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 401-500 of 1138. Previous|12345678...12|Next123456789101112 View Lot 401 THE EAST/NORTH-EAST: Mounted collection with Bordertown x14 including real photos of flooding x4, Eudunda x13, Hamley Bridge x8, Lameroo x5, Mount Pleasant x7, Naracoorte x20 including three real photos of the Caves, Pinnaroo x22, Point Pass x2, Riverton x7, Saddleworth x5, Sedan x4, Tarlee x5 & Waterloo x4, many real photos, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (120 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 402 THE EAST/NORTH-EAST: MURRAY RIVER: Mounted collection with Barmera x16, Berri x10, Kingston-on-Murray x4, Loxton x12, Mannum x31 including several real photos of flooding in the town, Milang x4, Morgan x5, Swan Reach x4 & Waikerie x9, etc, many real photos, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. [See also Paddle Steamers: Lot 300] (100 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 403 THE EAST/NORTH-EAST: MURRAY BRIDGE: Mounted collection with many real photos, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (40) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 404 THE EAST/NORTH-EAST: RENMARK: Mounted collection with many real photos including of flooding in the town, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (37) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 405 BAROSSA VALLEY: Mounted collection from Angaston x27, Eden Valley x2, Lyndoch x2, Nuriootpa x6, Springton x2 & Tanunda x18 including a lovely advertising Card for the Tanunda Hotel, many real photo types, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (57) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 406 GAWLER & DISTRICT: Mounted collection including "Exhibition Building and Corner of Show Grounds", James Martin & Co Engine Builders x2, James Martin Store & Statue, etc, also Freeling x8 including "Clay Villa" & real photo of the Brass Band, Roseworthy Agricultural College, "Sandy Creek Waterfalls" & Williamstown real photos x4, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (35) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 407 THE NORTH: Extensive mounted collection from Auburn x13, Blinman x7, Blyth x8, Brinkworth x3, Clare x16, Crystal Brook x15, Kapunda x17, Laura x6, Mallala x6, Manoora x4, Marree/Hergott Springs x14, Oodnadatta x4, Orroroo x10, Petersburg/Peterborough x16, Snowtown x6 & Wilmington x8, etc, many real photo types, generally fine to very fine. Another excellent lot. Ex Bronte Watts. (160 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$750Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 408 THE NORTH: BALAKLAVA: Attractive Advocate Series unframed x2 & framed x3, Eclipse Series x3, hilarious "Balaklava Japanese Fair, 1912" (faults but presentable), town buildings, "Old Werocata Station", 1913 town fire real photo x3 (one with heavy crease), "Balaklava on D Virgo's Monthly Sale Day 1904", real photo "Coronation Day Balaklava", 1908 Well Accident x2, etc, generally fine to very fine. A very good lot. Ex Bronte Watts. (36) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 409 THE NORTH: BLYTH: 1937 "Back to Blyth" bundle of real photo types of local businesses etc, many with animated groups, unused. Superb! Ex Bronte Watts. (31) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 410 THE NORTH: BURRA DISTRICT: Group including Aberdeen x4, Kooringa x13 & Redruth x3, many real photos, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. [Copper mining] (32) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 411 THE NORTH: PORT PIRIE: Mounted group including BHP Smelters, Visit of the Governor-General x2, 8 Hours Procession, 1919 Austral Buildings Fire x3, Champion Lacrosse Team, etc, many real photos & a few court-size, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (50) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSold Lot 412 THE NORTH: Port Pirie three-frame display with many fine Cards including streetscapes, churches, public buildings, horse-drawn fire "truck", hostelries including advertising Card for "O'Mara's Federal Hotel", the railway "station" in the middle of the road (!), many of the BHP smelters (plus an exquisite Tourist Bureau photograph: 195x147mm), "Opening of Children's Playground August 18 1918", etc, also a few of neighbouring Solomontown, condition apparently very fine throughout. Ex Joe Duif. (57 Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 413 FLINDERS RANGES: Mounted group from Caltowie x4, Gladstone x6, Hawker x2, Jamestown x28, Melrose x15, Quorn x14, Wirrabara x10 & Yarrah x2, & a few others, many real photos, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (80+) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 414 YORKE PENINSULA: Extensive mounted collection from Ardrossan x5, Edithburgh x22 (a terrific group), Kadina x25, Maitland x7, Minlaton x16, Moonta x29, Port Broughton x7, Port Vincent x5, Wallaroo x45 & Yorketown x20, many real photo types, generally fine to very fine. Another excellent lot. Ex Bronte Watts. (180+) Symbolc View details Estimate$750Price Realized$575StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 415 EYRE PENINSULA: Mounted collection with Cowell x14, Franklin Harbour x5 (three for Opening of the local Institute), Port Germein x6, Streaky Bay x8, Tumby Bay x18, Whyalla x11, etc, many real photos, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (70 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot 416 EYRE PENINSULA: PORT AUGUSTA: Mounted collection with many real photos, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (36) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot 417 EYRE PENINSULA: PORT LINCOLN: Mounted collection with many real photos including Fire at Hotel Ozone triptych, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (40) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot 418 KANGAROO ISLAND: Outstanding group including shipwrecks, "China Clay Fields Our Coming Industry" (still coming!), Cape Borda Lighthouse, "Eucalyptus Oil Factory, Cygnet River", "Ladies' Fishing Competition, Kingscote", "Faith, Hope, and Charity - First Settlement in South Australia", etc, a good number are real photos, generally fine to very fine. An exceptional lot of this very scarce & popular subject. Ex Bronte Watts. [By way of comparison, John Bell had only ten Kangaroo Island Cards] (54) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 419 Large album with lots of variety including "Aborigines of Tasmania (an Extinct Race)", Mount Wellington group, good Launceston group including WH Davey Chemist advertising Card, Selwyn Cox (Launceston) "Removing - "w" changed to "v" - A Unique Scene near Scottsdale" (bullock team moving a house!), scenes of small towns, lighthouses & beauty spots, many real photo types including Beach Full of Dead Whales, Cart of Day Trippers to Mount Wellington (a superb photo), Billy Wood's Hut, Springs, Mount Symbolc View details Estimate$750Price Realized$2,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 420 Beattie (Hobart) mostly real photo Cards, predominantly landscapes - including some of coastal islands - & topographical features but including "Coal Mines Station from Mt Lepus", panoramas of Hobart (adapted for the 1899 2d stamp) & Saltwater River, Catholic School Students (banner states "God Bless the Pope"), Buildings at Eaglehawk Neck, lighthouses etc, some have one or more people to provide a sense of scale, all attributed by the distinctive tiny captions or a Beattie handstamp/print on th SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$500Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 421 Excellent lot with many real photo types including "Water Supply Fingal" (filling a tank in the middle of the river!), & a double-decker Hobart tram, also "Mount Lyell Co's Electric Power Station", "Consumptive Sanatorium, New Town", "Hollydene...Hobart", "Queenstown & Mt Lyell Smelters", "Whitehouse Bros SS Marana", etc, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bob Young. (33) Symbolc View details Estimate$450Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 422 1908 Franco-British Exhibition Government Series "Packing Apples for England" in greenish blue, unused. Rare. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 423 1912 Osboldstone & Co artist Cards for Mount Lyell Railway all-different views used or used under cover x8 (two dated 1912) & unused x3, also Mount Lyell Tourist Association "Wood Pipe Line..." used at Queenstown in 1924, generally fine to very fine. (12) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$100Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 424 1912 (c.) Daily Telegraph "Launceston: The Tourist's Paradise", unused. Superb! Ex Joe Duif. SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot 425 1920 (c. ?) Government Tourist Bureau "Russell Falls" in brown, soiled on the address side, unused. SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$80StatusUnsold Lot 426 1920 (c.) Alex Fyle & Sons (New Norfolk Tas) real photo "...at the Inauguration of Hydro-Electric Power Plant", a little soiled on the address side, unused. Great social history. [Work on supplying hydro-electricity to New Norfolk began in 1915. Fyle & Sons were building contractors...& undertakers! The latter business was conducted under that name until at least 2002] SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 427 MINING: Open-cut mines & mining townships, mostly Mount Lyell & Queenstown but also "Tas Smelting Co's works Zeehan", "Magnet Silver Mine" & Spurling real photo "Briseis Tin Mine", also a range of photographs (many postCard-size), generally fine to very fine. Ex rryan. (33) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 428 HOBART & SUBURBS: Good range with many panoramic shots, "Yachting on River Derwent", "Zinc Works" x2, streetscapes including a few terrific views with trams, Tasmanian Government Railways advertising Card, many real photo types including "[Old] Government House Risdon", c.1915 "Departure of our Troops for the Front", ABC 1929 Tasmanian Floods Relief, propaganda Card for Early Hotel Closing & old Wrest Point Hotel x4 (pre-casino), etc, also 1901 Royal Visit "Lighthouse Arch" stereo Card & a coupl Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 429 PORT ARTHUR: Excellent group of mostly real photo Cards mostly Beatties including "The Convict Railway", "Port Arthur During Occupation AD 1859" & "...1860", "Relics of Convict Discipline", "The Magazine", "Fountain", "Smith O'Brien's Cottage", "Underground Cells", "Among the Tombs, Dead Island", prison interiors including "Entrance Hall", "Interior Chapel", "Exercise Yards & Solitary Cell", the decrepit Signal Station, etc, also "Old Penitentiary Macquarie Harbour", condition variable but gener SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$750Price Realized$1,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 430 ISLANDS: Mostly real photo types for King, Flinders, Maria & Bruny Islands plus the much scarcer Bonnet x2, Cape Barren x3, Clarke x2, Egg, Spurling "Sperm Whales Stranded Perrins Island", Schouten, Tasman & Vansittart x4, mostly landscapes - several by Beattie (Hobart) - but also a few lighthouses & "Old Pigeon Loft Maria Island" (postally used, with message about this eccentric structure), generally very fine to superb unused. Outstanding. Ex rryan. (65) SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$600Price Realized$3,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 431 ISLANDS: BRUNY ISLAND: Beattie (Hobart) "Tree Felling" (woodcutters on planks inserted in the trunk), "Pile Cut from Tree" (apparently by hand!), "Bullocks Bringing Piles through Bush to Tram" & "A Cargo of Blue Gum Piles for S Africa", superb unused. A truly remarkable quartet, that are basically advertising Cards for Gray Bros Saw Mills at Adventure Bay. Ex rryan. (4) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 432 Pink album chockers with Melbourne Suburbs including Wesley College fund-raising Card & "Caulfield Cup 1907" (repaired 10mm tear), many country topographicals, Post Offices, churches, a couple of Jolleys & a few VSM "stamps" Cards with inset views, some real photo types etc, noted usages to India & Italy, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. A good lot. Ex "Cartophile". (190 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 433 Batch with better Melbourne streetscapes, "Brighton Carnival Day in Baystreet", "High Str Kew", real photos with "Corio Bay Regatta", 1918 Seymour Floods x2 & 1934 Traralgon Floods x3, then Gippsland with "Walhalla", "Stanlet Street...Toora", Vogt (Bairnsdale) x4 & Howard Bulmer (Bairnsdale) x2, etc, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bob Young. (46) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 434 1899 Jolley (?) "The River Yarra", "Collins Street" (tram), "Spring Street", "Bourke Street" (tram), "Botanical Gardens", "A Selectors Home", comprising a complete six-part letter, all used to Sydney on FE4/99, some minor blemishes. Rare pre-1901 usages. (6) SymbolcGradeA-/B View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot 435 1900 (c.) chromolitho "Melbourne" with panorama, St Patrick's & St Paul's Cathedrals, unused. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$80StatusUnsold Lot 436 1905 (c.) Progressive Printery "Federal Palace Hotel", unused. Superb! Ex Joe Duif. SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$50StatusUnsold Lot 437 1908 usage of 4-panel panorama PPC "The Lawn Flemington" (horse racing) to China with 1d only but not taxed, Hong Kong (b/s) & Shanghai transits & 'PEKING' bilingual arrival b/s, minor reinforcing at the folds. SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot 438 1908 (c.) S T Gill divided-back artist Cards "Victoria in the fifties" - the 1850s - including Ballaarat and Melbourne Post Offices, Market Square Geelong, University of Melbourne, Queens Wharf, paddle steamer on the Yarra etc, condition varied but generally fine to very fine, all but two are unused. (12) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 439 1908 ditto, in embossed frames with most of the same views plus "Princes Bridge" and "St Pauls Church", minor blemishes, unused. (12) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot 440 1910 (?) Sears Photo (Melbourne) of the Balloon "King Edward VII. One Mile in the Air", minor blemishes, unused. Ex Bronte Watts. SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot 441 1916 real photo of Soldiers in Fancy Dress apparently promoting Camp Theatricals, datelined on the back "Wangaratta 22.10.16" & addressed to "...D Campany 8th Battalion" probably at Seymour Military Camp, a trifle aged. Ex Shirley Jones. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$75StatusUnsold Lot 442 1917 Dufty (Sydney) real photo "SS Cumberland ashore at Gabo" plus small inset photo at lower-left, soiling mainly on the address side, unused. Ex Bob Young. [On 5/7/1917, the "Cumberland" was damaged by mines laid by the German Raider "Wolf". Run aground on Gabo Island, the huge hole in her side was repaired but she sank when under tow to Sydney. She was the only ship sunk by the Germans in Victorian waters] SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 443 ABORIGINES: 1910 real photo "A Family Group Corranderrk" used at Healesville with message "Some of the patients. I know them". Superb! Ex Shirley Jones. [In 1863, the Victorian Government established a reserve south of Healesville for the local Wurundjeri People. It was closed in 1924 & many of the Aborigines were re-settled at Lake Tyers. However, to this day there is a significant Aboriginal population in the Yarra Valley, south of Healesville] SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$100Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 444 ABORIGINES: Real photo types "A Family Group", "Group", "Wedding Group" & "Darby" all of Aborigines at Corranderrk , all used at Healesville in 1910. (4) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$300Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 445 ADVERTISING: c.1900 Troedel & Co advertising Card for Melbourne's Grand Hotel (now the Windsor) with four small illustrations in brown , unused. Very early & rare. Superb! SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$100Price Realized$70StatusSold Lot 446 FIRE SERVICES: Real photo types of Fire Stations at Beechworth, Koroit, Mansfield, Rutherglen (AP Thomas) & Surrey Hills (Valentine), fire lookouts x3 (one is a stereo postCard), also Eastern Hill Fire Station x15, & a few others, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bob Young. (28) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 447 MELBOURNE: Two large albums with unusual streetscapes, hotels, churches, University of Melbourne, Eastern Hill Fire Station x8, GPO x11, Princes Bridge x15, Government House x8, sketches by Douglas Pratt x3, "Memorial Service late King Edward VII", War Memorial Dedication, etc, lots of trams, also some suburban Cards, many unused, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Aldo Paladin. (270 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 448 MELBOURNE SUBURBS: Large album including Armadale x5, Brighton x8, Cheltenham x4, Dandenong x7, Footscray x10, Dandenong x7, Kew x8, Malvern x7, Mordialloc x12, Port Melbourne x10 (mostly shipping), street scenes, churches, schools, post offices, recreation grounds, etc, condition variable, a high proportion are unused, some postmark interest. Very scarce material. Ex Aldo Paladin. (170 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,750StatusUnsold Lot 449 COUNTRY TOWNS: 'Acheron' to 'Bendigo' collection - no Ballarat - with many better Cards & good sections from Bairnsdale x27, Beechworth x15, Bendigo x21 (some are modern reproductions), etc, lots of early Rose Cards including Belgrave x15, mostly unused & generally very fine. Ex Aldo Paladin. (190 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 450 COUNTRY TOWNS: 'Bright' to 'Euroa' with good sections from Bright x23, Buchan Caves x7, Colac x11, Cowes (Phillip Island) x6, Daylesford x39, Echuca x16, etc, many unused, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Aldo Paladin. (200 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 451 COUNTRY TOWNS: 'Fernshaw' to 'Hopetoun' with good sections from Hamilton x24, Healesville x80 approximately (mostly trees & creeks, plus a nice group of Rose scenes of Maroondah Dam), etc, many other early Rose Cards including Ferny Creek x15, Grampians x20, many unused, generally fine to very fine. Ex Aldo Paladin. (200 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot 452 WALHALLA: c.1910 (?) W Harrison Lee (Wonthaggi) real photo types comprising the Township x2, Railway x2 ("Horseshoe Bend" & "Crossing Thomson Bridge") and Pack Horses x2 (in Main Street, & on an alpine trail), very fine unused. Ex Bob Young. (6) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$240Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 453 DANDENONG RANGES: Album of Cards from towns & hamlets through the Ranges plus some outer suburban (Doncaster, Mitcham & Ringwood noted), lots of beauty spots, generally fine to very fine but many are modern copies only so caveat emptor. Ex Shirley Jones. ( ) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 454 YARRA RANGES/VALLEY: Album of Healesville & Mansfield Districts with some Undivided Backs, mostly beauty spots including many bridges, better subjects including timber-cutting, "Healesville Railway Station", "The Mail Coach blocked on the Blacks' [sic] Spur", Guest Houses including 1903 advertising Card for the Grand Hotel (Healesville) & "St Fillan's Narbethong", "Holiday Camp at Warburton", etc, includes many Rose views, one noted with the rare 'MOUNT DANDENONG NORTH' cds, generally fine to v Symbolc View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold Lot 455 Quality group by Falk x4, Detmold x2, HR James (Adelaide), and Austral, plus real photo types "Lake Way Hotel, Wiluna" & "CTA Belgian Relief Carnival, Kalgoorlie 2.12.14", fine to very fine. Ex Bob Young. (12) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$240Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 456 1899 (c.) chromolitho "Fremantle" with "High Street" & "King Billy Native, WA", unused. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$125Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 457 1907 (c.) Westralia & Extension Gold Mine Disaster comprising Standard Copyright artist Cards by Mabel Edmonds "Scenes of the Heroic Rescue..." (unused) & "Diver Hughes finding the Entombed Miner...", another by May Gibbs "Diver Hughes Succouring Varischetti", No Publisher's Name "Hero of the Disaster - Diver F Hughes" and a garish artist Card of the mine with advertising for the Bland Holt production "The Great Rescue" (unused), some minor blemishes. Ex Shirley Jones. [In May 1907, the mine was SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$250Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 458 ADVERTISING: 1909 local usage of ES Wigg & Son Printers Card "Section of Machine Room", bumped corners. Ex Bronte Watts. SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 459 Mostly Captain Robert Falcon Scott group comprising Rotary Portraits of Scott & Shackleton and the "Terra Nova" with inset portrait, "The Discovery with her Remington [typewriter] on board", Herbert Ponting "A Meal on the March" & "The Glad Eye" (penguin), also "Farthest South, Queen's Flag Hoisted" & "The Return of the Southern Party" (toning on address side), and "A British Hero" mourning Card, generally fine to very fine & all unused; also 1905 French Card of "Le Francais Expédition Charcot a Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 460 Rotary Photo "real photo" Card "Captain Scott" (in suit) plus unattributed & uncaptioned real photo types of the "Discovery" x2 (from forward or aft) plus an on-deck & four interior shots, unused. Superb! Ex Keith Harrison. (8) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$400Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 461 ARCTIC: 1897 German Rosenblatt (Frankfurt) "Instalment Cards" complete set of 4 chromolithographs for 'FRIDTJOF NANSEN/NORD POLAR-EXPEDITION' with a central Arctic Map which has been festooned with signatures, all posted at 'HANNOVER' between 26.11.97 and 6.12.97. A rare "puzzle set". Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 462 ARCTIC: 1898 Norwegian Mallings Card of the "Fram" in ice plus 13 tiny portraits of Fridtjof Nansen & his crew, reinforced corner at lower-right, from 'BERGEN' to Austria. Ex Bronte Watts. SymbolcGrade(b) View details Estimate$100Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 463 ARCTIC: 1901 Italian "Ricordo Delle Feste/27 Gennaio 1901" Card for the 1900 Italian Arctic Expedition with vignettes of the Duke of the Abruzzi and his ship "Stella Polare", used from 'GENOVA' to England in 1901. Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 464 ARCTIC: 1909 American Commodore Robert Peary group with Clinedinst framed portrait, "The North Pole...on the day of discovery", chromolitho Card "Stars & Stripes Nailed to the North Pole" (superb postally used), FA Moss patriotics x2 & Dog Team (defective), also two Tuck "Oilette" Cards with minor blemishes, unused. Ex Bronte Watts. (8) Symbolc View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 465 ARCTIC: 1909 French "Bonne année" (Happy New Year) artist Cards of Festive Polar Bears welcoming Peary's Expedition, one used under cover on New Year's Day 1910, the other used in France 21-12/09. Ex Keith Harrison. (2) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$50StatusUnsold Lot 466 Select group of Undivided Backs x13 of which eight are 1890s usages & four are of 1900, plus attractive artist Cards including Medieval Scenes, & a few others, generally fine to very fine unused or used. Ex Keith Harrison. (46) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 467 Box of mostly chromolitho "Gruss aus" or similar "Pozdrav z" multi-view Cards from throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire including many towns known today by quite different names in what later became Czechoslovakia Poland & Yugoslavia, noted 1897 "Pozdrav z Bohdance" with two small photo-vignettes affixed (!), 1900 "Pozdrav z Votic" x2 different with real photo backs & 1900 "Jericho" with 'JORDAN HOTEL/JERICHO' cachet & Levant 20pa tied by 'JERUSALEM/OSTERREICHISCHE POST' datestamp, mostly 1890 Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold Lot 468 1892 2kr Postal Cards with five different illustrations for the Internationale Musik- und Theater-Ausstellung in black or shades of brown on the message-side, each with very fine to superb strike of the 'INTN AUSSTLLG/ MUSIK-THEATER/WIEN/27.7.92' commemorative datestamp & two with a Wien arrival cds, also one of the views unused, some minor blemishes. Ex Keith Harrison. (6) SymbolpsGradea/b View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 469 1894 Silver Jubilee of the PostCard (Correspondenz-Karte) with photo of Emanuel Hermann who persuaded the Post Office to take this step, Wien datestamp of 25.4.94. Superb! Historically important. Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$150Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 470 Bundle from Estonia x33 - three with Russian stamps & postmarks - including a lovely group of artist Cards & 1929 'Talinn' wallet with ten superb real photos (plain backs); Latvia x25 - many with Russian or Latvian stamps & postmarks - plus a wallet with 12 fold-out colour views; also a few Lithuania & Memel; mostly unused, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Keith Harrison. (90) Symbolc View details Estimate$450Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 471 DANZIG: Attractive group including a few real photo types, a couple of Zoppot, mostly unused but three used with German stamps (one from 'ZOPPOT) & three used with Danzig stamps (one from 'ZOPPOT'), generally fine to very fine. Ex Keith Harrison. (36) Symbolc View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 472 LATVIA: Libau (Liepaja) group of views etc by A Dunkert x5, CR Dembo x9, George Stilke x3 and three others, condition varied, mostly unused, one used to Transvaal. (20) Symbolc View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 473 Large bundle from Antigua x10 including Undivided Backs x3, Bahamas x25 including 1925 British Empire Exhibition packet - faults - with 12 Cards, Bermuda x16 including a few UBs plus artist Cards by CF Tucker x8, Dominica x16 including a few UBs, Grenada x13 mostly UBs including one of 1904 with message "This is one of our first Post Cards...", Jamaica x20 including After the 1907 Earthquake x7, Nevis x4, St Lucia x11, St Vincent x7, Trinidad x17 and a few others, condition variable but generall Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 474 Selection from Antigua x2, Barbados x3, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica x2 (one to Dutch Guiana), St Kitts x9, Tobago & Virgins, many attractive views & subjects & several with Undivided Backs, some postal history/postmark interest, condition variable. (20) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 475 JAMAICA: Bundle of used Cards including 1907 earthquake Cards by H S Duperly and A Bienkowski, also J Johnston "Native wedding party" and "Peeling ginger", Solas & Cocking "A fruit seller" and "Wash day at home" etc, many from 'MONEAGUE' to NSW, six with 'STREET LETTER BOX KINGSTON' cds; also Dominica x2 and Barbados all to NSW; condition varied but generally fine. (35) Symbolc View details Estimate$850StatusUnsold Lot 476 Scarce group mostly of Sofia including many real photo types & a lovely group of artist Cards printed in Italy, mostly unused but three used in Bulgaria, generally fine to very fine; plus two illustrated wallets of unused comic Cards that we think are Bulgarian, and one Albanian Card. Ex Keith Harrison. (58) Symbolc View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 477 Attractive bundle of mostly better Cards with some undivided backs, a few of Hills Natives, SPG "Children's Bazaar in Burma", "The Mingoon Bell", "Elephant Piling Teak" etc, also a group of beautiful artist Cards including by FM Muriel x12, condition variable but generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (81) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 478 Mounted collection of mostly better subjects with many beautiful Cards including KEVII 1c pink scenic postal Cards for Canadian Pacific Railway x3, "Montreal...Ice Palace 1909", "At the Newfoundland Sealfishery", ancient automobile being driven through "Big Tree in Stanley Park...BC", "White Horse, Yukon Territory", WWI (?) real photo of a military band (unused), etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Attractive lot. Ex Bronte Watts. (58) Symbolcps View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold Lot 479 Album with many high quality Cards mostly from the Eastern & Maritime Provinces (& a few from the US Maritimes) including a few Québec with French captions, lots of real photo types & some US-style "linens", three Canadian Pacific Railway Postal Cards with Hotel advertising, etc, condition variable but many are fine to superb! Ex DB McFarlane. (200 approx) Symbolcps View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 480 Attractive bundle of mostly better Cards with a few Undivided Backs including 1901 Boer War patriotic & a gorgeous 1902 multi-view chromolitho of Brantford, & a range of real photo types, mostly Ontario & Quebec but also Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia & Newfoundland, several of Canadian Indians, advertising Cards for "Eaton's Easter Egg 1906" & "Ice Castle 1910", also 1906 IOOF Convention (Toronto) x6, etc, some postmark interest, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Ke Symbolc View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold Lot 481 1909 floral Card postally used with KEVII 2c tied by bars cancel with the original glassine posting envelope - a bit aged - in which a circle was cut to allow the stamp to be cancelled & with remnants of the bars & light '...WERS MILLS' datstamp. A very important postCard rarity: this is only the second such glassine mailing envelope we have seen, the other being from Australia. Ex Keith Harrison. (2 items) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 482 1905 (c.) chromolitho multi-view advertising Card for King Edward Hotel (Toronto), unused. Superb! Ex Joe Duif. SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$50StatusUnsold Lot 483 MISSIONARIES: French Catholic Missionnaires Oblats de Marie-Immaculée (Missions d'Extreme-Nord Canadien) sepia/cream Cards with subjects including Building the Mission, Nuns Arriving at a Flimsy Jetty, Priest Mending Fishing Nets etc, & beautiful Eskimo studies including School Class, Women Sewing etc, fine to very fine unused. See also Lots 485 & 780. Ex Derek Pocock. (29) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 484 Attractive batch about half of which are Platé Cards from various series, others by Andrée, Colombo Apothecaries, Coop, Koch and Skeen etc, eight are Undivided Backs including chromolitho "Gruss aus Kandy", a few real photo types, some postal history/postmark content including Paquebot usages, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. [The Gruss aus Kandy is Ceylon's only chromolitho issue; it exists also with French or English caption] (54) Symbolc View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 485 MISSIONARIES: French Catholic Missionnaires Oblats de Marie-Immaculée (Missions de Ceylan) sepia/cream Cards with subjects including at least 18 People in a Single Canoe (!), Huge Swarm of School Children, Missionaries with Bicycles, Jungle Churches, Visiting Bishop etc, two used, fine to very fine. See also Lots 483 & 780. Ex Derek Pocock. (16) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$140Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 486 Terrific little group including "On the Way to the Execution" & "Canton Electric Car" (tram) with 2c or 4c Coiling Dragon, "Execution Shanghai" (beheaded victims), "Manchurian Lama Priests" (probably Tibetan), "Members of the Band, Blind School, Foochow", "Wayside Peeps in Western Yunnan", uncaptioned horse-drawn vehicle (possibly Mongolia?), 1905 "...Right Flank of Sung-Shu-Shan" with superb 'PORT ARTHUR PO/IJPO' cds in violet, 1937 Japanese Occupation "Refugees at the (deleted) place" - censor Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 487 Fascinating group featuring ghastly punishments including torture, executions - one a real photo of decapitated bodies - including "Linchi: cutting into pieces" (!), funeral processions, graves, an opium den, "The Ceremony of feeding the great Chinese Dragon" etc, some are Hong Kong or Macau Cards, condition generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (32) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 488 Superior selection of unusual subjects or views, two to Australia with Coiling Dragon 4c or Hong Kong 4c. (9) SymbolcGradeA- View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 489 Attractive bundle including some unusual Topographicals with a few Undivided Backs including "Street at Newchwang" with 1c Coiling Dragon, "Lobby/Lakeview Hotel/Hangchow" used in 1932 to Foochow, "The Coal Mine at Wushun", "Inside of Wushun Castle", "Nanking Road, Shanghai" with 4c Coiling Dragon, good group of Mission Cards x15 including "Going to School" (great photo of two children in carrying contraption) and from Foochow "Bridge of the Thousand Ages", "Gymnasium, Boys Blind School" & "...th Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 490 PORT ARTHUR: c.1905 group of Japanese Russo-Japanese War scenes of Port Arthur (Manchuria) including battlements, armaments, monuments, "The Hiding Place", public buildings, etc, very fine to superb unused. (21) SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$150Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 491 TIBET: Real photo types "Mount Everest...from Rongbuk Monastery, "Tibetan Dance at Hotel Mount Everest", "Hindu Temple, Manora" & "Carrying the Dead to Forest (Tibbet)" [sic], Phototype Co (Bombay) "Llama with playing [sic] wheel" (should be "praying" wheel), Theodore Paar (Darjeeling) "Tibetan Man", "Wheel of Existence" (superb) & "Dalai Lama" (superb), artist Cards "City of Lhassa, Thibet [sic], Mysterious Home of the Dalai Lama" (plain back) & "...Mode of Worshipping", and French 1925 Exposit Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 492 1914 real photo of the German raider "Emden" after she was finished-off by HMAS "Sydney", endorsed on the reverse "Remains of German Emden", unused. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 493 Box with many better Cards including Undivided Backs, chromolithos & lots of real photo types, some artist Cards, mostly Prague-centric but also many from Karlsbad, Kromau & Plzen mostly unused but many - including several from the 1890s - with Austrian stamps & bilingual postmarks & many others with early Czech stamps & postmarks, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Keith Harrison. (240 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 494 Mounted collection of mostly better subjects with some beautiful Cards notably several chromolithos including for Inauguration of the de Lesseps Monument ,"Queen's Victoria [sic] Diamond Jubilee" & Lichtenstern & Harari "Canal Maritime de Suez" (map with 27 tiny illustrations!), superb unused artist Cards Ernest Nister x3 & Tuck's Oilette x2, two court-size Cards, monuments, etc, condition rather mixed but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (63) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 495 Packet of mostly nondescript views but postally used to Constantinople (!) from Egypt, Ethiopia, Aden (franked with Indian stamps) or Italian Somalia, condition a bit mixed; also a set (?) of 6 WWI artist Cards by V Manavian, very fine unused. Ex Stepan Balian. (27) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 496 Wide-ranging collection mostly of Cairo & Alexandria but other towns noted, lots of temples & monuments, many cultural images, costumes, occupations etc, many real photo types, attractive artist Cards including ancient inscriptions etc, beautifully printed & superb unused LL colour-tinted subjects x36 with French captions including six multi-views, some Undivided Backs, mostly unused but with some used including World War I content, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Keith Ha Symbolc View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot 497 Bundle of EH Schrenzel (Addis Ababa) topographicals including buildings - some of impressive proportions - & ancient ruins, bridges including donkeys crossing a death-defying wooden structure, native groups including warriors & market-goers, etc, also some primitive-artist Cards, some minor blemishes/aging, unused. Very scarce material. Ex Stepan Balian (48) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 498 1920s-1930s wide-ranging array from various publishers predominantly EH Schrenzel (Addis Ababa), Maison Bertrand et Cie and Mission Catholique (Dire-Daoua), with numerous better subjects including Indigenous Portraits, Warriors, Markets, Blind Beggars, Itinerant Musicians, Steamroller, Mission Scenes etc, also some real photo types including of 1926 Steam Train & 1929 Arrival of First Flight, also some primitive-artist Cards & a local advertising Card for New York's Empire State Building (!!), v Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 499 ITALIAN OCCUPATION: Very scarce group with native portraits, huts & Native Tribunal, town scenes, camel trains, military headquarters etc, includes Agenzia Fotoclere "real photo" Cards x15 & a couple of artist Cards, all postally used to Istanbul (!) with a variety of Eritrea, Somalia & Italian East Africa frankings, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Another very scarce group. Ex Stepan Balian. (33) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$400Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 500 "Darwin Harbour", French "Naval Battle of the Falklands" artist Card, real photos "Port Stanley Looking West" & "Battle Memorial Port Stanley" and Binnie "Funeral Ceremony of those killed in the naval action...December 8th 1914: The Honour Guard" & "SS Samson Transport Port Stanley", three with messages on the reverse otherwise very fine unused. Ex Bronte Watts. (6) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$150Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100100 Previous|12345678...12|Next123456789101112 Previous 1234567891011125 Next Previous 1234567891011125 Next
