Australian & Colonial History (#110MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 211-220 of 663. Previous|1...202122232425...67|Next 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$150StatusSold 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$1,400StatusSold 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$240StatusSold 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$200StatusSold Lot #218 N.S.W. CONDITIONAL PARDON, dated 13th July 1847 View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$3,000StatusSold Lot #219 CONDITIONAL PARDON FOR CONVICT WILLIAM SWEENEY View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$700StatusSold 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$50StatusSold 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$1,300StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...202122232425...67|Next12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364656667 Previous 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364656667 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364656667 Next
