Australian & Historical (#481) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized 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 1-24 of 24. Previous|1|Next Lot #370 CONVICT LEG IRONS, 19th century, 78cm long View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Price Realized$3,400StatusSold Lot #371 A TRAVEL PASS ISSUED TO THOMAS FOX IN MARCH 1841: Fox had arrived in New South Wales in September 1839, one of 240 convicts transported on the 'Parkfield'; he had received a sentence of 7 years at the Kent Assizes. This travel pass, issued to Fox at Blackheath, permitted him to travel; "out of irons" to Yass to obtain his ticket of leave. Fox, 24 at the time of his conviction, could read and write; Protestant, single, native of Norwich, a shoemaker, convicted for stealing a shawl. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #372 1839 (Oct.26) SERVANT'S RETURN PASS for ABRAHAM PLUMMER: issued by Police Office George Town, allowing Plummer to travel to Kelso Bay (opposite side of Tamar Estuary), and return by the end of the following day, countersigned on October 27th 1839. A physical description of the prisoner, is provided in manuscript on reverse: 21 years old, fresh complexion, a carpenter who had arrived aboard the "John" (in December 1833) on a sentence of 14 years for an undisclosed crime. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot #373 CONVICT LEG IRONS, blacksmith made, early 19th century, lovely relic condition, 74cm long View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusCLOSED! Lot #374 1840 (Nov. 24) REMAIN PASS for SAMUEL HARRIS: issued by the Superintendent of Convicts at the Police Office Launceston, allowing Harris to travel from Launceston to George Town in the service of a Mr George Wilson, countersigned by the Constable of George Town on November 25th 1840. A physical description of the prisoner is provided on reverse: being 18 years old, of fresh complexion, a groom, who had arrived aboard the "Recovery" (in October 1837), View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #375 An antique glass bottle with folk art inscription "ELIZABETH LAIRD, 1841" with thistle and rose decoration. Laird was convicted in Edinburgh in 1839 and sentenced to 7 years transportation. 17cm high View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #376 CONVICT PARDON/TICKET-OF-LEAVE: 1843 & 1845 (2) lower sections of pardon forms serviced at Hobart Town, each signed by Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot (Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1843-46) and James Ebenezer Bicheno (Colonial Secretary 1842-51), all with Van Diemen's Land Seal of Colony, the 1843 fragment with a partial physical description of the convict on reverse, stating "Lost several teeth upper jaw. Flesh mole on right arm", dated "11 December 1843". (3 items) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #377 A VAN DIEMEN'S LAND TRAVEL PASS ISSUED TO A TICKET-OF-LEAVE HOLDER, November 1844: A travel pass issued to JAMES SHAW (described verso as having arrived on the convict ship "Asia 5" to serve his sentence of 7 years transportation) to permit him to travel from MORVEN to CAMPBELLTOWN where it has been counter-signed by the receiving constable. Framed, with glazing front and rear. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #378 CONVICT TIN used to transport and store leave passes and tickets of leave (8 x 5.5cm), together with a London Emigration Committee sponsored facsimile broadside headed "Female Emigration to Australia" inviting applications from females between the ages of 15 to 30 of good character and for a payment of £5, to travel aboard the "David Scott" to start a new life in Australia (where pay rates for domestic employment were significantly higher); View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #379 Board of Ordnance pulley, hook and rope with broad arrow stamp, pre-1855, the pulley and hook 55cm high overall View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #380 CONVICT DEPARTMENT six assorted antique buttons by MILNS & Co. of London, 19th century, 23mmmm diameter 17cm View details Estimate$450 - $550Price Realized$950StatusSold Lot #381 HM PRISON PENTRIDGE cell door lock and key, with c1852 patent date, 18cm high, 25cm wide View details Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #382 NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE DEPARTMENT CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE: December 1870 document printed [Form 22] on vellum (in 1867) completed in manuscript, for Arthur Harris, who had served in the NSW Police for two years from March 1868 to October 1870, "having resigned his appointment". Having returned to his native Victoria and applied for a position with Victoria Police, the document bears an additional handstamp "VICTORIA POLICE * SWORN IN" which is dated in manuscript "9/12/73". View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #383 PLUG 8 nickel plated handcuffs, numbered "0", with key and original plug, 13.5cm wide View details Estimate$450 - $550Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #384 SOLITARY CONFINEMENT PRISONER'S MASK from the Maitland Prison in New South Wales, framed and mounted with paperwork attached verso, 19th century, frame 46 x 56cm overall View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$2,800StatusSold Lot #385 An antique Australian Police truncheon emblazoned with Queen Victoria cipher, 19th century, handle end trimmed, 44cm long View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$1,400StatusSold Lot #386 "New South Wales Police Gazette", foolscap, bound and indexed, January to December 1897 View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #387 HIATT WW1 period heavyweight handcuffs with original key, early 20th century, stamped "M&C, 1914 (Military & Civilian)", 24cm wide View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #388 A convict leather cup 19th century, 9cm high, 14cm wide View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #389 PRISONER GAG, wood and leather, stamped "MAITLAND", 19th/20th century, 63cm long View details Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #390 STRAIGHT JACKET, antique example from Gladesville Psychiatric Hospital in Sydney, 19th century, 85cm high View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #391 SM & Co. WW1 period antique standard size handcuffs with key, early 20th century, stamped "SM & Co., 1917, M&C, 56" with broad arrow mark, size 2 and numbered 280, 23cm wide View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #392 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POLICE tunic with silvered finish buttons, 19th/20th century, View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #393 Vintage straight jacket made by R. M. Williams of South Australia, 19th century View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$280StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
