1936-1937. Twenty-two (22) process screen badges, each badge with team and player’s name, 2cm (diameter, each). Slight rust stains to some. The 1936-1937 Ashes were played in Australia, over five Tests. The Australian team won 3-2. The Australian XI team members include: Don Bradman, J. Fingleton, L.S. Darling, C.L. Badcock..... More about Australian And English Cricket Players Of The Ashes Test Tour
1938. Handwritten in ink on government stationary with two newspaper clippings mounted verso, 25.3 x 20.2cm. Creases, discolouration to edges, slight foxing and old folds. Framed. Letterhead reads “Prime Minister, Canberra.” Letter reads “19.1.38. Dear Mr McCarthy, I willingly agree to your using my name in connection with your carnival... More about Letter From Prime Minister Joseph Lyons To Sir Edward McCarthy
1938. Colour process screen with gilded embossed vignette frames and text, 49.2 x 36.5cm. Slight stains, tears, creases and missing portions to margins. Text includes “A century and a half which have witnessed many marvels, but none stranger than the birth and growth of the Australian nation…C.H. Bertie. Designed and..... More about Commemorative Poster For Australia's Sesquicentenary
c1910s-1940s. Consisting of nine hundred and sixty-three (963) vintage silver gelatin or print-out paper photographs, loose or spread over five family photograph albums, some images inscribed “yours sincerely” by women or captioned or dated in ink on backing below, one album contains an ex-libris label for “Francis Clune”, signed by..... More about Frank Clune Family Albums
1890-c1940s. Thirty-five (35) items comprising 15 hardcover octavo books, 14 photographs and six items of ephemera, some books annotated with name “Sydney A. Tuck” in ink, typed labels or annotations to backing of some photographs verso, 3.8 x 7.6cm to 33.6 x 22.1cm. Several books missing dust jacket, soiling and... More about Firefighting Collection
c1923-1940s. Sizes ranging from 35.5 x 25cm to 31.3 x 41.1cm. 1). The Drawings of Heinrich Kley, Volumes I & II, Borden Publishing, California (text in English). Pair of hardcover folios with cloth binding and title on boards, with illustrated dust jackets, 1941 and 1947 [unpaginated]. Slight tears, creases and... More about Three hardcover books
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c1941. Relief metal plaque in aluminium, title and signature incised upper right and lower left, 40.6 x 33.1 x 2cm. Wear to signature. This is most likely a trial casting of one the sixteen bronze Aboriginal-themed panels designed by Walker for the Mitchell Library’s western doors. Painter, printmaker and sculptor... More about Shaping A Wommera [Sic], Central Australia
1935-1942. Twenty (20) watercolours with ink on envelopes, all but one addressed to “Tom Whitford” and postmarked, all captioned and one image signed “W. Whitford” in ink lower centre, 9 x 14.5cm (approx. each). Slight foxing and minor tears. Each envelope is addressed to “Mr or Master Tom Whitford, Railside..... More about Collection Of Australian Illustrations On Envelopes
c1939-1942. Comprising of approx. 108 pencil and watercolour illustrations over four notebooks, all annotated “Betty Tyson”, some addressed “7 Malacoota Road, Northbridge [NSW]”, and some images dated “28.12.39”, “31.1.40” or “4.4.42”, sizes from 20.5 x 16.4cm to 18.1 x 25cm. Minor tears and stains to covers, some pages loose from..... More about Sketches By An Australian Schoolgirl
1941-1942. Fifty-six (56) items comprising 18 ink diagrams on waxed paper, 28 dyeline diagrams, eight photostat prints, and two blueprints, most dyelines stamped with “John Fowler & Co. (Leeds) Ltd, Engineers, Leeds” and dates including “11 Oct. 1941”, ink diagrams dated and initialled and include “9.10.41. M.E.G., W.R.” in ink..... More about WWII British Enemy Bomb-Disarming Diagrams Collection
1942. Softcover quarto stapled magazine in pictorial wrappers, 89pp, 30.3 x 24.2cm. Tears to reinforced cover at spine, slight chips and foxing overall, head and tail of spine missing portions of paper. A Sydney Morning Herald publication, Sydney. March-April-May issue, illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs. Articles include work by... More about Art And Australia: A Quarterly Devoted To The Arts [4th Series
1945. Shaped soft-cover book with folded removable insert, illustrated with process and colour process lithographs, 30.2 x 20.9cm. Slight creases, tears, minor stains. Title page includes “Story by Roselle Ross. Illustrated by Charles E. Bracker. Covers by Paul Kaloda. One of a series ‘Mother and Baby Animal Books.’ Designed by..... More about “Kankie Kangaroo, Who Couldn’t Hop”
c1938-1945. Group of three advertising items, 6 x 23.5cm to 27.6 x 21.2cm. The group consists of 1). An advertisement for ANA from Walkabout magazine, 1944. Letterpress and line block, 27.6 x 21.2cm. Text includes “Invest all you can in Victory Bonds. Australian National Airways Pty Ltd. First in peace... More about Australian National Airways Ephemera
1945. Softcover booklet with illustrated wrappers, 42pp, autographed by Albert Tucker in ink on title page, 24.1 x 18.8cm. Slight stains to front cover and prelim pages, minor chips to spine, rear cover slightly loosening from spine. Cover text includes “By Julian Prang. Presented by Redmond Phillips.” Tucker’s full-page illustrations..... More about Playing With Girls
1905-1946. Group of 32 process and colour lithographs, with letterpress, all with title and text detailing each horse’s background and most with date above, in or below image, sizes range from 15.1 x 18.9cm to 25.4 x 31.6cm (image). Minor creases, foxing or stains, mostly to margins. The supplements are... More about Australian Racehorse Supplements
c1945-1947. Group of six publications comprising five roneoed bulletins with colour lineblock and letterpress covers, and a letterpress exhibition catalogue, most illustrations with artists’ signatures replicated in block, bulletins dated “1945”, catalogue signed and dated “3/9/47” in an unknown hand in pencil, accompanied with slip of newsprint annotated and dated..... More about SORA: Studio Of Realist Art Publications
1950. Linen or cotton with embroidery and applique, embroidered signatures and inscriptions in German and English, including date “8 VIII 1950”, 82.2 x 78.4cm. Slight discolouration and stains, some colour transfer from non-colourfast embroidery thread to cloth. Inscriptions include a number of German family names with messages in both German... More about Tablecloth Made For A German Migrant From Berlin To Australia
c1950s. Acrylic on card with 24 silk or wool bow-ties, mounted with Dobell’s signature in ink below portrait, 23.5 x 21cm (image); 74.3 x 67.4cm (overall). Some bow-ties with tears or fraying, minor foxing to backing. Framed. Provenance: Dobell estate, Cromwells Sale 2005. William Dobell (Aust., 1899-1970) was the first... More about William Dobell’s Bow-Ties
c1950s. Jacquard weave in cotton, 780 x 120cm. Features indigenous-style Australian animals. Fabric design is reversible, to be used as either a yellow or black background. More about Australiana Upholstery Fabric
1950. Hardcover folio, paper and cloth boards with “W.R.F.” initials and gilt title to spine, glassine dust jacket, gilt top edge with original cardboard slipcase, 188pp, numbered “55 [of 500]” copies and autographed by Flint in ink on prelim page, 38 x 27.2cm. Foxing to covers, prelim pages, dust jacket..... More about Drawings
1950. Hardcover folio with blue papered boards, blue illustrated dust jacket protected by mylar, decorative endpapers, deckled edges and original cardboard slipcase, 279pp, numbered “8” [of 85] and signed in ink by Barnett, 31.1 x 24cm. Slight foxing and creases to dust jacket, prelim pages and edges, slight offset or... More about Australian Book-Plates And Book-Plates Of Interest To Australia
c1915-1952. Forty (40) items of ephemera or manuscripts, most dated in ink or type, many annotated by Horder and others in ink or pencil, sizes range from 8.8 x 2.7cm to 31.6 x 20.2cm. Old folds, minor creases or foxing overall. Thomas Jeeves Horder, 1st Baron Horder (1871-1955) was an... More about Ephemera From The Collection Of Lord Thomas Horder, Physician To The Royal Household Of The...
1954. Process screen and letterpress, postcard format, 13.7 x 8.3cm. Crease to upper left corner, minor foxing. Text includes “Federal elections 1954, Martin Division, Sat., 29th May. Voting is compulsory. Elton Lewis, resident of Balmain 55 years; served AIF (overseas), enlisting 16 years of age. The local candidate who knows... More about Elton Lewis. Your Local Liberal Candidate
c1954. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, photographer’s label attached verso, 19.3 x 24.5cm. Slight stains to image upper right, minor handling creases, scuffing. Label reads “Reg V. Brock of Bendigo. No. L420. Pos. A2. Additional copies may be obtained at any time by quoting this number.” The Le Garde Twins were..... More about Le-Garde Twins, Your Own Australian Cowboy Ambassadors
c1954. Set of 11 letterpress and linocut loose leaves in folder, 28.5 x 21.1cm (leaves); 31.4 x 24.6cm (folder). Discolouration and tears to folder. Text on each sheet reads “Published by Bandicoot Ballads – John Manifold, Wynnum Nth Rd, Wynnum, Queensland. Printed by The Rams Skull Press, Lording St, Lwr... More about Bandicoot Ballads, Numbers 9 to 16