 including 'Girls Carrying Firewood...' (creased), Falkland Islands x2 including 1905 to Australia (stamp sadly removed), Pitcairn x8, Chile UBs 'Punta Arenas' & 'Tierra del Fuego Salesian Mission' 2-panel panorama, Thailand x2, Hawaii x14 including Surfing x3, Dutch Indies KPM cards x22 & 1898 'Gruit uif Batavia' x2, Timor Undivided Back (stained), Aden 1903 court-card size 'Arab Caravan' to NSW, British Guiana x5 & Jamaica x9 all to Australia, South Africa Zulu women topless x8, Denmark group mostly to Australia, Hell (Norway) x3, etc, some postal history & postmark interest, condition variable but a high proportion are fine to very fine. (Qty 100+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

Carton with a quantity of Actresses with excellent Australian content including many scarce cards by Talma (Melbourne), Falk (Sydney) etc, other portraits & Glamour cards, some attractive Children studies, range of greeting cards, many aesthetically beautiful photos that provide a fine record of Edwardian Ladies Fashion; also an album with display of 1906 Actress cards x36 to "Miss Amy Sherwin" (a famous soprano, known as The Tasmanian Nightingale), condition variable but most are fine to very fine; plus an album of very fine 'paleolithic cards' with illustrations of primitive man & his tools etc. (Qty 600 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

Dealer's stock of World cards with no Australia, good selections from New Zealand, Japan including inscriptional errors, England, America including some "linens" & Canada, subjects include Antarctica, Ships, Exhibitions etc, generally fine to very fine. An excellent reseller's opportunity with probably half being priced & ready for eBay. (Qty 500 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

Mostly German group of principally Undivided Backs with 1903 Dresden Exhibition x5 each with Exhibition cds, 1903 Neustadter Schutzenfest multiview with superb 'SCHANDAU-NIEDERNEUKIRCH' TPO d/s, two superb Mutter chromolitho artist cards of Nuernberg, 1904 'Alt-Tsingtau Marktstrasse...' (creased) & a Japanese card both with 'TSINGTAU/KIAUTSCHOU' cds, etc, mostly fine to very fine. (Qty 30)

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Estimate AU$150

Box of World cards with many topographicals with useful Australian group especially of South Australia & some beautiful British cards, WWI Patriotics & Egyptian PPC with 'No1 AUXILIARY/FRANKED/LUNA-PARK' h/s in violet, some gentle humour & 'ladies subjects', etc, generally fine to very fine. (Qty 200 approx)

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Estimate AU$200

Estate remainders of mostly British cards with a few better ones, a smattering of Australian topos, bundles of ladies subjects, GB artist cards & some 1950s tourist cards, etc, also 19th century photograph of Niagara Falls, two 1930s photos of Papuan natives, China c.1910 (?) wallet of 38 portrait-cards (103x152mm) of the imperial upper-class, etc. Weighs 2kg. (Qty 250 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Military subjects mostly from World War I including weird aircraft, real photo types, artist cards, humour & about a dozen very fine 'silks', also 1908 Visit of the American Fleet to Australia with blue ships of the Fleet x13 different & a few better subjects, generally fine to very fine. (Qty 80 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Eclectic mix with strong World War I content including patriotics, Forces at the Front, Biplanes, PPC-size silk card of Edith Cavell, several Australian & New Zealand subjects, soppy Bamforths, also Russo-Japanese War x4, set of Kinsella Tennis cards (some faults), Victoria Consumptive Homes 'stamps' card, 1911-12 Tuck's cutesy Valentine cards used in America, Hong Kong punishments x2, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (Qty 130 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Box of mostly European & British cards including a superb 1920s set of 12 Liverpool views in the original packet, also Australia, India, South Africa, Mozambique, Brazil, Dutch Indies etc, noted unused three-panel panoramas of Cape Town x3 & Port Arthur Texas, some novelty types, 'ladies subjects' & gentle humour, many are fine to very fine. (Qty few 100) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

BRITISH ASIA: Group of mostly better cards from Hong Kong x33 including Undivided Backs x14; Burma x10, all but one for Catholic Foreign Missions; and Malaya x24 including indigenous studies; condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (Qty 67) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

CANADA: c.1905-10 First Nations group with families, totem poles, etc, mostly unused but one with 'M JAW & CAL RPO/No5' cds, good to very fine. (Qty 17) (Image1)

Estimate AU$125

CEYLON: Attractive collection with many indigenous subjects including Occupations & other scarce types, about half are by AWA Platé including some Undivided Backs (five with multi-views), Divided Backs x80+ (one with fine 'DEUTSCHE SEEPOST/...' cds), Art Series x24 and later B&W real photo types x40+; other producers x100+ including Andrée, Ceylon Pictorials, Colombo Apothecaries (with three 1899 vertical half-views; their coloured cards mostly with characteristic corner faults), John & Co, Skeen Photo, Tuck, Uduman etc; plus a handful with no publisher details, Grand Hotels x8, French-language selection including Missions x3, etc, generally fine to very fine unused or used. [A less diverse group of similar quantity, from another vendor, sold at our auction of 29.4.2022 for $885] (Qty 280+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

CEYLON: 1900-01 Undivided Backs by Platé or unknown publishers x2 from Boer POWs at Ragama Camp to Austria or Canada, or Diyatalawa Camp to Holland (stamp neatly removed). (Qty 3)

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Estimate AU$100

CHINA: Attractive group of better cards of Canton x18, Tientsin x6, Tuck artist cards of Shanghai x5 & Tibet x6, three female prisoners, a beheading, beautiful group of Chinese Theatre cards x8, also real photo portrait of Sun yat-Sen (corner crease), nine are Undivided Backs, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (Qty 56) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

EGYPT: Gorgeous Undivided Backs comprising four chromolithos, a multi-view & artist cards x3, plus a real photo card of Bedouin with Camels entering a modern town, etc, three with 'PORT SAID' stamps, all used to Australia with cds including '/...POST OFFICE/CONTINENTAL HOTEL', 'GRAND CONTINENTAL HOTEL', 'SHEPHEARD'S HOTEL', 'DAMETTE', 'SUEZ-ISMAILIA' (TPO?), 'SUEZ/(AMBULANT)' & 'QALYUB', condition variable but most are fine to very fine. (Qty 19) (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

FIJI: Attractive group of mainly better cards including several of topless maidens, other indigenous subjects, three very scarce French mission cards, etc, a few quality issues but most are fine to very fine. (Qty 36) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

FRENCH PACIFIC: Group of cards from New Caledonia x25 including eight Undivided Backs; New Hebrides x13; and Polynesia/Tahiti x27; many Colonial & indigenous studies; about 20 used to Australia, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (Qty 65) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

GERMANY: 1915-16 cards from Doeberitz Concentration Camp with different humorous cartoons by Seaman Cecil Arthur Tooke, two unused (one with 'Lady Dodds Prisoners of War Fund' h/s), two with printed POW heading & one with h/s in violet used to England with different Camp markings, a few minor blemishes. Scarce & desirable group. [The Camp was just west of Berlin] (5)

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Estimate AU$500

GREAT BRITAIN: 1915 real photo of original artwork of the Alexandra Palace with Christmas & New Year greetings, to "Artisten Loge/Dusseldorf" (= Artists' Lodge), fine double-circle 'PRISONERS OF WAR/P.C./ALEXANDRA PALACE' censor h/s in violet. [During WWI, the Palace was used as a refugee camp for displaced Belgians, then 1915-19 as an internment camp for German & Austrian civilians. The painting is signed "Tony Binder 1915". Born in Austria, Binder was a highly regarded painter who "lived" in England during WWI, apparently as an alien internee]

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Estimate AU$150

INDIA: Small box with many monuments, mosques etc with a lovely Taj Mahal group including real photos from unusual vantage points, other real photo types including 'The Mail Tonga' (horse & carrriage), outlying areas including Darjeeling, Andaman Islands x4 & a couple from Burma, generally fine to very fine used or unused, also Mirza & Sons (Delhi) 'Agra Album' of 24 rouletted cards. (Qty 107) (Image1)

Estimate AU$175

INDIA: Early group mostly with Undivided Backs including court-size x11 with a few chromolithos (five are Gerhadt artist cards) & two multiviews, subjects include Fakirs & Priests, Occupations, Darjeeling & Kashmir, most for Indian publishers including 1904 hand-coloured advertising card for Sha & Co with stamp collar, some blemishes but most are fine to very fine. Scarce material. (Qty 33)

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Estimate AU$250

MALAYA - STRAITS SETTLEMENTS: This & the next seven lots comprise the 5-frame exhibit 'Steamers in Malayan Waters' formed by the late Paul Yap from Singapore. Many scarce & desirable cards are included, notably some Undivided Backs. The condition generally is fine to very fine. 1902 Ludwig u Rossel Undivided Back panorama (stamp removed & soiled) & 1920s Tuck sepia views of Singapore Harbour, undated real photo card 'Clifford's Pier Store', Wilson & Co 'P&O Wharf', Hartwig 'Borneo Wharf with German Steamers', three French cards of loading coal etc, Kaulfuss (Penang) 'Chines junks discharging Cargo', Hilckes 'Victoria Dock' (ship in dry dock), unknown publisher 'American Floating Dock, Dewey, Singapore'; Grimaud 'Ship in the Roads', Lambert 'Raffles Lighthouse', two of 'Boustead Institute' (seamen's mission), real photos of British Navy HMS 'Suffolk' & 'Hawkins', and Japanese artist cards Bombers Attacking HMS 'Prince of Wales' & the Surrender of Singapore (Postal Card). (Qty 19) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

MALAYA - STRAITS SETTLEMENTS: Shipping at other ports comprising Penang x4, Port Swettenham x2 & Malacca x2, Port Dickson x2, also key exports Rubber x2 & Tin x2. A very scarce group. (Qty 14)

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Estimate AU$400