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Sporting and General Memorabilia — Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:543
Sale Title:Sporting and General MemorabiliaLots with images:430
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:345
Date:16-Sep-2010
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c1950 travel poster, ‘New Zealand. The Angler's Paradise’, with attractive fishing picture captioned, ‘Landing an 8½lb Brown Trout in the Cleddau River, Otago’, produced by Pictorial Publications Ltd, Hastings, colour process litho, linen-backed, size 65 x 95 cm. Condition A.
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c1950s travel poster, ‘Illawarra, South Coast - New South Wales’, artwork by J.Richard Ashton (1913-2001) showing coastal scene with a lighthouse in foreground, colour process lithograph, printed by A.H.Pettifer, Government Printer, Sydney, linen-backed, size 77 x 102 cm. Condition B+.
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c1950s poster ‘He Wouldn't Kill A Fly’, artwork by B.Valis, issued by the Department of Health, printed by W.M.Houston, Government Printer, Melbourne, size 51 x 63 cm. Condition A-.
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c1950s Australian Red Cross poster No.261, ‘Australian Red Cross Society. Blood means Life. Enrol Now As A Blood Donor’, offset printed, 37 x 46 cm. Condition A.
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1956 poster, ‘The Men of Mawson/ Special Energol Visco-Static Motor Oil goes to the Antarctic’, produced by The Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd, an associate of The British Petroleum Company Ltd, offset printed, 37 x 55 cm. Condition A.
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Travel poster, 'New Zealand', with caption, 'Mitre Peak, Milford sound', produced by pictorial Publications Ltd, Hastings, colour process litho, linen-backed, size 50 x 75 cm
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c1960 travel poster, ‘New Zealand’, with caption, ‘Mount Sefton and The Hermitage, Mount Cook National Park’, colour process litho, linen-backed, size 63 x 99 cm. Condition A.
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c1970s Qantas travel poster ‘Fly Qantas/ Australia. Australia's Round-the-World Airline’, photos of Surfboat crew, Porpoise Pool at Tweed Heads & Sydney Harbour, printed in Australia by S.T.Leigh & Co, numbered P117, colour offset printed, 64 x 100 cm. Condition A-.
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1971 travel poster, 'New Zealand, New Sights, new Thrills, new friends', with caption 'Queenstown and lake Wakatipu', produced by the New Zealand tourist and Publicity Department, printed by A.R.Shearer, Government Printer, Wellington, colour process litho, linen-backed, size 54 x 81 cm
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Victorian Railways: colour Negatives: 1980s and early 90s (a good percentage from 1988) covering various subjects (nearly all pertaining to railways), sorted, captioned by subject, and housed three albums. A remarkable resource. (About 10,000)
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Victorian Railways, Photographs: groups of railwaymen, 1897-1930s. Includes 3 photos of the North Melbourne Loco Football team and one of the Loco. Cricketers. Also includes other groups sited in front of Head Office, in front of locos., in loco. depots, etc. All mounted, from 17 x 13 cm to 30 x 18 cm. Condition varies. (11)
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Foreign: c1910s-80s original and photographic reproductions, mainly showing locos. but some rolling stock, infrastructure, etc. From Canada, China, Finland, France, India, Japan, NZ, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, USA, etc. Includes a card-mounted shot of NZ's 1 in 15 Rimutaka Incline, circa 1920, 9 x 5.5 cm. A interesting group of cane tramways; A number of early photos, particularly among the US group. (180+)
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Victorian Railways, Contracts: No. 1360, St. Arnaud and Donald line, hard bound, half leather, gilt stamped and signed on front 'A No. 41 Grant & Co. 26 April 1881', with impressed 'Seal of the board of Land and works', wax seals and signatures; No. 1460, Eaglehawk to Kerang line, hard bound, half leather, gilt stamped and endorsed on front 'No.289 F. Wilkins Nov.22/81', with affixed indenture containing impressed seals for 'Seal of the board of Land and works' and 'Seal of the Victorian Railways…
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UK: Dempsey, G. Drysdale: 'The Practical Railway Engineer. Examples of the Mechanical and Engineering Operations and Structures Combined in the Making of a Railway', 1st edit. 1847. 157pp plus 50 engravings. Scarce
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UK: Rigg, Arthur: ‘A Practical Treatise On the Steam Engine’, 1878, 1st edit. original brown blind-stamped & gilt embossed boards, large 8vo, 328pp with 95 lithographic plates. Some faults to binding, but still good condition
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UK: Marshall Dendy, 'Centenary History of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway', 1930, 1st Edit, with gilt hardcover, 192pp with many dia grams, maps and plates, some fold-outs, some colour. Four early loco. Postcards stuck inside front
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Burma-Thailand Railway: Clarke, ‘A Life For Every Sleeper .’ (Sydney, 1986) 88pp, hard cover with d/j, good condition. Also: Evers, Cornelius, ‘Death Railway’, a pictorialised paperback account by one of the prisoner/builders, 108pp. Also: a batch of other material on Asian railways, including some nice pictorial books on recently-opened lines. Condition varies but generally good. (12 books, 10 magazines, 1 set of postcards)
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Locomotive Record Cards: 1922-65 Victorian Railways, ‘K’ class Superheater boilers. Contains details of repairs, maintenance, alterations and examinations conducted on all such boilers placed in Victorian Railways, locos. (126 cards)
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Vr: Steam loco. Air Brake Component, with brass adjusting nuts top and bottom and small brass blow-off nut, stamped ‘35 N’.
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Maps: Vr: railway survey plans, Goulburn Valley Line (Murchison to Shepparton), Numurkah and Cobram Line & Numurkah and Nathalia Line, May 1879-Mar.1887. One plan 2 chains to an inch, stamped and signed by Engineer for Construction, Murchison-Shepparton riveted. Generally good condition. (25 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans & detailed curve & Gradient Diagrams, Lancefield Line (Lancefield Junction [Clarkefield] - Lancefield), Kyneton and Redesdale Line, and Wandong, Heathcote and Sandhurst (Bendigo) Line [Heathcote to Kilmore], Sept.1880 to May 1888. Nine plans 4 chains to an inch, Kyneton-Redesdale stamped by Engineer in Chief's Office, Lancefield & Kilmore both stamped & signed by Engineer in Chief's Office, Lancefield & Kilmore; rivetted. (36 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans and detailed curve & Gradient Diagrams, Inglewood & Charlton Line; railway survey plans Sea Lake to Pier-Milan, May 1881 to April 1913. One plan 2 chains to an inch, 10 plans 4 chains to an inch, stamped by Engineer in Chief's Office, riveted. Some faults, particularly to Pier-Milan set. (27 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans and detailed curve & Gradient Diagrams, Inglewood & Charlton Line; railway survey plans Sea Lake to Pier-Milan, May 1881 to April 1913. One plan 2 chains to an inch, 10 plans 4 chains to an inch, stamped by Engineer in Chief's Office, riveted. Generally good condition. (27 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, St. Arnaud and Donald Line, and Donald Birchip Railway, February 1881 to June 1892. St. Arnaud-Donald stamped & signed by Engineer in Chief's Office, St. Arnaud-Donald riveted. Generally good condition. (37 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, St. Arnaud and Donald Line, February/March 1881. Stamped & signed by Engineer in Chief's Office, riveted. Generally good condition. (24 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, St. Arnaud and Donald Line, February/March 1881. Stamped & signed by Engineer in Chief's Office, riveted. Good/fair condition. (24 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, Shepparton and Numurkah Line, Numurkah and Cobram Line & Numurkah and Nathalia Line, January 1881 to March 1887. One plan 2 chains to an inch, stamped by Engineer in Chief's Office, Shepparton-Numurkah riveted. Generally good condition. (27 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, Shepparton & Numurkah Line, Shepparton & Dookie Line, January 1881 to March 1887. All Numurkah plans (11) four chains to an inch, stamped by Engineer in Chief's Office, riveted. Generally good condition. (17 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, Shepparton to Numurkah Line, Nathalia to Picola, and Tatura and Echuca Line, January 1881 to September 1886. All Numurkah plans (11) four chains to an inch, Nathalia-Picola stamped & signed by Engineer in Chief's Office, Shepparton-Numurkah stamped by Engineer in Chief's Office, Shepparton-Numurkah riveted. Fair condition. (27 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, Colac and Camperdown Line & Terang to Warrnambool Line, July 1881- September 1887. Four plans 2 chains to an inch, two plans 4 chains to an inch, stamped & signed by Engineer in Chief's Office, riveted. Generally good condition. (30 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, Dimboola and South Australian Border Line, February/March 1885. Signed by Chief Engineer's Office. Generally good condition. (24 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans - two separate surveys for the Wandong, Heathcote and Sandhurst (Bendigo) Line, November 1886 and May 1888. One set of plans stamped and signed by Engineer in Chief's Office and riveted. Generally good condition. (24 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, Numurkah and Cobram Line, Numurkah and Nathalia Line, Shepparton & Dookie Line, February/March 1887. One plan 2 chains to an inch, Shepparton-Dookie stamped by Engineer in Chief's Office. Generally good condition. (22 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, Kerang and Swan Hill Line, March 1888. Stamped and signed by Engineer in Chief's Office. Generally good condition. (14 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, Kerang and Swan Hill Line, March 1888. Stamped and signed by Engineer in Chief's Office. Generally good condition. (14 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans and detailed curve & Gradient diagrams, Natimuk to Goroke, Goroke to Morea and Noradjuha to Toolondo, February 1893 to February 1926. Five plans 4 chains to an inch. Condition varies. (24 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, Woomelang to Mildura, October 1900-November 1901. Two plans 4 chains to an inch. Good/fair condition. (33 pages)
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Vr: railway survey plans, Woomelang to Mildura, October 1900-November 1901. Two plans 4 chains to an inch. Some faults but generally good condition. (33 pages)
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E.P.N.S. c1920, including coffee pots, sugar shaker, serving dishes, mugs, trays and others. Also cased set of Sheffield cake forks with sterling handles. (19 items)
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Sterling Silver, Three cased sets of dessert spoons (two complete, one missing one spoon), hallmarked Birmingham 1928. Total silver weight 190 grams. Also Epns silver cased cutlery - two sets of spoons & one of knives; also four stainless knives. (7 sets)
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Sessions Kitchen Clock c1900, Original pressed and carved walnut case, movement intact but not working, hour and half hour striker, some original paint to glass front, needs attention, 56 cm tall.
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Men's wrist watches c1940. 9kt gold Damas with 15 jewel Swiss movement, working, with leather strap. Also, Tudor 15 jewel Swiss movement, working, with leather strap. (2)
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Collection of Australian Ports including Para, Croft, Lindemanns, Oriana etc. (23 bottles)
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