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Previous|1|Next Lot #333 Twelve assorted antique Spanish pieces of eight silver coinage in varying states, 18th century, 90.3 grams total View details Quantity12Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot #334 CONVICT LOVE TOKENS twohalf penny examples with engraved initials, 18th/19th century, 2.5cm diameter View details Quantity2Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #335 CONVICT LOVE TOKENS penny and halfpenny examples, one attractively engraved with dove and initials, the other with leaf and monogram initials, 18th/19th century, (2 items) View details Quantity2Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #336 Convict era antique handcuffs (no key), early 19th century, 23cm wide View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #337 Convict leg irons with key, 19th century, 47cm wide View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #338 CONVICT DEPARTMENT belt buckle stamped "HER MAJESTY'S CONVICT DEPARTMENT", mid 19th century, 8cm wide View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #339 PORT ARTHUR type gaol door bolt, 19th century, 46cm wide View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #340 PENTRIDGE PRISON original cell door lock with later key, circa 1852, working order, 25.5 x 18cm View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #341 A New South Wales Police tunic (pocketless), circa 1890, with six original NEW SOUTH WALES (Crown) POLICE buttons. An extremely rare survivor. View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #342 GAOL WARDERS N.S.W. buttons (2), CONVICT PRISON button, and a CONVICT DEPARTMENT button; together with an antique British brass coat of arms, 19th century, (5 items), the coat of arms 13.5cm wide View details Quantity5Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #343 Antique English socket bayonet with War Department "W. D." and broad arrow marks, made for a Martini-Henry rifle, 63cm long View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #344 HIATT antique nickel plated handcuffs with screw-key, 23cm wide View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #345 HIATT antique handcuffs with screw-key, 19th century, 22cm wide View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #346 Antique nickel plated adjustable handcuffs with screw key, 24cm wide View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #347 THE VOYAGE OF THE "HAYESTON" FROM MADRAS TO NEW SOUTH WALES 1815-16. A manuscript letter from The Sheriff's Office, Madras, dated 17th November 1815, informing C.M. Ricketts, Chief Secretary at Fort William, Bengal, informing him that the owner of the "Hayeston" has advised that "the provisions and water for the European convicts now under sentence" are now on board and that the ship "will drop down the river on Sunday or Monday next....for the embarkation of the Convicts." View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusCLOSED! Lot #348 FROM SLAVE-OWNERS IN GRENADA TO POLICE MAGISTRATE IN HOBART - Letters to William Tarleton, 1839 to 1847: A recently discovered group of six outer covers and entries, addressed to William Tarleton from various family members and associates: View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #349 A receipt dated 25 June 1819, issued by the Chief Officer at Calcutta acknowledging receipt from "on board the Ship St. Michael....the following ten European Convicts, for New South Wales, with one pr of leg irons and one pr of Handcuffs for each, with locks and keys". Then follow the names, which include George Laurent, Thomas Pembroke and James Lee, who are all recorded arriving in VDL on 9th Nov.1819. The other names listed (James Holmes, Michael O'Brien, John Howlett, etc.) View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusCLOSED! Lot #350 THE PRINCIPAL SUPERINTENDENT AT LAUNCESTON REPORTS ON TWO ABSCONDERS - December 1825. 23rd Dec.1825 letter from John Lakeland, Superintendent at Launceston, to A.W. H. Humphrey, Superintendent of Police advising that two prisoners - Michael Moven and James Walmsley had absconded from the public works at Launceston, and "cannot now be found." Michael Moven had arrived in March 1817 aboard "Sir William Bensley", sentenced to transportation for life. James Walmsley had arrived in December 1821 abo View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #351 27th January 1851 letter from The Under Secretary to the Government of Bengal (Dalrymple) to The Sheriff of Calcutta, with details of "the ten European Convicts under sentence of transportation" informing him that passage "has been procured per Barque 'Alibi', which vessel is now ready to sail for Van Diemen's Land." A list of "Bengal Convicts" and "Bombay Convicts" is provided. The Barque "Alibi" arrived in Van Diemen's Land on 25th May 1851 with just sixteen convicts onboard. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #352 SARAH ANN HILL - FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER AND TRANSPORTED FOR THE TERM OF HER NATURAL LIFE: Two court documents recording the proceedings at York Assizes in December 1851 at which Hill was found guilty of killing her new-born baby and leaving the body in a bonnet-box on Wakefield Railway Station. She was initially sentenced to death by hanging but there was a huge outcry and, as this document further records, the sentence was commuted to "her being Transported beyond the Seas....". The second docu View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #353 A SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING?. A manuscript letter dated 19th Nov.1846 to Mr. Thomas, Under Sheriff of Calcutta, explaining that "I beg to return this letter to Captain Charlesworth which he refuses to receive as contrary to the Engagement entered into with Government which was to convey the Convicts alluded to Sydney and not to Van Diemen's Land.." View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #354 CONVICTS & TRANSPORTATION: Acts of Parliament & Reports: 1812 - 1861 (7 items; approx. 500pp) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #355 JOHN HENRY CAPPER: Two Reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. Superintendent of Ships and Vessels Employed for the Confinement of Offenders Under Sentence of Transportation: dated 16th July 1825.[London, House of Commons. 1826.] 11pp. Folio. British Parliamentary Paper. HC36. Contains lists of convict hulks at Portsmouth, Gosport, Sheerness, Chatham, Woolwich & Deptford with numbers of convicts. Summaries of work performed, health etc. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #356 POLICE OFFICE HOBART. Single page manuscript letter dated 8th April 1835 from the Police Office in Hobart to the Chief Police Magistrate in Hobart Town, framed and mounted, 32 x 19cm visual, 47 x 33cm overall View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #357 TASMANIAN CONVICT PHOTOGRAPH: A carte-de-visite, annotated verso: "28. Alexander Woods, per London. Taken at Port Arthur 1874". Alexander Wood was one of 250 convicts transported onboard the "London", arriving in Van Diemen's Land on 9th July 1844. He had been convicted and court martialled at St. Johns, Newfoundland, and sentenced to 14 years transportation. The prison photograph was taken 30 years after his arrival. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot #358 TASMANIAN CONVICT PHOTOGRAPH: A carte-de-visite, annotated verso: "36. Henry Williams per Gov'r Phillip. Taken at Port Arthur 1874". Henry Williams (transported as William Williams), was convicted of Housebreaking at the Supreme Court in Hobart Town and sentenced to 5 years in gaol. He had arrived in Van Dieman's Land aboard the "Governor Phillips". The prison record shows he was discharged in February 1876. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,300StatusSold Lot #359 TASMANIAN CONVICT PHOTOGRAPH: A carte-de-visite, annotated verso: "97. Robert West per "Gilmore". Taken at Port Arthur 1874". Robert West was convicted at Kent and sentenced to 7 years transportation. He had arrived in Van Diemen's Land aboard the "Gilmore" in March 1832, 42 years before this photograph was taken. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot #360 TASMANIAN CONVICT PHOTOGRAPH: A carte-de-visite, annotated verso: "108. Thomas Wilson alias Murphy. per "Dd Clark". Taken at Port Arthur 1874." Thomas WILSON was convicted at Carnarvonshire on 1 Aug 1840 for breaking into a dwelling and stealing. Gaol Report: "vicious, desperate disposition, conduct disorderly & bad connections". 15 year transportation sentence. Sent to Van Diemen's Land per the ship "David Clarke" on it's only voyage carrying convicts, arriving 4 Oct 1841. He was still in gaol View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #361 TASMANIAN CONVICT PHOTOGRAPH: A carte-de-visite, annotated verso: "134. Thomas Wood or Key, native". Taken at Port Arthur 1874." Thomas Wood (transported as Thomas Key on the Lady Nugent) was sentenced to six years for housebreaking and larceny, at the Supreme Court, Hobart. Claiming to be native born, in fact he was originally found guilty at Nottingham Quarter Sessions in 1836 and transported for 7 years. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot #362 TASMANIAN CONVICT PHOTOGRAPH: A carte-de-visite, annotated verso: "259. George Wilson, Ld Lyndock 3. Taken at Port Arthur 1874." George Wilson arrived in New South Wales on the 8th August 1838 aboard the Lord Lyndoch. He had been transported for life at the Glasgow Court of Justiciary. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot #363 TASMANIAN CONVICT PHOTOGRAPH: A carte-de-visite, annotated verso: "312 + 313 Charles Ward or Hayes per Moffatt 2 . Taken at Port Arthur 1874." Ward (who called himself John) arrived aboard the Moffatt in May 1834, following his conviction at York. His sentence was transportation for 14 years. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #364 TASMANIAN CONVICT PHOTOGRAPH: A carte-de-visite, annotated verso: "Percy Westaway, Launceston." Westaway, a native born 28 year old engine driver and miner, was found guilty of larceny at the Supreme Court Launceston on 27th March 1890. He was imprisoned for 3 years. The record shows that he was imprisoned for larceny again in December 1916. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #365 EDWARD (NED) KELLY CARTES-DE-VISITE, A pair of cartes-de-visite produced by Clifford, Morris & Co., Royal Arcade, Dunedin, the first depicting the sixteen year-old "EDWARD KELLY, WHEN RECEIVED INTO GAOL. 2ND AUGUST, 1871" and the second titled "EDWARD KELLY, WHEN DISCHARGED FROM GAOL. FEBRUARY, 1874". View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Price Realized$6,000StatusSold Lot #366 KELLY GANG INTEREST. Bound volume of the AUSTRALASIAN SKETCHER with several references to the famous bushranger gang, as well as other notable events such as the Loch Ard wreck. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #367 [BUSHRANGERS] A small box containing ten glass plate negatives, circa 1890s, including two portraits of HARRY POWER (bushranger), FREDERICK DEEMING (serial killer, possibly Jack-the-Ripper), Inspector HARE with police party (Kelly Gang capture), and others; all approx. 16 x 10.5cm. (10 items). View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #368 An original glass magic lantern slide of NED KELLY; Charles Nettleton's portrait of Kelly taken the day before his execution on 11th November 1880. The slide maker is unknown, but probably J. Searle of Melbourne; 1890s, 85 x 82mm. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #369 An original glass magic lantern slide of HARRY POWER; Charles Nettleton's portrait of Power, also known as Henry Johnson, an early associate of Ned Kelly. The slide maker is unknown, but probably J. Searle of Melbourne; 1890s, 82 x 80mm. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #370 [THE KELLY GANG] An original glass magic lantern slide of the Victorian police involved in the pursuit and capture of Ned Kelly and his Gang including Hare and Steele; the slide maker is J. Searle of Melbourne; 1890s, 82 x 82mm. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #371 [KELLY GANG] A glass plate negative (16.3 x 10cm) for a carte-de-visite or cabinet card portrait of STEVE HART, a member of the Kelly Gang; by Barnes of Wangaratta; taken in 1878, is the only verified image of Hart, who was only 21 when he died. The negative appears to be circa 1890s. Hart took part in the infamous siege of Glenrowan in which he, Dan Kelly and Joe Byrne were killed. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #372 A magic lantern slide of FREDERICK DEEMING (Serial killer Jack-the-Ripper?), probably by Searle of Melbourne, circa 1890s; 82 x 82mm. Frederick Bailey Deeming (1853 – 1892) was an English-born Australian murderer. He was convicted and executed for the murder of a woman in Melbourne. He is remembered today because he was suspected by some of being the notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. An example of this image is held by the Victorian Police Museum. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #373 The three Victorian Police detectives responsible for the arrest of Frederick Deeming; Kennedy, Consedine and Cawsen; a large format glass plate negative (25 x 20cm), circa 1890; together with a print from the negative. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #374 An antique Australian blackwood truncheon, 19th/20th century, 36cm long View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #375 A New South Wales Police tunic with envelope pockets, six original NEW SOUTH WALES (Crown) POLICE buttons, circa 1910s. Very rarely seen. View details Estimate$900 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #376 Two Australian hardwood timber truncheons, 19th/20th century, 35cm and 36cm long View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #377 THE BRITISH CONVICT SHIP "SUCCESS", series of six unused postcards View details Quantity6Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #378 VICTORIA POLICE AUXILIARY FORCE "Instructions To Police Reservists"; together with badge and a "Police Force Victoria Motor Sport" car badge, (3 items) View details Quantity3Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #379 Replica convict handcuffs with key, 20th century, 29cm wide View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #380 Replica leg irons and handcuffs, 20th century, (2 items), the leg irons 128cm long View details Quantity2Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #381 An antique iron dingo trap, 19th/20th, 58cm long View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusCLOSED! 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