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Australian & Colonial – Antique & Historical — Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)

Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:479
Sale Title:Australian & Colonial – Antique & HistoricalLots with images:477
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:294
Date:6-Nov-2014
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Ppp Premier Pottery Preston squat vase & milk jug both dribble glazed. 6.5 cm & 7 cm
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William Ricketts: Pottery flower aid in the form of an aboriginal woman on a tree trunk. Signed & dated 1934
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Remued Pottery, group of 4 assorted jugs & vases from the 1930s, ranging in size from 9 cm to 22 cm
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John Campbell Tasmanian pottery flower trough (length 20 cm) & 2 vases 10 cm & 8 cm. (3 items)
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Melrose pottery green glazed flower trough decorated with gum leaves. Length 35 cm
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Ola Cohn pottery plaque, of an Aboriginal & koala. 21 x 20 cm
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Merric Boyd: Pottery jug with applied grapes & leaves glazed in blue & gray with incised landscape scene, signed & dated 1942. Provenance: Hurnall Colletion, Joels Auctions. 18.5 cm
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Jolliff: Pottery jug in blue & purple glazes, incised 'Hand Built, Jolliff F.E.C. 1946'. Height 15 cm, width 19 cm
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Neil Douglas, AMB (Arthur Merric Boyd) pottery dish with boxing kangaroos (10.5 cm); plus Guy Boyd emu vase (7 cm)
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William Ricketts, Pottery face mask wall plaque mounted jasper slab. 18 x 15 cm
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Melrose pottery green glazed vase with gumnuts & leaves. 24.5 cm
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Castle Harris: Pottery fruit basket with marine motif. Incised Height 12 cm, width 28.5 cm, depth 17 cm
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Remains of pottery collection. Arthur Merric Boyd pink & green bowl (diameter 15 cm); Harvy school vase (dia. 10 cm); Grace Seccombe miniature koala statue (4.5 cm); David & Hermia Boyd vase (15 cm); Hatton Beck pottery dog (9 cm)
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Neil Douglas Pottery plate with painted rural landscape scene. Potted by Arthur Merric Boyd. Diameter 30.5 cm
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Harold Hughan: Early grey glazed terra cotta lidded jar. Full signature & incised monogram. 18 cm
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David & Hermia Boyd, Tall art pottery jug in cream & orange glaze on terra cotta. Height 43 cm
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Harold Hughan: Pottery vase, cream glazed with underglazed brown leaf decoration. Early signature & monogram. 14 cm
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Harold Hughan: Two pottery cannisters, brown & black glazes. Both with full signature & additional monogram. Tallest 23 cm
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Harold Hughan: Pottery bowl with sgraffito floral design, full signature. Diameter 16.5 cm
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Harold Hughan: Brown glazed pottery lidded jar with full signature & incised monogram. 15 cm
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Keith Namatjira (1938-1977), Central Australian Landscape, watercolour, signed 'Keith Namatjira' lower left, 34 x 25 cm
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Two boomerangs from the private collection of renowned explorer & anthropologist Alfred Howitt. Western New South Wales (74 cm) & South Eastern Australian (45 cm) origins, 19th century. Howitt was appointed leader of the Victorian Relief Expedition in search of the ill fated Burke & Wills party where he discovered King the only survivor. He returned a year later to retrieve their bodies that he had buried on his first trip to the Cooper creek. Howitt had an esteemed career from geologist to Gold Warden in…
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Aboriginal breast plate engraved 'Mickey Chief Of Trinkee Plains' early cast brass circa 1840s. Width 15 cm
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Aboriginal breast plate 'Colin King of Wallambata & Byron Plains' circa 1850s. Width 15 cm
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Spear Thrower (woomera), South Eastern Australian origin, late 19th century. 36 cm. Provenance: Ex Bega Museum collection (X2405)
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Club: South Eastern Australian origin, 19th century. 67 cm
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A fine boomerang, Broome area West Australia with remains of ocre finish, late 19th century. 55 cm
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Wunda Shield: West Australian origin, wood & natural earth pigments, late 19th early 20th century. 63 cm
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Important group aboriginal tribal artifacts collected by Thomas Phillip Gourlay at Mt Eba on Bon Bon Station South Australia located near the junction of Queensland & the Northern Territory. Early 20th century. Shields (3), boomerangs (8), snake, sword club, throwing club, poker work turtle, fork & 2 unusual cups. Of particular interest are 2 shields & a boomerang carved by the same artist with flowers & insects. (17 items)
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Coolamon: Western Queensland origin with incised decoration, 75 cm
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Wunda Shield: West Australian origin with incised decoration and remains of ochre. 75 cm
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Shield: West Australian origin with incised decoration and motif, early to mid 20th century. 66 cm
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Boomerangs: Group of three West Australian boomerangs with ochre finish. 60 to 70 cm
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Woomera & Boomerang: West Australian origin, early to mid 20th century. 88 cm & 62 cm
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Club (Waddy): East Australian origin, late 19th century. 64 cm
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Boomerangs: Group of three central deserts boomerangs with ochre finish. 66 cm to 80 cm
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Woomera & Digging Stick: Central deserts region, early to mid 20th century. 85 & 93 cm
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Group of four Mulga wood boomerangs, South Australian origin, 20th century. 40 to 56 cm
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Assorted Aboriginal adornments, boomerang, message stick (40 cm) and spear tip
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Boomerang: Western Australian origin, late 19th century with unusual carved motif in the centre. 65 cm
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Boomerangs: Two mulga wood boomerangs, South Australian origin. 44 cm to 67 cm
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Aboriginal shield West Australian origin circa 1940s (62 cm); & a club central deserts origin (58 cm)
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Artist Unknown (Port Keats Bark Painting), 19 x 60 cm
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Richard Forrester Tjapanangka: Hermannsburg school watercolour signed lower right. 50 x 37 cm
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Ewald Namatjira (1930 - 1984) hand painted woomera, signed lower center, circa 1950's. 74 cm
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Tribal Artifacts: Club with poker work decoration (47 cm), carved snake (77 cm) and painted miniature didgeridoo (80 cm). 3 items
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Lipundja (Mokuy figure), Northern Territory origin, wood & natural earth pigments. 28 cm
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Tiwi Islands painted spear (197 cm), Aboriginal barbed spear tip, Northern Territory (56 cm), and a painted wooden bust, Arnhemland (18 cm)
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Millingimbi Carved Bird and Boomerang, wood & natural earth pigments. Approx 52 cm each
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Kadaitcha Boots: Emu feather & wool fibre
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Jambulula (Croker Island Bark Painting), 63 x 27 cm
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Kadaitcha Boots: Northern Australian origin
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Ballarat gold fields tinware map canister by John Hollway (ex major Ted Millet/Montrose cottage); plus early Ballarat tinware money box with Penhalluriack mark. Largest 26 cm
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Sharkey's pattern balance scales and weights with porcelain tray ex Ballarat greengrocers circa 1850's. 86 cm
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Tinware coffee chest by John Hollway of Ballarat ex Reids Coffee Palace and Montrose cottage collection. Original painted finish and maker's plaque. Height 29 cm, width 56 cm, depth 31 cm
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'Destiny' gold nugget. Ballarat district of Victoria. Weight 3.663 kg. Previously displayed at sovereign Hill Gold Museum where it was valued at over $500,000 the nugget is one of the most significant gold finds in recent years
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Gold Nugget, 361.8g, 11.6oz, from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
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Gold nugget, 283g, 9.1oz, from Tarnagulla, Victoria
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Gold Nugget, 120.4g, 3.9oz, from Dunolly, Victoria
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Gold Nugget, 116.2g, from Dunolly, Victoria
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Gold Nugget, 44.5g, from Kingower, Victoria
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Gold Nugget, 43.6g (31g gold), from Tarnagulla, Victoria
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'Hand of Faith' Nugget replica. [In 1980, Kevin Hillier was fossicking in the forest behind the old Kingower school house when he came across the 875 ounce 'Hand of Faith' nugget. The nugget was sold to the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas for over Us$1 million and remains the largest nugget still in existence in the world today, and the largest ever found with a metal detector]
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Gold scales and assorted weights in timber box, mid 19th century
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Gold Scales: Australian cedar 1 drawer base with brass balance top, mid 19th century. Height 59 cm, width 47 cm, 24 cm
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Two sets of Chinese bone and brass pocket gold scales, mid 19th century. The largest 47 cm long. . Provenance: Private collection, Ballarat
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A cast iron door stop moulded with the figure of a miner, Ballarat, 19th century. Height 20 cm, width 31 cm
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Blacksmiths manufactured grapple hook & two cast iron camp ovens. 19th century
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Antique food safe by John Hollway & Sons of Ballarat, 19th century. 73 cm
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Avery Class 2, 7lb. scales with set of gold cup weights in fitted oak box, mid 19th century
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Gold sovereign, Sydney Mint 1868, higher grade
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Gold scales, brass balance top marked 'Dane & Scot', later timber box base, 19th century. 48 cm
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Gold scales in timber case, mid 19th century. Case width 17 cm
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Antique oversize padlock with key, 19th century. 22 cm
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Patent Gold Changer Express by W & T Avery. Cast iron & brass, circa 1890. 37 cm
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Miners Right; group of 5 late 19th century issued for the Ballarat district
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Eureka Stockade: First hand account of the events leading up to the 1854 Eureka rebellion by Jon Dow, written on April 1st 1896. This document offers a fascinating insight into the daily events on the Ballarat goldfields from meeting with George Scobie, avoiding the police for not having a licence, to dealing with the Chinese miners & the discovery of a 20lb nugget on his run. Well worth close inspection, previously unpublished. 27 pages (single sided)
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Pewter plate, 19th century with 'Franklin' etched in the centre. From a private collection in Tasmania this plate is purported to have belonged to Sir John Franklin Polar Explorer & Governor of Van Diemen's Land. Franklin headed the ill fated 1845 Northwest Passage expedition into Arctic waters North of Canada never to return
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Belgica Polar Expedition; silver gelatin photograph captioned verso 'Dr. Frederick A.Cook gave me this photo. Shows him on the Belgian Expedition to the South Pole. Ship Belgica is in background. Cook said the temperature was 40 below, when this picture was taken'. Also inscribed 'Print not so good. Freeman Mackay(?) Belle Mead N.J. U.S.A.'. The Belgica left Antwerp in 1897, Dr. Cook assumed command of the vessel along with Roald Amundsen after Captain de Gerlache went down with scurvy. The ship spent an…
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'Antarctica' by Edwin Swift Balch [Philadelphia, 1902] first edition endorsed by the author to Mr M.Watts of the Philadelphia Free Library with tipped in letter signed by the author
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Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1904 - William Spiers Bruce (1867-1921) 'Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S.Y. 'Scotia' during the years 1902, 1903 and 1904, under the Leadership of William S. Bruce' - Volume II - Physics: Part 1 - Meteorology; Part II - Magnetism: Part III - Tides. [Edin., The Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory, 1907] large handcover in original brown cloth, blocked in gilt on covers and spine, spine blocked with the Saltire in blue & white. 324pp, with…
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Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1902-1904: 'Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S.Y. 'Scotia' during the years 1902, 1903 and 1904.' Volume III - Botany, Parts I - XI, with plates and a chart; 153pp. Signed and dedicated by Robert Rudmose Brown, the lead author of this volume
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Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902 - 1904: 'Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S.Y. 'Scotia' during the years 1902, 1902 and 1904: [Edinburgh, 1908]. Volume IV - Zoology - Part I; 105pp with a coloured frontispiece, 33 plates, 2 maps and 100 photographs
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Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902 - 1904: 'Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S.Y. 'Scotia' during the years 1902, 1903 and 1904' [Edinburgh, 1909] Volume V - Zoology. Parts I - XIII - Invertebrates. 312pp plus 36 plates
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Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902 - 1904: 'Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S.Y. 'Scotia' during the years 1902, 1903 and 1904' [Edinburgh, 1920]. Volume VII - Zoology. Parts I - XIII - Invertebrates; 323pp plus 15 plates and 23 text figures
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Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902 - 1904. An original printed invitation from The Reception Committee to the recipient to be aboard the 'Marchioness of Lorne' in Weymss Bay on July 21st, 1904, when it steams out to meet and convoy the 'Scitia' home. With Snae flag stick-pin affixed at left
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Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Bruce, William S., 'Report on the Work of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, with eight photographs and a map' (Read at the Meeting of the British Association, Cambridge, August 23, 1904). Original red paper wrappers. Provenance: presentation copy stamped 'With compliments' and dated August 1906, in ink. Rare. In this paper, originally read 'at the Meeting of the British Association, Bruce outlines what the expedition achieved. Not in Spence or Rosove
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Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902 - 1904: Autograph letter from William S. Bruce on Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory, Edinburgh letterhead dated 30 March 1910; to Dr Dawson Turner, Edinburgh. Also, 'Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Arctic and Antarctic' an illustrated address by Bruce in which he proposes the Scottish Expedition. (2 items)
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Postcards: 'Discovery' Antarctic Series [Df-2 & Df-4]. Two cards showing 'Armitage's Party' & 'Emperor Penguin Rookery At Commencement Of Great Barrier'. Circa 1904
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'The Seige of the South Pole' by High R. Mill [Alston Rivers, London, 1905] First Edition in original green cloth binding with title and highlights in gilt. 455pp plus all illustrations & maps in text + large folding map at rear
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'Life in the Antarctic - Photographs by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition' - Gowan's Nature Books, No.10 [Glasgow, 1907] with 60 full page photohraphs. Scarce and early little booklet of photographs of Antarctic wildlife
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The Shackleton Expedition: 1908 (Feb.3) envelope with 'British Antarctic Expedition 1907' printed on the back flap, sent to Christchurch with a 1d King Edward VII Land adhesvive (Sg.A1) tied by the 'Brit. Antarctic Expd' datestamp. This envelope was part of the second experimental mail, the datestamp being used at Cape Royds on M cmurdo Sound and the mail send back on the 'Nimrod', which departed on Feb.22nd for Lyttleton (backstamped 7 Mr)
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Shackleton's 1908 Expedition: cover addressed to 'Mr T.D. Robertson / King Edward VII Land / South Pole', endorsed at top left 'per Nimrod', dated at lower left '29-11-08', franked with ½d pair with Invercargill machine cancel, with 2 line violet h/stamp 'Not Known At / King Ed-VII Land'. Plus 3 transit cancels on the reverse and octagonal 'Christchurch / Unclaimed' on the front
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Ernest Shackleton, (Nimrod Expedition 1907): An important Polar Exploration sterling silver presentation desk set engraved 'Rare Basalt with Olivine Crystal from Slopes of Mt Erebus, Antarctica. W.Knightsmith, from E.H.Shackleton as a slight token of appreciation 24th Sept, 1909'. Adorned with 2 mineral specimens collected by Shackletons team on the first successful ascent of Mt Erebus. References to the collection of the minerals were made by Edgeworth David in his article 'Aurora Australis' in which he…
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'The Heart of the Antarctic - being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909' by Ernest H. Shackleton. First edition; rebound in red cloth, with gilt titles. [William Heinemann, London, 1909]. Volume 1 only; thick 4to; frontispiece + xlviii + 372pp; with 12 colour plates, b & w plates; 3 folding maps and one folding panorama in back pocket
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'The Heart of the Antarctic - being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909' by Ernest H. Shackleton. First edition, in original binding. [William Heinemann, London, 1909] Volume 2 only. 4to; frontispiece + xv + flyleaf of errata + 419pp; plus colour plates, b&w plates; 3 folding maps in back pocket
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Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935) Birth of an Iceberg titled and numbered '24' on the on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse carbon print, 45 x 61 cm. Provenance: George Clarke Simpson, meteorologist on the Terra Nova expedition 1878-1965 and then by descent
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Herbert George Ponting (1870 - 1935) Cumulus Clouds rising up over Barne Glacier the photographer's blindstamp 'H.G. Ponting' in lower right margin carbon print, 49.5 x 65.3 cm numbered '105' on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse . Provenance: George Clarke Simpson, meteorologist on the Terra Nova expedition 1878-1965 and then by descent
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Herbert George Ponting (1870 - 1935) Face of the Great Ice Barrier and Mount Terror the photographer's blindstamp 'H.G. Ponting' in lower right margin carbon print, 49.5 x 65.3 cm numbered '20' on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse. Provenance: George Clarke Simpson, meteorologist on the Terra Nova expedition 1878-1965 and then by descent
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British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913: 1911 (Jan.19) envelope sent by George Simpson (Expedition Meteorologist) to his sister in London; bearing the 1d Victoria Land stamp tied by 'Brit. Antarctic Expd' datestamp and with the 'Terra Nova R.Y.S.' crest printed on the backflap. Very few covers are recorded with this despatch date c.d.s., the first day it was used on the 'Terra Nova' and coincidentally, the day Mt. Erebus was first sighted
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