The Picture Postcard as Art: Images from the Golden Era (#85MG) Closed Auction Info Advanced search ▼ Items per page 102550100100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsDefaultDefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the aboveANY of the aboveANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 301-400 of 1138. Previous|12345678...12|Next123456789101112 View 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 Lot 322 Outstanding array of Canberra Cards including sketches by A Joyce Bowden of "Acton House...Built by the First Pioneers 1826" & "Duntroon House, Built by Robert Campbell 1829" x2, many real photos including several by RC Strangman with various panoramas of Canberra or Duntroon including a two-panel panoramic Card & the War Memorial with nothing else anywhere near it, 1927 (May 9) Opening of Parliament House x3 including photograph of Setting Up the Dais plus others of the Interior, "The Prime Min Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 323 pre-1927 selection of real photo types comprising Howard & Shearsby (Yass) 1913 "Singing the Old Hundredth Hymn" at Laying of the Foundation Stone for the New Capital City, four of early buildings at Duntroon Military College - one by Howard & Shearsby - including "Officers Mess" & "Professors' Residences", two panoramas including c.1927 with Parliament House Completed & Early Residential Developments, also Parliament House Under Construction & Completed (Strangman), finally "Bridge on Molonglo SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 324 JERVIS BAY: Real photo types comprising four aerial shots (one dated 1939 with six points of interest identified by the writer), two of Base Accommodation plus "The Canberra Guest House" & "Foley's Hotel", also the Hospital, "The Swimming Pool & the Viking", "RAN College Jervis Bay - Employees Camp", "The Warships at Jervis Bay", the Naval Band Dawdling to Church Parade, & a fantastic shot of naval ratings in a long boat with their challenge to champion racehorse Phar Lap, a few with plain backs SymbolcGradea+/b View details Estimate$500Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 325 Historical mostly real photo group for 1908 Visit of the US Fleet, 1918 Victory Celebrations x3, 1920 Royal Visit, 1932 Anzac Day, Sydney Harbour Bridge Under Construction x4 & Opening x3 plus eleven small photographs of the construction, 1941 Welcome to HMAS "Sydney", etc, also a few unrelated Cards, generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (56) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 326 Unidentified towns & buildings, mostly Kerry Aboriginal Cards, real photo types including "Randwick: The Lawn" with an enormous crowd, Horse & Carts for Milk Deliveries or 'EXPRESS PARCEL DELIVERY', 1907 "The Sculling Championship of the World" etc, also photographs including terrific Sydney Morning Herald WWII shot of Soldiers Taking a Break, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (34) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 327 1923 Plane Crash Simpson & Bell (Tweed Heads) real photo "Accident to G-AUBL 23.1.1923" (Gawking On-Lookers, the Plane Literally Split in Half), faint bend, unused. Ex rryan. [This incident took place at Greenmount & was caused by the pilot swerving to avoid children who ran across his path. The pilot, Edgar Wikner Percival, served in the Middle East with the AIF & was accepted into the Royal Flying Corps. In 1919 he established a successful aviation business at Richmond (NSW) & later became a h SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$100Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 328 STEREO CardS: Selection of Rose Cards for 1) 1901 Federation Celebrations x7 including Swearing-In Ceremony, Review of Troops, Wool Arch & French Arch etc; and 2) 1908 Visit of the American Fleet x15 including Ships, Official Reception, Fire Brigades Procession, Sailors Marching through Sydney, Children's Flag Drill, etc; some minor blemishes mostly on the backing-Cards, the views generally very fine to superb! Ex rryan. (22) SymbolcGradea-/a+ View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 329 Box of mostly better topographicals from large towns - no Sydney - through to tiny hamlets, lots of unexpected little gems including numerous local publishers & real photos types of post offices, fire stations, mining, etc, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bob Young. (150 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$750Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 330 Two large albums by town 'A' to 'Y' in roughly alphabetical order with many small settlements & unusual views, a good range by local publishers & many real photo types, noted post offices, town halls, beaches, bridges, ferries, snow scenes, Jenolan Caves x10, hospitals, a few advertising types, etc etc, condition variable. Ex Aldo Paladin. (400 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 331 SYDNEY & SUBURBS: Scarcer streetscapes including "Pitt St", "William Street", "Moore St" (Hansom Cabs), "Bent Street", "Phillip St" (Hansom Cabs) & "King Street" (Trams), also "Offices of the Sydney Harbour Trust", "Sydney Observatory" & "Royal Prince Alfred Hospital" (ward activity); then an excellent suburban group - no beaches or harbour views - including a fantastic Kerry of a crowded "Pyrmont Bridge", "Belmore Markets", "Corpus Christi Festival Manly 1909", "Sacred Heart Convent, Randwick", Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 332 SYDNEY & SUBURBS: Large album including a Jolley, transport with trains trams a trolley bus & a hansom cab, lots of public & a few private buildings, several with French captions, etc, also novelty types with fold-out views & a beautiful artist Card of "Duntroon House" (ACT) by AJ Bowden, condition variable. Ex Aldo Paladin. (150 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 333 COASTAL REGIONS: Appealing collection of beach scenes from Port Macquarie & Byron Bay south to Narooma & Thirroul with such crackers as Sydney Mail "...Launch of New Manly Steamer Bingarra", "Manly showing the Ferry Wharf", "Scene at Hylands Hotel Narooma", "The Children's Spot, Lagoon Thirroul Beach", "Shipping at the Dyke, Newcastle", Cronulla group x14 etc, then a superior group of Sydney Harbour subjects including "Big Gun Practice Middle Head", "Departure of Island Steamer from Sydney", "SS Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 334 COASTAL REGIONS: SOUTH COAST: Selection from Bega, Bombala, Boydtown's impressive Telephone Box, Crookwell, Eden including Whaling x2, Narooma, Queanbeyan, Tathra etc, some are real photos, also groups of small photographs of holidaymakers & Camping-Out, generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (103) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 335 NEW ENGLAND: Selections from Armidale including 1921 Opening of Orphanage, Glen Innes, Gunnedah including 1910 Floods x2 making a panorama, Inverell including "Tin Dredging", Manilla, Moree including a local "Hupmobile" (!), Tamworth, Uralla & Wee Waa 1910 Floods x2, many are real photo types, generally fine to very fine. A very good lot. Ex rryan. (97) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 336 HUNTER VALLEY: Selections from Bulahdelah, Cessnock including Collieries, Gloucester, Maitland, Newcastle including Hamilton Pipe Band, heavy industry & docks plus eleven larger photographs, Singleton, Toronto etc, floods at Gloucester, Maitland x3 & Newcastle, many are real photos, generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (106) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 337 BLUE MOUNTAINS: Touristy lot with many real photos of Beauty Spots including group of Daredevils at Lawson's Lookout, Scenic Railway x6, Jenolan Caves x9, Guest Houses & Hotels at Katoomba, Lapstone, Leura, Medlow Bath & Oberon, generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (70) Symbolc View details Estimate$220Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 338 BLUE MOUNTAINS: c.1920s HC Swain Sydney five different photographic panorama Cards (400x147mm) of Blue Mountains scenery & two duplicates of "The Vera Falls", a couple of minor defects, unfolded & unused. Rare. (7) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 339 CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: Mostly real photo types of Berrima Jail in World War I x3, Bowral, Braidwood & Moss Vale, also a terrific 1911-16 Barren Jack/Burrinjuck group of the town & Dam Construction (several of these are dated), generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (37) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 340 CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: Bundle from Bowral, Mittagong & Moss Vale etc with many real photo types including "Mittagong FC Premiers 1905-06", 1920 Train Wreck at Moss Vale, 1911 Social Event at Bowral, etc, also c.1912 "Barren Jack City" (a quite remarkable photo) & four of Burrenjuck Dam Construction, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bob Young. (38) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 341 AUSTRALIAN ALPS: Attractive group with Cooma including real photos and Mount Kosciusko including several Kerry Cards & small photographs of snow sports etc, also Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme photographs x8, generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (58) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 342 THE ILLAWARRA: Album with selections from Austinmer, Bulli, Kangaroo Valley, Kiama, Milton, Nowra, Port Kembla, Shoalhaven, Thirroul & Wollongong etc, lots of seascapes but plenty of better content, many are real photos & several are noted as "original hand-coloured", generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (130+) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 343 THE ILLAWARRA: c.1916 town with Tents of Kiama Military Camp in the distance, used under cover. Ex rryan. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$75Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 344 CENTRAL NEW SOUTH WALES: Album with good selections from Bathurst, Cowra, Forbes, Goulburn, Grenfell, Lithgow (many of the local heavy industries), Molong, Orange (including what may be the most impressive Golf Club House in the World!), Parkes, Wyalong/West Wyalong & Young etc, subjects include major buildings, processions, transport, schools, etc, generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (160+) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 345 ORANA & FAR WEST: Selection from Bourke, Broken Hill including Mining, "The Strike Jan 1909/Assault on Mine Officials" & Fire at Lennon's Pictureland, Cobar, Dubbo, Mudgee, Peak Hill & Wellington, also generic Outback group including artesian bores, an attractive group of Kerry Cards & some photographs including Hunters with Dead Roos x6, generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (125 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 346 MURRAY RIVER/RIVERINA: Good selection from Albury, others from Corowa, Deniliquin, Mathoura, Wentworth etc, many are real photo types including Lake Victoria 1915 group x12 plus photographs of the Hume Reservoir Under Construction, the Opening & in Flood (1931 x2), generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (96) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 347 MURRAY RIVER/RIVERINA: Companion lot from Adelong including Gold Mining, Cootamundra, Griffith, Gundagai, Hay including the town being Engulfed by Dust Storm, Leeton including a great post-Fire shot, Temora including 1902 Unveiling of Boer War Memorial, Wagga Wagga & Yanco, many are real photo types, generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (91) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 348 LORD HOWE ISLAND: Real photo types x5 comprising "Mt Lidgbird & Gower", "South Reef", "Edie's Slew" & two uncaptioned views, also small photographs x8 & three larger prints, fine to superb unused, Very scarce material. Ex rryan. (14 items) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 349 Bundle of mostly Darwin views but also Adelaide River, Katherine, mining at Tennant Creek etc, many real photos, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (31) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 350 1915 real photo Card "Return of His Excellency Dr Gilruth to Darwin 12.4.15" (with a bevy of white-suited officials on the wharf), used under cover with message "This is a view of our arrival in Darwin. Dad is on the fore part...". Ex rryan. [John Anderson Gilruth was a veterinarian (!) who, in 1912, was appointed Administrator of the Northern Territory. A straight-talker, he was unpopular with most Territorians, resulting in the "Darwin Rebellion" of December 1918. He was recalled two months la SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 351 1918 "Darwin Rebellion" postCard-size photograph of at least 25 men - including several Aborigines - with plaCards & a red flag on the verandah of a brick building, minor spotting on the reverse only. Ex rryan. [The Rebellion was the culmination of eight years unrest by the Australian Workers' Union. On 17/12/1918, AWU Secretary Harold George Nelson & several hundred supporters marched to Government House to demand the resignation of the Administrator JA Gilruth] SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$100Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 352 1919 First England-Australia Flight R Rohrer real photo Cards 1) Darwin's Population Inspecting the Vickers Vimy in a Paddock; and 2) Ross & Keith Smith with their crew JM Bennett & WH Shiers (and a local lad) Beside the Vimy; both superb unused. [See also Lot 284] (2) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$250Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 353 1935 (Feb) England-Australia Flight per Ray Parer & G Hemsworth Arrival at Darwin R Rohrer real photo Cards 1) the Plane in a Field (the Airport?); and 2) Five Men Inspecting the Plane while Ray Parer Effects Minor Repairs; unused. Ex rryan. [The plane was entered in the epic MacRobertson Air Race but early problems caused withdrawal from the race at Paris. However, they were compelled to finish the journey, arriving at Darwin on 8/2/1935 & in Melbourne on 13/2/1935] (2) SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 354 DARWIN: Mostly real photo Cards - mostly pre-World War II - with streetscapes, public buildings, hotels, roadworks, ships stranded at low tide, a shanty town, the enormous "Men's Quarters" at the Meatworks, aerial shots of "Railway Station", "Government House...", "Jail Darwin NA", "Meat Works Darwin NA" & "Leper Station, Channel Island", etc, some are PPC-size photographs including 1938 Flying Boat "Coorong" Washed Up on Rocks [see AAMC #835; no mail recorded] (48); also smaller photographs x35 Symbolc View details Estimate$800StatusUnsold Lot 355 CENTRAL AUSTRALIA: Mostly real photo Cards - mostly pre-World War II - for Alice Springs including Rose "Methodist Children's Hostel" & Neck "Aerial Services Residence", also "Dipping Cattle, Anthony's Lagoon", "Rankine Store", "Bradshaws Stn, Victoria River", "Among the big Game in the NT, Adelaide River", "Marked by Gregory's Exploring party 1856" (Bottle Tree), a Camel-Drawn Buggy, Flood Damage to Railway Line at Pine Creek, a fantastic shot of two huge Crocodiles Trussed & Hanging from a Boa Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 356 ABORIGINES: "Natives Darwin" (very fine), "Finke River" (Girls at the Mission, coloured, with bumped corners), then real photo types "Native Home NT" (plain back, very fine), "Corroboree Preparations Arunta Aborigines" (tape stain away from the photo), J Backwood "Pine Creek Natives" (postally used at Brisbane in 1910), Rohrer Initiation Ceremony (?, fine), Vallan Studio "Bathurst Islanders" (fine), The Day's Catch (very fine) and Six Youths in a Dug-Out Canoe (very fine); also postCard-size pho SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 357 WORLD WAR II: Real Photo Cards x7 (mostly second-generation prints) and postCard-size photographs x8 of damage caused by Japanese Bombings in February 1942, the subsequent Fires, Damage to Buildings & in the Harbour, also an Australian Officer Taking the Salute & a patriotic "The Original Owners - V - Today's Defenders", generally very fine. Ex rryan. (15) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$300Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 358 Large album with strong Brisbane including many of the river & various bridges, a few suburban, provincial towns etc, many are Sidues types, also 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition "Brisbane from the Observatory", some novelty types with fold-out views & a group of small photographs, condition variable. Ex Aldo Paladin. (140 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 359 Group of historical real photos with WWI "Portion of Ward Military Hospital Enoggera", a terrific but unidentified Military Parade, 1926 Pupils at Coorparoo School, 1928 ABC Trans-Pacific Flight with photos of Kingsford Smith & Ulm with facsimile signatures, etc, also photographs including 1928 Bert Hinkler's arrival at Bundaberg & his plane being paraded thru Brisbane, Carlton VFL Footballers in Queensland x3, etc, generally fine to very fine, also two Stereo Cards of Queensland Floods (one alm Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 360 Mostly rural topographicals with Kingaroy group including female timber cutters!, "Water Board Navvies...Mt Crosby", "Aboriginal Brass Band, Yarrabah Mission", mining including "Steamshovels, Open Cut, Mount Morgan", Tourist Bureau "Pearling Luggers, Thursday Island", etc, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bob Young. (28) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 361 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition (San Francisco) multicoloured "Scene on Emu Creek" and green-framed views "Pearling Fleet Thursday Island", "Brisbane from the Observatory", "Crop of Table Grapes" (used in America in 1916 & rare thus), "Store Cattle at Tamrookum", "Examining Tobacco leaf", "Sheep Station Rodney Downs" & "Bending Broom Millett", unused. Very scarce. [We have not previously seen the last four views] (8) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot 362 1925 Murray (Gympie) real photo "Rocky Mail Disaster", a terrific photo showing damage to the railway line on the trestle bridge, wreckage of several carriages in the ravine, plus an array of workers, gawkers & a lone policeman, a few minor spots on the reverse, unused. Ex rryan. [The disaster occurred on 10.6.1925, south of Gympie, when the overnight mail train from Brisbane to Rockhampton was partly derailed. At the time, it was the worst railway disaster in Queensland, with 9 killed & 48 inju SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot 363 ABORIGINES: Collection of mostly real photo Cards including "Blacks Camp Clermont", "Natives in War Paint", "Winton Natives", "Making Fire with Fire Stick", "Aboriginals at their Natural Huts...Malanda", "Native Outrigger Canoes, Bloomfield River", "Aboriginal Band, Yarrabah Mission", Palm Island Church and School, Torres Strait Islands x5 including "People of Vipaka...at Mission House" (Papua ?), etc, also a few small photographs including three with Palm Island captions & two Stereo Cards Symbolc View details Estimate$750Price Realized$2,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 364 Collection arranged by region - no Brisbane or Suburbs - with numerous shots of small towns, public buildings, churches, agriculture, cane cutting & sugar mills including Kanakas (labourers introduced from the Pacific Islands) x3, mining, etc, also floods, events, advertising Card for Francis Hopkins Jeweller & Optician (Townsville), interesting early Gold Coast group, strong North Queensland section with Thursday Island x7, Magnetic, Palm & South Molle Islands, many real photo types including Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 365 BRISBANE & SUBURBS: Album with many Brisbane streetscapes including some more unusual types & a number with Trams, hotels, public buildings etc, many of the Brisbane River including boating & wharves, Cards of Manly, Sandgate & Wynnum etc, many real photo types, also some small photographs, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (146) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 366 TOWNSVILLE: Very early undivided backs with sepia photos on yellow stock, minor blemishes, unused. (5) Symbolc View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 367 TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS: "Climbing for Cocoanuts" [sic], "Albany Pass...from Jardines" & real photo of "Native Village York [sic] Island", very fine unused. Ex Bronte Watts. (3) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 368 The untidy balance of Bronte Watts' exceptional South Australian collection with numerous subjects including events, sport & other leisure activities, Visit of Lord Kitchener x3, lots of agricultural subjects, many of unidentified locations, novelty Cards etc etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Pandora's box! (220 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 369 Partly mounted & annotated range including paddle steamers x2, Adelaide Hospitals x10 & John Martin's Department Store's famous Christmas Cards x28 including for 1912 1913 1915 1917 & 1919, some attractive topographicals, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Joe Duif. (80 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 370 Mounted range with churches, railway stations, paddle steamers, an advertising Card for John Martin's Department Store, the fire brigade x2, etc, apparently all fine to very fine. Ex Joe Duif. (40) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 371 A few Adelaide including "Bowling Green", "A Fire Alarm - Racing to the Scene", "Japanese Men-of-War's Men", Niven 1910 advertising calendar Card for Holland's Levers, Opening of Electric Tram Service x2, "Express Train with Mails for London", also "Convalescent Home Auchendarroch", "Tiparra Lighthouse" (on stilts, in Moonta Bay), etc, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bob Young. (37) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 372 1908 usage of South Australian "stamps" PPC for Sanatoria Home for Consumptive Women, used in NSW. Rare. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$75Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 373 1909 real photo "Survivors Clan Ranald Wreck 31.1.09", unused. Ex Bronte Watts. [This was one of the worst shipwrecks in South Australian waters. Six Europeans - including the captain - & 34 crew members died. The 20 surviving seaman - all of various Asian origins - fell foul of Australia's then official "White Australia" policy; they were seized, handprinted & deported!] SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 374 1950 c. (?) Government Publicity & Tourist Bureau complete set of advice Cards in brownish black, three feature trams, unused, Very scarce. (10) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$300Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 375 ADVERTISING: Collection of advertising Cards for South Australian businesses or agents of out-of-State firms including hotels, retailers, manufacturers, importers, general stores, theatre productions, Viceroy Tea set of 6 aerial views of "Adelaide from a Balloon" etc, mostly Adelaide firms but some suburban and country users including from Gawler, Quorn & Port Lincoln, condition rather mixed but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. [This & the next three lots comprise by far the best col Symbolc View details Estimate$3,500StatusUnsold Lot 376 ADVERTISING: the companion lot of beautifully produced FW Niven Cards for South Australian firms including breweries, retailers, dispensing chemist, orchards including AE Pitt x7, Walter & Morris Timber Yards x2, RJ Coombs Wool Store x2, Prince Alfred College, Flinders Street Baptist Church, etc, condition rather mixed but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. By far the best selection of these rare and delightful Cards we have ever offered. (40) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$2,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 377 ADVERTISING: Hotels group including at Little Para, Port Pirie West, Magill, Hahndorf, Henley Beach, Pinnaroo, Port Elliott etc, also "Lunan's Temperance Hotel" real photo, & guest houses in Adelaide, at Mount Lofty & Victor Harbour [sic], etc, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (19) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 378 ADVERTISING: c.1900 court-size Card for SA Glass Works at Brompton, unused. Rare. Ex Bronte Watts. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot 379 CHURCHES: Mounted group with St Peter's Cathedral North Adelaide x8, many other fine structures but also many small churches including real photo type of the weatherboard building at Rosewater, multi-views of "Church of Christ Grote St" & "Churches of Pt Pirie", real photo commemoratives "Bethany Church Jubilee 1833-1933" & "1861-1911 Goolwa Methodist Jubilee", etc, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (64) Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$1,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 380 EDUCATION: Mounted group with school buildings including "St Peter's College", real photos of Federation Celebrations x2, "Robe School Band" (10 fifes & a drum) & school/class photos x25 (mostly real photos & mostly identified) etc, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. An unusual lot. (34) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 381 EVENTS & PROCESSIONS: Fascinating historical group including "Unveiling Light Statue", "Varsity students procession", "Opening of South Australian Parliament", "8 Hours Procession", "Imperial Place on Race-days...How long will citizens of SA tolerate this Public Scandal?", many real photos including Armistice Day x2, Peace Proclamation x2, Visit of Prince of Wales x2, Adelaide Brass Bands x6 & "Harrold Colton Fire Feb 5 1907" x5, etc, also 1908 & 1939 Record Heatwave Cards, etc, generally fine t Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 382 MILITARY - WORLD WAR ONE: 1916 real photo of Mitcham Military Camp (SA) featuring dozens of tents, chopping wood, underground oven & a group of bare-chested soldiers on a makeshift raft, a couple of minor inkspots, used under cover. One of the most appealing WWI Military Camp Cards we have seen. Ex Bronte Watts. [The writer, Sapper WW Evans, says "...Tell me which you think is me..."] SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 383 POST OFFICES: Excellent mounted collection with GPO x8, many from major towns but also some tiny hamlets including Dublin, Meningie, Fowlers Bay, Langhornes Creek, Callington, Curramulka, Blyth & Geranium, most are straightforward views but we also noted many are real photo types including transferring mail between a railway TPO & early automobile, Easter Sunday at Wirrabarra, Anzac Day (?) at Freeling, "Official opening Athelstone June 1909", the tiny horse-drawn railway van that carried mail b Symbolc View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$3,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 384 RAILWAYS: An exceptional mounted collection of railway lines, stations, level crossings, trains, cutting sleepers, staff etc, many are real photo types, generally fine to very fine. Inspect to appreciate. Ex Bronte Watts. (130+) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$2,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 385 RAILWAYS: the companion lot of real photos of Railway Disasters at Kapunda x5, Murray Bridge (a carriage is actually on the platform!), the cataclysmic derailing at Port Augusta on 28/3/1914 x9, and three others unidentified but believed to be within South Australia, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Wow! Ex Bronte Watts. (17) Symbolc View details Estimate$750Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 386 RAILWAYS: TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY: Group of Rose real photo Cards from various series, two hand-tinted (with tape on the corners), plus six modern reproductions, finally two real photos of Tarcoola on the TAR, condition variable but generally fine to very fine, mostly unused. Ex Bronte Watts. (25) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 387 RAILWAYS: real photo Cards "Ooldea in the Heart of Australia 427 miles from Pt Augusta...", "Camel Train Ooldea 1919", "Trans Australian Rly Kalgoorlie E Carter's Gang", and two boring East-West Railway views printed in Holland, very fine unused. Ex Bronte Watts. Trans-Australian Railway Cards other than from the Rose Series are rare. (5) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 388 RAILWAYS: 1912 real photo Cards of the Official Opening of the project with two of the stage & dignitaries (one with small corner fault), the other with 10 small photos & inscribed "Lord Denman Gov General of Australia Turning the first Sod...Port Augusta Sept 14 1912", the last with a message on the back, very fine unused. Rare trio. Ex Bronte Watts. SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 389 SPORT - AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL: Team photos of Glenelg (?, 1907), Sturt (1908), West Adelaide (1908), Port Pirie (1916), Freeling (1910), Red Hill (1922) & Norwood (1906, with note on reverse "the Premiers that SHOULD have been" !) plus others not identified, also star players including AEG Smith & W Allen and West Adelaide trio McCarthy Head & Conlin, a couple of shots of matches in progress etc, a few are badly damaged but most are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (29) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 390 SPORT CRICKET: Five views of Adelaide Oval three with Test Matches in progress, and two different real photo types of the South United Cricket Club team, also 1904 Test Match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground & 1906 testimonial Card to the Captain of the Commercial Travellers Cricket Club signed by his comrades, generally fine to very fine, six are unused. (9) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$180Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 391 TRAMWAYS: Mounted collection with horse-drawn trams at Adelaide, Henley Beach & Victor Harbor/Harbour, 1909 Opening of the Electric Tram Service group of the popular commemorative Cards plus a few more unusual types, a good number are real photo types, a few advertising Cards for good measure, condition a bit variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. Another excellent lot! (46) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 392 ADELAIDE: Mounted group of panoramas & multi-views, plus Botanic Gardens, Lake Torrens etc, many real photos, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (67) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 393 ADELAIDE: Mounted group of streetscapes including some less common including the unsealed East Terrace, Dequetteville Terrace, Flinders Street, Grote Street & Currie Street, some real photos, many with horsedrawn or electric trams, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (100 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 394 ADELAIDE: Mounted group of buildings including churches, hospitals, banks, government offices, schools, Adelaide University, etc, also monuments, some real photos, some with horsedrawn or electric trams, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (81) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 395 ADELAIDE SUBURBS: Extensive mounted collection including stately homes, churches, public buildings, hospitals including "Parkside Asylum" etc, noted Frewville x2, Hindmarsh Christmas Day 1907 fire x8 & 1917 floods x2, strong Glenelg section with more than the beach & jetty!, Kent Town including Prince Alfred College x3, Klemzig floods x2, "Hunt Club of Largs Bay" (!), North Adelaide with more than the cathedral, Port Adelaide group including carriers & 1913 Opening of the Fire Station, "Opening Symbolc View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$4,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 396 ADELAIDE HILLS: Extensive collection with Aldgate x16, Belair x21 (mostly National Park), Bridgewater x11, Gumeracha x14, Hahndorf x8, Littlehampton x3, Lobethal x15, Meadows x5, Mount Barker x28, Nairne x5, Norton Summit x4, Stirling x15, Uraidla x10, etc, many real photos, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (200 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$750Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 397 ADELAIDE HILLS: MOUNT LOFTY & CRAFERS: Mostly snow scenes including snowballing, snowmen, also guest houses & an advertising Card for Crafers Hotel, etc, some real photos, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (57) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold Lot 398 THE SOUTH: Mounted collection with Goolwa x16, Noarlunga/Port Noarlunga x27, Port Elliot x19, Strathalbyn x16, Willunga x15 including three real photos of the Jetty in various stages of decrepitude, Yankalilla x22 including real photo of "The Mill" on fire, etc, lots of seascapes but plenty of "meat", condition variable but most are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (100 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 399 THE SOUTH: VICTOR HARBOUR / HARBOR: Mounted collection again with lots of seascapes but only a few of the Granite Island Causeway, many better scenes/subjects & real photos including Mount Breckan stately home "After the Fire" x3, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (74) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 400 THE SOUTH-EAST: Mounted collection with Beachport x7 including real photo of a dead whale, Kingston SE x5, Millicent x18, Mount Gambier x44 with only a few of the Lakes, Penola x6, Point Macleay Aboriginal Mission Station x3, Port MacDonnell x15 including the Lighthouse x2, Robe x22, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. 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