Approximately 450g of loose mixed c. 1950s-60s cigarette and tea cards (hundreds), from brands such as Mitchell's, Allen's, Max, Godfrey Phillips, Churchman, Typhoo Tea, Cavander's Ltd., John Player & Sons, and many others.
Sale No: 529
Lot No: 530
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Cat No: Collection
ADVERTISING BY POST - THE GARY DAVIES COLLECTION:
FISHING TACKLE: A complete set of six amusing cards by Kemble, advertising the fishing tackle and lines available from MICK SIMMONS, circa 1905; all FU from MICHELAGO in November 1906. (6) Extremely rare.
Sale No: 529
Lot No: 531
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Collection
ARTIST - CHARLES DANA GIBSON: A collection of Gibson's wonderful observations of the social customs around courtship, marriage, and the battle of the sexes in Edwardian times; various series. (19).
MELOTTE CREAM SEPARATORS: Two different illustrated postcards for The Australasian Implement Co., Adelaide, both FU in 1909, one with private perfin "AI CO" 1d. (2).
A large album with a good range of early MELBOURNE RP cards, a small range of Victoria/Australia, plus a range of film stars (incl. Lux Toilet Soap types), mainly fine. (approx. 275+).
AGRICULTURE: A real photo postcard depicting an elephant ploughing with "The Mitchell" No.14, 2 Furrow Plough, from Mitchell & Co., West Footscray, Melbourne; issued by F.W. Niven & Co., fine Unused, circa 1910.
"JOHN COOPER & SONS IRONMONGERS" RP advertising postcard with printed message verso, for the shop in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne; "Makers of Horse Shoes, Plow Shares & The "Bunyip" Forest Devil"; Used in Jan.1910 to Coleraine.
EQUIPMENT ADVERTISEMENTS: 1910 usage of a card for James Bell & Co (Adelaide) advertising "Clarence H. Smith's Scrub Rake"; 1920 usage of a card for W.N. Stone (Sydney) advertising "Municipal Appliances" (Road Sweeper, Water Cart, Road Roller, etc.,); and, 1928 usage of a card for Waugh & Josephson Ltd (Brisbane) advertising Dairy, Refrigeration and general engineering equipment. (3 items).
RABBIT POISON: A Sayers Allport Prop. postcard advertising their S.A.P. Rabbit Destruction product, circa 1910. [Interestingly, S.A.P. are also the initials of the constituent chemicals - strychnine, arsenic and phosphorus.] The only example we have seen.
Sale No: 529
Lot No: 541
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Collection
AGRICULTURE & TRAVEL?: An illustrated postcard issued by WINCHCOMBE, CARSON & Co. Ltd., Sydney, (wool brokers, stock and station agents) depicting a family of rabbits at a "First Class" ticket office, dated 1909, with the additional information "Passengers booked last year - 41,629,672"; the scene overlooked by a koala and the ticket agent a kangaroo. Printed message verso. What's going on here? Was the company also involved in travel, or is this a card celebrating the number of rabbits "dispatched" during the height of the rabbit plague? The only example known to us.
ADVERTISING: A group of four illustrated postcards: "Nicholson & Morrow's Union Harvesters at work, Tamworth, N.S.W."; "The Home of the BUNCLE Chaffcutter, Wreckyn Street, North Melbourne; "Capewell Nails" for Harrold, Colton & Co., Adelaide; and, "Pineapple Brand Bacon & Hams" for Prescott Limited, Sydney"; the last 3 used, 1905-11. (4 items).
AUSTRALIAN & others, postcard range including two from the "Robbery Under Arms" series by Charles Hammond; two nursery rhyme types by Muriel S. Nicholls; a Victorian Railways OHMS "Jubilee Lake - Daylesford" card (Unused); plus several WW1 "Daily Mail Battle Pictures" and two early Fijian RP types "Preparing for a Feast" and "Nasinu Bridge", etc. (22).
SPECIAL OCCASIONS: Group of more than two hundred and seventy postcards, mostly c. 1910s, comprising Christmas/New Year's/Birthday greeting motifs, mostly from overseas publishers but used and addressed within Australia. (270+ items)
BRITISH ISLES: Group of more than two hundred and sixty postcards, issued in decades spanning the 1900s to the 1980s, featuring mostly London-centric views, but also the United Kingdom more broadly, as well as Ireland. (260+ items)
BRITISH ISLES AND OTHERS - PICTORIAL FOLDERS: Group of twenty pictorial folders, mostly c. 1950s and 60s, featuring mostly England, but also New Zealand and Japan. (20 items)
Sale No: 529
Lot No: 549
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Collection
MELBOURNE & SURROUNDS: A collection, mainly early RP cards in a large brown album, (150+); mixed condition. [Not included in the count are some film/stage personality types at the end.].
THEMATIC POSTCARDS - GREETINGS: Group of more than two hundred and sixty mostly early 1900s cards (mainly printed in Europe), including birthday, Christmas, New Year, best wishes, and religious types, as well as some greeting cards. (260+ items)
Sale No: 529
Lot No: 554
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Collection
POSTCARDS - AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: Collection of more than three hundred and fifty cards, the majority Australian, with all postcard eras represented, including some 1900s/1910s types from publishers such as Rose, C.A. Pitt, and Donald Taylor Collotype Company. (350+ items)
POSTCARDS - CHANNEL ISLANDS: Group of thirty-one black and white and colour postcards, mostly early 20th century, featuring views of Jersey, Guernsey, and Sark (beaches, lighthouses, cities, towns, etc.). (31 items)
Sale No: 529
Lot No: 559
Symbol: PC
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POSTCARDS - TRAINS, PLANES, AND AUTOMOBILES: Diverse accumulation issued in decades spanning the 1900s to the 1980s, the planes and automobiles mainly military in nature; mostly unused. (100+ items)
Sale No: 529
Lot No: 561
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Collection
WWI, DEATH, AND ITALIAN FASCISM: An outstanding collection of 150 postcards in album, mostly issued in decades spanning the 1900s to 1940s, featuring Cabrinovic immediately after assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand, First World War views of the battlefield, many European military and state funerals, Italian propaganda cards, several cards documenting the hanging of Mussolini and his mistress Petacci, and many others. (150 postcards)
ARTIST UNKNOWN: "The Bully" 5 of 6 cards from the swaggering "I kin lick anyone round here" to the battered & tearful "I could a licked him if I'd wanted to", one used from South Fremantle. (5).
Sale No: 529
Lot No: 567
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Collection
POSTCARDS - REST OF WORLD: An accumulation of more than two hundred postcards, issued in years spanning the 1910s to the 1970s, featuring views of such countries as Japan, Fiji, Egypt, South Africa, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and many others. (200+ items)
DUTCH EAST INDIES, INCLUDING BALI: A 26 x 36cm album containing sixty-eight c. 1910s real photo postcards, all in superb condition, with copious manuscript annotations at margins in Japanese.
JAPAN: Group of mainly 1910s and 1920s postcards, including three pleasing sets, with views of temples, sumo, traditional gardens, lakes, etc. (70+ items)
Sale No: 529
Lot No: 574
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Collection
POSTCARDS - INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS: A collection of mainly photographic postcards featuring individuals and groups, affording insight into the hunting, dietary, and religious practices of various groups in the early 20th century. Publishers/photographers include Rose, Nucolorvue, Hunter's Hotel, and Jordan. (Total: 15; 13 unused; 2 used)
POSTCARDS - AUSTRALIAN & NZ SHIPPING: A range including British Antarctic Expedition Terra Nova, S.S. Rupara, S.S. Grantala, T.S.S. Kanowna, S.S. Coolgardie, S.S. Tangaroa, and others. (Total: 10; 4 unused; 6 used)
Sale No: 529
Lot No: 578
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Collection
POSTCARDS - SHIPPING: A collection of more than two hundred postcards with views of boats and ships (many military), from decades spanning the 1920s to the 1980s, most unused. (200+ items)
POSTCARDS - WORLD: A group of mainly photographic postcards, including views of France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Ceylon, Ottoman Palestine, and others. (Total: 70; 42 unused; 28 used)
Sale No: 529
Lot No: 582
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Collection
POSTCARDS - SHIPPING: A collection of more than three hundred postcards and postcard-size (or smaller) photographs of boats and ships, most of them black and white, early 20th century, and unused. (300+ items)
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: An album in slipcase containing 215+ c. 1930s photographic postcards of mostly Japanese publication, mainly featuring the Ainu people of Northern Japan, as well as Maori, Papuans, Indigenous people of Africa and South America, and others.
POSTCARDS - JAPANESE AINU CULTURE: Group of more than one hundred and ten cards issued in decades spanning the 1930s to the 1980s, featuring the indigenous Ainu of northern Japan, their distinct facial tattoos, traditional dress, hunting practices, etc. (110+ items)
SPANISH CIVIL WAR: An impressive set of thirty 1939 postcards by famed Spanish photographer Jalon Angel, featuring photographic portraits of prominent Nationalist military men, including Francisco Franco, Emilio Mola, Queipo De LLano, Miguel Cabanellas, and many others. (30 items)
POSTCARDS - NORTH AMERICA: Diverse group of more than one hundred and fifty cards, issued from the 1900s to the 1970s, mostly United States (particularly Hawaii and New York), and some Canada. (150+ items)
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: An album in slipcase containing 220+ c. 1940s postcards and original photographs, apparently assembled by the scholarly-looking Japanese gentleman who can be seen posing in several of the images, mainly featuring the Ainu people of Northern Japan, as well as Maori, Papuans, Pacific Islanders, and others; the WWII-era Konan POW Camp also appears.
UNITED KINGDOM - BAMFORTH & CO.: Group of more than sixty 'saucy seaside' postcards, mostly 1960s but some cards as early as the 1940s, with art by Arnold Taylor and Ben Fitzpatrick. (60+ items)
Group of more than three hundred and sixty postcards, with genres including romance (Bamforth, Valentine's, Solomon Bros., Davidson Bros.), bawdy and irreverent 1970s seaside types, 1910s nature and artworks (Tuck, Faulkner, Phillimore), and many more. (360+ items)
