AUSTRALIAN & HISTORICAL (#504) 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 701-800 of 1486. Previous|1...67891011...15|Next123456789101112131415 Lot 696 ERIC NICHOLLS bible chair from the Men's Fellowship Room, Wesleyan Methodist Church, Kew, Australian hardwood and leatherette, circa 1919. Rare. 104cm high View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot 697 An antique Australian ash bureau with fiddleback paneled doors and bureau fall front, fitted interior with wool writing surface above a single drawer and cupboard base, circa 1920, 123cm high, 77cm wide, 40cm deep View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot 698 A pair of Tasmanian blackwood carver chairs with splat backs, scroll arms, cabriole style legs and floral needlework decorated drop-in seats, early 20th century, 110cm high, 63cm across the arms View details Quantity2Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot 699 An Australian blackwood pedestal with square top, conforming moulded plinth base and finely reeded trunk, circa 1920, 102cm high, 29.5cm wide, 29.5cm deep View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot 700 A vintage Australian hardwood magazine trough with Queensland silky oak secondary timbers, mid 20th century, 61cm high, 76cm wide, 21cm deep View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 701 SCHULIM KRIMPER (attributed) vintage Australian blackbean sideboard on brass legs, mid 20th century, 92cm high, 230cm wide, 43cm deep View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$3,000StatusSold Lot 702 Australian huon pine double bay open bookcase with fully adjustable shelves, flanking pilasters, moulded top, conforming plinth base and bun feet, 20th century, 107cm high, 184cm wide, 38.5cm deep View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$1,300StatusSold Lot 703 JOHN MONASH'S AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, burgundy leather binding with gilt rules, overall 19 x 13.5cm, with hundreds of tipped-in or written signatures, many with additional greetings or messages in the hand of the signatory. A loose-leaf typed index dated 27/4/31 is inserted at the front and in the majority of cases, Monash has added details, titles, etc. in pencil. A truly remarkable personal record of the great men and women of the late 19th Century and early 20th Century. View details Estimate$10,000 - $20,000Price Realized$20,000StatusSold Lot 704 "John Monash" undated signature to the title page of "The Planetary and Stellar Worlds..." by O.M. Mitchel and James Glaisher, [London : James Blackwood & Co.,] 240pp + adverts., Endorsed to blank front end paper "A new exploration for Johnny. Melbourne 27 June 1878." Although in rather dilapidated condition, a gift received by John Monash on the occasion of his barmitzvah - his thirteenth birthday - at East Melbourne Synagogue. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot 705 JOHN MONASH'S FIRST PRIZE FOR MATHEMATICS AT SCOTCH COLLEGE, 1880: ADAM SMITH, "An Inquiry into the nature and causes of the WEALTH OF NATIONS", [London : Ward, Lock, & Co., 782pp; green leather binding with gilt; Scotch College Melbourne emblem to front cover. With 16th December, 1880 Scotch College First Prize label affixed to inside front cover: "Mathematics, Sixth Class, Awarded to J. Monash" View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,800StatusSold Lot 706 A seven-page typed LETTER FROM MONASH TO HIS DAUGHTER, BERTHA: dated 6th July 1906. Bertha, thirteen years old, is about to embark on a train journey and her father has written an extensive letter with much detail about where she will be, when and with whom: "6.45am You will leave Spencer Street while it is still quite dark, but it is fortunate that the first 20 miles of your journey are very uninteresting.- At about 7.30, when you look out to the East, you will be able to watch the sun... View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot 707 A two-page typed letter from John Monash to his daughter, Bertha, dated July 23rd 1906. "Dear Bert", he writes, "I am just sending you a few lines so that you may have a definite guide as to what to do on your return journey.....About 9.30 or 10 it will be time to go to the Railway Station at Swan Hill with Capt. Cantwell and ask him to make you snug in a first class corridor Ladies compartment...", "you get to Bendigo at 6.10pm, and you will no doubt find me on the Bendigo platform waiting... View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot 708 "J. Monash" undated signature to blank front end paper of "The Food of the Gods and How it came to Earth" by H.G. Wells, [London : Thomas Nelson & Sons.,], 287pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot 709 "John Monash" undated signature to blank front end paper of "Nonsense Novels" by Stephen Leacock, [London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, 3rd ed.], 231pp + adverts. Endorsed below Monash's signature "With love from Mat, 27/6/13" and with a tipped-in signed letter from the author (May 1923) at McGill University, Ontario. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot 710 "John Monash July 1914" dated signatures on the title pages of two volumes from the Everyman's Library - namely, "Huxley's Essays" and "Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress", [London : J.M. Dent & Sons], 2 vols. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot 711 "John Monash June 1914" dated signature to blank front end paper of "The Divina Commedia of Dante Aligheri" translated by Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia), [Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912], 1st ed., 525pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot 712 "John Monash July 1914" dated signature to decorated front endpaper of "A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books and other Satires" by Jonathan Swift, [Melbourne : E.W.Cole] 325pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 713 "John Monash July 1914" dated signature to decorated front endpaper of "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, [London : J.M. Dent & Sons, 1912] 280pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 714 "John Monash June 1914" dated signature to decorated front end paper of "Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination", [Melbourne : E.W. Cole], 518pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot 715 "John Monash July 1914" dated signature to decorated front end paper of "The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane" by Alain-Rene Lesage, [Melbourne : E.W. Cole, 1909]. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot 716 World War One period Officer's collapsible cup, with engraved details "Col. J. Monash. Commanding 4th Infantry Brigade, Aust. Imperial Force." 80mm high (fully extended). View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Price Realized$11,000StatusSold Lot 717 GASC'S LOCKET FRENCH DICTIONARY the "Smallest French & English Dictionary" contained in a small metal locket with window front, [David Bryce & Sons], vii,648(1) printed pages. Printed on fine india paper. Last printed page covers English coins and measurements. Accompanied by a card with notations in Monash's hand "French - English Dictionary captured from a Turkish Officer Aug 6/7 - 1915". A personal relic of John Monash's time at Gallipoli. View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$1,600StatusSold Lot 718 A SKETCH BY MONASH - NORTHERN FRANCE, 1917 John Monash (1865 - 1931), Untitled sketch in Northern France, pen and ink on card, initialled "JM" and dated Dec/17 at lower right, 12 x 19cm; framed 27 x 33cm overall. View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$3,600StatusSold Lot 719 A SKETCH BY MONASH - NORTHERN FRANCE, 1917 John Monash (1865 - 1931), Ruins of Church at Neuve Eglise pencil on paper, initialled "JM" and dated July/17 at lower left, 21 x 14cm overall. View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$2,400StatusSold Lot 720 ARTHUR STREETON VISITS MONASH'S HEADQUARTERS AT LA CATEAU IN NOVEMBER 1918 ARTHUR ERNEST STREETON (1867 - 1943), "La Cateau", watercolour, signed and endorsed "A. STREETON / LA CATEAU 1918" at lower right, 36 x 54cm; framed 59 x 76cm overall. Provenance: A gift from Streeton to Monash as a token of gratitude; the family, by descent. View details Estimate$50,000 - $80,000Price Realized$42,000StatusSold Lot 721 "John Monash, Bournmouth Dec 25 / 18" dated signature on blank front endpaper of "Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" by Stephen Leacock, [London : John Lane, The Bodley Head], 304pp + adverts. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot 722 DORA OHLFSEN (1877 - 1948), LT. GEN. SIR JOHN MONASH. G.C.M.G., K.G.B., D.C.L., L.L.D. GALLIPOLI. MESSINES. PASCHENDALE. AMIENS. HAMEL. PERONNE. BULLICOURT. 1914 - 1919, large brass medallion with Monash's profile and text in relief, signed DORA OHLFSEN, LONDON 1919" at base, 27cm diameter. View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Price Realized$52,000StatusSold Lot 723 "John Monash Nov / 1920" dated signature to blank title page of "Lays of Ancient Rome with Troy and The Armada" by Lord Macaulay [London : Longman, Green, & Co., 1887], 191pp incl plates. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot 724 LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR JOHN MONASH, "The Australian Victories in France in 1918", [London : Hutchinson & Co., 2nd ed.], 352pp + maps, plates; endorsed in pen to front blank endpaper "To Capt. Gershon Bennett with sincerest regards from John Monash, 18/9/20". Gershon Bennett (Berendt) would marry Monash's daughter, Bertha, in 1921. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$2,000StatusSold Lot 725 "John Monash March 1920" dated signature on the blank title page of "Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon" [Melbourne : A.H. Massina & Co., 1894], 354pp, blue half-leather binding with gilt decorations. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot 726 "John Monash Dec / 20" dated signature to blank title page of Vol.1 of "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" by Tobias Smollett, [London : George Routledge & Sons; 1890], 2 volumes. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 727 "John Monash Jany / 1920" dated signature to blank front endpaper of "Tanks 1914-1918 The Log-Book of a Pioneer" by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Albert G. Stern, [London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1919], 1st ed., 298pp + photo plate. A presentation copy with tipped in dedication dated Feb.14, 1921: "To General Sir John Monash, under whose command the Tanks had their greatest success. This was due to the opportunities given them and the successful cooperation of the infantry with them..... View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$1,700StatusSold Lot 728 TWO PIECES THAT HAVE SURVIVED of the dinner service purchased by Monash for use at his home, "Iona"; a lidded teapot and a lidded sugar jar, both bearing the ornate gilt "M" monogram that adorned the whole service. The teapot 25cm high; the sugar jar 16cm. (2 items). View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot 729 SIR IAN HAMILTON, "Gallipoli Diary" in two volumes, [London : Edward Arnold, 1920], 387pp + maps, plates, etc; and, 350pp + adverts., maps, plates, etc. Vol.2 with "John Monash Nov / 20" dated signature to blank endpaper; Vol.1 with a tipped-in dedication: "For my friend General Sir John Monash in memory of the hard struggle at the Dardanelles - a struggle which brought out his sterling qualities and set the stamp upon him as a great leader of men, From Ian Hamilton, 23 - 2 - 21." View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$2,400StatusSold Lot 730 GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, "Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch", [London ; Constable & Co., 1921, 1st ed.], 267pp. signed "John Monash Nov / 1921" to front blank title page. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot 731 GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, "The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet", [London ; Constable & Co., 1911, 2nd impression.], 408pp. signed "John Monash" to front blank title page. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot 732 "John Monash March /22" dated signature to the blank front endpaper of "The Decameron or Ten Days Entertainment of Boccaccio", [Sign of the Caryatid], 553pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 733 "John Monash Nov / 1923" dated signature to blank front endpaper of "Descriptive Astronomy" by Forest Ray Moulton [Chicago : American Technical Society], 1920, 250pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot 734 "John Monash Dec /23" dated signature to the blank front endpaper of "Tannhauser and The Mastersingers of Nuremberg", [London : Methuen & Co., 1912], 162pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot 735 VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON (1879 - 1962), "Hunters of the Great North", [London : George G. Harrap & Co., 1st ed., 1923], 288pp + plates & maps, signed "John Monash Nov / 1923" to blank front endpaper. Additionally, with a tipped-in signed letter from the author to Monash, headed Menzie's Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria, June 13, 1924. "Dear Sir John,.....I hear I am to have the pleasure of meeting you at least once. I look forward to that opportunity and hope there will be more of them." View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot 736 "With loving regards to Bert, Gersh & John, from the Author, John Monash. Aug 6 / 23" inscription to blank front end paper of "The Australian Victories in France in 1918" by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash, [Melbourne : The Lothian Book Publishing Co., 2nd Revised Edition, 1923], card covers, 323pp + adverts. Bert[ha], Monash's daughter, Gersh[on], her husband and John, their son, born in 1922. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$950StatusSold Lot 737 Dated hand-written dedication "To the Vice - Chancellor of the University, Sir John Monash, from Stephen H. Roberts. Aug. 8, 1924" on the blank front end paper of Robert's book "History of Australian Land Settlement (1788 - 1920)", [Melbourne : MacMillan and Co., with Melbourne University Press, 1st ed. 1924], 428pp + plates. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot 738 NORMAN LINDSAY (1879 - 1969), "Pen Drawings", [Sydney : Arthur McQuitty & Co., 1924], folio, quarter vellum, limited edition of 500, this being No.54, signed in pen by Norman Lindsay, and dated "Nov / 1924" in Monash's characteristic style. With an introduction by Francis Crossle and twelve plates. View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot 739 "John Monash Dec /1925" dated signature to blank front endpaper of "The Origins of the War of 1870..." by Richard Howard Lord, [Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1924] 305pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 740 THE GEELONG PEACE MEMORIAL: A 15ct gold letter opener in the shape of a presentation sword with the Australian Military Forces Coat-of-Arms applied to the decorative hilt; the blade inscribed on one side "PRESENTED TO LIEUT GENERAL SIR JOHN MONASH. G.C.M.G - K.C.B - V.D - ETC." and on the reverse "ON THE OCCASION OF UNVEILING THE TABLETS GEELONG - PEACE - MEMORIAL 31 - 10 - 1926", made by HAMMERTONS of GEELONG with their markers mark to the hilt. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Price Realized$4,200StatusSold Lot 741 "John Monash Oct / 26" dated signatures on the title pages of two volumes from the Everyman's Library - namely, "Huxley's Lectures and Lay Sermons" and "Caesar's Commentaries", [London : J.M. Dent & Sons], 2 vols. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot 742 "John Monash Aug / 26" dated signatures to the blank front end papers of both volumes of "Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men...translated by John and William Landhorne", [London : Chatto and Windus, 1878]; 584pp + 548pp + adverts. (2 vols.). The blank end papers further endorsed "from Sir H. Allen's Library" in Monash's hand. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot 743 "John Monash Aug / 1926" undated signatures to blank front end papers of both volumes of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman & A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy" by Laurence Sterne, [London : Macmillan and Co., 1st ed., 1900], 368pp + adverts., 378pp + adverts. (2 vols.). View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot 744 "John Monash Nov / 1926" dated signature to the blank front end paper of "Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania" by Hardy Wilson, [Sydney : Union House, 1924], 10, iii, [+50 plates], signed by the author; limited edition No.891 of 1000. Patterned card boards and cloth spine, with gilt lettering to both and gilt decoration to boards. In original slipcase. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$950StatusSold Lot 745 "John Monash May 1927" dated signature to blank front endpaper of "The Boy's Book of Magic" by Hereward Carrington, [London : George Routledge & Sons.] 284pp. (Some water stains/defects). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot 746 "John Monash Oct /27" dated signature to blank front endpaper of "A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the most notorious Highwaymen footpads, shoplifts, & cheats of both sexes..." by Captain Alexander Smith, [London : George Routledge & Sons,1926] 607pp + plates. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot 747 "John Monash Sept 27" dated signature to blank front end paper of "Popular Fallacies Explained and Corrected" by A.S.E. Ackermann. [London : The Old Westminster Press, 1924.], 984pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 748 "John Monash March / 1927" dated signature to blank front end paper of "Kaiser Wilhelm II" by Emil Ludwig, [London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 4th impression 1926], 459pp + plates. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot 749 "John Monash August / 1928" dated signature to blank front end paper of "Life in the Stars" by Sir Francis Younghusband, [London : John Murray, 2nd ed. 1928], 222pp + plates + adverts. With a tipped-in dedication "In admiration of the Australian Corps, November 1918. The finest fighting force the world has ever seen." Francis Younghusband, October 1928. The book is further enhanced by a tipped-in two page letter from the author to Monash.... View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$440StatusSold Lot 750 PERCIVAL (PERCY) ISRAEL WHITE (1885 - 1967), Portrait of John Monash Bennett, pencil, charcoal, Indian white on card, endorsed "With P.I. White's compliments 1929", 36 x 26cm. John Monash Bennett, born 10 May 1922, died March 1929. View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot 751 "John Monash July / 29" dated signature on blank front page of "Callinicus - A Defence of Chemical Warfare" by J.B.S. Haldane, [London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1925]. With an additional notation in Monash's hand "See pages 24/5" "....If one goes to what is, perhaps, the opposite extreme from Russia, one finds the army of the World's most democratic nation, Australia, commanded by a Jew, Monash, and notes with interest that the Germans regarded the Australian troops as.... View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot 752 "John Monash June 27 / 29" dated signature to blank front endpaper of "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque (translated by A,W. Wheen) [London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929] 320pp., with contemporary newspaper cuttings tipped-in front and rear. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot 753 "John Monash July / 1929" dated signature to blank front end paper of "Great Modern British Plays" selected by J.W. Marriott, [London : George G. Harrap & Co., 1929], 1083pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 754 "John Monash Oct / 29" dated signature to blank front endpaper of "A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pirates......" by Captain Charles Johnson, [London : George Routledge & Sons,1926] 603pp + plates. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot 755 "John Monash Sept. / 29" dated signature to blank front end paper of "Three Plays" by Luigi Pirandello, [London : J.M. Dent & Sons, 1927], 233pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 756 A HAND-WRITTEN LETTER FROM MONASH TO HIS DAUGHTER, BERTHA: dated Jan'y 19, 1929 and on "Iona" letterhead, Monash writes about his regrets in not being with "Bert" on her birthday "owning to our respective peregrinations...."; he signs off "your affectionate Daddy, John Monash". View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot 757 JOHN MONASH CONSULTING ENGINEER brass sign (15.5 x 53.5cm) made by C.G. Roeszler & Son., 264 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, with their imprint at lower right. The sign was removed from the building in which Monash had his office. View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$10,000StatusSold Lot 758 A Pitcairn Island palmwood walking stick with clenched fist handle. A somewhat faded contemporary label in Monash's hand reads "This stick was presented to me by Mr. Kosky of Rabaul on 6 - 3 - 30. It was made from a ....Palm on Pitcairn Island by a descendent of the Bounty crew". 94cm long. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$2,200StatusSold Lot 759 "John Monash Oct / 1930" dated signature on blank front page of volume one of "The Canterbury Tales", [Edinburgh : James Nichol], 1860, 3 volumes. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot 760 "John Monash Apl. / 1930" dated signature to blank title page of "A Greater than Napoleon ; Scipio Africanus" by Captain B.H. Liddell Hart [London : William Blackwood & Sons., 1928], 282pp + plates. A two-page hand-written note from Liddell Hart on Army & Navy Club, Pall Mall letterhead is affixed to the inside front cover. Dated 4.5.'30 View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot 761 "John Monash Feby / 1930" dated signature to the blank front end paper of "Houdini - His Life Story" by Harold Kellock, [London : William Heinemann Limited, 1st ed. 1928], 379pp + plates. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot 762 "John Monash June / 1930" dated signature to blank front end paper of "Rabelais by Anatole France..." translated by Ernest Boyd, [London : Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1st ed.,1929], 285pp incl. plates. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot 763 "John Monash July / 1930" dated signature to blank front end paper of "The Pleasant Memoirs of the Marquis de Bradomin.." translated by May Heywood Brown & Thomas Walsh, [London : Constable & Co., 1st ed.], 316pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot 764 "John Monash July / 1930" dated signature to blank front end paper of "The Edgar Wallace Police Van" as reported by Edgar Wallace, [London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1st ed.], 1166pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 765 "John Monash July / 1930" dated signature to blank front end paper of "The Scarlet Pimpernel ; Four Complete Novels in One Volume" by Baroness Orczy, [London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1st ed., 1930], 1279pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 766 "John Monash Aug / 1930" dated signature to blank front end paper of "Stonewall Jackson - The Good Soldier" by Allen Tate, [London : Cassell & Co., 1st ed., 1930], 322pp + plates. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 767 "John Monash March / 1930" dated signature to blank front end paper of "Eighty-Two Illustrations on Steel, Stone, and Wood. by Geo. Cruikshank", [London : William Tegg, 1870, first edition thus] View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot 768 A HAND-WRITTEN LETTER FROM MONASH TO HIS DAUGHTER, BERTHA: dated June (in error) 22, 1930 and on "Iona" letterhead; Monash writes to wish her happy birthday and he signs off "With much love, Dad". View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot 769 A HAND-WRITTEN LETTER FROM MONASH TO HIS DAUGHTER, BERTHA: dated 29/12/30 and headed "Iona"; Monash writes to ask for "Bert's" advice about the best way to transport his "white military helmet, peaked forage cap and two felt hats" as well as additional headwear he "shall be getting in Bombay". Should he "buy a roomy ladies' hat box.......and what ought I to pay for such a hat box?"; he signs off "yours affectionately, John Monash". View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot 770 A carved blackwood lidded pot, with silver plaque affixed under the lid: "GENERAL SIR JOHN MONASH, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. from the COUNCIL OF THE WORKING MENS COLLEGE. 23 - 7 - 31.", 17cm high, 16cm wide. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,900StatusSold Lot 771 "John Monash April / 1931" dated signature to blank front end paper of "The Apple Cart : a Political Extravaganza" by George Bernard Shaw, [London : Constable and Co., 1930, 1st edition], 78pp. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 772 A POEM WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF JOHN MONASH William A. Tainsh (1880 - 1967), "The Last Parade", A three stanza tribute to Monash, composed by Tainsh, with his name and dated 1931 at lower right, pen and red and black ink on vellum, framed 40 x 32.5cm overall. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot 773 ROY CECIL HODGKINSON (1911-1993), Untitled sketch of Monash reviewing Australian troops marching past his vantage point, pen and indian ink on paper, signed and endorsed lower right, "Mrs Gershon Bennett, with compliments, R. Hodgkinson, '34", 36 x 47cm; framed 38 x 50cm overall. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,600StatusSold Lot 774 A PRAYER BOOK (T'filat La'derech) PRINTED BY JOHN MONASH'S GRANDFATHER IN 1868, WITH PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION TO COLIN BENNETT, MONASH'S GRANDSON, IN 1942 A pocket-sized prayer book (Prayers for the Road, being the order of prayers for the whole year), printed in the town of Krotoschin (near Breslau, then in Prussia, now Wroclaw, in Poland), by B.L. Monasch & Co., 1868. With a hand-written dedication on the inside of the front cover "To Colin Bennett at the day of his Barmitzvah...." View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$4,200StatusSold Lot 775 Plaque presented to John Monash’s daughter, Bertha Bennett, on the occasion of the commissioning of Australian Army ship 'John Monash' (AS 3051) in 1965. 20.5 x 18cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,400StatusSold Lot 776 ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR THE $100 JOHN MONASH POLYMER BANKNOTE, 1996 LYELL LANCE DOLAN (b.1942) Sir John Monash, pencil on card, signed and dated '96 at lower right, 34 x 31cm; framed 56 x 50.5cm overall. Dolan's original artwork for the $100 Monash/Melba polymer banknote issued in 1996. It was presented to the Monash family by the Reserve Bank of Australia on the occasion of the release of the new banknotes. View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$5,500StatusSold Lot 777 An antique percussion cap coat pistol with Tower Proof crown mark to lock, early to mid 19th century, 32cm long View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot 778 An antique octagonal barrel, single shot muzzle load percussion cap pistol by Barnett of London, early 19th century, 36cm long View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot 779 An antique, flint-lock pistol in relic condition, 18th/19th century, 45cm long View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot 780 Officer's red dress tunic and accoutrements, displayed on shop mannequin. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot 781 VICTORIAN VOLUNTEERS REGIMENT (FITZROY), 1860 LANCASTER SAPPERS & MINERS CARBINE. Lock marked "Lancaster" with crown, butt plate stamped "344 V.V." for Victorian Volunteers, and further stamped "F" for Fitzroy. Note: Lancasters were unique to the Colony of Victoria and were often used by the volunteer regiments, and had a reduced oval bore of .568 calibre. 123.5cm long. No License required. View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$2,200StatusSold Lot 782 LANCASTER SWORD BAYONET, 1855 Pattern (Ordinance Model), used with the VICTORIAN VOLUNTEERS REGIMENT, with original leather and brass scabbard, 73cm long View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot 783 BOER WAR ERA powder horn with engraved map of Australia and crossed Martini Henry rifles with British flag in the background; leather fittings. 30cm long View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot 784 "BALLARAT'S REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE TRANSVAAL" rare lithographed display with photographic portraits of members of the 3rd Battalion, and K Company Mounted Rifles, housed in original period framed with gilt slip and glass, 67 x 57cm overall View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot 785 NEW ZEALAND WAR Medals, undated and unnamed. (3). View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot 786 SECOND NEW ZEALAND WAR Medal, dated 1861 to 1866, unnamed. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 787 SECOND NEW ZEALAND WAR Medal, undated 1861 but named to 1279 PTE. T. FINN. 2 Bn. 14th FOOT. The 14th was based at Queenstown in Cork, Ireland when in 1860 the second battalion travelled to Auckland, to fight in the New Zealand Wars. Upon arrival, one detachment was sent to Napier and another to Wellington. The regiment was present at the siege of Te Arei, and served thereafter in Taranaki. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot 788 VICTORIA VOLUNTEER FORCES: Long and Efficient Service Medal, 1881-1893 (type 1) named to T. MOODY and dated 1880. (Lacks suspender and clasp). Private T. Moody had served with the Carlton Rifle Corp. His medal was awarded on 26th January 1881. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot 789 VICTORIA VOLUNTEER FORCES: Long and Efficient Service Medal, 1881-1893 (type 1) named to F.L. MAILLARD and dated 1880. (Lacks suspender and clasp). View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot 790 The EGYPT MEDAL to an AUSTRALIAN serving in SUDAN: silver, with 1882 dated reverse; engraved to PT W. WILLIAMS - N.S.W. CONTINGENT. with non-original mount. Private William J. Williams (Service No.454), born in Cornwall, was a seaman, embarking on the SS Iberia in March 1885 and returned to Sydney on the SS Arab in June 1885. View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot 791 VICTORIA VOLUNTEER FORCES: Long and Efficient Service Medal, 1881-1893 (type 1) named to S.C. LEWIS and dated 1883. (Lacks suspender and clasp). View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot 792 The EGYPT MEDAL to an AUSTRALIAN serving in SUDAN: silver, with undated reverse; engraved to 1018. GUN: G. TAYLOR. N.S.W. ARTY: with clasp added, to be worn as a badge. Taylor was a member of the New South Wales contingent of volunteers who "answered the Empire's call" following the spread of the Anglo-Egyptian war into the Sudan. It was the first foreign engagement for troops from the Australian Colonies. View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot 793 The QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL, with TRANSVAAL and SOUTH AFRICA 1902 clasps; named to 409 PTE C.W. ROUSE. AUST. COM: H. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot 794 The QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL, named to 233 CORL. H. TREDREA, VIC: MTD: RIFLES. Henry TREDREA was a member of the 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles Contingent View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot 795 The QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL, with clasps for ORANGE FREE STATE and TRANSVAAL; named to 1907 TPR: H. McBRIDE. N.S. WALES M.R. Hugh McBRIDE was a member of the 3rd New South Wales Mounted Rifles Contingent. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$400StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...67891011...15|Next123456789101112131415 Previous 123456789101112131415 Next Previous 123456789101112131415 Next
