*** | Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Icelandic / Canadian Arctic Explorer. My life with, the Eskimos, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1924. Two effusive autograph dedications in black ink on free end paper: 'To All the Heysens From Their Friend Vilhjalmur Stefansso | *** | |
*** | Gregory's Sreet Directory of Sydney and Suburbs, price 4/6. 1st edition. Including. Motor Road guide to Southern NSW Govt tourist bureau & Nrma. The Australian guide book Company, 348 pages, c1935. | *** | |
*** | Two volumes 'The Bradman albums,' signed. Pub. Rigby 1987. Signed gift inscription by Bradman to the designer Susan Kinealy, as well as biro signature to portrait shot opposite title page. Lot also includes hand-written letter from Bradman with layout &… | *** | |
*** | Photograph, Bluebird on lake Eyre. Personally inscribed and signed by Donald Campbell, 'Lake Eyre. 17:VIII:64. 403.1 Mph'. Photo print. 39 x 50 cm | *** | |
*** | 15ct gold fob, fashioned as a life preserver with a yacht to centre and marked 'H.S.C Life Member 1925', engraved to the reverse 'Life Member - N.A Davies - H.S.C 1924-5' | *** | |
*** | Gunn and Moore English autograph cricket bat and Norm O'Neal 'Autograph' Brand cricket bat with canvas cover. Length 88 cm and length 85.5 cm | *** | |
*** | Norman Lindsay. Australian Artist, Etcher, Painter and Author of The Magic Pudding. Typed Letter signed (dated 1931 by recipient). fine dark ink signature. | *** | |
*** | Press photo, Southern Cross over long Island on flight from Ireland to New York, 1930. Including. Stereo view of Southern Cross, Kingsford Smith & crew at Curtiss flying field (U.S.A.) after the 1930 Atlantic crossing. 20 x 25.5 cm | *** | |
*** | 1988 ram commemorative medallions set. Six bicentennial medallions in presentation case and outer box, as issued | *** | |
*** | 1913 Queensland Walking Race Winners Cap, Sash and photo; from the Queensland Amateur Athletics Association three Mile Championship. Won by A.W. Pikard | *** | |
*** | Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera Singer. Black ink signature dated 1911 on photogravure portrait; plus blue ink signature, 'Yours Truly Nellie Melba' on cut blue piece of page. 34 x 17 cm | *** | |
*** | (Sir John Monash). W. Shaw Sparrow, The Fifth Army in March 1918. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1921. From the library of one of the most outstanding Generals of World War I, General Sir John Monash, bearing his name plate and signed in pencil : ' | *** | |
*** | Stuart Devlin silver teaspoon. 1973 opera house commemorative teaspoon for David Jones. Hammered and gilded handle with opera house finial. Hallmarked. Length 15 cm | *** | |
*** | 1Two Numberplates. Including 4 English rear plates; pr NSW numeric 2388 for display only; pr Swedish; RAC Great Britain touring oval; & 2 pr German oval plates. | *** | |
*** | Winston Churchill Commemorative Items. Coalport centenary goblet 21/1000 with certificates, Wedgwood centenary goblet 557/1000 with certificate, Spode In Memoriam plate 2939/5000, Dartington glass plaque 1379/5000 with certificate, Webb Corbett toasting.… | *** | |
*** | Don Bradman autographed card and book. 'Farewell to Cricket.' pub. 1950. 1st edition | *** | |
*** | Two various sheet music. 'The Southern Cross Descriptive March,' by Harry J. Lincoln. Dedicated to Capt. Kingsford Smith & Mr C T P Ulm; & Kingsford Smith 'Aussie's proud of You' words & music, Jack O'Hagan. | *** | |
*** | Souvenir programmes. Typed letter Christchurch 21 March, 1934 to a Miss Glennie of Invercargill signed C. Kingsford Smith; souvenir programme of the visit of the Southern Cross to Auckland (Mangere Aerodrome) January 27th, 28th, 29th & 30th (1933); &1928… | *** | |
*** | Catalogue for the 'Sun-Telegraph' Airways exhibition held at the 'Sun-Telegraph' building, Sydney, 1935. Section F-pages 22 & 23 lists the trophies belonging to Sir Charles Kingsford Smith in the exhibition. Including. Press photo of Kingsford Smith at… | *** | |
*** | New South Wales Government Railways. Passenger Fares & coaching Rates, J S Cargill Esq. Solicitor for Railways. Govt Printer, Sydney, 1st July, 1907. Government Tramways of New South Wales - Rules, Regulations & By-laws. Govt. Printer, Sydney, 1898. | *** | |
*** | Photograph, railway Workers breaking through the mountains zig zag Deviation (blue mountains NSW). The image is 10.5 x 15.5 cm, mounted on board 20 x 24.5 cm. Imprint on lower left of board Henry T Mellor, Lithgow Photographer. | *** | |
*** | James Watson & Co.Wellington commemorative Whisky flask, with stopper. Blue and white ground with cartouche illustrations of Duke of Wellington 1815/1915, stamped to base. Height 28.5 cm | *** | |
*** | Rugby League Team Transfers c.1965 plus photo of Touring Team 52/53 and 195657 | *** | |
*** | Composite photograph of the Southern Cross over New Zealand with insets of Ulm & Smithy. Including. Vacuum oil Company publicity photo, the 'Southern Cross' carrying mail from New Zealand, arrived at mascot Aerodrome at 3.15pm, 29/3/34, creating a new… | *** | |
*** | Five Papua New Guinea ceremonial body Adornments, including fafona pectoral - egg cowries, bush string, nassa shell, pigments; baler shell segment neck ornament; two beaded headbands; and 1920s Western Highlands woven armband, ex Kingsford Smith… | *** | |
*** | Framed & glazed photograph. RAAF de Haviland DH9A was one of thirty gifted by the British government after the first World War so that Australia could form an air force. This plane A1-28 (previously E9692 RAF) was manufactured by Mann, Egerton & Co.,… | *** | |
*** | 14 various Australian sheet music. Aeroplane theme song featured by Traders Tonic tune Sessions, cover illustration of a moulded jelly, c1939; the old bush Shack, cover illustration of a shack in a bushland setting. Manly, the Manly daily, c1925; the… | *** | |
*** | Sale of city & Suburban Properties by public auction booklet, 1929. Thirteen lots with half page photos of the buildings for sale, three in the city, one in Surry hills, two in Ashfield and seven in Randwick. | *** | |
*** | R Fowler Marrickville Centenary jug. Slip cast in brown Rockingham glaze. C1937, height 20 cm | *** | |
*** | German silver plated Deskset, J P Kayser, c1900. Cast modelled football players to the centre, with lidded inkwell each side. Stamped 'Kayser within Eagle.', length 35 cm | *** | |
*** | Three white metal name place holders. One decorated with Royal Navy fouled anchor with Crown above, one in the form of a Scottish targe, inlaid with agate, & the third in the form of the Prince of Wales feathers, inlaid with agate. W105g (total) | *** | |
*** | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers autographed photos. Two publicity portraits with fountain pen autographs. Ginger Rogers also signed a second time and dated 1990. 20 x 18 cm and 23 x 18 cm | *** | |
*** | Two French medals, including 1837 Louis Phillipe, commemorating the opening of the Museum of History, Versailles; and 1932 'Before the Battle' featuring Joan of Arc on horseback, by Mouchon. Diameter 7.5 mm. Diameter 8 cm | *** | |
*** | 2000 Olympics coin and medallion set comprising twenty eight uncirculated $5 coins, matching mascot medallions and a presentation folder | *** | |
*** | Early Rugby League Referees badge plus N.S.W.R.F.L. Referees Life Member, Canterbury Bankstown jacket with rules and training Books | *** | |
*** | Franz Lehar. Hungarian operetta composer. Original musical score for operetta Die Gelbe Jacke, first performed in Vienna 9 February 1923. autographed by Lehar on front cover with a two line salutation in German, dated Wien 9 March 1923. Some archival rest | *** | |
*** | Three Alvey side cast fishingreels. Model 650-C5 and two model 500-C5. | *** | |
*** | Hallmarked sterling silver Sydney opera house plate. London 1973, makers R and D. Depth23 cm. Weight 362g | *** | |
*** | Original Sydney Tram Destination roll. City & Eastern suburbs destinations. Commencing Bondi, circular Quay, opera house, Racecourse, University etc. Marked 'Last no 1A box.' | *** | |
*** | James Watson & Co.hallmarked sterling silver commemorative Whisky jug, with sepia cartouche illustrations of H.M.S. Sydney (2) and Sir John Jellicoe on black ground. (small rim chip to lip, no stopper). Height 23.5 cm | *** | |
*** | Douglas Mawson Autographs. Antarctic explorer. Plain signature to back Hamilton Hotel notepaper | *** | |
*** | Lufthansa, Olympische Spiele (Olympic Games) 1-16 August 1936, summer time table 19 April - 3 Oct 36. | *** | |
*** | Phar lap colour print. With the compliments of the sporting globe. Original mailing tube, 1935 (34 x 38 cm). | *** | |
*** | Railway station Sydney. Two framed versions of the first terminus at Redfern, includes original 1871 photograph (possibly more correctly workshops at Redfern) and a later steel engraving c.1890 which shows the Prince Alfred park exhibition building in the… | *** | |
*** | 12 full sheets of Australian decimal stamps, including 22c Hm flag; 33c Colonial military uniforms x 2; 30c Australia day 1985; 30c Victoria 150 years x 2; 30c vintage cars x 2; 27c sentimental bloke x 2; Aat 27c regional wildlife x 2; and 27c ABC 50 years | *** | |
*** | Various c1888 scenic Waterfalls. Incl Fitzroy Falls, moss Vale NSW; Willoughby Falls; and North Shore, Sydney. Photolithograph. 36 x 30 cm, and 29 x 35 cm | *** | |
*** | NSW doctor's car badge, British medical Association member. Last issued in 1962 when the Bma branches became the Ama, usage continued into the 1970s when it ceased because the badges drew the attention of drug addicts to doctors' cars. Including horn… | *** | |
*** | Four various motor club badges, including 2 NRMA; Royal Automobile club of Australia; and Canadian Automobile Association | *** | |
*** | 9ct yellow gold football medallion. Engraved 'Railway F.C J. Gleeson Premiers 1906.' W5g | *** | |
*** | C.1936 Greta Garbo Scrapbooks (3). Both books filled with 1930s magazine portraits and movie scenes which have been cut out and pasted. Also loosely inserted are many Hollywood fan photos mostly in photogravure. Real photo, signed in autopen of Robert Mont | *** | |
*** | Sydney Harbour Bridge souvenir clear glass dish. Length 14 cm | *** | |
*** | Programme 'Melba Special Concert in Aid of the Polish Relief Fund, 1915.' Town hall Sydney Thursday June 3rd 1915. Printed by John Sands. Cover depicts allegorical female figure of Australia supporting Poland with ravaged landscape background. 25 x 18.5 cm | *** | |
*** | 1911 King George V Coronation tea and coffee pots. | *** | |
*** | Four pieces Shelley/Foley souvenir Ware, including 'Bemboka river and brown mountain' vase; 'Grand column. River Cove. Jenolan Caves, NSW,' vase; 'Windsor Castle' tankard and Foley 'Sarnia, Canada' jug. Height 12 cm (Average) | *** | |
*** | Various cycling items. Blue Riband. Preston Prof. Cycling club, 1939. 62 Mile Road Championship won by L Bonney; quantity of entry forms & related items for Lloyd Bonney 1934-1939; photograph (20 x 26) of Lloyd Bonney being presented with the Barnet glass… | *** | |
*** | Various programmes & Tickets. China Soccer Tour of Australia 1923, china V Metropolis, Sydney Cricket Ground. Fold out cardboard programme, no date but sometime in August,1923; Olympic Games, Melbourne 1956, programme Association football main Stadium… | *** | |
*** | Bosley Ware SA Centenary plate. Commemorating SA Centenary 1836-1936. Impressed factory mark verso, diameter 22 cm | *** | |
*** | Nellie Stewart autographed photo. Matte photo of Stewart in costume. Hand signed in ink, 'Faithfully, Nellie Stewart, April 22, 1924.'. Silver Gelatin photograph. 21 x 15 cm | *** | |
*** | Collection 18 various souvenir teaspoons. Mainly international destinations. Some early and some hallmarked sterling silver | *** | |
*** | Three various 9ct gold pins. S H Hard & Co golf club form, set with single pearl; & two others. Width 6.5g | *** | |
*** | Hallmarked 18ct yellow gold commemorative mourning ring. London 1806, makers SG. Inscribed 'William Bateman Ob 11 Feb 1807'. Some wear to enamelling. Weight 3.5gm | *** | |
*** | Cased silver gilt medallion with 'N.S.W. Women's Amateur Swimming Association' on the front, '500 Yards Teams Championship of N.S.W. 1935-36. M. Musgrove, Time 5 Minutes 50 2/5 Secs; 21.1.36' on the reverse | *** | |
*** | Don Bradman $5 Issues and Other Commemoratives. Various $5 issues including Olympics, plus two special 50 cent issues and uncirculated 1990 coin set | *** | |
*** | Falk Studios Photographic cabinet cards 1 Picturing Viriginia Earle; 4 Sarah Bernhardt 'Cleopatra;' and 1 Herbst photographic cabinet card of Queen Victoria 'Our Beloved Queen' at the time of her death January 1901 | *** | |
*** | 30 various Tivoli programmes 1941-1949. Including. The booklet (27 x 22 cm) Favorites of the Footlights, a beautiful series of photographs and Autographs Compiled by - - W a Crawley. Nellie Melba, Carrie Moore, Nellie Stewart et al. The New South Wales… | *** | |
*** | AFL official souvenir programme 10th ANFC Carnival north Hobart oval. Concluding day Saturday, August 9, 1947. Victoria V S Australia, 32 pages; & one season ticket 1948 NSW Australian National football League. | *** | |
*** | New South Wales Government Railways. Military fortnightly ticket, second class for soldiers in uniform only, expires 5 June, 1941. Including. Queensland Railways, returned soldier, first class pass. All stations available until Dec 13, 1919; Government… | *** | |
*** | 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge opening Booklets. Including official souvenir Programme of 180 pages; and special commemorative Art in Australia edition. 32 x 26 cm, (largest) | *** | |
*** | Four various silver plated Trophies, including National Dahlia Society of S.A. 'Challenge Shield,' c.1930s; 1926 boy Scout swimming; 1922 Port Adelaide billiard Tournament; and 1930 Outboard Championship. Height 38 cm. (Scout) | *** | |
*** | 2000 Australian Olympic $5 Coin Set. 28 Uncirculated coins in presentation folder | *** | |
*** | Sporting postcards. 1911, Melbourne cup; Hayes-Surrey Cricketer; Den's, French boxer; signed Eddie Charlton Snooker souvenir (5) Also folding Race Gameboard, c.1900 | *** | |
*** | Cricket Bat. Signed by Doug Walters and Kerry O'Keefe, bears Commonwealth Bank series adhesive label. Length 86 cm | *** | |
*** | Business card for air services, including Roosevelt field NY with home made safety pin attached. Annotation on back, 'In the cock-pitt of Kingsford Smith's plane 'Southern Cross' on her arrival from America per SS golden bear, 16th Feb, 1931' (5 x 9 cm)… | *** | |
*** | Three South Australia travel & Tourism Brochures. Bastin's Adelaide tourist office. Australian scenic Tours a travel & tourist Annual. Soft illustrated covers, 56 pages, 1935. 1st edition; Barossa Annual show, 1910. Booklet/Programme. Soft illustrated… | *** | |
*** | Photograph. Caption on the board 'Mrs Michael Lerner of USA with her 210lb striped marlin caught at Bermagui 30.3.1939.' inscribed & signed on the image 'For Mrs O'Shea with Kindest Regards Helen Lerner.' (Mrs O'Shea was a member of the family that owned… | *** | |
*** | Book, 'American Angler's Guide,' New York, Burgess Stringer & Co. For sale by John J. Brown & Co 122 Fulton Street,1846. Second edition. Frontis depicting trout fishing & two woodcut plates of hooks. Said to be the first book on angling written by an… | *** | |
*** | New South Wales Government Railways & Tramways, ambulance Corps' handbook. Issued by the Chief Commissioner of Tramways & Railways 6th edition, Govt Printer, Sydney, 1910; New South Wales Government Railways Rules & Regulations, Govt Printer, Sydney, 1907… | *** | |
*** | 12 full sheets of Australian decimal stamps, including 18c Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee 1977; 45c Elizabeth and Phillip Jubilee; 18c Parliament house 1977; 15c Christmas 1977; 27c world Communications, 1983; 7c Charter of Justice; 30c Strzelecki; 30c… | *** | |
*** | 1928 Kingsford Smith souvenir and other Australian Ephemera. Including 1927 2BL (Abc Radio) Personality postcard, 195; Olympic Games patches; TAA Convair postcard; signed Australian opera Elizabeth Connel programme; and 1940s '60 home Plans' stc. | *** | |
*** | Sydney 2000 Olympic $5 coin collection. Full album of 28 x $5 card mounted coins. Also Torch Relay commemorative medallion and Daily Telegraph poster album | *** | |
*** | 12 various inkwells, including aluminium Stephens inkbottle case; and French souvenir in the form of a block of butter etc | *** | |
*** | Framed silver National Trust Jubilee plate. Limited edition -/276, Kenneth Jack 'Como, South Yarra'. Diameter 20 cm (plate) | *** | |
*** | Two c.1950s Ginger Meggs Nursery Carpets. Scenes of fishing & eating ice cream. 56 x 94 cm (each) | *** | |
*** | 9ct rose and yellow gold swimming medallion. Features profile of swimmer. Not engraved. (7.2g) | *** | |
*** | Don Bradman badge. Enamel on solid brass bouttoniere style badge. 1930s-1940s. Height two cm | *** | |
*** | 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge Official Souvenir and Programme of the Opening. Published by Government printer, 180 pages, cover shabby. 28 x 17 cm | *** | |
*** | The Reveille, official Journal of the RSL, June 30th, 1928. Cover photo of Kingsford Smith & crew, our comrades, the Pacific Fliers (25 x 18.5 cm); the National Geographic magazine, October 1928; & a programme, Saturday, November 29, 1930. Australian… | *** | |
*** | Press photo, Southern Cross Charles Kingsford Smith pilot, P G Taylor navigator & J W Stannage wireless operator preparing to take off at Gerringong beach (NSW), destination new Plymouth, NZ, Jan 1933. A man made fire on the beach illuminates the scene.… | *** | |
*** | Five unused Letterheads for Kingsford Smith air service Ltd, 1932. | *** | |
*** | West Australian Airways limited. Perth-Derby and Perth-Adelaide Routes time tables - passenger Fares 1929-1930. 24 pages. Insect damage to a small portion of the covers which have been professionally repaired. Rusted staples have been replaced with linen. | *** | |
*** | 2 Harry Potter Mechandise items. Includes Noble collection wand, and Harry Potter glasses. Original retail boxes. Length 35 cm (wand) | *** | |
*** | Haygarth, R (British school), British river landscape with Ruins,1842, signed & inscribed lower right 'R Haygarth, 118 Richmond Row', pencil, 32 x 45 cm | *** | |
*** | Books (10), Pre-Columbian Art. 'Robert Woods Bliss. Collection of Pre-Columbian Art,' text by S K Lothrop, W F Foshag & Joy Mahler (1957), Phaidon press, London (in a slip case); 'The Art of Ancient Peru,' Heinrich U Doering (1952), a. Zwemmer Ltd, London… | *** | |
*** | Victorian period football medal. Silver, gold and enamel. Engraved 'Windsor Jubilee football Contest, 1887'. | *** | |
*** | Framed 'Revenge of the Zombies' original lithographic movie daybill | *** | |
*** | 1970's Bendigo pottery Don Bradman limited edition. Mug. Brown glaze. Height 15 cm | *** | |