Australian & Historical 06 13, 2020 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 1-18 of 18. Previous|1|Next Image Lot # Item Title Quantity Time Left Your Bids 397 A rare Colonial powder horn engraved "ADVANCE VAN DIEMEN'S LAND", decorated with a lady in Regency costume, trees and birds, circa 1825, 24cm high Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$4,800StatusSold View details 398 Van Diemen's Land truncheon, turned hardwood with hand-painted Queen Victoria cipher and "V.D.L.", circa 1840, rare. 46cm long Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$6,500StatusSold View details 399 Tasmanian Police truncheon, blackwood with hand-painted Queen Victoria cipher, 19th century, 44cm long Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$2,200StatusSold View details 400 Three Victoria Crown "CONVICT PRISON" Officer's tunic buttons and a matching cap button with silk surround, 19th century, rare. (4 items), 4 Estimate$500 - $700Price Realized$400StatusSold View details 401 Convict era penny tokens and shop tokens, 19th century, (5 items). 5 Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 402 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN interest. 18ct yellow gold and enamel half hunter presentation pocket watch with inscription "Presented To Miss Laura E.J. Clifton By The Officers Of The Convict Establishment Portland On The Occasion Of Her Marriage, November 1877". Laura Clifton was born in Fremantle W.A. in 1856, daughter to the renowned botanist George Clifton who had moved to Fremantle to take up a position with the newly formed Western Australia Water Police. After a period of some years George returned Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$1,700StatusSold View details 403 A THIRD FLEET CONVICT, ROSAMOND SPARROW, ONE OF THE FEW WOMEN SENT TO NORFOLK ISLAND A commercial document prepared on behalf of "Rosmond Sparrow", in anticipation of the sale of "seven acres and half of Land" for Forty Pounds, to James PAGET. The land is described as having been granted "unto James KIRBY, by Gov'r Hunter, Octo'r 18th, 1799." Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 404 ABRAHAM ELIAS APPOINTED TO ADMINISTER THE ESTATE OF JOSEPH SOLOMON - 1824 14th May 1824 vellum document with intact seal, titled "Administration of the Goods Chattels....of Solomon Josephs late of Windsor, dec'ed - to - Abraham Elias adm'or" and signed by the judge and sealed in the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature for the Territory of New South Wales. Such a document was required when a person dies without a will in the Territory. It appears that Solomon and Elias, as fellow (former?) convict Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$1,100StatusSold View details 405 1824 - AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO TICKET-OF-LEAVERS FOR THE RENTAL OF FARMLAND James Dorr [or Dore], one of 200 convicts transported on the Surrey in January 1814 had been granted a ticket-of-leave by 1820 and had married in 1817 (a fellow convict, Mary Lyons from Limerick, who had arrived in 1811]. The present document, an indenture dated November 1824 formalizes an agreement between him and a fellow, ex-convict, John Murphy. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$700StatusSold View details 406 JOHN BULL [Newspaper] January 18, 1824 [London, 8pp] Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 407 JOHN MATTHEW PITMAN (PITTMAN), ONE OF 200 CONVICTS TRANSPORTED ON THE SURREY, January 1814, ACQUIRES LAND IN THE KURRAJONG DISTRICT. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 408 GEORGE CUPITT: WHEN IS A CONVICT NOT A CONVICT? WHEN HE'S A TROOPER. A printed letter from the Colonial Secretary's Office, 11th November, 1830 to GEORGE CUPITT of South Creek, via Windsor (New South Wales) in which he is invited to make a selection of land, "...you having executed the necessary Engagement [and] that you will reside thereon and cultivate it during the Period of Seven Years..." followed by a listing of available properties from which he was to make his selection. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 409 The Will of Paul Randall, February 25th,1832; probably in Randall's own hand & signed by him, with witnesses' signatures. Randall had been granted the licence of an inn at Richmond in 1819. The inn was called the Black Horse Prince but it was commonly known as The Black Horse Inn. Many of the business affairs of the Hawkesbury region were conducted & settled at the Black Horse Inn. It is the Inn and the land on which it stands, which are the major assets referred to in the document. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 410 A CONVICT MARRIAGE AT WINDSOR, AUGUST 1835. A certificate recording the marriage of Edward Mitchell (aged 35?) to Elizabeth Coverly (aged 20) at the Presbyterian Church at Portland Head in New South Wales. The document has been completed by the the chaplain, signed with an "x" by each of the parties and witnessed two others. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 411 LABAN WHITE, ONE OF 160 CONVICTS TRANSPORTED ON THE ELIZA, JULY 1822 An indenture, dated January 1837 by which Laban White agrees to rent to James Upton, for a period of three years, a piece of land "by Estimation Twenty Two Acres more or less being a Portion of Cornwallis Estate....in the District of Windsor....; signed by White and Upton. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 412 CONVICTION Notice, Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, 1838, foolscap page convicting the Launceston shop keeper Isaiah Morris of using fraudulent weights and scales whilst selling bread, signed by Justice of the Peace DARCY WENTWORTH Esquire. Framed and glazed, 47 x 35cm overall Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSold View details 413 JAMES HAYNES of Launceston six months conviction for unlawfully obtaining a pair of boots, Police Office document, 20th July, 1869, signed by Justice of the Peace THOMAS MASON and CHARLES JAMES WEEDON. Single page blue paper document. sheet size 21.5 x 33.5cm, Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 414 ARTIST UNKNOWN (19th century, Australian), Isle Of The Dead, Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land, oil on board, 31 x 47cm Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$8,000StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next
