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Australian Picture Postcards

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

881

Two albums & a box with many better cards from ACT x2 (one a multi-view); NSW x100+; Queensland x18; Tasmania x31 including 1908 Franco-British Exhibition 'Packing Rabbits...'; and Western Australia x12; also New Zealand x47 with many Maori subjects; Great Britain including 'Musical Chairs' Cats card by Louis Wain; etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (260 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15)

Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$500.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

882

Box of mostly pre-WWII cards from all States with numerous better topographicals throughout including suburbs & small towns, lots of real photo types including many early Rose, Valentine & similar, about a dozen Tourist Bureau issues from Queensland & South Australia, etc, also sets of cards in original packets including for Trans-Continental Railway, Ballarat, Tasman Peninsula, Adelaide & Mount Gambier, plus Sydney Harbour Bridge Numbers 1 & 3, generally fine to very fine. (500 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18)

Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$1,900.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

883

Boer War Empire 'Grand Card' (204x139mm) of 'Bushie' the troops' canine mascot; World War I group x13 including Anzacs in France & Egypt, Victory Parade in London etc; and Australian Cricket Teams portrait cards for 1905 x2 different, 1921 (faults), 1926 and 1934; some minor problems but generally fine to very fine unused. (19)

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

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Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$440.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

884

Small box of Golden Age cards with strength in Tasmania, a few real photo types, also noted Thursday Island and Northern Territory x2, generally fine to very fine. (100 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$260.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

885

Album of cards with a good number of better subjects including Trans-Australian Railway, a couple of Post Offices and railway stations, streetscapes, country towns, etc, also some ladies subjects, generally fine to very fine. (250 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$420.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

886

Box of cards from South Australia x19, Tasmania x9, Victoria x35 and Western Australia x8 with many better subjects including 1920s Bacchus Marsh flooding, Niven advertising card for Great Western Vineyard (corner fault), VSM stamp cards x4 and quite a few real photo types; also 120+ miscellaneous cards mostly ladies' types with many actresses including a few Talma (Melbourne); condition variable. (180+) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$340.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

887

Attractive batch of early Undivided Backs from New South Wales x28 (including Kerry Blue Mountains group), Queensland x1, South Australia x3, Tasmania x3, Victoria x1 and Western Australia x1, several Robert Jolley types noted, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (37) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11)

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Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

888

Very fine group including some better topographicals, 1906 & 1907 ANA Exhibition cards, 1908 Visit of the American Fleet F&J set of 12 ships, comic card by Fred Booty, etc, also French WWI Ruins x40+ & a pre-war group, South Africa Valentine's Cape Province x8, England including top-quality real photo cards of Devonport & Region x11, etc, mostly unused & generally fine to very fine. (200+) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8)

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Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

889

Undivided Backs for South Australia x5 (Donald Taylor x4), Victoria x3, and Western Australia x8 (Austral Stores x5), three used with minor defects, otherwise fine to very fine, unused. Scarce material. (16)

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

Estimate AU$350

SOLD for AU$270.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

890

Mostly New South Wales with real photo group including several of Parramatta, swimmers at Bondi watched by men in street suits!, 1908 flood around Newcastle Gas Works, circa 1908 "Frozen Falls - Katoomba" and circa 1912 of HMS 'Drake' with flags & crudely drawn maps of UK Australia & New Zealand (unused); also RP of 'HC WEBSTER/BAKER' (Rockhampton Qld), 1903 'England v South Australia, The Oval, Adelaide', Western Australia tourism series 'The Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie', three novelty cards, etc, a few with album adhesions on the address-sides otherwise fine to very fine. (43) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

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Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

891

Undivided Backs by Robert Jolley x6 (one with rounded corners) & various other publishers, mostly fine. (12) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

892

NEW SOUTH WALES: Attractive batch with many towns, streetscapes, caves, waterfalls etc, a few real photo types including 1907 Kempsey Fire, etc, some address side blemishes otherwise fine to very fine used or unused. (150 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8)

Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$260.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

893

NEW SOUTH WALES: Undivided Backs for Giovannardi x2, Robert Jolley x6 and Swain x5, and No Publisher with 'Private Post-Card' header x6, all different mostly urban scenes or harbour views, fine to very fine unused. Scarce material. (19)

Grade A-/A (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

894

NEW SOUTH WALES: 1910 (circa) NSW Government Tourist Bureau cards of the Hawkesbury River & Newport Village, each with promotional message for "... one of the best single-day trips ...", unused. (5)

Grade A (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

895

QUEENSLAND: Intelligence & Tourist Bureau semi-officials all-different group in black, brown, blue or violet with a range of different stocks including very thin card and backs in various colours many with descriptive text dated 1906-09, views include Geraldton Banana Train, Bundamba Coal Mine, The Bluff Colliery, Toowoomba Ruthven Street with a large crowd, Bundaberg Sugar Cane Cutting, Cairns Wharves with ship, Central Queensland Sawmill & Woolshed, Queensland Woollen Co factory at Ipswich, Brisbane Observatory x2, etc, most are unused, some used under cover, and a few postally used in Queensland, NSW, Victoria & the UK, condition a little variable but most are fine to very fine. A very difficult group to assemble. (55)

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Estimate AU$600

SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

896

QUEENSLAND: Intelligence & Tourist Bureau cards with AJ Cumming imprint, all but one with framed green scenes including waterfalls, railways, prominent buildings & agriculture, sixteen with promotional messages on the reverse (one in Esperanto), a few with minor blemishes or a little aged but generally fine unused. (19)

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

897

QUEENSLAND: 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition cards with AJ Cumming imprint, all with framed green scenes including Brisbane & provincial towns, Thursday Island, prominent buildings, agriculture, rural scenes etc, all with promotional messages on the reverse, some minor blemishes & a couple with light water-stains on the reverse but generally fine to very fine unused. [Cards such as these have in the past sold for $200+ each: this is a great opportunity to start on a now under-appreciated area] (24)

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$550.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

898

QUEENSLAND: Attractive bundle with some unusual views including Atherton Tablelands selection, VSM stamp cards with views x6 plus the original packet (faults), some real photo cards including 1911 Mossman Cyclone x4 and Flooding at Cunnamulla, etc, one with very fine 'BROADMOUNT' cds & BN '585' (rated RR), some toning/soiling on the address sides otherwise fine to very fine used or unused. (80 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$320.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

899

QUEENSLAND: Thursday Island real photo cards with three different panoramas and views of Main Street, Victoria Parade & Douglas Street (a colotype), two used (one under cover, the other with the stamp neatly removed) and four unused (one with light toning on the reverse). Very scarce cards. (6)

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$240

SOLD for AU$180.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

900

SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Wide-ranging array including better Adelaide & Suburbs views, a few Post Offices, rural towns, one with 'Denial Bay' corrected to 'Murat Bay', Tourist Bureau types x20+, 1940s-1960s Rose (mostly) & Murray real photo cards with some minor duplication & a few from other States, etc, generally fine to very fine. (220 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13)

Estimate AU$350

SOLD for AU$400.00
Closing..Feb-21, 06:00 PM

AUSTRALIAN PICTURE POSTCARDS