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Australian History — Lawsons

Auction House:LawsonsNumber of lots recorded:153
Sale Title:Australian HistoryLots with images:153
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:105
Date:1-Aug-2019
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3 Australian Comics items: 'The Sunbeams book: more Adventures of Ginger Meggs' comic book with 'Ginger Meggs' song sheet by Jack O'Hagan, & 'Bluey and Curley' by Gurney Australian Comic, post World War II
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Pair of pokerwork Australian vases decorated with Koalas
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Pokerwork fire screen decorated with koala & kookaburra, height 80 cm, width 60 cm; together with small pokerwork vases also with kookaburras, height 27 cm & 10 cm
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Cast bronze kangaroo, height 11 cm; together with Rose Noble small jug, kookaburra plaque and Sydney Harbour Bridge case 4
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Small kookaburra themed Carnival glass dish, diameter 13 cm
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Collection of 15 Australian flour bags, mostly c1900-1930s, including Gillespie's Anchor, Roller Flour Mills Brisbane
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Sydney Harbour Bridge, a small illustrated Shelley dish, 10 cm in diameter
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Newtown Pottery attributed to daisy Merton, hand-painted gum blossoms on green glaze, 25 cm diameter
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Kookaburra porcelain tureen with cover
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Comport with kookaburra, for Grimwades Byzantia Ware
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Silver-plated kangaroo trinket box, 1910-1920, 5 x 7 cm
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Guy Boyd, children's ceramic bowl, with hand-painted happy dog design, signed to reverse, 13 cm in diameter
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Diana Ware golfer, dimpled porcelain vessel featuring a gaudy golfer 23 cm high complete with four small dram cups
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Advertising jug for Cawsey Menck & Co, Melbourne c1900, 20 cm high
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Noritake Kookas 1930s Japanese Noritake porcelain cup and saucer featuring a couple of happy kookaburras. Neat
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Magpie Carnival glass 14 cm with a marvellous Magpie inset
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Advance Australia German porcelain cup and saucer in pink, with Australian emblem, together with a tiny Australian themed cheese-cover 3
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1920s pokerwork vase, hand-turned featuring a fine waratah
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Proud Aussie. A map of Australia with engraved initials of each state and its river system except a missing Tasmania, EPNS by Prouds
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Sydney shoe, 1910. Advertising marquette for Crowley & Son of the QVB, wood and metal, 12 cm high by 22 cm long
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Sydney Grammar School enamelled vehicle badge by Angus & Coote, 1930s, 10 cm in diameter
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Four plastersworks prepared for relief sculptures, including Australian Aboriginal with boomerang, kangaroos and gold prospector, average 160 cm each
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Anzac scarf c.1916, colourful scarf 42 x 59 cm featuring scenes of the Anzacs at Gallipoli
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New Guinea campaign, a large silk scarf 59 x 82 cm showing West New Guinea as prepared by the Royal Australian Airforce
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End of war with Japan, a silk scarf 38 x 38 cm showing Nippon Times cover for 2 September 1945
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Longest Reign Victoria 1890s, scarf 59 x 57 cm illustrating her many possessions including Australia
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Australian silver compact, stamped mark of W J Saunders, Sydney, 7.5 cm in diameter
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Two Australian sterling silver salt & pepper shakers by W J Saunders, Sydney
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Silver sovereign case belonging to William Channing a'Beckett MLA, engraved with foliate decoration to case and monogram
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Six Australian silver teaspoons each with a Stubbs kangaroo by Hawke
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Australian electroplated trophy for best fancy poultry, Singleton Show 1873, 28 cm high
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Pair of Australian sterling silver napkin rings, marks for F. J. Mole, Brisbane
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Pair of Australian sterling silver napkin rings, marks for F. J. Mole, Brisbane
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Angus & Coote Australian silver napkin ring for Cronulla Surf life Saving club
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Tasmania F&J Stewart of Launceston, Australian sterling silver napkin ring, stamped & cased in original silk lined box, with map
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Edwin Harrop, Sydney. Australian sterling silver cigarette case for member of the a'Beckett family, monogrammed 'M.a'B
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Australian silver presentation box inscribed to Pay. R Lieut. W. E. McLaughlin, attributed to J M Dempster, with engraved autographs
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The White Horse Cup, inscribed Australian silver cup and cover by Hardy Brothers, Sydney, 27.5 cm high
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Dame Nellie Melba, a christening mug inscribed 'Wishing Simon all happiness & good luck from his Godmother, Nellie Melba, 20 April 1921'
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Marble presentation clock, Sydney 1879. Presented to Brother Morgan Secretary of the Captain Cook Tent, Sydney 24 June 1879
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Australian commemorative cups, one Captain Cook New Zealand 1940 exhibition, the other celebrating opening of Parliament house 1927, both fine 2
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Australian souvenir Ware, including 2 by Goss 4
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NSW 1888 Centenary plate by G. Hodgson of summer hill, featuring the blue mountains Zig-Zag railway, et al. 25 cm in diameter
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Apex Australian silver coffee spoon set of six, in original box
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Australian silver, 1930s. Set fo six silver teaspoons each with embedded opals, in original silk lined box in fine condition
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Federation jardiniere 1901, illustrated with portraits of Henry Parkes and Australian Boer war soldiers, Waratahs, 23 cm high, 25 cm diameter
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Matilda Elizabeth Masters, needlework in birds eye maple frame, 93 x 113 cm frame size
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Needlework in maple frame, 83 x 68 cm frame size
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Amandus Julius Fischer 1859 - 1948 the artist's Wife oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm signed lower left, inscribed verso
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Carl Kahler, pair of 19th century hand coloured lithographs, Melbourne, 1 July 1889
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Australia, a carved wooden map featuring 4 postcards c1916, with painted title and flannel flowers, 51 cm wide
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Thank God. Amy Johnson in her aeroplane Jason 1930s, image 28 x 21 cm.
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World war I 'God be with US, 1914-1919' mirror with frosted militaria decoration of Australian emblems, 40 x 40 cm image, framed.
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John Monash a silver cribbage board c1919 featuring Sir John Monash, 23.5 x 23.5 cm
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Shire billiards shield 1911. An Australian made trophy shield for the St George District 1911, Inter-Institute billiards Championship.
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Waratah and Flannel flowers by H a Foott, gouache, signed & dated 1913, 34 x 20 cm
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Neville Cayley, Spotted Warbler, on oval matt, image 27 x 16 cm
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Blackfellow's Grave, river Murray, South Australia. Fine pen and wash c1865, image 14 x 20 cm, in elegant frame
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Two c. 1880s albumen paper photographs of George Street and Pitt Street, Sydney, each 13 x 61 cm
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Great Northern extended gold mining Co, Rutherglen, scrip certificate no 1386 signed by McClurchan, ex hill end 1890
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1870s Skinner prout, Chevalier and Armytage engravings, including gold and Aboriginal subjects, images each 12 x 23 cm
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George Reid, signed 1899. A NSW Government presentation card 30 x 45 cm inscribed and signed by Premier Reid
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Carbine lacquer tray, 1900. Minor lacquer chips to rim, 45 cm diameter.
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Three photo albums. One large floral album, full of CDVs and cabinet cards c1890, one half UK, the rest NSW CDVs and smaller contemporary family album
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Hallmarked sterling New Zealand, World War I. Chromolith 35 x 48 cm, by three castle tobacco c1916.
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Album of 58 original photographs by Frank Coxhead & other prominent New Zealanders, all 1880s.
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Victorian photographic album c. 1880s. Morocco cover with gilt tooled image of Government house, Sydney and colour internals
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Pollock's toy Theatre 1890, with instructions, many large scenes and good quantity of players for Cinderella
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Australian Musical News 1923-1929, box of 50 illustrated magazines
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80 Australian music Programs 1946-1950 with over 40 signed including signatures of Alfred hill, Goosens, John Anthill, Bernard Heinz
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Dawn & Dusk by Eve Kilman, two oval plasterworks of Australian Aboriginal subjects, prepared for production, 23 cm in diameter.
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At the Roxy pair of Art Deco plaster relief roundels, former architectural features of the Roxy, Parramatta, diameter 46 cm
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Australian film posters 1949, double-sided; Sons of Mathew & into the straight, 55 x 42 cm each, unframed.
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Australian film posters 1949, double-sided; the Murray Valley & short subjects, 55 x 42 cm, unframed.
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Pair of ink and watercolour drawings on card, each monogrammed 'J.M.C', and dated '7 October 1884', images 17.3 x 12 cm
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James Cook, a 1960s Australian made curtain celebrating Cook & the Endeavor, 130 x 120 cm
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Early Parliament house, Canberra. Oval commemorative tray with relief Art Nouveau decoration, 31 x 22 cm
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J. M. Emmett, Australian Wildflowers, dated 1917, image 60 x 45 cm, framed.
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Mildred Creed d. 1943, Arts & Crafts Australian silverware teaspoon set of six c1907, in later presentaion box
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1890s Australian cedar instrument box, with angled hinge
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Fine Australian Aboriginal tool with bone edge; together with early 20th century bullroarer 2
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Certificate of Freedom 41/875, ticket of leave for John McCarthy 1835
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The Parliament of the Commonwealth invitation Request to the Hon. A.T. Kerr M.L.C and Lady for the Opening of Parliament 9th May 1901 in Melbourne by Edmund Barton; together with a leaving certificate from Sydney Boys high 1955 2
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HMAS Sydney Defeat of Emden, 1914, two white lustre dishes
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Two good McPhersons tool catalogues 1937-38, fully illustrated
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The Australian letter, stereograph by Frank Good c1865 Victorian image
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J. Bond, original watercolour showing an Austral Finch and Flannel flowers, image 22 x 12 cm, framed
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Exit by Richard Tipping, small edition of a motoring sign, 2003, mounted size 28 x 28 cm
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'Lil Abner' American Comics Nos: 2 7, 8, 10 - 19. 1949-1952, printed in Australia 13
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Women's Weekly original watercolour artwork by Mavis Drowley, 1930s, of two children 36 x 28 cm, and child welfare, both 31 x 21 cm
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Jenny Kee original pastel design for the Point of View design brochure, 1980, image 30 x 23 cm
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Vintage North Sydney bears bag; together with Steeden football
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1960s Rugby League jerseys, notably Crows Nest JRLF owned by Glen Whitney, North Sydney bears 6; together with 3 shorts
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North Sydney Bears jerseys 4; together with 3 shorts, 1 socks, as worn by Glen Whitney 1969-1974
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Glen Whitney's North Sydney Bears Tracksuit embroidered with his name; together with Glen Whitneys Ns bears number #667 players medal
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NSWRL Life Members blazer size 46 cm
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North Sydney Bears, a large bundle of League club Membership tags owned by Glen Whitney 1960s-80s, plus St George Leagues club and more... 50
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Large bundle of Canterbury Bankstown Leagues club Membership tags, also Balmain and many others 50
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Large group of Rugby League pins including Western Suburbs & South Sydney Leagues clubs 66
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Batch of NSW League Club badges including Manly, South Sydney & Sydney Cricket Ground 50
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