Australian & Colonial History (#110MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-26 of 26. Previous|1|Next Lot 199 Convict leg irons View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$1,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 200 Convict leg iron with ball and chain marked "T.G.R." View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$5,250StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 201 A folding iron bed, 19th century View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot 202 Convict leg irons with twisted links, N.S.W. origin, 19th C View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 203 A pair of articulated manacles with key View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 204 A pair of 19th century manacles View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 205 A STAY OF EXECUTION FOR SAMUEL GILBERT, 7th April 1826 letter written by Judge James Burrough, who had convicted Gilbert at Taunton Assizes and sentenced him to death for an assault on a young woman, Charlotte Smith. When commuting a death sentenceizes in the County of Somerset, View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 206 "The Hobart Town Gazette" of Saturday, October 4, 1828; with a fine strike of the TWO PENCE Newspaper Duty stamp at top right. The lead article requires Officers in command of Parties, Superintendents and others, "having Convicts under their charge or direction, are enjoined to read over to them.....that the offence of being found Drinking in unlicensed Houses,or purchasing Spirits from unlicensed Persons, will be recorded against them....." There also follows a list of 9 Convicts who have... View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 207 A MUSTER OF CONVICTS AT RICHMOND, VAN DIEMEN'S LAND23 July, 1830, the sworn statement of John Farrow headed "Richmond". In order to keep track of the convict population, regular musters were held to account for the "location of the felons." In this instance, convict John Farrow, assigned to the service of Mr William Kearney, had not attended the Muster at Richmond,but instead, visited the local inn, the Lennox Arms, where he was treated to a glass of rum by a free man, Peter McDonald. Fa... View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 208 CONVICT HENRY STEVENSON - VAN DIEMEN'S LAND & NORFOLK ISLANDHenry Stevenson was 13 when convicted at Liverpool Quarter Sessions in April 1836 for stealing a handkerchief. As this was not his first offence he was sentenced to be transported for seven years, arriving at Hobart in May 1837 aboard the "Frances Charlotte" together with 149 other young male convicts.This rare Convict Department Form No.62 is a summary of his penal record whilst under sentence in Van Diemen's Land. He was pun... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 209 7th NOV. 1837 CONVICT "PASS" FROM VAN DIEMEN'S LANDHeaded "Roads Establishment Oatlands" the handwritten "pass" for Convict Alfred Stallard [ H.M.S. "Bardaster", in 1835; 7 years for larceny], to leave the road-gang at Oatlands to proceed to Ross, where he had been assigned to work for Mr Hugh Robertson, a prominent landowner there. A very rare document. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 210 CAMPBELLTOWN POLICE MAGISTRATES COURT, VAN DIEMEN'S LAND "RECORD BOOK" 1839-1840 View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,500Price Realized$6,000StatusSold Lot 211 THE END OF THE ASSIGNMENT OF CONVICTS:1840 (Oct.9) Ship letter from Sydney to London with Feb.1841 arrival backstamps. In part, the letter reads "Money and labour is much wanted & the Government, as if purposely to retard the advancement of the Colony has stopped the assignment of convicts & withdrawn their specie from the public at the very time it was most wanted." View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 212 A LETTER FROM THE PRINCIPAL SUPERINTENDENT OF CONVICTS IN SYDNEYMarch 1843 OHMS outer cover with imprint "Prin. Sup. of Convicts' Office, Sydney" at lower left and addressed to a magistrate in Van Diemen's Land. The contents are largely illegible but what is clearly illustrated by the postal markings is the privilege of FREE franking that was extended to the Principal Superintendent of Convicts under the 1835 Postal Act. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 213 BROWNS RIVER PROBATION STATION:A small leather-bound New Testament [Cambridge, The British and Foreign Bible Society, MDCCCXXXVI]. Endorsed on the title page "Browns River Probation Station" and in another hand "J. Skene" and with the "broad arrow" brand on the front cover. Also, a matching leather-bound volume titled "Reflections on the Wisdon, Power, and Goodness of God. Selected from Sturm's Reflections." [Dublin, John Jones, 1828] 180pp. Scarce survivors of the sea jou... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot 214 THREE CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM PORT ARTHURNovember 1843 hand-written letter from a Police Magistrate enlisting help in the re-capture of three escapees. The letter reports that two men had demanded provisions from a Mrs Brown at Muddy Plains; and that it was supposed that these were two of the three men who had escaped on Sept.25th 1843. The third escapee, William Westwood, also known as "Jacky-Jacky" was a notorious bushranger from NSW but he had already been recaptured in October. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 215 ELIZABETH DAVIS, LEFT A PAUPER FOLLOWING HER HUSBAND'S CONVICTION March 18th, 1844 printed form from The Guardians of the Poor of the Atherstone Union, about the cost of keeping Elizabeth Davis, a pauper from Tamworth. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 216 A FATHER ASKS ABOUT HIS SON, TRANSPORTED TO VAN DIEMEN'S LANDJune 1844 OHMS outer cover from the Secretary of State's Office (Whitehall) together with the original enclosure; a response to the enquiry about a convict, one John Duffield. Particularly scarce. (2 items)John Duffield had been convicted at the Lent assizes in Derby in March 1819, of sheep stealing and sentenced to death. The sentence was respited by Mr Justice Burrough on 28th April 1819 and the sentence reduced to transporta... View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 217 ESCAPE AND RE-CAPTURE - THE LIFE OF A CONVICT AT PORT ARTHURJuly 1844 letter from the Chief Police Magistrate at Hobart regarding the convict Michael Ryan who had absconded "from the Settlement at Port Arthur with no good cause". He was recaptured seven days later; both events being advertised in the Gazette. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 218 N.S.W. CONDITIONAL PARDON, dated 13th July 1847 View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$3,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 219 CONDITIONAL PARDON FOR CONVICT WILLIAM SWEENEY View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 220 CRIME & PUNISHMENT: Group of 5 Government blue papers; "Convicts, 1851, Victoria", "Returns, Penal Establishment, Pentridge, 1851", "Police Reward Fund. Victoria 1854-5", " Transportation. Victoria 1856", "Regulations for the Employment of Convict Labor. Victoria 1856-7". View details Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 221 CONVICT SHIP "RODNEY" and SALTWATER RIVER PROBATION STATION:A small volume titled "An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners..." By Joseph Alleine [London, The Religious Tract Society] 198pp. Endorsed on the inside front cover "Rodney C.S. 69" and numbered "69" on the leather spine. Also endorsed on the title page "Salt Water River Station, Nov.1853".Also, a matching volume titled "Memoir of Harlan Page....." by William A Hallock [London, The Religious Tract Society] 176pp. Endorsed on the inside ... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 222 WILLIAM BUCKLEY, THE WILD WHITE MAN:"THE NEWSLETTER OF AUSTRALASIA" Number XIV - August 1857 [George Slater, Melbourne] with an engraved portrait of William Buckley by Frederick Grosse and a lengthy manuscript letter dated July 1857 and concerning the better pay and employment prospects to be found in Victoria, at the "gold sinkings" or working as a bricklayer.William Buckley [1780-1856] was an English convict who was transported to Australia, escaped, was given up for dead, and lived in... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$5,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 223 A CONVICT WHO MADE GOOD - CHARLES DAVIS OF HOBARTLarge advertising card for Charles Davis, Wholesale and Retail Furnishing Ironmonger, Importer of English and American Hardware, incorporating an albumen print (by the Anson Brothers) of his premises in Elizabeth Street, Hobart. Backed by a similar ornate advertisement for Calder, Bowen & Co., General Printers of Liverpool Street, Hobart. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 224 PORT ARTHUR: A group of (4) mounted albumen prints including 2 from the Anson Brothers Studio in Hobart. Includes views of the interior of a cell, the remains of the Commandant's carriage, the interior of the chapel and a general view of the prison buildings and officers' houses. 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