The John Lancaster Collection of Australian Trade Exhibitions (#121MG) 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 1-12 of 12. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 TICKETS & SOUVENIRS: Season Ticket of Admission for the Exhibition signed by Jane Milner; a lithographed lettersheet with illustration of Interior of the Crystal Palace (Rock & Co.) and another showing The Building in Hyde Park (Newman & Co.) (3 items). SymbolD View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #2 GREETING CARD: Paper lace folded card with gold illustration of "Grand Exhibition 1851" in centre. Fragile with some paper cracking. SymbolD View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #3 ILLUSTRATED ENVELOPES: 1851 'BRITANNIA ENCOURAGES THE INDUSTRY OF THE GLOBE' (Britannia & various Industries) with 'Designed & Engraved by J Valentine, Dundee' on the flap, very minor blemishes, unused. SymbolC View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #4 ILLUSTRATED ENVELOPES: 1851 'BRITANNIA ENCOURAGES THE INDUSTRY OF THE GLOBE' (Britannia & various Industries) with 'Designed & Engraved by J Valentine, Dundee' on the flap with 1d Stars tied by poor numeral of 'BROMSGROVE/MR12/1851' (b/s) to James Valentine in Dundee (poor b/s), minor soiling & small repaired tear at the base. This is State 1, with imprints of Johnstone & Hunter and Ackermann & Co on the flap. [With the enclosed letter headed "Bromsgrove Licky Worcestershire" & signed... View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #5 ILUSTRATED ENVELOPES: 'McGEE'S REGISTERED EXHIBITION ENVELOPE 1851' (Crystal Palace, Lion & Unicorn) & fancy imprint 'John G McGee & Co/Merchant Clothiers & Hatters/...Belfast' in blue on the flap, stained - not toning - on both sides & the flap is stuck, unused. Stated that only three examples have been recorded. SymbolC View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #6 EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS: 1852 stampless entire headed "London Jany 27 1852" & signed "Herman Wrede" endorsed "Bill of Lading pr Waratah", placed into the mails on arrival at Melbourne with light 'PAID/[crown]/MELBOURNE' d/s in red, redirected to Sydney with 'SHIP LETTER/[crown]/JY*13/1852/SYDNEY" arrival b/s, a little aged. [The lengthy letter states: "...I only went once to the Exhibition..." Symbolc View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #7 SAMPLE ENVELOPES: plain envelope with 'MACHINE-FOLDED AND GUMMED BY THOMAS DE LA RUE & CO/AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851' & tress printed in pale blue on the flap, pencil notations "I saw this made" & "So did I", soiling mostly on the front, unused. SymbolC View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$230StatusSold Lot #8 EXHIBITION ENVELOPE and LETTERHEAD: 1849 (Dec.12) use of envelope (side flaps removed) with 'Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry/of all Nations - 1851' imprint at lower-left, used within London with a message written within; together with Exhibition letterhead dated "23 April 1850" signed by the Committee Secretary "M.Digby Wyatt", faults but a scarce document. SymbolC D View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$230StatusSold Lot #9 ROYAL COMMISSIONERS COVER: 1851 cover with 'EXHIBITION OF 1851/[Arms]/ROYAL COMMISSIONERS' embossing in red on the flap, very fine Imperf 2d pair [NG-NH] with close to large margins just tied by '11'-in-bars cancellation, London b/s of 16JA16/1851' & 'GRAVESEND' arrival b/s in blue. SymbolCL View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #10 EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS: 1851 stampless entire signed "Avison Terry" to Van Diemen's Land with 'HULL/DE18/1851' cds in blue & 'SHIP-LETTER/[crown]/DE19/1851/=LONDON=' cds in red, Tasmanian boxed 'SHIPLETTER/21MA21/1852' transit b/s & boxed postmaster's handstamp 'CAMP TOWN/23.Mar 52' arrival d/s on the face, very fine.The lengthy letter states: "...The Great Exhibition...gave us the opportunity of seeing many of your productions...it was an altogether most interesting affair, it went off unco... SymbolC View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #11 MEDALLIONS: Bronze (77mm) by Leonard C. Wyon, Conjoined busts of Victoria and Albert, trident and two dolphins below, reverse Brittannia seated crowning industry with laurel, Europe, Asia, Africa and America attending, edge (6mm) inscribed 'PRIZE MEDAL OF THE EXHIBITION. A.M. MILLIGAN. CLASS III.' EF. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #12 BOOKS: "The Art Journal, Illustrated Catalogue, The Industry of All Nations 1851" [George Virtue, London, 1851] xxvi, 328pp, xxii; half-leather & green morocco binding, marbled end papers. Also, "1851 and the Crystal Palace" by Hobhouse [John Murray, London, 1937] hardcover with dust jacket. (2 items).The final essay in The Art Journal catalogue is titled "The Exhibition as a Lesson in Taste" by Ralph Nicholson Wornum. He was Keeper and Secretary of the National Gallery of London from 1855... 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