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Sporting and General Memorabilia, Day 2 — Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:285
Sale Title:Sporting and General Memorabilia, Day 2Lots with images:267
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:151
Date:31-Mar-2011
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Necklace: South Sea Baroque pearl necklace with silver clasp (96 x 11 mm). Abeautiful piece featuring a Tahitian and mabe pearl pendant. Includes valuation certificate
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Pair of Brass Fire Carriage lamps c1900, from a horse drawn fire wagon, Port Elizabeth South Africa. A natural mirror image pair. Complete, all glass intact with facited red lens, By Powell and Manmer Ltd, Birmingham. In stunning condition. (2)
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Australia: c1800-1946 collection (16 maps), noted ‘A Chart of the Pacific Ocean exhibiting New Discoveries’ [London, c1800-10]; ‘Australien’ by C.G.Reichard [Gotha, 1816]; ‘Part of South Australia’ by tallis [London, 1851]; ‘Feature Map of the Australian capital territory and Environs’ [Canberra, 1946]; also ‘Japan’ by Arrowsmith [Edinburgh, 1823]. (17 items)
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Collection with ‘South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria & Queensland’, by Keith Johnston [Edinburgh, c1880 edition]; ‘Sud-Ost-Australien’ by Augustus Petermann [Gotha, 1881]; ‘Sud-Ost-Australien’ lithographed in colour [Gotha, 1891]; ‘The Pacific Ocean’ engraved by J.& C.Walker for Sduk [London, c1840]; each about 38 x 47 cm. Fine condition. [Tooley 779var, 959var, 960 & 1169]. (4 items)
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1886 ‘Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. Map of Melbourne & Suburbs. Sheet No. 1’, endorsed in M/S: ‘Proposed Warehouse Site 12/37. Plan For Land Dept.’ and showing the proposed site alongside Railway Canal, West Melbourne. 78 x 129 cm, cloth backed. Fair condition. Also: a large box of other assorted Australian maps and some other railway diagrams (many of the maps are also rail related). (50+ items)
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Pacific Islands: ‘Polynesia’ by Pinkerton, published by Cadell & Davies [London, 1813] including the north east quadrant of Australia, and with a few islands added in pencil, framed & glazed, overall 84 x 61 cm. Plus box of books on Britain (12) including ‘English Furniture’ by Nickerson.
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‘Carte De L'Oceanie, contenant L'Australie, La Polynesie et Les Iles Asiatiques’ by Pierre Lapie [Paris, 1851], 55 x 39 cm; ‘Fiji Islands’ colour map published in The Picturesque Atlas [Sydney, 1888], overall 65 x 43 cm; ‘The Philippine Islands’ colour map from The Harmsworth Atlas [London, c1906], window mounted, overall 39 x 53 cm. (3 items)
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United States of America: ‘United States - North America, According to Calvin, Smith & Tanner’ in four sheets, by Swanston [Edinburgh, c1864]; plus ‘British North America’ in 3 sheets, by Fullarton [Edinburgh, c1864]; original coloured lithographs, each each 59 x 48 cm. Mainly fine condition. (7 items)
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World: Maps - ‘South America’ [British, c1830]; ‘Turkey in Europe’ [British, c1830]; ‘States of the Germanic Confederation’ by Hugh Johnson [Edinburgh, c1864]; ‘Central Europe with the Railways’ by Bartholomew [Edinburgh, c1864]; ‘Channel Islands, Scilly Islands and Isle of Man’ by Bartholomew [Edinburgh, c1864]; ‘Borneo, Sumatra & Java’ & ‘The East Indies & Indo-China - Industries & Communications’ colour maps from The Harmsworth Atlas [London, c1906]. Various sizes, 6 window mounted. Good condition. (7…
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Maps by Fullarton [Edinburgh, c1864], noted ‘Danish Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean’; ‘French Ports & Harbours, and Plan of Paris’; ‘Northern and Central Germany’; ‘Southern Germany’; ‘Islands of Japan’; ‘Ports and Harbours’ (UK - 5 sheets); ‘Portuguese Islands in the Atlantic Ocean’; ‘Caucasus & Crimea’; ‘Turkey’; ‘West Coast of South America’, all 32 x 47 cm, five window mounted. Poor/Good condition. (15 items)
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Boer War - New Zealand mounted Rifles: photographs (3) of Hawkes Bay mounted Rifles c1900, one (61 x 48 cm) showing them mounted on their horses; another (61 x 48 cm) showing troopers unmounted, in two rows with their horses and equipment; the third (30 x 25 cm) showing troopers mounted in line on hillside. (3 items)
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USA/France hand embroidered table runner c1914, a spectacular souvenir piece, flowers, butterflies, flags of both USA and France, on silk and trimmed in hand made lace. Framed, glazed and mounted. Remarkable size 125 x 55 cm. Must be seen to appreciate
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‘the Man They Could Not Hang’ [or ‘The Life Story of John Lee’] (1921, Australian): Double-sided movie flyer/ press sheet for this film, with support movie Charle Chaplin in ‘Charlie Gets A Job’. The poster is hand dated ‘Nov 28th’, and states below title ‘25000 people saw this unique photoplay during the first week at 'The Grand', Sydney’. Rare
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War Movie Posters: Group including 3-sheet poster (‘Hell to Eternity’); US one-sheet posters (2); Australian one-sheet posters (2); daybill posters (3); lobby cards (18); black and white stills & press photos (25); press books (3). Movies include ‘The Lion Has Wings’ (1939) & ‘To Hell and Back’ (1955 - starring Audie Murphy, America's most decorated infantryman). (53 items)
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Japanese mixed-media Paintings on Silk. Exquisite examples of the art. Some minor foxing to silk not affecting the image. Each measures 80 x 13 cm, framed and glazed. Must be seen to appreciate. (2)
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French Game box Lithograph c1890. A very decorative goofy train. Stone Lithograph in very nice condition. 82 x 13 cm
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Walter Barratt (working c1895-1935, Australia), 'Yacht 'White Wings' off Sydney heads', oil on board, signed lower right and dated '1899', image size 41 x 59 cm, framed
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After William Hogarth: ‘The Shrimp Girl’, watercolour, image size 36 x 42 cm, dated ‘1903’ on board, framed & glazed. Discovered in Australia, a superb rendition
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Joseph-Felix Bouchor (French, 1853-1937): ‘Soldier throwing grenade’, oil on board, signed by the artist lower right ‘November 1917/ J.F.Bouchor’, size 33 x 23 cm, framed. [Joseph Felix Bouchor was an official painter of the French Armies during World War I]
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Jo Sweatman (1872-1956, Australia): ‘Still Life’, oil on canvas, signed lower right, image size 22 x 30 cm, framed
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Walter Barratt (working c1895-1935, Australia): ‘Landscape with Cattle’, watercolour, signed lower right and dated ‘1926’, framed & glazed. 27 x 39 cm
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A Prospect of the City of London, ‘La Ville de Londres Prospectus Londinens’, coloured etching, printed by J.Smith, Exeter, 52 x 120 cm;together with 'A New Improved Map of HampshireDivided into its Hundreds', by T.Kitchin, Geographer, for R.Sayers, Fleet St., colour print, from the 'Large English Atlas', c.1760., 55 by 72 cm. (2)
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Sporting Prints: 'The Golfers', a colour engraving by Chas Wagstaff, depicting a match scene at St. Andrews, Scotland in 1850, 45 x 65 cm; together with 'The All England Eleven Versus the Victorian Twenty-two, Melbourne Cricket Ground, January 1st, 1864, colour print, 40 x 60 cm; together with a colour print by M. Kenyon of Jack Nicklaus in action at Cypress Point 1979, 40 x 50 cm. (3)
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Adolf Inkamala (1914-60, Australia. Aboriginal), 'Central Australian Landscape', watercolour, signed lower right, image size 26 x 37 cm, framed and glazed
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Roger K. Furse (English 1903-1972), a pair of watercolour sketches for costume designs for the ballet ‘The Prospect Before Us’, first performed at Sadler's Wells, London 1940. Roger Furse was a celebrated stage designer and painter; a frequent collaborator with Laurence Olivier, Furse won two Oscars in 1948 for his art direction and costume design for Olivier's ‘Hamlet’. Each 55 x 37 cm, signed and titles inscribed. Provenance: Exhibited British Council Exhibition, Paris 1945, Arts Council Tour 1952.…
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Marc Chagall (French/Russian 1887-1985), ‘Moise’(Moses) colour lithograph, artist's proof from an edition of 50. Signed lower right; inscribed lower left 'Epreuvre D'Artiste', 35.5 x 26.5 cm. Provenance: Purchased from Berggruen & Cie Gallery, Paris 1972; private collection Queensland; Sotheby's Melbourne November 2004; private collection Melbourne
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Henk Gerrit Guth (1921-, Australian): [Central Australian Landscape], oil on board, signed lower left, framed, overall 45 x 36 cm
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Frank Arthur Nankivell (Australian/American 1869-1959), Portrait of Mark Twain, etching, c.1935, marking the centennial of Twain's birth. Titled, signed and inscribed in pencil in margin: ‘Mark Twain. To my good pal David M. Dow from Frank A. Nankivell’, 40 x 30 cm
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Kenneth Rowell (Australian 1920-1999), Costume Design, 1955, ink and gouache on paper, signed lower right, 46 x 33 cm
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Harold Freedman (1915-99, Australian): Set of lithograph prints of Melbourne, titled ‘Flinders Street’, ‘The Yarra River’, ‘Bourke Street’, ‘Customs House’, ‘Collins Street’ & ‘The Southern Cross Hotel’; each signed lower right, and most numbered 172/200, each framed & glazed, overall 42 x 33 cm. (6 items)
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Ernest Buckmaster (Australian 1897- 1968), Portrait of a Lady, oil on canvas c.1926, signed lower left. 49 x 36 cm
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Yosl Bergner (1920- ), ‘Carnival figures’, limited edition litho 89/100, signed at lower left 49 x 33 cm. Also Sydney Long (1871-1955), ‘The Blacksmiths Shop’, etching (some tone spots), signed lower right, framed & glazed, overall 49 x 44 cm. (2 items)
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Remainder of Paintings, oils (10) and watercolour (1), an assortment of Australian Landscapes. Artists include, Naylor Gill, J.A.Adams, F.M McDonough, and others. A real bargain. (11)
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Malaysian Watercolours framed and glazed ‘Queen Victoria Fountain’ and ‘ Clock Tower’ Malacca Malaysia Beautifully handled. (2)
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Don Ivan Punchatz (American, b.1936): ‘The Headless Horseman and Ichabod Crane, Boys' Life Cover’, acrylic on paper, mounted on board, signed by the artist lower left, size 34 x 43 cm
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D.Chapman, Bush scene, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1977, 60 x 50 cm
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Yosl Bergner (Born 1920, Austria/Australia/Israel), garden party scene, colour lithograph artist's proof, signed lower right, 40 x 50 cm
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Ross McIntosh (1942-) Australia ‘Daylesford Lake Reflections’ Watercolour, Framed, glazed and signed lower right, image size 26 x 40 cm
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Elaine Haxton (Australian, 1909-1999), Original Costume Design for a character for ‘Casse Noisette’ (The Nutcracker); ink, pencil and watercolour on paper, signed lower centre, 60 x 42 cm
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Yosl Bergner (Born 1920, Austria/Australia/Israel), woman with plants, colour lithograph artist's proof, signed lower right, 50 x 40 cm
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Moya Edwards (Australian, working 1980's): ‘Trees’, oil on canvas, signed lower right, framed, 59 x 49 cm. Fine condition
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Yosl Bergner (born 1920, Austria/Australia/Israel) Still Life, oil on paper, signed lower right, inscribed in pencil ‘For Bernard and Kate with love Yosl 1988’, 32 x 50 cm
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Yosl Bergner (Born 1920, Austria/Australia/Israel), still life with lamp and photograph, colour lithograph artist's proof, signed lower right, 50 x 38 cm
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Yosl Bergner (born 1920, Austria/Australia/Isr'l), portrait of a woman with Tacks, colour lithograph artist's proof, signed lower right, 56 x 42 cm
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Yosl Bergner (Born 1920, Austria/Australia/Israel), scene with two women and birds, colour lithograph artist's proof, signed lower right, 46 x 62 cm
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Historical travel poster, 'Visit Ballarat the City Beautiful', by Fay Plamka (1993), after Percy Trompf 1929, signed by the artist at lower right and numbered 13/150, size 66 x 100 cm
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Audrey Bergner (Born 1927, Australia/Israel), cartwheeling figure, watercolour and mixed media on paper, signed lower left, 45 x 56 cm
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Daguerrotype: Portrait of a Woman, c1860, by Samuel Poole of Teignmouth, Devon. Handcoloured in gold slip, no case, in unusually fine condition
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Aborigines: c1885 photographs - 'Native Climbing with Vine' by Charles Kerry (1857-1928), 16 x 22 cm; plus 'Australian Aborigine N.S.W.' by Henry King (1855-1923), 16 x 21 cm. Latter in Poor/Fair condition, though image mainly intact. (2 items)
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Port Arthur/Fiji: c1890-1920 photographs, noted ‘Dead Island from Point Puer, Port Arthur’; album page with c1900 Fiji photographs (5); also ‘Richmond NSW - Opening Commonwealth Aviation School’. (7 items)
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African Safari: Photographic Glass Positives for a magic lantern viewer; most depict African natives and dead animals during a ‘White hunter’ safari, c1900. (12)
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Boer War/Charity: Cabinet cards (2) showing Fitzroy school children dressed as soldiers & nurses, with sign ‘Will You Help, The Wives and Children of the Australian Troops in South Africa’. (2 items)
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Hand tinted Boer War glass negatives c1900, consisting of Hms Benbow (comissioned 1885), and NSW Mounted Cavalry. Both in very fine condition. (2)
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Magic lantern slides, comprising, King George V by Gunn lantern slide maker little Collins St, Melbourne; King George VI maker unknown; Queen Elizabeth II for the featured, theatre Ads; Queen Elizabeth maker unknown. All hand coloured tint in good condition. (4 items)
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Magic Lantern Slides, collection of various types, noted fairy stories including Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots; humorous with Coon types (6); ‘The Dogs & Monks of St.Bernards’; various strips of four including a set of 10 showing Military Uniforms, and a set of 12 in original box. Condition varies. (80+)
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Magic Lantern Slides, collection including Cinderella (11), Arctic (13), Jesus (10), The Hole Where Father's Wages Went (6), other photographic types including China (4), Egypt (2) & Fiji. Condition varies. (70 items)
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SMS Emden / Battle of Cocos Island: Kodak photograph album, titled ‘Wreck of Emden, Cocos Island, Nov.9.1914’, with 19 photographs, some with manuscript captions. Put together by one of the Telegraph staff who was (briefly) made a prisoner-of-war by the Germans
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West Australian Ballet Company, Ronnie van Den Bergh as the faun in 'Afternoon of a Faun', 1985, photographers Sally McConnell and Fiona McLeod, colour photograph, 49 x 56 cm
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Pc Artist Cards: c1907 F.T.& Co. ‘Historic Sydney Landmarks’ by Katherine Lillian Farran, complete set [12]. G/Vg
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The Kelly Gang: c1910 Regal post card Co. 'The Kelly Gang - From An Original Photograph. Steve Hart, Dan Kelly, Ned Kelly'. Taken from an original c1870 photograph. Rare, only a few examples known. (one example, in poor condition, is in the National library of Australia)
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Egyptian collection on album pages, majority early 1900's, showing the monuments, general views, street scenes and its people. Some cards are postally used with various frankings and cancels including Agroup of Japanese cards used in Egypt. (260+)
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Original French Game box Lithographs c1890, ‘The Frog Barometer’ 9 x 32 cm, ‘The Magnetic Wizard’ 21 x 26 cm, ‘Big Clown Head’ mask (28 x 22 cm). All mounted in mint condition. (3)
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c1899 poster, ‘Lynch Family Bellringers’, attractive poster with pictures in blue and text in red, printed by F.W.Niven, Melbourne, overall 38 x 101 cm. Condition B (some heavy creases). Stunning early Australian poster
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Clown Poster c1900, Stone Colour Lithograph by Stafford Company. In mint condition
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c1900 theatre poster ‘A Message From Mars’, artwork by Albert Morrow (1863-1927), colour lithograph, 50 x 72 cm; c1927 Empire Marketing Board poster SWB27, ‘Buy Home Produced Bacon’, artwork by Frederick C.Herrick (1887-1970) showing British Lion, lithograph in colours, overall 51 x 76 cm; c1930 theatre poster ‘Aladdin’, colour lithograph, linen backed, 100 x 70 cm; plus 1903 travel poster, ‘Clyde Watering Places’, incomplete (left half of 2-sheet poster), published by Glasgow & South-Western Railway,…
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Early Movie Poster: c1907 poster ‘Smith's Palace Electric Animatograph, The King of Biographs, The Greatest Electric Moving Picture Show Touring The Suburbs, Latest Illustrated Songs By Popular Artists’, printed by The Swift Printing Co., Sydney, red text, linen-backed, size 38 x 101 cm
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c1907 poster ‘No Flicker, The A cme of Perfection. Palace Electric Animatograph. Selwyn Conjuror and Expert Card Manipulator’, printed by The Swift Printing Co., Sydney, red text with green surround, linen-backed, size 37 x 95 cm. Condition B
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Mr.Glad Brand Oranges poster c1920, a stone lithograph featuring Stan Laurel in a rare poster from Valencia Spain. Printed by Graphics Valencia. In mint condition. 27 x 20 cm, mounted
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Visit our toy Department poster c1920, Department store advertising, very colourful, 39 x 51 cm mounted. Very fine condition
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C1930s Spanish travel posters, all 66 x 100 cm, all different photographic subjects with information in English, tape reinforcing to back edges, some minor faults. (6 items)
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c1930s-70s German travel posters, all 50 x 75 cm, one duplicated, others all different, noted Aachen, Hildesheim, Nuremberg, Ulm, Marktbreit, & Maulbronn Abbey. Excellent group in good condition, tape reinforcing on back edges. (6 items)
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c1930 Italian travel poster ‘Vallombrosa - Saltino’, published & printed by E.N.I.T. (Italian Government Tourist Board), colour lithograph, backed on linen, 64 x 99 cm. Condition A. Very attractive and colourful
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1930 British Rail travel poster ‘Lincoln, On the London and North Easter Railway of England and Scotland’, artwork by Gordon Mitchell Forsyth (1879-1952), printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd, London, colour lithograph, backed on linen, 125 x 100 cm. Condition A. Very attractive and colourful
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c1930s French theatre poster, ‘Avez-Vous Un Grain De BEAUTE?, Operette en 3 Actes, De Marcel Favre et Jean Monet, Musique de Guy Lafarge’, artwork by Jacques Monet, lithograph in colours, printed by Bedos & Cie, Paris, linen backed, overall 81 x 119 cm. Condition B+
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Posters: c1935 Czech National Railways travel poster, ‘Karlstejn Castle/Czechoslovakia’, artwork by Yiri Kojina, lithographed in colours, overall 62 x 100 cm; c1960s Japan Tourist Association posters (2) - ‘Jet By Boac, Japan, Great Buddha of Todaiji Temple, Nara’ & ‘Jet By Boac, Japan, Byodin Temple at Uji near Kyoto’, offset printed in Japan, each 50 x 74 cm; plus 1987 Christies auction poster featuring a vintage Bugatti, overall 51 x 70 cm. Condition B/C. (4 items)
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Vr Posters: 1950s Victorian Railways posters, ‘Stop Fire.before it starts!.Protect Lives, Homes and Crops’ & ‘Travel Here, There, Everywhere in Victoria By Train For 20% Less’, each 101 x 63 cm. Condition A-. (2 items)
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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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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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C1953 BOAC and Qantas travel poster showing cricketer 'Australia, Fly, There By B.O.A.C and Qantas', printed in great Britain, colour process lithograph, size 51 x 76 cm. Condition A
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Australian Export Flour Bags: c1953-66 Printer's archive with flour bag artwork, ex Webb Printing of Footscray. The flour was for export in 50lb & 100lb bags to Asia & Africa. Artwork includes ‘Australian Empress Flour’ (Manila); ‘Australian Bulldog Brand Roller Flour’; ‘Golden Dragon Australian Flour’ (Semarang); ‘Finest Australian Silo Brand Wheat Flour’ (Leopoldville, Congo); ‘Finest Australian Flour - Tjap Ikan Mas’ (Iskandar, Indonesia); ‘Darling's Bee Eater - Best Australian Eclipse Flour’ (Surabaja)…
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Railway Posters: c1957-80s group including: ‘Become A Railway Apprentice - Applications Close Nov. 11, 1957’, 101 x 63 cm; ‘Aus Steam '88. Melbourne, October 15-30’; ‘Northumbria/ Britain/ Stockton & Darlington Railway. The world's first passenger steam railway. 27th Sept 1825’. Various sizes. Condition varies. (16 items)
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Vr Posters: 1957 Victorian Railways posters: ‘Label Luggage Properly.and Insure Your Luggage At Attractive Rates’ & ‘Luggage Insurance Is Free’, both 101 x 64 cm. Condition B. (2 items)
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C1950s travel poster, 'Fly Teal - Qantas', with nice photo of fishing titled 'Lake Tarawera, Rotorua, New Zealand ', framed and glazed, overall 43 x 53 cm
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C1960s Qantas travel posters - 'Qantas Airways, New Caledonia '; 'Qantas Airways, Vienna'; 'Qantas Airways, Amsterdam'; 'Qantas Airways, Germany'; 'Qantas Airways, Philippines'; 'Qantas Airways, Fiji'; 'Qantas Airways, San Francisco'; 'Qantas Airways, Tahiti'; 'Qantas Airways, India'; 'South Africa, Fly Qantas'; all offset printed by posters Pty Ltd, each 37 x 50 cm. Condition a (one creased). (10 items)
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C1960s travel posters, one 'New South Wales, Australia', showing 'Australian Bush Babies'; other 'Jenolan Caves, New South Wales', both designed by Rotalith Art Services, and published by New South WalesDepartment of tourist Activities, lithograph in colours, each overall 61 x 100 cm. Condition A-. (2 items)
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C1970s Qantas travel poster 'Fly Qantas/ Australia. Australia's Round-The-World Airline', photos of Surfboat crew, Porpoise Pool at tweedheads and Sydney Harbour, printed in Australia by S.T. Leigh & Co, numbered P117, colour offset printed, 64 x 100 cm. Plus 1964-66 Pan Am travel posters (4), for Australia, Tahiti, Hawaii and American Samoa, each 49 x 40 cm. Condition A/B. (5 items)
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1970s Danish travel posters, ‘Denmark - you'll love it!’, all different, each about 62 x 99 cm. (4 items)
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Ansett Posters: c1982-2000 collection of travel, advertising & Sydney 2000 Olympics posters, diverse range, appear to be all different. Size varies, though majority normal poster size of about 69 x 99 cm. Most on paper, though 8 on thick card. Condition A/B. Wonderful collection, inspection will reward. (72 items)
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Australian F1 Grand Prix Sponsor's Posters/Prints: Complete set from 1997-2007, all framed & glazed, various sizes. (11 items)
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Victoria. Parcels stamps, mainly from Barnawatha (formerly on NE line, near Wodonga) mixed lot of 138 stamps in 8 different denominations; also 20 x 40c Melbourne stamps and 19 x 40c STA generic stamps. UHM but some with faults. Mainly in blocks of various sizes. Also: a collection of 8 Victorian railway books and maps. Noted: 'VR Book and Form Index, Accountancy Branch, 1959', listing the 261 books published by the Accountancy branch; 'Cloak Room Book', unused, with 500 duplicate vouchers (minor…
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NSW. Collection of Employee Hat & Jacket Badges. Sra NSW (with crown on top of badge): Guard, Head Shunter, Attendant; Sra NSW (no crown): Guard 114, Guard 1019, Station Assistant 1547, Station Assistant 1484; Ptc NSW: Guard 1123, Shunter 1298, Safeworking Station Assistant 1445. All very good condition. (10)
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Victoria. Edmondson Tickets. Large box of unsorted, unused tickets. A number of Serviceton (Vic./SA border station) tickets noted. Excellent condition. (1000s)
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Victoria. Edmondson Tickets. bulk lot of 1,800 consecutively numbered tickets for the 1986 Papal Mass at Flemington Racecourse on 28 November. All are return tickets Spencer Street to Flemington R/C. Also: a bag of miscellaneous unused tickets. Noted: some Serviceton tickets and cloak room tickets. Much duplication - would suit a reseller or a tourist railway wishing to offer unusual but genuine tickets. Excellent condition. (1000s)
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Victoria. Edmondson Tickets. Huge accumulation of tickets in 3 large boxes. Mainly in complete runs. Many of the tickets appear to be of types that have not been seen in bulk before (ie. Serviceton). Would suit a reseller or a tourist railway wishing to offer unusual but genuine tickets. Excellent condition. (10,000s)
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Victoria. Accumulation of Empolyees' Brass Passes, 42 mm diameter. Obverse = ‘V-R Barrier Pass’ & number; Reverse shows the two stations between which the pass was valid. (A few passes are endorsed ‘Barrier Pass’ instead of ‘Duty Pass’.) These rarely come onto the market. Minor duplication. Good condition. (52)
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Railway crockery, Victoria and SA: 1 x VR (winged logo) soup bowl with handle; 1 x VR (winged logo) cup; 1 cup and saucer set, the Overland V and Sar; 1 cup, the Overland V and Sar; 1 cup and saucer set, V and Anr (as used on the Overland). Very good condition. (7)
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Railway crockery, Victoria. Small condiment plates, all with unusual maroon 'Bird's Wings' design around rim, early 1970s. Generally very good condition. (8)
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Railway crockery as used by Railways of Australia/Australian National on the 'Indian Pacific' and 'Trans Australian' with 'Roa' to all the bases but with no other railway logos; with tan 'Shield' pattern around rim. 14 x cups and saucers; 4 extra cups; 8 x bread and butter plates; 4 x dinner plates; 3 x entree plates; 2 x large bowls; 3 x soup bowls; 6 x dessert bowls. Generally very good condition. (58)
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Collection of presentation plates (and some cups & saucers), all on British railway themes. Includes plates from a number of limted edition sets produced by Wedgwood, Royal Doulton, Coalport and Coverswall. Good to excellent condition. (27 plates, 3 cups, 3 saucers)
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Victoria. Original Blueprints of various motive power (loco., electric engine, railmotor). Blueprint of C Class steam tender, exterior and interior dia grams, 1920, 70 x 130 cm. 2) both swing-door and Tait electric rolling stock showing both M (Motors) and T (Trailers), 6 exterior and 6 interior drawings, 1913, 52.5 x 77 cm. 3) Leyland railmotor, showing front, side and interior views, 1939, 57 x 97 cm
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