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 401-500 of 574. Previous|123456|Next Lot #396 CERTIFICATE, "Australian Industrial Exhibition, Ballarat, 1900-1901", awarded to Isabel McMillan of Ballarat for Point Lace Work, window mounted, overall 60x49cm.The Australian Industrial Exhibition at the Ballarat Exhibition Grounds in Granville Street coincided with the birth of the Commonwealth: 21 December 1900 to 21 March 1901. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #397 British 'PARCEL POST/GLASGOW/Exhibition' label with fine strike of the double-circle 'EXHIBITION/MY23/01/GLASGOW datestamp; Exhibition perforated label in red, large-part original gum; Exhibition postcard with artist's impression of the buildings & grounds; & Western Australia very fine strike of the extremely rare 'GLASGOW EXHIBITION COMMISSION' Frank handstamp in dull blue on piece. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSold Symbol^* Lot #398 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION: OHMS envelope - front only - with 'ROYAL COMMISSION/GLASGOW EXHIBITION 1901/WESTERN AUSTRALIA/...' imprint & 'GLASGOW EXHIBITION COMMISSION/WESTERN AUSTRALIA' Frank handstamp light but clear strike in violet. One of the rarest of all Australian Franks; Hans Karman recorded no dates of usage. This is the only example known. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$500StatusSold SymbolC Lot #399 1901 red/white envelope with 'METROPOLITAN/EXHIBITION/APRIL 3RD TO 10TH 1901' & Coat of Arms at upper-left, local usage with 1d Arms tied by Sydney duplex of AP6/01 (Easter Saturday). Very scarce. [The Exhibition was conducted in conjunction with the Sydney Royal Easter Show] View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$380StatusSold SymbolC Lot #400 Four different poster stamps for the Exhibition; two different illustrated Exhibition envelopes to India & registered to Australia; and 2c Envelope with Jacob Dold Packaging Co "corner card" & 'BUFFALO NY - PAN AMERICAN/1901/EXPOSITION' machine cancellation; condition variable. (7 items). View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold SymbolC * Lot #401 ILLUSTRATED ENVELOPE: 1901 long envelope (268x113mm) with 'Victorian Gold Jubilee Exhibition' imprint & 'Bendigo...' at lower-left, printed 'POSTMASTER-GENERAL' Frank in red & Bendigo duplex of 30.5.01, Melbourne arrival b/s, repaired peripheral tears. Rare & attractive. [Carl Stieg & Max Watson at page 118 record usage on 3.2.01] View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$1,300StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #402 "The AUSTRALIAN HANDBOOK (Incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea) Shippers, Importers and Professional DIRECTORY & BUSINESS GUIDE for 1903." [Gordon & Gotch] 662 pp + Colonial Buyers' Guide.Many advertisers refer to their successes in Exhibitions. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #403 'LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION' perforated labels in various colours x83 (no gum), World's Fair label (faults), Buxton & Skinner promotional label in red postally used, daily entry ticket, two Exhibition postcards, three different beautiful chromolitho Exhibition envelopes to New York, France or Germany (taxed) - two with World's Fair machine cancels #1 & 2 - & commercial cover with Blackwell-Wielandy "corner card" & World's Fair machine cancel #5, condition variable. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Symbol(*)/C Lot #404 "The Cyclopedia of Victoria (Illustrated)", the 3 volumes complete, edited by James Smith [F.W.Niven & Co., Melbourne, 1903-05], Vol.I pp. (xiv), 611; Vol.II pp. (vi), 559; Vol. III pp (vi), 644; marbled edges; profusely illustrated with portraits and plates, covers rubbed, rebound with new spines; gilt lettering. An invaluable reference work. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$250StatusSold SymbolB Lot #405 "A HISTORY of the COLONY OF VICTORIA" in two volumes, by Henry Giles Turner [Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1904] vol.1: 394 pp + folding plan & map; vol.2: 389 pp; original cloth binding. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSold SymbolB Lot #406 "TOURIST'S HANDBOOK of AUSTRALIA" Issued by Howard Smith Co., Ltd., "Steamship Owners, Tug Proprietors, Coal Importers....as A Souvenir of the Company's Jubilee." by Donald MacDonald [Sands & McDougall, Melbourne, 1905] 256 pp with many advertisements and photographs; colour and gilt pictorial cloth.The Exhibition Building, Melbourne features at page 7. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$125StatusSold SymbolB Lot #407 Tasmanian News picture postcard "I.O.G.T. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, HOBART, 1905" of the very modest Exhibition premises, used in 1906. A rare masonic card. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold SymbolC Lot #408 POSTAGE STAMPS - ESSAYS: Imperforate plate proofs of the approved designs but in a smaller format with different frames comprising 3d - reversed - in dull red on thin surfaced paper, 6d in black on thin wove paper (thinned) & 6d in rose on thin surfaced paper. (3 items). View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$360StatusSold SymbolP Lot #409 POSTAGE STAMPS - COMPOSITE DIE PROOF: 6d Flag Raising die proof of the frame only in deep olive green on thin glazed card (72x54mm) with a die proof of the vignette in bright mauve cut-to-shape & affixed in position. Delightful! View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$380StatusSold SymbolP Lot #410 POSTAGE STAMPS - THE ISSUED STAMPS: ½d to 6d SG 370-373 very fine & fresh blocks of 4, the lower units are very lightly mounted, Cat £1100++. Rare multiples. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$650StatusSold Symbol* Lot #411 ISSUED STAMPS: ½d to 6d SG 370-373 with VF/EF 'EXHIBITION/NZ/CHRISTCHURCH' datestamp, Cat £375. (4 Items). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSold Symbolo Lot #412 ISSUED STAMPS: ½d to 6d, SG 370-373 complete set with VF/EF 'EXHIBITION/NZ/CHRISTCHURCH' datestamp, Cat £375. (4 Items) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSold SymbolO Lot #413 POSTAGE STAMPS - THE UNISSUED PENNY CLARET: 1d claret SG 371a marginal example from the right of the sheet, a few split perfs at the top so the margin has been sensibly reinforced, Cat £8000 (CP $NZ25,000). RPSofL Certificate (1965) as the then SG 425a. View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$13,000StatusSold Symbol* Lot #414 THE ISSUED STAMPS: 3d brown & blue Landing of Captain Cook SG 372 block of 6 (3x2) from the top of the sheet with margins on three sides, hinged in the margins only but all units are unmounted, Cat £330++ (CP $NZ2250++). A rare multiple. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$550StatusSold Symbol** Lot #415 EXHIBITION POSTAL MARKINGS: 'EXHIBITION/NZ/CHRISTCHURCH' datestamp original state x2, State 2 (Back or 'First 'C' of 'CHRISTCHURCH' Broken) x2, State 3 (Further Damage to 'C') x2 & State 4 (Additional Damage to 'N' of 'EXHIBITION') x3, on Exhibition ½d x2, 1d x4 or 3d or 1d Universal x2; plus the first datestamp - see previous lot - with 'EXHIBITION' excised & with 'NZ' Added at the Base. (11 Items) View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolO Lot #416 EXHIBITION POSTAL MARKINGS: Per favour strike of the extremely rare - only 3 examples recorded - 'CHRISTCHURCH/NZ/30OC06 9AM/EXHIBITION' datestamp on 1d Universal on unaddresed P&T Department envelope, central fold well clear of the stamp & postmark. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$600StatusSold SymbolC Lot #417 POSTAL MARKINGS: Manuscript "Registered at" in red & 'CH'CH EXHIBITION' handstamp in green on local long envelope with Coat of Arms embossed on the flap with Exhibition set ½d to 6d tied by 'EXHIBITION/6FE07/CHRISTCHURCH' cds, Christchurch arrival b/s, vertical fold clear of the stamps. Stated to be the olny recorded example of this rubber registration marking. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$550StatusSold SymbolCL Lot #418 PROMOTIONAL POSTER STAMPS: No 1 imperf as usual (no gum), '2' (large-part o.g.), '3' (no gum), '4' (no gum) and '6' x2 (one on paper, the other no gum, most examples are defective from having been attached to Exhibition Art Union lottery tickets, of which an unused example is included); View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSold Symbol* Lot #419 EXHIBITION POSTER STAMPS: Numbers '2' Maori & '3' Kiwi - and '5' Bird, added later - affixed to New South Wales Intelligence Department letterhead to Government Printer suggesting adopting similar labels View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$340StatusSold SymbolL Lot #420 EXHIBITION POSTER STAMPS: Numbers '3' Kiwi & '4' on Empire Hotel (Wellington) envelopes to Sydney, '5' Bird on PPC to NSW with note "This is a sticker that they give away to advertise the Exhibition; not bad are they?" and '7' on 1d Letter Card - unnecessarily with Exhibition 1d added (over the printed stamp) - to Hawaii with message "...What do you think of the Exhibition stamps?...I really prefer the stickers to the stamps..." (4 items). View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$500StatusSold SymbolC PC Lot #421 EXHIBITION POSTCARDS: Nice selection with Webb (& Dutch) Numbers 1, 4, 7, 14 & 15 x2 (one unused), WAP hand-tinted real photo of the Exhibition Buildings unused, Muir & Moodie "stamps" card View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSold SymbolC Lot #422 EXHIBITION LETTER CARDS: Private letter cards with photographs of Lord Plunket, Sir JG Ward and GS Munro on the face & of the Exhibition Buildings on the reverse: 1) to Tasmania, and 2) to South Africa with 'CHRISTIANA' arrival cds on the face. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSold SymbolC Lot #423 EXHIBITION ENVELOPES: Three envelopes with two different illustrated 'NEW ZEALAND/INTERNATIONAL/EXHIBITION/Christchurch NZ' banners in shades of blue & a long envelope with plain 'NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION' imprint at the top, used to Merrivale (very fine), Sydney (very fine), London (faults at the top) or Perth (stained) with facsimile signatures of the Executive Commissioner 'GS Munro' or the Secretary 'EJ Righton', the overseas usages with double-boxed 'CHRISTCHURCH/NEW Z... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$500StatusSold SymbolC/CL Lot #424 MEDALLIONS: Gilt bronze (36mm) milled edge, NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL / EXHIBITION / 1906-1907 / CHRISTCHURCH, reverse King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, EF, scarce. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #425 MEDALLIONS: Exhibit display page with Gilt Cross (23mm) Kiwi Bird, Bronze (23mm) inscribed 'AWARDED TO H PERRY & Co.' x2 and Silver (30mm) 'HOME INDUSTRIES SECTION / AWARDED TO CLARENCE V GRIMMETT', also picture postcard showing Stokes souvenir medals issued at the exhibition."Clarrie" Grimmett (1891 – 1980) was a cricketer; although born in New Zealand, he played most of his cricket in Australia. He is thought by many to be one of the finest early spin bowlers, and usually credited as the... View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$125StatusSold Lot #426 "Gimcracks, Greenstone & Gold - Collecting and Imagining the New Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch 1906-07" by Barry Hancox [Caxton Press, Christchurch, 2006], 256pp; limited edition 077/250, signed and dedicated by the author. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$50StatusSold Lot #427 "First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work, 1907." Official Souvenir Catalogue for the Exhibition which was held at the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, October 23rd to November 30th, 1907". 400 pp.Provenance: Charles Leski Auctions, Auction 192, 13th Dec.2001 Lot 27. On 23 October 1907 some 15,000 people crowded into Melbourne’s Exhibition Building for the opening ceremonies of the Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work by Lady Northcote (the wife of Australia’s Governor General) ... View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$3,400StatusSold SymbolB Lot #428 "First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work, 1907", cloth bound programme, endosed on fly leaf, "Mr.C.R.Long, With the compliments of the Executive, John Grice, Chairman", with 2 lithographed diplomas at back, designed by Ruby Lindsay & Eirene Mort. Cover with some wear, generally good condition.Provenance: Charles Leski Auctions, Auction 230, Feb.2004, Lot 666.The motivation of the Exhibition was educational as well as celebratory. It included a series of lectures and musical concert... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$3,000StatusSold SymbolB Lot #429 EXHIBITION ENVELOPE: Long envelope with 'First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work, Melbourne 1907' imprint at the top, rare usage with ½d only for the unsealed printed matter rate. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold SymbolCL Lot #430 EXHIBITION POSTCARDS: Real photo postcards including "Welcoming Lady Northcote" (the Governor-General's wife), "Post Office", "The Royal Exhibit" & "The Choir", one with very fine strike of the 'EXHIBITION/NO6/07/MELBOURNE -1197' duplex cancellation, also a tinselled souvenir card & Joubert et Joubert "Limerick Competition" card, both unused; generally fine to very fine. (10 Items) View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$460StatusSold SymbolC Lot #431 EXHIBITION DATESTAMP: Real photo postcard "The Choir, Women's Work Exhibition" (very fine), & an unrelated PPC (small faults on the viewside) both with fine to very fine strikes of the 'EXHIBITION/MELBOURNE -1197' duplex cancellation of NO22/07 or NO28/07 (the latest recorded date). [This was the last event at which the duplex was used] (2 Items) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSold SymbolC Lot #432 ADMISSION TICKET: Opening Ceremony ticket for the 1907 First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work on 23rd October for Miss L.M Wise (entrant in the wooden carvings section) in the North Hall. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$260StatusSold SymbolD PC Lot #433 ADVERTISING CARD: Illustrated postcard promoting The Art Furnishing Co. Pty. Ltd, Exhibitors at the 1907 Women's Work Exhibition. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$80StatusSold SymbolD Lot #434 PROGRAMME: Printed Programme (8 pp.) for Saturday 2nd November 1907 Open Air Choral Concert including interesting advertisements and full list of Choir and musicians.Includes details of 2 songs with words written for the Exhibition by Miss Annie Rentoul. View details Estimate$700 - $800Price Realized$350StatusSold SymbolD Lot #435 PROGRAMME: Printed Programme (8 pp.) for Thursday 14th November 1907 Choral Concert with full list of musicians and Choir and advertisements. Fine condition.Provenance: Australian Book Auctions, September 2007, The Berry Collection,Lot 255. View details Estimate$700 - $800Price Realized$350StatusSold SymbolD Lot #436 Norman Lindsay-designed "Bulletin" postcard with cartoon by "Hop" of a gent with a bellyache & caption "...He has been to the Women's Industrial Exhibition, and tasted their cook-ery". Used in Sydney. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold SymbolC Lot #437 CERTIFICATE, "First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work, 1907", Second Class Diploma awarded to Miss A.M.E. Bale for Figure Study in Black & White, window mounted, overall 57x47cm.Alice Marian Ellen Bale (1875-1955), artist, was born on 11 November 1875 at Richmond, Victoria, only child of William Mountier Bale (1851-1940), naturalist and inspector of customs, and his wife Marian, née Adams (d.1915). Alice Bale was enrolled at the Gallery School in 1895, where in the course of her st... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #438 MEDALLIONS: Silver (30mm) 'HIGHEST / AWARD FOR / FRUIT VEGETABLES / MRS THOMAS' minted by Newman, enclosed in jewellers mount, VF. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #439 MEDALLIONS: Green and white enamel fob 'COMMITTEE/ AWWE / 1907' (23mm) by Newman, very rare. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$1,400StatusSold Lot #440 MEDALLIONS: Bronze (30mm) 'HIGHEST / AWARD FOR / WANDS / HAWKSBURN / S.S' by Newman, C#1907/4, EF. View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #441 INVITATION: Opening Ceremony invitation for the Australian Manufacturers and Products Exhibition at the Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, to The Worshipful the Mayor of Richmond held on 27th January 1906. The Exhibition was to be opened by the Governor-General of Australia, Lord Northcote. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold SymbolPC Lot #442 EXHIBITION POSTCARDS: Scarce/rare advertising postcards for Calvert Engineering Co, Buckley & Nunn "Perfecta Shirts" (faults), M Boys Clothing (minor faults) and Ward Brothers View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$600StatusSold SymbolC Lot #443 BROCHURE: Colourful souvenir brochure promoting Wertheim's Art Needlework Exhibit at the 1907/08 Exhibition of Australian Manufactures in Melbourne; plus an advertising card from The Patent Iceberg Sunblind Company who were also exhibitors at this event. (2 items). View details Estimate$100 - $120Price Realized$75StatusSold SymbolD Lot #444 POSTCARDS: Spurling "real photo" of the bustling interior (surface defects at right), Daily Telegraph advertising card for their stand (small edge faults at base & stamp removed), and Examiner of Rowing on the Tamar overprinted with "The New Foods/..." advertising (unused); also 1908 ANA Exhibition (Launceston) HW Grattan multicoloured card (small fault at the base, unused). Very scarce. (4 Items) View details Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSold SymbolC Lot #445 SOUVENIR MINIATURE NEWSPAPERS: 1907 and 1908 Launceston A.N.A. Exhibition souvenir miniature editions of "The Examiner" (1907) and "The Weekly Courier" (1908); (includes 8pp of photographs). (2 items). View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold SymbolD Lot #446 ADVERTISING POSTCARDS: Troedel & Co of Wertheim's Art & Needlework stand at the Exhibition, used at Melbourne; also 1910 Chamber of Manufactures Exhibition card for Wertheim's Sewing Machines used at Adelaide. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$50StatusSold SymbolC Lot #447 SOUVENIR SAMPLE - LAUNCESTON 1908: Complimentary printed sheet being a sample of printimg techniques prepared by "The Weekly Courier" & "The Examiner", features Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, P. Boland, the Mayor & the Exhibition Building in Launceston. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$50StatusSold SymbolD Lot #448 MEDALLIONS: Silver (35mm) 'ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA / J. KITCHEN / & SONS Ltd. /1908' edge inscribed '3RD PRIZE PAIR OF LORRY HORSES', gEF. View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #449 EXHIBITION POSTCARDS: Mounted selection of mostly British cards including 2-panel panorama of the "Elite Gardens", patriotic types by Valentine x3 & Aristophot x2, Australian Pavilion x5 (one an advertising type for John Reid & Sons), the South Australian Court x4, the Olympic Stadium x2, etc, generally fine to very fine. (34 postcards) View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSold SymbolC Lot #450 ADVERTISING POSTCARDS: Mostly British group including beautiful promotional cards for Perrier, Flexible Metallic Tubing Co, Godfrey Phillips, Chateau Livran Claret, Bell Range & Foundry Co, Fuller's Chocolates (airship), Bovril Castle, Electric Supply Co of London, etc, also Cunard card comparing size of "Lusitania" with the Stadium, Australian cards for Emu Brandy, Irvines Burgundies and Burgoyne's Vineyards x6, generally fine to very fine. A deligthful lot. (20 Postcards) View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolC Lot #451 NEW SOUTH WALES AT THE EXHIBITION: "The Mineral Industry in New South Wales" (28pp) & "Coastal New South Wales - The Pacific Littoral" (48pp); pamphlets issued by the Intelligence Department of the Government of New South Wales and aimed at "Intending Emigrants, Settlers, and Tourists"; both with covers incorporating the "FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION, LONDON 1908". Highly ephemeral. (2 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #452 "SEMI-OFFICIAL" POSTCARDS - QUEENSLAND: Government Printer Brisbane - with or without printer's imprint on the address-side - promotional cards comprising monochrome View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$1,200StatusSold SymbolC Lot #453 "SEMI-OFFICIAL" POSTCARDS - TASMANIA: Exhibition cards produced by John Vail, Tasmanian Government Printer with 21 of the 23 recorded scenes, comprising View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSold SymbolC Lot #454 "SEMI-OFFICIAL" POSTCARDS - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Government Lithographer Perth promotional cards in black comprising View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSold SymbolC Lot #455 "SEMI-OFFICIAL" POSTCARDS - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Government Lithographer Perth promotional cards in purple comprising "A New Settlers First Crop", "Orchard at Mt Barker", "The Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie", "...Jarrah Timber...", "Tunnel on Coal Seam..." (used in England AU14/08), "WA Karri...", "We have 8,000,000 acres of Jarrah Forests..." and "Wheat Farm, Wyola", mostly fine to very fine unused. (8 Postcards). View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$320StatusSold SymbolC Lot #456 "SEMI-OFFICIAL" POSTCARDS - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Government Lithographer Perth promotional cards comprising "Tunnel on Coal Seam..." in black, "We have 8,000,000 of Jarrah Forests..." in black, "Wheat Farm, Wyola" in purple and "Young Horses..." in black, all postally used in England & very scarce thus. (4 Postcards). View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$125StatusSold SymbolC Lot #457 SPECIAL SOUVENIR BOOKLET: "Franco-British Exhibition Special Souvenir" [Hudson & Kearns, London] 32pp. featuring photographs of venues and aspects of the Franco British Exhibition 1908, coloured cover and containing advertisements for Exhibitors. Noted P.B.Burgoyne & Co Wines which went on to win a Grand Prize at the Exhibition.The huge Burgoyne vineyard was located at Mt Ophir, near Rutherglen in Victoria. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolL Lot #458 PHOTOGRAPHS, taken by Henry Mobsby, of the Queensland Court at the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition, one titled "Director and Staff, Pagoda Enquiry Office" the other showing flour and cotton displays. (2 items)Mobsby had taken over as official artist and photographer for the Department of Agriculture in 1904 and remained until his retirement in 1930. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #459 Attractive invoice for Swallow and Ariell, Biscuit & Cake Manufacturers dated 6 August 1913 noting their "Gold Medal for Flour at the Franco British Exhibiton, 1908". View details Estimate$100 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #460 POSTCARDS: Advertising card for Castle Salt x2 (one unused; the other used with message "This is refined at Edithburg...we live ten miles from [there]...", also JB Siddall "Settler's Home/Adelaide Exhibition 1910" (unused). (3 Postcards) View details Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSold SymbolC Lot #461 Philatelic usage of KEVII 1/2d Postal Card with KEVII 2d tied & two superb strikes of the rare 'FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE/CRYSTAL/PALACE/26JY11/ 7 /IMPERIAL EXHIBITION' datestamp, superb View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$250StatusSold SymbolC/* Lot #462 EXHIBITION COVER: Illustrated envelope for the Exhibition in Launceston, to Melbourne with Pictorial 1d tied by Launceston machine cancellation. Very scarce. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold SymbolC Lot #463 Victorian Chamber of Manufactures committee badges 'EXHIBITION COMMITTEE 1913' in blue enamel and sterling silver and 'COMMITTEE' in blue enamel and gold gilt. (2 Items) View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Lot #464 ISSUED STAMPS: 1913 ½d to 6d SG 412-415 mint set - the 3d & 6d both unusually well centred - plus 1d block of 4 unmounted mint, and a used set on registered piece with green octagonal 'EXHIBITION/NZ/3DEC1913/AUCKLAND' d/s on the registration label, Cat £1000; plus a page of mostly crude forgeries including double & inverted fantasies. [These stamps were authorised for use only within New Zealand, and to Australia] (29 Items) View details Estimate$500 - $650Price Realized$380StatusSold Symbol*/**o Lot #465 ISSUED STAMPS: 1913 ½d (one lower unit creased) to 6d SG 412-415 complete set in blocks of 4, the 6d unusually well centred, the lower units are unmounted, Cat. £1200++ (CP $NZ3800+). Rare multiples. (4 blocks). View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Symbol*/** Lot #466 ISSUED STAMPS: ½d to 6d, SG 412-415, the 3d is unusually well centred, all cancelled with the Exhibition cds, Cat £600 (CP $NZ1660). (4 Items). View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$380StatusSold Symbolo Lot #467 EXHIBITION DATESTAMP: 'EXHIBITION/NZ/3DE13/AUCKLAND' cds tying Exhibition ½d to 6d + 1d Universal to Central Hotel Auckland envelope to NSW with Sydney arrival b/s of DE9-1913. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$250StatusSold SymbolC Lot #468 EXHIBITION DATESTAMP: 'EXHIBITION/NZ/22AU14/AUCKLAND' cds tying Exhibition 1/2d to 6d - Cat £600+ - to Post & Telegraph Department envelope to Central Hotel Auckland, very fine. [The Exhibition closed officially on 18.4.1914, but the Post Office closed a week later, on 25.4.1914] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$500StatusSold SymbolC Lot #469 EXHIBITION DATESTAMP: 'EXHIBITION/NZ/22AU14/AUCKLAND' cds tying Exhibition ½d to 6d - Cat £600+ - to Exhibition envelope with 'Auckland Industrial, Agricultural, and Mining Exhibition/...' imprint at the top & Exhibition crest in blue on the flap, light vertical fold at left otherwise fine. The only example of this envelope we have seen: absent from Len Jury's collection. View details Estimate$1,250 - $1,500Price Realized$625StatusSold SymbolC Lot #470 REGISTRATION DATESTAMP: Octagonal 'EXHIBITION/NZ/23DEC1913/AUCKLAND' d/s in green (as usual) on registration label, on OHMS cover to Melbourne with Exhibition 3d SG 414 tied by 'AUCKLAND/REGISTERED' cds, minor bends & the flap has been removed. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$250StatusSold SymbolC Lot #471 REGISTRATION DATESTAMP: Octagonal 'EXHIBITION/NZ/13JAN1914/AUCKLAND' d/s in green (as usual) on registration label, on OHMS cover to Victoria with Exhibition 3d SG 414 tied by 'EXHIBITION/AUCKLAND' cds, 'WONTHAGGI' arrival b/s, very fine. [The rate was 1d + 2d registration] View details Estimate$600 - $750Price Realized$300StatusSold SymbolC Lot #472 MACHINE SLOGAN CANCELLATIONS: Part-wrapper with Exhibition ½d and local cover with Exhibition 1d pair both with 'EXHIBITION BUILDINGS/AUCKLAND NZ' machine, also cover to Sydney with Exhibition ½d x2 and cover to Dunedin with 1d Universal both with 'EXHIBITION OPENS AUCKLAND DEC 1913' slogan machine, fine to very fine. (4 Items) View details Quantity4Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolC Lot #473 LAST DAY COVERS: Exhibition ½d to 6d SG 412-415 tied to separate covers by 'EXHIBITION/NZ/18AP14/AUCKLAND' cds, the 3d & 6d covers with octagonal 'EXHIBITION/NZ/18APR1914/AUCKLAND d/s in violet (rare) or green on registration labels and both with Auckland arrival b/s, a few blemishes. A rare "set". View details Quantity4Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$500StatusSold SymbolC Lot #474 PUBLICITY LABELS: Rouletted multicoloured se-tenant strip of the five different designs affixed to thin backing card otherwise very fine, Dave Heslop Cat $NZ750. A complete strip and the only one known. View details Quantity7Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$460StatusSold Symbol(*) Lot #475 PUBLICITY LABELS: Rouletted multicoloured designs Flag, Bridge & Coat-of-Arms plus perforated Flag design, no gum but very fine, Dave Heslop Cat $NZ600. [Heslop doesn't distinguish between rouletted & perforated labels. We believe the perforated labels are scarcer]. (4 Items). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSold Symbol(*) Lot #476 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS: ½d "CHIEF POST OFFICE..." (unused), 1d "CUSTOMS STREET..." (unused), ½d "GENERAL VIEW OF EXHIBITION..." (with Exhibition ½d affixed, unused), 1d "FISH-PONDS AND ENTRANCE..." (unused), and "QUEEN STREET..." (used to NSW with 'EXHIBITION OPENS' slogan, two filing holes) in black (the last) or purple-brown (irregular on the 1/2d cards). three feature Trams, some soiling &/or minor defects; also fine unused real photo postcards "Opening Ceremony..."Palace of Indus... View details Quantity16Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$500StatusSold SymbolPS/C Lot #477 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - HALFPENNY GREEN with VIEWS IN BLACK: Samuel #AB3a(b) "AUCKLAND DOMAIN, SHOWING HOSPITAL", fine unused. This is a beautiful issue of Postal Cards. There were 20 different views in both values. Robert Samuel states that 40,800 of the ½d & only half that number of the 1d were issued. Even without having regard to the view, they are very scarce. It is telling that Robert Samuel's vast collection included only eleven ½d & eight 1d cards. In Volume IX of t... View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #478 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - HALFPENNY GREEN with VIEWS IN BLACK: Samuel #AB3a(f) "CHIEF POST OFFICE, QUEEN STREET, FROM FERRY BUILDINGS" (busy street scene with trams & horse-drawn vehicles), fine unused. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #479 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - HALFPENNY GREEN with VIEWS IN BLACK: Samuel #AB3b(f) "CHIEF POST OFFICE, QUEEN STREET, FROM FERRY BUILDINGS" unusually in purple-brown, to Deveonport with light strike of the 'NGARUAWAHIA/3FE/14/NZ' datestamp. [Used Auckland Exhibition cards are even scarcer than unused examples] View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$460StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #480 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - HALFPENNY GREEN with VIEWS IN BLACK: Samuel #AB3a(i) "GENERAL VIEW OF EXHIBITION FROM FISH-PONDS", faint stains on the address side otherwise very fine unused. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$340StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #481 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - HALFPENNY GREEN with VIEWS IN BLACK: Samuel #AB3a(j) "ALBERT PARK, AUCKLAND, SHOWING GUNS WHICH WERE IN ACTION AT WATERLOO", fine unused. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #482 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - HALFPENNY GREEN with VIEWS IN BLACK: Samuel #AB3a(k) "REMUERA AND AUCKLAND HARBOUR FROM ONE TREE HILL", FINE UNUSED. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold Symbolps Lot #483 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - HALFPENNY GREEN with VIEWS IN BLACK: Samuel #AB3a(L) "CORNER OF SHELLEY BEACH, AUCKLAND", a couple of very minor blemishes, to Marlborough with 'EXHIBITION/...' cds of 17FE14. [This view was not illustrated by Robert Samuels] View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #484 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - HALFPENNY GREEN with VIEWS IN BLACK: Samuel #AB3a(o) "MAIN ENTRANCE TO AUCKLAND EXHIBITION" (vertical), to Mount Eden with superb 'EXHIBITION/...' cds of 24JA14. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #485 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - HALFPENNY GREEN with VIEWS IN BLACK: Samuel #AB3a(s) "SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW, AUCKLAND DOMAIN", fine unused. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #486 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - PENNY RED with VIEWS IN PURPLE-BROWN: Samuel #AB4a(d) "YACHTS ON AUCKLAND HARBOUR", minor blemishes, unused. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSold Symbolps Lot #487 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - PENNY RED with VIEWS IN PURPLE-BROWN: Samuel #AB4a(g) "QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND" (bustling street scene with trams), very fine unused. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #488 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - PENNY RED with VIEWS IN PURPLE-BROWN: Samuel #AB4a(i) "GENERAL VIEW OF EXHIBITION FROM FISH-PONDS", to Christchurch with 'EXHIBITION OPENS...' slogan cancellation of FE24-1914 View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #489 EXHIBITION POSTAL CARDS - PENNY RED with VIEWS IN PURPLE-BROWN: Samuel #AB4a(j) "ALBERT PARK, AUCKLAND, SHOWING GUNS WHICH WERE IN ACTION AT WATERLOO", unused. View details Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$300StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #490 EXHIBITION POSTAGE STAMPS: USA 1c green to 10c orange & 10c yellow Scott #400A, 2c no gum; others with hinge remainders, Cat $US425; also "Cinderellas" comprising a setenant block of 8 different poster stamps and three other labels. (16 Items) View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Symbol*/(*) Lot #491 MACHINE POSTMARKS: 1914-15 envelopes x2 & postcards x7 with Exposition slogan cancellations from San Francisco '2' & '3', Oakland, Sacramento & Stockton - all California - plus View details Quantity14Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold SymbolC/PS Lot #492 WASHINGTON STATE PAVILION: Envelope with 'Washington State Building/Panama-Pacific...' imprint on the flap - which is folded to the address side - and all-over illustration on the reverse of the building, to New Zealand with Exhibition slogan cancel of OCT8/1915 from Alameda Ca. View details Quantity1Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold SymbolC Lot #493 AUSTRALIAN PAVILION: Kangaroo 1d Wrapper with 'The Mercury/NEWSPAPER ONLY/...' heading with roneo'd address "The Sec Australian Pavilion/Panama-Pacific Internat Exhibition/..." intruding on the stamp impression, concealed opening fault. BW: WS2. The only known example. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$2,200StatusSold SymbolPS Lot #494 PROMOTIONAL POSTCARDS: Postcards produced to promote the Australian Pavilion at the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition x2 plus State issues with NSW Map x2 (one with San Francisco Expo machine cancel number '2'), and Victoria "Garden State" types x6 all with immigration propaganda printed in red on the address side; also two American Expo cards. Scarce group. (12 Items) View details Quantity35Estimate$350 - $400StatusUnsold SymbolC Lot #495 PROMOTIONAL POSTCARDS: Postcards produced to promote the Australian Pavilion at the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition State issues for Queensland with Green Borders, all different including "Barron Falls", "Pearling Fleet, Thursday Island", View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold SymbolC Items per page 102550100 Previous|123456|Next Previous 123456 Next Previous 123456 Next
