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 Image Lot # Item Title Quantity Time Left Your Bids 388 Convict penny love token, engraved "ALICE, WHEN THIS YOU SEE, THINK OF ME", 35mm diameter. Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160Current starting$650 (3 bids) Login to bidLogin to buy! 389 CONVICT LOVE TOKEN half-penny size, engraved with monogram front and back "W. M.". Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100Current starting$100 (1 bid) Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160Current starting$220 (3 bids) Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Login to bidLogin to buy! 392 Convict era leg irons, 19th century, 77cm long overall. Estimate$600 - $1,000Orig. Starting Price$500 Login to bidLogin to buy! 393 Convict leg irons, 19th century, 74cm long overall. Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Orig. Starting Price$800 Login to bidLogin to buy! 394 An antique truncheon, hand-painted with Queen Victoria cypher and crown, emblazoned "HUGH SMITH, 17", 19th century, unusual small size, 28cm long. Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Login to bidLogin to buy! 395 HIATT convict period chain gang handcuffs with long work party chain and key, 19th century, stamped "Hiatt, British Made", 98cm long overall. Estimate$600 - $1,000Orig. Starting Price$500 Login to bidLogin to buy! 396 An antique Australian truncheon, turned eucalypt with leather lanyard, 19th/20th century, 30cm long. Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Login to bidLogin to buy! 397 Four assorted antique prison cell keys with Broad Arrow stamps and Roman numerals, 19th century, 10.5cm long each. Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Login to bidLogin to buy! 398 HIATT "Come Along" convict handcuffs, 19th century, stamped "Hiatt", 14cm wide. Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Login to bidLogin to buy! 399 HIATT antique handcuffs with original key, stamped "Hiatt No. 33", 19th century, 24cm long. Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200Current starting$280 (2 bids) Login to bidLogin to buy! 400 Convict leg irons in relic condition, early 19th century, 80cm long overall. Condition ReportNot operational. Estimate$500 - $800Orig. Starting Price$400 Login to bidLogin to buy! 401 PENTRIDGE D-DIVISION 33lb. iron punishment ball, 19th century, 20cm high including loop. Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$360 Login to bidLogin to buy! 402 PENTRIDGE PRISON cell door lock with original key, circa 1850s, 25cm wide. Estimate$450 - $550Orig. Starting Price$400Current starting$400 (1 bid) Login to bidLogin to buy! 403 Convict period police kepi with officer's badge, buttons and Queen Victoria crown decoration, 19th century. Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$340Current starting$420 (2 bids) Login to bidLogin to buy! 404 A convict watchman's alarm handbell with Broad Arrow mark, cast bronze with turned timber handle, 19th century, 27cm high. Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300Current starting$300 (1 bid) Login to bidLogin to buy! 405 HIATT antique handcuffs and key with attached chain, mounted on red velvet display board, 19th century. Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$360 Login to bidLogin to buy! 406 A convict watchman's wall mount alarm bell with Broad Arrow mark, cast bronze (later shackle), 19th century, 15cm high. Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Orig. Starting Price$1,600 Login to bidLogin to buy! 408 Convict period police truncheon, Tasmanian pattern with Queen Victoria cypher, 19th century, 44cm long. Estimate$600 - $1,000Orig. Starting Price$500 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$600 - $1,000Orig. Starting Price$500 Login to bidLogin to buy! 410 Convict period senior officer's tipstaff, turned wooden handle with silver finished bronze fittings, 19th century. Unusual handheld pocket example. 15cm high. Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300Current starting$300 (1 bid) Login to bidLogin to buy! 411 CONVICT DEPARTMENT senior officer's belt buckle with crown decoration and remains of gilt finish, 19th century, 8cm wide overall. Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Login to bidLogin to buy! 412 VICTORIAN CONSTABULARY sterling silver hat badge with Queen Victoria crown cypher, 19th century, 7.3cm high, 32 grams. Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$500 - $700Orig. Starting Price$460Current starting$460 (1 bid) Login to bidLogin to buy! 414 Convict period officer's kepi badge with Queen Victoria crown decoration, appears to be unissued, 19th century, 8cm high. Estimate$200 - $400Orig. Starting Price$180 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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). 3 Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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". Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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 Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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....." Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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"... Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200Current starting$200 (1 bid) Login to bidLogin to buy! 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). Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$320 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200Current starting$200 (1 bid) Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$600 - $800Orig. Starting Price$500Current starting$500 (1 bid) Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Orig. Starting Price$1,200 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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..... Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$320 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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). Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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 Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$60 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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 Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Login to bidLogin to buy! 431 HIATT antique nickel plated handcuffs with original key, stamped "Hiatt, SPF1273"; together with a police mugshot photograph, circa 1903, the handcuffs 22cm wide. 2 Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$260 Login to bidLogin to buy! 432 A convict watchman's hand-held alarm bell with Broad Arrow mark and turned timber handle, 19th century, 28cm high. Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$380 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80Current starting$80 (1 bid) Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$500 - $800Orig. Starting Price$460 Login to bidLogin to buy! 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. Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Login to bidLogin to buy! 436 CONVICT LEG IRONS, two reproduction examples, late 20th century, each approximately130cm long overall. 2 Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100Current starting$100 (1 bid) Login to bidLogin to buy! 437 POLICE INTEREST collection of assorted badges, tunic buttons, belt buckle etc., 20th century, (qty). Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Login to bidLogin to buy! 438 Vintage police pith helmet, police cap, truncheon and assorted keys, (qty). Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100Current starting$180 (2 bids) Login to bidLogin to buy! 439 An antique convict brick with Broad Arrow mark and government stamp, early 19th century, 23.5cm wide. Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$60 Login to bidLogin to buy! Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next
