Medium-size box with unsorted accumulation of pre-World War II cards with many better subjects including Antarctica, Indigenous Studies, Caves, Ferries, Railways and an excellent group of Elephants, strongest countries are Australia & Great Britain, some photo-mechanical & real photo cards including a rare Norfolk Island 'The Avenue NI', some soiling on the reverse otherwise fine to very fine.
(800 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 550.00
Sold...AU$ 675.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 675
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1548
Symbol: C
ADVERTISING: Marvellous group from Canada, United States (no linens), Ceylon, Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, etc, promoting products, hotels, exhibitions, tourism, etc, strength in artist cards with some Art Nouveau elements, some soiling but generally fine to very fine, mostly unused.
(31) (Image1)
Estimate AU$750
Opening AU$ 575.00
Sold...AU$ 575.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 575
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1549
Symbol: C
ADVERTISING: Two albums of moderns for all manner of products, films, TV shows, concerts, political commentary, etc, Green's of Katoomba humourous types unused, WWI French bombed towns, Valentine's Aircraft Recognition cards; also album of aircraft photos and related ephemera, condition overall very fine.
(100s) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 180.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 180
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1550
Symbol: C
ADVERTISING: Mostly artist cards for British chocolate makers Fry's x9, Cadbury, Nestlé x2 and Taylor Bros, fine to very fine.
(13) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1551
Symbol: C
ADVERTISING: Artist cards for British cigarette makers WD & HO Wills chromolithos for 'Capstan' & 'Three Castles' (both a little soiled on the backs), Tuck 'Celebrated Poster' series for Ogden's Guinea Gold (very fine) and photo-mechanical card of a lifeboat crammed with partygoers & 'Smoke/Grapevine/Cigarettes' on the sail (very fine used).
(4) (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 230
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1552
Symbol: C
ADVERTISING: British products including Marmite, Seatons Toffees chromolithos x4, Barker & Dobson's Toffees, Patcho, Keen's Mustard, Colman's Mustard, Capewell Nails, Milkmaid Milk x2, Fletcher's Indian Sauce, Hoe's Sauce, Camp Coffee, Persil, Horniman's Pure Tea, Skipper's Sardines, Apollinaris Table Waters, etc, also for Sporting & Dramatic News, Pitman's Shorthand, Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. A charming basis for a notable collection.
(37) (Image1)
Estimate AU$1,000
Opening AU$ 750.00
Sold...AU$ 750.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 750
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1553
Symbol: C
CHILDREN: Delightful collection of watercolour cards by the famed Dutch illustrator Henriette Willebeek Le Mair with loads of charm & whimsy throughout, some Art Nouveau and Art Deco design elements, mostly with English or Dutch captions, others in English & Dutch, limited duplication, some minor soiling on the reverse otherwise fine to very fine.
(160+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$750
Opening AU$ 575.00
Sold...AU$ 575.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 575
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1554
Symbol: C
HUMOUR: Two large albums of mostly British double entendre cards including some earlies & a few European types, mostly unused & generally very fine. Lots of smirks & belly-laughs. Sold at our auction of 14.11.2014 for $419 (Sale 196 Lot 121).
(600 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 320.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 320
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1555
Symbol: C
HUMOUR: Superior group of Undivided Backs from Germany, Britain, Belgium & USA, some blemishes but most are fine to very fine. All are illustrated on our website.
(21) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 190
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1556
Symbol: C
MILITARY UNIFORMS: Carton with a good selection of PPCs & trade cards featuring mostly Austrian, French or British military uniforms & units plus Emperor Franz Joseph group, patriotics, etc, some from other countries including American Civil War commemorations, several real photo types & many are attractive artist cards, generally fine to very fine; plus two bundles of miscellaneous cards in mixed condition. Weighs 10kg.
(300 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 230
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1557
Symbol: C
POLITICAL PROPAGANDA: European satirical group with Boer War anti-British x2, anti-French Colonialism 'Brutalité-Bestialité-Egalité', Spanish Civil War, anti-Nazi x3, etc, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. A very desirable group. View the online images to fully appreciate these cards.
(14) (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 300.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1558
Symbol: C
POLITICAL PROPAGANDA: 'Redrawing the Map of Europe' propaganda cards for Czechoslovakia x3 (one a bit aged), Hungary x2, Yugoslavia, Sudetenland, Ruhr x2, Alsace-Lothringen, South Tirol and Austrian Anschluss x2, plus Switzerland 'Proportional Representation' cartoon in French & in Swiss-German (minor blemishes), very fine to superb.
(15) (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 300.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1559
Symbol: C
SHIPPING: Collection in two albums with coastal vessels, ocean-going liners, naval ships including submarines, infrastructure, naval ratings & officers, some Australia including 1908 Visit of the American Fleet x2, strength in British cards, many from other countries including of a Portuguese submarine, etc, one unaddressed card with stamp on the message-side tied by large-part straight-line '[SS] KULUMBANG[ARA]' in violet, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Attractive lot.
(400 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 525.00
Sold...AU$ 575.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 575
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1560
Symbol: C
SPORT: Unused postcards of Art Deco posters comprising 1928 Olympics with Enschede Imprint, 1936 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; and 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.
(5) (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 115.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 115
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1561
Symbol: C
THEATRE: Beautiful British group advertising comedies, tragedies, dramas, romances, farces, conjuring and amusements, mostly artist cards with some Art Nouveau elements, a bit of soiling but generally fine to very fine, mostly unused.
(26) (Image1)
Estimate AU$750
Opening AU$ 575.00
Sold...AU$ 575.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 575
WORLD PICTURE POSTCARDS
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1527
Symbol: C
Diverse group with artist cards by Jack Abeille x15), Alfred Rethel x6, Louis Lessieux x6 and MM Vienne x12; Raphael Tuck 'View Postcards' x7 & others x4; also Golf x11; 'Funerailles du Marechal Foch' x19; Fiji x22, etc, also snapshots for tourists x24 packets, condition variable but generally fine to very fine.
(180+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 230
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1528
Symbol: L
Postcards library with books (48) including 'A History of Postcards' by Willoughby; 'Picture Postcards and Travel' by Staff; 'Till the Boys Come Home - The Picture Postcards of the First World War' by Holt; 'Wish You Were Here - The Story of New Zealand Postcards' by Main & Jackson; catalogues (9), annuals (7), magazines (38); plus a few postcards (25), mainly Fine.
(127) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 230
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1529
Symbol: C
The contents of a Golden Age family album with some Undivided Backs & other better cards including Advertising, Patriotics, Sport, Glamour including a delightful Kirchner, Artist Cards, miniature cards, Children including European sets (?) of 5 & 6, New Zealand 1904 Antarctic Series 'Harnessing the Dogs', India 1906 'Prince & Princess of Wales at the Races, Calcutta', etc, a few with faults but most are fine to very fine.
(160 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1530
Symbol: C
Contents of an old-time album about half from Australia, the other half from Britain or South African Provinces & one from Rhodesia, featuring a mining selection from Western Australia, Cornwall & Transvaal, other better cards including public buildings, ships, Chinese labourers on the Rand, multi-views, Tuck artist cards of Sydney & Adelaide, etc, useful postal history content including 1906 with Natal 1d & superb boxed 'POSTAGE NOT PREPAID/IN/TRANSVAAL STAMPS', Tenerife-Johannesberg with boxed 'OFFICIALLY RE-ADDRESSED', and two with Tasmanian 'T ("1d")/LATE FEE' & 1d Pictorial tied by boxed 'LOOSE SHIP LETTER' with Melbourne cds alongside, etc, condition variable but a high proportion are fine to very fine.
(150 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$600
Opening AU$ 575.00
Sold...AU$ 675.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 675
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1531
Symbol: C
Contents from an old album with many attractive cards from Britain, France (mostly distinctive LL issues), Egypt, Eastern Europe, South Africa etc, generally fine to very fine.
(125 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 160.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 160
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1532
Symbol: C
Unsorted array in a carton with good ranges from Australia, United Kingdom including Cornwall. Scotland, Wales & Ireland, and European topographicals, some Canada mostly of the Rocky Mountains, Latin America and New Zealand, a bundle of Venice bookmark-size PPCs, also subjects including Children, Animals, Humour and Romance plus an album of 'Hands Across the Sea' types, also several World War I patriotic 'silks', condition variable but generally fine to very fine.
(900 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 340.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 340
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1533
Symbol: PC
Carton of Worldwide postcards, mainly 1950s to 1980s tourist cards but some earlier ones noted. Ex Jimbo's Stamp Auction stock. Weighs 12kg
(100s) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 200.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 200
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1534
Symbol: C/D/?
Carton of postcards and tourist 'wallets', photographs, 19th Century cartes de visite and cabinet cards, receipts, etc, condition variable.
(100+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 75
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1535
Symbol: C
CEYLON: Undivided Backs including 1899 Platé x2, 1900-02 Colombo Apothecaries with Sideways Views x7, 1901-02 beautiful multi-views x8, Messageries Maritimes x5, coloured advertising cards for Grand Oriental Hotel and chromolitho 'Gruss aus Kandy' & 'Greetings from Kandy', etc, some postmark & postal history content, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Scarce early issues.
(45) (Image1)
Estimate AU$600
Opening AU$ 460.00
Sold...AU$ 460.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 460
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1536
Symbol: C
CEYLON: AWA Platé cards from many series split almost equally between 1) collotypes including two multi-views; 2) the popular mostly textured 'Art Series'; and 3) 1940s photo-mechancial types. Strong in indigenous subjects & portraits and ancient ruins in the Cultural Triangle, condition variable but generally fine to very fine and mostly unused.
(150 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1537
Symbol: C
CEYLON: Issues from other publishers (no Platé) including Andrée, Ceylon Pictorials, Colombo Apothecaries, Koch, Ponnambalem (rare), Sadoon, Skeen and Uduman plus overseas producers including Tuck artist cards, advertising cards for Chocolat Klaus, Docteur Franck, Kern & Co, Lipton Tea, Richter & Co and major hotels, mostly colotypes with numerous native subjects & portraits, ancient ruins, trade, elephants, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. NB: at least 50% of all Ceylon cards were published by AWA Platé. Many of the other cards are very elusive.
(140 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$750
Opening AU$ 575.00
Sold...AU$ 575.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 575
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1538
Symbol: C
COCOS ISLANDS: circa 1915 Australian (?; no publisher) SMS 'Emden' & HMAS 'Sydney' incident featuring both ships before the "battle" & the 'Emden's' officers & crew x3 (one apparently taken in Malaya), the wreck of the 'Emden' x3, the launch used to get to the cable station, the Australian wireless operator who contacted the 'Sydney', the wrecked wireless station, & Australian Lighthorsemen with the 'Seized German Steamer/Kanstaft at Colombo', very fine unused. Not previously seen by us.
(12) (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 800.00
Sold...AU$ 1,700.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 1700
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1539
Symbol: C
GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS: circa 1930s real photo PPCs mostly with somewhat facetious pencilled captions on the reverse featuring native groups including two dance troupes (one endorsed on the reverse "Ocean Island Fandango"), islander housing & "Native Town Hall", "Entrance to Government Offices" (with mail box), bustling activity in a billiards room, "The Tapriva-Ooma Main Trunk Line" (narrow gauge railway), "Home Bay Ocean Island", etc, also Fiji Post Card Coy 'Typical Scene, Fanning Island', very fine to superb unused. Rare images.
(18) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 190
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1540
Symbol: C
GREAT BRITAIN: Pre-WWII multi-view cards including far lesser known places such as Calverley, Darwen, Seaford, Cobham, Trentham, Accrington, Aberayron, Barmouth, Knarseboro, Filey, Flamborough, Seaton, Thanet, Shrewton, Mousehole (!), Bamburgh, Lynton, etc, also for Exeter Cathedral, St George's Chapel at Windsor & the delightfully named Stoke Poges Church, the second half of the collection is mostly colourful post-WWII types including for Hollingworth Lake, Minehead, Fowey, Fakenham, Cley & Wiveton, Wells-Next-the-Sea & Blakeney etc, some bumped corners but generally fine to very fine.
(140 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 115.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 115
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1541
Symbol: C
JAPAN: pre-World War II collection with numerous obligatory temples & Zen scenery but also many better subjects including Portraits, Geishas, Villages, Tokyo Earthquake, Culture including a group of Asahido Theatre issues, etc, 20 or so with commemorative (?) cachets in violet, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Attractive lot.
(200 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 220.00
Sold...AU$ 220.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 220
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1542
Symbol: C
NORFOLK ISLAND: 1927 real photo PPC 'Watermill Valley NI' social usage to New Zealand with KGV 1½d red tied by poor 'NORFOLK ISLAND/AUSTRALIA' cds, minor bends. Message states "This is our road. 6 or 7 inches deep in soft brown sandy soil..." The ruins of the 1820s convict-built mill are in the middle-ground. A rare card. (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 75
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1543
Symbol: C
PACIFIC ISLANDS: Unsorted mostly Golden Age cards in a massive album with good selections from New Guinea including German Period, Papua mainly French missionary issues, Solomons, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fiji, Samoa, etc, numerous indigenous subjects including portraits, ceremonies & artefacts, condition variable but generally fine to very fine (140 approx); plus a similar number of modern tourist issues.
(250+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$600
Opening AU$ 460.00
Sold...AU$ 460.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 460
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1544
Symbol: C
RUSSIA: 1900-04 (circa) Undivided Backs of various artisans or vendors x12 (two used), circa 1905 artist card of peasant & verses about his difficult life, Feodor Chaliapin as Ivan the Terrifying (superb), early-1920s Armenia artist cards x7 most with Batum cancels, and a few others.
(24) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 150.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 150
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1545
Symbol: C
RUSSIA: 1906 colotype (?) cards of the 1905 Revolution with several views of the barricades a couple with rebels standing defiantly on top, others of bomb damage to buildings & infrastructure and of wreckage in the streets, almost certainly printed in Russia but with the captions also in French, most with some soiling & two have repaired tears, unused. Produced at a time when the authorities were easing restrictions on publishers but they remained under close surveillance.
(23) (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 230
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1546
Symbol: C
RUSSIA: 1910 (circa) satirical artist cards lampooning the pomposity of the aristocracy & military, one of a banker as a huge spider, fine to very fine, and two later of a boy in an oversize army uniform & a peasant woman both with red flags, both with a few blemishes, unused.
(13) (Image1)
