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Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:471
Sale Title:General MemorabiliaLots with images:162
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:283
Date:12-Feb-2008
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'Er', colour photograph signed by 5 original cast members - George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies & Eriq La Salle. With CoA
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Formula 1 Autographs: Signed photographs - Michael Schumacher, Trulli, Alonso, Raikkonen, Webber & Barichello. (6 items)
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'Friends' colour photograph, signed by six cast members, including Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, with a certificate of authenticity
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King George IV (1762-1830, King of Great Britain from 1820 until his death), fine signature 'George Pr' (Prince Regent, document in the name of George III) on June 4th 1811 vellum document appointing Lawrence Desborough to be Major General in the army, with seal of George III affixed
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King George IV (1762-1830, King of Great Britain from 1820 until his death), fine signature 'George Pr' (Prince Regent) on October 1st 1819 vellum document appointing Major General Lawrence Desborough to be Colonel Commandant in the Corps of Royal Marines
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Rudyard Kipling (British author, best known for 'The Jungle Book' and 'Kim', 1907 Nobel prize for Literature, 1865 - 1936), signature on piece, tipped on to title page in his book 'An Habitation Enforced' (London, 1909), signature fine
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'Lost', colour photograph signed by 8 cast members, including Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Evangeline Lilly & Terry O'Quinn. With CoA.
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William Melville (1850-1918, first chief of the British Secret Service, forerunner of MI5, the inspiration for Ian Fleming's 'M'), signature on piece dated 13.11.1903; together with range of archival information.
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Movie Stars, two albums of genuine and facsimile signed photos. Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, William Bendix and a signed letter from Bing Crosby (4). Plus assorted facsimiles, (136). (Total 140)
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Movie Stars: Signed photographs of Tommy Lee Jones, Christopher Lee, Catherine Zeta-Jones & Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (4 items)
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The Parkes Ministry 1889, autograph page signed by Sir Henry Parkes and his ministry, best remembered for its impassioned support for the Federation of the Australian Colonies, Parkes making his famous speech in Tenterfield NSW in 1889. The colonial Premiers met in Melbourne in Feb. 1890 and agreed to call a convention the following year
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Rolling Stones LP, 'It's Only Rock N Roll', with the signatures of Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman, and a certificate of authenticity
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Rugby League: group of framed displays (9) with a total of 95 signatures, noted Julian O'Neill, ricky Stuart, Allan Langer, Queensland state-of-origin teams for 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001 & 2002. (9 items)
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Sport: Group of signed pictures/covers, noted Lionel Rose (boxing), Jack Brabham (Formula One), John Bertrand (America's Cup), Eddie Charlton (snooker) & Brett Aitken (gold medal, cycling, Sydney 2000). (5 items)
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Sport: Signed books - 'Steve Waugh - Out of My Comfort Zone' [Melbourne, 2005]; 'Ashes Diary 2005' by Ricky Ponting [Sydney, 2005]; 'The 500 Club - Footy's Greatest Coaches' by Kevin Sheedy [Melbourne, 2004]. (3 items)
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Sport: Group of framed displays (11) with a total of 20 signatures, noted Dean Lukin, Glynnis Nunn, Clint Robinson, Grant Kenny, Lisa Curry, David Hemery, Duncan Goodhew, Yvonne Murray, Brendan Garrard; also boxing with Frank Bruno; Hector Thompson; Craig Trotter v Ernie 'Cobra' Artango programme signed by both fighters & promoter Joe Bugner; 'Spike' Cheney v Stefan Scriggins programme signed by both fighters & promoter Joe Bugner. (11 items)
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Lord Stanley (Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, 1799-1868, three times British Prime Minister 1852, 1858-59 & 1866-68), display comprising signature on piece, window mounted with picture, overall 20 x 31 cm
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Victoria Cross Winners, displays comprising pieces signed by Keith Payne VC (Vietnam) & William Apiata New Zealand Sas (Afghanistan), each window mounted with picture & replica Victoria Cross medal, both framed and glazed, each about 33 x 20 cm. (2 items)
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The Who photograph with three signatures, Pete Townshend (guitar), Roger Daltrey (vocals) and John Entwistle (bass)
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume July 1 1843 to December 30 1843, with c160 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Noted news of Boxing Day cricket match Campbelltown v Camden. Poor/Fair condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume January 4 1844 to December 31 1844, incomplete run with c200 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume January 1 1844 to June 29 1844, with c160 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume July 1 1844 to December 31 1844, with c160 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume January 1 1845 to June 30 1845, incomplete run with c85 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume July 1 1845 to December 31 1845, with c160 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume January 1 1846 to June 30 1846, with c150 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume July 1 1846 to December 31 1846, with c160 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume January 1 1847 to June 30 1847, with c155 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. The Feb.9 issue shows drawings of the skull of a katenpai (Australian Yowie or Bunyip) killed by Aborigines. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume July 1 1847 to December 31 1847, with c160 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Noted exhibition of a Bunyip's skull in Colonial Museum of Sydney (July 7). Fair/Good condition
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume January 1 1848 to June 30 1848, with c160 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume July 1 1848 to December 30 1848, with c160 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume January 1 1849 to June 29 1849, with c155 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume July 2 1849 to December 31 1849, with c155 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume January 1 1850 to June 29 1850, with c155 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news, the last issue announcing the Commencement of the First Australian Railway and offering tickets at 5/- each. Fair/Good condition
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume July 1 1850 to December 31 1850, with c160 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Empire' elephant folio volume January 1 1852 to June 30 1852, with c160 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Laid down on inside front cover is signature of Sir Henry Parkes (1815-96, Australian politician, called 'The Father of Federation'). Fair/Good condition
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Empire' elephant folio volume May 9 1856 to August 29 1856, with c100 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Empire' elephant folio volume September 1 1856 to December 31 1856, with c105 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. (Sept.1 issue addressed to Melbourne has remains of NSW 2d & 1d stamps with boxed 'Too Late' cancel). Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Empire' elephant folio volume January 1 1857 to April 30 1857, with c105 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news, includes lengthy reports on the 2nd NSW v Victoria cricket match (Jan 15-16). Fair/Good condition
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Empire' elephant folio volume May 1 1857 to August 31 1857, with c105 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Empire' elephant folio volume September 1 1857 to December 31 1857, with c105 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition.
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Charles Dickens: 'The Old Curiosity Shop, by Chapman and Hall [London 1858] in two volumes leather corners, gilt stamped, marbled boards. Covers scuffed and faded, interior fine. Also 'Pickwick Papers', by Chapman and Hall [London, 1861], illustrated in two vols, leather corners, gilt stamped, marbled boards. Covers scuffed and faded, interior fine. (4 books)
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Empire' elephant folio volume January 1 1858 to June 30 1858, with c155 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news, includes lengthy reports on The Grand Cricket Match NSW v Victoria (Jan 18), and other matches. Fair/Good condition.
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1870s Scrapbook, mainly relating to Victoria's Minister of Railways, with press clippings from Victorian regional papers
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Sydney Newspapers: 'The Sydney Morning Herald' elephant folio volume April 2 1881 to June 29 1881, with c75 complete newspapers with Australian & Overseas news. Fair/Good condition
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Classics: including 'the Life of Charlotte Bronte' by Mrs Gaskell [London,1882]. Vol VII of a seven volume set; 'Shakespeare's Dramatic Works' by Robert Inglis [London,c1880]; 'Vanity Fair', by William Makepeace Thackery [London,1857]. Mixed condition, all readable. (3 books)
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The Holy Land: 'Palestine Past and Present, Pictorial and Descriptive' by Valentine [London, 1893]; 'Pictures from Bible Lands, Drawn with Pen and Pencil' by Green [London, c1883]; 'Jerusalem and the Crusades' by Blyth [London, c1914]. All illustrated hard covers. Condition varies. (3 items)
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'The Marcus Clarke Memorial Volume' bound in red morocco with gilt borders and decorations, gilt lettering and designs on spine, mounted photographic frontispiece, marbled endpapers. by Cameron, Laing & Co.,[Melbourne, 1884]. A beautiful copy.
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'A Short History and Description of The Parliament House, Melbourne' by Jenkins [Melbourne, 1886], with 6 original photographs & 2 plans, signed and endorsed by the author, some foxing and cover faults though rare.
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Books: Three cartons including 'Charles Sturt - His Life and Journeys of Exploration' by Cumpston [Melbourne, 1951]; 'The Last Voyage of Drake & Hawkins' by Andrews [Cambridge, 1972]; 'Frederick McCubbin - The Man and His Art' by Boer [Sydney, 1980] (superb condition in original box); 'Marshall - Organizer of Victory' by Mosley [London, 1982]; 'With Prejudice - The War Memoirs of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder Gcb' [London, 1966]. (81 items)
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Travel: Books including 'A Picnic Party in Wildest Africa' by Bulpett [London, 1907]; 'A Brief History of the Hawaiian People' by Alexander [New York, 1899]; 'Rolling Round the Horn' by Muncaster [London, 1933]; 'Gold-Dust and Ashes - The Romantic Story of the New Guinea Goldfields' by Idriess [Sydney, 1933]. Condition varies. (15 items)
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C.J.Dennis Library: c1910 including Ginger Mick, Sentimental Bloke, Doreen, Glugs of Gosh etc. Very rare set in good+ condition. Minor rubbing interiors fine. (8)
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Stara Praha, (old Prague), 1901 a collection of 100 colour illustrations of the old city of Prague by Vaclav Jansa and compiled by Jan Herain. In two volumes with embossed covers and slipcase. 45 x 34 cm. Vol 1, the description of each image and Vol 2, the 100 images. Research has uncovered an identical set in the Utah state University Libraries. In remarkable condition, books and images mint, case has minor damage
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Pacific Islands: Books including 'Samoa 'Uma' by Churchill [London, 1902]; 'The Wake of the Southern Cross - Work and Adventures in the South Seas' by Wilson [London, 1932]; 'Pastels from the Pacific' by Lenwood [London, 1917]; 'A Century in the Pacific' by Colwell [Sydney, 1914]. Poor/Good condition. (13 items)
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Papua New Guinea: Books including 'W.G.Lawes of Savage Island and New Guinea' by King [London, 1909]; 'Twenty- One Years in Papua' by Chignell [London, 1913]; 'Sister Minnie's (Billing) Life and Work in Papua' by Bromilow [Sydney, 1930] (missing covers); 'Drum Types of Eastern New Guinea' by Massola [Melbourne, 1957]. Poor/Good condition.(7 items)
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Australiana: Group consisting of 'the Australian and Other Verses' by Will H. Ogilvie [Sydney,1916]; 'On An Australian Farm' by Steele Rudd [Sydney,1919]: the Poor Parson by Steele Rudd [Sydney,1907] illustrated. All in good condition with slight wear to covers. (3 books)
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Fiji: 'Hunted Through Fiji' by Horsley [London, c1912]; 'A Day in Suva' [NZ, c1930]; 'The Colony of Fiji 1874-1931' edited by Wright[Suva, 1931]; 'My Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands' by Sanadhya[Suva, 1991]. Fair condition. (4 items)
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'South Australian Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Association - Past President's Certificate', awarded to Thos. Kean for 1927-28-29, suberb condition, overall 32 x 44 cm; 1920s full-page advert for movie 'The Acquittal'; plus book 'The Poetical Works of Lord Tennyson' [London, c1900] with hand-written poem 'Crossing the Bar' inside back cover. (3 items)
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Military Aviation: Books including 'The First and The Last - The German Fighter Force in World War II' by Adolf Galland [London, 1955]; 'The Air Annual of the British Empire 1934-5' by Squadron-Leader Burge [London, 1934]; 'Poet and Pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery' by Phillips [New York, 1994]; 'New Zealanders in the Air War' by Mitchell [London, 1945]. (32 items)
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Music: 'Song Hit Folio containing Walt Disney's Pinocchio' [Melbourne, 1939]; plus 'The Nutcracker Suite, from The Disney- Stokowski Triumph Fantasia' [Sydney, 1940]. (2 items)
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World War II German propaganda map titled 'Englands Schuld' (England's shame) [Braunschweig, 1939] with front cover artwork depicting Britain treating her colonies in Africa, Asia & India with contempt (some separation along folds); plus children's books - 'Grasshopper Green and the Meadow-Mice' by Rae [1st edition, New York, 1922]; 'First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows' by Grahame [1st edition, London, 1944], both in good condition with dust-jackets. (3 items)
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Books & Ephemera, noted 'A Century of Harmony - The Official Centenary History of the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society' by Carne [Melbourne, 1954]; 'Erin Go Bragh - Advance Australia Fair' by O'Hearn [Melbourne, 1990]; 'Charters Towers Centenary 1872-1972' edited by Springer [Charters Towers, 1972]; 'Warwick Armstrong' by Grace (signed) [Melbourne, 1975]; 'Eve in Ebony - The Story of Jedda' [Sydney, 1954]; 1956 Olympics programme for Hockey. (c63 items)
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Aborigines: 'Records of the American-Australian Expedition to Arnhem Land - 1. Art, Myth and Symbolism' by Mountford [Melbourne, 1956]. Ex-library
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Australian Travel Brochures: Quantity of 1960s-80s brochures, booklets & books, mainly from NSW, Victoria & Northern Territory; noted 'Place of Banishment - Port Macquarie 1818-1832' by McLachlan (signed) [Sydney, 1988]; 'Port Macquarie - The Winding Sheet' by Griffen & Howell (signed) [Port Macquarie, 1996]. (c115 items)
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Prints: 'Art Folio Volume One' by Milton [Melbourne, 1972]; 'art on paper' (set of 8 in folder) [Melbourne, c1977]; 'Landmarks of the City of London in the Eighteenth Century' (set of 12 engravings in folder) [London, 1987]; 'World Heritage' (set of 8) [Canberra, c1988]; plus other prints (5) & calendars (4)
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War Memorials & Cemeteries: Group of books & pamphlets, noted 'We Will Remember Them - Aif Epitaphs of World War I' by Laffin (signed by author) [Sydney, 1995]; 'Australian Jewry's Book of Honour World War II' by Pynt [Adelaide, 1973]; 'Singapore Diary' [Canberra, 1992]. Ex Major-General Gordon Maitland. (17 items)
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Butterflies & Moths c1914-69 collection in two albums, noted 1914 Sniders & Abrahams 'Butterflies & Moths' Set A [43/60], Set B [55/60] & error cards [12]; 1932 Players 'Butterflies' [50]; 1927 Wills 'British Butterflies' [50]; 1925 Wills (NZ) 'NZ Butterflies, Moths & Insects' [50]. Fair/Vg. (Total c820)
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1937 Godfrey Phillips 'Sportsmen - Spot the Winner', complete set (50); plus 1949 Carreras (Turf) 'Sports', complete set (50), the sets include cricket, football, jockeys, Olympics, golf, boxing, tennis, speedway, ice hockey. G/VG. (total 100)
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