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Estate & Collector — Davidson Auctions

Auction House:Davidson AuctionsNumber of lots recorded:254
Sale Title:Estate & CollectorLots with images:254
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:206
Date:22-Oct-2017
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Original Movie Poster, 'Bikini Beach,' 1964. Paramount. Pub. W Schey Poster Co, 102 x 68 cm
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16 Hollywood Movie Posters, including 'Pillars of the Sky,' 1956; 'The Band Wagon,' 1953; 'The Spoilers,' 1942; 'High Society,' 1956; 'The Song of Bernadette,' 1945; 'Anchors Aweigh,' 1945; 'The Tender Trap,' 1955; 'Away All Boats,' 1956; 'Iron Man,;' 'An Affair to Remember,' 1957; 'Without Reservations,' 1946; 'We Who are Young,' 1940; 'The Little Hut,' 1957; 'Marie Antoinette,' 1938; 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street,' 1934; & 'Blossoms in the Dust,' 1941, 100 x 68 cm (average)
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Three Hollywood Movie Posters, including Elvis Presley ' Wild in the Country,' 1961; Fred Astaire, 'Daddy Long Legs,' 1955; & Cecil B De Mille's 'Ten Commandments,' 1956, 101 x 68 cm (each)
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14 Hollywood Movie Posters, including 'King Solomon's Mines,' 1950; 'North to Alaska,' 1960 (2); 'Dragon Seed,' 1944; 'Valentino,' 1977; 'When Comedy was King,' 1960; 'The Chaplin Revue,' 1959; 'Limelight,' 1952; 'Saraband,' 1948; 'None but the Lonely Heart,' 1944; 'Three Darling Daughters,' 1948; 'Desk Set,' 1957; 'The Sea of Grass,' 1947; & 'We were Strangers,' 1949, 100 x 68 cm (average)
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12 Hollywood Movie Posters, including 'Mogambo,' 1953; 'All at Sea,' 1957; 'Sandy is a Lady,' 1940; 'You're not so Tough,' 1940; 'Command Decision,' 1948; 'Idiot's Delight,' 1939; 'Easter Parade,' 1948; 'Wedding Breakfast,' 1956; 'The Anniversary,' 1968; 'Good News,' 1947 (2); & 'The Girl in White,' 1952, 100 x 68 cm (average)
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8 Hollywood Movie Posters, including 'Mr Music,' 1950; 'The Emperor Waltz,' 1948; 'Because of Him,' 1946; 'Hers to Hold,' 1943; '100 Men and a Girl,' 1937; 'Anything Goes,' 1956; 'Going my Way,' 1944; & 'First Love,' 1939, 66 x 33 cm (average)
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Seven Hollywood Movie Posters, including 'Oklahoma,' 1955; 'Carousel, ' 1956; 'Pittsburgh;' 'She wore a Yellow Ribbon,' 1949; 'Angel and the Badman,' 1947; 'An Affair to Remember,' 1957; & 'Lili,' 1953, 75 x 34 cm (average)
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8 Hollywood Movie Posters, including 'The Philadelphia Story,' 1940; 'Above & Beyond,' 1952; 'The Prisoner of Zenda,' 1957; 'The Fighting O'Flynn,' 1949; 'Soldiers Three,' 1951; 'The Light Touch,' 1951; 'Knights of the Round Table,' 1953; & 'Ivanhoe,' 1952, 76 x 33 cm (average)
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Six Various Early Views Botanical Gardens Sydney. Incl entrance to Goverment House. C1880-1900. Mild to extensive foxing, 25 x 35 cm (average)
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Seven North Shore & City Scenes. Incl. Kirribilli; Harbour View from Milson's Point; & Sydney from Lavender Bay. Produced by Phillip - Stephan Photo Litho & Typographic Process Co Ltd. Sydney, NSW, 28 x 37 cm (average)
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Four Various c1888 Sydney City & Centennial Celebration Scenes, including University; & Industrial Blind Institution. Produced by Phillip - Stephan Photo Litho & Typographic Process Co Ltd. Sydney, NSW, 28 x 35 cm (average)
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Seven Various c1888 Sydney City & Harbour Views, including Customs House; George St (looking South), soiled; St Andrews Cathedral; & St Marys Cathedral. Produced by Phillip - Stephan Photo Litho & Typographic Process Co Ltd. Sydney, NSW, 28 x 36 cm (average)
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Two Various c1888 New Zealand Scenes, including White Terraces; Rotomahana; & Mt Sefton. Soiling, edge tears. Produced by Phillip - Stephan Photo Litho & Typographic Process Co Ltd. Sydney, NSW, 29 x 36 cm (average Image)
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Five Various 1888 Adelaide & Mt Macedon Views, including Mt Lofty; Prince Alfred College; & Lands Office. Soiling & short tears to outer margins. Produced by Phillip - Stephan Photo Litho & Typographic Process Co Ltd. Sydney, NSW, 29 x 35 cm (aveage image)
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Four Colonial Charles Bayliss Photographs of Sydney. Each with impressed studio stamp, & circa 1880. 'Botany Bay & Bear Island;' 'Govt House from the Domain;' 'Lavender Bay;' & 'Watsons Bay.', 15 x 19 cm (each)
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1879 Birds-Eye View of Sydney. Full sized facsimile of original as issued in the Illustrated Sydney News, October, 1879. Lot also includes Margaret Preston facsimile woodblock, 'Wheelflower' as published in Art in Australia, Sept, 1929, 99 x 67 cm and 16 x 16 cm
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15 Early 20th century Sydney Harbour Bridge Design Proposals. Photolithographs, dated 1903
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Pair 19th century Stipple Engravings. After Louis Francois Mariage, ornate gilt frames, black & gilt stencil lettering. Titled 'Naufragio de Telcoy Amazili;' & 'Sacrificio Sublimen del Cacique Henrique.', 68 x 75 cm (each overall)
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After Luke Fildes. Portrait of a Lady, 61 x 41 cm
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Three British Watercolours. William Callcot Knell, Man Before a Cottage, signed lower centre (25 x 34 cm); Artist Unknown, Churchyard with Figures (21 x 30 cm); & Artist Unknown, Highland Lake Scene (19 x 28 cm)
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Quantity Early Oceania & Naval Prints. Capture of La Chiffonne; Capture of the Island of Banda; Capture & destruction of 4 Spanish frigates, pub 1817; Establissement des Missionnaires Anglais a Kidrkidi (Nouvelle-Zelands); Gezigt van het Eiland Otahiti en enige..., 1793; Ile Rawak: Tombeaux des Papous; New Caladonian implements; Vue prise a Ombay; & Het Huis in de Morai.., Size Various
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Circa 1909 Original Jugendstil Designs by Erwin Gadomski. Various painted designs for lighting & furniture, plus illustrations of a dragon, mythical figure, & a Mallard accompanied by photos of church chandeliers, metal work, & sculpture. Also printed examples of work all by Erwin Gadomski, most dated between 1905-09, 30 x 40 cm (average) (each)
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Early 20th century French Coastal Studies. 10 var scenes of marine promenades. Some unfinished. French vendor's stamp verso, 29 x 40 cm (each)
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Szelburg-Zarembiny, Ewy (Polish Early 20th century) Woodcut, 1938, Warsaw (26.5 x 20 cm). She was a poet and artist. Czermanskiego, Zdzislawa. (Polish 1900-1970) 'Marshall Pilsudski.' Folio of 13 etchings. Caricatures, Warsaw 1935 (47 x 33 cm), and Czermanskiego, Zdzislawa. (Polish 1900-1970) Folio of 13 coloured engravings. Caricatures of Marshal Pilsudki. Ltd.ed. No. 98/500 (53 x 42.5 cm). Librairie Franco-Polonaise, Paris, 1931, Various
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Various (3). N Spencer, 'Perspective View of Colchester in the County of Essex,' c1771, (etching) 19 x 30 cm; Durer, 'A View of Nuremberg,' (colour print) 16 x 34 cm; & T Bowles after J Maurer, 'A View of Custom House with Part of the Tower, Taken from River Thames, London,' c1753 (coloured etching) 25 x 40 cm, Various
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Three Works USA etc. 19th century Appalachian School, Family Drinking Outside a Sod/Turf Cottage, Initialled 'Wcb [18] 95,' watercolour (25 x 29 cm); Signed 'Eu Schal...' Canyon View, inscribed verso 1927, w/clr & gouache (14 x 19 cm); & E S Bailey, 'Visitors from Bundralis (Manus)' watercolour (16 x 20 cm), Various
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William Hayes Bird Plates. 6 var plates hand coloured by the Hayes family. 4 signed. Also 3 plates by Peter Brown from 'New Illustrations of Zoology,' pub. 1776. Plus 2 bird chromolithographs from U.S.P.R.R. Expedition, 27 x 21 cm (sheet)
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Maps (9), from Cooks 3rd Voyage. various Pacific maps as pub. in a Dutch issue of 'A New Authentic and Complete account of Voyages Around the World.' Also Batavia, Strafs Sunda by Heydt, 17 x 23 cm (average)
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Maps (20), various Colonial County Maps. Octavo sized County/Parish maps as pub. 'A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies,' W H Wells, published 1848. Boundaries are hand coloured. Majority are NSW, 23 x 15 (paper size)
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Maps (2), Early Pacific & Australian Exploration. 'Carte de la Route des Corvettes L'Astrolabe, et la Zelee a travers le Detroit de Torres,' by Vincendon-Dumoulin, c1842; 'Carte de la Partie Septentrionale de la Nouvelle Bretagno, decouverte par Dampier, en 1700, reconnue par le contre-amiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux, en Juillet 1793,' by Beautemps-Beaupre & Francois, 1807. Tear & staining, 47 x 63 cm and 51 x 76 cm
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Map, Ortelius, Daniae Regni Typus. 2 Maps, Denmark by Anthoniszoon & Oldenburg Commit. Pub. By Ortelius, Antwerp, 1598, 35 x 50 cm
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Maps (5) Early Maps of The Holy Land. 5 Maps of Western Mediterranean encompassing modern Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan & Syria, by Simeoni Bonnell & others. Pub. In A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereon by Thomas Fuller, 1650, 29 x 34 cm
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Map, Ortelius Map of Cuba. 'Hispanilae, Cubae, Aliarumque Insularum Circumiacientium, Delineatio,' from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius, pub. Antwerp, 1570, 37 x 50 cm
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Five various Cartographers Hand Drawn Original Reproductions of Cooks Voyages, including chart of the Sea Coast of NSW; 2 charts of Cooks Straits in New Zealand; chart of the Sea Coast of NSW on the East Coast of New Holland; & general chart exhibiting the Discoveries made by Capt. James Cook, 61 x 95 cm (average)
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Maps (5), various Early Oceana Maps. 4 from the Bruny-D'entrecasteaux Voyage, 'De L'Ile Bouka & Bougainville;' 'De la Partie Sud-Est de la Nouvelle Guinee;' 'De Detroit de Dampier situe entre La Nouvelle Guinee et La Nouvelle Bretagne;' 'Carte de la Partie Du Grand Archipel D'Asie.' pub. Paris c1807; & 'Carte de Detroit de Wangi-Wangi,' from the voyage of the la Coquille c1824, 50 x 36 cm, 50 x 77 cm, 76 x 50 cm, 50 x 76 cm and 50 x 74 cm
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Maps (4), various Early Oceana Maps. 'Carte de la Cote de la Nouvelle Guinee' from the Coquille expedition, c1824; 'Carte des Iles Kermadec' from the Bruny-D'entrecasteaux voyage, pub. Paris c1807; 'Plan de L'Ile Borabora' from the Coquille expedition c1725; 2 maps on one sheet, 'de L'extremite Meridionale De L'Archipel du St.Esprit;' & 'de L'extremite septentrionale de la Nouvelle Zeelande' from the Bruny-D'entrecasteaux voyage, pub. Paris c1807, 74 x 48 cm, 51 x 37 cm, 50 x 36 cm, & 50 x 35 cm
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Maps (3), Italy & Germany. North Italy & South Italy by J Arrowsmith, pub. London c1842; Saxoniae Inferioris Curculus; & Northwest Germany by Tobias Conrad Lotter, pub. Ausberg, 1744, 53 x 62 cm (2) & 49 x 59 cm
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Map, Ortelius Map Holsatiae De scripi. 2 German regional maps on one sheet showing Frankfurt, Rhine & Hamburg. Pub. By Abraham Ortelius, Antwerp, 1581, 34 x 50 cm
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Maps (4), Von Reilly, Italy, Switzerland, Asia & Netherlands. Karte von Italien; Kart von der Schweiz, Karte von Asien; & Karte von der Republik der Niederlands, by Franz Joseph Von Reilly, pub. Vienna 1795-6, 61 x 78 cm (average)
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9 various Sporting & Pastimes Prints, including 2 pages from Blome's 'The Gentleman's Recreation,' (London 1686). Also sundry hunting prints & cockfighting, Russian fishing, coursing etc, 28 x 24 cm (average)
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Six various 19th century Political Caricatures, including 3 by Cruikshank, 24 x 35 cm (average)
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9 Various Military Prints. Various conflicts incl. Spanish-American War & Prussian, pub by The Werner Company (USA), 24 x 34 cm (each)
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8 various 18th & 19th century Political Caricatures & Cartoons, including 3 by Cruikshank, 22 x 27 cm (average)
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'The Death of Nelson.' 19th century lithograph. In bird's eye maple frame, 62 x 52 cm (overall)
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Seven various Artworks, including Costume Study of Moorish Soldier, w/clr signed Sainthill; Woman by Harbour, etching 23/25, Sheldon, Vincent; Nude with Black Stockings, litho 6/40, Dunstan, Bernard; Male Nude, crayon, signature indecipherable; & 3 other pieces
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Tibetan Tson-Tang thangka, 88 x 67 cm
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The Last Chinese Empress Cixi (Tz'u-hsi) 1835-1908. This painting shows Cixi in old age wearing winter clothing, blue silk lined fur robe with gold buttons, & fur hat. Considered to have been painted around 1915-25 in the manner of Hubert Vos, 44 x 35 cm
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Indian miniature, lovers in Pavilion, 20.5 x 12 cm
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Two 19th century Persian Illuminated manuscripts, 28 x 20 cm (each)
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Various Japanese prints
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Chinese Qing Dynasty table screen. 8 wooden frames with original hinges, each with 6 blue & white porcelain panels. The centre panels depicting sages & deities. As inspected incl. Restoration & cracks to some panels, one leg missing,1 tile repainted, height 82 cm, width 17 cm (each)
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Pair Japanese Meiji period bronze vases. Mirror image, inlaid with mixed metal design of cockerells on blossoming branch. Signed, height 12.5 cm (each)
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Japanese pottery bottle vase. Grey stylised landscape glaze. Studio impressed mark to base, height 20 cm
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Early Japanese Satsuma bowl. Samurai figures & blossom decoration. Lobed rim. Hand signed character mark to base, height 16 cm length 34 cm
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Chinese porcelain blue & white vase. Decoration of fish & lotus plants. Six character mark to shoulder, height 30 cm, width 31 cm
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Japanese Meiji period bronze Koro. Formed as the 'Lucky hammer' with original purple silk tassle. Signed 'Yama Shiro' to base, length 19 cm
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Mappin & Webb King's pattern cutlery service. Setting for 12, in fitted oak canteen
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Violin and case. Bearing lable for Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume & branded 'Vuillame a Paris' verso, length 59 cm
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Four Royal Doulton lady figurines, including 'Petite of the year 2011' HN5441; 'Dairy Maid' HN4249; 'Elaine' HN3307; & 'Happy birthday' HN4308, height 18-22 cm
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8 red & 8 white Corina Waterford glasses
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Five Royal Doulton lady figures, including 'Lady Emily;' 'Lady Dorothy;' 'Lady Margaret;' 'Christmas lantern' HN3953; & 'Thoughts of You.', height 10-16 cm
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Tall Moorcroft vase. In the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Designed by Rachel Bishop c1995, height 37 cm
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Suite of Thomas Webb crystal stemware. Setting for eight. Red & white wine glasses; port; sherry; & 6 Richardson sherry glasses
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Early Wedgwood blue Jasper plaque Dr Solander. Title inscribed verso. Crazing, height 19 cm (incl. Brass frame) (12 cm plaque only)
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Three Royal Doulton lady figurines, including 'Helen' HN3601; 'Jacqueline' HN3689; & one other, height 21 cm (average)
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Three Royal Doulton lady figurines, including 'Spring Serina' HN3956; 'Ellen' HN4231; & 'Maria' HN3381, height 21 cm (average)
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Victorian Wedgwood porcelain items, including 2 cups & saucers & one sugar bowl. Octagonal form with orange design of Queen Victoria's grandchildren
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Royal Doulton flambe 'Woodcut' vase. Ovoid shape, height 28 cm
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Four Royal Doulton lady figurines, including 'Kathleen' HN3609; 'Helen' HN3886; 'Le Bal' HN3702; & 'Claudia' HN4320, height 22 cm (average)
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Herend porcelain bowl. Everted rim, raised on 4 paw feet on a square base. Butterfly & floral design, diameter 20 cm
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Two Royal Doulton lady figurines, including 'The blacksmith' HN2782; & 'The Clockmaker' HN2279, height 21 cm (average)
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Three Royal Doulton lady figurines, including 'Maria' HN3381: 'Melissa' HN3977; & 'Ellen' HN4231, height 21 cm (average)
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Hoffman Australian waisted vase. Buff pottery with Rockingham glaze, together with green majolica moulded fruit dish, height 26 cm (vase) length 30 cm (dish)
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Large Raku fired stoneware bowl. Applied tubular rim with knops, central glazed well, brushed iron monogram 'Gb' [Gordon Baldwin?]. As inspected, diameter 39 cm
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Four various cut crystal decanters. All with diamond cut pattern, height 33 cm (tallest)
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Lladro figure group. Young woman with calf, height 20 cm
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Two German beer Steins. Merklebach student stein, hand painted university crest & dedications by J Becker, 1912; & large porcelain stein, cobalt underglaze, Chinoiserie decoration, pewter lid with mythical figure, crossed swords & 'S' to base, height 24 cm and height 16 cm
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Four china items. 2 Mason's ironsone display plates, one green & one Imari pallette; Coalport footed bowl; & crown Derby Imari plate, diameter 26 cm (average)
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1930s German porcelain horse, modelled standing with head turned right, height 17 cm
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8 Waterford Crystal glasses. 4 Baloons & 4 spirit glasses
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Five piece Barker Ellis tea & coffee service with rectangular butler's tray. Silver on copper construction, each melon form piece raised on 4 shell feet, 63 x 44 cm (tray)
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12 Waterford Crystal liqueur tumblers, height 9.5 cm (each)
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Dame Joan Sutherland signed photograph. In Waterford Crystal frame, 33 x 28 cm (frame)
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20th century large porcelain bowl. Enamel painted, diameter 30 cm
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Carnival glass black swan bowl. Master bowl by Crown Crystal Glass Co. (1924-1938), diameter 23.5 cm
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Austrian Nouveau porcelain vase & chocolate pot. Vase with applied pigeon figure, branch & clover leaves, matt green glaze, marked 'Austria' to base; & highly decorative chocolate pot, moulded white griffins & laurels over pale chocolate porcelain, pewter lid, ceramic button, marks to base, height 22 cm (vase) & 16.5 cm (chocolate pot)
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Three Australian pottery items. Dyson pot-pourri, applied floral handle, incised 'Dyson Studio;' fish figure, incised detail, green glaze, with marks to base; & blue glazed cream jug, incised 'Ms' to base, height 13 cm (fish)
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Three Australian vases. 'John Campbell Tasmania' vase with green brushed glaze; squat cobalt glazed vase, incised 'CmN' (McCreedie); & twin handled vase with cobalt running glaze, height 11 cm (tallest)
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Minton cabinet plate 1880. Cream earthenware with pierced rim, cobalt transfer of cat & goldfish. Marks to base with cypher for 1880, diameter 23 cm
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Royal Doulton flambe vase in Ballister form, height 15 cm
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Six Waterford Crystal tumblers etc. Together with 6 Waterford Crystal liqueur glasses. In original boxes, height 11.5 cm (tumblers) (each)
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8 Carina Waterford Crystal flutes
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Two amethyst Carnival glass bowls, including central eagle pattern; & central kingfisher pattern, diameter 24 cm (each)
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Wembley Ware ashtray. Applied figure of a bull, pale green glaze with purple lustre & gilt highlights, diameter 17 cm
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Two copper items. Old Feco electric kettle, together with jug with dimpled finish, height 26 cm (kettle)
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Two vases. Dianan Art Deco moulded vase, buff earthenware with cream glaze; & cylinder tapered vase, oxblood glaze, inscribed to base 'Ebl.' both c1940-50, height 23 cm and height 20 cm
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Belgian Art Nouveau pottery vase. Waisted twin handled body, cobalt glaze with cream & brown drip glaze. Impressed 'Made in Belgium 25' to base, height 24 cm
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Two 19th century Persian brass platters. Both with copper & silver inlay, diameter 34 cm (each)
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Four various small fancy moulded frames, various
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Pair of early Louis XV style gilt bronze wall appliques, with 5 acanthus leaf scrolling arms, height 64 cm (each)
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