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LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

1697

THEATRE: VSM (Melbourne) 1907 Royal Grand Opera Company cards x6 with photos in crowned gilt frames of Massimio Massimi x2, J Runger, Hans Mohwinkel, Sara Anderson & Fritz Rupp, very fine unused. [The opera was a short-term production of the impresario George Musgrove. Musgrove managed, and married, Australia's darling, Nellie Stewart. In 1901, he was appointed 'Director of Amusements' for the Opening of the first Federal Parliament, on 9.5.1901. In 1902, he managed Melba's triumphant concert tour] (6)

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

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

World Picture Postcards

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

1698

Selection of chromolithograph cards mostly with Undivided Backs from Germany x34, France (Tuck's 'Paris') x12, Italy x7, Turkey x7, others from Greece, Egypt, Austria & Canada, mostly unused, a few with problems but generally very fine to superb. Beautiful cards. (65) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10)

Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1699

Modern advertising & promotional postcards and small flyers accumulation in three archive boxes, mainly Australian but some World, including various albums sorted by subject. Lots of thematic interest here and deserves a look. Weight 35kg+. (1000s) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

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Estimate AU$120

SOLD for AU$90.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1700

Box of mostly British cards but with many from other countries (no Australia), numerous subjects including Advertising, Greetings, Children, Animals, Military, Humour, Artist Cards with a few Art Nouveau, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Excellent resellers' lot. (600 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$320.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1701

Large carton stacked to the brim with a completely unsorted array of loose cards across numerous genres including topographicals notably from France, humour, "ladies subjects", artist cards, real photo types, Australiana, moderns including repros, etc etc, condition variable but the majority appear to be fine to very fine. Weighs 15kg. Ex Bernard Morris. (1000s) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1702

Two cartons of remaindered albums with mostly "ladies subjects", also artist cards, humour, police, ships, military, moderns including repros, etc etc, condition variable but the majority appear to be fine to very fine. Weighs 15kg. Ex Bernard Morris. (100s) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$400.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1703

Box of cards, noted 1940s movie stars x31 including Deanna Durbin, circus/midgets x21, 1906 boxing card "Fighting Cats" advertising Bill Squires v Tim Murphy, generally fine to very fine. (54) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$95.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1704

Box of mostly post-WWII cards to the 1970s but including better English cards of villages & towns, Channel Islands & Wales, some attractive multi-views & real photo types, also Australia & USA plus Red Letter Photocard series of Charlie Chaplin's antics (about a dozen, blank backs) & a Louis Wain 'Love's Young Dream'. (200 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1705

Carton of mostly minor postcard literature titles but including 'Encyclopedia of Antique Postcards' by Nicholson, 'The PPCs of Raphael Tuck & Son' by Smith, 'The Harrison Fisher Postcard Collection' by Whitworth, 'The Quintessential Quinton' by Robbins, 'Theatrical Postcards' by Bonynge, 'A Quiet Painter: James Alfred Turner' by Jones, 'Coloured Shell Series of Queensland Post Cards', etc, mostly very fine. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8)

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Estimate AU$50

SOLD for AU$46.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1706

Odd little lot with Boer War multiview of nine generals including Kitchener, Roberts, French & Baden-Powell, superb patriotic of Baden-Powell, Boer War monuments at Mafeking or Hobart x2, also c.1900 real photo types of Southern Tasmanian Permanent Artillery at Anglesea Barracks & "Beach Clifton Springs" (Vic), all fine to superb; plus a few others. (19) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1707

Appealing World collection, strength in Europe with many French & Belgian cards of World War I destruction; Italy with groups of Pompei Ruins & 1908 Messina Earthquake x9 plus Naples blue scenes in gold borders x20; Austria with English captions x20; also Holy Land x60 approximately some with Hebrew captions; India with many real photo types & a few Burma; Malaya/Singapore x28; Hong Kong x18 including executions; Indo-China x18 & Vietnam x12 (most with plain backs); South Africa x50+; Pacific Islands including New Zealand x12 & Nauru infrastructure x3; America x60+ with some early Expositions; Egypt x200 approximately with many real photo types & unusual views; etc, better subjects include Shipping, Railways, Artist Cards & Advertising; condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bernard Morris. (1000+) (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)

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Estimate AU$1,000

SOLD for AU$750.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1708

Wide-ranging group with a good lot of Botanic Gardens mostly from Australia but also GB Singapore etc, selection of Volcanoes & Earthquake Destruction x17, Aden x10, Basutoland x15, Gibraltar x60+, St Helena x5, Sierra Leone x59 mostly Lisk-Carew with many indigenous subjects, South America including Punta Arenas & Tierra del Fuego, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. (300+) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14)

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Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1709

Extensive consignment remainders mostly British with scads of artist cards including by Hildesheimer x18, Salmon of Sevenoaks x100+, 'Jotter' x25, Quatremain x20 & AH Fulwood New Zealand scenes x10, some rather biting Edwardian humour by 'Cynicus' x30, mothers-in-law x12, German 'Auf Urlaub' cards x8, also European disturbing psycholgical fantasy cards x10, Louis Wain-style Cats by Arthur Thiele x8, ladies subjects including embossed floral adornment cards x20+, etc, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. Weighs 10kg. (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)

Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1710

Excellent consignment remainders with good sections from Aden x26 mostly real photo types, Austria x80 approximately, Belgian Congo x45 mostly Mission cards with many indigenous subjects plus some real photo types, Egypt x100+ with many unusual scenes, Portugal x28 and Spain & Madeira x90+, many better topographicals & subjects including WWII, Sport & Occupations, generally fine to very fine. (400 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17)

Estimate AU$600

SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1711

CEYLON: Box of mostly pre-WWII cards by AWA Platé with a few Undivided Backs, many indigenous subjects & real photo cards, also many of the popular 'Platé's Art Series' cards, some minor duplication, generally fine to very fine. (350 approx)

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

Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$420.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1712

COOK ISLANDS: Real photo cards of Rarotonga x3, two of 1951 with stamps on the face, the other postally used to GB in 1920; and Aitutaki 1906 S Savage of a War Dance, from Rarotonga to GB forwarded to Switzerland without extra postage but not taxed, & c.1920 of Islanders with stamps on the view. (5)

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

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1713

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. (19) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1714

GREAT BRITAIN: Collection of mostly topographicals including villages, Scotland x100+, Channel Islands x14 including an animated Sark view, and a few Wales, also good selections of Military/Patriotic, Shipping, Advertising, Exhibitions, Royal Mint set of 8, a few Disasters etc, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bernard Morris. (1000 approx) (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$1,000

SOLD for AU$750.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1715

GREAT BRITAIN: Undivided Backs chromolitho group comprising scarce court-size x10 (one used) & standard-size Tuck's x65 (mostly unused), very fine to superb. Beautiful cards. (75)

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

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Estimate AU$800

SOLD for AU$600.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

1716

GREAT BRITAIN: Collection of Charles Dickens mostly character cards by various artists/publishers principally "Kyd" including some American cards plus about a dozern modern "repros", also scenes from In Dickens Land & in particular 'The Pickwick Papers', some minor duplication, more than a touch of whimsy, generally fine to very fine. (140+) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

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Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Sep-19, 08:00 PM

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