Decorative Arts & Collectables 08 14, 2021 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 1-44 of 44. Previous|1|Next Image Lot # Item Title Quantity Time Left Your Bids 1295 A CORRESPONDENCE WITH KEITH SMITH: 1917 - 1926, A group of letters and postcards, six items in all, all addressed and written by Keith Smith to his friend, B.R. Stevenson (who he addresses as "Steve"), an employee of Elder, Smith & Co., Adelaide: Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusCLOSED! View details 1296 THE BRISTOL AEROPLANE COMAPNY: A collection of original photographs of some of their aircraft, including the Scout, the Bulldog, the Blenheim, the Brigand, the Buckingham, the Bullet, the Beaufighter, the Bristol Type 138A, the Badminton, the Bristol Type 142, the Brabazon, etc. Mainly fine and mostly approx. 19 x 25cm. (13). Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 1297 CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH PHOTOS: A folder containing press photos and others, mainly featuring CKS but also his wife, Mary, the "Southern Cross", the "Lady Southern Cross", other aviators, etc. (20+ items). Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$800StatusSold View details 1298 THE SOUTHERN CROSS: A 4-page souvenir card of the 31st May 1928 departure of the Southern Cross from BLENHEIM (N.Z.) to SYDNEY; created by the Marlborough Aero Club; printed by "Express" Print, Blenheim. Extremely rare. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 1299 OAKLAND AIRPORT & THE 1928 TRANS-PACIFIC FLIGHT: Original Associated Press photo of James Warner (radio operator) & Charles Ulm (relief pilot) titled "A Minute To Go" at Oakland Airport while Kingsford Smith was warming up the engines of the Southern Cross; another press photo of the Southern Cross during pre-flight preparations, with the Paramount News van at left, mechanics and officials around the plane; and the July-August 1935 edition of the Port of Oakland "Compass" magazine, the edition Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$380StatusSold View details 1300 CHARLES ULM & HIS 1928 FLIGHTS: Three original press photographs associated with the May/June 1928 Trans-Pacific flight with Kingsford Smith, one endorsed "Mrs Ulm sees the plane arriving at Sydney" and dated July 12, 1928; also, a charming press photo (by J.F. Louden of Hamilton, N.Z.) endorsed "Lieut Ulm greets the well known Maori Guide "Bella" in the Maori way by rubbing noses: and dated Oct.15.1928 when it was submitted on the occasion of the return flight to Australia of the "Southern Cros Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$550StatusSold View details 1301 SOUTHERN CROSS: An original albumen photograph of "The Southern Cross" about to depart from California (22x29cm) mounted, framed & glazed together with a card with the hand-written dedication "To: Billy Beausang, With Best wishes, From "Chas" C.T.P. Ulm, 1928". Overall 48 x 54cm. SymbolD Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! View details 1302 AMY JOHNSON & CHARLES LINDBERGH pair of marble busts of the famous aviators, circa 1930s, 30cm high 2 Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$400StatusSold View details 1303 CRASH: A small collection of original photographs (and one reproduction pic) of crashed aircraft, including the Avro-Anson bomber which crashed at Windsor in October 1938, the Tugan Gannet crash at Gosford in 1937, a crash at Mascot in Feb.1936, and several unidentified. (10 items). Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1304 THE SOUTHERN CROSS: "Souvenir Programme of the Visit of the SOUTHERN CROSS to Auckland [Mangere Aerodrome], January 27th, 28th, 29th & 30th" [1933]; 16pp plus pictorial covers. Rarely seen. Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 1305 KINGSFORD SMITH'S RECORD ENGLAND - AUSTRALIA SOLO FLIGHT: 4 October 1933 original Dutch press photo with affixed details: "Sir Charles Kingsford Smith studying a map of the route he will take before leaving Heston Aerodrome today." The plane was a Percival D.2 Gull IV named "Miss Southern Cross". A new record elapsed time for the flight was set: 7 days, 4 hours, 44 minutes. The previous record for a solo flight was 8 days, 20 hours, 47 minutes, set by Charles William Anderson Scott in 1932. Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 1306 KINGSFORD SMITH & THE SOUTHERN CROSS FLY TO NEW ZEALAND: January 1934. A Kingsford Smith Air Service Limited envelope carried on the third trans-Tasman flight in the "Southern Cross", cancelled before departure at MASCOT on January 12th, and cancelled on arrival at NEW PLYMOUTH on January 15th. The envelope, part of a very small mail carried on the flight is signed by Kingsford Smith. Other crew members were P.G. Taylor, T. Pethybridge and John Stannage. [See The Australian Airmail Catalogue, N Estimate$500 - $750StatusCLOSED! View details 1307 CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH: 21 March 1934 letter from Christchurch addressed to a correspondent in Invercargill; typed, but signed by Kingsford Smith, in which he explains that he did not carry mail on his flight between those two cities. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1308 29 March 1934 the "SOUTHERN CROSS" carries mail from New Zealand to Australia: A Vacuum Oil Company photograph showing the crew (Kingsford Smith, Stannage, Percival, Pethybridge & Taylor) who had carried the airmail in a record time of 13 hours, 25 minutes; also a composite photo depicting the "Southern Cross" in flight with Mt.Egmont (now known as Mt. Taranaki) in the background and with inset photos of Kingsford Smith & Ulm. (2 items). Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$180StatusSold View details 1309 THE APRIL 1934 AIRMAIL FLIGHT TO NEW ZEALAND: 11th April 1934, two-page Imperial cablegram reporting that the short-wave (radio) operator at Auckland had heard Ulm calling the "Kalingo" and also calling other vessels "using the main and emergency [radio] sets. Evidently monoplane [Faith in Australia] running smoothly..." stamped at Sydney. Ulm, Allan & Boulton flew a large quantity of airmail letters from Australia to New Zealand (April 10-11) and return. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1310 THE MacROBERTSON AIR RACE from ENGLAND to AUSTRALIA, October 1934: An album containing a collection of original photographs of different sizes, the largest being 19.5 x 31cm. Subjects include C.W.A. Scott & T. Campbell Black (the winning pilots), the Dutch "Uiver: and crew (which won the handicap section), the trophy, a DH Comet on the ground at Mascot, etc. (12 items). Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 1311 THE LOSS OF THE "STELLA AUSTRALIS" - CHARLES ULM & CREW - DECEMBER 1934. A folio of 21 original press photographs (various sizes), and 3 original hand-drawn maps (as published), all from the "San Francisco Examiner" archives. The photos show Ulm and his crew preparing for the flight, signing registers, fuelling the plane and the plane at take off. The maps show the planned route from San Francisco via Honolulu, Fanning Island, Suva, Auckland and on to Sydney, plus the area from which the last d Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSold View details 1312 TRANS-TASMAN AIR SERVICE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED: MINUTE BOOK from 14th June 1935, the first meeting of the Board of Directors: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Captain P.G. Taylor, B.T. Sheil and J.W. Stannage, up to the final entry on 29th May1936 following the loss of Kingsford Smith en route from England. Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$5,000StatusSold View details 1313 BRITISH OFFICIAL AIR MINISTRY PHOTOGRAPHS: A collection of 1930s-40s original photgraphs with explanations affixed verso; noted "Italian Bombers shot down in England Nov.1940", "One of the Seven Downed German Planes 19.6.40", "Another Nazi Bomber shot down, Sept.1940", "The end of a raid", "Bombing the barges at Dunkirk", "After the attack on the Italian Fleet at Taranto....11/12th Nov. 1940", etc. Mixed sizes, (20 items)., Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! View details 1314 THE "SUN" - "TELEGRAPH" AIRWAYS EXHIBITION, February 1935 at the Sun-Telegraph Building, Sydney: a complete original catalogue for this important exhibition, 24pp + covers. The exhibition featured "A collection of photographs and exhibits illustrative of the development of aviation in the Empire, with special reference to Australian aviators..." Section E featured many aviators with Australian connections including W.E. Hart, Harry Hawker, Ross Smith, Parer & McIntosh, Allan Cobham, Bert Hinkler Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 1315 THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS". 18th July 1935 special envelope carried aboard the "Southern Cross" on its' flight from Mascot to Richmond. The envelope is numbered "16" and has been signed by everyone on board: Charles Kingsford Smith, Mary Kingsford Smith, Beau Shiel, John Stannage, P.G. Taylor, John Ulm and C.G. Scrimgeour. Self-addressed to well-known aviation historian and collector, Ernest A. Crome, the envelope also bears a perforated example of the Crome-designed vignette which Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$800StatusSold View details 1316 THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS". Another example of the envelopes flown and fully signed by all on board the "Southern Cross". This envelope is numbered "43" and bears the very scarce IMPERFORATE form of the round-the-world route map vignette. Estimate$1,200 - $1,600Price Realized$1,000StatusSold View details 1317 THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS". A complete proof sheetlet of four of the round-the-world-route-map vignettes designed by Ernest Crome. Provenance: From the estate of Ernest Crome. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSold View details 1318 THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS". A complete IMPERFORATE proof sheetlet of four of the round-the-world-route-map vignettes designed by Ernest Crome. Provenance: From the estate of Ernest Crome. Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 1319 THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS". A special envelope postmarked at RICHMOND on 18th July 1935 at the conclusion of the short flight from Mascot; signed by the pilot, Charles Kingsford Smith, bearing a perforated vignette and addressed to Ernie Crome. Accompanied by a QANTAS reproduction photograph of the "Southern Cross" in flight. Also, a B.D.V. cigarette card featuring CKS. (3 items). Estimate$500 - $750StatusCLOSED! View details 1320 THE LOSS OF CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH & TOMMY PETHYBRIDGE: A scrapbook containing many newspaper cuttings regarding their flight from England to Australia, during which they hoped to break the speed record established by Scott & Campbell-Black a year earlier. The loss of contact with their aeroplane, the Lady Southern Cross, as they flew through a storm between Allahbad and Singapore, is graphically described in these pages, as is the search, the speculation about where they might be.... Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$400StatusSold View details 1321 EUROPEAN AEROPLANES: A folder containing 1936-37 original photographs of Junkers planes including the JU86 "Buckeberg", the plane under construction, the JU86 model under construction for South African Railways & Harbours, the Dornier DO-18 flying boat, the DO-22, the Lufthansa HA-139 "Nordstern", the French flying boat "Bretagne", the Focke-Wulf FW-44, the Junkers JU-90 and the Arado AR76. (19 items, mainly approx. 12 x 17cm.). Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 1322 AIRCRAFT OF THE MID-1930s: A collection of original photographs, mixed sizes (the largest being 20 x 25cm), including Vought Pursuit, Scout Bomber, a Polish Single-seat fighter, a Miles Mohawk, a Hawk Trainer, a Beechcraft airlines, North American NA16, a Burnelli UB-14, a Seversky P-35, a Lockheed 12, etc. (19 items). Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! View details 1323 THE CRASH OF THE AIRLINES OF AUSTRALIA STINSON ON LAMINGTON PLATEAU, FEBRUARY 1937: A folder containing original photographs, some research material, a cockpit photo and an original "Pre-Announcement of the 1936 Stinson MULTI-PURPOSE Reliant" from the manufacturer in Wayne, Michigan. (In the Australian Airmail Catalogue, the Lamington Crash is referenced as AAMC.704a). Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 1324 WIDE WORLD PHOTOS: World War Two era original photographs with attached details for possible publication. Subjects include "The Desert Patrol" (Dec.1940), "A Flying Fortress Leaves the Ground" (Nov.1940), "Training Parachute Troops" (Jan.1941), "A Nazi Dernier being heavily attacked" (Jan.1941), "Poles repay Nazis with bombs Nov.1940", "Italian Air Activity on the Greek Front" (Dec.1940), "Camera Record of the Aerial Combat over Britain", etc. Various sizes; mixed condition. (20 items). Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! View details 1325 AMERICAN WW2 WARPLANE PRODUCTION: A folder of original photographs from the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the Allison Division of General Motors, and a two-page text document from The Glenn L. Martin Company, mainly 25 x 20cm. (15 items). Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 1326 WORLD WAR TWO R.A.A.F. PHOTOGRAPHS: A collection of various sizes, the largest being 22 x 32cm, depicting a crew about to climb aboard their plane at Wagga RAAF Station 1941, a trainee pilot, planes in flight, loading bombs, R.A.A.F. crews departing from Sydney by ship, etc., some still in proof sheets or strips. (38 images; slight duplication). Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 1327 WORLD WAR TWO ERA & LATER MILITARY AIRCRAFT: A collection of original photographs issued by North American Aviation, Inc., Bell Aircraft Corp., Douglas Aircraft Corp., Lockheed, De Havilland, Vickers, Republic Aviation Corp., Bellanca Aircraft Corp., Seversky Aircraft Corp., etc. Mixed sizes but mainly approx. 20 x 25cm. (20 items) Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! View details 1328 AVIATION MEMORABILIA: photographs, postcards, documents, letters and printed ephemera contained in 10 folders. Folder titles include "Wagga 1942", "WWII RAAF", "HELICOPTER. SHELL CO., C.L.S. DOUGLAS", "STINSON ENVOY", "PERCIVAL GULL", "WWII PLANE ENGINES", "CRADLE TO GRAVE - WAR PLANE - '38, '39, '40" Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 1329 CONCORDE: A duplicated range of original photographs comprising "Concorde 01, the first pre-production aircraft, on a test flight from its base at Fairford, Gloucestershire, England" (4); "Concorde 002 over England on a test flight from its base at Fairford, Gloucestershire" (5); "A view of the cockpit of Concorde 002" (4); "The interior of the Concorde full-scale passenger cabin mock-up at British Aircraft Corporation's Filton Works. (6). Mainly fine; all 20 x 25cm. (Total: 19 items). Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 1330 CONCORDE: A duplicated range of 1966-71 original photographs from Rolls Royce (re the Olympus 593 Mk 602 engine), the pilots, the final assembly of the 2nd and 4th Concorde production aircraft at BAC's Filton, Bristol factory, the 1st and 3rd Concorde production aircraft on the assembly line at the Aerospatiale Toulouse factory, three Concordes on the ground at the BAC test flight base at Fairford, Gloucestershire; mainly fine. All approx. 20 x 25cm. (22 items). Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 1331 A substantial accumulation of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, correspondence, original photographs, research notes, etc. Rather untidily stored, so a wonderful opportunity for the student of early aviation in Australia and overseas. Mixed condition. (qty.) Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 1332 An accumulation of early magazines and periodicals including "The Aeroplane" (issues between 1934 and 1954), "Air Pictorial and Air Reserve Gazette" (issues between 1956 and 1961), plus others. Mixed condition. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 1333 CIGARETTE CARDS: AVIATION, etc.: W.D. & H.O. WILLS: 1930 "Speed" complete set (50) EF. The set includes "The Southern Cross", "The Graf Zeppelin", "The Bluebird", "The Royal Scot" and "The Mauritania". Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1334 CIGARETTE CARDS: Lambert & Butler: 1932 "A History of Aviation (green images)" complete set (25); superb condition. Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 1335 CIGARETTE CARDS: John Player & Sons 1935 "Aeroplanes (Civil)" complete set (50) in the special Players album. Estimate$100 - $125Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 1336 CIGARETTE CARDS: United Kingdom Tobacco Co.: 1938 "Aircraft" complete set (50) with "The Greys Cigarettes" adhesive backs; superb condition. Estimate$120 - $150StatusCLOSED! View details 1337 CIGARETTE CARDS: Pattreiouex Ltd (Senior Service Cigarettes): 1938 "Flying" complete set (48); superb condition. Estimate$50 - $75Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 1338 CIGARETTE CARDS: John Player & Sons 1938 "Aircraft of the Royal Air Force" complete set in special Players album. Estimate$100 - $125Price Realized$120StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next