LEGAL CHAMELEONS
photographs by Mark Tedeschi Collectors' List 129 2008

Politics & Politicians
106 Percy Lindsay (Australian, 1870-1952)
Vote No Mum. They'll Take Dad Next, c1914. Handbill, lineblock and letterpress, initialled "P.L." in block lower centre, Typographical Union Label Australasia logo in block lower left, 16.9 x 26cm (paper). Foxing, missing upper right corner.
Text includes "Australian Labor Party Anti-Conscription Comm[ittee]. Authorised by B. Mulvogue, Trades Hall, Melbourne. Fraser & Jenkinson Print, 343-5 Queen Street." Very rare.
$1,100

107 Anon
Bruce Paints The Australian Worker Red! Vote Labor, c1924/later printing. Pair of screenprints printed in (a) red and (b) black, 50.4 x 75.9cm (each). (a) Slight foxing to left margin, repaired minor tears to margins, (b) replaced and repainted missing portions to left margin. Linen-backed.
Text continues "The Australian Worker by Stan Bruce."
The Pair
$1,850
108 Anon
Arbitration Means Wage Cuts!, 1938. Letterpress, monogrammed "NAM" in block upper left, 56.6 x 43.8cm. Surface scuffing and slight stains, repaired old folds, tears and slight paper loss. Linen-backed.
Text continues "Workers! For organised militant struggle against the employers! Build industrial unionism! Set up job committees on all jobs! Vote Communist! Vote Senate, Dr G.P. O'Day. 1. Issued by J. Brew, Campaign Director, 182 Exhibition St, Melb. Printed by Starlight Press, 553 Elizabeth St, Melb. F5375."
$1,450
109 Earthworks Poster Collection (Aust., active 1971-1980). Pig Iron Bob Dead At Last, 1972. Colour screenprint, Earthworks logo in image lower left, 76.1 x 51cm. Slight paper loss to edges of margins, repaired old creases and minor tears. Linen-backed.
Text includes "Obscene, imperialist rites for militarist, witch hunter. Only the ruling class mourns its dead hero." Held in Powerhouse Museum collection.
$1,650
110 Anon
It's Time. Australian Labour Party, c1972/later printing. Colour process lithograph, autographed by Gough Whitlam in ink on image lower left, 49.5 x 35.1cm. Slight retouching to lower portion of image. Linen-backed.
Text continues "Authorised by: P.B. Westerway, 377 Sussex Street, Sydney."
$2,200
111 Anon
Danger [Malcolm Fraser], c1975. Colour screenprint, 63.5 x 46.7cm. Minor surface loss, repaired slight tears to edges and old folds, pinholes to corners. Linen-backed.
$1,100
112 Anon
Rally, Treasury Gardens, 1975. Process lithograph, 81.4 x 50.3cm. Retouching and slight paper loss to edges of image. Linen-backed.
Text continues "4pm November 11. March to City Square - 5pm." Depicts former Governor General Sir John Kerr.
$1,850