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33 Albert Einstein George Finey, Albert Einstein, 1977. Texta drawing, titled lower left, signed and dated lower right, 18.4 x 26.2cm. Cartoon drawing by one of Australia's foremost black & white artists of the world's best-known genius. |
$390 |
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34 HMAS Sydney Photograph by W.A. Shearon. H.M.A.S. Sydney…, c.1940. Silver gelatin print, autographed, photographer's stamp verso, 18.2 x 28.2cm. Photograph of H.M.A.S. Sydney which sank Italian Cruiser "Bartolomeo Colleoni" off Crete 19th July, 1940 (inscribed on photograph). Signed by members of the crew (?) and Residents of Wellington District (inscribed). The subsequent sinking of the Sydney 16 months later was shrouded in mystery. On 19 November 1941, following a battle with the German raider HSK Kormoran, the light cruiser HMAS Sydney disappeared, almost without trace. The loss of the Sydney with its full war complement of 645 remains to this day Australia's worst naval disaster and one of its greatest wartime mysteries. The loss accounted for more than 35 per cent of Royal Australian Navy servicemen killed in action between 1939 and 1945. The only confirmed relics found were a lifebelt and a Carley life float damaged by shellfire. Of the Kormoran's crew of 397, 317 were rescued. |
$1,350 |
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35 Kelly Gang Photograph by J. Lindt. Joe Byrne, c.1880. Albumen paper print, carte de visite format, 10.2 x 5.7cm. Faded. A member of the infamous Kelly Gang, Byrne was photographed at Benalla Police Station after his death, and the photographs sold as souvenirs. This is a detail from the famous photograph of Joe Byrne which was hung on the doorway of the Station. Reproduced: A Pictorial History of Bushrangers. |
$1,500 |
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36 Breaker Morant Book by Frank Renar, Bushman and Buccaneer. Harry Morant: his 'Ventures and Verses, published by H.T. Dunn & Co., Sydney, 1902. Two-colour illustrated brown wrappers, 64pp., 8vo. Spine damaged; old stains, minor foxing; repairs to some pages. Cover illustration by Norman Lindsay, repeated in the text with the caption "Shoot Straight!". Should Breaker Morant be regarded as famous or infamous? Renar: "Let those who will think of the trusty friend, the daring rider, the man of great boldness…; and those who will of the asvogels hovering over stark bodies of Boer farmers, killed not in fair chance of war… but most ignobly in cold after-thought." Following the essay is a collection of Morant's poetry. |
$1,350 |
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37 W. Eugene Smith Photograph by Robert McFarlane, W. Eugene Smith, New York, 1973, 1973/2000. Silver gelatin print, titled, dated and signed verso in pencil, 19.6 x 30.4cm. Portrait of American photographer of world renown, W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) by a noted Australian photgrapher. Smith was a war correspondent and photojournalist, contributing to Life, Sports Illustrated and Popular Photography. |
$750 |
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38 H.M. Stanley - Photographs (1) by F. York, H.M. Stanley: the African Explorer, (2) by Stereoscopic Co, Mr Stanley in the dress he wore when he met Livingstone in Africa, London, c.1872. Two albumen paper print cartes de visite, (1) 9 x 5.7cm. (2) hand-coloured, signed in the plate, The London Stereoscopic & Photo-graphic Company, Cheapside logo printed verso, 9 x 6.3cm. Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), British journalist and African explorer. Famous for finding Scottish explorer David Livingstone who was searching for the source of the Nile, with the immortal words, "Dr Livingstone, I presume". |
Two (2) $790 |
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