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Auction House:
Cordy's
Number of lots recorded:34
Lots with images:34
Prices available:34
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*** Whites Aviation vintage photograph, Yachts racing Auckland harbour, hand coloured, signed. 50 x 60 cm, original frame under glass. ***
*** Two unframed 19th century Maori portrait photographs, - an albumen photograph of Patara Te Ngungukai wearing a rapaki as a cape and a European blanket as a cloak holding a hatchet. 20.5 x 14 cm; and a gelatin photograph, inscribed 'Maori Chief', Protected… ***
*** 'Rueti Watea', a vintage albumen photograph by Charles Spencer, c.1890s inscribed in the plate bottom left 'Rueti Watea.102 C. Spencer Photo'. 19.8 x 14.5 cm ***
*** A collection of approximately 80 vintage stereoscopic cards, includes Tongan subjects, labels to reverse including Burton Bros. ***
*** A Colonial New Zealand large greeting card, A Christmas Greeting from our New Zealand Friends', oval watercolour depicting small Maori child in a landscape with a floral border. 29 cm x 23 cm. ***
*** A map of New Zealand by A Petermann, published by Justus Perthes, 1867. 33 x 21 cm. ***
*** Three c.1900 Maori figure glass lantern slides, includes formal image of a young Maori woman and an extensive family group and three women with cooking baskets in geothermal landscape labelled 'N.Z.' and numbered 3203. Approx. 8.3 cm x 8.3 cm ea. ***
*** Two vintage silver gelatin photograph prints, one large format 'Rotorua. The 'Malfroy' Geyser & Sanatorium' initialled E.T. 27 x 42.5 cm, and 'Dunedin Gardens' 14 x 19 cm. ***
*** Ten c.1960s 'N.Z. Potter' magazine, early small format. ***
*** A 20th century Post-Revolution Chinese rosewood figure, depicting a young woman standing in heroic pose in an agricultural costume beside a pot and book. Height 26.5 cm ***
*** George Chance (1885-1963), 'Forest Relics near Taihape', camera study (silver gelatin photograph, signed and titled. 25.5 x 20.5 cm ***
*** A 19th century hand coloured steel engraved map of New Zealand by W. Hughes, published Edinburgh by A. & C. Black, unframed. 40 cm x 28 cm ***
*** Papers on Native Tenure 1861', a private folio binding, c.1888 of New Zealand Government despatches including 'The Taranaki Question' and 'Maori Customs' with bound in manuscript/clipping copies of published extracts by various authors/specialists -… ***
*** A small Edwardian period gentleman's postcard album containing risque postcards of ladies as well as risque humorous postcards ***
*** Unknown photographer, William S. Burroughs' portrait, c.1982, gelatin silver print, faint copyright stamp verso. This photograph accompanied an unknown Radar magazine Edition C.L.A.G. [Carl Lazlo]. 24 cm x 17.5 cm. ***
*** A postcard album principally of Rotorua images, including early images of Ohinemutu. ***
*** A folder of various ephemera including N.Z. and foreign photos, money and various certificates and postcards, Egypt/NZ 'active service' letter, etc. ***
*** World War I and Boer War postcards, stereoscope cards and Gallipoli NZEF Christmas card. Provenance: Private Estate Collection. ***
*** The Adventures of Kimble Bent, by James Cowan, 1st edition, Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, 1911. Pictorial cloth, 15 photo plates. Distress to spine and cover. Note: Kimble Bent was known as the Pakeha Maori, he lived and fought with Titokowaru's Hauhau warriors… ***
*** A box of New Zealand glass photo plates, includes Napier Nurses' Home after the earthquake, Black Reef from Pt. Chev, etc. ***
*** An early photo of a Lindauer painting and a carte de visite attributed to Elizabeth Pulman, both images of a Maori woman wearing muka cloak with child to their back. 14 x 9.5 cm and 9.5 x 6 cm. ***
*** One hundred old New Zealand postcards, some colour, most black and white, all in plastic covers. ***
*** George Chance, Otago Boys' High School' photograph, signed and entitled. 15 cm x 21 cm ***
*** A pair of Victorian daguerreotypes, scenes of romantic figures each 8 cm x 6.5 cm Matching frames. Indistinct details on reverse. ***
*** 'Brett's Historical Series: Early History of New Zealand ', by R.A.A. Sherrin and J.H.Wallace, Thomson W. Leys (Ed.), pub. H.Brett, Auckland 1890, 1st, original half leather and blue gilt/cloth, (foxing). ***
*** A collection of over 100 vintage N.Z. and other postcards, includes humorous, etc. ***
*** A 19th century Dutch small leather bound bible, the engraved silver lock with central section formed as a book, tooled detail, dated 1881. 8.5 x 13 x 4.7 cm ***
*** 19th century photograph 'Group of native Allies Roto Kakahi' 17 x 22.5 cm. Another 19th century photo on reverse 'Burial caves of the Tribes at Waiomeo, Now Tapu'. 21.5 x 28.5 cm. ***
*** A photograph of Maori woman and child, unknown photographer. 13 cm x 8.5 cm. ***
*** A collection of over 100 vintage postcards, of movie stars, pictorial scenes, etc. ***
*** A collection of approx. 100 vintage postcards, including floral silk cards. ***
*** A hand coloured photograph by Elaine Watson 'Lake Hawea'. 39.5 cm x 49.5 cm ***
*** A 1939 'The Weekly News' issue No. 3817, featuring 'Deep-Sea Fishing' ***
*** Two carbonette prints of photographs by Charles Spencer, 'Hori Ngakapa Te Whanaunga' and unknown portrait. Inscribed in the plate 'Ngakpa 100 C. Spence Photo' and 'Maori Chief'. Both unframed, 20 x 15.5 cm ***