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 301-400 of 574. Previous|123456|Next Lot #298 BRITISH COMMISSION: 1889 envelope with 'PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, 1889/BRITISH SECTION' imprint & similarly inscribed embossing on the flap both in olive-brown, to Ireland with French 25c (corner fault) tied by on of two strikes 'EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE/18/SEPT/89/*1889*' cds, 'GORT' arrival b/stamp. SymbolC View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #299 ENTRANCE LOTTERY TICKET: Large fancy printed lottery ticket for the Paris International Exhibition at face value of 25 francs providing for 25 visits during the Exhibition as well as participation in the annual lotteries to be conducted every year between 1890 and 1964. At the conclusion of the draws - 75 years after the Exhibition - any ticket holders who did not win a prize would be entitled to a refund of their 25 francs. SymbolD View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #300 MEDALLIONS: Bronze (63mm) France seated at right crowning a male artisan on anvil by Louis Bottee, reverse Victory seated blowing a trumpet and holding a bust of France above frame inscribed 'D.M. CAMERON' in cased box inscribed 'D.M. CAMERON / Secretary / Royal Commission / FOR VICTORIA', toned gEF. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$250StatusSold Lot #301 MEDALLIONS: Bronze (63mm) by Daniel Dupuis, France seated at left crowning a nude male figure, background the Eiffel Tower and the Seine, reverse France facing right, VF. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #302 APPLICATION FOR SPACE: Printed Application for Space in the Victorian Court at the Dunedin Exhibition over the signature of D.M. Cameron, Secretary. SymbolD View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #303 ROYAL COMMISSION FOR VICTORIA LETTERHEAD: covering letter on Royal Commission letter head dated 23rd July 1889 which had accompanied the Official Programme and Application for Space which had been sent to the Town Clerk, Richmond City Council. Signed on reverse by the Mayor. SymbolD View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #304 OFFICIAL PROGRAMME: Printed Official Programme for the Royal Commission for Victoria printed in July 1889 for the Dunedin Exhbition later that year. Programme contents include a Claasification of Exhbitis and receipted on back by Richmond City Council on 1 Aug. 1889.The President of the Royal Commission for Victoria was the Honourable G.D.Langridge. A builder in England; he had emigrated to Sydney in the early 1850s; arrived in Melbourne 1853 and went to the goldfields. On his return he su... SymbolD View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #305 EXHIBITION POSTCARD: 1889 advice card with 'On NZ Exhibition Business Only' imprint at the top & 'NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION COMPANY LIMITED' imprint on the reverse, locally used with Dunedin squared-circle of 11FE89 & 'DHarris Hastings' facsimile signature handstamp in violet. Rare & superb! [Hastings was the Exhibition Secretary] SymbolPS View details Estimate$600 - $700Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #306 EXHIBITION DATESTAMP: 'NZ/EXHIBITION DN/FE 6 90/ 1 ' one & a half fine strikes on Sidefaces 1d pair on small piece. Only one cover is recorded. SymbolO View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #307 "New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition, Dunedin, 1889-90. Illustrated Handbook of Victoria, together with the Official Catalogue of Exhibits in the Victorian Court" [Rob't. S. Brain, Melbourne, 1889]; 101 pp plus plates, many folding and two maps of Victoria one showing school locations, the other geographical locations; presentation leather binding, with inscription "With the Presidents compliments." and ownership endorsement "Hopetoun, Stewards Room."Lord Hopetoun was Gover... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #308 "The Australian Handbook (Incorporating New Zealand, Fiji and New Guinea), Shippers' and Importers', Directory & Business Guide for 1889, 20th Year of Issue", published by Gordon & Gotch [London, 1889]. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #309 1891 Queensland Parliamentary Report to both Houses; 1891 NSW Report to the Legislative Assembly. (2 items). SymbolD View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #310 GOLD MEDAL CERTIFICATE, "Australian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition, Ballaarat 1890-1", superb certificate awarded to H.F. Dunn of Albert Park for Carving,; designed by E.T.Luke & lithographed by F.W.Niven & Co. of Ballarat, window mounted, overall 43x59cm. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #311 EXHIBITION ENVELOPE: 1891 envelope with 'Hamilton & Western District Juvenile Industrial Exhibition/...' imprint at upper-left & printed PMG Frank stamp in blue, to Melbourne with very fine Hamilton duplex of MR12/91.The only example recorded by Carl Stieg & Max Watson. SymbolPS View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #312 EXHIBITION ENVELOPES: Selection of OPSO Envelopes of various sizes and with all-different variations of the 'TASMANIAN EXHIBITION 1891-92' imprint at lower-left, four with the beautiful Exhibition crest embossed in deep blue on the flap, all with 'CORPORATION OF LAUNCESTON' Frank handstamp in shades of blue, two are irregular external usages to Victoria & England (endorsed "Per Oroya"), some mostly minor toning but all are good to very fine, one is unused. (7 Items). SymbolC View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$250StatusSold Lot #313 EXHIBITION ENVELOPE: 1891 envelope (unusual knife) with 'Tasmanian Exhibition/...Town Hall Launceston' imprint at the top, unusually fine strike of the 'CORPORATION OF LAUNCESTON' Frank handstamp in blue & very fine Launceston duplex of MR12/91, very fine. The only example we have seen. SymbolC View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #314 EXHIBITION ENVELOPES: 1891-92 envelopes with various forms of the 'TASMANIAN EXHIBITION LAUNCESTON 1891-2' imprint at lower-left, each with 'CORPORATION OF LAUNCESTON' Frank handstamp in shades of blue & Launceston duplex cancels with time codes A H K x2 S or U, all used irregularly to external destinations Victoria, New Zealand, Austria (front only) & England x2 (one registered & rare thus). (5 items). SymbolC View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #315 EXHIBITION ENVELOPE: 1892 envelope with straight-line 'TASMANIAN EXHIBITION, 1891-92' at lower-left & fine 'CORPORATION OF LAUNCESTON' Frank h/s in blue, irregular usage to Victoria from where it was forwarded to South Australia. Most unusual. SymbolC View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #316 NEW SOUTH WALES COMMISSION: Unused envelope with OHMS heading, 'N.S.Wales Executive Commissioner/Tasmanian Exhibition, 1891-2/Launceston' imprint SymbolC View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #317 "Skits, a Memento From The Tasmanian Exhibition, Launceston 1891-92. Skits by Alf Vincent", lithographed & printed by James Brickhill [Thos. Sharpe, Launceston, c1892]. Alfred James (Alf) Vincent was born in Launceston in 1874, the youngest of six children. Alf Vincent's cartoons and caricatures of the leading lights of the Tasmanian Exhibition in 1891, published under the title "Skits" as a memento of the event, launched the career of one of Australia's best known political cartoonists. A... View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #318 "The Colonial Year Book for the year 1891" by A.J.R.Trendell [Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1891]. 836 pp + folding maps, advertisements including several for Australian companies and banks represented in England.Each Australian Colony is reviewed in depth. Many advertisements feature details of awards won at International Exhibitions. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #319 PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS: 1891 Queensland Parliamentary Report reproducing the Proclamation by the President of the United States regarding the Proposed World's Columbian Exposition to be held in Chicago in 1893. SymbolD View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot #320 NEW SOUTH WALES AT THE EXHIBITION: noted "Classification of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, USA, 1893" [Donohue & Henneberry, Chicago, 1891] soft-cover, 122 pp; "AUSTRALIAN TIMBERS" by W.H.Warren "Published by Authority of the New South Wales Commissioners for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893" [Charles Potter, Sydney, 1892] rebound in leather preserving the upper & lower covers; 65 pp + 44 plates; [Ferg.18205];"An Account of the Coins, Coinage and Currency of Aust... View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$250StatusSold Lot #321 EXHIBITION STAMP ISSUE: 1893 Columbus 1c & 2c both with straight-edge at the top, 4c, 6c (shallow thin), 8c (closed tear), 10c (very fine) & $4 (a little aged otherwise very fine) SymbolO View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #322 EXPOSITION POSTAL STATIONERY: 1c Grant Postal Cards with chromo-lithographed illustrations of the major Expo buildings all with imprint of Charles Goldsmith, Series 1 Nos 1 to 10 complete, No 7 being Inverted in Relation to the Address Side, a few blemishes on the address sides otherwise generally very fine unused, with the illustrated green/white wrapper in which the cards were sold. (11 Items) SymbolPS View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #323 EXPOSITION POSTAL STATIONERY: 1c Grant Postal Cards with chromo-lithographed illustrations of the major Expo buildings all with imprint of Charles Goldsmith SymbolPS View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #324 EXPOSITION POSTAL STATIONERY: 1c Grant Postal Cards complete set of 12 engraved illustrations of the Expo buildings each with vignettes of Christopher Columbus and the "Santa Maria" plus imprints 'GIRSCH & ROEHSLER NY' & 'JOS KOEHLER SOLE AGENT NY', VF/EF unused. (12 Items) SymbolPS View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #324a A group of U.S. postal stationery items and a cover, 1890 - 1901, all addressed to Miss L.A. Windeyer from her sister Margaret Windeyer, who was the first female Exhibition Commissioner; representing New South Wales at the Columbian Exhibition. (7 items). SymbolPS C View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #325 EXPOSITION POSTAL STATIONERY: Embossed Envelopes 1c 2c 5c & 10c all unused, 2c uprated with 1c + Columbus 2c & 5c to NSW and 5c to Victoria x2; also commercial usages of the Columbus stamps values to 5c on envelopes x2, on 1c Postal Card & on part of a Department of the Interior Wrapper; condition variable. (11 items). SymbolPS/C View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot #326 ENTRY TICKETS: An all-different selection by the American Bank Note Company x8, Western Bank Note Co x2 & three for "Chicago Day" without printer's imprint; also 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition 50c, very attractive & generally VF/EF (14 Items). SymbolC View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #327 MEDALLIONS: Bronze (76mm) Columbus setting foot on land by Saint Gaudens, reverse 400th anniversary commemorative plaque (awarded) 'TO EDWARD COMBES, COM. / FOR NEW SOUTH WALES' in relief, angels beside globe above, torches at sides and ship below, 'C.E. BARBER FECIT' at base, multiple edge dents and knocks. View details Estimate$80 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #328 EXHIBITION POSTCARD: 1893 postcard with 'INTERCOLONIAL/Wine, Fruit, Grain & General Products/EXHIBITION 1893' imprint at the top & light PMG Frank h/s in violet, to Maryborough with Melbourne duplex of MR11/93, small concealed spikehole. SymbolC/L View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #329 EXHIBITION POSTCARD: 1893 postcard with 'INTERCOLONIAL/Wine, Fruit, Grain & General Products/EXHIBITION 1893' imprint at the top & light PMG Frank h/s in violet, to Richmond with Melbourne duplex of MR8/93, very fine. This & the previous lot are the only recorded examples. [Carl Stieg & Max Watson misread the date of use as 8MR/91] SymbolC View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #330 MEDALLIONS: Gilded brass and brass (19mm) 'EXHIBITION SOUVENIR', minted by Stokes and Martin, both VF. (2 items) View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #331 EXPOSITION ENVELOPE: 1893 Columbian Exposition 2c Envelope with delightful illustrated "corner card" with a bear watching a stagecoach pass through a sequoia & Dickman Jones imprint at the top, to Hobart (b/s), very fine & attractive. SymbolC View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #332 "Memorandum & Articles of Association of the Tasmanian International Exhibition Association" [Propsting & Robey, Hobart, 1892] 25pp with pink front cover; also, a proof pull of a newspaper report regarding a meeting of the Board at which Mr John Echlin reports on his attempts to garner interest in England and Europe for the planned Exhibition. (2 items). SymbolPS D View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #333 1894 (July 6) Printed letter for Royal Commission for Victoria at the Tasmanian International Exhibition 1894-95 which accompanied the Application for Space and encouraging Victorians to exhibit to show "... the advanced position of Victoria in all matters relating to Education, Literature, Science and Art, and the social condition generally." Sent to the Richmond City Council on 12 July 1894 and signed on reverse by the Mayor, Charles J Jago. SymbolD View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #334 EXHIBITOR'S APPLICATION FORM: Victorian Court Exhibitor's Application form for the Fine Art Section with Regulations printed on reverse. Unused. SymbolD View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #335 EXHIBITION TICKET & INVITATION: Exhibition ticket No.1015 issued to Mr. A Lester with photograph and cnotained in a leather folder with gold embossed crest; together with an Invitation to the Exhibiton sent to G.P Adams with Exhibiton crest in red; and an Exhibition reciept issued on 22nd Dec. 1894 for sheet music purchased by Mr.N.Oldham, who was responsible for the choir. (4 items). SymbolD View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$250StatusSold Lot #336 Engraving "Tasmanian International Exhibition Hobart Main Building", from 'The Australasian' 6 Oct.1894; plus reprinted Beattie photograph "Opening of the Tasmanian Exhibition" from 'The Australasian' 24 Nov. 1894. (2 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #337 OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION: 1894 unusually large postcard (162x119mm) for the Tasmanian Rifle Regiment with printed instructions SymbolPS View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #338 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARD COLOUR TRIALS: 1893 illustrated triptych - the Exhibition Building; Tasmanian Coat-of-Arms; and Hobart from the Bay - printed in violet, in rose-pink, and in orange-brown on De La Rue 1d Postal Cards, plus an example of the issued card with the illustrations in black on the locally produced 1d Postal Card. Superb quartet & believed to be the only recorded examples. Ex Lew Viney. SymbolPS View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000Price Realized$4,200StatusSold Lot #339 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARD COLOUR TRIALS: 1893 illustrated triptych - the Exhibition Building; Tasmanian Coat-of-Arms; and Hobart from the Bay - printed in violet, in rose-pink, and in orange-brown on the back of the message-half only of the 1½d+1½d Reply Postal Cards, plus an example of the issued card with the illustrations in black; the rose-pink & violet cards separated for display! Believed to be the only recorded examples. Ex Lew Viney. SymbolPS View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #340 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS: The issued 1d cards comprising unused x4 (one with defective stamp impression) and used comprising 1893 (Dec 15) - the Earliest Recorded Date - uprated ½d Sideface to America & 1893 (Dec 18) very early usage underpaid to England with tax markings, also uprated with Embossed ½d orange Kiderlen usage to Germany, very fine group. (7). SymbolPS View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #341 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS: 1895 (Jan 11) usage to Guatemala (!) uprated with 1/2d Tablet, New Orleans transit & 'RECIBIDA/...' arrival cds in violet. The message states "This is called the Exhibition souvenir it is a disgrace to the Colony". View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #342 EXHIBITION POSTCARDS: Group of On Public Service Only printed postcards used between 16.11.1893 and 27.3.1895 mostly for advice of meetings re the Exhibition Choir - two with printed 'TASMANIAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION CHOIR' on the reverse, all with INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION' frank stamp in red x5, rosine or violet x3, one card with a fine strike of the oval 'POST OFFICE/28MAR95/TASMANIAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION' datestamp in rosine, generally very fine. (9). SymbolC View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #343 EXHIBITION ENVELOPES: Study of the OPSO envelopes with variations of typeface etc, SymbolC View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #344 EXHIBITION WRAPPERS: Three with Exhibition imprint at lower-left & two with '.../SCHEDULES & REGULATIONS' header (one to England with superb 'TASMANIA/OFFICIAL/PAID' h/s in rosine), dates 30 June 1892 and 17, 27 June 1893 with Exhibition frank handstamp in rosine x2 or purple x3, generally fine. Scarce group. (5 items). SymbolC View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #345 EXHIBITION DATESTAMP: Triple-oval 'POST OFFICE/TASMANIAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION' datestamp two large-part strikes a fine strike of 20NOV94 - the Earliest Recorded Date - all in rosine on OPSO envelopes, each with Exhibition Frank h/s in violet, one flapless & the last repaired at upper-left. SymbolC View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #346 EXHIBITION DATESTAMP: Triple-oval 'POST OFFICE/27NOV94/TASMANIAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION' datestamp fine strike in rosine on OPSO envelope with Exhibition embossing in maroon on the flap (damaged on opening) & Exhibition Frank h/s in purple. SymbolC View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #347 FRENCH COURT: May 1895 green envelope with 'EXPOSITION Internationale & Universalle d'HOBART (Tasmanie)/...' imprint at the top, to France with triple-oval 'POST OFFICE/16MAY95/TASMANIAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION' datestamp fine strike in rosine and Sideface ½d & 1d x2 tied by Hobart duplex, MODANE A PARIS' TPO transit in red on the face, superb 'DIJON/...' & 'CHALON-S-SAONE/...' backstamps, minor defects. A marvellous item & the only example we have seen. SymbolC View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusUnsold Lot #348 INWARDS MAIL: 1895 (Apr) American 2c Liberty Postal Card with Wells Fargo & Co Express imprint & advice on the reverse, to "EK Kerr/Tasmania Exhibition/Hobart" with fine strike of the triple-oval 'POST OFFICE/3MAY95/TASMANIAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION' datestamp in rosine, a bit knocked-about. SymbolPS View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #349 EXHIBITION DATESTAMP: Triple-oval 'POST OFFICE/23APR95/TASMANIAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION' datestamp - the Latest Recorded Date - very fine strike in rosine on OPSO envelope with Exhibition Frank h/s in violet, repaired opening tear that doesn't affect the very fine frontal appearance. SymbolC` View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #350 MEDALLIONS: Uninscribed bronze gilt (38mm) by Stokes & Sons, Queen Victoria Veiled Head, reverse laurel wreath, aEF. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot #351 Real photo postcard titled "Exhibition Building Hobart, Destroyed by Fire 5.11.1909", used at Hobart 9.11.1909, stamp damaged but image is fine. View details Estimate$100 - $125Price Realized$50StatusSold Lot #352 1895-96 AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION: 1896 letter to the Mayor of Richmond on letterhead for the Australian Industrial Exhibition then open in Ballarat. [The Exhibition was open: 20 December 1895 - 4 May 1896]. SymbolD View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #353 "REPORT and BALANCE SHEETS of the Australian Industrial Exhibition. Ballarat, 1895-96." [Berry, Anderson & Co., Ballarat, 1896]; 51pp; hard cover with gilt lettering & decoration. SymbolB View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #354 "G.F. WITTON'S COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY OF VICTORIA 1895-6" [Melbourne, 1895]; 750pp plus adverts. Hard-cover; gilt title on spine and front cover. F.18720.Some advertisers illustrate their Exhibition awards. SymbolB View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #355 "TARIFF of THE COLONY OF VICTORIA (alphabetically arranged) INCLUDING EXCISE and EXPORT DUTIES. on and after 1st January 1896" [Robt.S.Brain, Gov't Printer, Melbourne, 1896]; 80pp; leather-bound with gilt lettering to top cover. A presentation example to "HON. R.W. BEST, M.P." Commissioner of Trade & Customs.Probably produced in association with the Australian Industrial Exhibition at Ballarat. Only one other example recorded. SymbolB View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #356 INWARDS MAIL: 1896 (Sept. 1) envelope with printed 'THE SPEAKER/LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL VICTORIA' Frank stamp in dull red, to "The President/Industrial Exhibition/Albury", 'ALBURY/NSW' arrival b/s, light vertical fold. This is the only item of postal history recorded in relation to this Exhibition. SymbolPS View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #357 MEDALLION: Gilt (45mm) ALBURY NSW INDUSTRIAL & JUVENILLE EXHIBITION, uninscribed, EF. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #358 TASMANIA POSTAL CARD: 1896 (Dec 24) 1d Postal Card local usage at Launceston with light but obvious 'NORTH WEST COAST/EXHIBITION/1896-97/TASMANIA' double-oval cachet in purple at left (another incomplete strike on reverse). The only recorded example of this Exhibition marking. SymbolPS View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #358a 1897 (Feb.19) Victorian 1d Postal Card from Melbourne to Bendigo, with hand-written message which includes "Going to see the Mining Exhibition tomorrow" and incorrectly dated "1896". SymbolPS View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #359 VICTORIAN POSTAL CARD: 1897 (April 1) QV 1d Postal Card with 'WARRNAMBOOL INDUSTRIAL/& ART EXHIBITION' handstamp in red, to Bendigo with Warrnambool duplex. Message regarding the return of an exhibit. The only recorded example. SymbolPS View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #360 "A Souvenir of Warrnambool and its Exhibition", published by J.Jordan [Melbourne, 1896], with photographic views of scenes and important buildings, and charming period advertisements. Decorated front cover. Ferg.11,001. SymbolB View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #361 PROSPECTUS: "The QUEENSLAND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, to be held in Bowen Park, in 1897." [Edmund Gregory, Brisbane, 1896]; 143 pp; later binding lacking front cover. The official catalogue, with advertisements. SymbolB View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #362 QUEENSLAND DEPARTMENT OF MINES: Publications for the QIE, 1897: "Catalogue of the Exhibits in the QUEENSLAND MINING COURT..." by R.L. Jack [Edmund Gregory, Brisbane, 1897] 56 pp; also, "The Charters Towers Gold Field, with Notes on the Yield of the Various Mines. Compiled for The Charters Towers Exhibition Committee". [Edmund Gregory, Brisbane, 1897]; 23 pp. (2 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #363 "GUIDE to QUEENSLAND and the INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1897, with Maps and Illustrations." compiled by C.H. Rutlidge" [W.H.Wendt & Co., Brisbane, 1897]. 201 pp; rebound lacking original covers. Ferg. 15313. SymbolB View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #364 EXHIBITION ENVELOPE: On Public Service envelope with 'Queensland International Exhibition/1896' imprint at lower-left, stampless local usage at Brisbane with signature of "Jules Joubert" (the Exhibition Manager) at upper-left, some soiling/toning. This & the following lot are the only recorded examples. SymbolC View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #365 EXHIBITION ENVELOPE: On Public Service envelope with 'Queensland International Exhibition/1896' imprint at lower-left & signed by "Jules Joubert" (the Exhibition Manager) at upper-left, to "Backriding Iron Works/Oldham/England" with 2½d pink tied by Brisbane duplex of SE8/96, 'OLDHAM' arrival b/s. SymbolC View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #366 "The AUSTRALIAN HANDBOOK (Incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea) Shippers and Importers' DIRECTORY & BUSINESS GUIDE for 1897." [Gordon & Gotch] 616 pp + numerous advertising pages (lacks i/ii) and all plates and maps & Colonial Buyers Guide. SymbolB View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #367 MEDALLIONS: Bronze gilt (45mm) by Stokes & Sons, Queen Victoria Veiled Head, reverse wreath surrounding 'AWARDED TO TAYLOR & Co...' for 'AERATED WATERS', Unc. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #368 MEDALLIONS: Bronze gilt (45mm) by Stokes & Sons, Queen Victoria Veiled Head, reverse wreath surrounding 'AWARDED TO TAYLOR & Co...' for 'AERATED WATERS', EF. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #369 MEDALLIONS: Bronze gilt (45mm) by Stokes & Sons, Queen Victoria Veiled Head, reverse wreath surrounding 'AWARDED TO TAYLOR & Co...' for 'NON INTOXICANT WINES', EF. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$125StatusSold Lot #370 LOCAL MAIL: 1899 envelope (178x128mm) with two-line Exhibition imprint at lower-left & embossed Coat-of-Arms in blue on the flap, fine strike of the 'WESTERN AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION/COOLGARDIE 1898' Frank handstamp in purple, local usage with Coolgardie duplex. SymbolC View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #371 EXHIBITION ENVELOPES: 1898-99 envelopes of various sizes with all-different styles of Exhibition imprint at lower-left & each with 'WESTERN AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION/COOLGARDIE 1898' Frank handstamp in shades of violet, three are internal usages - one with the Exhibition crest in blue on the flap - one Unclaimed at Kalgoorlie, the others are defective overseas usages to England x2 - one with 'TPO EGF' transit cds most unusually in green - or Ceylon. (6 items). SymbolC View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #372 EXHIBITION ENVELOPES: 1899 envelopes with two different styles of Exhibition imprint at lower-left & each with 'WESTERN AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION/COOLGARDIE 1898' Frank handstamp in violet SymbolC View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #373 WA FRANKED LOCAL MAIL: 1899 (July 23) OPSO cover used in Coolgardie with Western Australian International Mining and Industrial Exhibition imprint in blue and crest in blue on flap struck with "WESTERN AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION/COOLGARDIE 1898" frank in unusually in blue. Fine condition. SymbolC View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #374 LOCAL MAIL: 1898 envelope with three-line Exhibition imprint at lower-left & 'WESTERN AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION/COOLGARDIE 1898' Frank handstamp in violet, local usage with Coolgardie duplex, very fine. SymbolC View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$250StatusSold Lot #375 OVERSEAS MAIL: 1898 envelope with three-line Exhibition imprint at lower-left & 'WESTERN AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION/COOLGARDIE 1898' Frank handstamp in purple partly obscured by 2 1/2d Swan - required for sending overseas - tied by Coolgardie duplex, to France with light 'TPO EGF/WA' transit b/s, light vertical fold. SymbolC View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #376 AMERICAN COMMISSION: 1898 American 1c blue Envelope with 'Western Australian International/Mining and Industrial Exhibition' imprint at the top & 'Special Commissioner for the United States/...' at upper-left, from San Francisco to St Louis, very fine & desirable unsealed printed matter item. SymbolPS View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #377 PHOTOGRAPH & PICTURE: Original albumen paper print "Camel Train Coolgardie" c1898, (19x14cm) showing eight camels laden with provisions, together with four men in the foreground (one Afghan) & Coolgardie township in background; also a composite image titled "Mining Scenes in Western Australia" from 'The Australasian' 7 July 1899. SymbolD View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #378 MEDALLIONS: Silver (19mm) with chain ring, 'INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION COOLGARDIE / 1899' Unc, plus PPC showing photo of 'SCHOOL OF MINES Coolgardie. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #379 PARLIAMENTARY REPORT: 1898 Queensland Report to both Houses of Parliament regarding participation in the forthcoming Paris International Universal Exhibition. SymbolD View details Estimate$75 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #380 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION: WA OHMS envelope with 'ROYAL COMMISSION/PARIS EXHIBITION 1900/WESTERN AUSTRALIA' imprint at lower-left, fine strike of the rare 'PARIS EXHIBITION COMMISSION/WESTERN AUSTRALIA' Frank handstamp in violet, to Coolgardie with 'PERTH/FE16/00/W-A - GPO/ D ' duplex, minor repaired opening tears, light stain at the top that does intrude on the Frank. SymbolC View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #381 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION: 1899 WA OHMS envelope with 'ROYAL COMMISSION/PARIS EXHIBITION 1900/WESTERN AUSTRALIA' imprint at lower-left, light but very fine strike of the rare 'PARIS EXHIBITION COMMISSION/WESTERN AUSTRALIA' FRank handstamp, local usage with Coolgardie duplex of SP4/1899, very fine. SymbolC View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #382 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION: WA OHMS envelope with 'ROYAL COMMISSION/PARIS EXHIBITION, 1900 / WESTERN AUSTRALIA' imprint at lower-left, magnificent find of the rare 'PARIS EXHIBITION COMMISSION/WESTERN AUSTRALIA' Frank handstamp in violet, to Perth with Coolgardie duplex of MR20/00, very fine. Ex Hans Karman. SymbolC View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #383 WESTERN AUSTRALIA COMMISSION: 1900 long envelope with 'Commission Royale de l'Australie Occidentale/...' imprint at the top, to Roumania with 25c tied by 'PARIS 106/PLACE DU TROCADERO', Bucarest arrival b/s & light strike of the postman's "posthorn" delivery h/s in violet on the face, very fine. With the similarly headed enclosed letter signed "Geo Aytoun/[Secretaire]". (2 items). SymbolCL View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusUnsold Lot #384 EXHIBITION ENVELOPES: Various sizes all with 'EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1900' heading with various imprints including for 'Section Francaise' x2, 'SECTION FRANCAISE' & 'CONGRES INTERNATIONAUX' SymbolC View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusUnsold Lot #385 EXHIBITION POSTMARKS: 'PARIS EXPOSITION/PRESS' datestamp used at the Exhibition Newspaper Bureau on Exhibition postcard (spotty, especially on the viewside), 'PARIS/EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE - RF ' flag cancel (the datehead weak) on 10c Postal Card, 'UNITED STATES/POSTAL STATION - PARIS/EXPOSITION/1900' "American flag" on 10c Postal Card & on Exhibition PPC with lengthy message to Western Australia. SymbolC/PS View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$125StatusSold Lot #386 POSTER STAMPS: Colouful selection from the six different series promoting the Exhibition, a few unused multiples & several with postal cancellations, also Exhibition PPC with 'ESPAGNE' label in green used on Exhibition postcard, generally fine to very fine. [There were 210 Pavilions and more than 40 countries represented at the Paris Exhibition] Symbol*OC View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #387 PARIS OLYMPIC GAMES: 1900 (Nov) Exhibition envelope with blue 'Ministere du Commerce & Industries/.../(3)' free frank handstamp and 4-line 'FETE FEDERALE/de Gymnastique/COMITE - 9 Passage Saulnier/Paris' cachet in rosine. PROVENANCE: Baron Pierre de Coubertin. SymbolC View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #388 PARIS OLYMPIC GAMES: 1900 (Aug) Exhibition envelope with blue 'Ministere du Commerce & Industries/.../(2)' free frank handstamp and double-circle 'FETE du 2 7bre 1900/Association des Societes de Gymnastique de la Seine' cachet in blue-green. PROVENANCE: Baron Pierre de Coubertin. SymbolC View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #389 ENTRY TICKETS: Ornate Entry & lottery ticket issued at 20 francs offering Event-related railway travel; Pictorial single entry ticket (1 franc); Entry ticket for "Les Etablissements de Spectacle" and circular "Jeton de Service" card authorising entry for Exhibitors and employees. Interesting group. SymbolD View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #390 EXHIBITION POSTCARDS: Selection including ND Phot Pavilions x7 unused, JG a P chromolithos x2 with 'PARIS EXPOSITION/INVALIDES' cds, three Swedish Pavilion coloured cards with 'PARIS EXPOSITION/RAPP', four with 'UNITED STATES/POSTAL STATION - PARIS/EXPOSITION/1900' "American Flag" cancels, etc, etc, also three advertising cards - not postcards - one a die-cut Art Nouveau type for Lefevre-Utile, condition variable. SymbolP View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #391 "The Paris Exhibition 1900" edited by Thomson, published by The Art Journal [London, 1901], 374pp, greyish blue buckram lettered in gilt, cover worn, though interior contents in good condition. New endpapers. SymbolB View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #392 MEDALLIONS: Uninscribed Silvered Bronze (63mm) bust of France facing right below Oak tree, Paris in the background, reverse Victory flying bearing a victor above blank plaque for awardee, VF. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #393 MEDALLIONS: Bronze Plaque (52mm x 76mm) by S.T. Schwartz, reverse 'OSTERREICH / AUF DER / WELTAUSSTELUNG / PARIS 1900' in original cased box View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #394 "20th CENTURY AUSTRALASIAN DIARY and ALMANACK for 1901" by S.Hoffnung & Co., Ltd. with numerous pages of advertisements for this diverse importing company, including a full page devoted to Dewar's Whisky, awarded the Grand Prix at the Paris Exhibition, 1900. Also includes postal information, details of stamp duties payable in the various Colonies, Import Duties, etc. The full page devoted to Wisden products includes testemonies from Victor Trumper & Monty Noble.With ownership inscription o... SymbolB View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #395 1900 AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION: 4-page prospectus for the Australian Industrial Exhibition to be held at Ballarat. from November 1900. [NB: It was actually opened Dec.22.]. SymbolD View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|123456|Next Previous 123456 Next Previous 123456 Next
