Australian & Historical

1 · Two scrimshaw whale's teeth, 19th century, 14cm high. PROVENANCE: The Erik Dare Collection, Christie's, lot 229, 13th November 1995.

2 · A scrimshaw whale's tooth on stand, ​15cm high

3 · Two whale's teeth, one with polished surface, 19th century, 13cm and 14cm high

4 · Two whale's teeth, one carved into the form of a seal, mid 20th century, the seal 11cm long

5 · A scrimshaw rib bone engraved "The Farewell, 1857", ​32cm long

6 · A scrimshaw scapula bone engraved "Bringing In The Body Of A Whale, Hawaii, 1879", ​15cm across

7 · A sperm whale's tooth, 19th century, 17cm high

8 · A walrus tusk and sperm whale's tooth, 19th century, ​21cm and 13cm high

9 · A whalebone box with scrimshaw whaling scene top, ​15.5cm across

10 · A 19th century ship's masthead figure of Don Francisco Assis de Bourbon, carved wood with remains of painted finish, circa 1850, 135cm high

11 · A ship's masthead lantern, Japanese, early 20th century, ​35cm high

12 · A ship's lantern, copper and brass with glass lens (electrified), 20th century, 40cm high

13 · A ship's lantern, brass and copper, 19th century, ​44cm high

14 · A ship's binnacle compass in original box by BAKER LYMAN & CO, 30cm diameter

15 · Tall ship model in display cabinet titled "MAFEKING", late 19th century, cabinet 66cm high, 95cm wide, 34cm deep

16 · HMCS VICTORIA and THE RIP diorama, 19th century, showing the Queenscliff light house, fort and pilots shack located at the site of the present day Pilots Station. The Victoria was the first ship of war built to order by a British Colony, she was built at the Limehouse yard of Young Son & Magnay at a cost of £38,000.

17 · CHARLES LINCOLN English brass telescope on mahogany stand, circa 1800, 174cm high

18 · "THE SOMERSETSHIRE" marquetry workbox with ship portrait inlaid on the lid, interior fitted with tray and compartments, circa 1870, The Somersetshire was built by Money Wigram & Sons and launched in 1867 and played a significant role in the story of immigration to Australia travelling from England to the antipodes especially Melbourne for over 30 years and was captained by J.S. Atwood for most of that period. 16cm high, 32cm wide, 25cm deep

19 · THE SOBRAON workbox with silver plaque "Constructed Of Timber From SOBRAON, Built In 1866 (Renamed HMAS TINGIRA in 1911)". The Sobraon a fine large clipper played a significant role in the story of migration to Australia in the post convict 19th century era. 12.5cm high, 30.5cm wide, 22cm deep

20 · A China trade ship model in glass case with crown of thorns mount and contemporaneous photograph, 19th century, 32cm high, 46cm wide, 24cm deep

21 · A folk art pond yacht on stand, early 20th century, ​56cm overall

22 · An antique pond yacht with huon pine hull, late 19th early 20th century, 156cm high

23 · Nautical light, solid brass and ruby glass, converted to electric, early 20th century, ​82cm high

24 · HMS VICTORY model tall ship in glass cabinet with additional cut away cross section model, 20th century, cabinet 80cm high, 127cm wide, 41cm deep

25 · FRED ROE (Britain, 1864-1947), I.) Good-Bye My Lads, II.) Taking Aim, chromolithographs, published by G. Whitehead and Company, London for The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Printer, circa 1905, 54 x 81cm

26 · "GLENGARRY" model three mast ship in case with hand-painted Scottish scene diorama, 19th century, ​76cm high, 117cm wide, 49cm deep

27 · An antique model tallship with two masts in Australian cedar and pine cabinet, signed "C.W. 1879" on the top, 76cm high, 84cm wide, 31cm deep

28 · A clinker model boat made from huon pine boards with copper rivets, signed "C.E. DAVIES, Lochsport, Vic. Australia", late 19th early 20th century, ​77cm long

29 · A model tallship made from tortoiseshell resting on a blue silk covered board, late 19th century, ​the ship 30cm high, 46cm long

30 · Two glass fishing buoys, 20th century, ​29cm diameter

31 · H.M.S. HERO Australian woolwork tapestry, 19th century, 59 x 72cm overall

32 · An Australian woolwork tapestry of a three masted tallship, 19th century, housed in a birdseye maple frame, ​40 x 50cm

33 · ORONTES sailor's folk art hand-painted pearl shell on timber stand, 19th century, ​19cm high overall

34 · GILBERT & SONS London, brass sundial compass in timber case, 20th century, ​19cm diameter

35 · An antique sextant in original mahogany case by BRYANT & BIGGS of Cardiff, 19th century, ​23cm high

36 · A portable bearing device, brass with inset silver dial, ​19cm across

37 · An antique terrestrial globe on cast iron base, 19th century, ​51cm high

38 · PORT PHILLIP BAY, circa 1860s, Artist unknown, group of 20 watercolours on card of ships and Port Phillip Bay, some with pencil captions including: "Off Williams Town", "Steam Tug Entering The Heads, Hobson's Bay", "Melbourne From St. Kilda", "Volunteer Camp", "After A Flood, Hobson's Bay", varying sizes, largest 13 x 17cm

39 · A walking stick, stingray vertebrae with horn handle and silver collar, 19th century, ​87cm high

40 · A rare walking stick made from sections of tortoiseshell, 19th century, 89cm high

41 · A walking stick, stingray vertebrate and baleen, 19th century, ​89cm high

42 · A walking stick, made from baleen segments, 19th century, ​86.5cm high

43 · A walking stick, with hound head handle, musk and fiddleback blackwood, Tasmanian origin, 19th century, 81cm high

44 · A sailor's persuader club or cosh, carved blackwood in the form of a fist, named in metal studs "W. FISHER", Tasmanian origin, 19th century, 44.5cm high

45 · A baleen sailor's cosh with weighted woven thread ends, 19th century, 29cm long

46 · Sailor's carving of a hand and rope knot, Australian cedar, 19th century, ​18cm high

47 · MALBY'S TERRESTRIAL 10 1/2 Inch GLOBE, circa 1889, ​41cm high

48 · Sailor's sweetheart forget-me-not folk art embroidery, 19th century, framed and glazed 33 x 26cm overall

49 · A carved whalebone toggle in the form of a belt and buckle, 19th century, 3cm across

50 · "WATERHEN" scratch built model boat, battery power, early 20th century, 70cm long

51 · JASPER RASMUSSEN two carved whales teeth in the form of a wizard and a crocodile, ​the wizard signed "Jasper, Albany", Western Australia, wizard 10cm high

52 · PERRINA GLOBE TERRESTRE 9 1/2 inch world globe lamp in ships wheel stand, mid 20th century, 51cm high

53 · A ship in a bottle display with two three mast tallships in lighthouse diorama, ​24cm long

54 · A ship in a bottle with four masted tallship, ​26cm long

55 · A pair of starboard and port side ship's lanterns, copper and brass, Hong Kong origin, early to mid 20th century, 47cm high

56 · A Tasmanian huon pine pond yacht, early 20th century, ​154cm high, 91cm long

57 · A giant clam shell, late 19th early 20th century, ​76cm across

58 · A giant clam shell, early 20th century, ​48cm across

59 · A giant sea turtle shell, 19th century, ​95cm across

60 · A taxidermy sea turtle, 19th/20th century, ​47cm long

61 · Balmain Bug pond yacht with Australian cedar hull, early 20th century. These boats were popular racing vessels sailed on Sydney Harbour from the late 19th to the mid 20th century, 112cm high

62 · W. & A. K. JOHNSTON 12 inch globe on stand, circa 1888, 44cm high including stand

63 · PHILIPS' 13½ inch CHALLENGE GLOBE on black bakelite base, circa 1930, 41cm high

64 · PHILIPS' 12 inch Terrestrial Globe on cast iron base, ​51cm high

65 · H.M.A.S. SYDNEY desk set made from the timber decking boards, with blue enamel plaque, early 20th century, ​39cm across

66 · Collection of 12 reproduction scrimshaw whale's teeth with sterling silver bases, 20th century, stamped "STG. SIL", ​the largest 16cm high

67 · Reproduction scrimshaw tusk, two teeth, two boxes and two pictures, 20th century, the tusk 30cm high, PROVENANCE: The Erik Dare Collection, Christie's, November 15th, 1995.

68 · A jewellery box encrusted with shells, starfish and seahorses, Queensland origin, early 20th century ​7cm high, 28cm wide, 20.5cm deep

69 · Four assorted framed antique coloured engravings of ships, 19th century, ​the largest 62 x 81cm overall

70 · Assorted carved whalebone chess pieces, 19th century, ​the tallest 6.5cm high

71 · H.M.V.S. CERBERUS (Breastwork Monitor) facsimile colour lithograph plans, framed and glazed, ​43 x 63cm

72 · Sextant in case stamped "A.M." early to mid 20th century, 17cm high

73 · An Australian timber workbox, impressively crafted with inlaid top and serpentine profile, interior fitted with lift out tray and compartments with fine inlay work, cedar, musk, huon pine, blackwood and pine, Barossa Valley, South Australia, 19th century, ​14cm high, 35cm wide, 24.5cm deep

74 · An early Colonial Australian tea caddy, casuarina beefwood with remains of a cedar escutcheon and some pine secondaries, New South Wales origin, early 19th century. 15.5cm high, 30.5cm wide, 15.5cm deep

75 · Rare pair of Colonial boxes, solid Tasmanian musk with myrtle secondary timbers, interior fitted with compartments, and bottles, pencil inscription on both reads "F.B. DALE, Sydney, 1844". Colonial born Dale worked as a cabinet maker in Sydney, New South Wales during the early to mid 1840s. 16cm high, 33cm wide, 22.5cm deep. Examples of his work can be found in: "Australian Furniture, Pictorial History And Dictionary 1788-1938", by Kevin Fahy and Andrew Simpson, plate 399. "Early Colonial Furnit

76 · WEDGWOOD "Australian Flora" rare set of 6 porcelain dinner plates, circa 1880, stamped "Wedgwood, Australian Flora", 24.5cm diameter

77 · FRANZ BERGMANNFRANZ BERGMANN, Austrian cold painted bronze kookaburra, early 20th century, stamped under the tail, 13cm long, Austrian cold painted bronze kookaburra, early 20th century, stamped under the tail (illegible), ​13cm long

78 · An antique folk art leather picture frame, 19th century, 33 x 27cm

79 · Quandong seed gaming counters or token, in brass bound mahogany box with lithograph kangaroo business advertising card for William Barton Coach Painting Co. York Street, Launceston. 19th century, the box 23cm wide

80 · An antique kangaroo skin rug with felt backing, embroidered monogrammed verso "G.O.S.", late 19th century, ​202cm x 142cm

81 · A Colonial taxidermy bird display in Australian cedar case, circa 1870, 85cm high, 70cm wide, 28cm deep

82 · A "Tramp Art" Crown of Thorns mirror frame with a carved Australian crest armorial panel, ​housed in original crate, 148cm high, 105cm wide

83 · An antique taxidermy kingfisher in original glass dome display, 19th century, 39cm high

84 · BLANCHE B. DAVIS [Australia, 1858 - 1933] A collection of six plates and four compote stands, c1907. Hand-painted porcelain, each signed and titled verso, 21cm diameter (plates); 22cm diameter (compote stands).

85 · Artist unknown, Australian school, two hand-painted ceramic plaques, after Henry James Johnstone, 19th century, (2 items), 32cm diameter ​

86 · An Australian apprentice cabinet, finely crafted as three pieces of furniture being a mirrored wardrobe, a Duchess top and a chest of drawers, Australian cedar and pine, circa 1880, (missing mirror top), 44cm high, 29cm wide, 19cm deep

87 · An Australian apprentice cabinet fitted with four drawers, cedar with fiddleback blackwood interior, circa 1880, ​35cm high, 31cm wide, 22cm deep

88 · CHERRY Butter churn miniature salesman's sample marked "E, CHERRY Maker, Improved Patent, GISBOURNE, VICTORIA", kauri pine with blackwood handle, 19th century, rare. 14cm high

89 · JAMES SHERWIN antique mahogany brass bound writing box with owner's name plate on the lid "Jas. SHERWIN, 1814". Born in 1788 in the rich pottery district of Staffordshire where he learnt his craft, Sherwin moved to St Petersburg in Russia in the early 1820's. He lost his wife and son in floods and decided to move to Van Diemen's Land. James Sherwin established one of Tasmania's earliest commercial potteries setting up in Hobart in 1831. This box is purported to have personally belonged to him an

90 · An Australian folk art miniature chest of four drawers, cedar and pine with porcelain knobs, 1890s depression era, 35cm high, 34cm wide, 18cm deep

91 · An Australian walking stick, fiddleback blackwood shaft with carved cedar boot handle, 19th century, ​91.5cm high

92 · Two walking sticks, fiddleback blackwood and silver, late 19th century, ​92cm and 90cm high

93 · An Australian cedar walking stick, carved fist with entwined serpent, 19th century, 90cm high

94 · Two Australian walking sticks carved with native flora and fauna, most likely Aboriginal mission work, late 19th century, ​94cm and 87cm high

95 · A New Zealand sample wood walking stick, circa 1900, ​91cm high

96 · Three Australian walking sticks, one made from a propeller, one fiddleback blackwood, and one cane with silver plaque "W.H. BALMAIN, BEGA, N.S.W.", 19th and 20th century, the largest 97cm high

97 · A New Zealand specimen wood turned walking stick, an Australian walking stick engraved "HEPBURN SPRINGS 1933"; together with an Aboriginal walking stick with snake motif and iron studs, 19th and 20th century, (3 items), the largest 92cm high

98 · Three Australian walking sticks, blackwood, casuarina, myrtle and sterling silver, 19th and early 20th century, ​the largest 85cm high

99 · Two walking sticks, fiddleback blackwood with Australian silver collars, 19th century, ​83cm and 84.5cm high

100 · Four Australian walking sticks, blackwood, 19th and early 20th century, ​the largest 93.5cm high

101 · An Australian whip handle with Turk's head knot end, carved cedar, 19th century, ​57cm long

102 · An Australian hand-painted gumleaf in original circular cedar frame, late 19th century, signed lower centre "G.C.", ​30cm diameter

103 · ALFRED WILLIAM EUSTACE (1820-1907) pair of bush scenes oil paint on ostrich eggs signed "A.W. Eustace" lower margin

104 · FRANCIS EDMOND STRIEZEL (1860-1935), "Cockatoo", circa 1900, carved wood wall plaque, impressed maker's mark, 44 x 37cm German born Streizel emigrated to Australia in 1886 and worked with fellow German carver Robert Prenzel in Melbourne. Works by Streizel are extremely rare. A similar pair of plaques can be found in The NGV collection (National Gallery Of Victoria). PROVENANCE: Private collection Melbourne, previously by direct Striezel family descent.

105 · FRANCIS EDMOND STRIEZEL (1860-1935), "Kookaburra", circa 1900, carved wood wall plaque, impressed maker's mark, 45 x 37cm PROVENANCE: Private collection Melbourne, previously by direct Striezel family descent.

106 · FRANCIS EDMOND STRIEZEL (attributed), (1860-1935), wall mirror, carved blackwood with cherub decoration, 48 x 99cm PROVENANCE: Private collection Melbourne, previously by direct Striezel family descent.

107 · FRANCIS EDMOND STRIEZEL (attributed), (1860-1935), oval bowl, carved blackwood with edelweiss and forget-me-not decoration, 27 x 33cm PROVENANCE: Private collection Melbourne, previously by direct Striezel family descent.

108 · Australian Arts and Crafts blackwood vase with carved gumnuts and leaves, early 20th century, ​22cm high

109 · ROBERT PRENZEL (school of), carved timber panel with gumnuts and leaves, early 20th century, 34 x 25cm overall

110 · An Australian Arts & Crafts carved panel in original silky oak and blackwood frame early 20th century, ​53 x 45cm overall

111 · ROBERT PRENZEL (school of), carved timber panel with gumnuts and leaves, early 20th most likely originally a panel from a wardrobe or sideboard back, 39 x 30cm

112 · An Australian Arts & Crafts carved timber panel, circa 1900, ​66 x 38cm overall

113 · ROBERT PRENZEL (attributed) carved timber scroll work decoration, circa 1910, ​74cm long

114 · An Australian coat of arms, embroidered silk, early 20th century, ​35 x 35cm

115 · "Advance Australia", silk embroidered coat of arms in original frame with carved decoration and matching coat of arms top centre, ​19th century, 70 x 57cm overall

116 · "Advance Australia" silk embroidery with coat of arms, 19th century, ​75 x 66cm overall

117 · AN AUSTRALIAN COAT OF ARMS "ADVANCE AUSTRALIA" c1908 cotton embroidery on linen, 41 x 45cm (overall size). Artist unknown.

118 · A deed box, fiddleback blackwood with huon pine interior, Tasmanian origin, circa 1900, ​10cm high, 33cm wide, 24cm deep

119 · TASMANIAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, HOBART 1884-5, Coquilla nut basket with photographic Stanhope view, circa 1884, 6cm high

120 · ALCOCK & Co. fiddleback blackwood billiard scoreboard, 19th century, marked "Alcock & Co. Billiard Table Manufacturers, 132 Russell Street, Melbourne", ​39cm high, 21cm wide

121 · A bombe shaped jewellery casket with cabriole legs, Tasmanian blackwood, circa 1920, 18cm high, 28cm wide, 19cm deep

122 · An Australian timber book box, blackwood and cedar, Tasmanian origin, 19th century, ​20.5cm high

123 · Australiana workbox with inlaid coat of arms, cedar, blackwood and pine with blue silk lined interior and lift out cedar tray, late 19th century, ​17cm high, 29cm wide, 17.5cm deep

124 · Coins: 1797 King George III 'Cartwheel' One Penny, a huge 28g copper coin which became Australia's first penny when HMS Porpoise brought a shipment from Britain in 1800 to be used by the NSW Governor to pay for supplies, the coin then going into general circulation; together with a half penny 'Cartwheel' and a New Brunswick penny, 1851, (3 items).

125 · A pair of Colonial wooden bowls, turned and carved blackwood with acanthus motif, Tasmanian origin, mid 19th century, 12cm high, 14cm diameter

126 · WEBSTER mantel clock, Australian cedar case with original black Japanned finish, Government crown stamp to back, dial marked "WEBSTER, 82 Bourke St, East", circa 1860, rare. ​27cm high

127 · THOMAS GAUNT drop dial wall clock with Roman numerals and Australian cedar case, dial marked "T. GAUNT, MELBOURNE", circa 1860, 58cm high

128 · THOMAS GAUNT fusee wall clock with Roman numerals and brass inlaid case, dial marked "GAUNT", circa 1860s, 49cm high

129 · THOMAS GAUNT fusee wall clock with Roman numerals and brass inlaid case, dial marked "T. GAUNT & Co.", circa 1860s, 76cm high

130 · ANGELO TORNAGHI Surveying instrument in original plush fitted leather box embossed lower right "A. TOURNAGHI, SYDNEY", circa 1865. Born in Milan, Italy in 1831 Tournaghi set up a business at 312 George Street Sydney in 1864 and made a name for himself selling quality instruments including some of his own design. Rare. ​the box 20cm across

131 · T. GAUNT & Co. Sikes Hydrometer in timber case, 19th century. ​21cm across

132 · A Kingfisher pressed glass fruit bowl, circa 1920, ​12cm high, 24cm across

133 · "AUSTRALIA'S CENTENARY, 1888", pressed amber glass plate with coat of arms; together with a clear glass parfait dish with same motif, ​the plate 25cm diameter

134 · Amethyst carnival glass "Kangaroo" fruit bowl, 8cm high, 24.5cm diameter

135 · Amethyst carnival glass "Magpie and Flannel Flower" fruit bowl, circa 1920s, 9cm high, 25.5cm diameter

136 · Amethyst carnival glass "Kingfisher" fruit bowl, circa 1920s, 7cm high, 24.5cm diameter

137 · An Australian timber book box, cedar, huon pine and ash on pine carcass, 19th century, 17cm high

138 · A silky oak box inset with satinwood panel and ebony stringing, Queensland origin, late 19th century, 7.5cm high, 25cm wide, 15cm deep

139 · An impressive hand-painted pokerwork lamp base, huon pine, circa 1930, 61cm high

140 · An Australian pokerwork tray decorated with three kookaburras, circa 1920s, ​52cm across the handles

141 · Bird of paradise Australian pokerwork vase with original foil label "R. Lording & Co. Decware, Australia", circa 1920s, ​36cm high

142 · Australian pokerwork vase with kookaburra and gum leaves, circa 1920s, ​31cm high

143 · A pair of Australian pokerwork candlesticks, circa 1920s, 31.5cm high

144 · Three pokerwork kookaburra vases, circa 1930, ​the tallest 20.5cm high

145 · An Australiana painted folk art panel with kookaburra and fairy, circa 1920s, ​27 x 48cm

146 · An electric shock machine in mahogany case, 19th century, 26cm across. PROVENANCE: The Rodney Pemberton Collection

147 · Australian coat of arms enamel tin sign, early to mid 20th century, ​46cm diameter

148 · Three vintage Australian glass jars, MacROBINSON Size No.4 (2), and A.W. ALLEN Limited of Melbourne, late 19th early 20th century, ​27cm high

149 · A pair of tramp art picture frames, cigar box cedar, late 19th century, ​28 x 21cm

150 · Two shell covered boxes, Queensland origin, circa 1950, the larger 15cm across

151 · Kookaburra "Underwear 51% Wool, 49% Cotton" vintage point of sale advertising statue, hand-painted wood, circa 1935, ​38cm high

152 · An Australian chip carved picture frame and trinket box, stained kauri pine, late 19th century, (2 items). the frame 24 x 20.5cm

153 · SPODE English Art Deco porcelain statue of a kangaroo and joey, circa 1930s, stamped "Spode Velamour", 27cm high, 31cm wide

154 · An Australian cedar ballot box with black and white marbles, 19th century, 27cm high, 27cm wide, 17cm deep

155 · An Australian tramp art picture frame, cigar box cedar and pine, late 19th early 20th century, ​25 x 17cm

156 · An Australian miniature chest of eight drawers, blackwood, mountain ash, cedar and pine, circa 1900, 32cm high, 35cm wide, 30cm deep PROVENANCE: The Rodney Pemberton Collection

157 · EMPIRE DAY porcelain teapot, by Royal Doulton, early 20th century, stamped "Royal Doulton, England", 18cm across

158 · Australian Arts and Crafts leadlight window, early 20th century, ​45 x 69cm overall

159 · Kangaroo and joey statue, hollow cast bronze, circa 1900, ​18cm high

160 · LEVINSON & SONS Pigeon time recording clock in oak case with ivoreen plaque "Levinson & Sons Manufacturing Jewellers Ltd. Perth W.A. & London", circa 1900. 13cm high, 21cm wide, 16cm deep

161 · A Tasmanian musk jewellery box together with a fiddleback blackwood box, 19th and early 20th century, (2 items), the musk box 9.5cm high, 18.5cm wide, 12cm deep

162 · An embroidered Australian coat of arms in gilt frame, 19th century, ​32 x 37cm overall

163 · A gilt metal kangaroo inkpot, a cast bronze kangaroo and a cast brass kangaroo, late 19th and early 20th century, (3 items). the tallest 11cm high

164 · A kangaroo statue, bronze finished cast metal on timber base, early 20th century, ​14.5cm high overall

165 · A kangaroo statue, gilt finished cast metal, early 20th century, ​12.5cm high overall

166 · A kangaroo car mascot, chrome finished cast metal on turned wooden plinth, circa 1930, ​14.5cm overall

167 · An emu car mascot, chrome finished cast metal on wooden plinth , circa 1930, ​15cm overall

168 · An emu car mascot and two cast metal kangaroo statues, early to mid 20th century, (3 items). the emu 13cm high

169 · An Australian serving tray, finely grained fiddleback black, circa 1910, ​45cm across the handles

170 · An Australian serving tray, Victorian ash, blackwood and cedar, early 20th century, ​62cm across the handles

171 · "A Story Of Love", painted chalk ware statue, 20th century, ​38cm high

172 · Badges, medal, regimental hat badge, scrimshaw whales tooth section and a whale bone ring, 19th and 20th century. (9 items).

173 · An Australian miniature chest of seven drawers in the Victorian style, huon pine and cedar, late 20th century, ​44cm high, 40cm wide, 27cm deep

174 · Two Australian chip carved picture frames, late 19th century, ​the larger 31 x 24.5cm

175 · Three primitive Australian picture frames, carved hardwood, late 19th century, ​the largest 28 x 17cm

176 · Australian souvenir porcelain saucer and two teacups, early 20th century, (3 items), the saucer 14cm diameter

177 · Collection of antique marbles, coloured glass, 19th and early 20th century,

178 · Australian hand-painted tea ware on English and German porcelain blanks, early 20th century, signed "M.E. Gum", (6 items). the jug 11cm high

179 · CASTMASTER kookaburra garden trough, painted concrete, South Australian origin, circa 1950s, ​37cm high, 52cm wide, 41cm deep

180 · ROBUR TEA "Perfect" teapot, silver plate with original infuser; together with a group of 8 assorted vintage tins, ​the teapot 23cm across

181 · Two Australiana souvenir porcelain jewellery boxes, 19th century, I.) Shipping, River-Yarra, Melbourne. II.) The Lake, Botanical Gardens, Melbourne. ​8cm deep

182 · An Australian tramp art overmantel mirror, late 19th century,

183 · A salesman's sample antique cast iron daybed, 19th century, 36cm high, 57cm wide, 27cm deep

184 · MAY CREETH (1854-1947), I.) Sturt's Desert Pea, W.A. II.) Kangaroo Paw, W.A. hand-painted porcelain plates, circa 1900, 12cm and 13cm diameter

186 · ST. KILDA: A "St Kilda - Help Us to Play - 1921" badge depicting a schoolboy and girl. This badge was probably created to raise funds for the first playground in St Kilda in 1921.

187 · ROSEACRE LAUNDRY Ltd. dry cleaning exchange box with advertising, circa 1930s, ​59cm across

188 · Parliament House Canberra commemorative serving tray, solid copper with brass handles, circa 1927, ​44cm across

189 · Australian Art Deco theatre fixture, painted metal, circa 1930, 190cm high

190 · ASTOR MICKEY MOUSE BP brown bakelite Australian mantel radio with pictorial Mickey Mouse glass dial, circa 1937, ​16cm high

191 · Spice drawers and New Zealand sample timber box, early and mid 20th century, (2 items), spice drawers 17cm high

192 · NIGEL BOONHAM (British, born 1953), Archbishop Mannix, bronze bust, signed on the base with registration mark, 32cm high

193 · A Tasmanian huon pine burl specimen mounted in redgum stand; together with a huon pine bowl, ​the stand 46cm high

194 · An Australian sample wood turned mantel urn together with an Australian folk art salt pig made from cedar and pine, 19th and early 20th century, (2 items), 23cm and 28cm high

195 · Two antique water meter clocks in brass and cast iron cases, the taller 21cm high

196 · Carved timber koala figural group and a kangaroo statue, mid 20th century, (2 items), 38cm and 18cm high

197 · Crown of thorns picture frame, together with a chip carved "Good Luck" serving tray, late 19th and early 20th century, (2 items), the frame 33 x 30cm, the tray 60cm across the handles

198 · An Australian Folk Art picture frame with gray painted finish housing four Australian themed postcards, early 20th century, 53 x 58cm

199 · Australian tramp art picture frame with colour lithograph, carved cedar and pine, late 19th century, frame size 55 x 65cm overall, (internal size 46 x 36cm).

200 · Two Australian chip carved picture frames with original polish, circa 1900, ​51 x 39cm and 41 x 56cm

201 · Australian Folk Art chip carved picture frame designed to house four images (now mirrored), early 20th century, 30 x 76cm

202 · Australian chip carved picture frame with lithograph portrait of a woman, early 20th century, ​55 x 44cm

203 · LAUCKE MILLING Co. Ltd. Strathalbyn 150 lb. flour sack, ​95 x 60cm

204 · Two Australiana table clocks, one cast spelter with cockatoo decoration, the other with carved timber koala case, ​15cm and 24cm high

205 · An Australian carved timber panel and floral picture frame, late 19th and early 20th century, the larger 35cm high

206 · Three Australian coats of arms, cast metal one on timber shield, 19th century, timber shield 19.5cm high

207 · Folk Art floral needle work, 19th century, ​framed and glazed 64 x 50cm overall

208 · Bendigo pottery blue glazed vase, cricket porcelain tankard and a folk art picture frame, (3 items), the vase 16cm high

209 · Folk Art kookaburra painting, circa 1920s, ​45 x 58cm

210 · A bronze ewer with figural handle, Mordialloc, Melbourne origin, circa 1960s, ​29cm high

211 · Assorted letter openers (5), advertising rulers (2), Rosella paper clip, porcelain souvenir ware, miniature landscape, leather wallet, old driving licence and cigar box, (12 items)

212 · "Ancient Order Of Foresters Past District Chief Rangers, West Australian District, Unity, Benevolence & Concord" ​carved honour roll, circa 1901, 162 x 97cm

213 · Matchstick art inlaid table top, mid 20th century, together with a "Weekly Times" facsimile advertisement, (2 items), 90 x 46cm and 58 x 40cm

214 · An impressive Oceanic rootstock tribal war club, carved hardwood, Fijian origin, 19th century, ​105cm long

215 · A Maori walking stick, carved hardwood, New Zealand origin, late 19th century, ​104cm high

216 · A Maori carved walking stick, New Zealand origin, 19th century, 97cm high

217 · A Maori miniature canoe, carved wood and paua shell, New Zealand, 20th century, 101cm long

218 · Ula throwing club, carved hardwood, Fiji, 19th century, ​41.5cm

219 · Ula throwing club, carved hardwood, Fiji, 19th century, 41cm high

220 · A New Zealand carved kauri gum bust of a Maori, 19th century, ​10cm high

221 · Papua New Guinea grass skirt, necklace, waist band and two tribal statues, 20th century, the taller statue 25cm high

222 · A tribal drum, carved hardwood, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 74cm wide

223 · NGIRAIBUUCH SKEDONG (attributed), two story boards, carved and painted wood, Palau, Caroline Islands, ​121cm and 91cm across

224 · Two Mendi spirit figures, Papua New Guinea, circa 1950s, 65cm high

225 · ARTIST UNKNOWN Tiwi Islands Australian Aboriginal designed hand knotted textile wall hanging, 20th century, 195 x 124cm

226 · Three Aboriginal bark paintings, Northern Territory origin, circa 1970s, ​the largest 47 x 19cm

227 · Two tribal wood carvings, Northern Territory origin, one inscribed "Kukla, 1/6", 24cm and 23cm high

228 · SAMUEL GANARRADJ MANGUDJA (1909-1983), Kurabara and Buruk, bark and natural earth pigment, "Church Mission Society Aboriginal Handicrafts" letter, plus long inscription verso, 38 x 50cm

229 · BOBBY BARRDJARAY NGANJMIRA (1915-1992), Salt Water Bream, bark and natural earth pigment, Oenpelli Art label verso, C.M.C. Code No. B402, ​21 x 44cm

230 · BENDIGO POTTERY cheese dish and cover decorated with corn cobs, 19th century, ​19cm high, the base 24cm diameter

231 · CORNWELLS Pottery bread platter, late 19th century, ​33cm across

232 · A pair of Colonial pottery recumbent lion statues, most likely by Cornwells Pottery, Brunswick, Victoria, 19th century, 15cm long

233 · LITHGOW POTTERY pair of Bristol ware jugs, late 19th century, ​7.5cm high

234 · Colonial style pottery bread platter, 20th century, 33cm across

235 · MASHMAN POTTERY "Billy Hughes" bottle stopper, early 20th century, rare, 7cm high

236 · REMUED Pottery jug with applied gumnuts and leaf with branch handle, incised "Remued 54 LM", ​25cm high

237 · REMUED Pottery vase with applied gumnuts and leaf with branch handle, incised "Remued, 196/9M", ​23.5cm high

238 · JOHN CAMPBELL brown glazed pottery vase incised "John Campbell, 1934", 23cm high. Together with a brown glazed Australian Colonial pottery vase, possibly Kosta, 16.5cm high. (2 items).

239 · JOHN CAMPBELL blue glazed pottery trough, incised "John Campbell, Tasmania, 1932", ​17cm high, 43cm wide

240 · CORNWELLS POTTERY. Group of three green and brown glazed pottery vases, circa 1930s, ​the tallest 28cm high

241 · HARVEY SCHOOL pottery dish with lizard, incised "ALA Hand Made", 17cm across

242 · WILLIAM RICKETTS pottery face plaque, incised "Wm. Ricketts", 14cm high

243 · KLYTIE PATE pierced pottery table lamp, incised "Klytie Pate", 27cm high

244 · KLYTIE PATE pierced pottery lamp base with floral motif, incised "Klytie Pate", ​24cm high

245 · Australian pottery table lamp base possibly Klytie Pate or John Barnard-Knight, ​28cm high

246 · ARTHUR MERRIC BOYD and NEIL DOUGLAS pottery plate with kangaroos, grass trees and banksias, incised "A. M. B.", 21cm diameter

247 · ARTHUR MERRIC BOYD and NEIL DOUGLAS pottery plate with kangaroos in bushland, incised "A. M. B.", 21cm diameter

248 · Australian pottery "Centaur" statue, mid 20th century, ​37cm high

249 · TOM SANDERS pottery tureen with sgraffito decoration, incised "Tom Sanders, '67", ​35cm across the handles

250 · GUY BOYD pottery plaque with Aboriginal hunting scene, incised "Guy Boyd", 15cm diameter

251 · Australian pottery lamp base with two dogs, circa 1930s, incised "SPOLTIE, TROY", ​33cm high

252 · MILTON MOON pottery fruit bowl, incised "Milton Moon"

253 · LES BLAKEBOROUGH Southern Ice porcelain mantle vase, impressed stamp

254 · LES BLAKEBOROUGH blue ceramic vase with wave motif

255 · MILTON MOON three studio pottery bowls with decoration, incised "Milton Moon", the largest 22cm diameter

256 · TIM STRACHAN tall studio pottery vase, incised "T. Strachan '84", 34cm high

257 · TIM STRACHAN tall studio pottery vase, incised "T. Strachan '84", 32cm high

258 · Two studio pottery platters and a terracotta vase, monogrammed marks, (3 items), the vase 29cm

259 · Five pieces of Australian studio pottery including Jeff Mincham, Pamela Martin and Kay Jensen

260 · ARTIST UNKNOWN, "The Rainmaker" painted chalkware plaque, circa 1950, ​impressed monogram lower right "Cha", 46 x 43cm

261 · TAKACS STUDIO "The Didgeridoo" ceramic figure of an Aborigine, circa 1950s, signed "Takacs Studio, No.15, Australia", 39cm high, 42cm wide

262 · ARTIST UNKNOWN Australian pottery vase with hand-painted sgraffito decoration, signature illegible, ​28cm high

263 · GWEN WATSON (attributed) Australian pottery figural ewer with turquoise glaze, circa 1970s, 38cm high

264 · Kookaburra MK. IV slip cast porcelain statue, signed "Kookaburra MK. IV Maurice Conway Smith, Wildlife Studios Australia, 64/100", ​33.5cm high

265 · AMY JOHNSON nice autograph on single page typed letter on Amy Johnson "In Australia" letterhead; together with a coloured lithograph portrait of Amy Johnson with facsimile signature. (2 items). The letter framed and glazed 21 x 16cm

266 · DAME NELLIE MELBA, two single page handwritten letters on London hotel letterhead containing Melba's autograph in three places, some damage and loss to the upper and lower left corners (2 items).

267 · MISCELLANY OF SIGNATURES: collected between 1938-40 in small autograph book noting actor Leslie Howard, actress Nina Golovina, opera singer John Brownlee, Danish ballet dancer & film art director Paul Petroff, tennis player Don Budge, English Test cricketer Les Wyatt; also Malcolm Sargent (British conductor) on ABC (Brisbane) letterhead (approx 100 signatures)

268 · OXFORD GAZETTE - ENGLAND - Dec.28 to Jan.1 1665, Numb.14: Precursor to the "London Gazette", with all issues from #1 to #23 being printed in Oxford, due to The Plague contagion rampant in London, the journal not returning to the capital until issue #24, when it was renamed the "London Gazette"; the contents mostly describe ship and military movements around Europe; condition is somewhat aged with brittle edges and a small taped repair at base. Extremely rare.

269 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1665 issues: Numb.25 & 52: folio half-sheets, issue #25 with news of naval activities especially of His Majesty's fleet under Sir Christopher Minnes, plus a report that 105 parishes were clear of the plague; issue #52 reports that buccaneers have captured Tobago; the former with aged edges, the latter quite fine. Extremely scarce early editions. (2)

270 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1666 issues: complete run between Nov.19 and Dec.17 plus Dec.27 (Numb.106 to 114 & 117): published in folio half-sheets, content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus ship and fleet movements; issue 110 talks of great storms in the South of England with several ships wrecked off Portland beach; issue 111 describes the wrecking of a ship near Swanage, laden with wine, sugar and Brazilwood;

271 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1667 issues: incomplete run between Jan.3 and Apr.22 (Numb.118 to 127, plus 129, 131 & 143 to 149): published in folio half-sheets, content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus ship and fleet departures arrivals and ships wrecked off the British coast; condition variable with some aging as to be expected, generally quite fine. (20 issues)

272 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1667 issues: incomplete run between May.4 and Jul.29 (between Numb.152 and 177 ): published in folio half-sheets, content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus fleet arrivals & departures and ship arrivals and international conflicts, issue 172 with account of the Ottomans laying siege to Candia (Crete), issue 173 reports that the English Fleet has burnt several French ships in the Leeward Islands

273 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1667 issues: largely complete run between Aug.5 and Oct.10 (between Numb.180 and 199, 191 missing): content including news about international tensions and conflicts including post 2nd Anglo-Dutch War incidents following the Treaty of Breda (Jul.21,1667), issue 180 with a Aug.2 report from Plymouth that the Dutch had attempted a landing at Wenbury but were forced to retreat to their ships by local militia, issue 181 reporting that Dutch Fleet had surrounded the Scilly

274 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1667 issues: complete run between Oct.14 and Dec.23 (between Numb.200 and 220): content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus fleet movements and ship arrivals and religious news including Papal activities; issue 208 (Nov. 11) announcing that letters had arrived from Rome with updates regarding the Turkish siege of Candia stating that "the Turks are much discouraged by the tediousness of the siege" & "the little progress they have yet made";

275 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1668 issues: almost complete January to April run (between Numb.222 and 257, excl. 229, incl. duplicates of issues 250 & 257): content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus fleet movements, ship arrivals and details of ships wrecked off the British coast; issue 250 (Apr.9) with details of proposed treaty to end the War of Devolution between France and Spain.

276 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1668 issues: almost complete May to August run (between Numb.258 and 291, excl. 273, duplicate 271): content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus fleet movements, ship arrivals, details of ships wrecked & religious news including Papal activities; issue 271 (Jun.18) reports that Sir William Temple, the King's ambassador for the Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle (May 7) had arrived at Whitehall to relay his account of proceedings to the king;

277 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1668 issues: largely complete September to December run (between Numb.292 and 326, ex 301, 303 & 320): content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus fleet movements, ship arrivals, and religious news including Papal activities; many issues with reports of the Turkish siege of Venetian-ruled Candia (Crete); issue 292 (Sep.3) stating that the Turks had gathered 12,000 men in Morea to assist in the siege of Canea (Chania) and issue 304 with reports on a

278 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1669-1675 selection of issues: with issue 982 (Apr.15, 1675) announcing that King Charles II would no longer conduct public healings of The King's Evil (scrofula/tuberculosis) after Apr.30 until further notice, the same issue also carries an Franco-Dutch War report from Brussels stating that troops were beginning to march on all sides, the French to attack, the Confederates in defence commanded by the Prince of Orange; other content mostly concerns fleet movements & sh

279 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1675-1678: large group of issues between numb.1079 and 1337: some notable reports include issue 1083 (Apr.3.1676) with news of arrival in Spain of Spanish galleons carrying 25 million pieces of eight, the same issue also carries reports of the trial for treason of Danish statesman Peder Griffenfeld; issue 1093 (May 8, 1676) with reports from Constantinople that the Grand Siegnior is constructing a seraglio (harem) for the women of Adrianople; issue 1134 (Oct 2, 1676) r

280 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1679-1684: large group of issues between numb.1449 and 1980: with many articles of interest including issue 1507 (Apr.26, 1680) reports of a "false and dangerous rumour spread abroad" that Charles II is to marry the mother of the Duke of Monmouth; issue 1694 (Feb. 9, 1682) with a report that a "most curious and excellent way of preserving dead bodies from putrefication" had been presented to the King;

281 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1685-1688: large selection of issues between numb.2012 and 2193: plenty of interesting content incl. issue 2012 (Feb.26, 1685) with a notification of alterations to the Book of Common Prayer in relation to prayers dedicated to the new King (James II); issue 2013 (Mar.2, 1685) records addresses made to King James II acknowledging sorrow at the death of Charles II and joy at the succession, other March issues contain dedications of loyalty to the new King; issue 2073 (S

282 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1687-1688: large selection of issues between numb.2200 and 2343: plenty of interesting content including issue 2212 (Jan 27, 1687) report from Paris of a Notre Dame thanksgiving for the recovery of King Louis XIV following surgery; issue 2213 (Jan.31,1687) reports of Emeric Thokoly (Prince of Upper Hungary) had joined forces with the Turks against the Habsburgs, this issue also carries notice of an important book sale by William Cowper at the Pelican in London; issue 2

283 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1688-1694: large group of issues between numb.2371 and 2998: much of interest including issue 2371 (Aug. 6,1688) with records of addresses to the King and Consort on the birth of the Prince of Wales, the same issue reporting that the King has ordered breast feeding be given to the Prince "with much success"; issue 2384 (Sep.20,1688) with a declaration from James II that no Roman Catholic may be a member of the British House of Commons;

284 · LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1694-1709: large group of issues between numb.3000 and 4578 with many articles of interest including issue 3003 (Aug.20) which reports the introduction of a superfine gunpowder which does not foul firearms; issue 3030 (Nov.22 1694) with a report from Paris that bread prices are rising, robberies are on the increase and a poll tax is to be levied; issue 3078 (May 9, 1695) reports that coal is being transported from Newcastle to Yarmouth in a fleet of 100 vessels, plus a

285 · BENJAMIN MARTIN (1704 - 1782) "The Description and Use of both the GLOBES, the Armillary Sphere, and Orrery, exemplified in a large and select variety of problems in Astronomy, Geography, Dialling, Navigation, Spherical Trigonometry, Chronology, &c., also, A New Construction of each Globe, by an Apparatus exhibiting the Phænomena of the Earth and Heavens exactly as they are, and adapting the same to every Age of the World" [London, Benj. Martin, circa 1770] Second edition; 244pp + five plates.

286 · HAWKESWORTH, John (1715 - 1773) An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq; By John Hawkesworth LL.D. Illustrated with cuts and a great variety of charts..

287 · THE PENNSYLVANIA PACKET, AND DAILY ADVERTISER - 1789 - BILL OF RIGHTS: (Oct.6) edition with column headed "Congress of the United States" showing the Twelve Articles of Amendment approved by Congress on September 25, 1789; other contents include a verse dedicated to "The Bastille" (Storming of Bastille took place on July 14, 1789), plus articles on foreign intelligence, as well as ship departure notices and numerous advertisements; condition is quite fine overall with mild uniform aging.

288 · "Buffon's Natural History, Abridged." pub. by C. & G. Kearsley [1791] in a single volume (lacks several plates), "Hunters and Fishers.." by Sinnett [1846], "Geology in its relation to Revealed Religion" by Bellew [1853] & "Bully Hayes South Sea Pirate" by Lubbock [1931]. (4 vols.) Mixed condition.

289 · THE SPECTATOR (NEW YORK): 1800 (Jan.1) edition of this short-lived (Oct. 1797 to Dec.31 1800) broadsheet including a report on the "Funeral Procession as a tribute to the memory of General George Washington" held on December 31st 1799, with full details of the procession including illustration of the position of the pall-bearers and the order of the procession; quite fine with some light foxing, overall 33.5 x 50cm.

290 · AN AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL PIONEER - EDWARD LUTTRELL "SELLS" SOME OF HIS LAND, JULY 1810 An indenture, signed and dated at Parramatta, 24 July 1810, by which Luttrell transfers ownership of 2 acres of his land at Richmond Hill to David Bele, provided he proceeds "to build...a House Joining the House already erected on the said land, Edward Luttrell's Farm at Richmond Hill."

291 · RICHARD HAYMAN - STOLE A WATCH, BEAT HIS WIFE AND MAY HAVE MURDERED HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW An indenture on vellum, formalizing the sale to Thomas Johnson for £45, of "forty-three acres of Land lying and situate in the District of Mulgrave Place, on the Banks of the River Hawkesbury being part and parcel of one hundred and thirty Acres of Land originally given and granted by His Excellency Governor King unto Edward Yardley....". Signed by all parties and with the original seal.

292 · A DOCUMENT SIGNED BY REVEREND SAMUEL MARSDEN [1765 - 1838] - NORFOLK ISLAND, PARRAMATTA & NEW ZEALAND A conveyance for the sale of "136 Rods of Ground" [approx. 700 sqr mtrs] being "all that allotment of Land situate in Macquarie Street, Windsor, opposite the Wesleyan Chapel Ground" to brothers, Thomas and John Tebbutt, early settlers in Windsor. The document is signed by Marsden and witnessed by Joseph Harpur and one other.

293 · A LAND TRANSACTION IN WILBERFORCE, NSW - 1824 A conveyance of "20 Acres of Land in the District of Wilberforce under a writ of Fieri Facias" [ a writ of execution after judgment obtained in a legal action for debt or damages] by which Robert COOPER (merchant of Sydney) acquires the land from John LYONS in settlement of a debt calculated at "80 pounds in Spanish Dollars at five shillings each". The details of the land are described and a small hand-drawn map provides further information.

294 · AUTOGRAPHED LETTER FROM ALEXANDER MCLEAY, COLONIAL SECRETARY, JUNE 1829 A letter signed by "Alex Mcleay" headed Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney 26th June, 1829 addressed to Private John Hunt, late of the Royal Staff Corps. The letter confirms the offer of "an Allotment of Ground in the Town of Windsor........but you will understand that this order will be null and void if you are not actually residing on the Land alluded to, at the end of Six Months from the present date."

295 · AUTOGRAPHED LETTER FROM ALEXANDER MCLEAY, COLONIAL SECRETARY, JUNE 1829 A letter signed by "Alex Mcleay" headed Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney 26th June, 1829 addressed to Private James Pickles, late of the Royal Staff Corps. The letter confirms the offer of "an Allotment of Ground in the Town of Windsor........but you will understand that this order will be null and void if you are not actually residing on the Land alluded to, at the end of Six Months from the present date." A transfer to

296 · THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN: A group of original 1830 playbills for "The Gamester" (March 18), "The Merchant of Venice" (March 27), "Handel's Oratorio The Messiah" (March 31) and "The Grecian Daughter" (April 12). All with much detail of the production and in the case of the first 2 items, details of forthcoming productions. All approx. 34 x 22cm (4 items)

297 · ALEXANDER MCLEAY, COLONIAL SECRETARY, April 1829 A printed document, titled "SMALL GRANT" signed by "Alex Mcleay" and headed Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney 22nd April, 1831 and addressed to John Francis Evan, confirms that Evan's request of the Governor for "Sixty Acres of Land" has been agreed to "in the County of Cook, Parish unnamed, at Kurrajong: bounded on the West by Smith's and Nash's Farms." The details of the Crown's retained rights over water, creeks, mines of gold, silver & coal.

298 · [WILLIAM COX, 1764 (Dorset) - 1837 (Windsor, NSW): Explorer, roadmaker, builder & grazier] A lease dated August 1833 between "William Cox of Clarendon" and John Forrester for "Five acres of Land at the Cornwallis" which was in the District of Windsor, bounded "on the North by the River Hawkesbury....". The document is signed by Cox and Forrester. In January 1837 the lease is transferred to James Upton "with the consent of Mr Laban White" and signed by all parties.

299 · [WILLIAM COX, 1764 (Dorset) - 1837 (Windsor, NSW): Explorer, roadmaker, builder & grazier] A lease dated February 1837 between "William Cox of Fairfield Windsor" and James Upton "of Cornwallis Windsor" for "Forty Acres...lately in the occupation of John Forrester, being portion of the Argyle Farm situate in the District of Mulgrave Place..."Windsor, bounded ". The document is signed by Cox and Forrester. In January 1837 the lease is transferred to James Upton "with the consent of Mr Laban White

300 · LEGAL AFFAIRS IN THE DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP - 1842 to 1861 A group of six (6) documents, mainly warrants created by the Deputy Sherrifs (Samuel Rayward, Alistair MacKenzie) in discharging their roles in settling disputes between free settlers. Three are printed forms which have been completed in manuscript, the others are all hand-written.

301 · "THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION" - ENGLAND - 1842 - BUSH RANGERS IN TASMANIA: July 16 1842 (No.3) edition of a monthly magazine with lengthy article entitled "An encounter with Bush-Rangers in Van Diemen's Land" by "An Officer" with a detailed 5-page account of his pursuit and capture of three ex-convict bushrangers Palmer, Regan & Atterall in the late 1830s; other articles of interest include "A Cure for Hydrophobia"& "On the Growth of Plant in Cities";

302 · PROVIDENCE DAILY JOURNAL - UNITED STATES - 1842: (Nov.6) edition with hoax story gleaned from French newspaper "L'Etoile" of an Englishman Rodger Dodsworth who had fallen into a coma during an avalanche in the Alps in the late 17th century, was subsequently found in 1826, thawed out and brought back to life, (becoming the foundation for Mary Shelley's 1863 short story "The Reanimated Englishman");

303 · BACKHOUSE, James (1794 - 1869) A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies. [Hamilton, Adams and Co., London, 1843] Octavo, xviii, 560pp, cxliv (appendices) pages with in-text illustrations (by Backhouse), plates and 3 large folding maps. Contemporary half-leather and marbled boards; marbled end-papers, gilt edges.

304 · [EARLY COMMERCIAL INVOICES, WINDSOR N.S.W.] A collection of 1840s-70s detailed invoices including Thomas Aspinall (Linen Draper, Silk Mercer, Hosier), George Wood (Boots & Shoes), W. Alderson (Tanner, Boot & Shoemaker), J.M. Illidge (Boot and Shoe Warehouseman), Moses & Hopkins (Auctioneers & General Commission Agents), Windsor Medical Dispensary, etc. (10).

305 · AUTOGRAPHED LETTER FROM THOMAS MITCHELL, NEW SOUTH WALES SURVEYOR GENERAL, DECEMBER 1849 A letter signed by "T.L. Mitchell" headed Surveyor General's Office, Sydney 8th December, 1849 addressed to Mr James Upton, Windsor. The rare letter concerns a request by Upton to lease four "sections of land in the County of Hunter...on the north side of the Bulga Road...", however, Mitchell points out that according to his records, Upton had already leased the land "at the Macdonald River".

306 · [The SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and LABAN WHITE] A collection of fourteen different receipts, issued and signed by Laban White [1794 - 1873] on behalf of the Sydney Morning Herald or John Fairfax. The period involved in these transactions, when White was an agent and correspondent for the SMH cover the period when he was resident in Windsor. Local residents and businesses could lodge and pay for advertisements with White.

307 · [EARLY N.S.W. NEWSPAPERS & PRINTERS] ​1855 - 1903 printed receipts issued by "The Empire" Daily Newspaper (to Henry Parkes); E. Mason, Stationer's Hall, Parramatta; Metropolitan Printing Office, Bridge St.; Sydney Morning Herald; Australian Newspaper Office, Windsor; Sydney Daily Telegraph, Barrack & York Sts.; Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers' Advocate, Windsor; S. Cooke & Co., Arthur Lewis (Bookseller & Stationer); The Windsor & Richmond Gazette; "Bligh Watchman", Coonabarabran; etc. (20).

308 · [THE BANKSTOWN ROAD TOLLGATE & THE RICHMOND ROAD TRUST] The lease documents setting out the terms for the Lease of the Bankstown Toll Gate for 1857, 1861 & 1862 together with the documents recording the Bonds and Sureties required to "secure [the] Tolls" on behalf of the Richmond Road Trust. Also, the January 1862 "Lease of the Ferry over the Hawkesbury at Windsor" in favour of George Augustus Davis (Innkeeper) and John Ryan (farmer) of Newtown. (6 items). George Augustus Davis was declared ban

310 · [NEW SOUTH WALES - ELECTORAL HISTORY] "A list of Electors for the CUMBERLAND BOROUGHS for the town of CAMPBELLTOWN for the year 1857-8" being a manuscript listing over nine foolscap pages of all those males eligible to vote, signed off by the Chief Constable, Police Office Campbelltown, 27th June 1857. In each case, to the 130 named individuals are added their "qualification" (to vote) and "where property affording the qualification is situate."

311 · [NEW SOUTH WALES - ELECTORAL HISTORY] "Lists of Electors for the Electoral District of the CUMBERLAND BOROUGHS for the town of LIVERPOOL in the Police District of Liverpool for the year 1857-8" being a manuscript listing over five foolscap pages of all those males eligible to vote, signed off by the Chief Constable. In each case, to the 125 named individuals are added their "qualification" (to vote) and "Place of Abode."

312 · [NEW SOUTH WALES - ELECTORAL HISTORY] "Lists of Electors for that Portion of the Electoral District of the CUMBERLAND BOROUGHS being the Borough of PENRITH in the Police District of Penrith for the years 1857 & 1858" each page bearing a hand-stamped oval "POLICE OFFICER PENRITH" and signed by the Senior Magistrate, Robert Copland Lethbridge. A manuscript listing over eight large format pages of all those males eligible to vote. There are 105 individuals named.

313 · HARPER'S WEEKLY: 1857-1884 selection comprising including 1857 (first year of publication) Apr.4 issue (No.14); also 1858 (2); then American Civil War era issues 1861, 1862 (4), 1863 (3), 1864 (4), 1865 (2); also single issues for 1868, 1871, 1873, 1874 (Jan.24, with wonderful Thomas Nast "A Hard Fish to Catch" cartoon on front cover) & 1884; lots of attractive engravings and political cartoons throughout; condition variable, housed in A3 display books. (22 issues in 3 folios)

314 · [FERDINAND von MUELLER] The 1858 & 1861-62 Annual Reports of the Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Garden, as presented ​to Parliament; 27pp + 11pp. (2 items).

315 · DANIEL BUNCE [1813-72] Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria and other Australian Districts; with parallel Translations and familiar specimens in Dialogue, as a guide to Aboriginal Protectors and others engaged in ameliorating their condition. [Geelong; Thomas Brown, 1859] Second edition. xii, 60 pages; 18 cm. Original orange boards. Ferguson 7665. Although bearing the second edition imprint this is actually the third edition, the second having been published by Slater, Williams

316 · [HISTORIC HOTELS IN THE HAWKSBURY RIVER REGION] February 1861 lease for the "Cricketers Arms Hotel" (cnr of George & New Streets, Windsor) between George Freeman [Green Hills, 1806 - Windsor, 1867] and Sarah Blanchard [1826 - 1905]

317 · HARPERS WEEKLY - 1861 - AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA: complete fully bound compilation of journals for the year, comprising 832 pages, being the year of Lincoln's Inauguration and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Lavishly illustrated with engravings by Winslow Homer, and numerous political cartoons featuring Lincoln. Topics covered include the bombardment of Fort Sumter, secessions from the Union and The First Battle of Bull Run.

318 · HARPER'S WEEKLY - CIVIL WAR ERA: 1861 to 1865 selection comprising 1861 (May 25, Jul.13, Aug.17, Dec.14, Dec.28), 1863 (Feb.28, Nov.7), 1864 (Mar.12, Apr.9, May 21) & 1865 (Jan.28, Feb.18); illustrated with engravings by top artists of the day including Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast; all the journals are individually presented in beautiful gilt-lettered hardbound folios (33.5x44.5cm). (12 folios)

319 · NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - First Invasion of Northern States: 1861 to 1862 selection comprising 1861 (Oct.13, Oct.21 & Dec.6) & 1862 (Sep.15, Oct.2 & Nov.19) edition which include Union biased reports from field correspondents, plus official dispatches and the reporting of important speeches; the Sep.15, 1862 edition covering a "Heavy battle...at Harper's Ferry" where a portion of Lee's invading army under Stonewall Jackson captured the Union garrison at Harper's Ferry before rejoining Lee

320 · BURKE & WILLS COMMISSION, Report of the Commissioners Appointed To Enquire Into And Report Upon The Circumstances Connected With THE SUFFERING AND DEATH OF ROBERT O'HARA BURKE AND WILLIAM JOHN WILLS, THE VICTORIAN EXPLORERS. [John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne] 1862, 104pp on blue paper. Reference: Wantrup 167.

321 · NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - : 1863 selection comprising editions for Feb.15, Jul.18 & 29, Aug.2 & 5, Oct,7, 24, & 31; the Jul.18, edition reviewing the Siege of Vicksburg (July 4) the correspondent noting "the almost impassable natural obstacles that opposed Grant's army in the late siege" (Vicksburg located on a high river bluff) and the Draft Riots (Jul.13-16) with headlines "Quiet Restored" and "A Peaceful Day in the Metropolis";

322 · NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - Gettysburg Address & Third Battle of Winchester: 1863-64 selection comprising 1863 (Nov.18, Dec.26) & 1864 (Jul.27, Aug.11 & 13, Sep.20 & 22); the Jul.18 1863 edition featuring General Curtin's proclamation for "The Heroic Dead at Gettysburg" previewing next day's dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, at which Lincoln gave his celebrated Gettysburg Address; Aug.11 1864 edition with details of Admiral Farragut's success at the Battle of Mobile Bay; Sep.2

323 · NEW YORK HERALD - CIVIL WAR ERA - GETTYSBURG ADDRESS: 1863 (Nov.20) edition with "Our Special Despatch From Gettysburg" coverage of the ceremony held on Nov.19, with details of speeches by Lincoln, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Governor Horatio Seymour & Senator Edward Everett, plus scaled plan of the National Cemetery headed "The American Necropolis". An important historical edition beautifully presented in a gilt-lettered, hardbound folio (44.5 x 61cm)

324 · NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - Battle of Fort Harrison: 1864-65 selection comprising 1863 (Oct.1, 4, 5, 7, 10 & 11 and Dec.24) & 1865 (Apr.23); the Oct.1 1864 with Special's Correspondent's Sep.29th report on the movements of the Army of The James prior to Union's victory at the Battle of Fort Harrison (Sep 29-30); Oct.7 1864 featuring the "Desperate speech by Jeff. Davis at Macon" and a report that "Two-thirds of Rebel Army Absent Without Leave";

325 · NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - Lee Surrenders, Lincoln Assassination & Death of John Wilkes Booth: 1865 editions comprising (Apr.10) headed "Hang Out Your Banners" and "Union, Victory! Peace! - Surrender of General Lee and His Whole Army" with transcript of War Department order for a National "Two Hundred Guns" Salute following General Lee's surrender on April 9; (April 17) mourning edition headed "Our Great Loss" following Lincoln's assassination

326 · [BENJAMIN ISAACS, PRINTER, PUBLISHER & JOURNALIST 1796 - 1881] 1867 - 1878 group of six different printed receipts signed by Isaacs on behalf of his Albion Printing Office at Windsor where, for a time, he had published "The Windsor Advocate". The receipts are mostly to the Richmond Road Trust for printing circulars, tenders for repairs, etc. (6 items).

327 · LEWIS & WHITTY chromolithograph soap advertising poster, 19th century. "Manufacturers Factories Charles St. Fitzroy & Bridge Rd. Richmond, Office Flinders Lane W. Melbourne", printed by Charles Troedel & Co. Melbourne & Sydney. 57 x 44cm

328 · MOSTLY EUROPEAN & ASIAN GROUP: incl. "Bangkok Then and Now" by van Beek, "Postcards of Old Siam" by Davis, "Edwardian London" by Barker, "Pioneer of the Pacific" by Rigby, der Merwe & Williams, "Amercan Vandal - Mark Twain Abroad" by Morris, "Russian in Pacific Waters 1715-1825" by Barratt, "Squadron - Ending African Slave Trade" by Broich; also a bound volume of 1870 July to December issues of "Illustrated London News". (15 items)

329 · "HOBART TOWN GAZETTE" - TASMANIA - 1875: Dec.21 (No.5086) edition with content including timetable for mail between England and Tasmania, via Point De Galle & Melbourne for year ending December 31st 1876, Assessment Roll for George Town District, Land and Works Office notice of auction for leases including that of Maria Island, plus government, rural municipality and court notices.

330 · "AUSTRALIAN PETS" colour lithograph supplement from the Illustrated Australian News, December, 1876, sheet size 58 x 38cm

331 · A DEED FOR LAND BOUGHT IN THE NEW HEBRIDES (NOW VANUATU), AUGUST 1879, A signed and sealed indenture recording the fact that one VICTOR NISSEN of Sydney, New South Wales has acquired some land at Black Beach on the west coast of Tanna Island, New Hebrides:

332 · AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: selection incl. "Voyage of Discovery to Terra Australis by Willem De Vlamingh in 1696-97" by Playford, "Victorian Year Book for 1884-85", "Brisbane Town in Convict Days 1824-1842" by Steele, "Brisbane in the 1890s" by Lawson, "The Russians in Hobart 1823" by Barratt; also noted "Antarctica - A Biography" by David Day. Plenty of interest. (25)

333 · THE FIRST ITALIAN TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE WORLD DE AMEZAGA, Comandante Carlo (1835 - 1899) Viaggio di Circumnavigazione della regia corvetta "Caracciolo" (Comandante C. de Amezaga), negli anni 1881-82-83-84. [Roma, Forzani e Comp., 1885] Volume

334 · "Handbook Of Information for The Colonies And India, Issued By The British India & Queensland Agency Co. Ltd., [Published by Warwick & Sapsford, Printers, Brisbane, 1888] 112pp + 46pp of advertisements; maps, plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Stiff, cloth-backed illustrated wrappers.

335 · 1888-89 CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION MELBOURNE: Press Pass issued in the name of K.D.Bennett; leather with gilt embossed title and Exhibition logo; internal photograph and affixed card with details. Also, a souvenir miniature folding pocket knife from the 1904 World's Fair St.Louis. (2 items).

336 · The Excelsior Album Of Ballarat Views Impl. 24mo; folding panorama, with 7 additional plates of early Ballarat including the publisher's premises at 78 Sturt Street, original blue boards with gilt title and border, no date but circa 1890. [Ballarat, Birtchnell].

337 · CHIRNSIDE Family WERRIBEE PARK, scrap album and two photograph albums pertaining to the Chirnside family of Werribee Park Mansion, Victoria, (3 items).

338 · AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: A shelf of books including "Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria - Part 1" by French [1891], "David Syme - The Father of Protection in Australia" by Pratt [1908], "The History of Prahran" by Cooper [1912], "The Story of the ANZACS" pub. James Ingram [1917], "Whaling Ways by Philp [1926], "The Old Bus" by Kingsford Smith [1932], "The Merino - Past, Present & Probable" by Austin [1944], plus 3 others. (10 vols. all h/c.) Mixed condition.

339 · NEWSPAPERS. A collection of various Victorian regional newspaper dating from 1892 to 1901 including The Gippsland Times, The Mount Alexander Mail, The Euroa Advertiser, The Evening Echo (Ballarat), Seymour Telegraph, Ballarat Courier, Ballarat Star, The Bendigo Independent, The Bendigo Advertiser, The Argus and The Age.

340 · Antique and vintage Australian fruit labels, postcard and ephemera, 19th and early 20th century, (10 items)

341 · FEDERATION Australian Commonwealth Celebration Government of Victoria illuminated invitation to Mr ARTHUR PARKER and Lady, Tuesday 7th of May, 1901 (21 x 28cm). Together with an associated thank you letter from the Government of Victoria, ​18th Sept. 1899, (31 x 21cm). Both framed and glazed.

342 · SPENCER, Baldwin & GILLEN, F.J. "The Native Tribes of Central Australia" [Macmillan & Co., London, 1899] 1st ed. Octavo, xx, 671 pages with illustrations of churingas, a map and 130 illustrations (mainly after photographs) plus 2 folding maps, 3 folding charts, 4 folding chromolithographic plates. Olive-green gilt-pictorial buckram flecked and rubbed, ​with the spine sunned and beginning to split; all edges uncut; scattered light foxing.

343 · DOULTON & CO. & THE 1900 PARIS EXPOSITION: "Doulton & Co. Limited: A Description of their Works and Manufactures : London 1900 : With a description of their Exhibits at Paris, 1900." [Lambeth Pottery, London] 56pp with photo plates. An extremely rare reference, in very fine condition.

344 · Sydney Cove 1788 facsimile engraving together with a floral still life watercolour by P.I. HIBBERT, (2 items), ​the watercolour 25 x 32cm

345 · "The Union Bank Of Australia" share certificate together with two "National Bank Of Australasia" share certificates, all unissued and mint condition, framed and glazed, (3 items), the largest 42 x 60cm overall

346 · Assorted books, ephemera, pictures and prints, 19th and 20th century,

347 · Goldfield's engraving, Boer War engraving, and a facsimile print "North View Of Eagle Hawk Neck", all framed and glazed, (3 items), the largest 39 x 48cm overall

348 · QUICK, John & GARRAN, Robert Randolph The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth. [Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1901 First Edition]. Brown cloth binding with gold lettering on spine. 1008pp. 15.5 x 25.5cm. Cover sunned, especially to spine.

349 · PRIME MINISTER EDMOND BARTON'S PRIVATE SECRETARY: THOMAS BAVIN (1874 - 1941), (Knighted 1933) Lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of New South Wales, 1927 - 1930

350 · KITSON, Arthur (1859 - 1937) Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S. "The Circumnavigator" [John Murray, London, 1907] 1st edition; pp. xvi, 526 (last colophon), [2 (pubs. cat.)], with 20 illustrations + a folding map. Specially rebound in vellum with gilt embossing to front cover for "The Duke of Devonshire Prize - Presented by the British Empire League 1927." and with details of the presentation and recipient (John Robert Murray Senior) in an attractive mss label affixed to the front pastedown.

351 · [OCEAN YACHT RACING] "Across Bass Strait - A Souvenir of Ocean Yacht Race from Queenscliff, Vic to Low Head, Tas., December 27th 1907." [Atlas Press, Block Place, Melbourne], n.d. but 1908. 60 p., [21] p. of plates :ill., ports.; 29 cm with illustrated upper board. An account of the win of the "Rudder Cup" by "Thistle" owned by E. Newlands.

352 · [C.J. DENNIS INTEREST] "Marri'd and Other Verses" by Mary Gilmore [1910] (with a printed slip affixed to front pastedown "...from the Library of the late C.J. DENNIS..."); "The Moods of Ginger Mick" [1916]; "The Making of a Sentimental Bloke" by Alec Chisholm [1946], and

353 · DANIEL WHITE Esq. hand-painted illuminated presentation, "To Daniel White Esq. Dear Sir, In The Presence Of A Gathering Representing All Branches Of The Carriage Trade Of Victoria And On The Eve Of Your 81st Birthday, We Desire To Offer Our Congratulations And To Ask You To Accept This Address As An Expression Of The Very Great Esteem With Which You Are Held By The Trade With Whom You Have Been Hounourably Associated For Over Fifty Years, 18th Sept. 1915.",

354 · [ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION] TAYLOR, Griffith (1880 - 1963) With Scott : The Silver Lining [London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1916] 1st ed., xiv, 464p., [44] leaves of plates; illustrations, maps, portraits; folded map. Rebound preserving original green covers.

355 · 1917 paper parachute advertising 'Shell' benzine (petrol) intended to be dropped from Basil Watson's home-built Sopwith-Pup type biplane over Victoria and Tasmania. Watson was killed on 28th March 1917 when his aircraft broke up in flight near Point Cook and thus the promotional paper parachutes were never used. Watson had successfully flown between Melbourne and Warrnambool in January 1917 and between Melbourne and Mount Gambier in February 1917, carrying small unofficial mails on those flights

356 · [AUSTRALIAN MILITARY] "The 38TH BATTALION A.I.F." by Eric Fairey [Bendigo, Bendigo Advertiser Pty Ltd, and the Cambridge Press, 1920] 1st edition; 110pp, soft cover.

357 · [AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE] "Retrospect" by Martin Boyd [1920]; "The Boundary Rider" by R.B. Plowman [1935]; "The Fear" by Thomas Keneally [1965]; and, "Poor Fellow My Country" by Xavier Herbert [1975].

358 · Australian-Oriental Line "Travel To Manila, China & Japan Under The British Flag" lithographic brochure, circa 1920, 22 x 14cm

359 · MILITARY TITLES: selection of titles incl. "The Fighting at Jutland" (c.1920, scarce), "Naval Engineering and American Sea Power", "Breaking the Chains - The Royal Navy's War on Slavery" by Pocock, "Christian IV and his Navy" by Bellamy, "Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain" & "German East - First World in East Africa" by Gardner, plus three others titles. (8)

360 · Canberra: General Notes for the Information of Public Servants - April 1926 [Melbourne, H.J. Green, 1926] 1st Edition, 92pp + fold-out plan. With numerous photographs and details of the "Standard Home Types" available, with their dimensions and prices. Endorsed on front cover "With Senator Sampson's Compliments 29/9/26".

361 · ALFRED HOSPITAL certificate "Alfred Hospital, Founded 1867, Melbourne, 30th January, 1929, The Managers Have Elected GEORGE FREDERICK WILCOX Esq. An Honorary Life Governor Of The Hospital", three colour lithograph with attractive elevated view of the hospital, ​45 x 34cm

362 · "ROYAL COMMISSION on the Constitution of the Commonwealth." Report of Proceedings and Minutes of Evidence. Canberra, Monday, 19th September, 1927" in 2 volumes (823pp + 913pp) Quarto, half calf and cloth bindings. [H.J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra], 1929. With the autographs of the chairman and the six commissioners tipped-in on the flyleaf of vol.1 and dated 7th Sept.1929.

363 · "The New Era In Commercial Art" The Art Training Institute Melbourne. Green card wrapper with embossed lettering, some fading to right margin of the front cover, otherwise a good copy with vibrant colour lithography including IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE.

364 · c.1930s Presbyterian Ladies College (Melbourne) workbook with newspaper/magazine cut-outs of articles & images affixed relating to famous British literary figures, plus a few postcards and few pencil drawings of famous British landmarks; also 1948-49 Dispensing Chemists record book of customer prescriptions with A-Z record of customer entries at the front. (2 items)

365 · Souvenir booklets including "Pictorial Guide To The West Coast Of Tasmania", "Souvenir Views Of Perth", "St. Thomas' Church, Port Macquarie", "The Mines Of The Bellambi Coal Co, Ltd.", "Souvenir Of Kuring-Gai Chase And Bobbin Head", "Ballarat Views An Statuary", plus more, inspection will reward. (13 items).

366 · [BUILDING TRADE, ENGINEERING & HANDYMAN CATALOGUES] McPherson's Engineers' and Manufacturers' Catalogue No.34 (1933), also the 1966 edition and several smaller McPherson publications (Home Workshop Guide, Guide for the Handyman, etc.) and the VICTORIAN BUILDERS' TRADE DIRECTORY Edition V (circa 1963). (9 items).

367 · PLAN FOR A NEW COLONY, A proposal for Empire settlement on a large scale in the Kimberly Division of Western Australia, by Sir James D. Connolly (Formerly Agent General for Western Australia), reprinted from "The Morning Post (July 25-29, 1933). 15pp pamphlet.

368 · William H. ELSUM The History of Williamstown. From its First Settlement to a City 1834-1934. [Williamstown, Frank S. Young, 1934] First Edition; 8vo; pp. viii, 144; numerous b/w. photographs; original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board.

369 · [MOTOR CAR BROCHURES] A "Morris 8/40" 12-page brochure, circa 1935, for York Motors, William Street, Sydney; also, an "Oldsmobile Sixes and Eights" 16-page colour brochure, circa 1937, for General Motors - Holden's Limited (Printed in Australia). (2 items).

370 · The "ASPRO YEAR BOOK 1938", "1939 Mobiloil Chart and Lubrication Manual", "The Aboriginal Word Book" by Kenyon (1960), "Grand Prix Racing" by Monkhouse, and several other items, mainly Australian interest. (10 items).

371 · NEW YORK TIMES - WWII ERA: 1939 Oct. 1-15, Nov. 1-15, Nov. 16-30 & Dec.1-15 broadsheets in four bound volumes. Strong coverage of "The European Conflict" with the Oct 1st (Sunday) edition "Week in Review" article covering the Surrender of Warsaw and the Russian/German partition of Poland (Sep.27); other major news stories include U-Boat sinking of British Battleship "Royal Oak" killing 833 (Oct.15) and attempted assassination of Hitler in Munich (Nov.9);

372 · [MOTOR CYCLES] The Book of the Velocette by Heathcote ]1940]; Instruction Manual for TRIUMPH Motor Cycles 1947-48 Models [1947]; The BOOK of the J.A.P. ENGINE by Haycraft [1948]; Motor Cycles and How to Manage Them by The Motor Cycle Staff [1948]; The Story of the T.T. by Davison [1950]. (6 vols.)

373 · NEW YORK TIMES - WWII ERA: 1940 Jan.16-31, Feb.1-15, Feb.16-29 & Mar.1-15 broadsheets in four bound volumes. Extensive coverage of war in Europe including the HMS Cossack raid of the German "Altmark" prison vessel, freeing 326 British seamen (Feb.18); Moscow peace treaty ending war between Russia & Finland (Mar.13); domestic news includes World Premiere of Pinocchio (Feb.7) and S.S. Queen Elizabeth arriving in New York on her maiden voyage (Mar.7); Sunday issues with New York Times Book Review

374 · NEW YORK TIMES - WWII ERA: 1940 Apr.1-15, Jul.1-15, Aug.1-15 & 16-31 broadsheets in four hardbound volumes. Strong coverage of the war in Europe including the German invasion of Denmark and Norway (Apr.9), commencement of Battle of Britain (Jul.11); Japan announcing the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Aug.2), "Eagle Day" launch of all-out Luftwaffe attack of Southern England (Aug.13); other domestic and international stories covered include the assassination of Leon Trotsky (Aug.22);

375 · NEW YORK TIMES - WWII ERA: 1940 Oct.1-15 & 16-31, Nov.1-15 & 16-30 & Dec.16-31 broadsheets in five hardbound volumes. The War in Europe is well covered including the Italian invasion of Greece (Oct.28), Roosevelt outlining his plan for Lend-Lease Aid to Britain (Dec.17) and "Havoc in The City" - Germans commencing The Blitz fire bomb attack on London (Dec.31); domestic news includes the World Premiere of Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (Oct.15), Roosevelt winning an unprecedented third t

376 · ART EXHIBITION CATALOGUES: 1947 "Melbourne Contemporary Artists" at the Athenaeum Gallery (includes Russell Drysdale's "Sofala" at 200 guineas, Purves-Smith, George Bell, Ola Cohn, Roger Kemp, etc.); 1962 "Artists of Fame and Promise Part 1" at Leveson Street Gallery (includes Ian Fairweather "Abstract" at 45 guineas, Fred Williams "Landscape" at 200 guineas, Dorothy Braund "Greek Village" at 45 guineas, John Brack "Roofs of Burwood" at 200 gunieas, etc.); Hermia Boyd 1965; etc. (12).

377 · AUSTRALIA - PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES: small library of titles with focus on Australian history through photography incl. "An Australian Camera 1851-1914" by Cannon, "Cazneaux's Sydney 1904-1934", "Sydney from the Sky" & "Shackleton's Argonauts" both by Frank Hurley, "Frank Meadow Sutcliffe - a Selection of his Work" in four volumes, Charles Kerry's "Federation Australia" and James Flood "Book of Early Australian Photographs", amongst the many better titles. (26)

378 · SHIPS & WATER NAVIGATION: library of titles incl. "Cunard - a Photographic History" by McCutcheon, "The Long Haul - Ships of the England-Australia Run" by Fitchett, "River of Light - Monet's Impressions of the Seine", "Mariners are Warned - Stokes and HMS Beagle in Australia 1837-43" by Horden, "Pioneering Pathways" (development of Mannum river port) by Rod Williams (signed), "Hospital Ships" by Goodman, "Austalian Shipwrecks" by Bateson & "New Zealand Shipwrecks" by Ingram, amongst others. Good

379 · ARCHITECTURE: library of titles with Australian Council of National Trusts series "Historic Places" (Vol. 1 & 2), "Historic Homesteads" (Vol. 1 & 2), "Historic Houses" & "Historic Public Buildings" plus "Historic Buildings of New Zealand" (two volumes); other titles noted incl. "The Heritage of Australia - The Illustrated Register of the National Estate", "Historic Buildings of Victoria" by Sauders, "Pioneers of Modernism - Arts & Crafts Movement in Australia" by Edquist,

380 · [AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL INTEREST] Books, comprising "The Australian Aborigines : How to Understand them" by A.P. Elkin [1964, with d/j]; "The Aborigines of south-eastern Australia As They Were" by Aldo Massola [1971, with d/j]; "The Timeless Land" by Eleanor Clark [1954, with d/j]; "White Blackfellows" by Charles Barrett [1948, with d/j]. (4 vols.).

381 · Royal Australian Navy 75th Anniversary - Navy Lithographic Collection. Blue cloth oblong boards containing 25 colour prints on heavy paper, in excellent condition.

382 · POSTCARDS including Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Aborigines, Singer Sewing Machine, Viceroy Tea, S.T. Gill, real photograph, novelty and others (68 items)

383 · POSTCARDS: ABORIGINAL SUBJECTS, collection of (43) real photo cards, circa 1905-10, almost all postally used and the subjects mainly from identified locations: Queensland (5), South Australia (2), Tasmania (2), Victoria (10), Western Australia (14), and general (8), together with a small group of non-Aboriginal subjects of the same period (9). Cpl. of duplicates noted. (Total: 50). Among the subjects we note "Natives playing football at Coranderrk, Vic.", "Annual distribution of blankets to bla

384 · POSTCARDS and souvenir cards, Australian themes all real photos including Tasmanian, Mt Gambier, The Grampians and South Australia, (79 items),

385 · POSTCARDS Australian themes including Sorrento, Queenscliff, Port Arlington, Northcote, St Kilda, mostly real photograph, (69 items).

386 · POSTCARDS mainly Australian themes including Carlton street scenes, Saw Milling, Gippsland, gold digger's shanty and others (97 items)

387 · POSTCARDS, real photograph of a gold nugget with handwritten caption "Weight 1135. Ozs. Value Over £5,000" by T.F. Mackay of Kalgoorlie. Plus "Scenes Of The Heroic Rescue Of The Entombed Miner, Bonnie Vale, W.A."

388 · POSTCARD "Tutu Ngarahu" Maori warrior, by "Col. G. Robly"

389 · POSTCARDS: A small collection of (13) mainly real photo cards, circa 1905-10, with subjects including "Aboriginals & Canoe" by Cooper, "The First Cobbs' Coach Imported from America, Delivering H.M. Mails to the Natives at Coranderrk.", "Crossing the Mystic Figure" by Kerry, "Natives Darwin", etc. Mixed condition.

390 · AUSTRALIA: Diverse range in small box; noted one from Broadmeadows Military Camp Aug.1914 ("What little food we have had has been very crook"), an undivided back "Jenolan Caves" RP, "Prince's Highway at Ulladulla", Mosman Bay, Portland Vic., Lake Tyres, Coranderrk Weir, Werribee Gorge, Germantown, Railway Station Benalla, and a rare group from Barraport (near Bendigo). Mixed condition. (Total: 45).

391 · POSTCARDS: A whole world accumulation; noted many ships and maritime subjects, G.B., Exhibitions, romantic, children, etc. (240+).

392 · POSTCARDS, Australian and British, ephemera and photos, vintage and antique, (55+ items)

393 · POSTCARDS, bundle of mostly British & European early 20th century cards, with plenty of town scenes and tourist images incl. real-photo types, plus humorous and sentimental cards; also a few Australian cards and some photographs; condition is rather mixed. (150 approx)

394 · POSTCARDS: Norman Lindsay "Australian Types" cards from the Bulletin Series No.5 "The Cocky" and "Horse" also, 3 Bulletin comic cards (#923, #1348 & 1362) with Lindsay borders and a Lionel Lindsay Christmas card. (6).

395 · VICTORIA: A collection of WARRNAMBOOL subjects, all RPs, (19) all different.

396 · POSTCARDS & PHOTOGRAPHS: selection with album incl. Press Agency photo of 1972 Elizabeth Street flood, many others featuring trams scenes or ships; another album with 1951-62 images of Brisbane including for the 1954 Queen's visit; also album with postcards showing Brisbane scenes incl. early 20th century cards. (few 100s)

397 · A rare Colonial powder horn engraved "ADVANCE VAN DIEMEN'S LAND", decorated with a lady in Regency costume, trees and birds, circa 1825, 24cm high

398 · Van Diemen's Land truncheon, turned hardwood with hand-painted Queen Victoria cipher and "V.D.L.", circa 1840, rare. 46cm long

399 · Tasmanian Police truncheon, blackwood with hand-painted Queen Victoria cipher, 19th century, 44cm long

400 · Three Victoria Crown "CONVICT PRISON" Officer's tunic buttons and a matching cap button with silk surround, 19th century, rare. (4 items),

401 · Convict era penny tokens and shop tokens, 19th century, (5 items).

402 · WESTERN AUSTRALIAN interest. 18ct yellow gold and enamel half hunter presentation pocket watch with inscription "Presented To Miss Laura E.J. Clifton By The Officers Of The Convict Establishment Portland On The Occasion Of Her Marriage, November 1877". Laura Clifton was born in Fremantle W.A. in 1856, daughter to the renowned botanist George Clifton who had moved to Fremantle to take up a position with the newly formed Western Australia Water Police. After a period of some years George returned

403 · A THIRD FLEET CONVICT, ROSAMOND SPARROW, ONE OF THE FEW WOMEN SENT TO NORFOLK ISLAND A commercial document prepared on behalf of "Rosmond Sparrow", in anticipation of the sale of "seven acres and half of Land" for Forty Pounds, to James PAGET. The land is described as having been granted "unto James KIRBY, by Gov'r Hunter, Octo'r 18th, 1799."

404 · ABRAHAM ELIAS APPOINTED TO ADMINISTER THE ESTATE OF JOSEPH SOLOMON - 1824 14th May 1824 vellum document with intact seal, titled "Administration of the Goods Chattels....of Solomon Josephs late of Windsor, dec'ed - to - Abraham Elias adm'or" and signed by the judge and sealed in the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature for the Territory of New South Wales. Such a document was required when a person dies without a will in the Territory. It appears that Solomon and Elias, as fellow (former?) convict

405 · 1824 - AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO TICKET-OF-LEAVERS FOR THE RENTAL OF FARMLAND James Dorr [or Dore], one of 200 convicts transported on the Surrey in January 1814 had been granted a ticket-of-leave by 1820 and had married in 1817 (a fellow convict, Mary Lyons from Limerick, who had arrived in 1811]. The present document, an indenture dated November 1824 formalizes an agreement between him and a fellow, ex-convict, John Murphy.

406 · JOHN BULL [Newspaper] January 18, 1824 [London, 8pp]

407 · JOHN MATTHEW PITMAN (PITTMAN), ONE OF 200 CONVICTS TRANSPORTED ON THE SURREY, January 1814, ACQUIRES LAND IN THE KURRAJONG DISTRICT.

408 · GEORGE CUPITT: WHEN IS A CONVICT NOT A CONVICT? WHEN HE'S A TROOPER. A printed letter from the Colonial Secretary's Office, 11th November, 1830 to GEORGE CUPITT of South Creek, via Windsor (New South Wales) in which he is invited to make a selection of land, "...you having executed the necessary Engagement [and] that you will reside thereon and cultivate it during the Period of Seven Years..." followed by a listing of available properties from which he was to make his selection.

409 · The Will of Paul Randall, February 25th,1832; probably in Randall's own hand & signed by him, with witnesses' signatures. Randall had been granted the licence of an inn at Richmond in 1819. The inn was called the Black Horse Prince but it was commonly known as The Black Horse Inn. Many of the business affairs of the Hawkesbury region were conducted & settled at the Black Horse Inn. It is the Inn and the land on which it stands, which are the major assets referred to in the document.

410 · A CONVICT MARRIAGE AT WINDSOR, AUGUST 1835. A certificate recording the marriage of Edward Mitchell (aged 35?) to Elizabeth Coverly (aged 20) at the Presbyterian Church at Portland Head in New South Wales. The document has been completed by the the chaplain, signed with an "x" by each of the parties and witnessed two others.

411 · LABAN WHITE, ONE OF 160 CONVICTS TRANSPORTED ON THE ELIZA, JULY 1822 An indenture, dated January 1837 by which Laban White agrees to rent to James Upton, for a period of three years, a piece of land "by Estimation Twenty Two Acres more or less being a Portion of Cornwallis Estate....in the District of Windsor....; signed by White and Upton.

412 · CONVICTION Notice, Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, 1838, foolscap page convicting the Launceston shop keeper Isaiah Morris of using fraudulent weights and scales whilst selling bread, signed by Justice of the Peace DARCY WENTWORTH Esquire. Framed and glazed, ​47 x 35cm overall

413 · JAMES HAYNES of Launceston six months conviction for unlawfully obtaining a pair of boots, Police Office document, 20th July, 1869, signed by Justice of the Peace THOMAS MASON and CHARLES JAMES WEEDON. Single page blue paper document. sheet size 21.5 x 33.5cm,

414 · ARTIST UNKNOWN (19th century, Australian), Isle Of The Dead, Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land, oil on board, ​31 x 47cm

415 · An early Colonial Australian campaign chest, cedar and pine, early to mid 19th century, ​107cm high, 91cm wide, 45cm deep

416 · ANDREW LENEHAN Colonial five tier wotnot with single drawer, full cedar construction with finely carved tulip columns, circa 1848, circular makers label in drawer, 137cm high, 75cm wide, 42cm deep

417 · An impressive library bookcase with early astgragal glazed sliding doors above a bank of five staggered drawers, Australian cedar, New South Wales origin, mid 19th century, 227cm high, 193cm wide, 49cm deep

418 · A Colonial six drawer chest with unusual staggered top drawers, beautifully selected grains of cedar, huon pine secondary timbers with blackwood knobs, Tasmanian origin, circa 1860, ​140cm high, 123cm wide, 55cm deep

419 · A Colonial blanket box, Australian cedar, 19th century, petite proportions, 38cm high, 62cm wide, 43cm deep

420 · A hall table with tapering square form reeded legs, cedar and pine, 19th century, 73cm high, 92cm wide, 49cm deep

421 · A Colonial spade back dining chair, Australian cedar, circa 1845

422 · An early provincial Colonial bureau, cedar and Baltic pine, Tasmanian origin, circa 1840, rare. 93cm high, 101cm wide, 46cm deep. PROVENANCE: The Rodney Pemberton Collection

423 · A Colonial Canterbury, blackwood with red pine and kauri pine secondaries, Tasmanian origin, circa 1860, 57cm high, 43cm wide, 35cm deep

424 · A Colonial bed, blackwood and cedar, Tasmanian origin, circa 1865, ​104cm high, 111cm wide, 201cm long

425 · An Anglo-Indian sideboard, ornately carved padouk, circa 1820, ​129cm high, 176cm wide, 63cm deep

426 · An Anglo-Indian campaign chest, teak with brass fittings, early 19th century, 88cm high, 91cm wide, 44cm deep

427 · An Anglo-Indian Regency carver chair, carved padouk, circa 1820, ​51cm across

428 · Anglo-Indian pedestal, ornately carved padouk 18th/19th century, 100.5cm high, 39.5cm wide, 24cm deep

429 · Anglo-Indian sofa table with two drawers, ornately carved padouk, circa 1830, ​71cm high, 134cm wide, 60cm deep

430 · An exhibition quality Anglo-Indian centre table, spectacularly carved in solid padouk, early 19th century, one of the finest examples seen in our rooms. 76cm high, 140cm diameter

431 · An Anglo-Indian gentleman's collector or specimen chest of eight drawers with two brushing slides, solid coromandel throughout, circa 1820, ​70cm high, 107cm wide, 60cm deep

433 · A William IV wine table, Australian cedar, New South Wales origin, circa 1840, 62cm high, 53cm diameter

434 · A primitive Australian chest of drawers, pine and packing case construction with original crackle finish, circa 1860s, ​122cm high, 102cm wide, 62cm deep

435 · An early Colonial blanket box trunk on turned legs, cedar with iron lock and hinges, New South Wales origin, 19th century, ​62cm high, 81cm wide, 46cm deep

436 · A Colonial adjustable armchair, Tasmanian blackwood, circa 1835, 63cm across the arms

437 · A Colonial footstool, Australian cedar and pine, circa 1865, ​23cm high, 56cm wide, 34cm deep

438 · An Australian Colonial bed, cedar and blackwood, 19th century, 174cm high, 136cm wide, 218cm deep

439 · A Colonial cedar chest of five drawers, full cedar construction with cross banded edge, New South Wales origin, circa 1850, 124cm high, 116cm wide, 51cm deep

440 · A Colonial Australian campaign table, red cedar with screw in legs, mid 19th century, 74cm high, 150cm wide, 60cm deep

441 · A Colonial farmhouse kitchen table, Australian cedar, New South Wales origin, circa 1845, ​76cm high, 130cm wide, 97cm deep

442 · A Colonial cedar cantilever five drawer chest with half turned columns, mid 19th century, ​123cm high, 110cm wide, 55cm deep

443 · Defence Department set of six campaign dining chairs, carved walnut, circa 1870, legs fitted with brass sockets for dismantling, each chair part numbered and stamped "D.D.", made by T.R. COGSWELL.

444 · A Colonial seven drawer chest, birdseye huon pine with Baltic pine back boards, 19th century, 124cm high, 114cm wide, 47cm deep

445 · A Colonial wash stand, Australian cedar, circa 1850, 92cm high, 92cm wide, 42cm deep, PROVENANCE: The Rodney Pemberton Collection

446 · A carved Australian cedar pedestal, Victorian origin, 19th century, ​102cm high

447 · Australian cedar wotnot with 6 tiers, Barossa Valley origin, South Australia, circa 1870, 149cm high, 56cm wide, 46cm deep

448 · An Australian Colonial single door cupboard, kauri pine with burl cedar panel door, Northern New South Wales, 19th century, ​91cm high, 91cm wide, 45cm deep

449 · An Australian blackwood dumbwaiter with bobbin turned columns, 19th century, ​126cm high, 114cm wide, 51cm deep

450 · A Colonial footstool, Australian cedar and pine, circa 1865, ​23cm high, 56cm wide, 34cm deep

451 · An Australian supper table with shaped top, blackwood, Melbourne, 19th century, ​cedar secondary timbers, 74cm high, 147cm wide, 104cm deep

452 · A farmhouse kitchen table, Australian cedar, circa 1870s, top not original but nice, 72cm high, 233cm wide, 120cm deep The table was constructed from timbers recycled from the counters of the Oriental Bank; the actual bank building became the "Euroa Bank" for the Ned Kelly film starring Mick Jagger in 1970!

452a · A dressing table, huon pine with marble top, Melbourne, circa 1875

453 · A Colonial wotnot, Australian cedar, New South Wales origin, circa 1865, 118cm high, 54cm wide, 37cm deep

454 · A pedestal, turned kauri pine, 19th century, ​103cm high

455 · An Australian twin pedestal desk, cedar, late 19th century, 77cm high, 154cm wide, 100cm deep

456 · A carved cedar fluted pedestal, most likely Melbourne origin, 19th century, ​79cm high

457 · An Australian cedar four drawer chest of compact proportions, red pine secondary timbers, circa 1875, ​93cm high, 78cm wide, 46cm deep

458 · A games top wine table, blackwood and pine, circa 1880, ​74cm high, 48cm diameter

459 · An Australian cedar hall chair, circa 1880

460 · An Australian four drawer tub chest, cedar and pine, circa 1880s, 86cm high, 90cm wide, 43cm deep

461 · An exhibition quality vanity mirror, finely crafted in fiddleback blackwood with gilt metal sconce attachments, most likely Melbourne origin, circa 1880, ​91cm high, 69cm wide, 27cm deep

462 · A farmhouse kitchen dresser with original distressed painted finish, 19th century, 197cm high, 120cm wide, 49cm deep

463 · A saddle horse cabinet with folding top, kauri pine, 19th century, ​101cm high, 122cm wide, 117cm deep when opened flat.

464 · A twin pedestal ladies desk, Australian cedar, circa 1880, ​71cm high, 122cm wide, 59cm deep

465 · A sewing table, Australian cedar and eucalypt, South Australian origin, 19th century, 76cm high, 59cm wide, 46cm deep

466 · W.H. ROCKE & CO torchière, carved mahogany, circa 1900, green makers label to underside, 110cm high

467 · A revolving Captain's chair, Australian cedar, 19th century, 59cm across the arms

468 · An Australian miniature chest of 9 drawers, cedar and pine, late 19th century, ​46cm high, 65.5cm wide, 24cm deep

469 · A Colonial huon pine eight drawer chest with turned columns, South Australian origin, 19th century, ​143cm high, 110cm wide, 53cm deep

470 · An Exhibition games top wine table, blackwood, musk, banksia, King Billy pine, cedar and pine, Tasmanian origin, circa 1890, tilt-top, 75cm high, 69cm wide, 69cm deep

471 · An Exhibition quality toilet mirror, fiddleback blackwood and cedar, Victorian origin, circa 1880s, ​88cm high, 90cm wide, 36cm deep

472 · Windsor Hotel Melbourne cast iron doorstop showing a rampant lion, 19th century, ​38cm high

473 · Australian centre table, blackwood and cedar, Melbourne origin, circa 1880s, ​77cm high, 124cm wide, 62cm deep

474 · A bookbinder's table, Australian cedar, 19th century, 72cm high, 40cm wide, 37cm deep

475 · An Australian three drawer chest, cedar and pine, 19th century, ​92cm high, 99cm wide, 55cm deep

476 · Australian Folk Art twig and branch construction corner wotnot with original brown painted finish, circa 1900, 127cm high, 50cm wide, 39cm deep

477 · A Tasmanian huon pine chest of drawers with cedar stain, late 19th century, 101cm high, 106cm wide, 51cm deep

478 · An Australian one drawer occasional table with green painted finish, 19th century, 72cm high, 68cm wide, 46cm deep

479 · Australian Folk Art depression era cotton reel corner wotnot, circa 1890s, ​124cm high, 48cm wide, 27cm deep

480 · Australian Folk Art depression era cotton reel corner wotnot with white painted finish, circa 1890s, ​142cm high, 41cm wide, 25cm deep

481 · An unusual Australian miniature chest of 23 drawers, cedar and pine, 1890s depression era, 79cm high, 45cm wide, 27cm deep. PROVENANCE: The Rodney Pemberton Collection

482 · An industrial chest of nine drawers, interior painted with unusual arts and crafts motif, cedar and pine, 19th century, 94cm high, 81cm wide, 56cm deep

483 · A set of four children's "ABC" chairs, kauri pine and blackwood, early 20th century, ​63cm high

484 · Australian Arts and Crafts hexagonal occasional table with storage lift top, carved blackwood in the style of Prenzel, circa 1910, makers ink stamp to underside (illegible), 74cm high, 44cm wide, 44cm deep

485 · A kangaroo pressed back child's potty chair, kauri pine, circa 1900 ​56cm high

486 · An Australian blackwood hall stand, early 20th century, ink stamp makers mark (illegible), 214cm high, 107cm wide, 41cm deep

487 · An Australian Arts and Crafts spinners chair, jarrah and eucalypt, circa 1900

488 · An unusual set of eight dining chairs with pressed back Putti scenes, Tasmanian blackwood, early 20th century

489 · An Australian chip carved blackwood table with coat of arms emblazoned "1911, Advance Australia", ​60cm high, 45cm wide, 46cm deep

490 · An embossed brass fire screen with laughing kookaburras, early 20th century, ​67cm high, 75cm wide,

491 · An embossed brass fire screen with koala, early 20th century, ​70cm high, 64cm wide,

492 · A poker work fire screen, signed and titled lower left "The Lake, ...M. Norris", circa 1920, ​65cm high, 70cm wide

493 · An embossed brass fire screen after Emanuel Phillips Fox "Captain Cook Landing At Botany Bay, circa 1770", early 20th century, ​76cm high, 75cm wide,

494 · An Australian occasional table, blackwood with lift top marquetry walnut top, circa 1920, ​75cm high, 55cm wide, 45cm deep

495 · An Australian cedar sideboard, finely crafted panel work, 19th century, 99cm high, 200cm wide, 67cm deep

496 · A pair of depression era stools, pine with painted finish, circa 1930s, 31cm high35cm wide, 28cm deep PROVENANCE: The Rodney Pemberton Collection

497 · An Australian Art Deco circular occasional table, silky oak, Queensland origin, circa 1930, 62cm high, 54cm diameter

498 · An Australian reproduction hand-made Georgian style dining setting comprising six chairs and extension dining table, Australian cedar, circa 1964, the table 77cm high, 52cm wide (extends to 156cm), 97cm deep

499 · An Australian blackwood occasional table, circa 1960, 75cm high, 151cm wide, 60cm deep

500 · SOL SHAPIRO coffee table, carved teak with glass top, circa 1960, 47cm high, 170cm wide, 43cm deep. Born in Russia, Sol Shapiro (1914 – 1980) arrived in Perth in 1939, where he began working in his uncle's cabinet-making factory. From 1948 to 1951 Sol worked in Sydney for Paul Kafka, a furniture designer and maker from Vienna. In 1958 Sol returned to Melbourne, continuing to design and make truly distinct and iconic furniture.

501 · ROBERT ROSH designed nine piece extension dining setting, circa 1960, manufactured by Kurt Loewinger (Melbourne), the table 76cm high, 191cm wide (extends to 314cm), 86cm deep

502 · A LETTER HOME John Mulheron, of Windsor NSW, writes in Sept.1853 to his "Dear Brother" : "....if you determine on comeing to this Countrey go to the Bishop and he will direct you how to come to this Country as you must bare in minde I am advanced in years and getting past labouring hard, but if you come fear not but you will do well. Any industreous person can do well here either labourer or tradesman of any description not to speak of our gold mines which I believe are inexaustable.