The Picture Postcard as Art: Images from the Golden Era (#85MG) 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 1-87 of 87. Previous|1|Next Lot 235 Handy bundle from all States including 1907 Murwillumbah Fires (NSW), 1910 "Wycheproof Hospital" (Vic), a few Victorian Railways types, etc, strong South Australia content including 1909 "Opening the Centenary Tower, Mount Gambier" & Cole Series "St Thomas Church Port Lincoln", some postmark interest including squared-circles, generally good to fine. (80 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 236 Mostly Victorian group including a beautiful Niven for Michaelis Hallenstein & Co Tannery (minor blemishes), advertising Card for Federal Hotel, a few Gippsland including real photo "Mitchell River, Lower Wharf" & "Metung", etc, generally good to very fine. (36) Symbolc View details Estimate$140Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 237 Superior group from NSW with Agriculural Show types for Sydney Bega & Yass and "Opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge"; South Australia with "A Fire Alarm - Racing to the Scene" & Trans-Australian Railway "Meeting of Tracklayers from East & West"; Victoria "Proposed Anglican Church at Meredith", squatter & horse living in a tree stump!!, 1934 Frankston Scout Jamboree multi-response type, Summerscales "Eureka Monument, Ballarat"; etc, & a few WWI including "Morning Parade No 16 AGH Mont Park" & a grou Symbolcps View details Estimate$500Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 238 Album with strong Victorian content with better Cards from Ballarat, Bendigo & the Mornington Peninsular, useful NSW & Queensland content, three Schools Patriotic Fund Cards from South Australia, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex DB McFarlane. (120+) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 239 Wide-ranging group with lots of real photo types including "Swaggers Camp on the river", "A Whale at Eden" (men sitting on the carcass) & "RMS Mariposa Passing under Sydney Harbor [sic] Bridge", many Outback scenes including a few superb Kerry shots, also a few Gold Mining, 1905 5d Stamp Jubilee Card (unused), Tasmanian 1908 Franco-British Exhibition "A Prize Merino Ram" (unused), "Federal Labour [sic] Party: Second Parliament", World War I including eight "silks" (one with the original insert C Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 240 Two old albums with coverage from all States but strength in Victoria with strong Melbourne content including sketches by Douglas Pratt x6 (plus two of Adelaide), National Gallery Treasures x10, a few Melbourne Suburbs & some Gippsland, etc, also Commonwealth Immigration Office x7 (issued at 1924 or 1925 Wembley Exhibition in London), condition variable but generally fine to very fine. (few 100) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 241 Two boxes of modern Cards advertising all manner of products & services or promoting support for a myriad causes, some duplication, unused. (1000+) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100Price Realized$50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 242 Large album of Greetings Cards with lots of Floral & Heraldic/Flags types, many others with vignette scenes within elaborate borders, also novelty types with fold-out views, gumleaves stitched to the Card x7, "Hands Across the Sea" types x18, "A Handful of Australia" x20, "A Footprint of Memory" x5, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Shirley Jones. (220 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 243 Box of scarce Cards with numerous Undivided Backs some with the view occupying 50-75% of the view side, many others with central scenes in elaborate borders - some with additional vignette scenes - including H&B x6, Kerry "By Lagoon & Creek" etc x12, F&J Gum Leaf Series x12, Valentine with Gold Frame x8, Art Series Floral Borders x13, MS Series Floral Horseshoe x8, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. A very attractive lot. Ex Shirley Jones. (120 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 244 Album with Melbourne Suburbans from Prahran x3 & Malvern x3, Swaggy Cards x3 including an advertising Card for Viceroy Tea (surface fault, still attractive), a lovely embossed 'ADVANCE/AUSTRALIA' Card, four "Coo-ee" Cards (two with an aboriginal theme), & a few others, condition a bit variable but many are unused; also the original packets - a few faults - for "Beauty Spots of Melbourne" Series 1, 3 and 4 to 8. Ex Shirley Jones. (74 items) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 245 Collection of mostly real-photo "Greetings from" Cards for many towns, some are hand-tinted, also Christmas & other festive occasions, etc, generally fine to very fine. Ex Shirley Jones. (140+) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 246 Four volume collection with New South Wales x128 with a few Undivided Backs, strength in Sydney & the Harbour plus useful country including real photos of "Hospital Friday" in Grafton and multi-views of Walgett & Penrith/Nepean Hospitals; Queensland x36 including for 1908 Franco-British Exhibition x7; South Australia x16; Tasmania x24 with real photos x12 including 1925 multi-view for Centenary of St Mary's Church at New Norfolk; Victoria x56 including two very early Undivided Backs (Jolley ?) & Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$2,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 247 1901 "Links of Empire" Series for the Royal Visit by the Duke & Duchess of York to Open the First Federal Parliament in Melbourne on 9th May 1901 comprising No 6 (kangaroo), 7 ("Parliament House, Adelaide"), 8 ("Sydney Harbour") & 9 ("Brisbane"), the first with Melbourne cds of 6.5.01, the others with cds of the relevant cities. Very scarce. [See also Lots 204 & 205] (4) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$240StatusUnsold Lot 248 1906 Sanatoria Home for Consumptive Women "stamp" Cards for the six States and New Zealand, unused & rarely available this fine. (7) SymbolcGradea-/a+ View details Estimate$250Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 249 1907 Regal Post Card "The Kelly Gang - From an original Photograph", unused. Ex Bronte Watts. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 250 1908 Visit of the American "Great White Fleet" comprising real photos of arrival in Sydney x2 (one hand-tinted) & in Melbourne, Walter Davies Celebrations x2, Kimbel & Co and Crown Studios Military Review, Martin Place Bedecked, hand-tinted "On Deck of Connecticut" and four patriotic types, mostly unused & generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. [At the time, the crowds in Sydney & Melbourne were the largest ever experienced in Australia] (13) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$400Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 251 1908 Visit of the American "Great White Fleet" better Cards 1) The Fleet & Crossed Flags "Greetings to our American Friends", unused; 2) Robert Jolley Uncle Sam & Bushman with Crossed Flags "Australia Greets America", unused; 3) Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred Deakin, emblems & "In God we Both Trust"; 4) WTP of Admiral Sperry & Flags; and 5) Uncle Sam & Kangaroo Shaking Hands & "Cooee Australia Greets America". The last two are unusual vertical formats. (5) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 252 1910 Socialist Federation of Australasia "The Red Flag Brigade...Jailed for Protesting against the Coercion Act", minor blemishes, unused. Great social history. [Not previously seen by us] SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$100Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 253 1934 Kisch-Griffin Defence Committee petition Card to Attorney-General Robert Menzies demanding release of Egon Kisch & Gerald Griffin jailed "because they could not pass an absurd language test which is not given to all immigrants...", minor blemishes, unused. [This was a major cause célèbre. Kisch was a German Jew & Communist who was invited by private groups to lecture in Australia. He was considered political dynamite, was treated as a criminal & deported on the "Strathaird", from which he SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$100Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 254 1934 Royal Visit real photo "HMS Sussex/1934/Royal Tour" with illustration of the route from GB to Australia plus photos of the ship, Sydney Harbour Bridge & the Duke of Gloucester, ink note on reverse, unused. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 255 ABORIGINES: Excellent mounted collection with strength in South Australian & Western Australian subjects but also some NSW & Queensland plus Spurling "Aborigines of Tasmania (An extinct race)", includes a couple of museum Cards & missionary types notably a great shot of "Children of Colebrook Home, Quorn, with Missionaries", Trans-Australian Railway x6 from various series, black trackers & "Aboriginal Prisoner Chained to a Tree", Kerry portraits, corroborees, several with Aboriginal motifs print Symbolc View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$2,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 256 ABORIGINES: the companion group of real photo types including portraits & family groups, housing, etc, two for Point McLeay Mission (South Australia), and a fabulous shot of two aboriginal women in an old jallopy with the caption "Advance Australia" (!), condition a bit variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (22) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$2,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 257 ABORIGINES: c.1900 City Printing Works (Brisbane) four Cards each with one or two aboriginal portraits, bumped corners, unused. Rare. Ex Bronte Watts. (4) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 258 ABORIGINES: VSM Series of Aboriginal "types" from each State by James Charles Nuttall in shades of red & purple, a few minor blemishes, unused. A rare early set. (6) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 259 ABORIGINES: ditto, the more attractive coloured set each with "Greetings from the Antipodes", minor aging/blemishes, South Australia is used in 1907 otherwise unused. Far more elusive than the previous lot. (6) SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 260 ADVERTISING: Attractive group including for Carlyon's Hotel & Café (Melbourne), China Navigation Co, Esplanade Hotel (Inverloch Vic), Ludbrook's Drapers (Colac with rare 'PAID AT COLAC/ ½D /SE10/10/VIC' cds; not listed by Watson Webster & Wood), McPherson's Pty Ltd Merchants (Melbourne), Borough of Horsham advice Card etc, also a gorgeous dirigible Card for Swallow & Ariell's Biscuits & Cakes (repaired spike-hole, with scarce 'TPO 9/ DOWN.../VICTORIA' cds), condition variable. Ex "Cartophile". ( Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 261 ADVERTISING: Group from South Australia with Adelaide Steamship Co fold-out type, York Hotel Adelaide, Elder Smith & Co illustrated KGV 1d green Postal Card, & superb chromo-litho type for Australasian Implement Co; and Victoria Tooboorac Bee Farm (creased) & FA Crook Cycle Builder. (6) SymbolcpsGradea+/b View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 262 ADVERTISING: 1925-1950s Clarkson & Sons Homewares (Adelaide) advice Cards with various illustrations on the address side including "Tools That Last!", "Asbestolite", "Resirex" Asbestos Roofs, House Paint, Bathrooms, Mirrors etc & a terrific all-different array of truisms & aphorisms encouraging thrift, endeavour etc on the view side. Our favourite applies to many in the philatelic trade: "One thing is certain about dead stock: the longer you keep it, the deader it gets". A wonderful lot to help SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$400Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 263 ARTIST CardS: Various with Birds by JM Cantle x17 including a few Birds of Paradise, Neville Cayley x9 & "Praetorius" x6; Flowers by Janie Craig x6, Margaret Flockton x4 & Stanway Tapp x4; others by ST Gill x3, Herbert Beecroft x8, Douglas Pratt drawings x2, Leslie Board x8, cutesie Cards by Mabel Edmonds x18, etc; condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (150+) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 264 ARTIST CardS: Album of Cards by ET de Closay x6, Leslie Board x4, Charles Hammond x13 including "How We Beat the Favourite" x6 (horse racing), LH Davey x18 mostly Tasmanian scenes, C Young x15, R Riches x4, AH Fullwood x16, Arthur Streeton (creased), etc, lots of Bush Scenes, Landscapes & Seascapes but other subjects noted, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Shirley Jones. (170 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$850StatusUnsold Lot 265 ARTIST CardS: Selection of hand-illustrated postCards or postCard-size Cards from Australia, UK, Germany etc, plus some that we can't convince ourselves are done by hand, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Inspection recommended. Ex Shirley Jones. (70+) Symbolc View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 266 ARTIST CardS: Humorous Cards by Stuart Allan x2, Fred Booty x13, Hal Gye x7, "Handy" x10, "Hop" x5, Norman Lindsay x2 ("Australian Natives"), Frank Mahon "Bulletin" Card (defective), Phil May x6 (and a real photo of Phil May), Redmond Nolan x5, LB Taylor x8, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Some still tickle the modern funnybone. Ex Bronte Watts. (100+) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 267 ARTIST CardS: Outback & Rural Australia Cards by P Campbell x6, LH Davey x7, ET Declosay x5, Charles Hammond x9 including "Robbery Under Arms" set of 6, J Hutchings x28, MacInnes x6, JH Scheltema x9, JA Turner x28 & C Young x8 etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (110+) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 268 ARTIST CardS: Album with Bush Scenes by JH Scheltema x9, J Hutchings x40+, P Campbell x6 & A McInnes x6, plus Wildflowers by various artists x35, condition variable but generally very fine used. Ex Shirley Jones. (105) Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 269 ARTIST CardS: FRED BOOTY: VSM Watercolours "Rough Seas" complete (?) set that are so striking that the Cards themselves could have been hand-painted!, one with a repaired tear but generally very fine used. Ex Shirley Jones. [Booty is best known for his often hilarious comic Cards: see Lot 266] (12) SymbolcGradea/(b) View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 270 ARTIST CardS: AR BURNETT: c.1906 The Herald "Ten Best Citizens of Victoria" caricatures comprising Chief Justice John Madden, Premier Thomas Bent, former Premiers Sir George Turner & William Irvine, Australia's second Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, Chief Secretary Sir Samuel Gillott, welfare worker Selina Sutherland, social reformer Rev AR Edgar, socialite Janet Lady Clarke & entrepreneur/politician George Coppin, a few minor blemishes but generally very fine unused; also the defective front of SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$750Price Realized$575StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 271 ARTIST CardS: AH FULLWOOD: Selection of Tuck "Oilettes" including City Views, Goldmining, Outback, Swaggies, Trade, Jenolan Caves x3 etc, also some New Zealand views, condition variable but many are very fine to superb. Ex Bronte Watts. (51) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 272 ARTIST CardS: MAY GIBBS: Selection of her whimsical Gumnut Babies comprising "Gumnut Series" No 4 5 9 10 & 12, and "We're still alive and kicking", #4 & 5 are unused, #12 with abrasions on the address side; also a gumnut bookmark & "Pearling in the Nor West" (unused); generally fine to very fine. Delightful. Ex Bronte Watts. (8) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 273 ARTIST CardS: "I'm still at the same old game!" (playing Cards), unused. Superb! SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$200Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 274 ARTIST CardS: "I Hope you're still bowling along" (lawn bowls), unused. Superb! SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$200Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 275 ARTIST CardS: "Hope you're still going strong" (tennis, or badminton), unused. Superb! SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 276 ARTIST CardS: "Christmas Bell Babies Grow in Australia (they ring you Joy)" with the address side blank, unused. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 277 ARTIST CardS: NORMAN LINDSAY: Bulletin Series No 5 "Turf", used in New Zealand in 1908, minor blemishes. SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 278 ARTIST CardS: Bulletin Series No 5 "The Shanty-keeper", used in New Zealand in 1909, minor toning around the stamp. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 279 ARTIST CardS: Bulletin Series No 5 "The Swaggy", used in Queensland in 1907. Superb! Ex Bronte Watts. SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot 280 ARTIST CardS: IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE: Selection of her whimsical fairy Cards including three rare types incorporating Australian fauna, also black & white "The Home of the Bunyip", a few are unused; plus Maisie Carte x4 including three patriotics (one with surface abrasions); generally fine to very fine. Delightful. Ex Bronte Watts. (20) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 281 ARTIST CardS: HAL SOUTER: Selection including glamour & ballroom dancing, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Droll group. Ex Bronte Watts. (25) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 282 ARTIST CardS: Harding & Billings humorous ballroom dancing comprising "The Cakewalk", The Lancers", "The Polka", "The Skirt Dance", "The Waltz" & "The Gavotte", some minor toning/discolouration on the view sides, unused. A rare set. (6) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot 283 ARTIST CardS: JA TURNER: Extensive collection of Bush Scenes from various series, noted as being almost complete "Total needed 7"(!), some scenes are duplicated but have different colouration or embellishments etc & some have advertising for Swallow & Ariell Biscuits, RA Dickinson Shoes & Boots (Hawthorn), Chittick Bros Bakers (Seymour) and Ward Lock & Co PostCard Retailers, also a couple of novelty types & a few tiny versions with 1923 calendars printed on the reverse, finally a lovely "Where Symbolc View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$2,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 284 AVIATION: Real photo group comprising 1920 "Sir Ross Smith & Sir Keith Smith" (creased) & "Arrival of Ross Smith 23.3.20" (the Vickers "Vimy" at Darwin), Adelaide Wine & Spirit Co advertising Card "Capt B Hinkler AFC arrives in Australia and is welcomed by his Mother" with facsimile signature in blue, Beagles (London) "Mr HG Hawker's Joyous Arrival in London" x4 different (one with minor corner bend, otherwise superb), W Audoss (Murat Bay) "Amy Johnson - Ceduna July 3rd 1930" (superb), and two o SymbolcGradea+/(b) View details Estimate$350Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 285 AVIATION: 'Official Souvenir/Australian Aerial Mail' brown/yellow Card with a photograph of the pilot Basil Watson on the message side, superb 'MT GAMBIER/15FE17/STH AUST.' & KGV Penny Red tied by double-oval 'AUSTRALIAN/ MELBOURNE/27FEB1917/-VIC-/AERIAL MAIL' datestamp, the message with British Imperial Oil Co handstamp in violet & signed "EE Wagstaff" who states "...May Aviation succeed in Peace as it has in helping to down our enemies", some minor creasing & light spotting but most presentabl SymbolcGradec View details Estimate$300Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 286 AVIATION: 1919 'Souvenir Aerial Post Card' of Harry Butler's monoplane & the South Australian Coast with a photo of Butler on the reverse, to "Curramulka YP" (Yorke Peninsula) with message "Hope you can square the Pilot to take you for a ride. It would probably be as nice as riding in the Johnny Ford", minor blemishes. See AAMC #21b, Cat $650. Ex Bronte Watts. SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$250Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 287 BOTANIC GARDENS: Three albums with strong sections from New South Wales including Goulburn, Victoria including Ballarat, Castlemaine, Prahran & Warrnambool, Queensland including Rockhampton & Toowoomba and South Australia, also a few Tasmania, generally fine to very fine. Ex Derek Pocock. (260 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 288 CAVES: Jenolan NSW x3, Wombeyan NSW, Naracoorte SA x2, Hastings Tas, Mole Creek Tas, Coastal Cave Vic, Lake Cave WA x5 including an Aborigine's Skeleton, all but one unused, fine to very fine. (14) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 289 CHILDREN: Mason Firth & McCutcheon (Melbourne) advertising Cards for MacRobertson's Chocolate each featuring two or three portraits of children (some of whom have clearly enjoyed their sponsor's product!), four unused, fine to very fine. Rare & beautiful Cards. Ex Shirley Jones. (7) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 290 ENTERTAINMENT: Excellent batch with Talma (Melbourne) actors & actresses x26, many advertising specific productions including "The Golliwoggs", "The Man from Mexico", "The Cingalee" and "The Merry Widow" complete (?) set of 10, Falk (Sydney) actors & actresses x11, Harcourt McGuffie (Hobart) x2, Alice Mills (Melbourne) x2, etc, also "The Principal Members of JC Williamson's New Comic Opera Co" with 9 portraits, 1930s ABC/3LO x3 including "Champion Wrestlers" with 8 portraits, radio station 5DN ( Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 291 ENTERTAINMENT: "Zeynard's Marvellous Midget Circus/Tiny Town - the Big Show" x8 three with 'SWIFT PRINT SYD' on the address side, Liliputaner Circus x2 (one with notation re performance in Adelaide in November 1911) & Specialty Troup x2, a few faults but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (12) Symbolc View details Estimate$150Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 292 ENTERTAINMENT: Large album of mostly Australian Actors & Actresses with numerous studio portraits including elaborate theatre costumes plus extravagant Edwardian dresses & hats, plus "stills" from stage productions, some Singers noted - a couple of overseas visitors - including four gorgeous Art Nouveau Cards of Blanche Arral, some facsimile signatures, a few advertising Cards for local productions & FS Pacey (Sydney) movie stills from the 1912 film "From the Manger to the Cross" x2, Talma is th Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold Lot 293 ENTERTAINMENT: c.1907 Colonial Picture Combine "The Story of the Kelly Gang" Numbers 1 "Ned Kelly Shoots Constable Fitzpatrick" to 12 "Ned Kelly in Armour" missing only Number 10, unused & generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. Filmed in 1906, this was the first "feature film" produced anywhere in the world. At the time, most movies ran for less than 20 minutes. "The Kelly Gang" went for almost an hour, divided into six scenes (or sequences). It was very popular in Australia & was later SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$500Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 294 HOSPITALS: A fascinating collection with all States represented but strength in NSW with a terrific array from country towns many by local publishers, a couple of Lunatic Asylums & Private Hospitals, some excellent real photo types, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. By far the most extensive Hospitals collection we have seen. Ex Derek Pocock. (150 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$750Price Realized$575StatusSold Lot 295 HOUSING: Collection of bark huts to Edwardian mansions & everything in between, many with family groups showing off their new "digs", some with identifying captions or notes on the reverse including 1918 "This is our house in the [Rockhampton] floods...", also a few advertising Cards for Building Products/Homewares including six for Wunderlich Roofing, finally "cabinet" Cards x8, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. A most unusual topical collection providing a valuable overview o Symbolc View details Estimate$750Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 296 HUMOUR: "The Bully" set of 6 from the swaggering "I kin lick anyone round here" to the battered & tearful "I could a licked him if I'd wanted to", unused. [See also between Lots 266 & 282] (6) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot 297 HUMOUR: WWII military humour Cards by Egyptian illustrator Saroukhan, one postally used, generally very fine unused. (14) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 298 MILITARY - VARIOUS: Attractive mostly World War I naval group including six related to the sinking of the "Emden", HMAS "Australia" group, several of departing troopships, etc, a number are real photo types including "Surrender of the German Fleet", condition variable but most are good to very fine. Sure to be popular. Ex Bronte Watts. (29) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 299 MILITARY BOER WAR: Cards featuring NSW & Victorian troops with Boer War captions x5, related but later types with divided backs x7 including two real photo types noted as Troops Returned from the Boer War, and three Australian patriotic Cards (that illustrated above is a front panel only), condition variable. Ex Bronte Watts. (15) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 300 PADDLE STEAMERS: Mounted collection with strong South Australian content but also some Murray River Victoria & Darling River NSW, mostly of well-known vessels but including some smaller boats & the Mission Steamer "Etona", many are real photo types, mostly trade-related but some show vessels packed with revellers, a few advertising Cards included, condition a bit variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. A fantastic lot! (90 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$800Price Realized$2,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 301 PATRIOTISM: 1914 (?) David Jones Ltd of child-sailor nailing the Australian flag below the Union Jack "...Australia expects this day that every one will do their duty", very minor blemishes on the address-side, unused. Rare. [The use of children in such campaigns was a deliberate attempt to shame men into joining the Forces] SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$175Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 302 PATRIOTISM: Goldsmith & Cohen "Cable Received Aug 7 1914 - [Britain] gratefully accepts the offer...to send a force of 20,000 men to this Country" with six inset portraits, unused. [Not previously seen by us] SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$100Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 303 PATRIOTISM: 1926 PC Beer Australia Day "Remember the Dardenelles" with vignettes of Sergt ER Larkin MLA & Cammeray Public School (NSW), priced at 3d, a little aged & tiny fault at lower-right, minor blemishes on the address-side, unused. [Kevin Crotty's very fine example sold at the Prestige auction of 8/5/2013 for $575] SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$300Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 304 PATRIOTISM: 1936 "Join the Australian Military Forces" peacetime recruitment Card that states "You will be doing a man's job...show that the spirit of... the AIF still exists...", unused. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$150Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 305 PORTRAITS: Four albums of real photos of children, men, women, couples etc with many beautiful studio shots, some autographed, others with captions or notes on the reverse that aid identification, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. A great resource for fashions, hairstyles & trends of the first twenty years of the 20th Century. Ex Shirley Jones. (500 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 306 PORTRAITS: Album of real photos with Groups in Staged Settings at Luna Park (Melbourne) or elsewhere x66 (some in costumes for the occasion, others with motoring, aviation or nautical themes), many other groups including processions, fancy dress groups, Bucks Night (Bunbury WA), others of children & adults in costume, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Shirley Jones. (180+) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 307 PORTRAITS: Album of real photos of Children with numerous studio portraits (lots of Little Lord Fauntleroys & Would-Be Actresses), some in costume including Soldiers & Nurses, also with Rocking Horses, Dolls & Prams, Tricycles, Pets, Cricket Bats etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Shirley Jones. (250 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 308 POST OFFICES: Selection from New South Wales x16, Queensland x2 and Victoria x9, some real photo types; also "Cable Station Port Darwin"; generally fine to very fine, some are unused. (28) Symbolc View details Estimate$650Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 309 SALVATION ARMY: Mostly South Australian group including studio portraits, "General Booth on Tour", etc, real photo types including "Self-Denial Appeal Oct 1912", "Adelaide Citadel Silver Band 1915" & "The Golden West Perth Congress April 1910", fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. [See also Lot 197] (13) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$200Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 310 SCOUTING: 1920s real photo "4th Annual Picnic 1st Woollahra Padington [sic] Boy Scouts" (NSW); & 1949 Yarra Brae Jamboree (Vic) Flags with 'Greetings from the Jamboree', "Bank of New South Wales..." & Flags of 10 Nations; all but the last are unused. (4) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 311 SHIPPING: Mounted collection of mostly coastal ships including some sailing vessels, many alongside wharves, several with references to English Mails, many real photo Cards & artist types including lovely AUSN group, strong South Australian content, condition variable but most appear to be fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. An excellent lot. (110 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$800Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 312 SPORT - VARIOUS: Mounted group with Tennis x16 mostly real photo types including the Darwin (?) Tennis Club (used at Darwin in 1911) and 1933 ABC Wimbledon Card of Jack Crawford & Ellsworth Vines, also basketball, women's hockey, fishing, cycling, wrestling, boxing, running, swimming & rowing x5 including 1907 for the Australian Championships x2 & 1924 Olympics the Australian Eight, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Bronte Watts. (39) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 313 SPORT CRICKET: Australian Test Players early group comprising Warwick Armstrong, John ("Jack") Blackham, Joe Darling x2 different, J Laver, MA ("Monty") Noble x2 different & Victor Trumper x2 different, triptych of Clem Hill Monty Noble & Joe Darling, 1921 "The Six Century Makers/Third Test Match Adelaide January 1921" (four of them were Australians), plus a 1930s Card of Don Bradman, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (12) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 314 SPORT Australian Test Teams of 1905 x3 different, 1907-08 x2 different, 1938, and another undated but Warwick Armstrong is in the centre (apparently as Captain, as he was in 1920-21), four are unused, fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (7) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$450Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 315 SPORT c.1910 Wilson Autograph Series photos & facsimile signatures of Monty Noble, Victor Trumper, Hugh Trumble, James Kelly, Clem Hill, RA Duff, WP Howell, Syd Gregory, AJ Hopkins, Warwick Armstrong, Chas McLeod & DRA Gehrs being the complete set of 12, some minor blemishes still fine unused. Rare. Ex Bronte Watts. The National Library of Australia has only eight Cards. They are missing Trumper, Trumble, Gregory & Hopkins. (12) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$600Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 316 SPORT 1934 Photo-Work real photo "Australian Cricket Team, England, 1934" including Bill Brown, Bill ("Tiger") O'Reilly, Joe Darling, Clarrie Grimmett, Don Bradman (vice-captain), Bill Woodfull (Captain), Stan McCabe, Bert Oldfield & Bill Ponsford, unused. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$80Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 317 SPORT Modern reprints of Cricket posters 1) of WG Grace for Colman's Mustard; 2) "Don Bradman Wears & Recommends only Elasta Straps"; and 3) "Go out to Australia for the Test Matches 1932-1933"; also "Bradman Oval, Bowral" and 1997 Australia Post Don Bradman "maxiCard" Postal Cards x2 with 'THE GABBA' pictorial datestamp; all signed "Don Bradman". (6) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$300Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 318 SPORT RUGBY: "The Light Blues 1907" New South Wales rugby team, used in New Zealand, minor blemishes. SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$100Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 319 SPORT SPEEDBOAT RACING: 1910 two different real photo "Champion Motor Boat Fairbanks" with caption on the reverse for "...the fastest boat in the world", a few blemishes, postally used (one sent under cover). Rare duo. [The EC Griffith Cup is the Australian Motor Boat Association trophy, first awarded in 1910, to AH Davies & "Fairbanks"] SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot 320 SPORT HORSE RACING: Art Series Racehorses & Jockeys artist Cards by Violet Johnston comprising "Acrasia", "FJA", "Sylvanite", "Gladsome", "Fitzgrafton" & "Cruciform", some discolouration on the address sides doesn't affect the very fine facial appearance, unused. (6) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 321 SPORT Race finishes for the Melbourne Cup 1904 1905 & 1911 x2 different, Caulfield Cup 1905 & VRC Derby 1911, views of Victoria Park Racecourse (Adelaide) x4, famous horses, "Dr Harold & Dr Giles at Morphettville on Derby Day" & "Three Generations of the Matson Family", condition a bit variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (21) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
