![Duplicate Of John Cotton’s Letters From Australia Felix [“Fortunate Australia”] Of...](/pictures/thumb/CL187-18_1.JPG?v=1496119872)
c1843-1894. Fifty-six (56) letters transcribed in ink with various illustrations in pencil, in quarter leather and cloth bound hardcover book, initialled “F.C.S.” [Frank C. Snodgrass] on book cover, titled, signed by Snodgrass “copyist” and dated “Nov. 1894” in ‘finale’ [p237], 34 x 22cm, 328pp (book); 42pp (addendum). Leather rot, stains..... More
c1900s. Enamel on tin, 66.8 x 50.8cm. Surface and paint loss to edges, soiling. Text continues “By appointment to H.M. The King. Patent Enamel Co. Ltd. B’ham & London.” William Cooper (1813-1885) was a British veterinary surgeon, agriculturalist and industrialist who specialised in the manufacture of agricultural insecticides for livestock..... More
c1901. Colour process screen and letterpress, title with captions and text throughout image, 21.2 x 13cm. Minor soiling and tears to margins. Captions include “Sir Edmund Barton, Premier; Lord Hopetoun, Governor General; Sir George Turner, Treasurer; Hon. Alfred Deakin, first Attorney-General and present Premier; Sir John Forrest, Minister for Defence;..... More
1906-1908. Collection of material including five issues of The Gadfly, a periodical with process screen and colour line block illustrations, six vintage silver gelatin photographs, and several items of correspondence and printed ephemera including pen and ink sketches, many items annotated, signed or dated, sizes from 8 x 6.2cm to..... More
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
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
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
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
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
![The “Sydney’s” Victory: How She Beat The “Emden” [WWI]. Patrick Francis Collins, Paddy,...](/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
c1880s-1920s. Fourteen (14) carved emu eggs, four with silver plate stands, two eggs initialled “E.A.G.” or “P. O’S.” in image, two eggs signed by “Ingram Bros, Melbourne” or Jonaski Takuma, sizes range from 11.8 x 27.5cm to 27 x 30cm (height including stand x circumference). Slight cracks, minor chips, surface..... More
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
![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
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
c1900s-1930s. Twenty-four (24) colour lithograph board games, sizes range from 18.3 x 27.7cm to 43.7 x 34.5cm. Most with splits to old folds, slight creases or scuffing, laid down on original card backing. Games include Snakes & Ladders; Ludo; National Bicycle Game; Race Round Australia [cars etc]; AFL board games..... More
1910s-1930s. Three photograph albums containing 200 vintage silver gelatin photographs, two albums are annotated with captions and some dated in ink on album page below images, sizes range from 4.9 x 3cm to 24.4 x 19.2cm. Minor silvering, most images laid down on album page. Albums contain many family photographs..... More
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
![The Mt Padbury Trophy For The Greatest Yield Of Wheat [Western Australia]. fl. Aust., s](/pictures/thumb/CL181-151.JPG?v=1486091709)
1939. Wooden plaque with engraved, mounted sterling silver, 23 x 18 x 4.6cm. Text continues “per inch of rainfall during the growing season. 1939-40 season. Won by P. Strange, 2 bushels, 6lbs. J.G. Taylor [silversmith], sterling.” Silverwork includes a swan, and a farmer with bushels of wheat. More
1939. Autograph letter on Australian Club letterhead, dated and signed by A.B. Paterson in ink, accompanied with binder of ephemera laid down on foolscap pages, collected between 1930 and 1957, some pages stamped “From J.K. Moir collection”, 15.3 x 20.3cm. Slight soiling and old folds to letter, laid down on..... More
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
c1946. Ink and wash with white gouache, titled in ink in lower margin, 20.5 x 25.7cm. Tears to upper edge, slight creases and minor foxing to margins. Shows the six states of Australia with their state flags. The South Australia symbol has since changed to a white-backed magpie. Ref: Flags..... More
1950s. Colour process lithograph, inscribed and signed by Menzies in ink in lower margin, 21.7 x 16.6cm. Slight discolouration to edges of margins, tipped to original backing. Inscription reads “For Charles [Lloyd Jones], with affection.” Provenance: Charles Lloyd Jones estate. More
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
c1958. Three hand-painted coconut shells, each scene titled, one face of shell dated with autographs of “Empire Games Squad” from 1958, sizes from 19.6 x 27.5 x 17.5cm to 26.5 x 30.3 x 22cm. Slight paint loss and chips overall. Titles read: (1) Magnetic Island [QLD]; [and] Souvenir of Townsville..... More
c1962. Printed cotton fabric, initialled “R.D.” in image in each repeat, text including title and artist printed along selvedge, 219.5 x 116cm, 28.5cm vertical repeat. Slight stains, strip of corduroy machine-sewn along left side. Text reads “Figures in Landscape by Russell Drysdale. Australian Artists Originals by John Kaldor Sekers Fabric.”..... More