Australian & Historical (#517) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized 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 1101-1200 of 1569. Previous|1...910111213141516|Next Lot #1099 JOHN WATT BEATTIE, SOLOMON ISLANDS: Postcard album of two hundred and forty-one John Watt Beattie photograph postcards, all featuring images from his time spent in the Solomon Islands in 1906, among them many exquisite portraits and landscapes illustrating the traditional culture and practices of the time. (241 cards). View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Price Realized$3,600StatusSold Lot #1100 POSTCARD collection housed in an early 20th century blue cloth album, themes include Olinda and Dandenong ranges, Daylesford, Melbourne, military themes, etc, inspection will reward. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #1101 POSTCARDS: A collection of the "In the Fifties" series of colour lithographic postcards, circa 1905, with titles including "Gt. Collins St., looking East..", "Sandridge, from Railway Pier..", "Princes Bridge & City Terminus of M. & H.B. Railway...", "Post Office, Melbourne..", "Approach to Richmond...", "Queens Wharf...", "Gt. Bourke St. looking East...", "Market Square, Castlemaine..", "Lydiart St. from Bath's Hotel...", etc., (18, in a small album). View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #1102 An old-time postcard album containing a diverse collection; mostly Australian subjects with Geelong, Bendigo, Healesville, Melbourne, Adelaide, Christchurch, Bluff and other South Island scenes, Perth, Busselton, Tasmania, some foreign, etc. (200+). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #1103 An album of Australian Artist Cards, mainly Turners; plus other Australian and foreign postcards and greeting cards in 10 other albums; all housed in a large carton. (100s). View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #1104 The British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04: "A Typical Antarctic Tabular Iceberg with Caves." Canterbury Times real photo postcard; and, 1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition: "Joyce, Dogs & Penguins" official real photo postcard. (2 items). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #1105 GEORGE EDWARD MARSTON (1882 - 1940), The Winter Quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907, oil on board, 16 x 23.5cm; framed 19 x 27cm overall. View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Price Realized$8,000StatusSold Lot #1106 SHACKLETON'S IMPERIAL TRANS-ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1914-17: original silver gelatin photograph by Frank Hurley: "Their Greatest Friends - Feeding the Dogs in ice kennels", signed (twice) by Hurley, with Underwood & Underwood copyright handstamps; NOT RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL Jan.28 1917 handstamps, a small label stamped "FILED JAN 20 1917" and a label with details of the copyright and release date: "The dogs being fed in the snow kennels...while the "Endurance" was beset in the ice..." View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$2,400StatusSold Lot #1107 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image A33 - Title: The Discovery's Long Arm, with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "TUESDAY APR. 15, 1930" verso, together with the official letterhead, title, and details of the image, "Flying-officer Campbell and pilot-officer Douglas standing beside the Gipsy Moth seaplane...", 26 x 20cm. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1108 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photographs by Captain Frank Hurley: Image A22 - Title: Kerguelen the Magnificent, seven individual images, each with the official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "MONDAY FEB.24, 1930" verso, together with official printed letterhead with details of the image affixed to the rear of Image No.1, "This striking panorama taken from the summit of Red Dome Peak...", (7 items, each 16.5 x 21.5cm.) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1109 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image A24 - Title: The "Bird-Cage" aboard The Discovery, with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "TUESDAY APR.15, 1930" verso, together with the official letterhead and details of the image, "...Messrs. Fletcher (left) and Falla are preparing bird specimens for museum distribution", 20 x 25.5cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #1110 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image A51 - Title: Off on a Flight of Exploration, with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "TUESDAY MAY 6, 1930" verso, together with official printed letterhead, title, and details of the image, "The Gipsy Moth Seaplane being swung over the side of The Discovery...", 20.5 x 25.5cm View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #1111 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image A65 - Title: Drifting with the Ice, with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "MONDAY MAY 12, 1930" verso, together with official printed letterhead, title, and details of the image, "A remarkable aerial view...off the coast of MacRobertson Land...", 20 x 25.5cm. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #1112 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image A67 - Title: A Crystal Garden in Antarctica, with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "TUESDAY MAY 13, 1930" verso, together with official printed letterhead, title, and details of the image, "An enchanting glimpse of shattered icefloes...", 20.5 x 26cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #1113 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image A74 - Title: A Crystal Fairyland, with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "TUESDAY MAY 27, 1930" verso, together with the official letterhead, title, and details of the image, "...this vista of glacier reflected in azure waters has caught the glittering charm of an exceptional...day", 20 x 25.5cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #1114 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image A28 - Title: Home from Antarctic Seas, with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "TUESDAY APR. 15, 1930" verso, together with the official letterhead, title, and details of the image, "Members of the scientific staff of the B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Research Expedition...", 20 x 26cm. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #1115 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image A42 - Title: Cheering the Flag, with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "MONDAY APR. 28, 1930" verso, together with part of the official letterhead, title, and details of the image, "A scene on the heights overlooking Proclamation Harbor, Enderby Land...", 20 x 26cm. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #1116 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image A67 - Title: A Crystal Garden in Antarctica, with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "TUESDAY MAY 13, 1930" verso, together with official printed letterhead, title, and details of the image, "An enchanting glimpse of shattered icefloes...", 20 x 26cm. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #1117 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image B10 - Title: Antarctic Alpine Club, with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "TUESDAY APR. 28, 1931" verso, together with the official letterhead, title, and details of the image, "...members assembled on an icy dais to greet the members of the B.A.N.Z. expedition...", 20.5 x 26cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #1118 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image B19 - Title: New Antarctic Lands Discovered by the B.A.N.Z. Expedition, with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "MONDAY JUN. 15, 1931" verso, together with the official letterhead, title, and details of the image, "...Murray Monolith outcropping from the seaface of the ice-girt coasts of MacRobertson Land", 13 x 27cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1119 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B31 - Title: Summertime in King George Fifth Land,with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "TUESDAY JUN. 2, 1931" verso, together with the official letterhead, title, and details of the image, "...the exceptional calm of a summer's day on the ice-girt Cape Denison",20 x 26cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1120 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image B32 - Title: Mawson Revisits Former Winter Quarters, with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" handstamp and release date "TUESDAY MAY 19, 1931" verso, together with the official letterhead, title, and details of the image, "...a landing is being made at Cape Denison, King George Fifth Land", 20 x 26cm. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1121 THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Five official original photographs by Captain Frank Hurley [images A24/A51/A65/A67/B10], all with official "MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION" hand-stamp and release dates verso, all but one also with the official letterhead, title, and details of the image, 25.5 x 20cm. (5 items) Condition ReportAll in extremely good condition with no folds, tears or pin holes. They come from the estate of a journalist who worked for the Herald Sun, a colleague of Frank Hurley's who was doing work for the Herald group at the same time. This is the end of a large consignment we have been selling from the same vendor in the last two auctions. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #1122 The establishment of a permanent ANARE Research Station on Macquarie Island in December 1947: Two registered envelopes carried on the first outward mail from the Island, posted on 7th March 1948; with ANARE MACQUARIE IS handstamps, registration labels and "AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION 1947" handstamps. (2). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #1123 ALFRED BOCK - SENNOTYPE portrait with original paper label verso, 33 x 28cm overall View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$1,300StatusSold Lot #1124 Antique daguerreotype photograph portrait of a lady in original leather case; together with two ambrotype photographs, one in original leather case and the other in gilt metal mount, mid 19th century, (3 items), 11.5 x 3cm View details Quantity3Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #1125 A stereoview card from the "Jones's Photographs of Australian Sceneries" Series, 1862, endorsed "View of Gisborne" in manuscript at lower right with two albumen paper prints affixed to the card, which is numbered "No.35" verso. One other example of this view is known in the Bendigo Art Gallery Collection. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #1126 Circa 1868 stereoview albumen paper prints laid down on a yellow card; verso with printed label for T.J. WASHBOURNE, "VICTORIAN VIEWS" completed in manuscript "The Heads, Queenscliff. Port Phillip Low Lighthouse". Overall 85 x 173mm. Better known for his fine portraits of Victorian Aborigines in the 1860s-70s, this rare image appears to be unrecorded. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #1127 Photographer unknown; circa 1868 stereoview albumen paper prints laid down on a yellow card; verso with manuscript "Tasmania. Kangaroo Bottom Rivulet" depicting a top-hatted gentleman near a log he has used to cross over the creek. Overall 83 x 173mm. The Lenah Valley was first known as Kangaroo Bottom. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #1128 John DEGOTARDI [Austro-Hungarian Empire 1823 – Australia 1888], Photographic Views of Sydney and Surrounding Country. New South Wales, twelve albumen paper prints laid down on individual cards, each with an explanation of the view affixed at lower centre, superbly presented in an album-like case; each image with Degotardi's blind embossed stamp at lower right, 'DEGOTARDI/SYDNEY", Overall 28.5 x 32.5cm; images approx. 13 x 21cm. Condition ReportThe case has a defective spine but it appears to be original. In addition to the images which are now available online, also present is; The Zig-zag Railway in very good condition. St James' Church from Hyde Park has light foxing Drumoyne is in good condition Fig Tree Point is in good condition Sydney University is in very good condition Sydney Harbour view number 2 has some foxing and spotting which barely detracts from the image. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #1129 A carte-de-visite size albumen paper photograph of an Aboriginal group playing cards, circa 1870. Possibly by Samuel Duesbury of Brisbane. Laid down on a later backing card. The image 9.4 x 5.8cm. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1130 Sydney Observatory, with workmen in the foreground, albumen paper print, circa 1870, laid down on card, the image 18.5 x 23.5cm; together with a View in the Botanical Gardens, Adelaide, of the same period, by Henry Davis, also laid down on card, the image 17.5 x 22cm. (2 items). Condition ReportIn excellent condition, from a private collection in South Australia. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1131 HENRY DAVIS (1831 - 1878), A highly important presentation album, full leather binding with gilt title "VIEWS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA" containing a mostly annotated collection of 118 images, mostly albumen paper prints and many of which are not present in the Art Gallery of South Australia's collection of Davis' work. Davis was proprietor of the Adelaide Photographic Co., (1864 - 1878). View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,500Price Realized$4,200StatusSold Lot #1132 THE CARTES DE VISITE COLLECTION OF JAMIMA CORNEY OF GEELONG: A large leather-bound album containing over 140 cartes-de-visite and one cabinet card, with images from studios in Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Hobart, Launceston, Sydney and probably others; also noted a few from England. The album with ornate inscription "Jamima Corney from H.L. Timms, Geelong, 1873". View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$1,900StatusSold Lot #1133 circa 1875 carte-de-visite with albumen paper print of "The Burns Boys", with printed details verso, "Photographs of The Burns Boys, and The Bark Mill Machinery by which they lost their arms, at Portland. Evening News office, Sandhurst". View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #1134 Circa 1875 carte-de-visite size albumen paper print laid down on backing card and titled verso in manuscript "Catholic Chapel of Priest Residence Stanthorpe", with the ink handstamp of "J.P. STELTER, Photographic Artist, Maryland Street, Stanthorpe". Overall 60 x 102mm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1135 NEW SOUTH WALES, TASMANIA AND NEW ZEALAND: Attractive brown leather bound album with an assortment of albumen photographs, each laid down on card pages including scenes of Port Arthur and Port Macquarie (Tasmania), Parramatta River and Fitzroy Falls (New South Wales) as well as reproductions of artworks by Haughton Forrest and William Piguenit, (27 images total), the largest sheet size 28 x 23cm, the average sheet size 15 x 21cm View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #1136 NICHOLAS JOHN CAIRE (1837-1918), Views of Bendigo, green folio with gold embossed title "Views of Bendigo" to front cover, containing a complete set of twelve numbered albumen paper prints, circa 1870s, each affixed to a printed card with ornate borders and details of the buildings or views in the photographs, the images mainly 13 x 18.5cm. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #1137 NICHOLAS JOHN CAIRE (1837 - 1918), View of Charing Cross, Sandhurst, circa 1875, albumen paper print laid down on printed card headed "Views of Bendigo, No.26" with details of the image printed in the lower margin, image 12.5 x 17.5cm; card 24.5 x 30.5cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #1138 A large (dilapidated) album containing a collection of medium and large-format albumen paper prints laid down on thick album leaves and all with neat pen annotations. Scenes noted include Circular Quay, Sydney from Pyrmont, A.S.N. Company's Wharf Pyrmont, Farm Cove Sydney - H.M.S. Ships at anchor, Crossing Place in the Grose River, Valley of the Grose, Exhibition Building Sydney 1879, etc. (42 images); mixed condition. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #1139 Circa 1875 carte-de-visite size albumen paper print laid down on backing card and titled verso in manuscript "View of the Border Post Printing Office Stanthorpe looking up the Street from Quart Pot Creek", photographer unidentified but probably "J.P. STELTER, Photographic Artist, Maryland Street, Stanthorpe". Overall 60 x 101mm. The buildings visible include the Border Post printing rooms, W. Jeffcoat, Builder & Timber Yard, Wood's, the Sportsman's Arms Hotel, J.S. Thompson's, etc. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #1140 NICHOLAS JOHN CAIRE (1837-1918) Anglo-Australasian Photographic Company gilt embossed titles to the green folio cover "Public Buildings of Melbourne & Suburbs" c. 1870s-80s, with forty albumen paper prints (numbered 1 - 40) mounted on cards with full printed description verso; each image approx.13.5 x 19cm. A vision of a prosperous city illustrating the magnificent buildings erected in the years since the discovery of gold. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #1141 NICHOLAS JOHN CAIRE (1837-1918), An Anglo-Australasian Photo Company folio with gilt embossed title "Views of SYDNEY HARBOR AND NEW SOUTH WALES", circa 1870s, comprising of 45 albumen paper photographs laid down on cards, each with a printed adhesive label verso explaining the image and identifying Caire as the photographer; each image is approx 13.5 x 18.5cm View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #1142 PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN. A panoramic view of the Garden Palace, Farm Cove, Circular Quay and Millers Point comprised of six connected albumen paper prints, circa 1879, presented in what may be the original protective capped round box with a contemporary handwritten label "Garden Palace Sydney, NSW.", overall 27.5 x 173.5cm. Condition ReportExpect for tiny peripheral faults on the last panel on the right, all panels are in good condition with no pin holes, folds, tears or repairs. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$3,800StatusSold Lot #1143 Circa 1880s carte-de-visite size albumen paper print laid down on backing card and titled verso in manuscript "Malvern House, the Residence of Mr & Mrs Farley", with the ink handstamp of "G.V. ST. CLARE, Photographer, INVERELL". Overall 63 x 102mm. Two similar images by this photographer are held in the University of Newcastle collection. He had moved to Liverpool by the late 1880s. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #1144 MINING TOWN: Impressive photographic panorama comprised of four albumen prints laid down on original backing sheet (can be rolled), modern archive window mount, circa 1880-1890, 13.5 x 80cm, 37 x 103cm overall View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #1145 STEREOCARD: Bearing paper label verso "Geelong Orphanage Asylum" by James Austin Esq. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1146 SYDNEY & NEW SOUTH WALES A large album containing a collection of large format albumen paper prints, circa 1870s - early 1880s, including several images of the visit of the British Detached Squadron in July 1881, with images of the ships and the welcoming activities on Sydney Harbour. Also noted are several images by Charles Percy Pickering including the Sydney G.P.O. circa 1870, the Public Works Office, circa 1872, Sydney Museum, Argyll Cut, etc. Most images are accompanied by annotation slips. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #1147 ANSON BROTHERS Tasmanian scenes, c.1880s. Twenty-two albumen paper prints, with manuscript captions, mounted in a small blue album with gilt cover title "Tasmanian Scenes. By Anson Bros.", includes detailed images of Port Arthur; mainly 10 x 14cm approx. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #1148 Tuttle & Co. Views of New South Wales: ornate folio, circa 1880, containing 25 photogravure plates, each depicting a building or scene in Sydney and New South Wales; each plate is captioned; the images approx. 15 x 10cm or 10 x 15cm. Overall, the folio is 25 x 17cm. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #1149 Circa 1880 carte-de-visite size albumen paper print laid down on backing card, depicting four men on horseback, a man on a horse & cart, a man kneeling with a dog, all in front of a new(?) home, with the ladies posing on the front verandah. Overall 61 x 102mm. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #1150 AUGUSTINE E. DYER - BRITISH NEW GUINEA: Fifteen original albumen photographs, taken during the Expedition of the Australian Squadron to south-east New Guinea, October - December 1884. Dyer was the Australian Government Printing Office photographer who went to British New Guinea with John Paine (a studio photographer), for the purpose of recording the British annexation of the territory. He travelled more extensively with Paine in 1884 through PNG visiting Port Moresby, Motu-Motu, Kerepunu, etc. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot #1151 Four cabinet card size photographs, circa 1880s: "Rocky River, South Australia" image by G.F. Jenkinson depicting the "Agamemnon" ferry at Laura; a view of Launceston; a studio portrait of a naval officer (by Boyd's New Palace of Art, Sydney) and a female portrait by Creelman & Co of Sydney Arcade). (4 items). View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #1152 PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, TURNER & HENDERSON BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS SYDNEY gilt titled leather concertina album showing a variety of albumen paper views around Sydney, circa 1880s, 14 images in total, all 7.5 x 7.5cm View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #1153 JOHN WILLIAM LINDT (1845 - 1926),Twenty-three original albumen paper prints depicting mainly views of Melbourne and Victoria; mostly titled in the plate and some annotated verso. Various sizes, mostly 15 x 20cm approx. (23). View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #1154 CAPTAIN SAMUEL SWEET, photographer: A green folio with gilt title "Views of South Australia by the Melbourne Photographic Company" containing a collection of 23 albumen paper prints affixed on thick cards with printed and mss details for most items. Includes two views in Port Darwin. Mainly 18.5 x 23 cm. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #1155 OLD PRINCES BRIDGE black and white albumen photograph of a coxed four skull beneath the second Princes Bridge in Melbourne which was opened in 1850 before being replaced by the third and current bridge in the 1880s, sheet size 15.5 x 21.5cm, 29 x 36cm overall View details Quantity5Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #1156 P. & O. S.S. BRITANNIA: circa 1890 albumen print laid down on card with notation in the lower margin "S.S. Britannia in Sydney Harbour. 1st Day of Dock Strike", sheet size 15.5 x 21cm, 18.5 x 23.5cm overall View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #1157 COLONY OF VICTORIA. Box of 15 glass plate negatives of prominent members of the Colony of Victoria Police Force in the 1860s. Subjects listed on the card box include ROBERT O'HARE BURKE, HENRY DANA, NICHOLAS, TEMPLETON, DOBSON, St. JOHN BRANIGAN, etc. [Melbourne, circa 1890s] View details Quantity15Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #1158 PHOTOGRAPHS: Melbourne, circa 1890s: group of albumen paper prints, including three by Foster & Martin, two images of a race in progress, a silver gelatine print of a steeplechase in progress, various sizes (seven). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #1159 An impressive album of photographs assembled for H.J. Younger in 1890. Titled "Vol.2. SYDNEY & THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY" with 75 images of Sydney street scenes, Katoomba, Blackheath, Redfern, Botany, Coogee, Manly, etc., all annotated and some identified as by Holterman and Bayliss. each 14.5 x 20.5cm (average). View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #1160 PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN, A full leather-bound album with embossed decorations and gilt title "SYDNEY GAOL" to front cover. The album contains thirty-three albumen paper prints laid down on well annotated card pages; various sizes, the largest being approx. 15 x 20cm. View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Price Realized$2,400StatusSold Lot #1161 Two antique leather bound photo albums, (one empty), the other with cabinet cards, many from central Victoria. Condition ReportOne Album is empty The other contains 20 photos View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #1162 THE BALLARAT BASKET: A highly unusual and rare collection of sixteen Leporello images displayed in two groups of eight around a central "rose", circa 1880s. The upper group includes "Hay and Corn Market", "Orphan Asylum", "Lal Lal Falls" and the "Eastern Town Hall"; the second group includes "Ballarat East, from Sturt Street", the "Western Town Hall", "Ballarat Fire Brigade East", and "Sturt Street, the Corner". Fine condition. The only example known to us. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,800StatusSold Lot #1163 Presentation Album of Photographs of Sydney, 1895 Half maroon morocco folio in presentation album, with gilt embossed coat of arms and inscribed to the front cover "Presented to Prof. J. A. Liebmann, Diocesan College Rondebosch, South Africa. By the Government of the Colony of New South Wales 1895" 35 photographs each with title inscribed in the plate at lower right hand corner. View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,000Price Realized$3,400StatusSold Lot #1164 SYDNEY & NEW SOUTH WALES: A collection of albumen prints laid down on contemporary, thick card leaves, rebound into a modern cloth & leather bound volume, overall 29.5 x 40cm. The images, circa 1888, include the Entrance Gates to the Domain, Centennial Park and to Government House, Lord Brassey's yacht "Sunbeam", Kurringai Chase National Park views, the Woronora River, Argyle Cut, Fort Macquarie, the Observatory Wall, Seaman's Bethel, Narrabeen Lake, a house named "Artney", Lane Cove River, Parr View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #1165 OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, BALLARAT: Two albumen photographs laid down on brown card; together with a set of ten albumen black and white photograph views of South Australia, mounted on original card with red captions, (12 items), the largest sheet size 10.5 x 16cm View details Quantity12Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #1166 AMATEUR THEATRE GROUP IN COSTUME: St Brigid's Fitzroy, Melbourne, circa 1900, original sepia silver gelatin print by A. Murks & Co. of Carlton. Unusually large format on original board mount. (Distressed but impressive). 36 x 46cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #1167 HUME WEIR, MURRAY RIVER AND GUNDAGAI: Group of fourteen albumen photographic prints laid down on card, 19th/20th century, sheet size 15.5 x 21cm, card size 25 x 30cm View details Quantity14Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #1168 STEREO CARDS AND VIEWER: Including a selection of possibly unique views of Melbourne, Geelong and surrounds. Also a small selection of French and foreign cards. (32 cards total). View details Quantity32Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #1169 MAGIC LANTERN SLIDES: A small range, circa 1900, featuring mainly views of Adelaide and South Australia plus a few others - noted Perth and Sydney. (12). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1170 FEDERATION - TREASURY BUILDING (Spring Street Melbourne), impressive albumen print on original card showing a very enthusiastic crowd gathered for the procession of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. Note the number of people assembled on the roof!. 21 x 27cm, 24.5 x 34.5cm overall View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1171 A group of four stereoview cards; two by George Rose ("The Parramatta River" and "View on the Federal Pass, Katoomba") and two by Underwood ("A great fruit orchard at Doncaster, Victoria" and "Hop-growing at New Norfolk, Tasmania"). (4). View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #1172 SOLOMON ISLANDS PLANTATION SYSTEM/LEGACY OF BLACKBIRDING: An extraordinary archive of photographs by Frederick Godson, who, while working for Lever's Pacific Plantations in the Solomon Islands not long after the enactment of the 1901 Pacific Island Labourers Act, produced this collection of two hundred and forty-five images documenting local dress, body modification, fishing, and burial practices, and the working dynamic whereby locals worked under white overseers. (245 photographs) View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Price Realized$8,500StatusSold Lot #1173 ABORIGINAL & OTHER SUBJECTS, circa 1908 - 1920s, including the construction of the railway track between Adelaide and Perth: gelatin and glass negatives and a quantity of later prints from the negatives. (100s). View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #1174 STEREO CARDS: Eight c. 1910s Keystone View Company stereocards, featuring views of Flinders Street Station, Sydney CBD, Mount Buffalo, Adelaide Zoo, Yarrangobilly Fairy's Grotto, and others. (8 cards). View details Quantity8Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Lot #1175 A.A. WHITE, Photographs of Queensland Aborigines, A large green cloth-covered album with gilt title to front cover "QUEENSLAND. A.A. WHITE, White's Hill Studio, Brisbane" containing 24 fine photographs, of which 22 feature aborigines with all annotated in the plate and/or in pen in the margins. Titles include "Clump Point Natives", "Johnstone River Natives", "Tully River Native", etc. The images all approx. 15.5 x 20cm. Condition ReportThe album is in extremely good condition with all the original pages and silk tie intact. As you can see from the attached photographs there is slight peripheral foxing primarily to the first couple of sheets, barely effecting the first photograph (Outrigger Canoe) with no impact on any of the other images. Considering the date of the presentation (August 1912) these photographs are in remarkably good condition. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$5,500StatusSold Lot #1176 YACHTING, group of three framed albumen photographs, together with a small gilt framed military portrait photograph, (4 items), the largest 30 x 35cm overall View details Quantity4Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #1177 An antique 19th century photo album which has been repurposed in the 1920s and filled with albumen prints which appear to have a focus on Monbulk in Victoria, circa 1920s. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #1178 "MOUNT LEURA, CAMPERDOWN" black and white albumen print of the iconic crater mountain on the edge of the township of Camperdown in the Western Districts of Victoria. housed in a period oak frame with handwritten caption on the mount "Presented by A.S. REID Esq. Eddington, 1923", sheet size 24.5 x 32cm, 45 x 60cm overall. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #1179 An assortment of glass plate negatives and lantern slides including themes of outback Australia, New Zealand, Germany in the 1930s etc., (qty). Inspection will reward. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #1180 WALTER LINDRUM INTEREST: Framed large format photograph of Edward the Prince of Wales in military uniform. Note: This piece originally adorned Walter Lindrum's personal billiard room at his Albert Park property in Melbourne. 100 x 82cm overall View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #1181 GREAT BARRIER REEF EXPEDITION: Four 21.5 x 16.5cm press photographs from the 1928-1929 British-led scientific expedition, featuring images of lagoon coral formations, Indigenous children, and lab activity. (4 items) View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #1182 CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH: A collection of original press and publicity photographs including images relating to the 1928 Trans-Pacific flight with Ulm, Warner and Lyon, Kingsford Smith & Jim Mollison in 1931, Kingsford Smith and Dickson 1932, Kingsford Smith, Stannage and Taylor 1933, etc. (23, mainly originals). View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #1183 ABORIGINAL MAN, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA: Silver gelatin photographic print, circa 1930-40s, possibly by Charles Mountford, on original board mount with border. Sheet size 21 x 16cm, 29 x 25cm overall View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1184 SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE: Four 21.5 x 16.5cm Herald Sun press photographs depicting the moments following Francis de Groot's dramatic subversion of the 1932 ribbon-cutting ceremony, with two images of De Groot's arrest, one of his horse being brought under control, and one of Jack Lang apparently seeing the humour in the situation. (4 items) View details Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #1185 R.M.S. ORMOND PASSING UNDER THE SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES: Silver gelatin print laid down on original card mount, most likely part of the procession of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1932, 18 x 29cm, 23 x 35cm overall View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1186 TOWNSVILLE EXPRESS COLLISION: 21.5 x 16.5cm press photograph of the 1933 head-on collision that occurred near the Eudlo Railway Station in Queensland, showing much wreckage, several onlookers, and the driver chatting with a passerby from the cab. View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$40StatusSold Lot #1187 VICTORIA CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS: Group of thirty-seven press photographs depicting the Duke of Gloucester's 1934 visit to Australia to celebrate the centenary celebrations of Victoria, including images of the HMS Sussex and The Trans-Australian, most with 'Copyright Herald Feature Service' hand-stamp and explanatory note on rear, the largest 20 x 25.5cm. (37 items) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #1188 Nine c. 1940s press agency photographs, featuring the 1947 Caulfield Cup, Daredevil Curtis motorcycle jump at the Melbourne Exhibition Speedway, Australian Alps search and rescue volunteers in action, French Island koala colony transfer to Healesville, and others. (9 items, the largest 20.5 x 25.5cm) View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #1189 MAXWELL SPENCER DUPAIN (1911 - 1992), Moonlight, Circular Quay, circa 1947, original photograph, with Dupain's handstamp, Camera Press Ltd, London, and TV Times handstamps verso. image 22 x 29cm. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #1190 Press photograph stamped on rear 'SUN 25 JUN 1948' with handwritten description. 16.5 x 22cm. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #1191 CARL RISBERG, New Zealand interest, framed black and white photograph of Chateau Tongariro, titled "Sunlit Grandeur" lower left, signed "C. Risberg", 20th century, 48 X 31cm wide overall. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1192 REX DUPAIN (BORN 1954), Sydney Rain, Opera House, 1978 silver gelatin photograph signed and dated on margin Rex Dupain '96; Rex Dupain stamp verso 48.5 x 48cm View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #1193 TONY NOTARBERARDINO (Australian) Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi silver gelatin photograph, 1978 signed in margin lower right 51 x 60.5cm View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #1194 REX DUPAIN (BORN 1954), Sydney Rain, The Rocks, 1995 silver gelatin print signed and dated on margin Rex Dupain '95; Rex Dupain stamp verso 60.5 x 50.5cm View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #1195 BARRY HUMPHRIES (1934-2023), Willie Weeties, watercolour, pastel and gouache on paper, signed left "Barry Humphries, '68", 108 x 70xm, 129 x 92cm overall. Condition ReportAppears to be possible silverfish damage or blemish to the top left hand margin (visible in online catalogue photographs). Otherwise, in very good original condition. The frame appears to be period and has numerous scuffs, marks, defects etc. Would benefit from re-framing in our opinion. View details Estimate$6,000 - $10,000Price Realized$5,000StatusSold Lot #1196 BARRY HUMPHRIES (1934-2023), Willie Weeties, silkscreen (yellow ground), 28/100, signed right "Barry Humphries, '89", with blind embossed seal, 100 x 68xm, 121 x 87cm overall. Condition ReportVery good original condition and ready to be hung for display. Attractively framed and mounted but note: several small chips and imperfections to the frame. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #1197 BARRY HUMPHRIES (1934-2023), Willie Weeties, silkscreen (red ground), 27/100, signed right "Barry Humphries, '89", with blind embossed seal, 100 x 68xm, 121 x 87cm overall. Condition ReportVery good original condition and ready to be hung for display. Attractively framed and mounted but note: several small chips and imperfections to the frame. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$1,400StatusSold Lot #1198 BARRY HUMPHRIES (1934-2023), Willie Weeties, silkscreen (purple ground), 26/100, signed right "Barry Humphries, '89", with blind embossed seal, 100 x 68xm, 121 x 87cm overall. Condition ReportVery good original condition and ready to be hung for display. Attractively framed and mounted but note: several small chips and imperfections to the frame. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...910111213141516|Next12345678910111213141516 Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next