Australian & Colonial – Antique & Historical (#58MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-62 of 62. Previous|1|Next Lot 243 A collection of 8 'Australia Illustrated' books published by Edwin Carton Booth View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 244 CONVICT PARDON: A convict pardon on vellum for Michael Gorman, sentenced to 14 years transportation in March 1820. View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot 245 The Colonial Observer: October 1841 - 1842. Bound newspaper journal. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 246 c1853-1923 Ephemera range, noted 1874 "Victoria Yacht Club - Code of Signals" (few pages missing); 1901 Town of Brighton Federation certificate; 1901 Public Schools Prize List; map of the Gallipoli Peninsula; "Musketry Small Book for the Australian Imperial Force" [Sydney, 1916]; 1921 Anzac Day badge. View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 247 "VICTORIA ILLUSTRATED 1857", by S.T.Gill, 38 plates including frontispiece, Published by Sands and Kenny [Melbourne 1857] View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 248 EPHEMERA, range with 1857-58 insurance documents (2) for railway carriages; 1860-61 share transfers (2) for Melbourne & Suburban Railway Co.; 1863-70 Liens on Wool; 1872 J.B.Were broker's note; 1882-87 Town of Brighton valuation notices (3) & rate receipts (17); signatures including John Monash & Major General Edward Macarthur. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 249 Marianne Synnot (1836-1903, daughter of Captain Walter Synnot) diary with sketches & entries from 1859-63, kept whilst she was in Tasmania, c240 pages. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 250 BUSHRANGERS: 1863-78 engravings (5) from illustrated newspapers, noted "The Scene of Ben Hall's Capture and Death near Forbes, NSW" & "fatal Encounter with a Desperado at Dubbo NSW". All window mounted, various sizes. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 251 BUSHRANGERS - CAPTAIN MOONLITE (Andrew George Scott 1842-1880): c1858-79 archive (33 letters & documents). Includes extracts from his birth records in Ireland; documents from Scott’s time in NZ during the Maori Wars; documents re his activities in Sydney, Fiji & New Caledonia; 1870 Bill of Sale for purchase of Islands in Fiji; 1870 Bill of Sale for purchase of the ketch “Comet”; 3 signed letters from Scott in Pentridge; 3 manuscript notes related to siege at Wantabadgery. View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot 252 1868 Execution Warrant for John Hogan, gold miner convicted of murdering his partner; sentenced to hang at Castlemaine Gaol, his remains to be buried at the Gaol. Signed by Sir John Manners-Sutton, 5th Governor of Victoria. Plus Victorian Supreme Court Writ of Attachment. View details Estimate$400 - $800Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 253 Mining diary circa 1870s of South African born prospector Edwin Bray. Fascinating handwritten accounts of daily life prospecting in South Africa. With accompanying carte de visite. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 254 "The Weekly Examiner" Vol. 5, January to December 1876, [Launceston]. Half bound morroco marbled boards. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 255 WRECK OF THE LOCH ARD: Engraved illustrations from "The Australasian Sketcher" July 6, 1878, both window mounted, each overall 60x50cm. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 256 1880-1900 AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION: Collection including 1899 "Federation YES!" ribbon (illustrated in Wikipedia); 1899-1900 two House of Commons Bills bound as a book - "A Bill to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia" & "A Bill [As Amended in Committee] to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia"; engravings (5) from illustrated newspapers. Mainly G/VG condition. GSTex GST View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 257 BALLARAT: "Ballaaratania 1881-3. Descriptive Notes & Statistics" by J.B.H. [Ballarat 1883]; 1864-90 cheques (5); range of trade cards (5). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 258 "Picturesque Atlas Of Australasia" 3 volumes, [London, Melbourne, Mass., 1886] Full red morroco with embossed boards & title. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 259 CONVICT DOCUMENTS: c1889-97 documents (18) with photographs, description & previous convictions. GSTex GST View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$1,900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 260 UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT: LEDGER, James J. "In Search of a Home at the Antipodes" [Melbourne, 1890] A leather-bound hand-written description of the journey and experiences of James Ledger, emigrating from England in 1878; the sea journey, the experiences in New Zealand and ultimately, settling in Melbourne. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 261 SOAP/CLEANING: Accumulation of ephemera, c1890-1940s, with wrappers/ packaging & adverts, noted Eureka Soap (88), Volcano Brand (94), Peters Yankee Magic, Keystone Soap, Lifebuoy Soap, Sunlight Soap, Pears, Monkey Brand. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 262 c1890s Leporello Albums (concertina books), titled "Album of Sydney Views" & "Album of Sydney". Fair/Good condition. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 263 Illustration & children's book "A Southern Cross Fairy Tale" book by Kate McCosh Clark, London. Together with original watercolour illustration by Robert Atkinson (1863-1896) pictured in the book on page 6. Painting 26 x 34cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 264 PHIL MAY: Collection of c500 caricatures & cartoons from magazines in two albums; together with an original self-caricature signed at right. View details Estimate$200 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 265 DECORATIVE INVITATIONS, one for "Australasian Federal Convention 1898", other for 1901 "Opening of the Parliament of the Commonwealth" (minor faults). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 266 1899 Australasian Federal Referendum certificate, decorated with Parliament House and State Premiers, lithograph in colours, framed & glazed, overall 76x61cm. GSTex GST View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 267 1899 Australasian Federal Referendum certificate, decorated with Parliament House and State Premiers, lithograph in colours, framed and glazed, overall 60x43cm. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 268 1901 FEDERATION CEREMONIES: Collection with invitations (3); "Inaugural Celebrations at Sydney, Official Programme"; photos (5) of Federation Arches; silk lapel ribbon; medallions (4); souvenir newspapers (5); booklet "Commonwealth Celebrations. Sydney Descriptive & Illustrative"; book "The Inaugural Celebrations of the Commonwealth of Australia" by Keenan [Sydney, 1904... GSTex GST View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,200Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 269 1901 FEDERATION - OPENING OF PARLIAMENT: OHMS Envelope containing 4 invitations - Opening of Parliament Celebrations, 7 May Conversazione in the Exhibition Buildings; 9 May Opening of Parliament & 9 May Evening Reception; plus covering letter requesting replies by 15 April. GSTex GST View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 270 1901 FEDERATION - OPENING OF PARLIAMENT: Collection including "Programme of Celebrations"; programme for 9th May Reception; sheet music "A Nation's Birth"; invitation to Royal Review; entree cards (2 different); booklets "The Royal Visit" & ""The Duke & Duchess". GSTex GST View details Estimate$500 - $700Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 271 1901 FEDERATION: Souvenir Invitation, "In Celebration of the Opening, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia/ To meet Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall & York/ His Majesty's Ministers of State for Australia, have the honour to invite [Mrs Armstrong & Miss Armstrong], to an Evening Reception at the Exhibition Building Melbourne on the 9th May 1901, at 8 o'clock", attractive multi-coloured invitation (29x23cm), window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 79x73cm. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 272 "Addresses To H.R.H The Duke Of Cornwall & York And His Excellency The Governor General, The Earl Of Hopetoun From The Municipalities Of Victoria" published by Municipal Association of Victoria 1901. [McCarron, Bird & Co, Printers, &c, Melb], original red cloth boards with embossed gilt lettering View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 273 AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTERS COLLECTION, with ephemera, photographs, newspapers; plus signed letters/documents/pieces including Stanley Bruce, Joseph Lyons, Enid Lyons, Earle Page, Robert Menzies (2), Arthur Fadden (2), Ben Chifley, John McEwen, Bob Hawke & John Howard (4). Mainly G/VG. GSTex GST View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 274 SEARCH FOR CAPITAL CITY SITE: 1902-26 Collection, noted "Proposed Federal Capital Sites" [1902 NSW Govt Report with 70 pages of photos]; "Canberra - Capital City of the Commonwealth of Australia" [Melbourne, 1913]; 1902 letter; Govt Reports 1903, 1905, 1909 & 1926-27; book "The Bush Capital - How Australia Chose Canberra as its Federal City" by Pegrum [Sydney, 1983]. GSTex GST View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 275 Illuminated retirement certificate, leather bound, "To Samuel Summons Esq, MA LLB, from the Teachers of Metropolitan District No.4, and former Districts. Melbourne, April 8th, 1908". View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 276 SHACKLETON, E.H.: "The Heart of the Antarctic, being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909" [William Heinemann, London, 1909. Half-leather; First Edition. 4to]. Two volumes complete - Volume One - xxxvi, 371pp, [1] and Volume Two - xv, [1], 418pp, [2]. Rebound with raised bands, spines in six panels, with gilt rules and titles; marbled endpapers, with pocket to rear pastedown of Vol.Two for maps and panoramas. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusUnsold Lot 277 Souvenir brochures & broadsides including rare "Souvenir of Colac" compiled and published by the Colac Regatta Committee. "Pen & Ink Sketches at Lorne" by G. Brougham Austin. 11 items. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 278 PAINT/BOOKS: Ephemera range including nice group of blotters (7), including Taubmans & AB Australia's best Paints; other ephemera (4). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 279 1916 CONSCRIPTION REFERENDUM: Original 4-page Pamphlet from Prime Minister W.M.Hughes supporting the 'Yes' case; plus 3 lapel badges "NO", "YES" & "Oct 28 1916/ VOTE YES". GSTex GST View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$1,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 280 Australian children's books May Gibbs, Ida Rentoul, C.J. Dennis, noted "Little Obelia and Further Adventures of Ragged Blossom Snugglepot & Cuddlepie". 10 books. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 281 1927 OPENING OF PARLIAMENT HOUSE CANBERRA: Collection with Invitation booklet "To commemorate the establishment at Canberra..."; entree card "Visit of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke & Duchess of York"; leather souvenir wallet; b/w photograph of Prime Minister & Royals; pictorial booklet "1927 Canberra, Federal Capital"; report on Canberra in 'American Builder' issue June 1927. GSTex GST View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 282 1932 "Mickey Mouse" by Walt Disney, Book No.1 published by John Sands Ltd [Sydney] View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 283 1951 COMMONWEALTH JUBILEE: Collection including "Official Concert" programme; stamps; medallion; dinner menu with 30 signatures including Robert Menzies, Earle Page & Arthur Fadden; books (3) including "Commonwealth of Australia Jubilee Celebrations 1901-1951" with slip 'With the Compliments of the Prime Minister'. GSTex GST View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 284 "WINSTON CHURCHILL: A Tribute" by Sir Robert Menzies given on the occasion of the State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, January 30, 1965. Hardcover, edition 481/500, designed, printed & bound by Wilke & Co., Melbourne. Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies was a sharp critic of Churchill during the early war years. Nonetheless, Menzies delivered a personal and fulsome tribute from the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral on the occasion of Churchill's funeral. GSTex GST View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 285 "The Australian Aboriginal Heritage - An Introduction through the Arts" by Berndt & Phillips [Sydney, 1973], folio with book, two LP records & 25 colour transparencies. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 286 "Eugene von Guerard's Australian Landscapes" by Marjorie Tipping [Melbourne, 1975], limited edition No.164 signed by the author. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 287 "WALLY AND THE MAJOR", original cartoons (38) by Carl Lyon (1903-82), pen & ink on paper, all signed lower right, each about 56x21cm. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot 288 "Australia Unveiled: The Share of the Dutch navigators in the discovery of Australia: by Schilder [Amsterdam, 1976]. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$130StatusSold Lot 289 "Victoria The Golden. Scenes, Sketches and Jottings From Nature by William Strutt, Melbourne, Victoria, 1850-1862" by Marjorie Tipping [Melbourne, 1980]. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 290 BRETT WHITELEY: "Another Way of Looking at Vincent Van Gogh 1888-1889" by Brett Whiteley [Melbourne, 1983], signed by the artist, and with the 3 etchings framed separately - all artists proofs with Whiteley's stamped monogram. View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot 291 PAPUA NEW GUINEA: A collection of books and pamphlets including , "Frank Hurley in Papua: Photographs of the 1920-1923 Expeditions" by Jim Specht and John Fields [1984], "Sepik Heritage: Tradition and Change in Papua New Guinea" by Nancy Lutkehaus [1990], "Faces And Voices of Papua New Guinea: A National Family Album" by Brash, Reis and Shimauchi [1986] plus 73 others (76 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 292 "The Southland Explored - The voyage by Willem Hesselsz de Vlamigh in 1696-97" by Schindler [Netherlands, 1984], folders (6) each containing booklet and 9 large colour reproductions of chart and coastal profiles of WA. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 293 "Three Panoramic Views of Port Jackson, in New South Wales, with the town of Sydney, and the adjacent scenery. Engraved by R.Havell & Son, After original drawings by Major Taylor between 1817 & 1822", limited edition 64/100, three plates from the original copper plates now in the State Library of NSW. Elephant folio, maroon cloth folder with ties, title label on front [Sydney, 1988]. View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Price Realized$2,700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 294 "St.Kilda & Brighton Railway Company", 8 share certificates to George Henry Hough (1) & Henry Austin (7) of Melbourne, dated 1859. View details Estimate$500 - $600StatusUnsold Lot 295 "The Melbourne & Suburban Railway Company", 6 share certificates to David Scallan of Melbourne, November 1859. Very attractive and scarce. View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Lot 296 "The Melbourne & Suburban Railway Company", 11 share certificates to John Hastie of Melbourne, August 1860; plus certificate transferring these shares to George Henry Hough of Burrumbeet in Dec.1860. Very attractive and scarce. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot 297 "City of Melbourne Gas and Coke Company", 1857-71 group with Transfer certificates (5); Call receipts (6) & Company notices (4). View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 298 "The Bank of Adelaide", 3 share certificates to Eliza Mary Andrews of Norwood; W.H.Bartley & G.W.Hawkes; Hillary Boucant of Adelaide, all dated 1872. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 299 "Suburban Bus & Tram Car Company Limited", 3 share certificates to J.F.Arnold of Melbourne, dated July 1878. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 300 1880s share certificates ex Ballarat printer F.W.Niven, noted Kaiser Gold Mining Company, Butler's Extended Freehold Gold Mining Company, Prince of Wales Birthday Quartz Mining Company, The New Koh-i-Noor Gold Mining Company. Poor/G condition. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 301 "Terry's West End Brewery Limited", 3 share certificates to E.L.Zox of Melbourne, dated 1881-83. View details Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$1,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 302 "The Tankard Malting Company Limited", 3 share certificates to Ephrain L.Zox of Melbourne, dated 1886; plus "Montgomerie's Brewery Company Limited, West Melbourne", share certificate to James Warne of Melbourne dated 1888. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 303 1880s share certificates, noted The Imperial Banking Company, The Mercantile Bank of Australia, R.Goldsborough & Company, Permewan Wright and Company, Melbourne National Property Land & Investment Co, The Australian Financial Agency and Guarantee Company. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 304 c1890-1979 share certificates, mostly Australian, noted Chaffey Bros, Limited - The Australian Irrigation Colonies; The London Bank of Australia Limited (2); Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada (7). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next