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Previous|12345678...12|Next123456789101112 View Lot 101 AVIATION: Turbo-prop aircraft with Pan Am flying boats & their Bases with many of the famous "Clippers", seaplanes, artist Cards & a good selection of real photo types including two "Graf Zeppelin" Cards (one used) and Southern Cross being guarded by natives in Albert Park Suva, small group of aerial photographs, many countries & airlines including groups for Chalk's (West Indies) & Avianca (Colombia), aircrew (mostly hostesses), some very unusual aircraft noted, also an unusual batch of cockpit SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 102 AVIATION: Turbo-prop aircraft by airline from America, Africa, Russia, Asia, Europe, mostly "moderns" but many useful Cards from 1950s & 1960s and some earlier, lots of smaller carriers many of which we have never encountered elsewhere, fine to very fine and mostly unused. (1500 approx) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 103 AVIATION: Carton of mostly jet aircraft with array of airlines including freight carriers, mostly modern types but some better 1950s & 1960s Cards and many tiny/unheard of carriers, generally very fine unused. (1000 approx) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 104 CHILDREN: Mounted group with studio portraits, groups at play, artist Cards by Milicent Sowerby x4, Agnes Richardson x6 & Margaret Tarrant etc, good Australian - especially South Australian - content including Miniature Railway Adelaide Exhibition Grounds, "Eileen Bernard Champion Girl Athlete", "Little Daisy Harding Gold Medallist", "Maggie Bevan...Winner of 115 Eisteddfodic Prizes" & "Lulu Benstead Young Coolgardie Singer", Children on Elephant at Wonderland City Bondi, also German fairy tale Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 105 CHILDREN: Large album of mostly artist Cards from many countries, lots of variety including activities, friendship, siblings, games, animals/anthropomorphism (animals in human guise, including a set of 6 greeting Cards - not postCards - designed by Shirley Jones), fairy tales, Christmas etc, also Mason Firth & McCutcheon (Melbourne) advertising Cards for MacRobertson's Chocolate x2, lots of humorous & fantasy Cards, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. A beautiful collection. Ex S Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 106 CHILDREN: the continuation of the collection with many better Cards noted including Fairman Co (USA) Red Indians x6, Austrian Prof Cizek's Juvenile Art Class & similar x18, Art Nouveau including by Willebeek Le Mair x5, lots of Humour including some very non-PC subjects!, Turner & Sons (Sydney) "Please, Sir, is this where we enlist...?", May Gibbs "We'll all be there to meet you", Maisie Carte "By Gum dearie..." & French "Joie des Enfants" x4, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold Lot 107 CHILDREN: Artist Cards by S Barham mostly published by CW Faulkner (London) with a good range of subjects, lots of Lanterns plus a fair dose of whimsy & fantasy including a few Peter Pan types, generally fine to very fine. A beautiful series. Ex Shirley Jones. (35) Symbolc View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 108 CHOCOLATE: Artist advertising Cards for Fry's Milk Chocolate x4, Cadbury's Cocoa, Chocolat Suisse Zürcher (gorgeous but with a heavy crease) and Bensdorp's Royal Dutch Cocoa x4, condition variable but several are very fine. A great subject. Ex Shirley Jones. (9) Symbolc View details Estimate$150Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 109 CHOCOLATE: France 1900 Exposition Universelle de Paris, lovely advertising Cards for Chocolat Express Grondard, all different, unused. (10) SymbolcGradeA/A- View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 110 CLIMATE: Large album of Snow subjects including snow falls, snowmen, snowball fights, skiing etc, with a marvellous Ballarat group x60+ including the delightful "Arresting the Snow man", other Victorians from Beechworth, Hamilton (!), Daylesford, Mount Buffalo, Omeo & Woods Point, interstate including Mount Lofty/Crafers (SA) x20 & Snowy Mountains (NSW), British & European group with strong Christmas element, sleighs & toboggans & even a snow-bound Adolf Hitler (!), condition variable but genera Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot 111 COIN CardS: Undivided Backs for Mexico and Turkey, Divided Backs x14 including for Japan x2 different, Brazil, Turkey, British India and Ceylon, Dutch Indies, Bulgaria etc, all with inset exchange rates, fine to very fine, mostly unused. (16) Symbolc View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 112 COIN CardS: Mounted collection of mostly embossed Zieher-type Cards with coin sets from numerous large & small nations, some with exchange rates & others with inset photographs, condition a bit variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (83) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 113 CRIME & PUNISHMENT: German coloured artist Cards depicting medieval punishments with Stocks, Ducking Stool & various other humiliations, victims include quarrelsome women, an under-performing musician, a Card cheat, etc, various publishers, unused. Delightful, if somewhat over the top. Ex Derek Pocock. (8) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$160StatusUnsold Lot 114 CRIME & PUNISHMENT: Sobering mostly British group with Instruments of Torture, Ducking Stool, Chinese Beheadings, "Portland Prison: Bootmakers at Work", Rotophot Undivided Backs of Old Newgate Prison x9, "Convict Ship Success" etc, mostly unused & generally fine to very fine+. Ex Keith Harrison. (30) Symbolc View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 115 CYCLING: Mostly British group including Star Series "Bicycle Race - a Hot Pace", EFA "Scottish Cyclists resisting Cavalry" (hilarious!, superb unused), real photo types x7 of Proud Owners - including Suffragettes (?) x3 - & their Mounts, a few humorous Cards, also German 1897 artist Card by H Hildenbrand used in Holland, a few problems but generally fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (23) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 116 DEATH: Outstanding collection of death-related Cards from many countries, lots of blood & gore including executions in China & Mexico, some military-related, also religious themed subjects including catacombs some with skeletons in priests' robes & others with massive piles of bones, also religious artist Cards of martyrs, funeral processions, graveyards, noted Italy 1908 Messina Earthquake, Japan 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake x9, Canada 1917 Great Halifax Explosion plus a booklet with 31 postCard Symbolc View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 117 DEATH: and as if that weren't enough, there's a second volume!! with very little duplication of the Cards in the previous lot & this time including a very good Funeral of Edward VII group, also real photo types including some startling images, generally fine to very fine. Ex Derek Pocock. (260 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,200Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 118 DEATH: Two-frame (30 pages) exhibit with some marvellous Cards including GB "Old Coffin House, Brixham", Italy "Catacomb of Cappucine Monks" (five skeletons in priestly vestments!), Ossuaries in Hythe (GB) & Rome, Indo-China "Annamite Burial Ceremony", Ceylon "Cremation of Buddhist Priest", Cuba Glass-Sided Hearse, etc, also a gruesome selection of Chinese beheadings & strangulations, "Mexican Federal Prisoners lined up for Execution" (shot in the back), Cuba "Bone Pile" (more like a hill than a Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 119 DEATH: Album of Graves from Britain, India including elaborate Mughal Tombs, China/Hong Kong, Russia, Tonga etc, one Peruvian "headstone" is surmounted by an automobile (!), etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Fascinating stuff. Ex Derek Pocock. (126) Symbolc View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 120 DEATH: German FA Ackerman set of Cards bearing c.1848 woodcuts by Alfred Rethel in the style of Albrecht Durer depicting "Death" as a Skeleton waiting for people to die or assisting their death, unused. Frightening stuff. Ex Derek Pocock. [Alfred Rethel was a 19th century artist who suffered from severe mental illness. Like many artists, his best work flowed from his darkest periods] (8) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$240StatusUnsold Lot 121 ENTERTAINMENT: British William Shakespeare group with artist Cards by G Demain Hammond x10 and John Gielgud as Richard II by Elizabeth Montgomery, Stratford-on-Avon Tuck set of 6, 1912 "Shakespeare's England at Earl's Court", etc; also 1901 Empire Theatre Old China Ballet set of 12 Cards by C Wilhelm; generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (36) Symbolc View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 122 ENTERTAINMENT: British Actors & Actresses mostly studio shots but a few more interesting photographs, all autographed & some dated, generally fine to very fine, mostly unused. Top lot for the autograph hunter. Ex Keith Harrison. (120+) Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 123 ENTERTAINMENT: Substantial box of mostly British Actors & Actresses mostly studio shots including "The Biograph Post Card" Undivided Backs x36, "Madame Clara Butt" & "Madame Sarah Bernhardt", some family shots including "Miss Edna May's Wedding Party", "Mr & Mrs George Robey & Children" and "Mr & Mrs Harry Lauder", some multi-views including "Ellen Terry" & "Marie Studholme", also a good range of "stills" from stage productions, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. A much better than ave Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 124 ENTERTAINMENT: the continuation of the collection on display pages, the highlight is a selection of the statuesque Camille Clifford (the original "Gibson Girl") being leered at by caricature characters including a rather obvious Salvador Dali, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (800 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$800StatusUnsold Lot 125 ENTERTAINMENT: Box of mostly movie stars real photo Cards, the majority from Hollywood with many Silent Movies stars including Charlie Chaplin (two excellent Little Tramp poses), Rudolph Valentino x15 (some of his "brother" Rodolfo!), Mary Pickford, Tom Mix, Clara Bow, Douglas Fairbanks & Dorothy Gish (Lillian's little sister) etc, plus 1930s Talkies stars including Jane Withers, Shirley Temple, Jackie Cooper, Clark Gable (without moustache!), Greta Garbo, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Robert You Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 126 ENTERTAINMENT: Mostly stage performers including "Houdini" (endorsed "the handcuff king", Cat £100), "Chaffer's Wonder Midgets" (they're all children!), "The Troupe of Royal Midgets", "Abomah, the African Giantess", "Mariedl, the Tyrolean Giantess", "The smallest conjuring couple..." signed "E Gondin", "Klein Family", "Stella Troupe of Dancers", "The Mystic with the X-Ray Eyes", "The Champion Fasting Man" signed "Sacco", "Ladies Pompadour Orchestra" etc, condition variable but generally fine to Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 127 ENTERTAINMENT: Great Britain 1916-20 real photos of performing troupes comprising "Jack Sheppard's Entertainers, Brighton 1917" & similar for 1919 & 1920, and various groups of Pierrots including "Bert Grapho and his Jovial Jollies" & c.1916 Australian Comforts Fund "The Anzac Coves", unused. (8) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 128 ENTERTAINMENT: Mounted mostly British group of theatre buildings mostly the larger venues but including "Penge Empire Theatre", "Super Cinema, Ilford", "Picture Palace, Heytesbury", "Picture Playhouse" (Birmingham), "Garrison Theatre, Tidworth Barracks" x2, Melbourne's "Melba Theatre" x2 & "Rickards Tivoli Theatre", some are real photo types including 1922 "Hillside Picture Pavilion" (Australian ?) after being destroyed in a storm x2, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 129 ENTERTAINMENT: Extensive mounted collection of theatre actresses (mostly) & actors, mostly studio portraits but some more interesting studies noted, mostly names unknown to recent generations but including "household names" Lily Langtry, Clara Butt, Lillian Russell, Sarah Bernhardt, Anna Pavlova, the delightfully named Tittell Brune, the infamous Mata Hari and a Portrait Bas-Relief Card of Nellie Melba, some cross-dressing noted, also a 1900 mourning Card for Madmoiselle Henriot, condition varia Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 130 ENTERTAINMENT: Mounted mostly British group of scenes from and advertising for stage productions including Slough...Operatic Society "HMS Pinafore" & "The Mikado", "The Dairymaids" x3, "Crossing the Great Sahara", "The Fatal Wedding", "The Sentry & the Maid", "Chung Ling Soo & Company" x2 & "The Ugliest Woman on Earth", also various Pierrot Groups & Anglo-American Exposition "Wild West" x5; then a selection of entertainment venues & amusement centres including various grand piers, Luna Parks & H Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 131 ENTERTAINMENT: Mounted collection of mostly Hollywood movie actors & actresses with earlier celebrities including Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, Ramon Navarro, Adolphe Menjou, Al Jolson (in white-face), Ethel Barrymore, Jackie Coogan, Laurel & Hardy, Marx Brothers, Maurice Chevalier, Gloria Swanson, Sonja Henie, Hedy Lamar, a swag of Shirley Temple including as a teenager (probably rare) & Rin Tin Tin (!), Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 132 ENTERTAINMENT: Fascinating bundle with sideshow freaks including Siamese Twins x2, Tattooed Ladies x2 & "Jang, the Tailed Boy of Borneo", lots of midgets/dwarfs including Tiny Town group, "Chaffer's Midget Revue" & "Mrs General Mite with her tiny pony and cab", also "Dan the Original Drunken Dog" x2, "The Original World-Famous Fasting Man" (seriously!), magicians The Great Thurston x4 & Leslie Maxwell x2, etc, many are real photo types, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. A truly Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$375StatusSold Lot 133 ENTERTAINMENT: French set of Undivided Backs of Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, Pauline Blanchard, Frou-Frou, a female Cyrano de Bergerac (really) etc, in drag as Hamlet & Aiglon, and as herself, minor corner impressions otherwise very fine unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (12) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot 134 ENTERTAINMENT: Marie Studholme collection of mostly studio portraits in stage costume or "civvies" including sumptuous gowns & extravagant hats, also Exhausted After Tennis, Learning Ju Jitsu & with Second Billing to an Elephant!, many real photo types, some photos used for multiple editions, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Derek Pocock. [Marie Studholme, born Caroline Marita Lupton, was a prominent Edwardian stage actress more noted for her beauty than her talent] (160 ap Symbolc View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot 135 EXHIBITIONS - NON-PHILATELIC: Mounted group with good representation from 1897 Columbian, 1900 Paris & 1908 Franco-British plus many smaller or less well-known exhibitions including 1897 Hamburg, 1902 Dusseldorf, 1903 Zurich, 1906 Milan, 1907 New Orleans Mardi Gras x6, 1910 Brussels, 1929 North-East Coast (England) x7, etc, many unusual subjects & numerous beautiful types including chromo-lithos & real photos, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (190 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot 136 EXHIBITIONS - NON-PHILATELIC: Useful selection from Great Britain with 1891 Royal Naval Exhibition with special postmark (faults but the Lighthouse side is quite presentable), 1904 Earls Court x10 including "Sir Hiram Maxim's Captive Airships" (the same guy who invented the Maxim Gun), and 1904 Midlands artist Card of the Exhibition Ablaze & one other; Europe with 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle x9 including "Station des Fauteils roulants" (a Row of Wheelchairs!!), 1902 Dusseldorf x3, 1910 Bru Symbolc View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 137 EXHIBITIONS - NON-PHILATELIC: Gorgeous group from Paris 1900 x2, St Louis 1904, Dusseldorf 1904 x2, Liège 1905 x7, Amiens 1906, San Francisco 1909, Turin 1911, Leipzig 1913 and San Francisco 1915 x2, mostly unused, generally very fine. (18) Symbolc View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot 138 EXHIBITIONS - NON-PHILATELIC: 1900 Exposition Universelle de Paris, beautiful group comprising chromolithos x23, and others x19, mostly unused and generally fine to very fine. One of the most attractive lots in the sale. (42) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 139 GLAMOUR: Mounted group of mostly tasteful Cards from Britain USA & Europe with many artist Cards including delightful Art Deco & Art Nouveau types, lots of romance Cards & some very mild nudity, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (150 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 140 GLAMOUR: Bundle of artist Cards from Great Britain x60 approximately, Austria x8, Germany x13, Italy x12, Russia x3 & a few others, generally fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Keith Harrison. [See also Lots 141 629 & 793‹] (100 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 141 GLAMOUR: Stimulating Art Nouveau group from Britain & Europe with many exceptional designs & exquisite printing, Undivided Backs x44, a few sets (?) of 4 or 6 Cards including Pierrot & the Ballerina x6 (superb), Lecherous Moon x4, Carl Josza "Vor dem Spiegel" Numbers II IV & VI and Albert Langen set of 6 (some soiling), also noted at least one by Henri Meunier, mostly unused & generally fine to very fine. A wonderful lot. Ex Keith Harrison. (81) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,250Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 142 GLAMOUR: Artist Cards by Raphael Kirchner in various styles including Art Nouveau, Art Deco and two faux Japanese, publishers include Le Coq Matheral & Bernard (Paris) x3 & Bruton Galleries (London) x7 (two are damaged at the base), some are quite saucy & there is some very mild nudity, mostly fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (16) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 143 GLAMOUR: Artist Cards by Suzanne Meunier in various styles mostly of ladies in various stages of undress, one of a nude encoiled by a python, one rather knocked-about, the others with minor soiling/blemishes. Ex Bronte Watts. (10) SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 144 GLAMOUR: Artist Cards by Xavier Sager in various styles including a few racy/suggestive types, mostly good to fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (10) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 145 HANDS ACROSS THE SEA: Five albums of HATS & similar themes with numerous Hand Shakes, lots of flowers & schmaltz, shamrocks & kitsch but some better content, noted six "silks" including "Hands Across the Sea/RMS Cymric", 1908 Visit of the American Fleet, 1910 Union of South Africa, a few with aviation theme (one with a Zeppelin!), etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Shirley Jones. (500 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 146 HOSPITALS: Ancient album of Cards probably half from Great Britain including WWI Convalescent Hospitals, India Canada & New Zealand all well represented with smatterings from many other Colonies & a small number from foreign countries, also a few Hospital Ships, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. A remarkable collection that weighs 2.7kg. Ex Derek Pocock. [NB: None from Australia or the United States] (440 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 147 HOSPITALS: A fascinating collection with strength in Great Britain, New Zealand, India & Canada (including a 2-panel panorama of Sacred Heart at Montreal), others from South Africa, Kenya, St Lucia, Tanganyika, Panama, etc, many real photo types including aerial views & an unidentified asylum destroyed by fire, Hospital Ships x2, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Derek Pocock. [We suggest avoiding "The Guest Hospital, Dudley" - what did they feed them? - but you might enjoy Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 148 HOTELS: Attractive mostly British group including Undivided Back for Portpatrick Hotel Scotland (superb unused), "The Old George Hotel, Salisbury. Built about 1320..." x2, "Micawber's Little Inn, Canterbury", "Park Hotel, Preston", "Tewkesbury, The Bell Hotel" & advertising Card for Gresham Hotel (Dublin), USA including a lovely poster Card for "The Roosevelt/New Orleans/...", condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex "Cartophile". (60 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 149 HUMOUR: Amusing range of mostly British Cards with a one frame exhibit "Where Did You Get That Hat?", some others mounted plus a bundle of loose Cards with cycling, motoring, relationships, inebriation, children including patriotics etc, many by the prolific Tom Browne & Donald McGill etc, generally fine to very fine. An attractive lot. Ex Joe Duif. [Also books "Wish You Were Here: The Art of Donald McGill" (1966) & "The Grown-Ups Nursery Book" with illustrations by Donald McGill (2009)] (90 app Symbolc/l View details Estimate$250Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 150 HUMOUR: Old album of British double entendre Cards, lots of Donald McGills & others by Brian Perry, "Taylor", "Pedro", "Fitzpatrick" etc, generally very fine. Ex Derek Pocock. [Parental permission required to view on-line!] (260 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 151 HUMOUR: Folio of mostly British Cards with lots of double entendres, picaninny Cards x6, classic "The Husband, and How to Train It" x2, superb GE Shepheard "Man & Horse" types x6, etc, also a couple of American dumb humour Cards & French risqué group x12 including by Xavier Sager, condition a bit mixed but most are fine to superb. (150 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 152 HUMOUR: "Are You a Mason?" British Cards National Series x6 & Savoy Series x3, an American type dated 1907 & two later types one by Donald McGill, lots of goats & odd handshakes, generally fine & mostly unused. (12) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 153 HUMOUR: British "Police" group by various artists & producers, some rippers noted, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. (44) Symbolc View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 154 HUMOUR: British World War I postCards with original patriotic cartoons by Fred Gothard, all initialled "FG" & with 'Original Sketch by FG' handstamp on the address sides, a little aged. (6) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 155 HUMOUR: World War II American Beales linen artist Cards by Max Halverson featuring various Women's Army Corps subjects with lots of then acceptable sexism & a fair dose of feminism, plus a few anti-Axis, unused. Superb! (28) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 156 HUMOUR: Great Britain 1960s double entendre Cards by David Phillip Millar for D Constance Ltd under the pseudonyms "Pedro", "Carlos", "Bob" & "Flip" being modern reprints "using the original Letterpress Printing Plates", each numbered '0243/250', plain backs. (30) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot 157 HUMOUR: Belgium c.1920 Mannequin Pis Meets Charlie Chaplin "Tiens...il Pleut!" (= Blast! It's Raining!) by Marco Marcovici. Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot 158 INDIGENOUS SUBJECTS: Fascinating group of mostly African women & girls - many topless - plus a few from Dutch Indies including "Tattooing", "Dyak Warriors, Borneo" & "A Native Grave-yard, British North Borneo", etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (32) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 159 LIBRARIES: Collection in two volumes with strength in British Cards but with useful Australian, American - including 1906 Earthquake Damage to Stanford University Library - & French content and many other countries represented, buildings range from the massive to the modest, some Interiors & others of ancient books etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. A fascinating lot that should appeal to a wide audience. Ex Derek Pocock. (340 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 160 MILITARY - VARIOUS: Mostly pre-World War II group of mostly British naval ships with many real photo & artist types, also HMS "Powerful" - the Australian Flag Ship - x2, on-board training & signalling, several submarines including "Submarine EII Returning from the Dardanelles", portraits of Admiral Jellicoe x3, Admiral Patey - the Australian Commander in Chief - & Captain Glossop of HMAS "Sydney", etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. A very good lot. (90 appr Symbolc View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 161 MILITARY Album with a mostly French collection of World War I Cards focusing on war damage to towns & buildings, with bilingual captions (100 approx); also some Waterloo subjects & a few World War II; then Australian War Memorials in Canberra Sydney & Melbourne x47; and "moderns" including WWI German Uniforms x24; etc, condition of the earlier material is variable otherwise generally fine to very fine used or unused. Ex "Cartophile". (200 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 162 MILITARY BOER WAR: Troops in Camp (NZ 1d Postal Card, unused), Troops Departing for South Africa x5 including one from New Zealand, British Forces in South Africa including "Hlangwane - The Line of the Guns 15 Dec 1899", "The Post Office - Military Encampment - Bloemfontein", "Bluejackets with Maxim Gun", "Old Fort at Mafeking", "During the Siege of Kimberley..." (Cecil Rhodes & his fortified lodgings), "Shell-Proof Shelters at Beaconsfield", "Armoured Train", "Boer Guns Captured at Bloemfontein Symbolc View details Estimate$450Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 163 MILITARY Bundle of British propaganda & patriotic Cards mostly featuring Generals and Flags & two with patriotic verses, mourning Card for Sir Hector Macdonald, artist Cards "Well done, Gallant little Mafeking..." (unused) & "Majuba/Paardeberg/Ladysmith" (scribbling on view side), court-size 'Peace Commemoration Post Card' with photo of General de Wet in violet, "Peace - Lasting Peace" with map of Southern Africa & General Kitchener inset, etc, condition variable. Ex Bronte Watts. (29) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 164 MILITARY Underwood & Underwood stereo Cards including "Destroyed Railway Bridge over the Vet River", "Royal Engineers Building Temporary Railway Bridge", "Getting a Transport Wagon up the North Bank of the Modder", "Ex President Kruger's Home at Pretoria", etc, fine to very fine. (6) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$60StatusUnsold Lot 165 MILITARY St Helena three-view Cards featuring Broadbottom & Deadwood Boer Prisoners of War Camps, minor faults, unused. Ex Bronte Watts. (2) SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 166 MILITARY Boer/pro-Boer group with President Kruger x19 including his house, funeral & grave, Kruger with his Executive Committee, portraits of De Wet & Du Plessis, then a range of mostly European Cards with pro-Boer & anti-British propaganda including a superb set of 8 artist Cards by Victa with the original envelope, French petition Card pre-addressed to the Tsar of Russia etc, some are real photo types, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (52) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 167 MILITARY German & Dutch pro-Boer propaganda Cards including humorous types, heroic portraits, etc, generally fine to very fine, several are unused, (14) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 168 MILITARY Boer War Monuments in South Africa x26, Canada x6 and New Zealand x8, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Bronte Watts. [This & the next two lots comprise the most extensive such collection we have encountered] (40) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 169 MILITARY Boer War Monuments in Australia with New South Wales x6, Queensland, South Australia x13, Victoria x10 & Western Australia x3, several are of unveiling ceremonies, a few are real photo types, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Bronte Watts. (33) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 170 MILITARY Boer War Monuments in Great Britain several are of unveiling ceremonies, many real photo types, a few related but non-monument Cards, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Bronte Watts. (90 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot 171 MILITARY WORLD WAR I: Interesting group of mostly British Cards including Nurse Edith Cavell x3 (one printed on material), "The Paravane...for Destroying Hun Mines", "Shakespeare Hut: Lounge enlarged for Concert", "Hartlepools [sic] Bombarded by Germans Dec 16th 1914", humorous group including a few rib-ticklers & a couple of Australian-related subjects, generally fine to very fine. (48) Symbolc View details Estimate$240StatusUnsold Lot 172 MILITARY WORLD WAR II: 1945 series of five photographs of the execution of Benito Mussolini & his mistress Clara Petacci & another that appears to be an effigy of Adolf Hitler. Gruesome stuff but they are not first generation prints so are very grainy. [With the original envelope in which they were bought by a US soldier at the Esso gas station in Milan where the bodies were hung from meathooks] (7 items) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 173 MOTORCYCLES: British group of real photo types comprising New Hudson "GX9819" x6 (three with children on the bike), Triumph "ALL364" with Sidecar x4 (one with child on the bike), two others with unidentified brands (one with sidecar on a beach!, the other creased), and an unusual type again with sidecar, three passengers & a dog, very fine to superb unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (13) SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 174 MUSIC: Bundle mostly of Classical Music Subjects including real photo Cards of composers Tchaikovsky, Gounod, Berlioz, Debussy, Bizet, Greig, Paderewski and performers Enrico Caruso (as Pagliacci) & the acclaimed pianist Wilhelm Backhaus, also brass bands "The Royal Besses o' th' Barn", "Munn & Felton's Works Band" (creased) & Salvation Army "The Norwegian Staff Band" etc, Carlton Publishing Co Lute Player set of 6 (very fine to superb used) & Tuck's "IIustrated Songs" set (?) of 24 (mostly supe Symbolc View details Estimate$240StatusUnsold Lot 175 MUSIC: Alliance Series Bas-Relief Card "Mdme Melba", unused. Ex Keith Harrison. [Born Helen Porter Mitchell, Dame Nellie Melba was Australia's greatest opera singer] SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot 176 MUSIC: c.1962 Dutch Uiig Takken (Utrecht) "The Beatles" (in Concert), unused. Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 177 NATIONAL SYMBOLS: Raphael Tuck Heraldic Emblems of the Nations x5 (superb) & British Imperial Orders set of 6 (superb, with original packet), RPPC "Arms of Schools" etc x6, Oxford University x5, EFA "Coats of Arms & Flags" x11, German "National Flags" x8, etc; "Stamp Cards" x16 including unusual Menke Huber (Zurich) types x4; and "Coin Cards" x13 including a few unusual types, & OA&S "Coinage Series" art Cards x5; mostly unused & generally fine to very fine. An unusual lot. Ex Keith Harrison. (7 Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 178 NOVELTY: Extensive collection of weird stuff including postCards made from or incorporating timber, cork, peat moss, metal, glass, celluloid, human hair, fur, a lump of granite, felt, feathers, sand paper (for lighting a match!) & so on, others with moving parts!, also fantasy Cards x10, a few stamp montage Cards & a group with novelty subjects including sand sculptures & models of an underground opal mine & the Sydney Harbour Bridge, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Symbolc View details Estimate$100Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 179 NOVELTY: Fantasy Heads/Visual Illusions including Napoleon, Schiller, Bismarck, Liszt, Leopold II and Wagner all with hidden nymphets cavorting in their cerebrums, some minor faults. Ex Bronte Watts. Clever! (14) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$100Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 180 NOVELTY: Selection of mostly British Cards including Hold to Light types, many embossed Cards including unusual types, "Silks" including "King Edward" (ship) and Grant & Co "A Curious Love Letter", others including with fabric, appliqué (including an extraordinary peacock) or moving parts, made from peat leather metal wood or plastic (!, used under cover in 1915 in a glassine envelope that is included!), a wonderful Tuck's postCard size Jigsaw Puzzle in its original packet, French Fantasy Heads Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 181 NOVELTY: "Instalment Cards" from Great Britain "Progressive Courtship" set of 4 (used in 1904); Austria "Flower Delivery Boy" set of 8 (used in 1899); and Germany "Mountain Village" set of 4 (used in 1898), embossed "Valentine" set of 4 (unused) & World War I "Weltkrieg 1914-16" set of 10 (three used from German Field Post Offices), fine to very fine. Ex Keith Harrison. [Basically simple jigsaw puzzles; placed in order, the individual Cards create a larger picture. See also Lots 461, 504 & 609] Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 182 NOVELTY: Great Britain c.1910 (?) Rotary Photographic Co four Cards with postCard-backs each with 12 (2) or 20 (2) perforated real photos of actress Gladys Cooper (3) or "Mother and Child" with large-part original gum!!, some gum blemishes but facially superb. Weird & wonderful! and the only such "Cards" we have seen. Ex Keith Harrison. [Apparently, it was intended that these "Cinderellas" would be separated & used on other correspondence] (4) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 183 NUDITY: Riveting group of mostly reasonably tasteful nudes - many masquerading as high art - including many full frontals, some lesbian content & a few bondage/domination suggestions, most are real photos - many with plain backs - but a good number have postCard backs especially the significant French content which includes several "sets" of between 4 & 8 shots and British "The Seldoms at the London Pavilion" set of 6, virtually all unused but we noted a lone example that passed through the Brit SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 184 NUDITY: Mostly attractive indigenous group from Malaya x6, Indo-China x3, Africa x7, Philippines & Japan (geisha), condition a bit variable, mostly unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (18) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$150Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 185 NUDITY: Mounted group - terrible pun! - including couples, French Harem set of 10, Lesbians, a couple of really smutty shots (no, they're not on the website!), etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. (44) Symbolc View details Estimate$100Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 186 OLYMPIC GAMES: 1908 London Stadium x2, Marathon x2, Swimming (the outside pool was within the athletics track!) & French/Italian teams sightseeing in tights; and 1912 Stockholm Opening Ceremony, Athletics finish of 200m, hilarious dancing by the Finnish gymnastics team; two other non-Olympics; mostly unused & generally very fine. (11) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 187 OLYMPIC GAMES: 1912 Stockholm nine official real photo Cards with Swedish/English captions including "Inauguration of the stadium", "The football final: a turned-off attack", a Canadian swimmer who set 4 world records, a Swede diving into a sandpit, a Russian sculler (rowink, not drinkink), a lovely group of fine to superb quality; also Nordisk Kunst soccer match (adhesions on reverse) & a Russian Card of the finish of the 1500m race (a bit soiled). (11) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 188 PANORAMA CardS: Two-panels "Sierra Leone - Barracks of...West African Regiment" (unused), "Busteni" (Rumania, used), Bulgaria x2 (unused) & Germany "...Winterfeste des Oberharzer Skiklubs in Braunlage 1905" (superb unused); and three-panels "Panorama de la Serena, Chile" (very fine used), "New York Water Front..." (used, faults), "...Vladivostok" (unused but worn) and "...Budapest" (unused). A rare & desirable group. Ex Keith Harrison. (9) Symbolc View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 189 POLITICS & PROPAGANDA: Mounted group with US Presidents, UK Prime Ministers, French Ministers x3, Benito Mussolini & Adolf Hitler, election Cards, in memoriam Cards, French & German 1898-99 Affaire Dreyfus x12, World War I group including Nurse Edith Cavell x4, & a group of British & French satirical anti-German Cards, condition variable but generally fine to very fine; also a range of American moderns from JF Kennedy to George W Bush (not included in the count or estimate). Ex Bronte Watts. (1 Symbolc View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot 190 PORTRAITS: Collection of real photo candid & studio portraits including many weddings, a few events including a ship-board Jam-Licking Contest (!), some tourist groups including several charabancs, mostly (?) Australian content including school classes x27 - Eddington (Vic) with 45 students, more than the entire population today - some British, American & European Cards noted, some with identifying captions or notes on the reverse, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Shirley J Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 191 PORTRAITS: Collection of real photo Cards of Ladies that can be sub-categorised as Glamour, Costumes including Hats & Bathing Suits, Romance & Nudity (including a few full-frontals), some highly suggestive subjects for the era, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Shirley Jones. (180) Symbolc View details Estimate$180Price Realized$135StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 192 POSTCard CENSORSHIP: 1950s Constance and Bamforth Cards by Donald McGill and "Taylor" respectively both with large 'ISLE OF MAN/PostCard Censorship Act 1933/Disapproved for Sale/...' handstamp on the reverse; also 1939 Dudley Buxton original artwork on artboard (170x228mm), the printed Inter-Art Comique Card with printer's notations & WB edition with similar notations, similar handstamp in rosine on the reverse & large 'R'-in-circle for "Rejected" on the face; the last stained on the reverse oth SymbolcGradea+/b View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 193 POSTCard CENSORSHIP: a similar Constance reprinted Card by John King ("Rex") "Look what I brought back from my holiday abroad, Dad", plus King's original artwork on artpaper (178x228mm) with the artist's notations & the original Card as printed with 'Cleethorpes/Comic Card Censorship/Committee/DIS-APPROVED' handstamp on the reverse. Superb trio! (3 items) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 194 RAILWAYS: Mounted selection of mostly overseas Cards with strong British content including Trains, infrastructure, staff & Railway Company Cards, Old Tay Bridge Disaster 1879 x2, Miniature Railway at Crystal Palace etc, better Australian Cards including real photos of "Bridgewater Junction Tas", 1916 & 1917 trains decorated for Australia Day etc, others include artist Cards & a lovely real photo of Royal Train arriving in a Burmese village, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. A g Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 195 RELIGION: Mostly British group of preachers & evangelists etc including "Gipsy" Smith x3, "Rev S Schor as Eastern Scribe", "Miss Helen Coulthard: The Girl Preacher", "FC Sackett: Children's Evangelist" etc, also "Partick Congregational Church" (3 ministers), 1908 "Wesleyan Conference Souvenir" with 26 separate photos!, "Installation of the...Bishop of Worcester", British Bishops & their Arms x5, "Six Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", Catholic group of Cardinals & Po Symbolc View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 196 RELIGION: Box of mostly British Cards including a small selection of Churches & a good array of Ministers & Bishops, also "Gipsy" Smith & Pope Leo XIII x2, excellent Salvation Army group including an Indian Mission Card (a great shot!) & five different Bands including "Salvation Army Mexican Band, Garston" (Liverpool!!) & "The Norwegian Staff Band", etc, also several sets of devotional Cards including The Lords Prayer two different sets of 8, "The Volunteer Organist" set of 4 & Misch & Co "The H Symbolc View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 197 RELIGION: SALVATION ARMY: British group including portraits of officers, 1899 cameos of General & Mrs Herbert Booth to Germany, superb real photo of Salvos & ambulance (?) at a military camp, etc, plus India real photo of turbaned Punjabi Salvos!, and New Zealand "Wellington South Salvation Army Band 1907" & c.1915 "Salvation Army Soldiers' & Relatives' Hostel Featherson" (Military Camp), a couple are defective but most are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. [See also Lot 309] (17) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 198 ROMANCE: Mounted group including couples, humorous including double entendres, some ghastly hand-tinted types, bathing costumes, suffragettes, a French set (?) of five underwear shots, etc, condition rather mixed. Ex Bronte Watts. (56) Symbolc View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 199 ROMANCE: Ancient album with a visually delightful collection of mostly British Cards with Language of Flowers x80, Language of Vegetables (we kid thee not) x7 & of Fruit x3, Proverbs x23, French group including Language de Parapluie x5, some very suggestive captions, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Derek Pocock. (120+) Symbolc View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot 200 ROYALTY - VARIOUS: A veritable portrait gallery of mostly European Rulers and their Families from Great Britain x10, Austria x23, Bulgaria x3, Denmark x11, Ethiopia, Greece x2, Indian States x3, Italy x2, Japan, Luxemburg x2, Mexico x3, Montenegro, Netherlands x46 with many Undivided Backs & a good range of processions & commemorations, Norway x49, Ottoman Empire x3, Persia, Portugal x16, Rumania x6, Russia x13 notably two with Grand Duchess Anastasia, Serbia x6, Spain x37 & Sweden x41, mostly s Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100100 Previous|12345678...12|Next123456789101112 Previous 1234567891011122 Next Previous 1234567891011122 Next
