Australian & Historical (#513) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices RealizedPDF Catalogue View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 11-20 of 49. Previous|12345|Next 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345|Next Previous 12345 Next Previous 12345 Next
