Australian & Colonial – Antique & Historical (#38MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-100 of 476. Previous|12345|Next Lot #1 A pair of Tasmanian Huon Pine frames, 48 x 56.5 x 8.5 cm View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #2 COLE'S BOOK ARCADE: Literary plates (2), egg shaped advertising tin, postcards (2), 3 tokens & circular tin. Late 19th to early 20th century. (9 items) View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$2,000StatusSold Lot #3 THOMAS WOOLNER plaster relief plaque of Dr. Godfrey Howitt renowned early Melbourne public identity who emigrated to Melbourne in 1840. Howitt formed a close relationship with Woolner who also did a plaque of Mrs Howitt & other Melbourne dignitaries including Governor Latrobe. Mid 19th century, diameter 25cm. PROVENANCE: By direct family descent View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Price Realized$11,000StatusSold Lot #4 ROYAL WORCESTER: Porcelain cup & saucer, painted with Australian Flannel flowers, early 20th century View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #5 Antique walking sticks. Carved blackwood & a metamorphic stick with silver plaque "Presented To W.Pinnington Esq. By The Members, Portwood Working Men's Club On His Resigning Office As Hon. Treasurer Feb. 17th (18)96". (2 items) View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #6 Pair of scrimshaw cow horns carved with various portraits & horses. 19th century. Approx. 37cm each View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #7 A fine Scrimshaw whales tooth, 19th century decorated with a wrap around ship. Length 13cm View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #8 Two sailor engraved shells, 19th century one engraved Toad Miller, dated 1893 the other engraved Marry Christmas 8cm high, 7.5cm wide View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #9 A whalebone, baleen and spiral carved walking cane, 19th century. 78cm long View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #10 A fist carved whalebone walking cane, 19th century 85.5cm long View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #11 A whalebone baleen and carved wood cane, 19th century turned fish scale and spiral carved. 83cm long View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #12 A whalebone baleen and turned wood cane, 19th century 81cm long View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #13 An unusual whalebone and turned wood sailor’s love token, 19th century;engraved to one end ‘MYSTIC*CONN’ and at the other end with the name of the sailor ‘W*T*RAMSEY’ 14.2cm long View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #14 A whalebone fid, 19th century. Length 25cm View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #15 An antique whalebone pastry crimper with love heart finial, 19th century 15.8cm long View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #16 A whalebone seam rubber, 19th century 12.5cm long View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #17 Two whalebone and steel sailors chisels, 19th century. 27.5cm and 27cm long View details Estimate$250 - $400Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #18 Whaler's killing lance, marked "Mortimer, London Cast Steel", 19th century. 177cm View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Price Realized$2,500StatusSold Lot #19 BRAND muzzle loading percussion shoulder Whaling & Bomb Lance Gun with skeleton stock. 19th century. 96cm View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$2,000StatusSold Lot #20 Two 19th century whale bone sweetheart brooches (one with silver clasp). 4 x 2.5cm each View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #21 Whale harpoon, double flued, 19th century. 94cm View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #22 Whale harpoon, single flued, stamped "SCHEIBNER", 19th century. 99.5cm View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #23 Large percussion muzzle loading swivel harpoon gun marked Greener. London 1857. Together with two Greener type double flued sliding ring harpoons. Also marked "G.H. Gilks, Tower Hill, London". These items where part of a private museum collection & also include a reproduction of Oswald Brierly 1867 painting "Whaler's off Twofold Bay". Gun 137cm. (4 items) View details Estimate$20,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #24 Toggle iron harpoon, 19th century. 98cm View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #25 Whale blubber spade stamped "SCORBAR(?), LONDON". In 19th century relic condition. 55cm View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$450StatusSold Lot #26 Whaler's narrow cutting boat spade. 19th century relic condition. 93cm View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$450StatusSold Lot #27 Whale harpoon, mid 19th century with articulated barb. 67cm View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #28 Sailors whale tooth display. Two teeth carved & engraved mounted in a cedar & glass case, mid 19th century. Case height 10cm x width 12.5cm, depth 5cm View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #29 Pair of scrimshaw whales teeth depicting ladies in costume, 19th century. 10.5cm View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #30 Scrimshaw whales tooth decorated with a three masted ship and laurel, 19th century. 12cm high View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #31 Scrimshaw whales tooth decorated with a three-masted ship 19th Century 17cm high View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #32 Toggle iron whale harpoon, 19th century. 82cm View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #33 Whale harpoon, single flued stamped "A.S. London". 19th century. 85cm View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #34 An erotic Scrimshaw whales tooth, "Coming into Port", 19th Centry. 12.5cm long View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #35 Brass powder flask, 19th century. 20.5cm View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #36 Embossed leather powder flask, 19th century. 24cm View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #37 Whaler's knife with Whalebone grip & leather scabbard, 19th century. 46cm View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot #38 Ship's captain surgical kit, incomplete but rare. Housed in a fitted brass bound mahogany box with makers plaque "Evans & Wormull, London". Height 7.5cm, width 45cm, depth 17.5cm View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #39 An early colonial Australian mortar carved with the initials & date "G.F. 1823". Eucalypt possibly stringybark. Height 12cm, width 32cm. PROVENANCE: Ex Jane Thomas collection View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$5,250StatusSold Lot #40 "HOBART TOWN" Circa 1825 Staffordshire earthen ware plate with blue & white transfer pattern. (After) George William Evans who originally published the image as a frontispiece to his book on the colony in 1822. Earliest known depiction of Australia on porcelain or earthen ware. Extremely rare & desirable. Diameter 23cm View details Estimate$5,000 - $10,000Price Realized$4,000StatusSold Lot #41 SILHOUETTE portrait picture in timber frame with labels verso "Dearest George at the age of 10 done at .....(?), 1830/31. J.E.S, Jan 1845"; & a later early 20th century label "Youngest son of Col. Wm. Sorell Gov. of Tasmania Jan. 1845". William Sorell became Governor of Van Diemen's Land in 181 View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #42 AUSTRALIAN STOCKWHIPS & OTHER CURIOS: Museum standard life-time collection of stockwhip handles, walking sticks & walking stick handles. Predominantly Australian origin ranging from early 19th to mid 20th century. Many fine examples including fiddleback blackwood, casurina, mulga wood & various Australian hardwoods. View details Estimate$30,000 - $40,000Price Realized$24,000StatusSold Lot #43 A rare lamp from Australia’s free settler history. This “Candle Lanthorne” was made available to free settlers for their sea voyage to Australia where compartment lighting was very dim. The brass label on the lamp is inscribed: “Price Patent Candle Company Ltd, Government Emigrant Ship Lanthorne No 3610, Registered July, 1854.” The lantern is octagonal in shape with a pierced lid and hinged top with eight glass sides. 49 cm tall, 23 cm diameter. EXTREMELY RARE View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Price Realized$3,800StatusSold Lot #44 Trade Tokens: Group of 11 mid 19th century Australian shop tokens, noted "Andrews & Co Drapers, 11 Lonsdale st West" dated 1862 with kangaroo & emu; "1861 J.R.Grundy Merchant Ballaarat"; "George McGregor, City Tea Warehouse, Sydney". Inspection will reward. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot #45 Tasmanian Centre Piece. Huon pine, casuarina, blackwood, King Billy pine & whale bone. Mid 19th century. 56cm View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$5,500StatusSold Lot #46 Ben Hall Bushranger Presentation Epergne: View details Estimate$100,000 - $150,000StatusUnsold Lot #47 Muzzle loading single barrel percussion rifle marked Wm. Wallace, 19th century. 117cm View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #48 Powder flask with embossed motif, 19th century. 21.5cm View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #49 Small pistol powder flask, brass & copper. 19th century. 13cm View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #50 Two convict ball and chains and a lead cannon ball, the largest 13cm diameter View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #51 Colonial wooden pouring vessel decorated with bands of ring turnings, 19th century, unknown origin. 36cm View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #52 Huon pine picture frame, 19th century with NICHOLAS CHEVALIER etching titled "Mallee Scrub, Victoria". Frame 42 x 39.5cm View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #53 An unusual silver plated vase engraved with waratahs, flannel flowers, parrot, magpie & swallow. Circa 1870s in the Aesethetic movement style. 32.5cm View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #54 KANGAROO embossed notepaper: March 1875 - Dec.1877 group of (3) letters from Thomas Woods to John Jeremiah; each on notepaper with a kangaroo embossed at top in black, reddish-brown or bright-blue. GSTex GSTSymbolD View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #55 POT LIDS: "Victoria Tooth Paste, Mr Iliffe Dentist Melbourne" emblazoned with coat of arms (8cm); "Cherry Tooth Paste, Bowen & Co. Melbourne" (6.5cm). 2 items View details Estimate$700 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #56 Glass beaker with etched coat of arms "Advance Australia", circa 1888. Height 13cm View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #57 Taxidermied fairy penguin in glass dome, late 19th century. Dome 46cm View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Price Realized$1,700StatusSold Lot #58 New South Wales Colonial Government weights. This historically significant set of 7 brass weights was used as the official compliance standard for all weights & scales in the colony. Each weight is engraved "SYDNEY NEW SOUTH WALES 1850" & again with a series of marks including the Queens crown & "V" for Victoria. Weights range from 1lb. to 56lb. View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000StatusUnsold Lot #59 Telescope by W.J.Macdonnell of Sydney, 19th century with black finish & later tripod. Macdonnell is one of Australia's most noted amateur astronomers of the 19th century. Length 150cm, width 90mm View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot #60 Two antique brass shop advertising signs; "VIOLIN, PIANO, Mr Hamish W. Russel. Winchfield & Hermann 397 Lonsdale St", & "ELOCUTION. Mr Hamish W.Russel". 45 x 30cm each View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #61 HIP FLASK: Sterling silver by Stokes & Ireland Ltd. of Chester, circa 1896, engraved "Sir T.N.FitzGerald. Melbourne 10.3.00". Thomas Naghten FitzGerald was the first Australian knighted for medicine & practised in Londsdale Street in Melbourne. FitzGerald sported a fine art collection which boasted the famous Jules Levebure oil "Chloe" which adorned Young & Jackson's in Melbourne for many years. Approx. 440 grams View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #62 Pair of unusual folk art bamboo posts each one carved with portraits of Prime Minister Edmund Barton, King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra as well as the Australian coat of arms emblazoned with "ADVANCE AUSTRALIA", Early 20th century. 167cm View details Estimate$120 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #63 BOOKENDS: Pair in fiddleback blackwood & burl myrtle with barber pole string inlay. Height 14cm View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #64 ROBERT PRENZEL (school of) carved floral panel, pencil inscription verso "Miss Dowdell, Albion Park". 21 x 35cm View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #65 Taxidermied PLATYPUS, early 20th century. With facsimile hand written note "To the grandchild who should be intrusted. This was stuffed & mounted by your Great Grandfather Carmelo Mastorana. Year about 1912 (or there about) Australian Platypus or Ornithorynchus." 42cm View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$2,600StatusSold Lot #66 Australian Arts & Crafts box. Jarrah, copper & enamel. Lid beautifully carved with gum blossoms, leaves & nuts with a circular hand beaten copper panel adorned with a jade green enamel disc. Stamped on the base "W.HOWITT. Art Worker". Carver endorsement under lid "Tom. To. Joe. March 17. 1911". Height 13.5, width 33cm, depth 17cm View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$2,000StatusSold Lot #67 Tram plate (1) and tram tickets (11). View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #68 Badges & medallions including 9ct gold A.I.F "Rising Sun" brooch, 15ct gold medallion & "Royal Society" silver brooch. (8 items) View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #69 WALKING STICK. Finely carved walking cane with inscription "J.G.H. Souvenir 1918 Langres France". 93cm View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #70 Wall cabinet, cedar & glass with early 20th century telephone list. Height 44cm, width 25cm View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #71 ROBERT PRENZEL (1866-1941): Carved portrait of an aboriginal man, signed & dated 1924 lower right. 57 x 63cm View details Estimate$20,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #72 Hat boxes (4) and advertising ware, Akubra and Fayrefield hats. Plus reproduction advertising print. (5 items) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #73 Point of sale advertising; Guardian cotton canvas tent, Miller's anchor brand rope, Chadwicks bucket handles (2) early to mid 20th century. 4 items. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #74 Sea turtle shell, early 20th century. Length 70cm View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #75 Sea turtle shell, circa 1930s. Length 45cm View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #76 "NEWMANS Celebration Chocolates" tins (2) commemorating Melbourne 1834-1934 View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #77 GRIFFITHS BROS. Tea tin "Victoria's Centenary 1834-1934 Choice Tea 20lb". Lithograph view of Melbourne skyline, rare in this 20lb large size. View details Estimate$500 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #78 GRIFFITHS BROS. Tea tins "By Special Appointment To His Excellency The Governor General", 5lb & 7lb. (2 items) View details Estimate$200 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #79 Brass oval company plaque "J.C.Brown & Co. Engineers. Geelong" c1930s. 14 x 9cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #80 Car hood ornaments: 1929 Graham-Paige mascot, Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (2), Royal Automobile Association of South Australia. (4 items) View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #81 New South Wales Fire Brigade vintage brass helmet and accompanying woollen tunic. (2 items) View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #82 Australian Film Award 1946 "Presented by the Victorian Branch of The Royal Empire Society Awarded to THE OVERLANDERS Produced by Ealing Studios London". Bronze statue by Stanley Hammond dated 1947 on marble base with silver plaque. 17cm View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #83 BALANCE OF COLLECTION, noted c1968 political poster "Boltwhole"; 1956 Olympics programme & tickets (4); range of cartoon books (23) including Pickering; cricket programmes (12); reprinted Russian theatre posters; Fenech v Nelson poster. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #84 An early Australian Platypus rug of 56 pelts, the animals taken from the Namoi River at Manilla, Northern New South Wales, circa 1900 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Price Realized$22,500StatusSold Lot #85 Glass goblet with etched lyrebird, signed H.Hiebl, 20th century. 18cm View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #86 Penfolds Grange Hermitage Bin 95 Vintage 1980. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #87 MERRIC BOYD (attributed): Cream & brown pottery vase with applied apple & leaves in landscape. 17.5cm View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #88 MERRIC & EMMA MINNIE BOYD: Pottery vase thrown by Merric Boyd with handpainted night landscape signed E.M.Boyd 1927. PROVENANCE: Hurnall Collection Joels Auction. Height 12.5cm View details Estimate$600 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #89 FOWLER Convict ginger beer pottery bottle, straight impressed mark on the shoulder. c1840s. 17cm View details Estimate$1,600 - $1,800Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #90 Australian pottery water filter, 19th century with coat of arms & "Whites Dripstone. Advance Australia" applied on the front. With original or period filter. 40cm View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #91 MERRIC BOYD: Pottery vase with incised gum leaf, dated 1922. Height 11cm View details Estimate$200 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #92 MERRIC BOYD Pottery vase with hand painted landscape scene, incised signature dated 1941. 10cm View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #93 MERRIC BOYD pottery vase, signed & dated 1924. Height 8.5cm, width 12cm View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #94 MERRIC BOYD pottery vase with painted landscape scene, incised signature dated 1946. Height 5.5cm, width 7.5cm View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #95 MERRIC BOYD Green glazed pottery vase, incised signature dated 1929. 10cm View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #96 GRACE SECCOMBE pottery koala statue, circa 1930s. 10cm View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #97 REGAL MASMAN: Regal Art Ware art deco pottery vase in the style of Keith Murray. 17cm View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #98 MERRIC BOYD: Pottery bowl with applied gumnuts & leaves glazed in green, signed & dated 1930. Width 13cm View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #99 PPP, Premier Pottery Preston: Pair of dribble glazed cylindrical pottery vases with flared rims, early 1930s. 17cm each View details Estimate$400 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #100 PPP Premier Pottery Preston pottery vase with lid. Unusual colourway & design. Lid ill fitting but most likely correct. 24cm View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345|Next Previous 12345 Next Previous 12345 Next
