Australian & Historical (#473) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized 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 1-100 of 1337. Previous|12345678...14|Next1234567891011121314 Lot 1 A pair of antique scrimshaw whale's teeth with engraved portraits, Tasmanian origin, 19th century, 10cm and 10.5cm high PROVENANCE: The Berry Collection, Young's Auctions, Melbourne, 2008 View details Quantity2Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$3,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 2 "THE ENDEAVOUR ENTERING THE PIER, A TRIFLE FROM MARGATE" antique Battersea enamel patch box, 18th century, 5cm wide View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusCLOSED! Lot 3 A sailor's seam rubber, carved wood, 19th century or earlier, 16cm long View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 4 A whaler's antique knife. Well worn steel blade with timber handgrip bound in string, housed in a timber scabbard bound in copper wire, 19th century, a rare survivor. 22cm long View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 5 Two antique whalebone clamps, 19th century, 6cm and 6.5cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 6 An antique pie crimper, whalebone with turned wooden handle, 19th century, 12cm high View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 7 A whale ornament made from carved whalebone mounted on a hoop pine base, 19th/20th century, 20cm high, 29cm wide View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 8 "H.M.S. HERO" Australian wool work tapestry, 19th century, 59 x 72cm overall View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusCLOSED! Lot 9 An antique maritime diorama, sail steamship model housed in timber cabinet with rope twist wooden edge, 19th century, 42cm high, 70cm wide, 15cm deep View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 10 A sperm whale tooth, late 19th century, an impressive 20.5cm high View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 11 A sperm whale tooth, 20th century, 6.5cm high View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 12 Two sperm whale teeth, 19th and early 20th century, 15cm and 16cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 13 A scrimshaw whale's tooth with female portrait and Masonic iconography, 12cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 14 A scrimshaw whale's tooth titled "SPERM WHALE", 9cm high View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 15 An antique whale's tooth, 19h century, 16.5cm high View details Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 16 An antique sperm whale tooth, 19th/20th century, 17cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 17 A rare whale oil slush lamp, wrought iron, 19th century, View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 18 A China trade ship model in glass case with crown of thorns mount and contemporaneous photograph, 19th century, 32cm high, 46cm wide, 24cm deep View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 19 A folk art model ship in cabinet, 19th century, 28cm high, 40cm wide, 19cm deep View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 20 An antique clipper ship in a bottle set in fine diorama harbour scene, 19th century, 30cm long View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 21 An antique ship in a bottle with coastal scene diorama, 19th century, 20cm long View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 22 An antique ship in a bottle, 19th century, 31cm long View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 23 A Japanese ship's lantern in galvanized metal case, early 20th century, 59cm high View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusCLOSED! Lot 24 A Japanese ship's lantern in copper case, early 20th century, 63cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot 25 A green glass fishing buoy, early to mid 20th century, 31cm diameter View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 26 A vintage brass and glass marine lamp, (converted to electric), early 20th century, 29cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot 27 A vintage ship's binnacle with compass,19th century, 57cm high, 71cm wide, 40cm deep View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 28 A vintage green painted metal ship's binnacle with compass,19th/20th century, 40cm high, 62cm wide, 40cm deep View details Estimate$500 - $700StatusCLOSED! Lot 29 An antique sea turtle shell, late 19th, early 20th century, 49 x 44cm View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 30 An impressive swordfish rostrum (bill), 19th century, 138cm long View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 31 A swordfish rostrum (bill), 19th/20th century, 98cm long View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 32 Mako shark jaw, 20th century, 23cm wide View details Estimate$40 - $60Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 33 S.S. COOGEE Huddart Parker & Co. Melbourne, souvenir life buoy picture frame, hand-painted on pine, late 19th early 20th century, 30cm diameter. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 34 S.S. MOORABOOL Huddart Parker & Co. Melbourne, souvenir life buoy picture frame, hand-painted on pine, late 19th early 20th century, 25cm diameter. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 35 A Japanese vintage ship's lantern, brass and glass, early to mid 20th century, 60cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot 36 A Japanese vintage ship's lantern, copper and glass, early to mid 20th century, 60cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot 37 Two half model boat hulls, one titled "27" Whaler, Scale 1 IN. = 1 FT. TEC 1956", both mounted on boards, the larger 15 x 92cm overall View details Quantity2Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 38 A maritime picture frame, nickel plated, 19th century View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 39 EARLY SETTLERS & EX-CONVICTS AT WINDSOR, NEW SOUTH WALES: A letter, dated 27th November 1835, written at the request of SAMUEL TERRY (convicted of the theft of 400 pairs of stockings and sentenced to transportation for seven years in 1800) from his office in Pitt Street, to EDWARD WILLIAM ALEXANDER ROBINSON, son of EDWARD ROBINSON (charged with 14 counts of stealing; sentenced to hang, but reprieved to transportation for life in 1789). Terry, who had prospered in the colony..... View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 40 A convict ball and chain with riveted leg shackles, early 19th century, 108cm long, ball diameter 12cm View details Estimate$1,600 - $2,000Price Realized$2,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 41 Four man ganging chain with handcuffs, 19th century, 100cm wide View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 42 H.M. PRISON PENTRIDGE original main gate key, circa 1853, housed in a framed display with accompanying handcuffs and documentation, signed by the last governor of the prison in 1997, the key 13cm long, the frame 68 x 87cm overall View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot 43 TOP IRONS used as extra punishment over conventional leg irons hence the term "double ironed, 19th century, 62cm wide View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot 44 Antique leg irons, blacksmith made non-standard, early 19th century, 62cm wide View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 45 An antique blunderbuss with percussion cap lock, early 19th century, remains of possible Government stamps on the stock (illegible), 83cm long View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Price Realized$1,900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 46 An antique powder horn with scrimshaw decoration, early 19th century, 30cm long View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 47 BUGBEAR carved coconut powder flask with whalebone spout and adornments, 18th/19th century, 15cm long View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Lot 48 PRISON WARDER'S cap with Queen Victoria crown badge, 19th century, size: small View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$1,900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 49 Three convict era tokens, early 19th century View details Quantity3Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 50 PLUG 8 convict handcuffs with key, late 18th, early 19th century, 13cm wide View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 51 BOBBY DAZZLER watchman's dark lantern oil lamp with "HIATT & Co. BIRMINGHAM" brass manufacturer's label, 19th century, 19cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$250StatusSold Lot 52 HIATT antique handcuffs with broad arrow mark, stamped "Hiatt, Warranted, Wrought, Hard", No.6, with original key stamped "HIATT No.22", 23cm wide View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 53 Convict alarm bell, cast brass with broad arrow mark and turned handle, 19th century, 27cm high View details Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 54 BEAN antique leg irons with key. 1882 American patent stamp. Rare. 56cm wide View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot 55 HIATT antique wooden alarm rattle, 19th century, stamped "HIATT" on the handle, 24cm long View details Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 56 Two Australian police coshes, one with steel bar and weighted interior covered with animal tail leather hide, the second with a spiral whale baleen shaft with lead filled and woven bulb ends, with leather wrist strap, late 19th century, the largest 34cm long View details Quantity2Estimate$260 - $300Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 57 Two Australian truncheons, one South Australian maroon leather covered with steel shaft and leather wrist strap, the other compressed leather disc construction with steel shaft interior and leather wrist strap, 20th century, the larger 42cm long, View details Quantity2Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 58 A TRUNCHEON, lignum vitae transfer printed special constable's, dated 1917-1919, 40cm long, View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 59 GOLD AT YACKANDANDAH: c.1853, Small pencil drawing titled "Gold Commission Camp Yackandandah" 8 x 13cm. Alluvial gold was discovered in the area in 1852. The miners and the commissioners were accommodated in canvas tents for the first years. The "official" tents depicted in the sketch, fly the flag showing their status. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 60 1857 GRANT BY PURCHASE OF LAND IN DUNOLLY John Carter of Melbourne purchases a town lot in Dunolly on 5th October 1857. The vellum document bears the seal of the Colony of Victoria and is signed by Sir Henry Barkly, 2nd Governor of Victoria. 34 x 45cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot 61 A folio containing numerous documents, letters and receipts associated with mining activities in and around the Victorian Goldfields, 1850s to 1890s. MAinly to do with the COLIBAN MINING CO., but some of the companies noted include EUREKA MINING COMPANY, CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT HOPE QUARTZ MINING CO., EMU REEF COMPANY, WINDLASS HILL GOLD WASHING CO., THE CHEWTON SLUICING CO., THE THIRD WHITE HILL MINING CO., THE WATTLE GULLY GOLD WASHING CO., etc. (qty). View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 62 An antique tobacco jar, painted cast iron, 19th century, 11cm high, 9cm wide, 9.5cm deep View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 63 Antique gold scales, brass and cedar, engraved "CLASS B. to weigh 2lb", 19th century, 48cm high, 51cm wide, 25cm deep View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot 64 Set of gold scales mounted on timber box with set of 6 Dram weights, 4 shim weights and 2 lozenge weights, mid-19th Century. 33cm high, 23cm wide, 12cm deep. Provenance: Private collection Ballarat View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 65 "Map of the Mines of Ballaarat" by J.E. Harper, 1866; linen backed, with wooden rollers top and bottom. 105 x 66cm. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 66 AVERY bankers gold scales with set of 8 bell weights, 19th century, 68cm high View details Quantity9Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 67 An antique Australian pack saddle, used on the goldfields of central Victoria, 19th century, PROVENANCE: Private collection Ballarat View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot 68 An antique oil lamp with figural silver plated base, Duplex black button double burner, original glass font and shade, inscribed on the base "Presented To W. Letcher Esq. By His Colleagues Of The Literary Staff And By The Commercial Staff Of The Ballarat Courier, Dec. 1901". 74cm high View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$2,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 69 An antique pocket barometer in case, pocket sovereign scales and "The Laurel, Ladies Boudoir Safety Razor", 19th century View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 70 GOLD MINING:1881 10/- Share Certificate (#849) for United Ajax Gold Mining Co operating out of Campbell's Creek; also 1926 consecutive run of four share certificates (#5783-86) for the South Lucknow Gold Mining Company, each certificate for 100 shares at 3/6d per share. (5 items) View details Quantity5Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 71 INTERNATIONAL MINING & INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, COOLGARDIE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 1899. Silk commemorative Opening Ceremony program with an image of the Exhibition building and the opening date (March 21, 1899) on the front, the internal pages providing details for the arrival of the Governor, members of the W.A. Government, Invited Guests, Season Ticket Holders, etc., as well as details of the Ceremony. 26 x 44cm (opened out). Some water staining, but extremely scarce; we have located only one other View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 72 Five opal bivalve mussel fossils, Australian opal fields, Coober Pedy, the largest 4cm long View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 73 An 18ct gold miner's brooch, crossed pick and shovel with entwined rope and nugget specimen, 19th century, stamped "18ct", 5.5cm wide, 5 grams View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot 74 A 15ct gold miner's brooch, crossed pick and shovel with gold nugget specimens and entwined rope, 19th century, stamped "S.S. & Co. 15k", 4.5cm wide, 4.8 grams View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500StatusCLOSED! Lot 75 BARCLAY BROS. of Melbourne gold miner's brooch with crossed pick and shovel, and entwined rope, 19th century, stamped "B. BROS. 9ct", 4.8cm wide, 2.8 grams View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 76 A gold miner's brooch, shovel form with large gold specimen entwined in rope, 19th century, 5cm wide, 4.9 grams View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot 77 A rare "MALCOLM" Western Australian goldfields brooch, late 19th century, housed in a period plush box with a Ballarat newspaper clipping, 5.5cm wide, 5.6 grams. Illustrated in "GOLD & SILVERSMITHING IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA" by Dorothy Erickson [U.W.A. Press, Perth, 2010], page 75-76. View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Price Realized$16,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 78 Gold miner's bar brooch with horseshoes and gold nugget specimen, 19th century, 6.5cm wide, 11 grams View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 79 A gold miner's brooch in the form of a shovel with quartz ore specimen, 19th century, 4.2cm wide, 3.2 grams View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 80 A goldminer's brooch, crossed pick and shovel with gold nugget specimens, entwined rope and bucket, stamped "South Africa, 9ct", 4.5cm wide, 4.5 grams View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusCLOSED! Lot 81 "FORGET ME NOT" fine Colonial oval brooch with flying bird amongst vine leaves and tendril, tests as high carat gold, most likely Melbourne origin, circa 1860s, 4.5cm wide, 8.4 grams View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$1,900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 82 A Colonial brooch with flying bird, vine leaves and green stone, tests high carat gold, most likely Victorian goldfields origin, circa 1865, 4cm high, 9.1 grams View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 83 A heart shaped gold ore specimen ring set in yellow gold, late 19th century, View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 84 WILLIS & SONS of Melbourne, early 9ct gold ring set with opal and seed pearls, 19th century, stamped "9" flanked by pictorial marks, View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 85 Australian 15ct gold bar brooch and matching 9ct gold earrings set with handsome gold nugget specimens, 19th century, 4.5cm wide, 11.75 grams total View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 86 A Colonial 15ct gold oval brooch with foliate design adorned with a flying bird, most likely Melbourne origin, 19th century, 5cm high, 10.7 grams View details Estimate$800 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 87 A gold miner's pendant with pure gold findings encased in glass and mounted in gold, 19th century, 2cm high View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 88 WENDT Colonial pair of emu earrings, silver gilt, circa 1870, 2cm high View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 89 A stunning Australian yellow gold memorial locket brooch adorned with kangaroo and emu in fern foliage, 19th century, 3.7cm high, 12.3 grams total View details Estimate$2,500 - $4,500Price Realized$3,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 90 An antique 15ct gold bar brooch with glass cylinder of opal chips, 19th century, stamped "15ct", 5.3cm wide View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 91 WENDT yellow gold ring set with rubies and diamonds, Adelaide, South Australian origin, 19th century, stamped "WENDT.9", View details Estimate$500 - $700Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 92 WENDT 9ct yellow gold bangle set with red stones and seed pearls, housed in original plush box marked "J.M. WENDT, ADELAIDE", clasp stamped "9" with circular crown mark, 6.5cm wide, 12.2 grams total View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 93 An antique 9ct gold fob chain, late 19th century, stamped "H.H.S.", 40cm long, 20 grams View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 94 A Colonial cameo brooch set in high carat yellow gold mount adorned with leaves, most likely Melbourne, mid to late 19th century, 2.7cm high View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 95 HARDY BROS. (SYDNEY), 18ct yellow gold stickpin set with a diamond head and retaining its screw fitting to enable it to be worn as a dress stud, fully marked for Hardy Brothers and in original retailer's plush fitted box, 19th century, 6.5cm long, 4.3 grams total View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 96 An antique bar brooch, 18ct yellow gold set with a shark's took, 19th century, 4.5cm wide View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 97 A Colonial 15ct gold necklace crescent and star necklace set with seed pearls, most likely Melbourne origin, 19th century, 42cm long, 14 grams total View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 98 WILLIS & SONS fine antique bangle, 15ct yellow gold with crescent and star design set with red stones and seed pearls, 19th century, stamped "15,W." with unicorn mark, 6.5cm wide, 10.6 grams total View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 99 WILLIAM DRUMMOND & Co. Melbourne, antique 15ct yellow gold ring set with three red stones and diamonds, 19th century, stamped "W. 15. D.", 3.8 grams total View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 100 FIRE BRIGADE: 15ct gold fob (6.7gms) depicting a two-wheeled hose cart on the front; verso engraved "CLUNES FETE 1887 * Hose Practice 8 Men : FIRST PRIZE Won by W.J. Hawkes". View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...14|Next1234567891011121314 Previous 1234567891011121314 Next Previous 1234567891011121314 Next
