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LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

512

MILITARY - BOER WAR: 1900-01 Underwood stereo cards of various Boer War engagements & events including 'Cronje's men at Modder River...' (Boer POWs), 'NSW Medical Corps moving to the front...', 'NSW Lancers bringing Boer Prisoners into Pretoria', 'Australian Mounted Rifles [at] Belmont', 'South Australian Infantry lined up for inspection...', most with multi-lingual captions on the reverse, generally very fine; also Falkner & Sons (London) artist cards x4 of the Grenadier Guards including two Boer War subjects, superb unused. (16)

Grade A-/A+ (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$120.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

513

MOTORING: 1930s-1960s collection with many car 'portraits' - many with blank backs (proofs?) - including advertising of new models, freeways, rural highways and suburban streets, charabancs, buses and infrastructure, working vehicles etc. About half are American & the balance are European mostly from Italy, a good percentage are real photo types, generally very fine to superb. One for the rev-heads and nostalgia junkies. (250 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15)

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Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

514

MUSIC: Range with English Brass Bands x7, Pipe Bands x4, Royal Welsh Male Choir, Corrick Family of Entertainers x3, The Musical All Blacks of Maori Land, Beagles humorous 'An Orchestra Recital' monochrome & coloured sets of 6, etc, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. (50 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12)

Estimate AU$150

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

515

NAVAL: Large album mostly of warships with strong Australian content including British ships on the Australian Station, WWI troopships, duplicated group of WWII Japanese midget submarine sunk off Sydney, etc, then predominantly British & a few New Zealand & other countries, nice group of portraits of sailors, many real photo types, generally fine to very fine. An excellent lot. Weighs 2½kg. (136 plus some reproductions & a few moderns) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24) (Image25) (Image26) (Image27)

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Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

516

NUDITY & EROTICA: Mostly 20th century artist cards of overtly sexualised subjects with harlequins, romance, voyeurism, seduction etc, the more artistic tend to be European cards but strength is in American 'naughty' types many of which have plain backs (proofs?) including a batch of mini-cards, also a few smutty Bamforths, condition a little variable but most are fine to very fine. (175 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11)

Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

517

NUDITY & EROTICA: 1920s to modern mostly photographic cards with numerous highly suggestive motifs including passion, mermaids & water sports, bikini babes, Italian actresses, etc, many American plain backs of starlets in various states of undress, generally fine to very fine. (150 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

Estimate AU$400

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

518

NUDITY & EROTICA: The Classic Nude featuring paintings from the Rennaisance to early-20th century by Titian, Goya, Rupert Bunny & a host of lesser names, about 60% are of statues including a booklet of Italian phallic stones (!), the majority are from France Italy or Germany, generally fine to very fine. (120 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15)

Estimate AU$250

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

519

NUDITY & EROTICA: Mostly photographic cards from c.1920s to modern, mostly of topless women but including many leaving nothing to the imagination, about 40% are 'ethnic' cards from Africa, the Middle East & Pacific islands, generally fine to very fine. (150 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14)

Estimate AU$1,000

SOLD for AU$750.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

520

NUDITY & EROTICA: 'Beefcake' selection of German & British cards of male wrestlers, gymnasts & naturists plus four French cards of very strange personal hygiene practices with apparatus, all but one are very fine to superb unused. (14)

Grade A/A+ (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

521

POLITICS: 1927 Wilhelm Muller (Vienna) real photo card 'Die Opfer der Schreckenstage' (= the Victims of the Days of Fright) with tiny portraits of 51 martyrs & their names, minor blemishes on the reverse. Chilling. [The acquittal of three nationalist activists of killing two social democrat politicians incited a popular revolt & rioting in the capital. Police fired into the crowd, killing 89 protesters]

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$150

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

522

RELIGION: Collection about half of which are American churches for many denominations from tiny chapels to massive cathedrals & Spanish-era missions, many interiors with stained-glass windows, impressive pipe-organs x24 including in European cathedrals etc, various Popes x24, also Amish, Menonite, Mormon, Revivalist & Christian Science subjects, generally very fine to superb. (350 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19)

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Estimate AU$400

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

523

SILHOUETTES: Selection of mostly German cards many by named artists with themes including romance, greetings, children, sport etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (82) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

524

SPORT: Superior group with 1906-36 Olympics real photo cards x11, amateur & semi-professional athletics x19 including real photo types x13 (a few are photographs), Royal Daring Club de Bruxelles x2, Canadian 'Hurdle Race on Snowshoes' (only in Canada!), GB real photos 'The Prince [of Wales] Chats with Footballers' (who can probably be identified) & Lawn Bowls, portrait card of 'Billy Bluelight' signed on reverse "With Mr BlueLights/Compliments", several amusing artist cards, etc, generally fine to very fine. (52) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

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Estimate AU$600

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

525

SPORT: Portrait cards of World & Olympic Champions, mostly Athletics with Marathoners including 1908 Pietro Dorando and 1936 Sohn Kee-chung (a Korean who reluctantly competed for Japan as Kitei Son), several from the 1924 Paris Games, 1908 swimmer TS Battersby (smudged note & autograph on the face plus personal note & signature on the reverse), half are real photo types, most are fine to very fine. A very scarce & desirable group. (19) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

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Estimate AU$600

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

526

SPORT: 1926 Hungarian Kellner u Mohrluder 'SPORT/TORTENETI/KIALLITAS/...' (= Historical Sports Exhibition) artist card of a discus thrower 'signed' at upper-left 'Manno Miltiades', very fine unused. [Miltiades was a Greek-born Hungarian rower & artist who won a Silver Medal in the Art Competition at the 1932 Olympics]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

527

SPORT: 1920s quartet of German cards of female boxing troupes & their male managers (one of whom is absent) who, of course, are the only people named, one with corner crease, the others fine to very fine. (4) (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$250

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

528

SPORT: Unused postcards of Art Deco posters comprising 1928 Amsterdam Olympics with Enschede Imprint, 1936 Berlin Olympics for the Austrian Olympic Fund, and 1930s Deutschen Turnerschaft (= German Gymnastics) featuring a runner, all very fine to superb unused; also a slightly larger plain back 1920s advertising card for Otto Hierneis of a young soccer-player & female referee (?) with corner crease at lower-right. (4) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$200

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

529

ZEPPELINS: Mostly German cards including of construction x3, 1908 crowd viewing wreckage, 1909 'Lenkbares Luftschiff...', 1911 'Parseval 6', 1914 'Reichsluftschiff Z1' Feldpost usage, etc, also USA Goodyear-Zeppelin Corps - Airship Factory', generally very fine. (13)

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

Estimate AU$240

SOLD for AU$180.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

GENERAL and MISCELLANEOUS LOTS

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

530

British Commonwealth collection on leaves (ex Australia & Great Britain) predominantly used with plenty of better items throughout including Bechuanaland 1888 to 1/- * and 'Protectorate' overprints including '6d' on 6d *, Levant 12pi on KEVII 2/6d * & 45pi on Seahorse 2/6d used, Canada 1893 20c & 50c used, Hong Kong QV '50/CENTS' on 48c brown and 'CHINA' overprint on KGV 50c black/emerald *, India 1854 ½a & 2a, Mauritius 1861 6d slate * and 1879 'HALF/PENNY' on 9d purple *, Nigeria Northern QV 2½d and Southern QV 2/6d, Rhodesia 1896-97 2/- blue & green * and Double Heads to 6d *, St Helena 1864-80 'ONE PENNY' (14mm bar; Cat £225) * and KEVII 6d *, etc, condition variable but mostly fine to very fine. (many 100s) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24) (Image25) (Image26) (Image27) (Image28) (Image29) (Image30) (Image31) (Image32) (Image33) (Image34) (Image35) (Image36) (Image37) (Image38) (Image39) (Image40) (Image41) (Image42) (Image43) (Image44) (Image45) (Image46) (Image47) (Image48) (Image49) (Image50) (Image51) (Image52) (Image53) (Image54) (Image55) (Image56) (Image57) (Image58) (Image59) (Image60) (Image61) (Image62) (Image63) (Image64) (Image65) (Image66) (Image67) (Image68) (Image69) (Image70) (Image71)

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Estimate AU$1,000

SOLD for AU$2,200.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

531

PSE

European Postal History selection including Austria with 1935 & 1937 covers from South Africa with Wien Pneumatic Post b/s, 1936 PPC with 'Sankt Silgener...' cds, Anschluss cover and 1937 illustrated FDCs for Maria-Anna, Winter Relief & Artists; Liechtenstein 1934 Airs & 1936 Zeppelins on registered covers; Switzerland 1937 Postal Card & 1941 cover with Automobil Post cds; France 1940 Scouting Postal Card with Czech Army cds; etc, also some modern Swiss postage with face value of SFr100 approximately. (33 covers + stamps) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$100.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

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