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Auction House:
Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.
Number of lots recorded:30
Lots with images:30
Prices available:30
Category:
Zother
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A Victorian mahogany writing box and antique shop bell, 19th century, the box 13.5 cm high, 35 cm wide, 23 cm deep ***
*** Antique gold scales in oak case with brass pans and square weights, 19th century ownership inscription inside lid 'C.A. Evans' the box 17 cm wide. Provenance: Private Collection Bendigo ***
*** Antique gold scales in mahogany case with brass pans and three lozenge weights, 19th century the box 17.5 cm wide. Provenance: Private Collection Bendigo ***
*** A miner's shovel with wooden handle, 19th century 76 cm high ***
*** An iron miner's spike candle holder, 22 cm long ***
*** A miner's pick, four pound solid cast brass with later timber handle, 81 cm high ***
*** An antique portable safe, iron with hand-painted wood grained finish, 19th century, 12 cm high, 29 cm wide, 22 cm deep ***
*** A miner's lamp and pannikin, with old tallow candle, 12 cm high, 11 cm diameter. Ex Ballarat, made by John Holloway, Montrose cottage collection ***
*** Mining Companies: Miscellaneous typed and handwritten correspondence regarding Mining Company activities comprising: 'Altannor Hydraulic Sluicing Gold Mining Company, No Liability, Buckland River'; 'The South Federation Gold Mining Company, No Liability,… ***
*** Australiana: books including 'Whaling Ways of Hobart Town' by Philp (Hobart, c1936); 'Black Opal' by Prichard (Sydney, 1946); 'The First Hundred Years' by Palmer and McLeod (Melbourne, 1954). (9 items) ***
*** 1916 Victoria Department of Mines. 'Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria..No.38 The Tanjil or Russell's Creek Gold-Field, with Geological Map and Sections by R.A.F.Murray', 21 pages; '1917 Victoria Department of Mines. Records of the Geological… ***
*** Books Central Highlands Victoria, vintage books and pamphlets comprising: 'Gold & Colonial Society' by G. Quaife 1975; 'Wedderburn Goldfields Scrap Book' by Charles Bishop 1982; 'Sebastopol Victoria, An Historical Survey of Early Sebastopol 1864-1964' by… ***
*** Bendigo goldfields ore specimen, together with a vial of alluvial gold from the Adelaide hills ***
*** Two American cast iron money boxes, one in the form of an elephant the other a bank safe, 19th century, 8 cm and 10 cm high ***
*** Shop counter display cabinet, circa 1920, 98 cm high, 217 cm wide, 57 cm deep ***
*** A rare iron prospector's bar. Used for extracting quartz and crushing samples in a dolly pot. Ballarat. 19th century. 79 cm long ***
*** A tinware watering can, 19th century, 45 cm high Provenance: Private Collection Bendigo ***
*** Myer Department store figural shop display light, circa 1980, 84 cm high ***
*** '1901 Victoria Special Reports issued by J.Travis, Secretary for Mines, Under the Authority of the Hon.J.Balfour Burton M.P., Minister for Mines. Report on the Pitfield Plains Gold-Field (with Plans and Sections) by Stanley B. Hunter'. A number of very… ***
*** 1914 Victoria Department of Mines: 'Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria..No.29 Some Daylesford Mines By H.S.Whitelaw and W.Baragwanath', together with 'Plans and Sections to Accompany Bulletin No.29..'; 'No.35 the Jubilee Mines Scarsdale By W… ***
*** An iron miner's 'spider', spike, hook & shackle ring. Blacksmith made, Montrose Cottage Collection, 20 cm long ***
*** An iron miner's 'spider' candle holder and old candle, made by John Holloway, Montrose Cottage Collection, 15 cm long ***
*** A tin miner's lamp, Montrose Cottage Collection; 21 cm high ***
*** Ballarat: various interesting papers pertaining to Mr. James Govan comprising: 3 'Miner's Rights' issued 1915, 1917 and 1921; a 'Notice of Application For Registration of Claim' by Mr. Govan, 1916 and 7 'Record of Gold Purchased' receipts from the… ***
*** Three pottery jugs by Pates, Lane Potteries & Ballarat Pottery, the largest 24 cm high ***
*** A blacksmith made double-linked bullock chain, 19th century 142 cm long ***
*** 10 Chinese coins, found in Main Road Ballarat 1972. (10) ***
*** 9 Chinese coins, found in Main Road Ballarat, 1972. (9) ***
*** Three industrial shop stands and a lamp base, 20th century, (4 items), the largest 150 cm high ***
*** Bendigo pottery blue glazed vase, cricket porcelain tankard and a folk art picture frame, (3 items), the vase 16 cm high ***