1908. Group of five letterpress booklets with colour lineblock and process screen illustrations, each dated on cover, some images with artist’s signature replicated in image, sizes from 15.3 x 10.4cm to 23.9 x 31.5cm. Slight soiling, wear, tears and creases to covers and pages, repairs to spine. Details for booklets... More about Souvenirs Of Visit Of American Fleet To Australia And New Zealand
![The Great White Fleet Visit To Australia [US Navy] Collection](/pictures/thumb/CL194-102_10a.jpg?v=1543548290)
1908. Sixty-three (63) items comprising of 40 vintage silver gelatin photographs in stereo card format; 16 postcards; two framed paintings; one framed lithograph; two commemorative booklets; and two pieces of lithographic ephemera, one painting signed “B. Barker”, several items captioned with ship names and dated “August 1908”, sizes include 4.6... More about The Great White Fleet Visit To Australia [US Navy] Collection
c1880s-1909. Newspaper cuttings in a hardcover quarto leather-bound book, 40.6 x 33cm. Scuffing and leather loss to boards, minor foxing throughout. This album contains newspaper cuttings relating to the work of Australian botanical painter Ellis Rowan (1848-1922), including reviews and critiques of her work, a column by Rowan herself entitled... More about Ellis Rowan Scrapbook
1888-1910s. Thirty-three (33) process screen and 148 photographic postcards (181 in total), some images captioned or dated in negative or letterpress, some with photographer’s blind stamp or studio line verso, 8.8 x 13.8cm (approx. each). Minor silvering or developing flaws to some images. Photographers include Brokenshire Bros, Broken Hill; and... More about Broken Hill (NSW) Photographic Collection
c1911. Enamel on tin, 30.7 x 45.9cm. Surface and paint loss, crazing, missing portions to upper corners. Partly obscured text continues “C. Ritchie…Sydney…Adelaide.” The Referee was a newspaper published in Sydney from 1886 to 1939. The Globe (1911-1914) was a weekly newspaper published by Alfred Herbert Howard Aldworth in Sydney..... More about “The Referee”, Australia’s Best Sporting Paper. “The Globe”, The News Of All The World
c1912. Enamel on tin, 45.7 x 61cm. Surface and paint loss to edges, crazing, minor missing portions to corners. Text continues “Gives ease to the hand, character to the writing. Macniven & Cameron Ltd…Edinburgh & Melbourne.” The agent for Golden Wattle was Robert Hutton of 321 Flinders Lane, Melb. Ref..... More about The New Australian Nib. Golden Wattle
c1914. Printed cotton scarf, captioned throughout, 47.5 x 61.5cm. Stains and foxing overall. Captions include notes on the landing places of various allied troops, including the ANZACs. Captions on flags in corners read “Australia, well done! New Zealand, well done! Army and navy, well done! Eclipse of the star &... More about Map Of Gallipoli And The Dardanelles
c1905-1915. Nine postcards, including photogravure, hand-coloured process screens, process lithograph and colour lithograph, some captioned and one signed in image, most inscribed in ink verso with postage stamps and postmarks, 13.8 x 8.7cm or 9.9 x 13.9cm (approx. each). Some with minor soiling or wear to edges, slight tear and... More about Eclectic Subjects Relating To The Chinese People In Australia And UK
![The Blood Vote [Anti-Conscription Campaign]. AfterClaude Marquet, Australian](/pictures/thumb/CL179-10.JPG?v=1492666352)
1916. Letterpress and line block, handbill, artist’s name in lower portion, 32 x 25.4cm (paper). Missing portions, old folds. Text includes “‘They gave me the ballot paper, the grim death-warrant of doom, and I smugly sentenced the man to death, in that dreadful little room. I put it inside the..... More about The Blood Vote [Anti-Conscription Campaign
![Baby Powder Caricature On Smith & Julius Letterhead]. Sydney Ure Smith and Harry Julius, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL174-96.JPG?v=1492657163)
1916. Ink and gouache sketch on typed letter with date, signed by Ure Smith in ink with “Smith & Julius” stamp, 26.5 x 20.8cm (paper). Minor stains to upper portion, old folds, crinkles. Letterhead includes “Smith & Julius, illustrators and designers, Waltham Buildings, 24 Bond Street, Sydney. Sydney Ure Smith... More about Baby Powder Caricature On Smith & Julius Letterhead
c1916. Painted plaster, 29.4 x 9.9 x 11.9cm. Surface loss and chips overall, cracks to neck of figure. Uncommon plaster of a WWI digger. More about Anzac Soldier
c1916. Letterpress booklet with process screen illustrations, owner’s stamp with the name of Dr Charles Albert Monticone and cancelled adhesive label to title page, 22 x 29cm. Old vertical fold, slight foxing, some wear to cover, otherwise in good condition. This booklet in German text was an important record of..... More about German Concentration Camp (GCC) Album 1914-1916 [Souvenir Of Holsworthy Internment Camp
1917. Letterpress, handbill, 43.4 x 25.7cm. Old folds, creases, stains, slight missing portions and tears overall. Text includes “Commonwealth of Australia Department of Defence. Amended notice. Notice is hereby given that all persons (male and female) who are not British subjects and who are not exempted under the Regulations are... More about Registration Of Aliens
1917. Letterpress and line block programme, 30.3 x 23.6cm. Minor handling creases, scuffing and tears to lower edge. Text includes “Her Majesty’s [Theatre, Melbourne]. In the presence of the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson) and the State Governor (Sir Arthur Stanley). In aid of the State War Council’s Amelioration Fund for..... More about “Matinee” Organised By Madame Melba And Mr Cyril Maude
![Vietnamese Figurine With Detachable Fan]. K M. Ishikawa, Japanese](/pictures/thumb/CL173-145.JPG?v=1492653169)
1918. Bronze sculpture, signed, annotated “Hanoi” and dated on base, 30 x 12 x 10.5cm. Rare western-style bronze, produced when Vietnam was part of the French colonial Indochina empire which ran from the 1880s to 1940s. More about Vietnamese Figurine With Detachable Fan
c1919. Colour lithograph, printed on cotton, captioned in image, 47 x 63.5cm (fabric). Foxing and stains. Framed. Caption continues “The landing of our gallant sons of empire on the Gallipoli Peninsula. ‘The Scrap Heap’: a view of the Emden after the fight with the Sydney off the Cocos Keeling Islands.”..... More about A Souvenir Of The Great World War And The Glorious Part Played By Australia And New Zealand
1919. Cotton crochet doily with verse, 49.5 x 55.2cm. Minor stains to edges. Framed. Verse reads “After years of strife / the triumph of liberty and justice / Peace 1919 / Float our bunting on the breeze / Australia’s flag of pride / for which her many valiant sons /... More about The Triumph Of Liberty And Justice [WWI
c1919. Painted plaster, 64.5 x 54.7 x 20.4cm. Very rare. Possibly a souvenir inspired by the Imperial Camel Corps in Egypt. The Corps, consisting of Australian, British, New Zealand and Indian troops, was a brigade-sized military formation which fought in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in WWI. Its personnel were... More about Digger On A Camel
![Prime Minister Billy Hughes [Autograph] In “A Voyage With The Mails Between Brisbane & London,...](/pictures/thumb/CL194-164_1.jpg?v=1543548551)
1921. Hardcover quarto with woodblock print on blue cloth pictorial boards, 66pp, autographed “W.M. Hughes” and dated “2/6/21” by then-Prime Minister Billy Hughes along with other passengers, 30.5 x 25cm. Replaced spine and endpapers, scuffing and slight soiling to boards, some foxing throughout. Published by The London Stereoscopic Company. Fourth..... More about Prime Minister Billy Hughes [Autograph] In “A Voyage With The Mails Between Brisbane &...
1922, 1923. Pair of soft-cover hand-sewn letterpress books, one with process screen and line block illustrations and the other with tipped-in wood engravings and a list of oil paintings by Collingridge, 29.2 x 22.7cm. In very good condition. “Not an actual reprint of the Carroll books, but a significant variant... More about “Alice In One Dear Land” <i>and</i> “Through The Joke In Class”
![Proposed] Coat Of Arms, Canberra. Margaret Campbell, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL169-121.JPG?v=1492492930)
c1927. Pen and ink with gouache, captioned throughout image, initialled “M.E.C.” lower right, titled in pencil in lower margin, annotated “Q.Q.” in an unknown hand in ink verso, 25.1 x 25cm. Old horizontal folds, slight surface loss, foxing and creases. Captions read “Canberra. ‘Onward.’ SA, Queensl’d, NSW, Victoria, WA, Tasmania.”..... More about Proposed] Coat Of Arms, Canberra
![Design For Romanesque-Inspired Apartments]. Attrib. Harold Crone, Brit./Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL194-128.jpg?v=1543548365)
1927. Watercolour with crayon and pencil, partially legible signature “Harold […]” and dated lower left, 47.9 x 62.2cm. Slight stains to upper portion of image, minor crinkles. British-born architect Harold Crone moved to Australia after serving in WWI. He worked for several years at the Sydney architectural firm of Scott... More about Design For Romanesque-Inspired Apartments
c1929. Letterpress and colour process screen leaflet, four pages, 26.4 x 21.1cm (folded). Slight crinkles and foxing overall, some offsetting of text to back page. Text includes “This property consisting of 639 acres is the most picturesque in the County of Cumberland… £1,000,000 to be made out of The Riviera... More about The Beautiful Riviera Estate [Proposed Development Of West Head Area, Ku-Ring-Gai Chase, Sydney
c1929. Enamel on tin, 45.6 x 61cm. Surface and paint loss to edges and centre. Comment from The University of Melbourne Archives: “The company, one of Victoria’s oldest, was floated in 1848 and 1849 as the Victoria Fire and Marine Insurance Co. It changed its name in 1877. One of... More about Agency Of The Victoria Insurance Co. Ltd. Fire Accident, Workers Compensation
c1930s. Canvas with screenprint, 60 x 180cm. Minor stains overall. This gangway canvas would have been used at Rose Bay’s flying boat base, which operated between 1938 and 1974, except during the mid and post-war years of the 1940s. Accompanied with vintage silver gelatin postcard depicting the flying boat base... More about Gangway Canvas For Qantas Empire Airways Ltd