1868. Letterpress on silk with tasselled woven ribbon border, 32 x 19.5cm. Slight stains. Framed. Text includes “Royal Victoria Hall [Brisbane]. Monday, July 27, 1868… to their band master, Mr A. Seal, under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency the Hon. Maurice Charles O’Connell, Governor; the Hon. R.R. McKenzie; the..... More
1873. Group of three tickets in a currency format, each stamped with a number in red ink in upper portion, 8.2 x 18.1cm. Minor creases. Each ticket resembles a bank note and has a different value of one, two or five, indicating the number of rides valid for travel on..... More
1879. Letterpress ticket laid down on both sides of an albumen paper carte-de-visite portrait of ticket holder, in buckram and gilt wallet, signed by ticket bearer “Andrew Houison” in ink, numbered “fifty-six” and stamped by exhibition secretary “Augustus Morris” on ticket, 10.3 x 6.3cm (card). Creases to ticket. The portrait..... More
c1880s. Ink and watercolour on linen, 62 x 59cm. Old folds, creases, slight stains. Map shows Double Bay and the major land owners of the time, including E.T. Beilby, E. Bell, R.S. Clarke, J. Dillon, J.P. Edwards, E. Flood, J. Greer, J. Grey, R. Holdworth, Sir P. Jennings, J.E. Josephson..... More
1882. Lithograph, folded leaflet, text including date and lithographer, annotated in various hands in ink and pencil verso, 45.1 x 28.5cm (paper). Old folds with wear and discolouration, minor tears to edges, old tape verso. Text includes “Married Women’s Property Bill has become law, whereby it is enacted that married..... More
1886. Letterpress leaflet, annotated and dated in ink in several hands verso, 20.9 x 15.4cm. Slight stains, pinholes, old folds. Text includes “On the 6th day of March, 1886. Members, £1 each. 500 prizes, £20,000. The last year’s dividend on the Champion was 9s 9d in the £; so that..... More
c1886. Printed souvenir silk scarf, 59 x 66cm. Slight foxing to edges and stains to lower portion, minor perforations. Framed. Text reads “1884. W. Beach beat E. Hanlan, on Parramatta River, NSW (August 16); 1885. W. Beach beat T. Clifford on Parramatta River, NSW (February 28); 1885. W. Beach beat..... More
1889. Letterpress handbill, 34.4 x 21.9cm. Staple holes, slight crinkles, stains, foxing. Text includes “Petition to the Honorable the Speaker and the Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Victoria. The humble petition of the undersigned men and women resident in Victoria: respectfully showeth that the exclusion of..... More
c1893. Ink and watercolour on linen, 77.5 x 81cm. Old folds, creases, foxing. This map, which notes a number of landowners, covers parts of Double Bay, Bondi Junction, Bellevue Hill, Rose Bay and the Royal Sydney Golf Club. Provenance: Daniel Cooper estate. Daniel Cooper (1785–1853) was a pardoned convict who..... More
1897. Wood engraving, process screen and letterpress, title, date “Christmas 1897” and text throughout, 66 x 54.2cm. Minor missing portions to old folds, stains and creases. Framed. Text includes “The Coo-ee Supplement. See our cricket confidences from the English cricketers. J.R. Mason, T. Richardson, T. Hayward, A.C. MacLaren, G.H. Hirst..... More
c1898. One line block and three halftone prints, mounted together, each captioned below or in image, 20.1 x 25.1cm to 32.1 x 21.3cm. Slight stains, missing portions and repaired tears to edges. Captions include “Section through engine house & accumulator” and “Pumping station, Sydney.” Images show views of the building..... More
![Item #CL166-32 [Exhibition Invitation, Leicester Galleries, London]. Charles Conder, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL166-32.jpg?v=1492486413)
1905. Hand-coloured lithograph, text with date in image centre, initialled in image lower left, 12.5 x 15.6cm. Minor soiling to upper margin. Text reads “Messrs Ernest Brown & Phillips request the honour of your company at the private view of an exhibition of pictures by Charles Conder, on Thursday, Dec..... More
![Item #CL194-102 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
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
1911. Pair of letterpress documents, inscribed in ink and stamped “Tingha [NSW]”, dated “Jan. 16, 1911” and “Feb. 25, 1911” respectively, and annotated in ink in Chinese characters verso, 12.9 x 23.2cm (approx. each). Slight tears to edges, stains, old folds. The holder of the miner’s right was Kee Lim, whose..... More
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
![Item #CL202-24 The “Sydney’s” Victory: How She Beat The “Emden” [WWI]. Patrick...](/pictures/thumb/CL202-24.jpg?v=1619760557)
c1914. Letterpress text with poet’s name and publisher’s line “People’s print, City”, 25.6 x 8.5cm. Slight foxing, old folds, creases. The poem is by “Sydney’s best-known street poet” Patrick Francis Collins, and celebrates the Royal Australian Navy’s first victory of WWI; the 1914 battle between HMAS Sydney and the SMS..... More
1914. Letterpress booklet with lineblock illustrations, 50 autographs in ink by Australian troops and crew on pages 2 and 4, 24 x 16cm. Loose cover with vertical fold to centre, slight soiling, crinkles, minor wear, old fold. The Kan-Karroo Kronikle was issued in one volume with continuous pagination. It runs from..... More
c1914. Colour lithograph board game with cloth spine, accompanied with original small dice box and old cigarette tin containing six die-cast aeroplane counters, “The National” company trademark shield and game name appear on board and box, 36.8 x 37.1cm (game), 13.3 x 10.3cm (rules), 7.5 x 8.8 x 4.2cm (box). In good condition except..... More
![Item #CL179-10 The Blood Vote [Anti-Conscription Campaign]. After Claude Marquet,...](/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
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
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
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
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
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