Australian & Historical (#531) 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)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 21-30 of 35. Previous|1234|Next Lot #329 An East India Company hand-written directive dated 21 April 1817, addressed to Captain G. H. Tweedy, Commanding the ship "Union". Tweedy is instructed to transport 32 convicts to Mauritius "under the sentence of Transportation for life". In an unusual P.S. Tweedy is warned "Bussuntah (?) Convict is a very dangerous character and must be strictly watched." View details Estimate$300 - $350Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #330 Ex-Convict GEORGE GUY of Richmond (who arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1829 aboard the ship "Surrey") applies with this partly printed document, for a licence to sell alcohol at premises at Grass Tree Hill, known as The Wilmot Arms. The document is marked "approved". View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #331 An 1817 TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS FROM FORT WILLIAM, BENGAL: A three sheet hand-written document, addressed to C.M. Ricketts, Chief Secretary to the Government in Calcutta, providing details of sixteen convicts to be transported to various destinations or otherwise dealt with. The names, crimes, period of transportation are all recorded. Seven of the prisoners, named and identified as "Hindoos" are to be executed by hanging but have their sentences commuted to transportation for life to Bencool View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$3,600StatusSold Lot #332 "ROLL OF A SOLDIER WHO HAS NOW BEEN SENTENCED TO TRANSPORTATION TO THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES". A printed document, completed in manuscript at Fort William, Bengal, and dated December 1837, regarding Private Henry Findley, 62nd Reg't. He was transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1838 aboard the Emerald Isle. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #333 17th June 1808 manuscript memorandum, single sheet, instructing Captain William Pryce Cumby of HMS Polyphemus, to accompany and "take under your protection" the convict transport ship Admiral Gambier and Eolus" (also spelt Aeolus) then en route for New South Wales with 280 convicts aboard. The document is headed "Royal William", which was the major victualling depot of the Royal Navy in Plymouth. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #334 An antique 56lb. weight with broad arrow and crown mark, 19th century. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #335 An antique 28lb weight stamped with broad arrow and crown mark, together with a 7lb weight with broad arrow mark, 19th century, (2 items). View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #336 Convict cell door bolt, 19th century, 56cm wide. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #337 An antique turned timber truncheon, 19th century, 45cm long View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #338 Joseph C. HARVIE, "The Convict Hulk "Success" : the story of her life, and the lives of those who filled her cells...", [Melbourne : Spectator Publishing Co., 1891, 1st ed.], 77pp with illustrations. Condition Report21 x 14cm. Eight full page illustrations. The text pages are all in good condition. The covers and title page are loose and somewhat foxed. Printed in Melbourne at the Spectator Publishing Company, 270 Post Office Place, in 1891. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234|Next Previous 1234 Next Previous 1234 Next
