Australian & Historical (#536) Auction Info 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 1-52 of 52. Previous|1|Next Lot #388 Convict penny love token, engraved "ALICE, WHEN THIS YOU SEE, THINK OF ME", 35mm diameter. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160Current starting$420 (2 bids) Lot #389 CONVICT LOVE TOKEN half-penny size, engraved with monogram front and back "W. M.". Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100Current starting$100 (1 bid) Lot #390 Convict period one gill pewter rum measure with Board of Ordnance Broad Arrow mark and Queen Victoria crown cypher stamp, 19th century, 6cm high. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160Current starting$180 (2 bids) Lot #391 JAMES NICHOLS of Birmingham, pair of convict handcuffs, early 19th century, 23cm wide. Nichols is noted in the Birmingham Directory of 1821 as a maker of chain, horse and dog collars as well as being a felons iron maker. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #392 Convict era leg irons, 19th century, 77cm long overall. Login to bid Estimate$600 - $1,000Orig. Starting Price$500 Lot #393 Convict leg irons, 19th century, 74cm long overall. Login to bid Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Orig. Starting Price$800 Lot #394 An antique truncheon, hand-painted with Queen Victoria cypher and crown, emblazoned "HUGH SMITH, 17", 19th century, unusual small size, 28cm long. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #395 HIATT convict period chain gang handcuffs with long work party chain and key, 19th century, stamped "Hiatt, British Made", 98cm long overall. Login to bid Estimate$600 - $1,000Orig. Starting Price$500 Lot #396 An antique Australian truncheon, turned eucalypt with leather lanyard, 19th/20th century, 30cm long. Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #397 Four assorted antique prison cell keys with Broad Arrow stamps and Roman numerals, 19th century, 10.5cm long each. Login to bid Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #398 HIATT "Come Along" convict handcuffs, 19th century, stamped "Hiatt", 14cm wide. Login to bid Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #399 HIATT antique handcuffs with original key, stamped "Hiatt No. 33", 19th century, 24cm long. Login to bid Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200Current starting$280 (2 bids) Lot #400 Convict leg irons in relic condition, early 19th century, 80cm long overall. Condition ReportNot operational. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $800Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #401 PENTRIDGE D-DIVISION 33lb. iron punishment ball, 19th century, 20cm high including loop. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$360 Lot #402 PENTRIDGE PRISON cell door lock with original key, circa 1850s, 25cm wide. Login to bid Estimate$450 - $550Orig. Starting Price$400Current starting$400 (1 bid) Lot #403 Convict period police kepi with officer's badge, buttons and Queen Victoria crown decoration, 19th century. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$340Current starting$420 (2 bids) Lot #404 A convict watchman's alarm handbell with Broad Arrow mark, cast bronze with turned timber handle, 19th century, 27cm high. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #405 HIATT antique handcuffs and key with attached chain, mounted on red velvet display board, 19th century. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$360 Lot #406 A convict watchman's wall mount alarm bell with Broad Arrow mark, cast bronze (later shackle), 19th century, 15cm high. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #407 Tasmanian convict period police truncheon, hand-painted with King George cypher, dated 1839 and named to Magistrate G. Ball, unusual small size, 28cm long. Extremely scarce and the only example of its kind known to our rooms. Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Orig. Starting Price$1,600 Lot #408 Convict period police truncheon, Tasmanian pattern with Queen Victoria cypher, 19th century, 44cm long. Login to bid Estimate$600 - $1,000Orig. Starting Price$500 Lot #409 Convict period senior officer's tipstaff, turned wood and cast bronze with crown top, mid 19th century. Unusual small size with document compartment for carrying Tickets of Leave and passes. 18.5cm long. Login to bid Estimate$600 - $1,000Orig. Starting Price$500 Lot #410 Convict period senior officer's tipstaff, turned wooden handle with silver finished bronze fittings, 19th century. Unusual handheld pocket example. 15cm high. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300Current starting$300 (1 bid) Lot #411 CONVICT DEPARTMENT senior officer's belt buckle with crown decoration and remains of gilt finish, 19th century, 8cm wide overall. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #412 VICTORIAN CONSTABULARY sterling silver hat badge with Queen Victoria crown cypher, 19th century, 7.3cm high, 32 grams. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #413 LOCAL COMPANIES gilt metal shako hat badge. Worn by prison guards in Western Australia. Usually comprising of soldiers who arrived between 1850-1874. Rare. 4.8cm high. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $700Orig. Starting Price$460Current starting$460 (1 bid) Lot #414 Convict period officer's kepi badge with Queen Victoria crown decoration, appears to be unissued, 19th century, 8cm high. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $400Orig. Starting Price$180 Lot #415 HER MAJESTY'S PRISON pair of antique brass buttons with remains of gilt finish, 23mm diameter; together with a H.M.P. lapel badge, 19th century. (3 items). Login to bid Quantity3Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #416 EAST INDIA COMPANY manuscript document dated 21 April 1817, being an "Extract from a List of Convicts sentenced to transportation...for Mauritius on Board the ship Union" under Captain George Henry Tweedy. The document concerns a single native convict, Atooram, to be transported for life; one of 32 convicts to be carried on the voyage. Atooram is quite extensively described, including the words "Crime written on the forehead in the Bengalee character mark". Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #417 EAST INDIA COMPANY manuscript list (2 double sided sheets) of 25 native convicts sentenced to transportation for life, on board the ship "Hercules" which was headed for Singapore under Captain D. Wilson in 1827-28. During the late 1820s, the British East India Company aggressively expanded Singapore as a penal colony, using Indian convict labor to clear jungles, build roads, and construct colonial infrastructure. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #418 PRIVATE JOHN JONES - TRANSPORTED FOR SEVEN YEAR FOR DESERTION, 28 November 1828 manuscript letter from Captain John Davies, Town Major's Office, Fort William, to The Sheriff of Calcutta Login to bid Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #419 A LETTER FROM THE CONVICT DEPARTMENT TO THE ASSISTANT POLICE MAGISTRATE AT MORVEN: In June 1832 the Chief Police Magistrate felt the need to write to his Assistant Magistrate instructing that the Lieutenant Governor "is desirous that female Passholders should not be allowed to enter the service of any Publican, in whose establishment they are not fully employed in work unconnected with the Tap Room....." Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #420 CONVICT REMAIN PASS - CAMPBELL TOWN, VDL - 24th AUGUST,1833, with full details of convict William Hemsley on the reverse of the document. Hemsley was one of 208 male convicts who arrived at Van Diemen's Land on board the Emperor Alexander on 12 August 1833. His crime was robbery, for which he was sentenced to transportation for life. This application, dated 12 days later, indicates that he had been allocated the position of "servant" to a Mr. Keitsch, probably a misspelling of "Keach"... Login to bid Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200Current starting$200 (1 bid) Lot #421 PORT ARTHUR, 30th September 1835, CASHIER OF THE DERWENT BANK cashier’s cheque, made payable to Constable W. Cripps, for £3/1/-, and signed by Charles O'Hara Booth (Captain of the 21st Fusiliers). Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$320 Lot #422 DAILY REPORT OF H. M. GAOL AT RICHMOND (Van Diemen's Land), FOR MONDAY 9th FEBRUARY, 1835: completed in manuscript with a list of 20 convicts, the lengths of their sentences, dates of confinement, what they had been charged with, etc., and signed-off by James C. Tolman, Keeper. Login to bid Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200Current starting$200 (1 bid) Lot #423 [CONVICT ELLEN LEE APPLIES FOR PERMISSION TO MARRY] a March 1852 printed affidavit, completed in manuscript on behalf of Ellen Lee (who was one of the 236 female convicts who arrived on the female-only "Earl Grey", which docked at Hobart on 9 May 1850). Sentenced to Seven years transportation, this document records her formal application, two years later, to marry Robert Ringley, (also referred to as Richard Kingley where he has made his mark "X" acknowledging the granting of permission. Login to bid Estimate$600 - $800Orig. Starting Price$500Current starting$500 (1 bid) Lot #424 A CONDITIONAL PARDON - For THOMAS CONDON, January 1849 Van Diemen's Land Conditional Pardon document on vellum; signed by Lieutenant-Governor William Thomas DENISON and with the seal of the Colony at left. Login to bid Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Orig. Starting Price$1,200 Lot #425 PRISONERS FROM RICHMOND GAOL - ABSCONDED & APPREHENDED, March 1842 31st March 1842 mss letter from Phillip Stanley TOMLINS, to Major Charles SCHAW, informing him that in a message from Captain BOOTH, he had been advised "that nine of the absconders have been taken & one shot" and asking Schaw to make sure that all those who need to have this updated information are properly informed. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #426 MAY 1858 - THE CONVICTS ON BOARD THE "HANNAH MARIA" FROM INDIA, In May 1858, the Australian barque "Hannah Maria" was involved in a notable incident near Cowcolly (here referred to as "Kasheli") near the mouth of the Hoogly River in India. The present manuscript document, dated 5th May 1858 is sent from the Marine Superintendent's Office at Fort William to the Sheriff of Calcutta, informing him of a collision between the Hannah Maria and a steam tug, the Phoenix..... Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$320 Lot #427 Victorian Parliamentary Papers: Aug.1856 "TRANSPORTATION: Despatch from Major-General Macarthur to the Secretary of State, Relative to Transportation."; Dec.1858 "EXECUTION OF CRIMINALS. Report of the Sheriff, relative to recent executions at Her Majesty's Gaol, Melbourne."; Oct.1859 "PENAL DEPARTMENT. Report of the Inspector-General."; and Aug.1883 "Deportation to Australia of Approvers at the trials for certain murders in Phoenix Park, Dublin." (4 items). Login to bid Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #428 CONVICT TRANSPORTATION: Victorian single-sheet "blue paper" proclamation document, confirming the ending of the transportation of convicts to "any portion of Her Majesty's Australian Possessions"; dated at Downing Street, 18th July, 1863, but proclaimed in Victoria in 1864. Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #429 A June 1857 part printed Warrant of Distress, completed in manuscript by John Leslie Stewart, Mayor of Hobart and George Thomas, a Police Constable, in the matter of a debt owed by Michael Driscoll to John Carless, formerly a convict who had arrived aboard the Marquis of Hastings in July 1839 (transported for 15 years for stealing). Carless, a shoemaker, had received his Ticket of Leave in 1845 and was recommended for a Conditional Pardon in 1846. Driscoll had insufficient assets to meet his deb Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$60 Lot #430 TASMANIAN PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS: October 1870 "Convicts, Paupers, and Lunatics at Port Arthur"; and, September 1876 "MRS. DANDRIDGE. Correspondence with the Government." (2 items). The Port Arthur Return lists the Names, Ages and Periods of Sentence of the 556 "residents" ; Mrs. Dandridge petitions the Government for the continuation of the allowance she and her late husband had received for the care and maintenance of Truganini (to whom she refers as Lallah Rookh) & the other Aborigines in her c Login to bid Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #431 HIATT antique nickel plated handcuffs with original key, stamped "Hiatt, SPF1273"; together with a police mugshot photograph, circa 1903, the handcuffs 22cm wide. Login to bid Quantity2Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$260 Lot #432 A convict watchman's hand-held alarm bell with Broad Arrow mark and turned timber handle, 19th century, 28cm high. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$380 Lot #433 SIR JOHN FRANKLIN: Late-19th century timber-framed glass slide featuring hand-painted portrait of Franklin in Royal Navy formal uniform, 11.5 x 17cm overall. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80Current starting$80 (1 bid) Lot #434 [THE KELLY GANG] 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. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $800Orig. Starting Price$460 Lot #435 POLICE BUILDINGS, LIVERPOOL STREET, HOBART: An original hand-coloured plan of the proposed new Hobart City Police Station, dated November 1927, with later pen and ink annotations. Construction was completed in 1928 and the site continues to serve as a Police Station. overall 61 x 55cm on linen-backed stock. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #436 CONVICT LEG IRONS, two reproduction examples, late 20th century, each approximately130cm long overall. Login to bid Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100Current starting$100 (1 bid) Lot #437 POLICE INTEREST collection of assorted badges, tunic buttons, belt buckle etc., 20th century, (qty). Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #438 Vintage police pith helmet, police cap, truncheon and assorted keys, (qty). Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100Current starting$180 (2 bids) Lot #439 An antique convict brick with Broad Arrow mark and government stamp, early 19th century, 23.5cm wide. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$60 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
