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The Berry Collection Part 1, Day 2 — Young's Auctions (No longer trading)

Auction House:Young's Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:309
Sale Title:The Berry Collection Part 1, Day 2Lots with images:179
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:269
Date:25-Aug-2008
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Porcelain head doll of Nazi 'Brownshirt' soldier Wearing a swastika armband, painted porcelain boots & a cloth cap. Porcelain head stamped 'Km, Germany, 1018/37'. 36 cm
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'Collingwood' Football Club 'League Series' postcard depicting a footballer taking a place kick
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'Association Series North Melbourne' Football Club postcard, depicting a player standing with one foot on a ball
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Australian Rules Football Carte-de-visite of a player in standing pose with oval ball resting on a pedestal. Horizontal hooped guernsey and socks, plain knee-length trousers and cap. Taken at the Studio of Timothy Noble, 135 Bourke Street East, Melbourne. Noble operated from this premises from 1874 to 1878. A rare early portrait of an unidentified Australian Rules Footballer.
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Australian Rules Football, three antique photographs of Australian Rules Footballers, two taken by Patterson Bros. of Carlton of which one is handcoloured
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Pennant flags 'Carlton Premiers 1949' x 6 52 cm long
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Two carte de visites of Captain Matthew Webb One in sporting attire bearing 3 awards, the other detailing his achievement of being the first man to swim the English Channel in 1875 and his subsequent death at Niagara Rapids on July 24th, 1883.
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Collection of approx. 29 antique & early 20th century postcards & photographs of sports teams, comical sports caricatures, etc
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20th century silver plated automobile trophy. A winged wheel with presentation shield & Australian shaped plaque on a Bakelite base. 15 cm height
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Sterling silver trophy cup Mounted on a Bakelite base. Inscribed on the body 'Scc, For Best Exhibit, Presented By Miss Adams' 30 cm
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Gilt metal statue of a Female Tennis Player in Edwardian attire. 21 cm
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Collection of Victorian & Edwardian photographs of football, rowing & tennis clubs, cyclists, jockeys, fisherman etc.
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Australian cricket trophy engraved with 'Boyle & Scotts Challenge Cup, For Best Junior Cricket Club, Season 1884/5, Won by the Queensberry C. C., Hotham', the reverse of the body engraved with a cricketing scene, with two classical styled angel handles, a wicket keeper to the lid and a kangaroo bowling to a lion on the base. 'Boyle Played in the First Australian 'Test' Team in 1878. Boyle and his business partner David Scott founded the Australian Cricket, Football & Sports Warehouse in Bourke Street,…
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Cricket photographic postcard, 'The Australian Eleven' 1878 cricket test team, featring thirteen cameos of the players, their names and representative states, the photograph was taken by T. F. Chuck & Son, Royal Arcade, Melbourne. This team is often referred to as the first Australian test team, even though the 'Test' term in cricket wasn't used until a full decade later
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Two scrap album items One of Dr W. G. Grace & W. L. Murdoch, Australian Coat Of Arms & caricature cricket scene. The other a Trade Mark armorial banner with ensigns & kangaroo. Circa 1873.
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(Part) cricket trophy 'South Melbourne Challenge Cup, Presented By Thomas Smith Esq., 1883.4'. A rare and unusual Australian piece with repousse ferns & wreaths surrounding the inscription. A naïve cricketing scene with colonial clubhouse & picket boundary fence. The lid with matching repousse ferns. 19.5 cm
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Collection of cricket & football memorabilia Including 2 Victorian photographs of young boys with cricket bats, Cricket Laws books from the 1930's, football fundraising tickets etc.
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Australian Rules Football cigarette cards By J. J Schuh Tobacco Co., Magpie Series, 1925 issue. 82 cards of the known series of 103, plus an unrecorded card of Mel Morris, Richmond.
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Australian Rules Football cigarette cards 19 cards by Sniders & Abraham, from 1904 to 1909 incl. Incidents In Play, Victorian country players etc.
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Australian Rules Football cigarette cards 31 cards by Schuh, Sniders & Abraham, incl. 1911-1912 & 1922 series.
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Australian Rules Football sporting cards Total of 21 rare issues from Thorp's Chocolate Fudge, Hart's Butcher, Licorice Larks, Hoadley's Chocolates, Mrs. Pasrell etc., incl Lloyd's, Brunswick with Hoyt's Lyceum Theatre coupon still attached.
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Australian Rules Football sporting cards Issued by Allen's 'Steam Rollers', 'Irish Moss Gum Jubes' & 'Cure em Quick'. A total of 46 cards, circa 1933.
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Australian Rules Football cigarette cards, issued by Wills, twenty of the series of 28, and 8 duplicates, Football Club Colours and Flags, and seven Havelock and Capstan Victorian Football Association and League club flags with rules on the reverse
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Australian Rules Football cigarette cards Godfrey Phillips Bdv Cigarettes, Victorian Footballers, issued in 1930. Thirty one cards of the series plus 15 duplicates.
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Australian Rules Football cigarette cards Issued by WD & HO Wills in 1933. Victorian teams include Fitzroy, Richmond, Brighton, Preston etc. Total of 50 cards plus 7 duplicates.
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Australian Rules Football sporting cards. A mix of cards issued as supplements to Pals (5 cards, circa 1924) & 6 cards of Victorian League & Association Footballers by Bdv cigarettes, circa 1932.
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Australian Rules Football sporting cards. A mixture of 27 cards from various series, including Turfs, Kornies, Havelock, Magpie series etc.
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Cricket cigarette cards. A mixture of different series from the early 1900's through to the 1930's by Hoadley's, Giant Licorice, Allen's, Patrol Tobacco, Wills etc. These cards come housed in an old cigar box with painted cricket scenes on the outside & portrait photos pasted inside the lid. Approx. 127 cards.
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Horse Racing cigarette cards Approx. 85 cards from the early 1900's to the 1930's showing racing scenes, jockeys & horses of the times. Brands include Sniders & Abraham, J. J Schuh etc.
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Sporting cigarette cards. A collection of various brands & series showing Australian & international personalities such as Opperman, Jack Fitt, Billy Wells, Bert Hinkler, Amy Johnson, English footballers etc. Other series include sports of the world & exercises. Approx. 122 cards.
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Military cigarette cards. A large collection of cards showing Vc Heroes, War Incidents, ships, soldiers through the ages, military personnel etc., plus an album with Official War Photograph series.
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Movie Star cigarette cards. A large group of cards by JJ Schuh, State Express Cigarettes, Milo and many others. Stars include G. Swanson, H. Lloyd, Jackie Coogan and many others, both English & American.
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Cigarette cards. A large collection of cards with such topics as Historic Events, British Empire series, Arms Of The British Empire, Views Of The World etc.
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Cigarette cards. A collection of cards on animals & flowers including Birds Of Australasia, pop-up Animals, Wild Animals' Heads, Wildflowers Of Australia etc.
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Cigarette cards. A collection of transport themed cards with various series including Past & Present, Aviation, Modern British Locomotives etc.
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Cigarette cards. A collection of silk cards by WD & HO Wills with such topics as butterflies, birds & animals of Australia, crests of Australian universities, English porcelain and so on.
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Cigarette cards. A large collection of cards, all with women in period costumes including Edwardian & rare Victorian photographs. Series also include Palette Girls, Beauties etc.
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Milo Cigarettes 'Melbourne Buildings' series. A group of 14 cards (plus 7 duplicates) and 3 Milo 1857 Views Of Victoria.
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Cigarette cards. A good collection of 8 different series plus original cigarette boxes. Series include Household Hints, Wonders Of The Deep, Canada, signalling flags and so on.
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Two Pocket Rotoscopes Plus a large collection of real photographic stereograms with views of the world including many Australian scenes showing views of Sydney, horse racing at Flemington, Bendigo mining, Tasmania etc.
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Lace flags & buttonholes. A collection of lace Flags Of The World, as issued in 1916, plus metal Buttonholes Of The World, issued 1915 by Wills, Capstan & Sniders.
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Cigarette cards. A group of cards including Japanese scenes, Oriental women, Billiard Tricks, Cries Of London, comic scenes, peasant costumes etc
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Melbourne 1956 Olympics memorabilia Including 2 Royal Albert cups, saucers & plates, Italian pottery jug, 2 biscuit tins, official guide and others.
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Collection of 7 pre-war toy racing cars by Dinky, Micro Models etc.
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Collection of 13 tin and die-cast toy cars, jeeps, bus, Buck Rogers 'Venus Duo-Destroyer' and so on by Dinky, Micro Models etc.
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Two Japanese 'Modern Toys' lever-action tin plate model automobiles.
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'Station Porter' tin toy with a clockwork mechanism
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Pair of Schuco clockwork musical monkeys, one drummer & a fiddle player, in original felt clothing with berets. (Fiddle player in working order.)
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Rare Schuco clockwork acrobatic Mickey Mouse, in working order.
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Collection of 7 tin-plate toys including clockwork butterfly, 2 Japanese mice, clockwork swing, bicycle, helicopter & a duck.
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Carl Bergner porcelain headed doll with a revolving three sided head, composition limbs, a hand-worked lace dress, a yellow silk slip and a monogram stamp on the back, made in Sonneberg
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A collection of 19th century porcelain dolls & a 20th century plastic doll with interchangeable clothes.
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A collection of 7 Dinky Toy 'Roplanes Including An Ensign Class Air Liner, Hawker Hurricane, Seaplane, Flying Fortress Etc.
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Group of three battery powered tin toys including a boxed Nomura Toy tank, Japanese guitar playing monkey & a McGregor smoking figure.
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Toy monkey with a wire and straw filled body and limbs
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Pair of pre-war teddy bears, a male and a female, with straw filled bodies, their original silk and cotton check costumes and growling mechanisms
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Collection of 5 dolls & toy dogs including Wendy Boston, Norah Wellings, Dean's Rag Book Co. etc.
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Group of 6 folk art & string-pull toys including 3 wooden cows, a rabbit, elephant & a dog.
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Chess and draughts set with a roll-up inlaid timber board, its original rosewood box and bone pieces in cream and red
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'Staunton Chessmen' turned wooden chess set in its original velvet lined cedar box with a paper label
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Clarke Tile playing card set in its original timber box with folding metal stands
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Gaming tokens in a pear wood box with two rows of brass counters and an inscription, 'Freiderich Deutscher Kaiser Konig V. Preussen'
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Two antique turned treen cases with counters. Showing 'Georgivs III Dei Gratia' with King's head profile, the reverse with English Coat-Of-Arms and 'In memory of the good old days 1797'
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Collection of early 20th century toys including playing cards, draughts set, cribbage board, travelling chess set & roulette wheel.
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Group of toys including bone & ebony dominoes, card games, bezique counters, bridge scorers etc.
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Collection of playing cards. Approx. 5 packs with advertising fronts including Holden, P&O Lines, Adelaide Tailoring Co., Hartley's Sports Store, Vat 69 etc.
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Collection of ten packs of Art Deco and Edwardian playing cards, showing decadent women in erotic scenes, smoking, drinking etc.
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Collection of 13 packs of playing cards with Art Deco designs, Fairies, military men, ships, birds, flowers etc.
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National Toy Co. talking machine automated toy with its original box, 'The Boxers, Automatic Boxing Darkies For Disc Talking Machines'. These two boxer figures are designed to sit atop a phonograph and 'Box' as the record turns
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National Toy Co. talking machine automated toy, 'Dancing Rastus', with its original box which includes directions on the lid. This dancing figure is designed to sit atop a phonograph and 'Dance' as the record spins
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National Toy Co. talking machine automated toy 'Ragtime Rastus' in original box with directions and a now socially incorrect description on the lid, circa 1915.
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Group of 4 early 20th century toys German 'Romance Architecture' wood building block set, 2 'Ano-Katho Elektrischer Figurentanz' tumbling dioramas & an English 'Tumbleumin'.
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Two English horse racing table games from the 1930's. Raceplay & Escalado brands with Bakelite and lead horses
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Train set. A collection of Dinky Toys 'Lone Star' carriages, 9 locomotives and a quantity of English & Australian made track.
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Hornby clockwork 'O' gauge (No. 31) passenger train set with an engine, coal tender, two passenger carriages, track, connecting plates, a key and its original box
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Marklin train set HO gauge CM 800 shunting locomotive, tin track, spare wheel sets, original box, and an additional Marklin model 457 railway crossing
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Bing Werke model train set Tin plate clockwork locomotive with tender, 3 carriages & track. Circa 1920.
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Australian Aborigines group of 18 postcards of Australian Aborigines including 5 VSM series of Aborigines in each state, by 'Nutall', some Kerry Photo's etc.
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Australian & International Exhibitions. Collection of 21 postcards, Melbourne medallion, London 1909 Season Ticket, ivory letter opener with Melbourne Exhibition Stanhope, Paris cigarette card & a glass from the Australian Manufacturer's Exhibition, 1913.
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Album of approx. 200 postcards Melbourne and Victorian country towns, such as Bright, Beechworth, Foster, Warburton, the Dandenong Ranges etc.
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Album of approx. 128 postcards Central Melbourne and surrounding suburbs including Malvern, Armadale, Footscray, Middle Brighton, Sandringham, Carlton, Moonee Ponds and so on.
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Album of Australian theme postcards Including Gumleaf series, bushrangers, hand painted cards, birds, city buildings, country towns & bush views, Echuca, Broken Hill, Bendigo, Nsw views etc.
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Album of approx. 87 postcards Views of Victorian towns including Portland, Warrnambool, Queenscliffe, Lorne, the Dandenongs, Hepburn Springs, Frankston etc.
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Album of approx. 126 postcards Views of Sydney, Nsw towns & scenery including Sydney Harbour, Manly, Kirribilli, Coogee Bay, Katoomba, Orange, Narranaderra and so on a number by the photographer, Kerry.
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Album of approx. 96 postcards Views of Tasmania, Queensland & South Australia, including city views, bridges, churches, rivers and so on.
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Two albums of erotic, comic & novelty postcards Total of 48 cards in matching albums.
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Album of 36 postcards Predominantly local advertising cards plus Talma negro children series. Advertisers include Swallow & Ariells, Singer sewing machines, Norman Bros., Foster's, Havelock, etc.
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Album of postcards Including advertising, women, children, romantic series & novelty cards. A great selection of Victorian and early 20th century cards.
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Grand Tour postcards Album of postcards tracing a Grand Tour of the world. The album includes panoramic photos of Europe & Asia, photographic postcards of the Great Wall, Japanese ladies, Ceylon, Thailand, India etc.
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Album of assorted international postcards Views of North American cities & landmarks, Latin America, Italy, Crete etc.
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Album of international postcards Views of Africa, South Africa (including Zulu warriors), Egypt, Palestine, Aden etc.
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Album of antique Germanic postcards Including many colour lithographs of cities, castles, mountains etc. A good sample of cards from a country whose printers who were at the forefront of technological advances in the 19th century. Many Australian scene cards were printed in Germany.
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Album of English postcards. A large collection of colour & black & white views of towns, cathedrals & country scenes in an Art Nouveau album.
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Edwardian postcard album Following the travels around the world to such countries as Germany, England, Netherlands, Scotland, France, Italy, New Caledonia, India, Java etc.
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Album of Victorian & early 20th century postcards. A large quantity with views of London, country towns, mountains, sculptures etc.
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Two albums of postcards Topics include risque women, novelty cards, hand painted cards, children, bathing beauties and so on including many sets.
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Two albums of postcards One album of novelty cats, the other with children, fairies, comic & romantic scenes.
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Album of Victorian & Edwardian postcards. A wonderful collection of romantic scenes, beautiful women, novelty cards, actresses and cards with real hair. Many sets of cards are included.
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Album of postcards. A collection of industrial themed cards including bridges, ships, trains, a series of a bomb making factory, the Eiffel Tower etc.
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Album of postcards and photographs Military & Royalty themes including propaganda, battle scenes, bombed ruins, Italian cards, embroidered cards & a series of 7 cards showing the funeral procession of Staff Surgeon Laurie, of the Royal Navy.
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