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Australian, Maritime & Horological — Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers

Auction House:Gibson's Auctioneers & ValuersNumber of lots recorded:345
Sale Title:Australian, Maritime & HorologicalLots with images:345
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:237
Date:21-Jul-2024
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Burton Brothers (1866-1914), White Terrace, circa 1880, albumen paper photograph, inscribed with signature, title and catalogue number, 3903, lower left of image, 14.5 x 20 cm
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Burton Brothers (1866-1914), White Terrace, New Zealand, circa 1880, albumen paper photograph, inscribed with signature, title and catalogue number, 3906, lower left of image, 14.5 x 20.5 cm
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Various Photographers, A collection of New Zealand scenes, comprising scenery, Maori elders, Settlements circa 1890, sixteen albumen paper photographs, 19.5 x 15 cm (the largest)
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Various Photographers, A collection of New Zealand scenes including Napier, Lake Manapouri, The Mitre Peak, Milford Sound, circa 1890, eight albumen paper photographs, 14 x 19.5 cm (the largest)
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Burton Brothers (1866-1914), White Terraces, New Zealand, circa 1880, albumen paper photograph, 14.5 x 19.5 cm
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Burton Brothers (1866-1914), Runanga House (Hinemihi), Wairoa, circa 1890, Albumen paper photograph, inscribed with title, signature and catalogue number 3846 to image lower left, 14 x 20 cm
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Burton Brothers (1866-1914), Runanga House - Wairoa - after eruption June 10, 86, albumen paper photograph, inscribed with signature, title and catalogue number 4094, to image lower left, 15 x 20 cm
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Burton Brothers (1866-1914), Old Maori Church - Wairoa, albumen paper photograph, inscribed with title, signature and catalogue number 3853 to image lower left, 14.5 x 19.5 cm
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Photographer Unknown, Lakeside scene, late 19th century, albumen paper photograph, 9 x 12.5 cm (image size)
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Photographer Unknown, Circular Quay, Sydney, circa 1880, albumen paper photograph, impressed photographer's stamp lower right to image, 14.5 x 19.5 cm
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Photographer Unknown, Aboriginal Women of Victoria, circa 1880, albumen paper photograph, inscribed in pen below image: Aboriginal Women of Victoria, 9.5 x 6 cm
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Burton Brothers (1866-1914), Buried whares - Wairoa - after eruption Jun 10, 86, albumen paper photograph, inscribed with signature, title and catalogue number, 4097, to image lower left, 14.5 x 19.5 cm
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Burton Brothers (1866-1914), Queenstown - Lake Wakatipu, circa 1890 and Auckland Free Library, two albumen paper photographs, both inscribed with signature, title and catalogue numbers, 4180 and 4579 respectively, to image lower left, 14.5 x 19.5 cm and 20 x 14.5 cm
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Photographer Unknown, Lake Wakatipu, circa 1890, albumen paper photograph, 20 x 28 cm
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Charles Kerry (1857-1928), Aboriginal Warrior in Devils mask [sic], circa 1890, albumen paper photograph, inscribed with signature, title, catalogue number, 1383, to lower border, 19.5 x 14.5 cm
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Josiah Martin (1843-1916), Maori woman and The Olde Order Changeth circa 1890, two albumen paper photographs, 'The Olde Order Changeth' showing a display of early Maori artefacts, initials and catalogue number 550 to image lower right, inscribed with title and signature below image, 14 x 9.5 cm and 15 x 20 cm
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Josiah Martin (New Zealand 1843-1916), Diana, Fijian Beauty and Two young Fijian women, circa 1890, two albumen paper photographs, the former inscribed with signature, title and catalogue number, 1713, to image lower right, 20 x 15 cm and 17.5 x 12.5 cm
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Josiah Martin (1843-1916), Ohinemuto, circa 1890, albumen paper photograph, inscribed with initials and title to image lower right, catalogue number 105 to centre, 15 x 19.5 cm
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John Degotardi (1823-1882), S.S. Adelaide circa 1870, albumen paper photograph, studio stamp verso, 5.5 x 9.5 cm (image size), Note:, In 1865 the Parramatta River Steam Company was formed by Charles Edward Jeanneret initially in partnership with Jules Joubert and was incorporated the following year. Its first services ferrying passengers were conduct by the 'Ysobel' and its main vessel was the Adelaide (later renamed Swan).
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Photographer Unknown, Queensland woman, circa 1880, carte de visite, depicting two aboriginal women in traditional attire, inscribed with title lower centre below image, 8.5 x 5 cm
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John William Lindt (1845-1926), Aboriginal Boy with Axe, albumen print, embossed lower right: J W Lindt Grafton Artist Photographer, 18.5 x 13.5 cm, Essay, John William Lindt (1845-1926), Born in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, John William Lindt, son of a customs officer, received a thorough education with a promising and illustrious future ahead of him. His appetite for adventure drifted away from a traditional scholarly course. At seventeen, he ran away from home on board a Danish vessel en route to…
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Photographer Unknown, Cable tram, car & dummy, circa 1890, albumen paper photograph, photographed outside S. Kozminsky, jeweller and watchmaker, and; Thomas Evans, Australian Tent and Tarpaulin Factory, Bourke Street West, inscribed with title in image lower left, 12.5 x 19 cm
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Richard Bogusz (Born 1947), The Cricket Match, oil on board, signed lower right: Richard Bogusz, 44 x 59.5 cm
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Three coral book prints, after Eugenius Christoph Esper, German 1742-1810, from 'Die Pflanzenthiere in Ubbildungen nach der Natur', published Nuremburg 1791, including Madrep Tab. XX, Madrepora Agaricites; Madrep Tab. XXX, Madrepora Muficalis, and; Madrep Tab. Lxxxii, Madrepora capitata Variet., 74 x 54 cm, image size, 103 x 83 cm, frame size
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A framed facsimile print of the Magna Carta of 1215, published by Westair Publications, England, engraving with printed text, 46.5 x 60 cm
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The Banksias, Volumes I and II by Celia E. Rosser & Alexander S. George, 1981 and 1988, two elephant folio volumes, three-quarter calf and buckram, top edges gilt, each containing 76 colour plates, with six prints in a paper portfolio loosely inserted in Volume II; Volume I published by Monash University in association with Academic Press Inc (London) Ltd and numbered 64 from an edition of 720 copies, and; Volume II published in association with the State Bank of Victoria, 1988, numbered 64 from an edition…
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John Gould (1804-1881), Pachycephala Pectoralis (Banded Thick Head), colour lithograph, with printed text on margin, 48 x 33 cm
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Pigeons and Doves of Australia by Frank Morris, 1976, the volume bound in gilt tooled calf leather, the front cover 52 x 37 cm
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A collection of books on Australian history, culture and art including a leather bound set of 'A history of Australia', comprising approximately thirty books
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A harlequin suite of glazed ramekins by Guy Boyd, 1960s, in various colours with contrasting interiors, incised signature to bases, the largest 5 cm high, 10 cm wide, 10 cm deep
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A collection of antique and contemporary Royal and Coronation memorabilia, comprising a coloured lithograph of Queen Victoria in a pressed wood look frame, two photo lithographs of King Charles and the Queen consort and a page from the Sun, London, Thursday evening June 28 1838, the framed page 61 x 49.5 cm
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A Collection of Australian Wildflower Illustrations by Patricia Weare, The Antichrist of Nietszsche, together with Victoria the Golden, Scenes, Sketches and Jottings from Nature by William Strutt, Melbourne 1850-1862, facsimile edition with a narrative by Marjorie Tipping, published the Library Committee, Parliament of Victoria 1980
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A vintage children's Snugglepot and Cuddlepie tea set together with two Australian themed plates, mid to late 20th century, a Japanese lustre glaze and transferware Snugglepot & Cuddlepie tea set, a 'Bush Babies' series ware plate featuring a May Gibb's illustration, Bradford Exchange, numbered M 645, and a Villeroy & Boch Scenes of Australia collector plate, No 3 Country Races, backstamps to all verso, the teapot 8 cm high, the Villeroy & Boch plate 23.5 cm diameter
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A Collection of Australian Wildflower Illustrations by Patricia Weare, bound in maroon cloth
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A pair of antique botanical prints, Chrysanthemum and Asphodelus, bookplate prints in colour with Latin genus and species, plate numbers 185 and 370, 32.5 x 21 cm
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John Castle-Harris (1893-1967), A glazed earthenware basket, of fluted form in rose and mint colours with a blue rope twist handle and an applied bird in colours to the body, incised Castle Harris to base, 10 cm high. Provenance: Property from the Collection of Andree Harkness
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Christine Audrey Pecket (1908-1996), A small glazed earthenware vase, with an incised bark and sawn branch texture in brown and green colours, incised marks of Christine A Pecket 1944 to base, 7.5 cm high. Provenance: Property from the Collection of Andree Harkness
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John Castle-Harris (1893-1967), a waisted earthenware vase with a wavy rim encrusted with applied grapes and vine leaves in transparent blue, mauve and pale teal glazes over a cream ground, inscribed Castle Harris with faint numerals underside, 18 cm high
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A collection of five antique hand-coloured natural history etchings, bookplates including birds, mammals, fish, largest measuring 27 x 18.5 cm (sheet size)
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An Edwardian Huon Pine chest of drawers, W. Codley & Co., Prahran, Melbourne, early 20th century, with four short and three long drawers with decorative embossed backplates and swing handles, raised on bun feet, stencil mark of maker, 126 cm high, 116.5 cm wide, 52 cm deep
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A large modern timber framed display cabinet, a two door cabinet with glass shelves upon a plinth base, 163.5 cm high, 186 cm wide, 56 cm deep
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An Australian cedar eight drawer chest, 19th century, with bullnose edging above a long frieze drawer, four short and three long drawers with turned handles flanked by bold barley twist columns, 135 cm high, 118 cm wide, 53 cm deep
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An Australian colonial cedar cotton reel bed, circa 1840, a temple profile headboard flanked by turned columns, bobbin rails and supports to the conforming footboard board, with side rails, 114 high, 144 cm wide
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A set of vintage hardwood map drawers, comprising nine drawers, 73 cm high, 138 cm wide, 91 cm deep
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An Australian blackwood coffee table by John Tobin, Tasmanian, late 20th century, 53 cm high, 107 cm wide, 53 cm deep
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