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LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

492

TOPOGRAPHICALS: 'The Big Smoke' from New York & Chicago to San Francisco & Miami and Boston to Salt Lake City, the principal urban & commercial areas with focus on major downtown districts, public buildings & skyscapers, about 40% are real photo types or 'chromes' with many unusual vistas & aspects, also brilliant night scenes that are a feature of the best 'linens', generally very fine to superb. (350 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

493

TOURISM: Collection of early theme parks & pioneer villages, sanctuaries & marine parks, popular hotels & restaurants including interiors, historic buildings & auditoriums, 'largest this' 'longest that' & 'narrowest other', about 40% are real photo cards & 'chromes', generally very fine to superb. (550 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16)

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Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

494

TOURISM: The nation's beauty spots from lakes & rivers to deserts & canyons, skifields to seascapes, geysers & caves, waterfalls & public gardens, megafauna & awesome sunsets, about two-thirds are real photo types & 'chromes' with excellent photography a feature, generally very fine to superb. (400+) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

495

TOURISM: "Hit the Road Jack" collection of mostly 'linens' with strong sections of 'Greetings from' including Large Letters; natural and man-made attractions with the Old West x50+, Beaches & Boardwalks x180+; highly instructive maps of localities, town, cities & states x60+; 'busy/lazy' tick-the-box cards x80+; recurring themes of advertising & humour; generally very fine to superb. (800+) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21)

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Estimate AU$600

SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

496

US TERRITORIES - ALASKA: Native American portraits & lifestyle to wilderness splendour, tourism to commercial fishing, towns & totem poles, transport & agriculture, some beautiful real photo types, generally very fine to superb. (80+) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10)

Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

497

US TERRITORIES - HAWAII: Very early Undivided Backs apparently all by the same anonymous publisher with many indigenous subjects, several of Honolulu & Waikiki, one with a corner missing otherwise very fine unused. A beautiful group. (21)

Grade A (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

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Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$725.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

498

US TERRITORIES - HAWAII: Box of mostly pre-World War II cards with a few Undivided Backs & many real photo types & 'chromes' plus plenty of 'linens', some minor duplication, also several wallets of topographicals, generally very fine to superb. (200+) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10)

Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$500.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

SUBJECTS

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

499

ANIMALS: Donkeys of the World from Malta, Antigua, Jamaica, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Libya, Palestine, Canary Islands, Argentina, etc, fine to very fine. Excellent basis for a new collection. (53) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14)

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Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

500

ARTIST CARDS: Marvellous collection of Glamour, Romance, Haute Couture, Pierrots, Children etc with numerous magnificent Art Nouveau, Impressionist, Modernist & other schools, techniques include chromolitho, embossed & serigraphs, generally very fine to superb. Bellisimo! (200 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22)

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Estimate AU$600

SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

501

ARTIST CARDS: British Bruton Galleries editions of saucy cards all by Raphael Kirchner, a few minor blemishes, unused. (7)

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

502

ARTIST CARDS: German erotic cards juxtaposing naked women with various animals by Richard Muller, very fine unused. [Muller was an important inter-war artist who mixed Surrealism & Romanticism to create weird & often grotesque images, characterised by the Nazis as "degenerate art"] (5)

Grade A (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

503

ARTIST CARDS: Bundle of Dalkeith's Classic Posters Series being modern reproductions of vintage poster art from France England America & Germany mostly with the artists identified including Mucha, Toulouse-Lautrec, Berthon, Schreiber, Cassandre, Kley, Grun etc, styles include glorious Art Nouveau Cubism & Art Deco, subjects include Advertising, Aviation, Cycling, Motoring, Cabarets etc, superb unused. Magnifique! (77)

Grade A+ (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

504

AVIATION, CIVIL: Collection of aeroplane portraits mostly American but many from Europe & elsewhere, a few of pioneer contraptions through to early versions of the Boeing 747 & Concorde including flying boats, many of interiors & a few schematics, airline advertising, about 40% are US municipal airport 'linens', generally very fine to superb. (200 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11)

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Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

505

CEMETERIES: Box of mostly British & European cards but with others from China, India, Egypt, Hong Kong, Malta & Panama etc, includes headstones, monuments & elaborate tombs, generally fine to very fine unused or used. A fascinating, if somewhat ghoulish, theme. (100 approx)

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8)

Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$270.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

506

CHILDREN: Collection of mostly artist cards predominantly from Europe & America with a surfeit of cuteness, favourite themes are universal innocence, young romance, role playing, sporting prowess plus numerous age-inappropriate themes, a fair amount of sometimes unintended humour, numerous Greetings types, etc, generally very fine to superb. (600 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23)

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Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$420.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

507

CRICKET: Australian team photos 1878 (1930s ABC 5CL issue), Bolland 1921 & 1926, and 1956 real photo PPC (signed on the reverse "Len Maddocks" and "Ron Archer", soiled & creased), then portraits of English & County players x16 from various series, Philco real photo PPC of the 1907-08 MCC Test Team, and two hilarious Kinsela artist cards, generally fine to very fine. (23)

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

508

HUMOUR: 'A Frog's Life' hilarious set (?) of artist cards by E Wessel (Brussels) featuring Frogs in love, playing sport & motoring, superb unused. (8)

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

509

HUMOUR: c.1910 German "tits & bums" artist cards walking a tightrope between the humourous & the disgraceful, unused. (6)

Grade A/A- (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$120

SOLD for AU$90.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

510

JUDAICA: Batch of Synagogues, 'Jewish Streets', Rabbis & other portraits, etc, from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Bulgaria, Italy & France, German cards including Deutsch-Israelitischer Gemeindebund x5, some artist cards including Old Testament subjects, generally fine to very fine. A very interesting lot. (51) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$280.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

511

LIGHTHOUSES: Fascinating bundle x60 of cliffside, end-of-pier & out-at-sea structures from America, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland (really!) & Cuba; also Windmills x9; generally very fine to superb. (69) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM