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Australian & Historical, Day 1 — Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

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Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:611
Sale Title:Australian & Historical, Day 1Lots with images:594
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:528
Date:28-Nov-2020
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David C. Lyons Australian pottery vase with kookaburras, gumnuts and leaves, incised 'D.C. Lyons, Australia, 23.5 cm high
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Gregory Bonasera two Australian ceramic vases, incised 'Bonasera, '06', 41 cm and 33 cm high
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Bendigo Pottery wombat statue, 14 cm high, 22 cm long
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Selection of Australian pottery including Bendigo Pottery, Kerryl Pottery, Pates etc, (12 items), the largest 22 cm high
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A whaler's lance, iron, wood and hemp rope, 19th century, 225 cm long
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A whaler's flensing spade, iron and wood, 19th century, '155 cm long
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth finely carved with female portrait surrounded by ferns and roses with rope carved border, 19th century, 14 cm high
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with a female portrait, 19th century, 13 cm high
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An antique sperm whale tooth, 19th century, 12.5 cm high.. Provenance: Private Collection, Hobart, Tasmania.
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with tallship and sailor portrait, 13 cm high
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with whaling scene, the reverse with American eagle, 17.5 cm high
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A sperm whale tooth, 19th century, 17 cm high
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A pair of scrimshaw whale's teeth engraved with British tallships, 19th century, 14.5 cm high
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with whaling scenes, 12.5 cm high
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A Colonial Australian sailor's snuffbox, carved whalebone with rope motif, 19th century, 6.5 cm wide.. Provenance: Private Collection Hobart, Tasmania.
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Inuit carved whale tooth statue of a female fertility figure, 19th century, 9.5 cm high
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A scrimshaw whalebone brush with naval scene, 19th century, 16.5 cm across
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A rare scrimshaw whalebone toggle decorated with deer and floral motif, monogrammed 'A. S', North American, 19th century, 3 cm high
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An antique pie crimper, whalebone with turned wooden handle, 19th century, 12 cm high
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A Georgian shaving brush, whalebone and bristle, early 19th century, 10 cm high
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A Georgian whalebone clothes brush, early 19th century, 13.5 cm long
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A four masted ship in a bottle, 25 cm long
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A ship in a Haig & Haig whisky bottle mounted with braided rope binding, 21 cm long
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An Australian folk art ship in a bottle, late 19th, bottle stamped 'The Federal Distilleries Pty. Ltd. Melbourne, Federal Distilleries were established in 1884 and conducted business from port Melbourne, Victoria, 29.5 cm long
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A clipper ship in a bottle, late 19th century, bottle embossed 'Imperial quart, 28.5 cm long
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A ship in a Haig & Haig whisky bottle with braided rope binding, 21.5 cm long
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A ship's lantern, 19th century, 53 cm high
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Ship diorama in wooden case, 19th century, 16 cm high, 22 cm wide, 9 cm deep
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A Japanese ship's lantern, copper, brass and glass, early 20th century, 58 cm high
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An antique English telescope on tripod stand, engraved 'M. Berge, London, late Ramsden', late 18th century, 108 cm long (extended)
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A maritime masthead lantern, brass, copper and glass, (electrified), 19th/20th century, 45 cm high
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Port Phillip pilot boat tallship diorama, 19th century, 49 x 83 cm
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A large pair of maritime spotlights, brass and copper, early 20th century, 52 cm high, 42 cm wide
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Denoyer Geppert Co. 16 inch celestial globe, circa 1920s, 63 cm high
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A whalebone bead graduated necklace, 19th century, has been restrung, 76 cm long
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Sailor's whalebone toggle and carved hand, 19th century, (2 items), 3 cm and 5.5 cm long
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Whalebone glove stretcher, bodkin, needle case and Stanhope (missing lens), 19th century, (4 items), the glove stretcher16 cm long
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A taxidermied saltwater baby crocodile mounted on wooden cross, late 19th century, 95 cm long
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An Anglo-Indian teak trunk with iron handles, dovetail construction with pine base, early to mid 19th century, 37 cm high, 80 cm wide, 43 cm deep
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Geographia 8 inch celestial globe with semi-meridian in brass, on an ebonized wooden base, early 20th century, 37 cm high including stand.
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Columbus Verlag Paul Oestergaard K.G. (Berlin & Stuttgart) 14 inch 'Columbus' globe, W. Kaden editing cartographer, 22 cm diameter wooden base, circa 1950s, 49 cm tall including stand.
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Panstwowe Przedsiebiorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficznych (Warsaw, Poland) impressive 20 inch globe, detached wooden stand, dated 1959, globe 56 cm tall, stand 23 cm tall.
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Philips' 13½ inch terrestrial globe on 22 cm diameter wooden base, circa late-1920s, 44 cm high including stand.
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Philips' 13½ inch terrestrial globe on black plastic stepped base, circa late 1930s, 42 cm high including stand.
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Philips' 10 inch Challenge globe on black plastic stepped base, circa late 1930s, 33 cm high including stand.
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Group of globes with Philips' 10 inch on stepped plastic stand, Konomura (Osaka, Japan) 8 inch on wooden stand, Tokyo Kyozai Co (Japan) 5 inch on painted wooden stand, atlas 8 inch on stylized 'Cratered moon' plastic stand. (4 items)
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Troughton & Simms, London. Triple extension brass wand timber telescope inscribed 'Presented at the public Examination on the 12th June 1851 to gentleman Cadet Henry R. Thuillier by the Hon'ble court of Directors of the East India Company as a mark of the Court's approbation of his general good conduct while at the military College', 78 cm long (extended)
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Negretti and Zambra bearing compass in cedar box with brass fittings, stamped 'Negretti & Zambra, London, C.M.O. 20', the box 18 cm high, 23.5 cm wide, 21.5 cm deep.
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A Georgian pocket apple corer, turned whalebone, 18th century, 12.5 cm high
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Hallmarked sterling Nelson 1814 - 1930s: the life of a ship, an original sepia albumen print of hallmarked sterling Nelson circa 1879, mounted on card and framed in timbers from the cabin of this ship, 14.5 x 21 cm (image), 34.5 x 41 cm (frame), with hand-written text below., hallmarked sterling Nelson was a 126-gun ship of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 July 1814 at Woolwich Dockyard, but then laid up incomplete at Portsmouth until 1854, when work began with a view to commissioning her for service in the…
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A 19th century ship's figurehead angel figure, carved timber with later gold painted finish, 120 cm high, 65 cm wide
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Britannia Winning first place N.T.Y.C. May 17th '95', black and white photograph captioned on mount 'Britannia 1895', framed 52 x 43 cm overall.. Provenance: from the Isle of Wight Hotel, England
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A pond yacht boat hull, carved wood with blue and black painted finish, 19th/20th century, 52 cm long
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A taxidemied baby saltwater crocodile, early 20th century, 106 cm long
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An album (dilapidated) containing pressed/dried examples of seaweeds and shoreline plants, circa 1880s - 1900s., Pastedown to inside front cover, Seaweeds from Victorian Shores Gathered fifty years or more., Weeds! They call US, from the sea, but beautiful flowers, surely, are we'., fern from Maori hill Gulley, Waterfalls, Dunedin, N.Z., Gathered 1888.
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A Georgian ship's carafe and a spherical carafe (2 items), 18th/19th century, 23 and 28 cm high
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Two giant clam shells, 20th century, 25 cm wide
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Sailor's sweetheart shell display, 19th century, 14.5 cm high, 17 cm wide, 7 cm deep
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A vintage pond yacht on stand, red pine and steel, circa 1920s, 56 cm high overall
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A giant clam shell, north Queensland origin, early 20th century, 33 cm wide
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A Colonial blanket box, pine with original simulated grain finish, South Australian origin, 19th century, addressed on the lid 'Mrs. Leonard, passenger to Melbourne, for ship Hotspur, 30 cm high, 68 cm wide, 40 cm deep
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Hallmarked sterling Renown silver plated cup bearing the ship's crest, stamped 'SMPC' (Sydney) on base, height 7 cm, weight 240gr., hallmarked sterling Renown transported Edward, Prince of Wales to Australia in 1920 for his highly successful Royal Tour and also conveyed the Duke & Duchess of York for their 1927 Royal Tour.
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Course & Speed calculator Mk.Iia in wooden case, circa 1928, the case 28.5 cm wide
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Australian Navy black uniform with tunic, trousers and hat name 'H.M.A.S. Supply', mid 20th century
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Australian Navy uniform with white tunic, trousers and hat name 'H.M.A.S. Watson', mid 20th century
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Australian Navy uniform with white tunic, trousers, blue bib and hat name 'H.M.A.S. Lonsdale', mid 20th century
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Australian Navy group including, uniforms, duffle bag, hat bands, ribbons, ropes, blanket, brushes etc, mid 20th century
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Australian Navy overcoat, mid 20th century
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The SS Gothic diorama wall plaque, circa 1954., the Gothic was built in 1947 by the Shaw, Savill & Albion Steamship Co. And was then re-fitted for King George VI in 1952 and it became the Royal yacht. Queen Elizabeth used the yacht on her Coronation Royal tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1954., label verso 'Mr Thomas Rowan, 35 College St Hawthorn, Royal liner Gothic, catalogue No.860, sculpture, Tel. WA.2012, 9GNS.'., 33.5 x 68.5 cm
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Australian Navy uniform black dress uniform with tunic, waistcoat, trousers, bib and hat name 'H.M.A.S. Nirimba', mid 20th century
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A facsimile print of a clipper ship in Tasmanian huon pine frame, 20th century, 62 x 85 cm overall
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A hand-built model yacht on stand, late 20th century, 78 cm high
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Rainbow trout taxidermy display in wall mount case with hand-written card captioned 'Rainbow trout (Salmo Iridius), weight 7lbs. Sex female, Grassed by Mr Staples. Eildon Weir on large fly. Taxidermy by A.C. Slamen, 622 Collins St.', 42 cm high, 90 cm wide, 21 cm deep
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Lady Sophina scratch built model steamboat made by Les Bryant of Auckland New Zealand, 20th century, 95 cm long
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Sea Shell' scratch built model tallship in case with maker's plaque 'Sea shell, circa 1852, restored by Don Armstrong, Surrey park model boat club, the case 42 cm high, 56 cm wide, 22 cm deep
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Ben Lexcen ship builder's half model of Apollo III designed by Lexcen for Alan Bond. Apollo III raced in the Admirals cup in England. Together with two framed items, circa 1980s., These three items came from the office of Ben Lexcen in Sydney, Australia., 109 cm long
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Convent and Schools for the Christian Brothers' elevated architectural view, scale: 1/8 inch to a foot, framed and mounted in birdseye maple, 62 cm x 80 cm
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A Colonial tea caddy, musk and cedar with pine secondary timbers, Tasmanian origin, circa 1840, 13 cm high, 29.5 cm wide, 13.5 cm deep
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A Colonial cutlery box with lift tops, Tasmanian origin, circa 1850, 19 cm high, 34 cm wide, 23 cm deep
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A unique Clint sundial for South Australia, a bronze sundial (on later wooden base) engraved by Raphael Clint, c 1837-39., with 'R. Clint. Maker' engraved in lower left corner, 'Sydney' in lower right corner and 'Adelaide Latitude 34.59'S' in the semi-circular panel at bottom centre. 17 x 17 cm., Clint was one of only a few makers of sundials in the colony of New South Wales in the late 1830s and certainly the best known of them. Although Clint has signed this sundial in his usual manner, it is unlike…
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A pair of Colonial candlesticks, turned blackwood, Tasmanian origin, 19th century, 28 cm high
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An Alphabet set, England, circa 1830s-40s., a set of bone letter blocks, each approx. 15 x 18 mm, 184 pieces, with upper and lower case letters incised and completed in black ink (mostly) by hand, in original cedar box with 27 internal compartments in 3 rows, each row surmounted by a bone strip with incised letters indicating the order of the alphabet, sliding lid., 28.5 x 17.5 cm overall
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A game of Lotto, circa 1850, Nouveau jeu de Loto Geographique et Universel ou tableaux des Capitales de L'Univers., [Paris, Chromol de Engelmann et Graf], circa 1850., a loto game consisting of 18 pictorial game cards, each illustrated with five lithographic scenes depicting different cities of the world, a small cloth bag containing glass counters, a large cloth bag containing 90 numbered timber tokens, a printed description, list of places depicted and instructions on yellow paper, all contained in the…
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An Australian cedar bookstand with carved floral decoration, circa 1855, 14.5 cm high, 40 cm wide, 14 cm deep
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A lawyer's wig stand, blackwood and huon pine, Tasmanian origin, circa 1855, 75 cm high
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An Australian carved timber paper knife, 19th century, 25 cm long
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[Judaica]., the ten Commandments' a pen and ink 'Mizrach', the introductory verse and first words of each commandment rendered in Hebrew script, surrounded by ornate decorations and repeated circles, squares, diamonds and architectural forms, endorsed in a box at base 'Presented to Montague and Deborah marks by Montague Levey. 5637: 1877'. Framed && glazed, overall 59 x 47.5 cm., Mr. Montague Levey, a very old resident of Sydney, died at his residence, Wynyard-square, last night, between 11 and 12 o'clock.…
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Carter & Werner Australian pocket binoculars, 19th century., Henry Carter and Carl Werner 'Jeweller, Opticians and Importers of Optical instruments, Ballarat' started business in Lydiard Street Ballarat in the 1870s with great success and soon expanded to Launceston, Hobart and Melbourne with numerous agencies in country Victoria as well., Carl Werner is often identified as one of Australia's first optometrists., 12 cm wide
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A Colonial apprentice chest of five drawers, Australian cedar and kauri pine with red pine secondary timbers, South Australian origin, circa 1880, 49 cm high, 42 cm wide, 36 cm deep
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A tramp art miniature seven drawer chest, cedar box cedar with gilt metal roundels, circa 1890s, 31 cm high, 25 cm wide, 13 cm deep
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A pair of Australian oval wall mirrors, gilt frames with fern decoration, circa 1880, 31 x 23.5 cm
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An Australian apprentice chest of seven drawers with nickel plated handles and fine tuned feet, top with remains of original painted decoration, South Australian origin, circa 1880, 57 cm high, 50 cm wide, 31 cm deep
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A Colonial jewellery box, ornately inlaid with native and exotic timbers, Barossa valley, South Australian origin, 19th century, interior fitted with lift-out tray and green velvet lining, 18 cm high, 34 cm wide, 24 cm deep
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Australian coat of arms silk embroidery, 19th century, a fine work in very fragile and dilapidated condition, a restorer's dream, 35 x 49 cm
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An antique glass water jug decorated with fern etching, 19th century, 21.5 cm high
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Wedgwood 'Australian Flora' rare set of 6 porcelain dinner plates, circa 1880, stamped 'Wedgwood, Australian flora, 25 cm diameter
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Wedgwood 'Australian Flora' rare set of 6 porcelain entree plates, circa 1880, stamped 'Wedgwood, Australian flora, 23 cm diameter
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Wedgwood 'Australian Flora' six rare porcelain bowls, circa 1880, stamped 'Wedgwood, Australian flora, 24.5 cm diameter
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Emigrants to Australia' Staffordshire transfer porcelain mug, circa 1840, 7 cm high, 9.5 cm wide
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Gardeners & Amateurs Horticultural Society' porcelain plate stamped 'Mann, Venables & Co. Hanley'. The society was founded in Launceston Tasmania in 1844., 26 cm diameter
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