The Private Collection of Trevor Kennedy AM
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AUCTION CATALOGUE VOLUME 13 ISSUE 14
Front Cover (part 1 of 2 detail) 1109 THE SPEAKER’S CHAIR FROM THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT AFTER A DESIGN BY CHARLES PASLEY (1824–1890) $300,000 – 500,000
Inside Cover 815 A LARGE PAIR OF DOULTON LAMBETH STONEWARE VASES BY FLORENCE BARLOW $6,000-8,000 814 A DOULTON LAMBETH STONEWARE BOTTLE VASE BY FLORENCE BARLOW $3,000-5,000 816 A DOULTON LAMBETH STONEWARE VASE BY FLORENCE BARLOW $2,000-4,000
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The Private Collection of Trevor Kennedy AM AUCTION 1 – 2 NOVEMBER 2020, SYDNEY
VIEWING Wednesday 28 October (By Appointment only) Thursday 29 – Saturday 31 October – Public Viewing 10am – 4pm Rawson Hall, 24 – 26 Kent Street, Sydney 2000
AUCTION Sunday 1 November 2020 at 10am Monday 2 November 2020 at 10am The Bond, 36 – 40 Queen Street, Woollahra 2025
COLLECTIONS Tuesday 3 – Thursday 5 November Rawson Hall, 24 – 26 Kent Street, Sydney 2000
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The Private Collection of Trevor Kennedy AM When Trevor Kennedy AM began collecting stamps as a boy, it sparked a passion
Silver also represents an important section in the auction, ranging from an
that would result in him forming the most significant collection of Australian
Australian Silver Christening Cradle circa 1898 by W. Kerr, Sydney (lot 325) to
history and Australian Decorative Arts in private hands. The collection, in
a Rare Sterling Silver Fiddle Pattern Sauce Ladle by Alexander Dick (lot 349), a
excess of some 6000 objects, was housed in the heritage listed Rawson Hall,
Rare Sterling Silver Teapot (lot 356) and a Sterling Silver Two Handled Racing
the Federation Free Style 1904 building at 24-26 Kent Street, Millers Point. It
Trophy 1858 (lot 360).
included the Ruth Simon collection of Australian and New Zealand objects, which Kennedy acquired in 1995 for $8 million (with further works acquired a
The Personal Seal of Sir Daniel Cooper (lot 465) links to the history of Woollahra
decade later).
House, and ultimately the development of Point Piper, first built in 1856 by Sir Daniel Cooper. A Fine and Rare 9ct Gold Triple Swivel Fob Seal (lot 468) is also
The importance of the collection lies in its breadth and rarity, representing
of historical interest. It was first owned by Sir John Monash – the most famous
Australian history through material culture. The collection is known for its
commander in Australian history.
exquisite representation of craftsmanship, from pre-1820s Australian made furniture to silver, jewellery and ceramics, as well as items of historical interest.
The Private Collection of Trevor Kennedy AM provides the concluding opportunity to acquire rare and fascinating Australian historical and decorative
The National Museum of Australia recently acquired a large portion of the
art treasures from the greatest private collection of Australiana.
Trevor Kennedy AM collection, valued at $15 million. Leonard Joel is delighted to offer the remaining objects, which are also distinguished for their quality,
Hamish Clark | Head of Leonard Joel, Sydney
diversity and historical importance. This is particularly notable in the selection of furniture for auction, including the Speaker’s Chair from the First Australian Federal Parliament (lot 1109), a rare Colonial Cedar Upholstered Chair by Andrew Lenehan (lot 1113), a Colonial Cedar and Blackwood Sideboard (lot 1107 from Tunbridge Wells Inn, Tasmania) and an Important Colonial Cedar Centre Table (lot 1108).
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SESSION I
SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2020 AT 10AM Lots 1 - 715
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VA R I O U S I T E M S LOTS 1-460
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1 1 A MODEL OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ‘CUTTY SARK’ Fully rigged and under sail in a glass case. Height 63cm; Width 92cm; Depth 54cm $3,000-5,000 2 A WOODEN SCALE MODEL OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ‘CUTTY SARK’ On a moulded stand, shown fully rigged. Height 92cm; Length 120cm OTHER NOTES: Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, and sailed the London China route eight times, and later in the 1870s sailed to and from Sydney. $800-1,200 3 A WOODEN SCALE MODEL OF H.M BARK ENDEAVOUR Fully rigged, with sails furled. Length 108cm; Height 98cm $600-800
4 A VICTORIAN CLIPPER SHIP DIORAMA IN A CASE The trader under full sail passing a lighthouse on a headland. Height 41cm; Width 74cm; Depth 11cm $1,500-2,500 5 A CASED MODEL SHIP DIORAMA The clipper ship passing a headland with lighthouse and flagstaff, glazed wooden case. Late 19th century. Height 38cm; Width 53cm; Depth 20cm $800-1,200 6 A SHIP IN A BOTTLE AND A MODEL SHIP MADE OF HORN The Swedish clipper ship in a bottle moored by a town with a lighthouse, on a blue painted stand; the three masted curio ship with incised detail to the horn. (2) $200-400
7 A MINIATURE CEDAR CHEST OF DRAWERS, BAROSSA VALLEY Having a triple false front top drawer above four further drawers all with chip carved roundels flanked by boobin turned uprights on toupie front feet. Second half 19th century. Height 54cm; Width 40cm; Depth 22cm $1,500-2,500 8 A COLONIAL CEDAR BLANKET BOX Rectangular with rising top revealing a lockable candle box; having iron carrying handles to the sides, plinth base painted ‘L.Prevost’ inside lid. Height 40cm; Width 74cm; Depth 38cm $300-500 9 A SPECIMEN WOOD AND METAL INLAID BOX With rising top, inlaid all over with casuarina, blackwood, cedar, Huon pine and other timbers within a geometric design of steel lines. Late 19th century. Height 14cm; Width 27.5cm; Depth 21cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $800-1,200
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13 10 A COLONIAL CEDAR CASKET Of sarcophagus outline with a rising top and brass handles to the sides. Second half 19th century. Height 18cm; Width 41cm; Depth 23.5cm $800-1,200 11 A COLONIAL BRASS MOUNTED CEDAR WRITING BOX Crossbanded and with rosewood banding around the central brass presentation plaque ‘Prize won by H.A. Ether Hon. Member Kiama VR Co. Presented by James Macks Esq.’ fitted interior. Mid 19th century. Height 19cm; Width 56cm; Depth 26cm $800-1,200 12 A CARVED WOODEN NUT AND A TREEN CARVED WOODEN BOX The nut decorated with an emu and the treen engraved in script ‘time is short, J Black, August 4th 1855’. $300-500
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13 A TASMANIAN SPECIMEN WOOD AND WHALE BONE DISPLAY TRAY Of shaped outline with raised back, inlaid in various Australian timbers in geometric patterns, within a pierced whalebone gallery border. Late 19th century. Height 28cm; Width 34cm; Depth 21cm PROVENANCE: by repute, Captain John King Davis, second in command of Mawson’s 1911-14 expedition to the Antarctic $3,000-5,000 14 A PAIR OF AUSTRALIAN SPECIMEN WOOD BOXES IN THE FORM OF BOOKS, BY T. GRIFFITHS, QUEENSLAND Each with a geometric inlay in various timbers and having a concealed drawer to interior, stamped. Early 20th century. Height 20cm; Width 13cm; Depth 5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $4,000-6,000
15 AN AUSTRALIAN SPECIMEN WOOD BOX IN THE FORM OF A BOOK, BY T. GRIFFITHS, QUEENSLAND The cover with geometric inlay in various timbers and having a concealed drawer to interior, stamped mark. Early 20th century. Height 20cm; Width 13cm; Depth 5cm $2,000-4,000 16 AN AUSTRALIAN SPECIMEN WOOD BOX AND A NOVELTY MONEY BOX IN THE FORM OF A TOP HAT The box with a star and geometric pattern in Huon pine, casuarina, cedar and blackwood; the hat in Australian oak. Early 20th century. (2) Height of the box 13cm; Width 29cm; Depth 22.5cm $800-1,200 17 A TRIANGULAR BLACKWOOD, CEDAR AND HUON PINE CRIBBAGE BOARD With concealed drawer. Early 20th century. Width 31.5cm $600-800
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22 18 A COLONIAL PALMWOOD WRITING BOX The gabled top and side reeded all over, opening to reveal a fitted interior, ruler and fold out slope. Late 19th century. Height 12cm; Width 39cm; Depth 22cm $1,500-2,000 19 AN AUSTRALIAN CHIP CARVED WOODEN CASKET With an all over geometric design of diamonds and circles partially stained, and a panel with two black swans to the front. Early 20th century. Height 17cm; Width 28cm; Depth 17cm $400-600 20 A POKERWORK BOX BY ALICE MARY PARSONS The hinged top centred with a roundel of a stylised grove of trees with a landscape beyond; signed to the base. First quarter 20th century. Height 5.5cm; Width 20.5cm; Depth 18cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005
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OTHER NOTES: Alice Mary Parsons was a member of and regular exhibitor at the Arts and Crafts Society from the 1910s to the 1930s. She studied at the Julian Ashton Art School and belonged to the Society of Women Painters. Parsons is known for her pokerwork and painting on wood and fabric. Her pokerwork is represented in the Art Gallery of NSW. $200-400 21 A CARVED BLACKWOOD ART NOUVEAU TEAPOT STAND, ATTIBUTED TO MILDRED CREED (1874-1943) Inset with a crimson ceramic tile within a design of stylised iris, relief carved monogram MMC to underside. Length 24.4cm; Width 24cm; Height 2.8cm $300-500 22 A CARVED BLACKWOOD BOX ATTRIBUTED TO GORDON CUMMINGS (1894-1972) In the form of a giant cigar with hinged top, supported on a base of carved acanthus scrolls and volutes and centred with a female mask, on moulded base. Height 16.5cm; Width 30.5cm; Depth 18cm $1,000-1,500
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23 A CARVED BLACKWOOD MINIATURE CABINET The door with a waratah in relief, opening to reveal a single shaped shelf. Early 20th century. Height 41cm; Width 30cm; Depth 19cm $300-500 24 AN AUSTRALIAN CARVED STATIONERY HOLDER WITH PRESENTATION PLAQUE Rectangular with a moulded base carved with gum leaves and grapes, with plaque engraved: ‘Presented to Dr D.C.Worch by B. C. Haines Caulfield Military Hospital 1.5.22’. Dated 1922. $600-800 25 A RELIEF CARVED CEDAR PANEL WITH A STYLISED WARATAH Late 19th century. 20.5 x 30.5cm $800-1,200
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26 A CARVED KAURI PINE FRAME WITH AN AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF DAME NELLIE MELBA The frame entwined with stylised tulips, the image signed in ink ‘To dear Minnie 1922 from Nellie Melba’. 39 x 33cm
29 A CARVED CEDAR FRAMED MIRROR The rectangular plate in a broad surround ornamented with kookaburras and gum leaves in high relief. Early 20th century. 71 x 60cm $2,000-4,000
PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $3,000-5,000
30 AN EBONISED AUSTRALIAN WALL MIRROR The oval bevelled plate in a frame carved with a kookaburra amidst vines, foliage and flowers. Early 20th century. 60 x 76cm
27 A CARVED BLACKWOOD BELLOWS Each side carved in relief with gum leaves and nuts, brass fitting. Late 19th/early 20th century. Length 91cm $800-1,200 28 AN OAK BELLOWS CARVED WITH GUM NUTS AND LEAVES Leather sides and brass nozzle. Early 20th century. Length 70cm $300-500
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31 A CARVED CASUARINA FRAME Of shaped outline with designs of an eagle, cockatoo, swan and birds amidst stylised foliage in low relief. Early 20th century. 54 x 39cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-4,000 32 A CARVED CEDAR FRAME IN THE FORM OF A DRAGON BY MARGARET PEACOCK Containing a watercolour of a bush creek attributed to Norman Lindsay. Late 19th century. 41 x 22cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $3,500-4,500
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33 A CARVED FRAME BY JOHN K. BLOGG 1917 In white mahogany, the rectangular moulded surround with a naturalistically carved spray of wattle leaves and blossom, incised ‘A flower of Australia that fell on the field’, incised signature and date, and inscribed in pencil to verso ‘White Mahogany Gmelina fasciculiflora’. 43.5 x 32cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 OTHER NOTES: Gmelina fasciculiflora, known as the northern white beech is a species of trees endemic to the Queensland tropical rain forests. $1,500-2,000 34 A REPOUSSÉ COPPER COAT OF ARMS OF THE STATE OF NSW The shield supported by the lion and kangaroo above the motto ‘ORTA RECENS QUAM PURA NITES’. Early 20th century. 67 x 100cm
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35 A CAST IRON ‘ADVANCE AUSTRALIA’ COAT OF ARMS, ON A BLACKWOOD PANEL Late 19th century. 19 x 30.5cm $800-1,200 36 ‘ADVANCE AUSTRALIA’ A painted cedar panel with the motto and coat of arms; a lithograph; and a facsimile of an 18th century handbill advertising THE WONDERFUL KANGUROO FROM BOTANY BAY…’. (3) $600-800 37 AN AUSTRALIAN MARQUETRY PANEL In casuarina and other woods, centred with an emu in a roundel flanked by a cockatoo and kookaburra, within geometric borders. 72 x 84cm $300-500
38 A POKERWORK FIRE SCREEN Decorated with a scene of elongated trees against an evening horizon, the uprights terminating in bracket feet. Early 20th century. Height 68cm; Width 77cm; Depth 26cm $900-1,100 39 A CARVED BLACKWOOD WALKING STICK Carved with initials JARH and dated 1902. Belonging to James Andrew/Arthur Raithby Hoodless. Born Lincolnshire, England, 1832, arrived Campbelltown, Van Diemans Land 1862, Died 1914. $400-600 40 A TIMBER WALKING STICK WITH A HARDSTONE FINIAL With metal tip, the shaped rock opal handle with 9ct gold collar engraved ‘FIDE. ET SPE.’ (Faith and Hope). $800-1,200
OTHER NOTES: The state arms of NSW were granted by Edward VII in 1906 and the motto translates as “Newly risen, how brightly you shine”. $500-700
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41 THREE WALKING STICKS One with kangaroo handle; one a knobbed stick with a jester handle; and one with intricate bark carving. $400-600 42 A COLLECTION OF THREE WALKING STICKS AND A PARASOL HANDLE Including one possibly coromandel with a knob handle and a sterling silver collar hallmarked London 1923, maker Jonathan Howell; one with ribbed design and a 9ct gold tip, maker Walker & Hall; one with an arrow design and a sterling silver tip engraved ‘GB’ and hallmarked Birmingham 1907; and a parasol handle with a sterling silver top hallmarked Birmingham 1898. $300-500 43 A TIMBER WALKING CANE WITH STERLING SILVER COCKATOO FINIAL The cockatoo beautifully detailed with head downwards and tail feathers draped down the back of the walking stick, the timber walking stick with metal tip. Maker Ebenezer Newman. Hallmarked London 1905.
44 A GENTLEMANS WALKING CANE WITH A CARVED HARDSTONE The hardstone carved as the head of a dog with glass eyes, 9ct gold collar engraved ‘INVICTA TRIUMPHAT’. Stamped ‘9ct’. $800-1,200 45 A QUEENSLAND ROSEWOOD WALKING STICK Plain design with knobbed top and silver collar engraved ‘QUEENSLAND ROSEWOOD from CE’ in script. Stamped ‘STG SIL’. $400-600 46 A HUON PINE WALKING STICK Simple design, knobbed end with silver collar engraved with initials HOJ, metal tip to base. The silver collar stamped ‘DOIG & HORN’. Maker Doig & Horn Jewellers, 143 High Street Fremantle, WA. $400-600
47 AN EBONY WALKING CANE WITH HORN TIP AND BRASS COLLAR The handle a scrimshaw of an American eagle engraved ‘GOOD LUCK TO THE YANKEE WHALERS’. $500-700 48 AN OFFICERS RIDING CROP Gilt metal and enamel collar with Victorian army insignia. Inscribed ‘from the officers’, the handle engraved ‘LEP’. Length 68cm $1,000-1,500 49 A RIDING CROP AND A SILVER MOUNTED WALKING STICK The Australian riding crop with woven cover and horse shoe hammer finial; the walking stick London 1913 with horn handle. (2) $400-600 50 A COLLECTION OF TWELVE SEALS Handles including bone, mother of pearl, banded agate, wood, bronze, etc. $600-800
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51 A COLLECTION OF NOVELTIES Including two emu eggs, one painted; two desk stands; two brass aboriginal figures with boomerangs; and a plaster aboriginal profile. (7) $300-500 52 A COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA HEAD OFFICE BRASS SIGN Set in a timber frame ‘The Commercial Bank of Australia Limited’, the sign once graced the Commercial Bank of Australia head office in Queen Street, Auckland. Stamped to bottom of front ‘BOCK WELLINGTON’. $400-600 53 A COLLECTION OF POT LIDS Including ‘Henry’s Colonial Ointment, cures eruptions, soreheads, inflamed eyelids, blight olcerated legs, tender nipples and bad breasts etc’; ‘Joseph’s Australian Ointment for old wounds, burns, sunburns, chaffing and chapped hands’; ‘Avery’s Golden Ointment prepared especially for animals’; ‘A letter from the diggings’; and two Sydney Olympic 2000. (approx. 19) $400-600 54 A MELBOURNE OLYMPIC GAMES BID BOX Made from Western Australian jarra burr, signed Michael Thoren with an applied stirling silver sprig of gum leaves and gum nuts. Inside is a plaque engraved ‘Melbourne 1996’. OTHER NOTES: Made as a promotional gift for the Melbourne bid to hold the Summer olympic games in 1996, the 100th olympiad. History records that the games were awarded to Atlanta. $300-500
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55 A COLLECTION OF HANDBAGS One crocodile skin; three embossed leather; one Australian bark; and two rabbit fur. (7) $400-600 56 A SHEFFIELD BOWIE KNIFE The single edged knife etched with scroll and leaf patterns incorporating text ‘AUSTRALIA’. The top of the blade impressed ‘Tho Short Jun/Sheffield’. The carved wooden handle with inset mother of pearl, the brown leather sheath with metal tip and collar. Length 30cm $3,000-5,000 57 A CASED SET OF THREE LAWN BOWLS The three lignum vitae bowls with silver presentation buttons engraved: ‘U.L.C. PRESIDENT’S PRIZE 1916 WON BY T. KITCHIN’; in black painted box. Dated 1916. Height 15cm; Width 38cm; Depth 17cm $300-500
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58 THE N.S.W. FILM WEEKLY TENNIS SHIELD: A WALNUT AND SILVER PLATE TROPHY With engraved presentations from 1948-1954 to the ribboned columns flanking the central relief of a tennis player. 50 x 46cm $800-1,200 59 A COLONIAL ROSEWOOD VENEERED CEDAR BRACKET CLOCK The twin train chiming movement by T.T. Jones & Son, 316 George Street Sydney with silvered dial, Roman numerals and foliate engraved spandrels, the plain moulded case with glass panels to the top and sides. Third quarter 19th century. Height 23cm; Width 20cm; Depth 16cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $10,000-15,000
60 A CIRCULAR WALL CLOCK BY A. TORNAGHI, SYDNEY White painted Roman numeral dial, eight-day fusee movement with anchor escapement. Circa 1880. OTHER NOTES: Angelo Tornaghi arrived in Australia in 1858 aged 34, he apparently came to supervise the installation of instruments supplied by Negretti & Zambra (London) to Sydney’s new observatory. The Sands Directory of 1861 is the first record of Tornaghi at 28 Bridge Street Business. He had the contract for the post office clocks throughout New South Wales, Customs House Sydney, and Colonial Secretaries Building, Sydney. He died circa 1906. $2,000-3,000
61 A SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE TIMEPIECE The chromed metal span supporting the German dial and movement within wooden pylons. Height 14cm; Width 34.5cm; Depth 10.5cm $2,000-4,000 62 AN ART NOUVEAU COPPER PRESENTATION MUSICAL BOX The rising top and the sides with enamel badges and glass cabochons, with all over low relief decoration of waratahs and the date ‘3rd May 1913-1934’ and initials HNG, ebonised plinth. Height 20cm; Width 25cm; Depth 22cm OTHER NOTES: Given to Heather Nancye Gordon who was School Captain of St George Girls High School in 1930 and graduated from Sydney University in 1934. $2,000-4,000 63 A CAST IRON LION STATUETTE, BY MILNE BROTHERS, SYDNEY The seated lion after the lions outside the Treasury building on Macquarie Street, marked ‘Milne Bros Makers Sydney’ on a blackwood plinth. Height 12cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 OTHER NOTES: Milne Brothers was a foundry in Balmain. $1,000-1,500 64 A VICTORIAN SILVER PLATE MOUNTED HORSE’S HOOF Having an engraved fetlock with central well and an engraved horseshoe to the underside. Height 8.5cm $400-600 65 A MARBLE CARVING OF A COCKATOO With glass inset eyes. Height 35cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $500-700 66 AN ALABASTER LAMP IN THE FORM OF AN EAGLE The watchful bird with glass eyes, standing on a rocky outcrop. First quarter of the 20th century. Height 47cm $2,500-3,500
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67 A LARGE VINTAGE WOODEN TOY HORSE DRAWN DRAY Naturalistically carved and painted, the dray piled with boxes driven by three horses. Height 50cm; Length 150cm; Width 32cm $5,000-7,000
70 A TERRACOTTA RELIEF BY WILLIAM RICKETTS (1899-1993) The standing oval plaque modelled with the features of a bearded aboriginal man, incised signature to base. $2,000-4,000
73 A CARVED OAK PANEL WITH THE COAT OF ARMS OF THE CITY OF LONDON In a shaped frame with leaf carved moulded border. Early 20th century. 56 x 90cm $3,000-5,000
68 A BRASS JARDINIERE AND A PERPETUAL CALENDAR The jardinière of cylindrical outline with flared rim embossed eiyh waratahs by Jospeh Sankey & Sons, England; the perpetual calendar for Farmer & Company embossed with an art nouveau design of flowers. (2) Height of jardinière 22cm; Diameter 26cm $600-800
71 A CERAMIC PEN TRAY BY WILLIAM RICKETTS (1899-1993) Leaf shaped with a loop handle having an aboriginal portrait, leaf tendril finials. Incised ‘Wm Ricketts Melbourne 1935’ to underside. Length 21cm $2,000-4,000
74 A PLASTER MEDALLION ‘SUMMER’ BY LEWIS JARVIS HARVEY (1871-1949) A plaster medallion titled with a profile of a young woman with wheat sprays in her hair, personifying Summer, signed ‘L.J. Harvey 10’ and incised LJH to reverse, in a blackwood shelf frame carved with art nouveau leaves in low relief. Diameter of medallion 20.5cm; the frame 37 x 31cm
69 A CARVED RELIEF BUST OF AN ABORIGINAL WOMAN The open mouthed laughing subject looking to the left wearing a headscarf. 70 x 45 cm $4,000-6,000
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72 A CARVED OAK PANEL WITH THE COAT OF ARMS OF THE CITY OF MELBOURNE In a shaped frame with leaf carved moulded border, ensuite with the proceeding lot. Early 20th century. 56 x 90cm $3,000-5,000
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75 SIR EDGAR BERTRAM MACKENNAL KCVO RA (Australian, 1863-1931) Sarah Bernhardt c.1892 bronze Signed Bertram Mackennal lower left, and inscribed with the sitter’s name upper right, her monogram and motto “Quand même” upper left 44.5 x 42cm EXHIBITIONS: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra November 2011March 2012 OTHER NOTES: Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was acclaimed as the greatest actor of her generation and had roles created for her by some of the finest writers of her age. A global superstar, she ultimately performed at least 70 roles in some 125 productions, appearing in many countries across the globe, even Cuba and Samoa, and touring the USA alone nine times. She first appeared in Melbourne in May 1891, for weeks before which her visit to Australia had been the general and absorbing topic of conversation. At the time of her tour, Bertram Mackennal was the centre of a debate in the press over the worthiness of his entry in a competition for a major bronze figure group to be placed outside the National Gallery of Victoria. An accomplished sculptor herself, Bernhardt could see his significant talent and advised Mackennal to return to Paris as he was “buried alive” in Australia. He took her advice, becoming a good friend and created this relief the following year. Bernhardt is shown bust length in profile swathed in a frilled chemise looking towards a nude female figure holding the masks of comedy and tragedy. $200,000-400,000
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76 A KEROSENE SHALE BUST OF A YOUNG MAN BY JOHN BAIRD Thought to depict Baird’s son. Late quarter 19th century. Height 48cm
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OTHER NOTES: John Baird (1834-1894) was an amateur sculptor who was a postman in Sydney. He worked in kerosene shale, an unusual material for sculpture, which was mined on the North Shore and at Hartley and although he did not exhibit his work during his lifetime it was the subject of an article in the “Illustrated Sydney News” in 1886 titled Carvings in Shale- a Sydney Postman’s Discovery. He specialised in animals, medallions of notable people, and members of his family. The bust of Jane, his wife, is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia. $40,000-60,000
77 A MARBLE RELIEF PORTRAIT OF ALFRED DEAKIN In profile looking to the left, in a circular ebonised frame. Early 20th century. Diameter including frame 43cm OTHER NOTES: Alfred Deakin (1856-1919) served as the second Prime Minister of Australia. He was a leader of the movement for Federation, which occurred in 1901, and was one of the principal authors of the Australian constitution. During his three terms as prime minister over the subsequent decade (19031904, 1905-1908, 1909-1910) he played a key role in establishing national institutions. $4,000-6,000 78 A PLASTER CAST OF THE MILTON SHIELD After the original by Leonard Morel-Ladeuil, decorated in low relief with scenes from Milton’s Paradise Lost. 85 x 65cm
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OTHER NOTES: The original version of this shield, in damascened silver and now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, was made by Elkington & Co. especially for the Paris Exhibition of 1867. The designer and maker, Leonard Morel-Ladeuil (c.1820-1888), worked for Elkington & Co. from 1859 and by the time of the Paris Exhibition, was considered by many to be the most important artist in this field. The theme celebrates the work of the poet John Milton (1608-1674) and his most famous work Paradise Lost. $2,000-4,000 79 JOHN SIMPSON MACKENNAL (1832-1901) Phaeton driving the chariot of the sun, 1860 plaster relief Signed in the plaster lower left 70 x 104cm
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OTHER NOTES: The Scottish born John Simpson Mackennal studied at the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool, while apprenticed as an architectural modeller. He arrived in Australia around 1852-54 and was unsuccessful on the Ballarat goldfields, returning to Melbourne he established an architectural modelling business with James Scurry around 1856. They were contracted to work under the supervision of Charles Summers on plaster figures and decorations for Parliament House, Melbourne and they also made figures for the facades of many other Melbourne public buildings, including the old Meat Market, the Law Courts and the Windsor Hotel. He taught his son Edgar Bertram who became one of Australia’s most important sculptors of the late19th and early 20th century. $4,000-6,000 78
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80 ANDOR MESZAROS (1900-1972) A pair of reliefs depicting merino rams bronze signed with monogram lower right Height 41cm; Width 41cm; Depth 11cm PROVENANCE: International Wool Secretariat building, Ilkley, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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OTHER NOTES: Born in Budapest, Hungary, Meszaros studied architecture there and then building engineering in Vienna between 1919 and 1927. He went to the Academie Julien in Paris where L. Henri Bouchard and P. M. Landowski introduced him to abstract and cubist forms; at night he learned carving in Jószef Csáky’s studio. After his return to Budapest he worked as an architect but left to avoid the impending war and arrived in Melbourne in 1939 and was employed by the architectural firms of J. V. T. Ward and Marsh & Michaelson. In 1940 he began to make a living from sculpture. His early works included a series of three carved stone figures for Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney: ‘Maternity’ (1944), ‘The Surgeon’ (1945) and ‘King George V’ (1946). In 1949 he went to England where he was commissioned to sculpt the altarpiece for St Anselm’s Chapel in Canterbury Cathedral. He returned to Australia and was commissioned by many schools and churches including Shore School, St Peter’s Cathedral Adelaide, All Saints Church Brisbane, and his bas-reliefs in stone and bronze adorn many civic buildings, among them the Shrine of Remembrance, Brisbane, the Supreme Court, Darwin, and Sydney’s international air-terminal with his memorial to Charles Ulm. $15,000-20,000
81 CHARLES ARTUS (1897-1978) Running emu bronze signed CH. ARTUS on green marble plinth Height 20cm $3,000-5,000 82 A RARE PPM PORCELAIN LITHOPHANE OF ‘SECOND CLASS-THE PARTING’ AFTER ABRAHAM SOLOMON (1823-1862) The scene of a young emigrant taking his leave of his widowed mother and sister bound for the gold rush in Melbourne, after the 1854 painting, now in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, impressed marks. 17 x 21cm $6,000-8,000
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83 AN AUSTRALIAN HARDWOOD CARVING OF A MAN IN A CLOAK Possibly David, Prince of Wales. Early 20th century. Height 76cm $1,000-1,500 84 A WATTLE DECORATED SMOKING CAP AND A COLLECTION OF TEXTILES The red velvet cap with felted wattle flowers and a central tassel and two decorative panels similar worked with wattle and flannel flowers; a set of six placemats with drawn threadwork borders; a table cloth with macrame borders and a bunch of woolwork flowers. Late 19th century. (11) $400-600 82
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85 A COLONIAL BEADED WOOLWORK PANEL OF A ROSELLA The tufted bird seated on a spray of roses and other flowers and foliage; in a birds eye maple frame by Lewis O. Carr (fl. 1877-1883) trade label to verso; ‘L. O. CARR Picture Frame Maker, 747, George Street South, SYDNEY, LADIES’ NEEDLEWORK STRETCHED AND FRAMED, Looking Glasses ReSilvered, &c, &c.’. Third quarter 19th century. 60 x 60cm PROVENANCE: Alan Landis Antiques acquired from the above $2,000-4,000 86 A WARATAH NEEDLEWORK PILLOW SHAM The black satin with purple border and three needlework flowers, framed. Early 20th century. 77 x 79cm $400-600
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87 A FOX FUR COVERLET Composed of 21 fox pelts some with tails on a brown felt backing. 180 x 142cm $400-600 88 A FRAMED NEEDLEWORK PANEL ‘ADVANCE AUSTRALIA’ The Australian coat of arms with emu and kangaroo supporters and flags, in bead and reel oak frame. Late 19th century. 68 x 66cm $300-500 89 A FRAMED SILK PANEL APPLIQUÉD WITH FLAGS AND COATS OF ARMS The blue silk with red, white and blue border and frogged corners, appliquéd with printed flags and coats of arms of the British Empire. Early 20th century. 50 x 50cm $1,000-1,500
90 A WORLD WAR I SILK HANDKERCHIEF ‘SOUVENIR OF EGYPT’ The yellow satin with lace border, embroidered with the imperial crown to the centre and ‘Australian Commonwealth Military Forces 1916’, framed. 56 x 50cm $700-900 91 A PRINTED FEDERATION COMMEMORATIVE FLAG With the Union Jack, blue cross and stars, and Queen Victoria, Lord Hopetoun, and the Duke & Duchess of York to the other corners, framed. Circa 1901. 72 x 48cm $400-600 92 A FRAMED SILK WORLD WAR I EMBROIDERY With embroidered script ‘Souvenir of Egypt 1916’, a photo of a serviceman above a map and arms of Australia and the motto Advance Australia. 51 x 54cm $500-700
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93 A COLONIAL CEDAR FRAMED CALLIGRAPHY EXAMPLE The Lord’s Prayer by ‘George Brimblecombe 20th Dec 1859’, in simple cedar frame. Dated 1859. 74 x 52cm $700-900 94 A PAINTED PLASTER RELIEF OF THE EXPULSION FROM EDEN After Leonard Morel-Ladeuil (1820-1888) forming the centrepiece to the Milton Shield, in wooden frame. 47 x 47cm $1,000-1,500 95 TWO PLASTER KOOKABURRA FIGURES ‘Happy Jack’ stamped copyright 10.4.08 and ‘A Love Story’, two kookaburras resting on a tree stump stamped on the back ‘70’. $400-600
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96 A TRAMP ART BLACKWOOD OXFORD FRAME WITH AN ‘EARLY KOOKA’ DOOR, AND ANOTHER FRAMED DOOR (2) Blackwood frame 74 x 63cm $400-600 97 A CEDAR DISPLAY CASE WITH EXAMPLES OF FRET CARVED WORK, BY MISS EVELINE WHITING The glazed case with red felt lining, displaying a decorative frame, various cotton winders and silhouettes of Sydney characters and two news clippings. Late 19th century. Height 32cm; Width 48cm; Depth 6cm $800-1,200
98 A CASED LADY’S FAN The black satin fan painted with cockatoos, leaves and flowers, black and gilt lacquered guards and sticks. Late 19th century. 40 x 71cm $400-600 99 A VERRE EGLOMISÉ CHESS BOARD The alternate squares with tartan decoupage, within geometric patterned borders having rose, shamrock, thistle and Waratah painted corners, framed. Late 19th century. 56 x 56cm $800-1,200 100 A WOOLWORK TAPESTRY PICTURE OF THE STORM ON THE SEA OF GALILEE In a frame composed of leather flowers and gothic scrolls, labelled to reverse: ‘Worked by Miss Louisa Smith, London House, High Street, West Maitland NSW in the year 1869’. Mid 19th century. 96 x 82cm $700-900
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101 TWO COLONIAL HUON PINE FRAMES BY ROBIN HOOD (1802-1888) One deeply moulded frame with gilt slip, and original label to reverse containing a waterolour of a seated bearded gentleman in a turban; the other similar (no label) with a watercolour of a poor cobbler mending his child’s shoe. The first 46 x 38 x 7.5cm; the second 43 x 52 x 7.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $13,000-15,000 102 A GILT COMPOSITION WALL MIRROR The frame with a repeated design of the Australian coat of arms with emu and kangaroo supporters. 68 x 53cm $2,000-4,000 103 A PAIR OF SPATTERWORK PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES Of Oxford style with a design of ferns, containing contemporary photographs of a man and a woman. Late 19th century. 31.5 x 26cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,500-2,500 104 THREE TRAMP ART WOODEN FRAMES $300-500 105 A TRAMP ART OXFORD FRAME The shaped cresting with the initials C.J.F.C, the members with chip carved embellishment. Late 19th century. Overall 75 x 75cm $1,500-2,500
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106 A TRAMP ART FRAME Composed of layers of star shaped pieces of timber (losses). Late 19th century. 42 x 39cm $400-600
111 THREE ITEMS OF MATCHSTICK DECORATED FOLK ART Comprising a smoker’s stand/occasional table with hexagonal top; a rectangular box and a square box, all decorated all over with a geometric design of applied matchsticks.
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112 AN AUSTRALIAN ART DECO SPECIMEN WOOD URN Octagonal, the tapering ovoid body on a spreading foot, inlaid all over with geometric designs in various woods. Height 31cm $300-500 113 A SILVERPLATED MOUNTED OAK ROSE BOWL Of squat hemispherical form, silverplated rim and foot rim and vacant cartouche, porcelain liner. Diameter 21cm; Height 15.5cm $300-500 114 A CHIP CARVED BLACKWOOD BOOKSTAND AND TWO PAIRS OF BOOK ENDS The bookstand with all over geometric motifs; a pair of bell shaped jarrah book ends, and a pair of pine book ends painted with a kookaburra and a willie wagtail. (3) $300-500
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115 A COLLECTION OF TURNED WOOD ITEMS Comprising an urn with a silver map of Tasmania; three turned blackwood napkin rings, a mulga desk thermometer in the form of a lighthouse, a cedar hand seal and a mulga hand seal. (7) $400-600 116 A GROUP OF TREEN AND TURNED WOODEN ITEMS Comprising a Huon pine and blackwood peg tankard with coopered sides and brass bands; two turned blackwood miniature barrels marked CASCADE BEER and BEER one with a silver Tasmanian map; a castellated treen money box with Government House and Sydney Harbour; and a treen box with the Australian Museum. (5) $300-500
117 FOUR COCONUT CUPS A pair with white metal emu and kookaburra boomerang handles and moulded feet, a lidded cup on a turned wooden stand and base, and a cup presented to Capt. and Mrs Bell in 1940 with card and pen inscription. Height of tallest 27cm $400-600 118 AN AUSTRALIAN PRESENTATION POKERWORK URN ON STAND Of elongated ovoid outline with a design of foliage on a stained ground, the conforming stand with silver plaque inscribed ‘TO OUR PRESIDENT A MEMENTO FROM THE MEMBERS OF THE SINGLETON RED CROSS SOCIETY JUNE 1924’. Height 52cm $400-600
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119 A COLLECTION OF SIX POKERWORK AND PAINTED WOODEN VASES AND BOXES Variously decorated with koalas, kookaburras and gum leaves. $500-700 120 A GROUP OF SPHERICAL POKERWORK VASES Comprising an example with art deco style gum leaves and painted kookaburras; a koala decorated vase and a vase with flannel flowers. (3) Height of largest 15cm $400-600
121 A PAIR OF POKERWORK CANDLESTICKS AND TWO POKERWORK VASES The candlesticks signed Helen Wilson; a baluster turned vase decorated with kookaburras and eucalyptus leaves and another smaller decorated with Australian wildflowers. (3) Height of candlesticks 31cm $500-700 122 A PAINTED PINE VASE WITH AN OUTBACK SCENE Of elongated ovoid outline decorated with a rustic cottage by a bridge surrounded by trees. Height 35cm $400-600
123 A POKERWORK LOW STOOL Of hexagonal outline with a rising top, decorated to the sides with kookaburras amidst eucalypts, with fret cut feet. Height 35.5cm; Diameter 26.5cm $400-600
125 AN AUSTRALIAN POKERWORK LAMPBASE Of elongated ovoid outline, with a repeated design of waratahs. Mid 20th century. Height 42cm $500-700
124 A POKERWORK SMOKER’S COMPANION AND A POKERWORK BOWL The companion having a circular foot decorated with waratahs, rising to a slender shaft supporting the bowl with copper ashtray and turned match holder; the bowl with a kookaburra and gum nuts. (2) Height of companion 69cm and diameter 25cm; Diameter of bowl 25cm $300-500
126 A GROUP OF POKERWORK AND TURNED WOOD ITEMS A pokerwork tazza with waratahs; a bread board and knife with gum blossom; another breadboard with a kookaburra; a mallet and nut bowl with a koala, and a turned wood nut bowl and mallet. (8) $300-500
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127 A COLLECTION OF POKERWORK ITEMS Comprising a tazza with a pair of kookaburras; two circular wall plaques one with a kookaburra the other with a family of koalas; an inkstand; a book end and a box with a cockatoo. (6) $300-500 128 A PINE AND POKERWORK SMOKER’S COMPANION The circular base and slender pedestal supporting an ashtray with brass rest and turned match holder, decorated all over with gum leaves and a pair of kookaburras. Height 77.5cm $300-500 129 A POKERWORK STANDARD LAMP With an all over design of poinsettia to the slender baluster shaft and circular base. Height 163cm; Diameter 36cm $600-800
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130 A GROUP OF POKERWORK AND PAINTED WOOD ORNAMENTS Comprising four turned wood vases painted with outback scenes and a kookaburra; a two handled pokerwork vase with hibiscus, another with kookaburras; a tall vase with a lorikeet among fruiting vines; a box with poinsettias and a crumb tray and scoop with waratahs. (10) $400-600
132 A CEDAR AND KAURI PINE LAMINATED & TURNED LAMPBASE Of baluster outline. Height 49cm
131 TWO AUSTRALIAN LAMINATED & TURNED WOOD ITEMS A baluster shaped pedestal in kauri pine and blackwood and a smaller urn in blackwood, cedar and other timbers. Early 20th century. Height of the pedestal 33cm $500-700
133 A GROUP OF TURNED MULGA WOOD ORNAMENTS A pair of candlesticks of slender baluster form, a large lamp base with bark detail, and four various urn shaped vases with inscriptions. (7) $400-600
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134 A PAIR OF CARVED MULGA WOOD BOOKENDS Each carved as a stylised pair of boobook owls. (2) Height 30.5cm; Width 10cm; Depth 15cm $500-700
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135 A POKERWORK TRAY AND AN ART NOUVEAU FRAME The tray with a koala on a branch with gum blossoms; the frame with applied gum nuts and leaves and four apertures. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,500-2,500 136 A HARDWOOD BOOMERANG WITH SILVER PLATED MOUNTS With applied central decoration of an aboriginal child surrounded by a wreath of Australian wildflowers. Engraved initials to back. $300-500 137 TWO AUSTRALIAN POKERWORK TRAYS A circular stained pine tray with a kangaroo in the bush, and an oval twin handled tray with wicker sides and pyrographically decorated with three kookaburras on a eucalypt branch. $400-600
138 A GALLERY TRAY OF AUSTRALIAN WOODS With chromed metal gallery inset with a silvered plaque ‘Presented to Mr D. P. Wallace in Appreciation of his Co-operation in the Australian Fifth Security Loan Empire Quiz Contest of 1948,’ signed J. B. Chifley ‘Prime Minister and Treasurer’. $700-900 139 TWO AUSTRALIAN MARQUETRY TRAYS One inlaid with two kookaburras, chrome gallery; the other with a map of Australia, U.S. and Australian flags and Australian fauna. $400-600 140 A PAIR OF AUSTRALIAN POKERWORK TRAYS Each pyrographically decorated to the centre with three koalas or three kookaburras in eucalyptus boughs, glazed top, woven handles and borders. First half 20th century. 32 x 48cm $200-400
141 TWO AUSTRALIAN POKERWORK TEA TRAYS A circular tray with a pair of kookaburras on a wintry branch, and an oval tray with a single kookaburra on a eucalypt branch, both glazed, with woven handles and edges. First half 20th century. Diameter of circular tray 48cm $400-600 142 A POKERWORK FIRESCREEN Pyrographically decorated with a rural scene. Height 76cm; Width 79cm; Depth 15cm $400-600 143 THREE AUSTRALIAN WOODEN ITEMS A chip carved hexagonal cake plate centred with an incised kookaburra above the word ‘CAKE’; a small square tray inlaid with a bird and prunus blossom, and a small panel inlaid with a woman and man smoking in the dunes with a distant sunset and steamer. $300-500
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144 A 19TH CENTURY PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN In gilt metal rectangular frame, in original fitted leather case. $500-700 145 A WATERCOLOUR PORTRAIT OF A COLONIAL GENTLEMAN Signed ‘by Bedford’ and dated 1854, standing full length holding a book and spectacles, painted border, the gilt slip, within a Huon pine frame. 36 x 30cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $3,000-5,000 146 TWO PORTRAIT MINIATURES One on ivory of a gentleman thought to be Capt. Marcus Freeman Brownrigg in profile, facing left in a red coat with blue facings; and another print of a lady, both in a pair of modern bird’s eye maple frames with gilt slips. 29 x 24cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $3,000-5,000 147 A WATERCOLOUR OF A GENTLEMAN Standing in profile full length in a dark frock coat and stock, holding his gloves; in a Huon pine frame. Early 19th century. 48 x 43cm $1,000-1,500
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148 A COLONIAL CHIP CARVED FRAME The all over repeating geometric design with roundels to each corner, incised to the reverse: ‘NZFR- 1908. Lotte’ and ‘Sept. 21st 1887’; with a later mount geometrically inlaid with various timbers and inset with a photo of a young girl. Dated 1887. 38.5 x 30cm
152 TWO PAINTINGS ON LEAVES Both depicting rustic cottages in bush landscapes. 26 x 30cm
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153 A COLLECTION OF NINETEEN POSTCARDS AND TWO ENVELOPES BY FRANZ STELLING (18821966) Painted with scenes from Auckland and Australia, including Auckland Domain, Katoomba Falls, Broken Bay NSW, Auckland Hospital, Hawkesbury River NSW. $400-600
149 A GROUP OF FOUR MINIATURES RELATING TO THE ANTECEDENTS OF GUY BOYD AND THE GOUGH FAMILY Comprising a miniature on ivory of Jane Spencer in a blue dress with lace collar signed with initials GS and with date 1749; a miniature on ivory of George Chapman in a dark coat and tie; a pencil and watercolour profile portrait of Richard Harvey; and a portrait on ivory of Letitia Bunbury in a cap and fichu over her black gown. (4) $7,000-9,000 150 A VICTORIAN PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF HELEN ROSE O’CONNELL Painted on ivory, seated half length by a tree in a landscape, wearing a white dress, and Kashmir shawl, holding a cockatiel. 11.5 x 8.5cm $5,000-7,000 151 A FRAMED OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE Possibly Australian, in gold plated plain frame with pendant loop, with photo of a gentleman, possibly a sailor, inside the frame written ‘AUG WALKER, MINIATURE FRAME MAKER 118 BOND ST, LONDON W’. $400-600
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154 A PAIR OF GRY VEINED ALABASTER COLUMN PEDESTALS Each with a rotating top, on an octagonal base. Height 101cm; Width 28cm; Depth 28cm $2,000-3,000 155 A BRASS ALTAR CROSS The conical moulded base with presentation inscription: TO THE GLORY OF GOD IN LOVING MEMORY OF HECTOR ROY BELLCHAMBERS B.COMPY., 52ND BTN, 13TH BGDE, 4TH DVN, A.I.F. WHO DIED OF WOUNDS JULY 7TH, 1916 SERVING HIS COUNTRY Rising to a spiral twist knopped shaft supporting the cross with agate cabochon embellishments. Height 77cm; Width 27cm OTHER NOTES: Private Hector Roy Bellchambers was from Chudleigh, Tasmania and was killed in France. His remains were returned to his place of birth where he is buried. $500-700
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156 A PAIR OF BRASS ALTAR CANDLESTICKS Each with circular moulded base rising to a knopped columnar shaft and dished drip pan and nozzle. Height 55cm $300-500 157 A PINE TABERNACLE Domed with a sliding brass door having a central relief of the sacred chalice and eucharist with IHS. Height 65cm; Diameter 38cm $300-500 158 A FRAMED T-SHIRT COMMEMORATING THE TAKEOVER OF JAMES FAIRFAX & CO Entitled ‘Mary had a little plan’, XL, framed. 93 x 81cm $200-400
159 A LATE VICTORIAN SCRIMSHAW DECORATED INKSTAND The oval ebonised base with brass and ivory mounts, having a central cut crystal inkwell flanked by scrimshaw with maps and 17th century ships. Width 30cm; Height 13cm; Depth 20cm $1,500-2,500 160 A NINETEENTH CENTURY BRASS INK STAND In the form of Fort Denison, Sydney. $700-900 161 A 19TH CENTURY LEATHER TANKARD Copper interior liner, sterling silver collar stamped sterling silver and an applied shield engraved ‘E. A. A.’ and stamped ‘A. M. Co’ for Gorham Corporation. $700-900
162 THREE COLONIAL PEWTER TANKARDS, PINT, HALF PINT AND GILL Each of squat baluster form on a moulded foot rim. Stamped with the NSW Government Ordinance mark, and maker’s mark NW. Height of largest 12.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $600-800 163 A BRASS BINNACLE COVER FROM M.V. MIRAMAR DATED 1930 AND A HANDBELL The binnacle cover engraved ‘Built for Commodore F. Doyle 1930 to General Douglas Macarthur Aust. 1942-43’; the modern handbell with a band of cast kookaburras and a turned wood handle. (2) Height of the binnacle 32.5cm $1,000-1,500 164 A SPELTER KANGAROO MYSTERY CLOCK The standing macropod with a giltmetal timepiece/ pendulum in his mouth, on an ebonised plinth. Height 31cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 LITERATURE: The Australian Society Newsletter, July 1981, illustrated. $600-800 165 A CAST IRON ‘ADVANCE AUSTRALIA’ PANEL AND ANOTHER PANEL WITH EMUS AND KANGAROOS The late 19th century ‘Advance Australia’ panel centred with the coat of arms and supported by the emu and kangaroo and foliate scrolls (losses); the other later panel mounted with Victorian cast iron kangaroos and emus beneath a crown. Largest panel 50 x 67cm $300-500
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173 A VINTAGE SHOP MALE DISPLAY HEAD Height 37cm $400-600 174 A BRONZE KANGAROO AND JOEY Height 87cm $1,000-1,500
175 TWO PIECES OF SCRIMSHAW AND A SHARK’S TOOTH The shark’s tooth set with a silver collar; the whale tooth letter opener engraved with a ship; the whale bone pipe cleaner engraved with a ship. $300-500
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176 A WWI AIF SIXTH BATTALION BELT AND PHOTO The framed black and white photo of private William Hope Hunt who fought at Gallipoli in April 1915. The belt made by Hunt from a WWI army uniform/ blanket. Handstitched in purple and red (being the colours of the 6th battn) ‘Gallipoli Peninsula Landed April 25th 1915, 6th Battalion AIF’. Also stitched are the honours ‘Walker Ridge, SUVIA BAY, ASHI BABA’; two crossed flags the British and the Australian Red Ensign; ‘Advance Australia’; two more crossed flags the Belgian and French; and more battle honours ‘Cape Helles, Quinns Post, ANZAC’. With applied badges and buttons. 10 x 74cm OTHER NOTES: The original WWI badges and buttons would have been swapped for Hunt’s own, which was a common practice in WWI. $600-800
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177 A WORLD WAR I FRAMED SOUVENIR Composed of various Australian, Austro-Hungarian and German coins, a rifle shell, souvenirs of Ypres and the Somme, two Australian Military Forces badges and a model pickelhaube all mounted on a map of Australia and a dagger, framed as one. 31 x 37cm $700-900 178 A SAILOR’S CAP FROM H.M.A.S SYDNEY AND A SAILOR’S COLLAR, IN A BLACK TIN CASE PAINTED ‘A. MURRAY’ Height of tin 15cm; Diameter 27cm $1,500-2,500 179 TWO METAL MATCH HOLDERS AND TWO COIN LIGHTERS (4) $300-500
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180 FIVE ITEMS OF WORLD WAR I BRASS TRENCH ART Three engraved shell cases one with a lappeted rim; a miniature coal scuttle with an ADF badge; and a brass ornament in the form of a boomerang with three kangaroos on a rectangular plinth. $400-600 181 A COLLECTION OF WORLD WAR I MEMORABILIA Comprising an Anzac plaque engraved ‘A.J. FORSLUND’; three ceramic and one glass miniature slouch hats; brass trench art including a smoker’s companion engraved ‘ARRAS 1919’, a shoehorn in the form of a lady’s leg, and three bullet paperknives including one engraved with ‘Big Push Aug 8 Nov 11 1918’ with all the battlefields; an ashtray surmounted by a Digger in the shape of a map of Australia with signatures; a clay Digger’s head; an officer’s cap and two slouch hats made from pennies; an Anzac lapel pin and an AMF button. (17) $500-700
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184 AN AUSTRALIAN BEECH FRAMED PHOTO OF AN UNKNOWN WORLD WAR I SOLDER BY JOHN K. BLOGG The Oxford type frame with an oval slip, deeply carved with sprays of wattle, centred with a shield and a ‘rising sun’ Australian Commonwealth Military Forces badge. Signed in pencil to reverse. Early 20th century. 80 x 58cm $3,000-5,000
183 A COMMEMORATIVE BRONZE MEDAL BRITISH EMPIRE GAMES OF 1938, SYDNEY The bronze rectangular medal with mitred corners, face art work consists of seven panels depicting sports, the reverse decorated with large wattle sprigs united by a globe of Australia. Engraved on the reverse ‘W. A. CARTWRIGHT ATHLETICS POLEVAULT’. Stamped by the artist ‘D E MORDEN’.
185 A WORLD WAR I FRAMED PHOTOGRAPH OF A SOLDIER The verre eglomisé mount with the motto “HE HEARD THE CALL & HE ANSWERED” a Dreadnought below, the photo flanked by a waratah and the Australian flag, “his battalion colours” below. 67 x 55cm $400-600
186 A WORLD WAR I FRAMED PHOTOGRAPH OF A SOLDIER The sepia toned image of a young digger with hand painted Australian flag and Union Jack and the hand lettered motto ‘HIS COUNTRY CALLED HE ANSWERED’. 63 x 52cm including frame $400-600 187 A CEDAR FRAMED TASMANIAN VIEW BY HERBERT BARON ROLLINGS (1874-1938) Painted on a fret cut map of Tasmania in Huon pine, the landscape signed lower left. 30.5 x 30cm $200-400
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188 A MAP OF AUSTRALIA DOUBLE PHOTOGRAPH FRAME, BY THE ADELAIDE REAL ART PICTURE FRAME AND OVERMANTEL CO. With applied ‘AUSTRALIA’ and eucalypt leaves and nuts. 30 x 39cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-4,000 189 A TRAMP ART OVERMANTEL MIRROR The central beveled plate flanked by two pairs of ornament brackets, the mirrored border and cresting in chip carved frame with triple pediment top. Late 19th/early 20th century. 111 x 101cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-4,000
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190 A COLLECTION OF COMMEMORATIVE AND HISTORICAL WARE Including a pressed coat of arms copper plate; a bronze bell from Hobarton/Colley; a painted metal figure of a kangaroo; a bull whip; a whale bone and timber letter opener; and a bronze plaque for the Grand Prix, The Wool Seller’s Broker’s Association 1911. $400-600 191 A CASED SET OF GOLD WEIGHING SCALES FOR THE BROKEN HILL ASSOCIATED SMELTERS PTY LTD The nickel plated balance mechanism within a black painted wood and glass case having engraved brass border panels with various endorsements for H.M. The King, the NSW Department of Mines and others. Height 72cm; Width 66cm; Depth 40cm $10,000-15,000 192 A TASMANIAN COACHING HORN, CASCADE BREWERY, TASMANIA The copper and silver plated trumpet-shaped horn half rendered in copper, the rim, handle and mouthpiece in silver plate, in original light brown leather holster/carrier. Length 111cm PROVENANCE: Selwyn & Gaye, George Obsessions Antiques, Bendigo
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193 A SET OF CAST IRON KITCHEN SCALES Cast with ‘domestic use only’ and ‘British Make’ to the green painted base, with iron weights and brass tray. Height 22cm $150-250 194 A VICTORIAN BRASS BALANCE SCALES BY SAVAGE & CO On mahogany base with six associated brass weights; and a set of ten mahogany mounted metric post office weights. (2) Height of scales 60cm $200-400 195 A BRASS AND IVORY MONOCULAR IN ORIGINAL CASE Originally belonging to George Barnard Chalon, Son of Thomas Barnard Chalon. Written in script to base ‘G. B. Chalon, Sydney’. $2,500-3,500 196 A POCKET BAROMETER BY W. MACDONNELL & CO Handheld barometer with brass casing. Signed ‘W. MACDONNELL & Co, 312 GEORGE ST SYDNEY’. $150-250 197 PENFOLDS BIN 95 GRANGE 2006 Bottle no. 1572, magnum, in pine case. $1,200-1,800
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201 AN OAK CASED STICK BAROMETER/ THERMOMETER Retailed by Flavelle Bros & Co. Sydney & Brisbane, with pediment top, ivory gauge and knob. Late 19th century. Length 94cm $2,000-4,000
202 ‘ELL’S PATENT GOLD CHANGER’ A CEDAR CASED CHANGE MACHINE With brass mechanism and trays containing predecimal silver coins and a 1910 gold sovereign. Late 19th century. Height 44cm; Width 20.5cm; Depth 18cm $4,000-6,000 203 A COOKE, TROUGHTON & SIMS BRASS SURVEYOR’S TELESCOPE Retailed by A.E. Parsons of Melbourne, in mahogany fitted case. Height 18cm; Width 32cm; Depth 22cm $600-800 204 BENJAMIN COLLINS (English/Australian 1910-?) Head of an aboriginal man bronze on marble plinth signed B. Collins, edition 4/10 Overall height 29cm $600-800 205 AN AUSTRALIAN PAINTED PLASTER FIGURE OF PIERROT, BY MATTEI BROS. & CO MELBOURNE The ‘commedia dell’arte’ character singing and playing a lute. Mid 20th century. Height 44cm $300-500
206 A SILVERED RELIEF PLAQUE OF A LAUGHING ABORIGINE The bust length man in the manner of Prenzel, in a circular ebonised frame. Early 20th century. Diameter 26.5cm $1,000-1,500 207 GUSTAVE PILLIG (1877-1956) Nude swordsman bronze signed to the base Height 57cm $1,500-2,500 208 A CONCRETE BIRDBATH BY HICKORY CONCRETE MACHINERY CO. In the form of a frilled circular bowl supported by three addorsed sea horses on a circular base. Height 90cm; Diameter 68cm $2,000-4,000 209 after PHIL MAY (1864-1903) Laughing man plaster wall mask signed in the plaster Height 30cm; Width 20cm; Depth 16cm $600-800 210 TWO AUSTRALIAN TERRACOTTA PORTRAIT RELIEF ROUNDELS One thought to depict Sir Paul Hasluck, each modelled in high relief within a moulded border. Diameter 23cm $800-1,200 211 TWO COPPER TRAYS EMBOSSED WITH PARLIAMENT HOUSE CANBERRA An oval example with stylised pomegranate border and a circular tray with art nouveau stylised fruiting vine design. The oval tray 40 x 33.5cm $400-600 212 BARBARA TRIBE (1913-2000) Louis Polichetti bronze signed in the bronze: ‘Barbara Tribe F.R.B.S Thailand 1972’ Height 40cm; wooden plinth $800-1,200
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213 A CASED GROUP OF TAXIDERMY SEABIRDS The nine various specimens on a naturalistically painted rocky outcrop, with blue sky background, within a glazed rosewood framed case. Height 71cm; Width 81cm; Depth 21cm $1,500-2,000 214 A TAXIDERMY RAINBOW LORIKEET Standing on a branch. Length 50cm $300-500 215 A TAXIDERMY DUCK The female mallard with wings outstretched. Length 56cm $200-400
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216 A TAXIDERMY SULPHUR CRESTED COCKATOO Standing on a half log. Height 32cm $400-600 217 A TAXIDERMY WEDGE TAILED EAGLE Wings outstretched on a branch and rockwork. Height 165cm $800-1,200 218 A TAXIDERMY KOOKABURRA On a log with gum nuts and foliage. Height 26cm $400-600
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219 A TAXIDERMY PIED BUTCHER BIRD AND FLYING FOX The bird posing on a branch, the bat hanging. (2) $200-400 220 A TAXIDERMY GOANNA $400-600
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221 A TAXIDERMY TORTOISE The shell inset with a brass ashtray. Length 21cm $300-500
225 A PAIR OF BRONZE CANDLESTICKS IN THE FORM OF KANGAROOS Each holding a lappeted nozzle between its paws. Height 15.5cm $400-600
222 TWO KANGAROO FUR COVERLETS One 145 x 110cm with brown felt backing by ‘Beaver Furs’ Brisbane the other 164 x 153cm with red baize backing. $700-900
226 A PAIR OF CAST BRONZE PLATYPUS PAPERWEIGHTS; A SILVERPLATED KOOKABURRA BY DUNKLINGS; A MINIATURE BRONZE KANGAROO AND A MINIATURE SILVER KANGAROO (5) Length of the platypus 9.5cm $400-600
223 TWO BRONZE EMUS A small Victorian example, and a larger version by Sid Lambert, edition 2/50 signed and dated 1993 on a wooden base. Height of largest 30.5cm $300-500
227 A CAST BRONZE KANGAROO AFTER THE MODEL BY ANTONIO BOFILL With two joeys in her pouch, signed “Bofill” in the bronze. Late 19th, early 20th century. Height 15cm
224 A SILVER AND MINERAL SPECIMEN DESK ORNAMENT IN THE FORM OF AN EGRET BY MIKE HAMMOND The naturalistically cast bird holding a fish standing on a base composed of quartz and pyrites. Height 12.5cm; Length 11cm; Depth 6cm $200-400
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228 A BRONZE OF A KANGAROO AND JOEY Modern, cast from the model by Jules Moigniez (1835-1894), on a marble base. Overall height 25cm $300-500 229 A BRONZE OF TWO KANGAROOS Modern, cast from the model by Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875) on a black marble oval plinth. Height 30cm $500-700 230 TWO AUSTRALIAN SILVER KANGAROOS Both naturalistically cast with chased fur, one stamped ‘PURE AUSTRALIAN SILVER DRUMMOND MELBOURNE’, the other ‘PALFREY AUSTRALIAN SILVER’. Early 20th Century. Height 13cm $1,000-1,500 232 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER KANGAROO Naturalistically cast and chased, alert and looking to dexter. Maker Stewart Dawson. Late 19th to early 20th century. Height 9cm $400-600 233 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER KANGAROO Naturalistically cast and chased, stamped ‘SILVER’, indistinct maker’s mark. Late 19th to early 20th century. Height 6.5cm $600-800
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234 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER KANGAROO Naturalistically cast and chased on an oval base engraved with flowers and gum leaves. Stamped ‘STG. SILVER’. Maker Stokes, Melbourne. Late 19th to early 20th century. Height 13.5cm; Width 15.5cm; Depth 8.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $800-1,200 235 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVERPLATE KANGAROO Naturalistically cast and chased. Early 20th century. Height 9cm $200-400
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236 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVERPLATE KANGAROO PAPERWEIGHT The well cast and chased macropod standing on an oval plinth engraved with grasses and foliage, marked to underside ‘MADE IN AUSTRALIA FOR POTTER & CO. NEWCASTLE E.P.N.S’. Early 20th century. Height 15cm; Width 21cm; Depth 13cm $200-400 237 FOUR VARIOUS CAST BRONZE KANGAROOS Including a matched pair of macropods; a souvenir of Geelong ‘roo and a Viennese style kangaroo and joey. Height of pair 15cm $300-500 238 TWO SILVER PLATED KANGAROO PAPERWEIGHTS BY STOKES & SONS, MELBOURNE Each macropod standing on a map of Australia, stamped ‘E.P.N.S. S & S MADE IN AUSTRALIA’ to underside. Height of largest 9cm $100-150 239 THREE MINIATURE SILVER KANGAROOS AND JOEYS Two with naturalistically chased fur, one stamped .925, the other .9998, and a third example stamped ‘Collette solid .925 Aust’. Height of tallest 6.5cm $200-400
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240 TWO SIMILAR CAST METAL KANGAROOS Each standing on a map of Australia, one example in white metal the other in cast iron. Height 16.5cm $200-400 241 A GROUP OF CAST BRONZE AND SILVER PLATE KANGAROOS Comprising a Stokes & Sons E.P.N.S. example; two small silver plate examples; a bronze and a smaller bronze roo and a gold painted E.P.N.S kangaroo. (6) $300-500 242 TWO KANGAROO PINCUSHIONS One spelter example eating a leaf, the other with two joeys. Late 19th century. Height of tallest 10cm $400-600
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243 A SILVERPLATED KANGAROO ASHTRAY OF CRICKETING INTEREST The alert macropod standing by a shallow bowl on ball feet with a cricket bat resting on the rim. Impressed mark of Atkins Brothers, Sheffield, registered no. 849249. Height 10cm; Length 14.5cm; Depth 9cm $200-400 244 A PORTUGUESE SILVER TOOTHPICK HOLDER In the form of a naturalistically cast kangaroo with a joey in her pouch, by a stump, on shaped restangular plinth and four rocaille feet. Hallmarked Porto 1985-2010. Height 12cm; Width 14.5cm; Depth 9.5cm $500-700
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245 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER EMU PAPERWEIGHT Modeled in the form of an emu on an oval base. Marked ‘Pure Australian Silver, Drummond, Melbourne’. Height 4cm $1,500-2,500 246 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER EMU PAPERWEIGHT Modeled in the form of an emu on an oval base. Marked ‘Pure Australian Silver, Drummond, Melbourne’. Height 4cm
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251 A VIENNESE SILVER PLATED BRONZE EMU BY BERGMAN, VIENNA Naturalistically cast, on a circular base inscribed ‘Nam Greb’ with foundry stamp and presentation inscription ‘TO HARRY LAUDER. A SOUVENIR OF A GLORIOUS SUCCESS, SYDNEY, JULY 1ST 1914, FROM J & N. TAIT.’ Height 16cm OTHER NOTES: Harry Lauder, the popular Scottish singer and comedian had a hugely successful tour of Melbourne and Sydney from 26th March until 1st July, 1914. J & N Tair were entrepreneurs and concert promoters in Melbourne. $8,000-12,000 252 AN AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODEL OF A MAGPIE BY BERGMAN, VIENNA Cast to the underside with a ‘B’ within an urn and ‘DEPOSE 1229’. Early 20th century. Length 38cm; Height 16cm $6,000-8,000
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253 AN AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODEL OF A MAGPIE BY BERGMAN, VIENNA Cast to the underside with a ‘B’ within an urn and ‘DEPOSE/GESCHUZT/1229’. Early 20th century. Length 37cm; Height 16.5cm $6,000-8,000
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256 AN AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODEL OF AN EMU STANDING ON A CIRCULAR BASE OF NATURALISTIC GRASSES BY BERGMAN, VIENNA Cast to the base a ‘B’ within an urn and ‘NamGreb’. Early 20th century. Height 16cm $4,000-6,000
257 AN AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODEL OF A STANDING KANGAROO BY BERGMAN, VIENNA Cast to the base a ‘B’ within an urn, ‘8250’. Early 20th century. Height 15.5cm $4,000-6,000
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258 AN AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODEL OF A STANDING KANGAROO, PROBABLY BERGMAN, VIENNA Early 20th century. Height 15.5cm $4,000-6,000 259 AN AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODEL OF A KANGAROO, PROBABLY BERGMAN, VIENNA Early 20th century. Height 9.5cm $4,000-6,000
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260 AN AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODEL OF A GALAH, VIENNA Early 20th century. Length 22.5cm; Height 17.5cm $3,000-5,000 261 TWO COLD-PAINTED BRONZE TUNA Length of longest 10.5cm $1,000-1,500 262 A PAIR OF VIENNESE COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MOUNTED BOOKENDS WITH A KANGAROO AND A KOOKABURRA Naturalistically cast and painted, on wooden bases. Height 13cm; Width 17th; Depth 9.5cm $2,000-4,000
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270 AN AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODEL OF A BUDGERIGAR, PROBABLY BERGMAN, VIENNA Early 20th century. Length 16.2cm; Height 6cm $2,000-4,000
275 TWO VIENNESE COLD-PAINTED BRONZE PARROTS Both naturalistically cast and coloured one on a wooden plinth. Height of tallest 13cm $1,000-1,500
267 AN ONYX CIRCULAR DISH WITH APPLIED AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODEL OF TWO BUDGERIGARS ON A BRANCH, PROBABLY BERGMAN, VIENNA Early 20th century. Diameter 12cm; Height 10.5cm $3,000-5,000
271 AN AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODEL OF A BUDGERIGAR, PROBABLY BERGMAN, VIENNA Early 20th century. Length 14cm; Height 8cm $2,000-4,000
276 TWO COLD-PAINTED VIENNESE BRONZE BIRDS Naturalistically cast and coloured, one painted as a sulphur crested cockatoo, the other smaller example as a galah. Height of tallest 8.5cm $2,000-4,000
272 AN AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODEL OF A BUDGERIGAR, PROBABLY BERGMAN, VIENNA Early 20th century. Length 16.5cm; Height 8cm $2,000-4,000
277 THREE VIENNESE COLD-PAINTED BRONZE KANGAROOS Each naturalistically cast and coloured. Various impressed marks. Height 7.5cm $2,000-4,000
273 AN AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODEL OF A BUDGERIGAR ON A BRANCH, PROBABLY BERGMAN, VIENNA Early 20th century. Height 14.3cm; Length 8cm $2,000-4,000
278 A SMALL COLD-PAINTED VIENNESE BRONZE GOANNA Naturalistically cast and coloured. Length 16.5cm $2,000-4,000
268 A PAIR OF AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODELS OF BUDGERIGAR, PROBABLY BERGMAN, VIENNA Early 20th century. Length 17cm; Height 8cm $3,000-5,000 269 TWO AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE MODELS OF BUDGERIGARS, PROBABLY BERGMAN, VIENNA Early 20th century. Length 11.6cm; Height 5cm; and Length 7cm; Height 3.5cm $2,000-4,000
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279 AN AUSTRIAN COLD-PAINTED BRONZE TABLE LAMP The carpet seller in the bazaar seated with his wares smoking a long pipe, impressed ‘MADE IN AUSTRIA’ to underside. Late 19th century. Height 29.9cm $800-1,200
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280 A STERLING SILVER TOPPED SMELLING SALTS BOTTLE The plain silver top with applied silver and enamel New South Wales coat of arms, glass stopper, silver collar. Maker William Adams Ltd. Hallmarked Birmingham 1920. Height 5.5cm $300-500 281 A STEWART DAWSON STERLING SILVER AND ENAMEL LIDDED BOX The plain rectangular domed lid with an applied circular plaque containing an enamel Waratah flower on a branch with original blue lined interior, on four feet. Maker Stewart Dawson Co. Ltd. Stamped ‘Stuart Dawson’. Hallmarked Birmingham 1912. $800-1,200
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282 A STERLING SILVER AND ENAMEL VESTA CASE The front white enamel "calling card" design 'James Holmes, Bathurst, NSW'. Hallmarked Birmingham 1902. Maker S. Morden & Co. OTHER NOTES: James Holmes (1843-1914) was manager of the Commercial Banking Company's branch at Bathurst NSW and a very noted Shorthorn breeder. $800-1,200
283 A STERLING SILVER CIGARETTE CASE DECORATED WITH A FLOWERING WATTLE IN ENAMEL Stamped ‘900 Sil gilt’, retailed by Flavelle Brothers. $400-600
284 AN ART NOUVEAU STERLING SILVER AND ENAMEL CIGARETTE CASE The body decorated with two applied hinge silver and enamel straps with a map of Australia at the centre flanked by a kangaroo and an emu. Engraved initials to back. Maker James Fenton & Co. Hallmarked Birmingham 1906. Length 8.5cm; Width 7cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $500-700 285 A STERLING SILVER AND ENAMEL BASKET The circular basket decorated with an enameled kookaburra sitting on a branch. Maker Charles S. Green & Co. Hallmarked Birmingham 1908. $400-600
286 A STERLING SILVER TOPPED DRESSING TABLE BOTTLE The plain tapered rectangular glass bottle with sterling silver hinged circular top, glass stopper. The silver top with applied silver and enamel badge of the State of Queensland, maltese cross surmounted with a crow, engraved ‘Queensland’. Stamped ‘Hardy Bros / Sydney & Brisbane / 12980 / English make’. Maker John Grinsell & Sons. Hallmarked Birmingham 1907. Height 12cm $600-800 287 AN OVAL STERLING SILVER HARDY BROTHERS BOX The hinged lid decorated with an enamel wattle branch in flower. Stamped ‘Hardy Brothers Made in England’. Maker Hardy Brothers. Hallmarked Chester 1917. 8.5 x 7 x 2.5cm $200-400 288 A STERLING SILVER AND ENAMEL VESTA CASE The plain body with an enamelled Kangaroo, damaged. Maker’s mark rubbed. Hallmarked Birmingham 1909. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $500-700 289 A HARDY BROTHERS STERLING SILVER CIRCULAR DISH Plain design decorated with an enameled bush flower. Stamped ‘Hardy Bros. Ltd Sydney & Brisbane. Made in England.’ Maker Hardy Brothers. Hallmarked Birmingham 1915. Diameter 10cm $300-500
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293 AN EDWARDIAN STERLING SILVER NOTEPAD CASE The plain design case with engraved initials and dated ‘XMAS 1909’ to front, stamped ‘Sterling Silver’. Length 10cm; Width 7cm $300-500
291 A COLLECTION OF FIVE SILVER AND ENAMEL BOXES Each decorated in enamel depicting Australian wildflowers or animals. $2,000-4,000
294 AN EDWARDIAN STERLING SILVER VESTA CASE The body and hinged lid with engraved fern decoration, applied Kangaroo to front. Maker J & R Griffin. Hallmarked Chester 1908. Height 5cm; Width 4cm $600-800
292 TWO SILVER PILL BOXES AND A THIMBLE One silver box with enamel decoration of a kangaroo, one with enamel decoration of the Australian coat of arms and the thimble with enamel decoration of the Australian flag. $500-700
295 A STERLING SILVER AND 14CT GOLD MATCHBOOK COVER The engine-turned case with a central applied 14 carat gold and enamel crest of St. Peter’s College, Adelaide, the back with a 14 carat circular applied medalion with engraved crest. Engraved to the inside ‘J. T. Mortlock, Mintaro’ and ‘C. W. O. Sterling Silver’. Length 6cm; Width 4.5cm OTHER NOTES: J. T. Mortlock is listed as an Australian benefactor and pastoralist. $500-700
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296 A HARDY BROTHERS STERLING SILVER VESTA CASE The plain body inlaid with semi precious stones in the form of the Southern Cross. Marked ‘HARDY BRO’S LTD., STERLING SILVER’ to base. Length 5cm; Depth 3.5cm; Height 1.5cm $1,400-1,600
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297 AN EDWARDIAN STERLING SILVER CASED NOTEPAD AND PENCIL With red moccan leather fitted interior. Inscribed to front ‘From the Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1905-6.7.8 Sir Henry Weedon August 1908’ and on the reverse ‘Alderman WM Burton J. P., City of Melbourne.’ Maker Walker & Hall. Hallmarked London 1908. Width 8.5cm; Depth 5.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $600-800 298 A STERLING SILVER VESTA CASE Plain design with an applied silver and enamel Australian coat of arms. Stamped ‘Stg Silver’. Maker’s mark illegible. $200-400
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299 AN EDWARDIAN STERLING SILVER VESTA CASE With engraved decoration of vine leaves, hinged lid. Inscribed ‘To E. P. Briginshaw Esq with good luck from A. J. C. 28/8/06’ (Australian Jockey Club). Maker Minshull & Latimer. Hallmarked Birmingham 1901. Length 4.5cm $200-400 300 A SILVER VESTA CASE The rectangular case with engraved decoration in a Maori inspired design, inscribed ‘HURUNUI 14th August 1879’, and ‘E. W. RALP’ to the reverse. The lid marked A. F. & Co., possibly Adolph Frankan & Co. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection acquired privately from the above in 2005
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301 A GEORGE III STERLING SILVER LARGE SNUFF BOX The rectangular body and lid with engine-turned decoration, applied cast foliate thumb-piece and border, and a gold gilt interior. The top engraved the Mackay Clan crest. Maker Daniel Hockley. Hallmarked London 1818. Height 2.4cm; Width 8.3cm; Depth 5.5cm $600-800 301
302 AN EDWARDIAN STERLING SILVER CARD CASE WITH MATCHING BLOTTING PAD Both with embossed decoration of a central Kangaroo standing amongst native foliage, decorative pattern in relief around the edges and lid. Monogram to back. Maker Crisford & Norris Birmingham. Dated Birmingham 1908. 10cm x 7cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,500-2,000 303 AN EDWARDIAN STERLING SILVER CARD CASE Embossed decoration of a central Kangaroo standing amongst native foliage, decorative pattern in relief around the edges and lid. Maker Crisford & Norris Birmingham. Dated Birmingham 1907. $1,000-1,500
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304 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER CARD CASE BY J. F MOLE, BRISBANE The case and lid profusely decorated with flowers and scrolls. Circa 1913-15. OTHER NOTES: Frederick James Mole established business in Brisbane in 1913 and quickly gained a reputation for high quality silverware manufacture. The company is still in business. $1,000-1,500
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305 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER FLASK BY J. M WENDT, ADELAIDE Plain design with detachable cup, hinged handle. Stamped ‘J. M. Wendt Jeweller and Silversmith Adelaide Broken Hill’, sovereign head/crown/lion passant. Cap with monogram. Circa 1890. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-4,000
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306 A STERLING SILVER HARDY BROTHERS AUSTRALIAN MADE SILVER BOX The lid with a map of Australia divided into states and with an opal set for Sydney. Engraved ‘E. H. Sydney, Australia, Stg Sil, Hardy Brothers Ltd Australia’. Wood lined interior. Length 11cm; Width 10cm; Height 2.5cm $400-600 307 A SARGISON’S STERLING SILVER AND COPPER FOOTED BOX The timber lined hammered silver finished box with hinged lid set with a rectangular copper panels of a sailing boat by A. Cross on four feet. Stamped ‘Silver, SARGISON’. Width 9cm; Depth 7.3cm; Height 5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005
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311 A VICTORIAN STERLING SILVER VINAGRETTE WITH APPLIED GUILDED AUSTRALIAN ARTWORK The plain silver body with hinged lid, gilded grill fitted to interior, applied gilded depiction of a Kangaroo in foliage. Inscribed ‘A’Alla Mia Cara Sposa Brighton Xmas 1897. A.’ to underside of lid. Maker Deakin & Francis. Hallmarked Birmingham 1897. Height 4.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,000-1,500 312 THREE STERLING SILVER DECANTER LABELS Classical urn and swag design, engraved ‘GIN’, ‘BRANDY’ AND ‘SHERRY’, each stamped ‘Stg SIL’. $300-500 313 A STERLING SILVER KOALA BROOCH, A CHILD’S RATTLE AND A EPBM STUD BOX The rattle decorated with a silver koala and the stud box decorated with an emu. $300-500 314 THREE PLATED COIN HOLDERS Each with engraved decoration, two marked ‘Best Nickle plate, Made in England’. $400-600
315 A COLLECTION OF SEVEN NOVELTY VESTA CASES One brass from Ballarat; one tooth with silver lid stamped ‘T. T. JONES & SON SYDNEY’; one sterling silver stamped ‘C & G STG SILVER’; one in the form of a woman’s leg with shoe; two silver cylindrical, one with enamelled coat of arms; one in the form of a horse’s hoof. $500-700 316 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER AND CRYSTAL POWDER BOWL AND COVER The cut crystal bowl with a sterling silver cover containing a central circular piece of mother of pearl with a central applied moulded silver Kookaburra holding a worm. Marked ‘PROUD Sta 925’. Maker Prouds. Height 5cm; Diameter 9cm OTHER NOTES: William James Prouds opened his first Prouds store in Pitt Street Sydney in 1903. $500-700 317 A 19TH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN SILVER AND COW HOOF INKWELL The polished hoof with silver top, inkwell with hinged lid. Stamped ‘L & B, SS’. Maker probably Lacey & Barry, 114 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne. Circa 1875. Height 6cm; Length 12.5cm $2,000-4,000
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320 A STUART DEVLIN SILVER PILL BOX The commemorative box designed and signed by Stuart Devlin, featuring a koala sitting on a gum tree branch on the lid, the underside of the lid ‘AUSTRALIAN NATIVE FAUNA STRACHAN AUSTRALIA KOALA. Phascolarctos Cinereus. By Stuart Devlin’. $200-400
319 A MINIATURE SILVER PHOTOGRAPH FRAME The rectangular aperture with canted corners, flanked by partially draped nude women centred by a satyr mask, strut support to rear, apparently unmarked. Late 19th century. Heigh 4.5cm $200-400
321 AN ELECTROPLATED VIOLET VASE BY J. M WENDT, ADELAIDE Plain design with applied stamped plaque showing the facade of their shop at 70 Rundle Street. Stamped ‘J. M. Wendt Adelaide’. Circa 1890. Height 7.1cm
323 322 A STERLING SILVER FIGURE Of a cloaked woman, the head detachable. Hallmarked London 1860. $700-900 323 A GEORGE V SILVER MODEL OF AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER The Digger standing at ease, on a conical moulded plinth. Maker Goldsmith & Silversmith’s company. London 1918. Height 9cm $1,000-1,500 324 A HARDY BROTHERS STERLING SILVER VESTA BOX Circular plain design with an applied gold kookaburra with redstone eyes, struck to base. Stamped ‘HBros 925 Stg’. Height 3.7cm; Diameter 3cm $200-400
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327 A COLLECTION OF FIVE STERLING SILVER LETTER OPENERS Each with applied decoration of enamel or metal coat of arms, koala, Perth 1962, Sydney. Four made by Prouds, Sydney. $600-800 328 A STERLING SILVER LETTER OPENER BY HARRIS & SON The handle decorated with kangaroo paw. Stamped ‘KANGAROO PAW’, ‘STERLING’, ‘HARRIS & SON’. $400-600 329 TWO 19TH CENTURY FIDDLE PATTERN SOUP SPOONS Hallmarked Exeter 1839. Maker John Stone. Hallmarked London 1835. Maker Paul Storr. $200-400
330 TEN STERLING SILVER TEASPOONS Decorated with gold nuggets. $400-600 331 A SET OF SIX SILVER PLATED COIN SPOONS Together with six silver coin spoons. (12) $300-500 332 A COLLECTION OF FOURTEEN EPNS AUSTRALIANA SERVING UTENSILS Most with bakerlite handles. $200-400 333 FOURTEEN VARIOUS SOUVENIR SPOONS AND FORKS $300-500 334 A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN SOUVENIR AUSTRALIAN TEASPOONS Mostly silver. $300-500
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340 A COLONIAL SILVER EQUESTRIAN TROPHY CUP AND COVER ATTRIBUTED TO J. M WENDT The cover with horse finial, the bell shaped body having repoussé floral wreath to one side and laurel wreath to the reverse, flanked by a pair of scrolled engraved handles, supported by a branched tree with naturalistically chased bark and roots, the circular base stamped ‘STERLING’ twice with pseudo hallmarks. Last quarter 19th century. Height 36cm $4,000-6,000 341 A VICTORIAN SILVER PLATE INK STAND FOR THE AUSTRALIAN MARKET Shaped oval with flower cast border, scroll feet and pen rests, surmounted by an emu flanked by a pair of cut glass inkwells with covers. Maker James Dixon & Co. Width 21cm; Height 13cm; Depth 13cm $800-1,200 342 A MALTESE SILVER MINIATURE NAVAL CANNON, PRESENTED TO SIR ROBERT MENZIES On an ebonised plinth having two stacks of cannon balls, silver and wood ramrod, the barrel decorated with a crowned Maltese cross, dolphins and a coat of arms, on an ebonised carriage with silver wheels, with plaque engraved ‘PRESENTED TO RT. HON. ROBERT G. MENZIES P.C, CH, Q.C, LL.M, LL,D (HON MALTA) BY THE MALTESE GOVERNMENT MALTA 14TH JUNE 1956’. Hallmarked to barrel. Height 14cm; Length 29cm; Width 14cm
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338 AN EDWARDIAN ETCH CRYSTAL AND SILVERPLATED CLARET JUG The body of the jug engraved with flowers and leaves, the silverplated handle and engraved top with a kangaroo finial. Circa 1910. Height 27cm $600-800 339 A VICTORIAN SILVER PLATE CENTREPIECE The ebonised base with blank cartouche, supporting three foliate feet issuing an ivy wreathed tree fern, and later pierced basket “nest” with three gilt metal birds, under a glass dome. Overall height 35cm $1,500-2,500
OTHER NOTES: Robert Menzies visited Malta in June 1956 en route to the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference in London. Arriving on the liner ‘Arcadia’ he was greeted by the premier of Malta, Dom Mintoff and day-long celebrations were arranged in his honour as well as the conferring of an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Malta. $2,000-4,000 343 A CIRCULAR SILVER PLATED PLATEAU The mirrored top encircled by a border of fruiting vines, and a base composed of stylised rockwork and waves. Mid 19th century. Diameter 55cm; Height 9cm $4,000-6,000
344 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER PRESENTATION TRAY Circular with pie crust edge, engraved to the reserve with a presentation inscription to ‘Alfred M. Baer by his colleagues in Australia... 19491967’ and ‘Made by Australian Craftsmen of Silver the product of Broken Hill (N.S.W) ores smelted and refined at Port Pirie (South Aust.)’. Diameter 45cm $2,000-4,000 345 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER SALVER The pie crust beaded border enclosing a deep centre, on leaf cast scroll feet. Maker W.J. Saunders & Co., retailed by Fairfax & Roberts, Sydney. Diameter 35.5cm $1,000-1,500 346 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER SALVER The pie crust gadrooned border enclosing an engraved centre with the initials RMA within stylised wattle leaves and flowers, on ball and claw feet, the reverse inscribed with maker’s details and ‘AUSTRALIAN BLACK WATTLE MOTIF’. Maker Stokes and Sons, Melbourne. Diameter 35cm $2,000-4,000 347 A SILVER GEORGE I COVERED TANKARD The cover inset with a medallion of Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway, celebrating the battle of Marstrand in July 1719; having a scrolled thumbpiece, loop handle and plain tapering body with girdle, on a moulded foot. Maker’s mark indistinct. London 1722. Height 15cm $2,000-4,000
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354 A VICTORIAN STERLING SILVER MOUNTED EMU-EGG CLARET JUG Classical design body the central section encased with an emu egg, hinged lid. Maker John Hillard and John Thomason trading as Hillard & Thomason, Spencer Street, Birmingham. Dated Birmingham 1894. Height 23cm $3,000-5,000 355 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER CLARET JUG The plain body with a naturalistic handle in the form of a vine with applied decoration of grapes and leaves. Inscribed: ‘Presented by J. C. Walker to P. Glenister as a token of respect July 23rd 1873’. Attributed to William Edwards, Melbourne, unmarked. Height 32cm LITERATURE: Similar example in Nineteenth Century Australian Silver, J.B. Hawkins, Vol I, pg 216. OTHER NOTES: Sands Directory Melbourne 1880: Glenister, Philip, Ascot Vale Road, Ascot Vale. Philip Glenister was a bookmaker in Melbourne in 1870. Ref: “1872 - Joe Thompson & James Wilson - King of the Rings!” by Ian Ibbett, 2017. $6,000-8,000
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357 AN AUSTRALIAN STERLING SILVER LIDDED EWER With engraved decoration of scrolls and leaves with embossed medallions of flowers, stepped circular foot. The weighted hinged lid of plain design, stamped ‘sterling silver’ to rim of base. Height 30cm $4,000-6,000
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360 A STERLING SILVER TWO HANDLED RACING TROPHY Raised decoration of scrolls, flowers and leaves, circular base on an ebonised wooden stand. Engraved with the Australian coat of arms and ‘James Ashworth 1860’ on one side, the other ‘Presented by Samuel Colville Esq Lessee and manager of the Prince of Wales Theatre, to the rider of the Winning horse for the great champion race Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle, 20th October 1860’. Illustrated engraving of Zoe by S. J. Gil. Zoe, winner of the second great Australian champion sweepstakes at Sydney September 1st 1860, The property of Messerts, Tait and Checke, ridden and trained by James Ashworth. Makers George John Richards and Edward Charles Brown. Hallmarked London 1858. Height 20cm PROVENANCE: Martin & Stern, Sydney $10,000-12,000
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361 A GILT METAL CHALICE BY JAMES HOLT, MELBOURNE 1889 The body profusely decorated with scenes of aboriginals hunting in bushland. The classical design base engraved with an emu and kangaroo, engraved 'Melbourne 1889, James Holt Fecit'. $3,000-5,000 362 A STERLING SILVER CREAM JUG With filigree decoration of birds, leaves, grapes and vines, Rococo style handle, white glass liner. Maker William Edwards. Hallmarked London 1856. Height 14cm $4,000-6,000 363 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER SUGAR BOWL BY H. STEINER, ADELAIDE Plain design, body with engraved initials ELM. Marked to base ‘H. Steiner Adelaide’ with a crown, lion passant and queen’s head. Dated 1880. Height 6cm; Diameter 11cm $1,500-2,500 361 364 A SILVER PLATED EPERGNE BY JAMES DIXON & SONS The shaped based on foliate feet supporting a pair of kangaroos and acanthus scrolls issuing three glass trumpet vases. Maker James Dixon & Sons, retailed by A. Saunders, Sydney. Late 19th century. Height 40cm $800-1,200 365 A PAINTED OSTRICH EGG ON A SILVER STAND WITH GLASS DOME $500-700 366 A VICTORIAN SILVER PLATE EPERGNE The triform base of scrolls and shells with presentation inscription; ‘To Papa and Mamma on their Silver Wedding Day from their Children and Grandchildren 14th August 1870’ rising to a naturalistically modelled tree fern with two aborigines hunting a goanna; supporting a glass bowl with etched decoration of egrets and flowers and a trumpet finial etched with foliage. Height 58cm $2,000-4,000
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367 A SILVER PLATED PRESENTATION TROWEL Ivorine handle, with engraved decoration and engraved ‘Presented to the Right Reverend the Bishop of Bunbury at the laying of the foundation stone of St Martin’s Church, Manjimup, 10th of November 1923.’ $1,200-1,400 368 A BURRA BEAN AND SILVER VESTA The plain silver mounts with scalloped edge, hinged lid, shield front. Length 4cm $800-1,200 369 A 19TH CENTURY BURRA BEAN AND SILVER VESTA CASE The silver mounts with scalloped edge, hinged lid, shield front Length 4.5cm $600-800 370 A 19TH CENTURY BURRA BEAN AND METAL MOUNTED VESTA CASE Hinged lid, shield front. Length 4cm $600-800 371 A 19TH CENTURY BURRA BEAN AND SILVER VESTA CASE Shaped silver mounts, hinged lid with engraved shield front. Length 6cm $800-1,200 372 A 19TH CENTURY BURRA BEAN AND SILVER VESTA CASE The silver mounts and hinged lid with engraved floral decoration with repeating border. The shield front with engraved initials. Length 5cm $800-1,200
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376 375 A COLLECTION OF FOUR BURRA BEAN AND SILVER VESTA CASES AND A FLASK All with silver mounts, the vesta cases with hinged lids. The flask with silver stopper, lid and safety chain. (5) PROVENANCE: The Tim Wonnacott Collection OTHER NOTES: Tim Wonnacott presented BBC’s Bargain Hunt for thirteen years and is a former divisional chairman of Sotheby’s. $1,500-2,500 376 A SET OF SEVEN STERLING SILVER WILDFLOWER TEASPOONS BY HARRIS & SON Depicting wildflowers including kangaroo paw, bottle brush, Cooktown orchid, leschenaultia, geraldtown wax, gum nuts, and hovea.
377 TWELVE SILVER COCKTAIL SPIKES Six decorated with Australian birds and animals, six decorated with enamel flowers. $300-500 378 THREE BOXED SETS OF STERLING SILVER TEASPOONS $500-700 379 A BOXED SET OF SIX STERLING SILVER COFFEE SPOONS BY SARGISONS, HOBART Art Nouveau design, hand beaten bowls, in original fitted box. $100-150 380 A COLLECTION OF SILVER PLATED TEASPOONS (26) $200-400
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381 A STERLING SILVER CADDY SPOON Hand beaten silver with applied decoration of gum leaves and nuts. Length 10cm $100-150 382 TWO STERLING SILVER COMMEMORATIVE TEASPOONS One with enamel coat of arms and statue of Captain Cook, Sydney, impressed mark ‘S E COHEN’ and ‘Regd 19-8-99’, in original box, ‘Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Aliance, 90 King Street Sydney’. The other commemorating Cricket 1926 Australia Vs England, makers mark on back of spoon Levi & Salaman, Birmingham 1925. $300-500 383 NINE STERLING SILVER SALT SPOONS, THREE TEASPOONS, TWO CAKE FORKS AND TWO SEWING IMPLEMENTS All decorated with the map of Tasmania. (16) $400-600
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388 A BOXED SET OF STERLING SILVER TEASPOONS BY W J SANDERS Retailed by Prouds Ltd, corner of Pitt and King Street, Sydney. With boomerang and kookaburra/ kangaroo finials, in original fitted box. Stamped ‘PROUD/925’. $800-1,200 389 A BOXED SET OF STERLING SILVER TEASPOONS Each with Australian motifs and gilded bowls. Hallmarked Birmingham, 1876. Maker John Millward Banks, Northhampton Street Birmingham. Retailed by Flavelle Roberts Ltd, Sydney and London. $800-1,200 390 EIGHT STERLING SILVER AND SHELL SPOONS Each with a map of Tasmania finial engraved ‘TASMANIA’. Stamped with various makers including GOLDING, S STEVENS and T & S. $800-1,200
391 THREE SILVER AND SHELL SPOONS One with a map of Australian, one with gum leaf and nuts. $200-400 392 A PAIR OF STERLING SILVER AND SHELL SPOONS With kangaroo finials, in fitted box. Stamped ‘ABBOTT REGD’. $300-500 393 AN ELIZABETH II SILVER COMMEMORATIVE DISH Set to the centre with a nickel silver plaque of the arms of the Commonwealth of Australia, engraved with the Queen’s monogram and ‘1952-1977’. Maker Roberts and Dore. London 1977. Diameter 10.5cm $100-150
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397 A COLLECTION OF NOVELTY ITEMS Including a hat pin stand with silver emu; two matchbox holders, one a souvenir of Melbourne’s cable trams; a sterling silver swizzle stick engraved ‘WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF W. P. MARTIN & CO PTY LTD AUSTRALIA’; a sterling silver golf tee decorated with a possum; a sterling silver tie pin decorated with a kangaroo; a sterling silver pill box; a sterling silver miniature shoe pin cushion; a 9ct gold ear pick; a miniature sterling silver sandal; a silver plated bottle stopper with waratah decoration; and a pebble pendant. (12) $400-600 398 A COLLECTION OF NOVELTY ITEMS Including a silver plated desk calendar; a silver plated cigarette case decorated with an Australian coat of arms; two sterling silver card cases; a set of four sterling silver blotting pad corners by W. Kerr; a salt spoon; a silver plated belt buckle; a silver plated dressing table jar. (8) $500-700 399 A COLLECTION OF STERLING SILVER CUTTLERY AND A PAPER KNIFE (17) $500-700 400 A COLLECTION OF NINE STERLING SILVER SOUVENIR BOOKMARKS Some with applied enamel decoration. $600-800
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401 A COLLECTION OF NINE STERLING SILVER SOUVENIR BOOKMARKS With applied decoration of Australian animals. $600-800 402 A STERLING SILVER TEASPOON, FORK, BOTTLE STOPPER, SCENT BOTTLE AND NAPKIN RING The teaspoon and fork with a gum nut finial, marked ‘Taylor Stg Sil’. The bottle stopper with sterling silver top in the form of a kangaroo on a boomerang, inscribed ‘H R NICHOLL, MELBOURNE 25 OCT 1937’, stamped ‘STG SIL’. The scent bottle hallmarked Birmingham 1899, maker G E Walton & Co. (5) PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $400-600 403 A COLLECTION OF EPNS SOUVENIR WARE Including a cigarette case, a christening mug, two lidded boxes, three paperweights, and three pairs of salt and peppers with three stirling silver salt and peppers, one sterling silver lidded dressing table jar, and a pair of sterling silver sugar tongs. $400-600
403 404 FOUR CAST METAL PAPERCLIPS AND A LETTER OPENER IN THE FORM OF WATERFOWL Each with naturalistic glass eyes, comprising a pair of duck clips one stamped ‘PARIS’ a larger similar and a letter opener, and an egret clip. Late 19th century. (5) Length of paper opener 35cm $300-500 405 A CAST METAL NOVELTY PAPERWEIGHT IN THE FORM OF A SAWN LOG Naturalistically cast with embedded axe and removable crosscut saw. Length 10.5cm $150-250
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413 A STERLING SILVER MINIATURE PALE Strap design sides with swing handle. Stamped ‘stg Sil’. Height 4cm $150-250 414 A STERLING SILVER MUG ‘A GREATER EMPIRE THAN HAS BEEN’ A band decorated with Australian animals and flowers. Stamped side to ‘RD 582620’ and to base. Maker William Hutton & Sons Ltd. Hallmarked Sheffield 1911. Height 8cm $500-700 415 AN AUSTRALIAN STERLING SILVER TWO HANDLE TROPHY, THE OCEANIC CUP Presented by W. P. Roth, President, Matson Navigation Company, San Francisco, U.S.A. Engraved with the winners and dates 1936-1968. Maker Hardy Brothers, Sydney. Circa 1936. Height 23.7cm $400-600
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416 A SILVERPLATED ‘YOUNG MEN’S CLUB 1908-1914’ TROPHY The large goblet shaped trophy with raised decoration of swags of flowers, scrolls and leaves engraved with various winners from the Western Australian Young Men’s Club. Engraved to base ‘E. P. N. S. CARIS Bros.’. Height 24cm $300-500 417 A VICTORIAN GLASS BOTTOM STERLING SILVER TANKARD The body with incised repeating pattern to top and base, raised beaded decoration, engraved ‘From Walter Scott of Walallong, Australia’. Maker Joseph & Edward Bradbury, registration mark. Hallmarked London 1871. OTHER NOTES: Walter Scott was an early settler, surgeon, public servant and magistrate in the lower Hunter Valley. In 1843 his nephew, also called Walter Scott, emigrated from Scotland and became his uncle’s manager at Wallalong and later his heir. Wallalong House was retained by the Scott family until 1995. $500-700
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418 A SILVERPLATED LADIES POWDER COMPACT OF NAUTICAL INTEREST In the form of a captain’s peaked cap, engraved ‘M.V. WANGANELLA’ around a map of Australia with crossed anchors, the cap badge with the flag of the Huddart Parker liner, mirror to interior. Diameter 7cm OTHER NOTES: The Huddart Parker liner T.S.M.V. Wanganella cruised the Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland routes, memorably before the Melbourne Olympics in 1956. $300-500 419 TWO SILVER PLATED CRUET SETS AND A JAM JAR One cruet set with four egg cups and spoons decorated with a kangaroo. The other cruet set with three crystal condiment jars decorated with a kangaroo. The glass jam jar on stand with a silver plated lid decorated with an emu. $300-500
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420 A PAIR OF TINPLATE AND GLASS POSY VASES Each painted silver with a triangular base supporting an emu and a kangaroo and a maple leaf, issuing a pressed glass trumpet vase. (2). Height 16.5cm $300-500 421 A VICTORIAN SILVER PLATE AND CUT GLASS BUTTER BOX The shaped hinged cover with butterfly finial engraved with a trellis and fruiting vines, the reeded frame with turned legs enclosing a rectangular cut glass receptable, engraved ‘J. Hickson N.S.W. GUN CLUB TROPHY’. Maker Elkington & Co. Sydney. Diamond registration mark for 1860. Height 9cm; Width 14.5cm; Depth 11cm $300-500
422 A VICTORIAN SILVER PLATE TEA KETTLE AND STAND The tapering cylindrical kettle engraved with waratahs, on a twigwork stand and burner, stamped ‘TRUROX SHEFFIELD’. Height 30cm (overall) $300-500 423 A SILVERPLATED BON BON DISH FOR THE AUSTRALIAN MARKET In the form of a mussel shell with glass liner surmounted by a kangaroo. Maker Brookes and Crookes. Width 17cm $100-150 424 A SILVERPLATED BON BON DISH FOR THE AUSTRALIAN MARKET In the form of a scallop shell with glass liner surmounted by an emu. Maker Falcon Co. Width 13cm $100-150
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425 A VICTORIAN SILVERPLATED TOAST RACK BY ELKINGTON & CO. Six divisions with quatrefoil handle on bun feet engraved with a kangaroo under a crown and ‘A. P. Coy’. Height 14cm; Width 17cm; Depth 9.5cm $200-400 426 A COLLECTION OF SILVER PLATED WARES Including three bread forks decorated with Australian animals; two corkscrews; a lighter; an emu; and a royal souvenir 1927. (8) $200-400
427 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVERPLATED TRUMPET VASE With flared rim, stamped ‘EPNS MADE IN AUSTRALIA’. Height 30.5cm $100-150 428 A SILVER PLAITED EGG CODDLER The egg shaped body with engine turned decoration support of three emu feet, swan finial. Maker Mappin & Webb. Stamped to base ‘Mappin & Webb, Sheffield & London, model W395’. Height 22cm $400-600
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429 A SILVERPLATED TWO HANDLED PLANTER The body with raised pressed decoration of flowers and scrolls, two applied naturalistic twig and leaf handles. Marked to base ‘F 5, Flavelle, Sydney 13369’. Height 15cm $300-500 430 A COLLECTION OF SILVER PLATED TABLE WARE Including a pair of salts with blue glass liners; an egg cup decorated with a kangaroo; an egg cruet; a pin dish; two napkin rings; a letter weight; two paper stands; and a timber blotter with a silver handle by Farmer & Co. (11) $400-600
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431 A PAIR OF STERLING SILVER NAPKIN RINGS BY STEINER The exterior decorated with etched botanical pattern and inscribed monogram to each, in fitted box. Impressed ‘H STEINER, ADELAIDE’ and a rampant lion.
433 A COLLECTION OF ELEVEN SILVER PLATED TABLE ACCESSORIES Including a toast rack, table bell, cream jug, pair of knife rests decorated with ferns and Australian animals, tea strainer, cake slice, etc. (11) $1,000-1,500
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434 A COLLECTION OF FOUR SILVER PLATED EGG CUPS With two pairs of silver plated salts and a condiment bowl, all decorated with Australian animals. (9) $1,000-1,500
432 FOUR STERLING SILVER AUSTRALIAN NAPKIN RINGS Together with one silver plated napkin ring decorated with an emu, made in England. (5) $300-500
435 A COLLECTION OF FIVE STERLING SILVER NAPKIN RINGS Each with enamel decoration of coat of arms or map of Australia. $400-600
436 A COLLECTION OF SILVER PLATED NAPKIN RINGS, EGG CUPS AND A MENU HOLDER Three egg cups decorated with an emu, kangaroo, map of Australia and gum leaves; four napkin rings decorated with Australian animals; a menu holder decorated with an emu. (8) $800-1,200 437 A SET OF SIX SILVER PLATE NAPKIN RINGS OF AUSTRALIAN INTEREST Each with an irregular hexagonal ring numbered 1-6 and engraved with flowers supported by an alert kangaroo, stamped EPNS. Maker’s mark FWS. (6) Width 9cm $500-700
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440 TWO PAIRS OF DEMI BROTHERS STERLING SILVER NAPKIN RINGS IN BOX Decorated with incised and etched botanical patterns. Marked ‘Demi Bros / Sterling Silver’.
439 A PAIR OF GEORGE V SILVER NAPKIN RINGS COMMEMORATING THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA Each of flattened rectangular form set with a 1927 florin, in case. Chester 1929. $200-400
OTHER NOTES: Demi Brothers was founded by Sylla Demi who arrived in Melbourne from France in 1853. He first tried his luck on the Ballarat goldfields and then moved to Melbourne to set up a jewellery business in about 1857. He was joined by brothers Victor and Austane and nephew Lechal. $500-700 441 SIX PIECES OF SILVER PLATE Including a butter dish with liner, a child’s mug, a pair of salts and a pair of match strikers. $500-700
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449 A COLLECTION OF NINE NAPKIN RINGS One copper, eight silver plated, decorated with Australian animals. $1,000-1,500 450 SET OF FOUR SILVER AND ENAMEL PLACE CARD STANDS The oval base supporting an Australian coat of arms decorated with enamel. Hallmarked Birmingham 1911. $600-800
448 A COLLECTION OF ELEVEN NAPKIN RINGS One brass, one ivorine, nine in silver plate some with enamel decoration. (11) $800-1,200
451 A PAIR OF EDWARDIAN STERLING SILVER MOUNTED OSTRICH EGGS Each on a rising domed circular foot, the stem with scroll and bead decoration, three side straps with screw tops, the detachable covers mounted in silver with foliate finials, gilt interior. Maker Holland Aldwinckle and Slater. Dated London 1913. Height 25cm $800-1,200 452 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER PLATED TABLE CENTREPIECE The ornately decorated frame with Australian flora and fauna supporting two emu eggs carved in cameo relief on an oval ebonised mount. $4,000-6,000
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453 A SILVERPLATED MOUNTED OSTRICH EGG Silverplated base with pressed repeating decoration, Kookaburra finial. Height 34cm $600-800 454 A COLONIAL SILVER PLATE AND EMU EGG CENTREPIECE INKSTAND On an oval ebonised wood moulded plinth, having three emu eggs in a naturalistically modelled landscape with a central tree fern and various grass trees and ferns, an aborigine hunting kangaroos with an emu and goanna, two eggs with inkwells and kangaroo and emu covers, the third egg with lyrebird finial. Late 19th century. Height 33cm; Depth 36cm; Width 57cm $3,000-5,000
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457 A PAIR OF CARVED OSTRICH EGGS Each with a lyrebird, one with an emu and koala, the other with a kangaroo and kookaburra, metal suspension mounts; a plain ostrich egg and three emu eggs. (6) $500-700 458 FIVE VARIOUS CARVED EMU EGGS All decorated with birds, including emu, kookaburra, lorikeets and others. $500-700 459 A GROUP OF FOUR CARVED EMU EGGS AND TWO HALF EGGS With scenes of aboriginal camps, a native stockman, a child with a kangaroo, an Australian coat of arms, a kangaroo and an emu and two uncarved half shells. (8) $500-700 460 A COLLECTION OF FOUR CARVED EMU EGGS ON STANDS $300-500
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461 A FRENCH MINIATURE BRASS CARRIAGE CLOCK The front engraved with a Kangaroo on a boomerang and ‘W.A 1931’. The white Roman numeral enamel dial made in France. Together with a leather carrying case. Height 8.5cm $1,000-1,500 462 A STERLING SILVER GILD BRUSH & MACDONNELL PROPELLING PENCIL WITH SEAL TOP The ribbed stem engraved ‘To George Willisen, Tenterfield, From Robt R. C. Robertson 3 Dec 1861’. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 OTHER NOTES: Brush & MacDonnell listed at 26 Collins Street, Melbourne in 1858. $1,500-2,500
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463 AN 18CT YELLOW GOLD PEN Plain body with detachable nib. Stamped ‘crown 18c A.L.B’. Length 13.5cm $3,000-5,000 464 A 9CT YELLOW GOLD EXTEND PENCIL/RULER Plain design with the body of the pencil extending to a foot ruler. Stamped ‘.375’. Maker C&C. Length 13.5cm; extended 33cm $800-1,200
465 THE PERSONAL SEAL OF SIR DANIEL COOPER Lapis Lazuli handle with copper claw design base in an intaglio seal in fitted leather box. OTHER NOTES: Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Baronet GCMA (1 July 1821 - 5 June 1902) was a nineteenth century politician, merchant and philanthropist in New South Wales. He served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the colony and was a noted philatelist. Cooper was conferred the hereditary title of Cooper Baronet of Woollahra in 1863, appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1880 and upgraded to a Knight Grand Cross of the order in 1888. He built Woollahra House, Point Piper circa 1856. $10,000-15,000
466 A 9CT YELLOW GOLD HARDY BROTHERS PILL BOX Plain design with a hinged lid, solid pendant mount. Stamped ‘9ct ; H. Bros’. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,000-1,500 467 AN 18CT YELLOW GOLD COMBINATION SOVEREIGN AND VESTA CASE Overall scroll design decoration with a masonic emblem and initials engraved to front. Stamped ‘18ct’. Maker Catanach. OTHER NOTES: George William Catanach established Catanach Jewellers in 1920 in Melbourne. $5,000-7,000
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468 A FINE AND RARE 9CT GOLD TRIPLE SWIVEL FOB SEAL The swivel engraved with the coat of arms, seal and initials of Sir John Monash. Marked Chester 1898. PROVENANCE: J. B. Hawkins OTHER NOTES: General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD was a civil engineer and an Australian military commander of the First World War. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the war and then, shortly after the outbreak, became commander of the 4th Brigade in Egypt, with whom he took part in the Gallipoli campaign. Monash is considered one of the best allied Generals of the First World War and the most famous commander in Australian history. $25,000-35,000 469 A 9CT GOLD FOB Gate link design with a parrot clasp and supporting a circular coat of arms pendant. Stamped ‘9ct’, ‘M’. $800-1,200
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470 A 9CT GOLD MODEL OF THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE GEORGE’S RIVER BRIDGE BY WILLIAM KERR The rectangular “stone” with engraved border and motto and applied enamel initials RTB for R.T. Ball, the Secretary of Public Works, on a moulded rectangular wooden plinth with plaque inscribed: ‘PRESENTED TO THE HON. R.T. BALL MINISTER OF WORKS BY THE RATEPAYERS of the SUTHERLAND SHIRE, 7th JUNE 1924. Maker William Kerr. Height 15cm; Width 22cm; Depth 17.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005
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OTHER NOTES: A major infrastructure project of the time, the George’s River Bridge replaced a steam punt service between Tom Ugly’s Point and Horse Rock that had operated since the 1860s. By the early 20th century and with the popularity of the automobile there were delays of several hours on weekends and public holidays and the Sutherland Shire Council campaigned the NSW State Government to build a bridge across the George’s River and link the shire to the north. The foundation stone of the eventual Pratt truss bridge was laid on 7th June 1924 and the bridge opened on 26th April 1929. It is now known as Tom Ugly’s Bridge and was duplicated with a modern bridge for southbound traffic in 1987. William Kerr was established as a leading silversmith in Sydney by the late 19th century, and after his death in 1896 the firm continued until 1938. He was known for his centrepieces and distinctive silver trophies and was extensively patronised by the Sydney City Council. $1,500-2,500 471 TWO PIECES OF BOULDER OPAL One decorated with a map of Queensland, the other with an aboriginal throwing a boomerang. $400-600 472 A 9CT GOLD FOB Australian coat of arms surmounted by a boomerang. Initials R.S. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $600-800
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473 A 9CT GOLD PENDANT FOB BY WILLIS In the form of a coat of arms, emu and kangaroo supporting a shield engraved ‘M Lucardie’, surmounted by a rugby ball. Engraved ‘Chillingollah F. C. Premiers 1919’ verso. Makers stamp. $300-500 474 A 9CT GOLD ‘CRICKET’ PENDANT FOB Decorated with two cricket bats with a central vacant shield. Stamped ‘9ct’. $500-700 475 A 9CT GOLD AUSTRALIAN PENDANT FOB Circular sun design with an applied map of Australia to the centre. Make J. T. Hearn, 3 Chester Street, Adelaide S.A. $300-500
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481 A 9CT GOLD PENDANT The rose gold circular frame set with an Australian coat of arms, Advance Australia. Stamp verso. $300-500 482 A 9CT GOLD PENDANT FOB Shield shape with engraved initials RR. Engraved ‘L. F. C Premiers 1934 R. Roberts’ verso. Maker Willis. Stamped ‘W 9C’. $300-500 483 AN ANGUS & COOTE 9CT GOLD FOB Decorated with two rifles and a target border, engraved ‘B.R.C. 1919-20’. Stamped ‘A & C Ltd 9ct’ to the reverse. $500-700 484 A 9CT GOLD FOB Circular with a central shield engraved ‘Steward Waratah’ and to the reverse ‘Presented by R. M. Orrie Sec A.M.A to L. Kerslake 1907’. $500-700 485 AN 18CT GOLD MASONIC PENDANT BY H. STEINER, ADELAIDE Stamped ‘18ct’ and ‘H Steiner, Adelaide’ in box. $400-600 486 TWO SILK AND METAL FOBS One with a 9ct gold and enamel centrepiece decorated with a coat of arms by Willis with 9ct gold mounts. The other with gilt metal mounts supporting a circular locket pendant. $500-700 487 A 9CT GOLD AND ENAMEL FOB PIECE AND A 9CT GOLD BROOCH BY WILLIS Decorated with map of Australia. $600-800 488 TWO 9CT GOLD AUSTRALIAN COAT OF ARMS BY WILLIS & SONS, PTY LTD, MELBOURNE One with enamel decoration, stamped ‘9C, W’. $500-700 489 AN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD FOB MEDALLION With a rope twist design border, a central enamelled Australian coat of arms with a scroll top and pendant mount, stamped ‘9, W’, by Willis & Sons Pty Ltd, Melbourne. $400-600
490 A 9CT GOLD AND ENAMEL PENDANT BY WILLIS Decorated with enamel map of Australia, rope twist border. Engraved to the back ‘NO. 19361 Pte HF Hamilton A.A.M.C. from Residents of Cleve & District For King & Country 1917-19’. $400-600 491 AN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD FOB MEDALLION Openwork design depicting an Australian coat of arms with ‘ADVANCE AUSTRALIA’, a scroll and floral border, stamped on reverse ‘9, W RD No. 263’, by Willis & Sons Pty Ltd., Melbourne. $400-600 492 A 9CT GOLD AND ENAMEL BROOCH BY WILLIS & BROTHERS The circular rope twist border containing an Australian coat of arms with the central shield decorated with enamel. Stamped verso ‘RD No. 263 9.W’. LITERATURE: Anne Schofield and Kevin Fahy, ‘Australian Jewellery 19th and Early 20th Century’, page 252. $400-600 493 A 9CT GOLD AND ENAMEL PENDANT FOB Coat of arms with emu and kangaroo with enamel shield, Advance Australia. By Willis & Sons Ltd, established 1858. $300-500 494 A VICTORIAN 15CT GOLD DOUBLE SIDED LOCKET BROOCH Oval with a border of leaf and vine design. $800-1,200 495 A VICTORIAN GOLD LOCKET BROOCH Oval with a border of vine leaves, a flower and a bird. $1,500-2,000 496 A VICTORIAN GOLD CARTOUCHE-SHAPED PLAQUE BROOCH With applied enamelled and gold decoration of a young boy playing with a ball in the form of a pearl. PROVENANCE: Sotheby’s Australia, 17 June 2005, lot 21 $2,000-4,000 497 A 19TH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN GOLD LOCKET BROOCH The central citrine set on a hinged cover in the form of a vase of flowers, the main body of the brooch covered in flowers and leaves supporting a floral design pendant set with an oval tourmaline, with fine chain supports. $2,000-4,000
498 AN OVAL 18CT GOLD VICTORIAN BROOCH The pierced foliate design set with two orange and one light blue paste. $600-800 499 A 19TH CENTURY PRESSED GOLD BROOCH In the form of an emu and kangaroo beneath a palm tree. $400-600 500 A CHARM BROOCH The 15ct gold bar brooch supporting three 9ct gold charms, an emu, a kangaroo, and a belliken. $500-700 501 A KANGAROO BROOCH The 18ct gold model of a kangaroo with an articulated joey, white gold setting to the back set with a single cut diamond. $800-1,200 502 A KANGAROO BROOCH 9ct gold, realistically modelled as a kangaroo with a joey, stamped ‘9ct’ and ‘reg.no38749’. $500-700 503 A KANGAROO BAR BROOCH The heavy 9ct gold pin with an applied realistically modelled standing kangaroo, stamped ‘9c’. $400-600 504 A 15CT GOLD AUSTRALIAN BAR BROOCH The double off-set bar design set with a central applied kangaroo in ferns with two scroll and shell ends, stamped ‘15ct’. $800-1,200 505 A GOLD MINER’S BROOCH Decorated with pick and shovel and small nuggets with a central rope twist design setting containing a South African half pond coin dated 1896, with safety chain. $1,000-1,500 506 A REPRODUCTION GOLD “BALLARAT” MINING BROOCH 9ct yellow gold in the form of a crossed pick and shovel with bucket, the face of the shovel inscribed ‘Ballarat’. Length 2.5cm $500-700 507 A 9CT YELLOW GOLD MINING BROOCH In the form of crossed pick and shovel with bucket, ladder gold nugget and chain. Engraved ‘9ct’. Length 4.5cm $800-1,200
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508 A COLLECTION OF CAT’S EYE (OPERCULUM) JEWELLERY Consisting of four brooches mounted in gold, three brooches mounted in silver one with floral decoration, and a ring set in silver. (8) $800-1,200
511 A CAT’S EYE (OPERCULUM) AND GOLD BRACELET The 9ct gold mounts consisting of six plain settings, each containing a cat’s eye with chain link connectors, box type clasp, stamped ‘9ct’. $800-1,200
509 A POWELL BROS GOLD AND CAT’S EYE BRACELET Consisting of nine 9ct gold settings each containing a cat’s eye with oval chain links, box clasp and safety chain, stamped ‘POWELL BROS 9C’. $800-1,200
512 A TORTOISE SHELL AND CAT’S EYE (OPERCULUM) BRACELET Made up of six oval tortoiseshell discs, each set with a cat’s eye, gold connecting links and a spring ring clasp. $600-800
510 A PAIR OF CAT’S EYE (OPERCULUM) EARRINGS AND PENDANT ON CHAIN The 9ct gold pendant with plain mount, stamped ‘9ct’, maker Taylor & Sharp, Hobart, on a rolled gold chain with a metal clasp. The pair of earrings in 15ct gold, plain mounts, screw fittings, stamped ‘15ct’. $400-600
513 A CAT’S EYE (OPERCULUM) AND SEED PEARL BROOCH The 9ct gold mount with classical scroll ends and a central oval mount with a border of seed pearls set with a central cat’s eye. Stamped ‘9ct’ with safety chain. $400-600
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514 A SILVER AND CATS EYE (OPERCULUM) COKER AND BRACELET The coker set with eight ornate foliate style mounts in the manner of Rhoda Wager, each set with a cats eye, the bracelet with five. Each with box type clasp. Unmarked. $400-600 515 THREE CAT’S EYE (OPERCULUM) BROOCHES One bar brooch with 9ct gold mounts with safety chain, stamped ‘9ct’ and ‘H.P’. Two with plain 9ct gold mounts. $500-700 516 A FINE QUALITY SHELL CAMEO BY R. RAJOLA The Queensland shell carved in the form of a classical bust, in original fitted box. Signed ‘RR’. $2,000-4,000
517 A FINE QUALITY CIRCULAR SHELL CAMEO BY R. RAJOLA The Queensland shell carved with the profile of a young woman with a fine Art Nouveau style border, original fitted box. Signed ‘RR’. $2,000-4,000 518 A FINE QUALITY OVAL SHELL CAMEO BY R. RAJOLA The Queensland shell cameo in the figure of a young woman, in original fitted box. Signed ‘RR’. $2,000-4,000 519 A LARGE FINELY CARVED SHELL CAMEO BROOCH BY R. RAJOLA The silver oval mount with scalloped shaped border with applied dots. The Queensland shell carved cameo of a woman in period clothing. Signed ‘RR’. $3,000-5,000 520 A FINELY CARVED SHELL CAMEO BROOCH BY R. RAJOLA The oval mount with pierced decoration set with marquisite. The Queensland shell cameo of a woman. Signed ‘RR’. $3,000-5,000
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525 A VICTORIAN CAMEO BRACELET 15ct gold with nine oval settings each containing an oval cameo profile of a maiden with oval chain links, box clasp, stamped ‘15ct’. $1,000-1,500
528 AN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD SWORD CRESCENT AND STAR BROOCH Set with 11 seed pearls and an oval red stone, with chain support. $300-500
531 AN AUSTRALIAN GOLD SWORD AND SWALLOW BROOCH Set with 17 seed pearls, stamped with maker’s mark and safety chain. $400-600
526 A VICTORIAN CAMEO BANGLE The 9ct yellow gold double band frame with a central conch cameo of a classical maiden, box clasp and safety chain. Stamped ‘9ct’. $2,000-4,000
529 A SWORD CRESCENT AND STAR BROOCH BY WILLIS Fully set with 24 seed pearls, stamped ‘15, W’, with safety chain. $300-500
532 A SUNBURST PENDANT BROOCH 9ct gold, starburst design, set with imitation and natural half seed pearls and a central garnet topped doublet, with removable pendant fitting, stamped ‘9ct’. $500-700
527 A 9CT GOLD KOOKABURRA BROOCH In the form of a kookaburra on a leafy branch, set with 32 seed pearls and a ruby eye, stamped ‘9ct’, maker E. J. C. $700-900
530 THREE EDWARDIAN CRESCENT MOON AND SWORD BROOCHES Each set with seed pearls and red stones. $500-700
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534 TWO AUSTRALIAN WREATH DESIGN BROOCHES Both of clover leaf design, one 15ct gold set with six round garnets and 18 seed pearls, stamped ‘15ct’, with safety chain. The other set with 22 seed pearls. $500-700 535 A 15CT GOLD LILY OF THE VALLEY BROOCH BY GEORGE RICHARD ADDIS, LAUNCESTON/ KALGOORLIE (1864-1937) Each of the 13 flower settings containing a red stone, the free form leaves set with 32 old single-cut diamonds, stamped ‘G.R. ADDIS’ and ‘15ct’. $500-700 536 AN EDWARDIAN SEED PEARL AND RUBY BROOCH 15ct gold decorated with a kangaroo and a lily of the valley set with three rubies and natural half pearls, stamped ‘15ct’, with safety chain. $400-600
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537 AN EDWARDIAN PARROT BROOCH The 9ct gold mount modelled in the form of a parrot sitting on a flowering branch, the parrot set with seed pearls, red and green stones, the floral decoration set with seed pearls and three red stones, stamped ‘9c’ with safety chain. $500-700 538 TWO KOOKABURRA BROOCHES The 9ct gold mounts each modelled in the form of a kookaburra on a branch, the birds set with seed pearls, red and green stones, one with safety chain, both stamped ‘9ct’. $500-700 539 AN EDWARDIAN CRESCENT AND FLOWER BROOCH The silver gilt frame set with natural half pearls with pendant mount. $400-600
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540 AN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD STICK PIN BY WILLIS Enamelled and gold map of Australia on a gold pin. $300-500 541 A 9CT GOLD STICK PIN BY W KERR In the form of an ice skate on a metal pin. $400-600 542 TWO SILVER HAT PINS One kangaroo and one kookaburra. $200-400 543 A COLLECTION OF FIVE 19TH CENTURY STICK PINS One by ‘KG LUKE’, one of mistletoe, one of a miner’s shovel, one portrait and one set with aventurine. $400-600
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551 TWO KOOKABURRA STICK PINS One 9ct silver lined, the other gilt metal. $200-400 552 A 9CT GOLD KANGAROO STICK PIN The solid model of a kangaroo on a 9ct gold pin. $400-600 553 A PLATINUM AND DIAMOND STICK PIN The platinum setting in the form of a kangaroo pavéset with 13 single-cut diamonds on a platinum pin. $700-900 554 A RARE COLONIAL EMU STICK PIN The model of an emu and a flax bush standing on a gold nugget. $700-900 555 A GOLD KANGAROO STICK PIN The kangaroo modelled in profile on a gold pin. $400-600
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556 TWO AUSTRALIAN STICK PINS One with an emu and one with a kangaroo, both in 9ct gold suspended on a chain with gilt metal pins. $700-900
550 TWO VICTORIAN STICK PINS One in 15ct gold set with an opal, one in 9ct gold set with three old-cut diamonds and a small ruby. $300-500
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558 TWO AUSTRALIAN STICK PINS One with a pendant engraved ‘FEDERATION AUSTRALIA’ and stamped ‘9ct’. The other engraved ‘AUSTRALIA’ and stamped ‘9ct’. Both suspended from a fine gold chain and on metal pins. $400-600 559 TWO TASMANIAN STICK PINS Each with a map of Tasmania set with a red stone suspended from a fine gold chain on metal pins. $400-600 560 FOUR AUSTRALIAN MAP STICK PINS Two of Tasmania in 9ct gold, two of Australia one in 9ct gold and one in sterling silver, all on metal pins. $500-700 561 AN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD MINER’S STICK PIN Of a pick and shovel and a central nugget. $400-600 562 AN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD MINER’S STICK PIN Of a pick and shovel and a central nugget with rope. $400-600 563 A RARE COLONIAL 18CT GOLD MINER’S STICK PIN Depicting a pick and shovel and two nuggets, stamped ‘18ct’. $400-600 564 THREE 18CT YELLOW GOLD DRESS STUDS Each with a rope twist setting containing a round cabochon moonstone by H. STEINER, Adelaide, in orginal box. $300-500
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567 A PAIR OF 9CT GOLD CUFFLINKS BY WILLIS & SONS, PTY LTD, MELBOURNE $300-500 568 FOUR PAIRS OF TASMANIAN SOUVENIR CUFFLINKS One silver and enamel, one silver, one 9ct gold, one 9ct gold and maker ‘W. GOLDING’. $700-900
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577 A COLLECTION OF TWELVE 9CT GOLD SOUVENIR BROOCHES $1,000-1,500 578 A 9CT GOLD FOB PENDANT In the form of a map of Tasmania set with two red stones and engraved ‘TASMANIA & LAUN’, on a chain mount. Stamped ‘9ct’ and ‘CASTLEY’ verso. $300-500 579 NINE TASMANIAN SOUVENIR BROOCHES One 10ct gold by ‘GOLDING’, one silver, one silver and abalone, one 9ct gold by ‘FAF’, two 9ct gold, one silver and enamel, one 9ct gold by ‘STUART’, one 9ct gold with opal chips by ‘M’. $800-1,200 580 TWO 9CT GOLD COMMEMORATIVE BROOCHES Decorated with a boomerang, an emu and a kangaroo standing on a rifle, set with a pearl, red stone and a blue stone. Engraved ‘IN FRANCE’, with safety chain. Stamped ‘9ct’. $400-600
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581 A COLLECTION OF TWENTY BOOMERANG SOUVENIR BROOCHES Some 9 ct gold, some silver. $1,000-1,500 582 A COLLECTION OF ELEVEN BOOMERANG SOUVENIR BROOCHES Some in gold, some in silver. $1,000-1,500 583 THREE BROOCHES AND A PENDANT A sixpence bar brooch dated 1910; two miner’s style brooches; and a gold medallion dated 1906. (4) $400-600 584 SEVEN GOLD BAR BROOCHES One set with a cameo, one with a kookaburra, one with a swallow and one with a diamond set anchor. $400-600 585 A COLLECTION OF THIRTEEN GOLD AND GOLD PLATED BROOCHES OF AUSTRALIAN INTEREST $600-800 586 A SELECTION OF KOOKABURRA BROOCHES Four 9ct gold, silver lined enamel decorated kookaburra brooches, one 9ct gold and enamel decorated kookaburra brooch, one 9ct gold circular kookaburra brooch by Prouds. (6) $400-600 587 FIVE KOOKABURRA BROOCHES AND A PENDANT Two brooches and pendant gold, one brooch silver, two brooches silver lined. $400-600 588 A COLLECTION OF TEN KOOKABURRA BROOCHES $400-600 589 A COLLECTION OF EIGHT AUSTRALIAN SOUVENIR BROOCHES Set with animals, a coat of arms and a map of Australia. $1,000-1,500 590 AN ‘AUSTRALIA’ 9CT GOLD BROOCH Set with seven seed pearls and a red stone, with safety chain, stamped ‘9ct’. $300-500
591 A GOLD ARROW BAR BROOCH Set with a ladies slipper at the centre and text either side reading ‘GOOD LUCK’. $200-400 592 TWO EDWARDIAN GOLD BROOCHES AND A PENDANT Set with seed pearls and green stones. $400-600 593 THREE EDWARDIAN GOLD BAR BROOCHES 9ct gold with applied decoration and set with seed pearls and various coloured stones. $400-600 594 FOUR EDWARDIAN 9CT GOLD BAR BROOCHES Classical designs set with coloured stones. $500-700 595 FIVE EDWARDIAN GOLD BAR BROOCHES Set with coloured stones and seed pearls. $400-600 596 A COLLECTION OF 9CT GOLD SOUVENIR BROOCHES AND PENDANTS Two pendants and three brooches, decorated with various Australian animals, a map of Tasmania and a kiwi. $500-700 597 A COLLECTION OF SEVEN “SOUTHERN CROSS” BROOCHES One silver set with small pearls, three 9ct gold set with green stones, three 9ct gold set with red stones and two with safety chains. $800-1,200 598 A 9CT GOLD SOUTHERN CROSS DESIGN BROOCH Set with five cultured pearls, stamped ‘W 9 D’. $400-600 599 AN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD BOOMERANG BROOCH BY WILLIS & SONS PTY LTD, MELBOURNE With applied decoration in the form of the Southern Cross with each star set with a seed pearl, stamped ‘9, W’. $400-600 600 AN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD SOUTHERN CROSS BROOCH Set with five single-cut diamonds. $300-500
601 AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD SOUTHERN CROSS BROOCH Set with five green coloured stones and a central map of Australia, stamped ‘9ct’. $300-500 602 A STERLING SILVER SOUTHERN CROSS BROOCH The silver mount modelled in the form of an aboriginal man and set with a boomerang and the five stars of the southern cross. Set with marcasite and five round cabochon opals. Stamped ‘stg sil’ with safety chain. $400-600
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603 FIVE “SOUTHERN CROSS” BOOMERANG SOUVENIR BROOCHES IN 9CT GOLD $700-900 604 AN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD COAT OF ARMS BROOCH The coat of arms on a boomerang with ‘ADVANCE AUSTRALIA’, set with a central heart shaped blue stone and a seed pearl, stamped ‘9ct REGD’. $400-600
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605 AN AUSTRALIAN 15CT GOLD MAP OF AUSTRALIA BROOCH With each capital city marked with a gemstone, engraved ‘Australia’ in script, marked ‘15, L’. $300-500 606 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER BAR BROOCH Supporting a pendant map of Australia, silver backed, decorated with pieces of opal depicting five states and one territory of Australia. $300-500
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610 A 15CT GOLD BAR BROOCH BY R. BROS Set with two circular panels of seed pearls and a central drop sharks tooth. Stamped to verso ‘R. Bros 15CT’. $600-800 611 AN 18CT GOLD LOCKET BROOCH Rectangular shape with applied scroll decoration, the raised central section set with five diamonds and two rubies, locket back with safety chain. Estimated total diamond weight 0.34 carats. $600-800 612 A 14CT GOLD AND MALECHITE PENDANT The double sided pendant with a pierced scroll border, pendant fitting. $300-500 613 A 9CT GOLD BAR BROOCH BY WILLIAM KERR, SYDNEY (C. 1839-1896) Scroll ends with a central setting containing an oval cabochon amber, stamped ‘W. KERR 9ct’. $400-600 614 A CARNELIAN AND 9CT GOLD RING The oval cabochon cut carnelian in a simple 9ct wide band mount. Impressed ‘9ct’. $600-800
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615 AN AUSTRALIAN 18CT GOLD ‘LOVE’ RING BY KERR Plain band with applied lettering, stamped ‘KERR’ and ‘18ct’. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $500-700 616 A FOREVER BROOCH 15ct gold decorated with clover leaves and written ‘FOREVER’ marked ‘15ct’ by ‘SPEIRS’. $500-700 617 A PEARL AND DIAMOND DOUBLE WINGS BROOCH 18ct gold mount set with a central blister pearl and a surround of 13 old-cut diamonds and a pair of wings set with natural half pearls, each wing set with approximately 25 old-cut diamonds, stamped to verso ‘18c’ and ‘BASSE’, with safety chain. $1,500-2,500 618 A 15CT GOLD BAR BROOCH With a silver kangaroo setting, set with old-cut diamonds and a ruby eye. $300-500
619 AN AUSTRALIAN PEARL AND DIAMOND BROOCH BY GAUNT, MELBOURNE The 15ct gold pin with a natural pearl and diamond top supporting an intertwined diamond set serpent, stamped ‘GAUNT 15c’ $700-900 620 AN AUSTRALIAN SEED PEARL AND GARNET PENDANT BROOCH ON CHAIN BY DUGGIN SHAPPERE, MELBOURNE The pendant of Art Nouveau design set with 20 seed pearls and two cut garnets, stamped ‘9ct’ and supported on a 9ct gold chain. $600-800 622 A VICTORIAN GOLD HINGED BANGLE 9ct gold with an etruscan style setting containing three round-cut amethysts, box clip with safety chain, stamped ‘9ct’. $500-700
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628 AN 18CT WHITE GOLD KOALA PENDANT The pavé-set diamond body with black enamel eyes and nose, sitting on a branch. Stamped ‘750’. $4,000-6,000
633 A SILVER MODEL OF TWO KOOKABURRAS ON A BRANCH Stamped .925 with maker’s monogram. Length 10.5cm $100-150
624 AN EDWARDIAN HINGED GOLD BANGLE Traditional etruscan design set with three old-cut diamonds and two pink coloured stones, box clasp and safety chain. $600-800
629 A ROBERT CLERCH 18CT GOLD SCARAB RING Stamped ‘750’. $400-600
634 TWO GOLD PLATED BANGLES One silver with pierced decoration of kookaburras, one gold plated decorated with a rifle and an army hat and three coloured stones. $200-400
625 A 15CT GOLD STAR BROOCH With a crescent shaped border, fully set with seed pearls, stamped ‘15ct’. $600-800 626 A WHITE GOLD, DIAMOND AND OPAL PENDANT AND EARRING SET 14ct white gold earrings each set with two teardrop shaped opals with a surround of diamonds. The pendant set with one teardrop shaped opal with a surround of diamonds. $1,000-1,500 627 A 14CT GOLD AND OPAL BROOCH Of naturalistic design set with ten Australian opals of various sizes. $2,000-4,000
630 A SILVER AND 9CT GOLD LYRE BIRD BROOCH The plain silver oval shaped border containing a 9ct gold lyre bird stamped ‘375’. The silver border stamped ‘925’, maker ‘AK’, with safety chain. $800-1,200 631 AN EDWARDIAN BAR BROOCH The 9ct gold double bar design with a central oval claw setting containing a cabochon cut opal, marked ‘9c’. $400-600 632 AN EDWARDIAN GEM SET BAR BROOCH 15ct gold bar brooch, classical design, set with three red stones and four seed pearls, marked verso ‘15ct’, maker ‘PI’. $400-600
635 A 9CT GOLD FLAT CURB LINK DESIGN BRACELET With heart shaped locket and safety chain. $300-500 636 A STICK PIN AND TWO VICTORIAN FOB PENDANTS The stick pin in 15ct gold by Willis, set with a blue paste in original box with sticker ‘Geo P Harris. Scarfe & Co Ltd, Adelaide’. $400-600
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637 A COLLECTION OF BROOCHES AND PENDANTS A coin brooch consisting of a sixpence from 1910 between two threepence, ruby inset to the centre of the sixpence; a one shilling badge dated 1910; an enamelled and silver map of Australia brooch decorated with wattle; an enamelled Woollongong pendant; an Australian coat of arms brooch; a 9ct gold green stone pendant; a 9ct gold pearl set and green stone brooch. (7) $500-700 638 A MOTHER OF PEARL AND GOLD BROOCH Carved in the form of a boomerang with a love heart in the centre, engraved gold mounts and central shield with initials AM, stamped ‘9ct’. $1,200-1,800 639 SIX VARIOUS AUSTRALIAN MILITARY BADGES $700-900 640 A COLLECTION OF SIX SILVER PENDANTS AND THREE SILVER BROOCHES All with various engravings of sports medals. (9) $300-500 641 A 9CT GOLD AND ENAMEL PENDANT Circular with enamel decoration of ‘Tasmanian Railway Ambulance’, engraved to back ‘J. W. CUMMINGS 1936’. Stamped ‘9ct’ and ‘T. & SHARP’. $300-500
642 TWO TORTOISESHELL AND SILVER BROOCHES Each with inlaid rising sun, engraved ‘AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH MILITARY FORCES’. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 LITERATURE: Australian Jewellery, pg 144, illustrated. $300-500 643 A COLLECTION OF SILVER AND ENAMEL PIECES Including a silver pill box enamelled with Donald Bradman, a 9ct gold silver lined kookaburra brooch, a tortoiseshell and silver kangaroo brooch, a chrome plated and enamel budgerigar cigarette compact, a metal and enamelled kookaburra belt buckle, a silver cufflink, and a silver and enamelled pocket knife. $300-500 644 ELEVEN MILITARY BADGES $600-800 645 NINE COMMEMORATIVE MILITARY BADGES $700-900 646 A COLLECTION OF MOTHER OF PEARL MILITARY BADGES AND BROOCHES (7) $700-900 647 FOUR GOLD MILITARY BAR BROOCHES $800-1,200
648 FIVE MILITARY GOLD BROOCHES AND A LOCKET (6) $700-900 649 FIVE MILITARY BROOCHES $400-600 650 A 9CT GOLD AND ENAMEL MILITARY BADGE BROOCH AS A SUNBURST With a crown and sword. Maker Garrard & Co Ltd, Regent Street, London. Hallmarked Birmingham 1979. $400-600 651 AN AUSTRALIAN MOURNING BROOCH Carved central and pierced bone plaque of an emu and a kangaroo, woven hair and photographic portrait to verso. Gold cased mount with a twisted, foliated design border. $1,500-2,500 652 A WHITE CAT’S EYE (OPERCULUM) AND GOLD PENDANT NECKLACE The 9ct gold necklace with 33 white cat’s eyes, with a detachable pendant fitting set with 11 white cat’s eyes, box type clasp, stamped ‘9ct’. $1,000-1,500 653 A GOLD AND DIAMOND BAR BROOCH The 15ct gold bar brooch mount set with four oldcut diamonds, stamped ‘15ct’, with safety chain. $800-1,200
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659 AN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD DOUBLE SIDED PHOTO PENDANT/BROOCH PHOTO LOCKET With a border of star design settings containing three seed pearls and one red stone, with a pendant bale set with a seed pearl, stamped ‘9ct’. $300-500
655 AN AUSTRALIAN STERLING SILVER BANGLE The oval clip lock designed with an engraved floral front panel, plain edges and back. Stamped ‘STERLING’ on both edges. Circa 1880. $600-800
660 AN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD DOUBLE SIDED PHOTO LOCKET Scalloped shaped openwork design border with pendant mount, stamped ‘9ct’. $300-500
656 A CITRINE AND GOLD BROOCH BY RHODA WAGER (1875-1953) Circular design with a border of stylised flowers and leaves, the central setting containing a round faceted citrine, stamped ‘WAGER’. $600-800 657 A VICTORIAN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD BROOCH BY T.P. LEWIS The oval border decorated with gold beads containing a central concave bevelled quartz with an applied floral decoration set with six small oval turquoise, with safety chain, stamped ‘T.P. LEWIS’. $300-500 658 A 9CT GOLD EDWARDIAN DOUBLE SIDED PHOTO LOCKET PENDANT Circular with a pierced scroll border set with four seed pearls, two red and one blue stone, surrounding a central double sided locket pendant. $400-600
661 AN AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD DOUBLE SIDED PHOTO LOCKET PENDANT Pierced scroll border set with four seed pearls containing a central double sided locket with pendant bale set with a seed pearl. $300-500 662 TWO PENDANTS AND A BROOCH A 9ct gold mounted crocodile tooth, a 9ct gold mounted claw by Willis & Sons Pty Ltd, Melbourne, and a 9ct gold mounted axe head set as a brooch. $300-500 663 A SILVER AND MOTHER OF PEARL BROOCH The silver mount with a border of intertwined vine leaves, set with a central carved mother of pearl shell piece, decorated with flowers and leaves. $300-500 664 A TRIPLE BLISTER PEARL AND MOTHER OF PEARL PENDANT Carved in the form of a basket of flowers on a fine 9ct gold chain. $500-700
665 A 15CT GOLD BAR BROOCH Set with a carved mother of pearl and three blister pearl leaves and berries. $500-700 666 A 9CT GOLD BROOCH Set with a double blister pearl, mother of pearl piece carved with leaves and vine, with safety chain, stamped ‘9ct’ and ‘LNS’. $600-800 667 A 9CT GOLD BROOCH Set with a mother of pearl and blister pearl shaped in the form of a flower and leaves. $700-900 668 A LATE 19TH CENTURY OPAL CHIP BAR BROOCH The central domed section set with opal chips in the form of a bird in flight. The bar and mount in 9ct yellow gold. Stamped ‘9c’. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 LITERATURE: Anne Schofield, Kevin Fahy, ‘Australian Jewellery 19th and Early 20th Century’, page 136. $600-800 669 A 9CT GOLD BAR BROOCH Supporting a teardrop shaped pendant decorated with opal chips designed as a kangaroo, Australian flag and map of Australia, stamped ‘9ct’. $300-500
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676 A LIMOGUE SILVER GILT AND ENAMEL BELT BUCKLE In two parts, each in the shape of a waratah flower. Stamped ‘800 SILVER GILT’. Made in England for Flavelle Bros. Ltd Sydney. EXHIBITIONS: The Panama Pacific International Exhibition, San Francisco, 1915. Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney (similar pair). LITERATURE: Anne Schofield and Kevin Fahy, Australian Jewellery 19th and Early 20th Century, pg 75 $1,500-2,500
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680 TWO 9CT GOLD AUSTRALIAN WISHBONE BROOCHES One with applied decoration ‘BEST WISHES’, one with Australian coat of arms and ‘ADVANCE AUSTRALIA’ by Willis & Sons Pty Ltd, Melbourne. $300-500
683 A COLLECTION OF TEN SILVER AUSTRALIAN WISHBONE SOUVENIR BROOCHES Some with enamel decoration. $1,000-1,500
681 FOUR AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD WISHBONE BROOCHES One with emu, two with maps of Australia, one with a map of Australia and a kookaburra, all stamped ‘9ct’. $400-600 682 TWO AUSTRALIAN 9CT GOLD WISHBONE AUSTRALIAN COAT OF ARMS BROOCHES One with enamel decoration, ‘ADVANCE AUSTRALIA’, stamped ‘9, W’, by Willis & Sons Pty Ltd, Melbourne. $400-600
684 A COLLECTION OF SEVEN 9CT GOLD AUSTRALIAN WISHBONE SOUVENIR BROOCHES $800-1,200 685 A COLLECTION OF SEVEN 9CT GOLD AUSTRALIAN WISHBONE SOUVENIR BROOCHES $800-1,200 686 A COLLECTION OF SEVEN 9CT GOLD AUSTRALIAN WISHBONE SOUVENIR BROOCHES $800-1,200
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695 A COLLECTION OF SEVEN AUSTRALIAN COIN BROOCHES Made up of sixpence, florins, shillings, and threepence. $300-500
701 A COLLECTION OF FOURTEEN SILVER AUSTRALIANA BROOCHES, TWO PENDANTS AND TWO SILVER KANGAROOS (18) $500-700
696 A COLLECTION OF COIN JEWELLERY One brooches, two pendants and two pairs of earrings. (6) $400-600
702 AN ASSORTMENT OF COMMEMORATIVE COINS AND MEDALLIONS (approx. 25) $500-700
697 A STERLING SILVER FOB ON CHAIN, COAT OF ARMS OF AUSTRALIA Together with two silver brooches and a pair of cufflinks. $200-400
703 A COLLECTION OF TEN COMMEMORATIVE MEDALLIONS Including Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australian Bicentennial, Centennial of Western Australia, Australian British Exhibition 1964. $500-700
698 FIVE SILVER AUSTRALIAN COATS OF ARMS Two pendants with enamel decoration, two brooches with enamel decoration and a silver disc cut from a coin. $300-500 699 A COLLECTION OF SEVEN SILVER BROOCHES OF AUSTRALIAN INTEREST $400-600 700 A COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN JEWELLERY Two 9ct gold pendants, a 9ct gold brooch, two silver pendant brooches, one oval silver brooch and two opal and silver pendants. (8) $400-600
704 A HARDY BROTHERS LIFE SAVING MEDAL Inscribed in relief ‘Sunt Lacrym AE rerum sunt et sua Pr AE mia LAUDI’ and on the reverse ‘Awarded to Wilton O. Weir Saving Life Tamarama Beach Bondi 29 January 1930. Royal shipwreck relief Humane Society of NSW’. Original presentation box. Retailed by Hardy Brothers Ltd. $1,000-1,500 705 A COLONIAL AND INDIAN RECEPTION BRONZE MEDAL The presentation box inscribed ‘In commemoration of the visit of The Colonial and Indian Representatives to the City of London 25th June 1886. The Right Hon John Staples FSA Lord Mayor, David Evans Esq Alde, Thomas Clark Esq, Sheriffs William Henry Pannell Esq Chairman of the Committee’. Maker Elkington Co Ltd, London. $600-800
706 A 9CT GOLD MEDALLION Of crossed pens in a wreath to jack bock. Inscribed on reverse ‘Presented to Bro Jack Bock CP for services rendered as City Sec Oct 1926-September 1927’. $500-700
709 A BLASHKI & SONS, MELBOURNE, MASONIC MEDAL WITH SILK RIBBON Two bars, engraved ‘Albany Lodge No 10 WAC’. The pendant engraved to reverse ‘Presented to Wor, Bro. C. J. Rayson by the brethren of the Albany Lodge 4th Oct 1975’. Impressed ‘Blashki’.
707 LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION GILT BRONZE MEDAL BY G.T. MORGAN 1873 IN BOX Draped bust of Albert, Prince of Wales left, ostrich plume, reverse Horticultural Society’s arcades, Royal Albert Hall in distance, inscribed ‘Major E. F. Du Cane C.B.R.E CATALOGUE NO. 2350 AND FOR SERVICES’. Diameter 7cm $600-800
OTHER NOTES: Phillip Blashki arrived in Melbourne in 1858 from Poland. He started as a silversmith, his business grew and expanded providing regalia to the Masonic and other fraternities. $300-500
708 A STERLING SILVER MASONIC MEDAL The silk ribbon with initials ‘ROAB, GLE’ with two double horn design bars supporting a silver and enamel pendant. Inscribed ‘Unity, Liberty, Charity. Royal Antedilurian Order of Buffaloes GLE’ and a kangaroo to the base. The reverse inscribed ‘Presented to Bro W. Hewitt 21/5/1927 by the Victory Lodge No. 2501’. Maker Corfield & Co., Richmond, Corfield & Joseph Patrick. Hallmarked Birmingham 1926. Length 10cm $300-500
710 A GILT METAL MASONIC MEDAL The front medallions engraved ‘Maroubra R. A. Chapter No. 569 S. C.’, engraved on the reverse ‘Presented to M Ex Comp L.A.C Fruppell from the companions of Maroubra RAC No. 569 S.C. as a token of esteem 7.6.1967’. Length 10.5cm $500-700 711 A STERLING SILVER MASONIC MEDAL The top bar engraved ‘SIR ARTHUR CLARKE LODGE’. The pendant decorated with enamel Grand Middlesex Banner with an applied kangaroo to the centre. Engraved on the reverse ‘Presented to PRIMO G. S. FINCH 4th Dec 1935’. Maker L. Simpson, London. Hallmarked London 1934. Length 11cm $300-500
712 A 9CT YELLOW GOLD MASONIC MEDAL The two bars inscribed in relief ‘PROVINCIAL GRAND BLACK CHAPTER, VICTORIA’. The reverse engraved ‘Presented Sir Kn’t C. Andrew PROV G. Master for 1912’. Length 13.5cm $600-800 713 A 9CT GOLD AND SILVER MASONIC MEDAL The three bars engraved ‘V. G. L NSW Lodge N. J. McDonald No. 58’. Inscribed on the back ‘Presented to WDR Bro A. G. Edwards from Officers & Brethren 12th July 1939’. Stamped ‘9ct Stg Sil’ multiple times. Length 8.5cm $600-800 714 A 9CT YELLOW GOLD MASONIC MEDAL, ST ANDREW LODGE TOWNSVILLE Inscribed to the reverse ‘Presented to Wor Bro C. F. GREEN P.M as a tolken of esteem by the brethren 14.8.54’. Stamped ‘somers 9ct’. Length 3.2cm $600-800 715 A 9CT YELLOW GOLD AND ENAMEL MASONIC MEDAL, KOGARAH ST GEORGE CHAPTER The ornately decorated bar brooch enscribed ‘KOGARAH ST GEORGE CHAPTER’ with chain links supporting interwinged ‘S’. The medal decorated with flowers and scrolls with a diamond set masonic insignia to the centre. Inscribed to the back ‘Present to sister Jess .I. Shannon W. M. by the members of Kogarah St George Chapt No. 377 OES Nov 1956’ and to the front ‘Worthy Matron 1955’. Stamped 9ct. Length 13cm $800-1,200
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R O YA L D O U LT O N LOTS 800-858 800 A PAIR OF ROYAL DOULTON BOWLS Cream and pale green ground, gilt edging transfer decorated with flowering wattle branches. Green printed factory marks, impressed marks ‘4.22’ and ‘1207’. Artists marks in script ‘HB 6758’ and ‘E4264’. Diameter 18cm; Height 10cm $500-700 801 A ROYAL DOULTON SQUAT VASE Green edging, fully painted with sheep in a landscape with a lower border of Christmas bush. Green printed factory marks to base, impressed marks ‘803’. Artists initials in script ‘C4493’. Height 7.5cm $600-800 802 A RARE ROYAL DOULTON BONE CHINA TWO HANDLED VASE Cream ground with dark green highlights, transfer decorated with a banksia. Green printed factory marks, impressed ‘1148’. Circa 1902-22. Height 11cm PROVENANCE: Alan Landis acquired from the above $400-600
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803 A ROYAL DOULTON MINIATURE BANKSIA VASE Oval plain design painted with a banksia flower and leaves. Pink printed factory marks to base. Height 6cm $600-800 804 A ROYAL DOULTON GROUP OF COCKATOOS MODELLED BY LESLIE HARRADINE (fl. 1902-1915) The pair of birds on a piece of rockwork with erect crests, impressed mark and incised monogram. Circa 1912. Height 20cm $500-700 805 A ROYAL DOULTON PORCELAIN COCKATOO Glazed in deep blue and green with a yellow crop, and standing on a blue rockwork painted with gilt prunus. Printed and impressed marks. Height 17cm $500-700 806 A ROYAL DOULTON BUDGERIGAR FIGURE HN163 The realistically painted bird on a tree stump. Green factory mark to base, impressed mark ‘221’, artist’s initials in script R.A/G Height 17cm $800-1,200
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815 A LARGE PAIR OF DOULTON LAMBETH STONEWARE VASES BY FLORENCE BARLOW Each of baluster outline decorated with a band of art nouveau scrolls to the flared neck, the body with a design of parrots and tropical flowers on a matted ground, impressed and incised marks. (2) Late 19th century. Height 47.5cm $6,000-8,000 816 A DOULTON LAMBETH STONEWARE VASE BY FLORENCE BARLOW Of elongated baluster form with a flared neck flanked by scrolled handles, having all over moulded, incised and piped decoration in shades of blue and ochre, with a scroll framed reserve enclosing a pair of budgerigars and bamboo on a matted ground, impressed and incised marks. Late 19th century. Height 43.5cm $2,000-4,000
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817 A LARGE DOULTON LAMBETH BALUSTER VASE The brown ground painted with Sturt Desert pea flowers and leaves. Printed and impressed factory marks to base, ‘L8928’, artist mark in script ‘EJG/EC/935’. Height 35cm OTHER NOTES: Artist Emily J. Gilman was prominent towards the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth. Her work was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 and at St. Louis in 1904. $3,000-5,000
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818 A PAIR OF DOULTON BURSLEM LUSIAN WARE VASES DECORATED WITH AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWERS The ovoid body tapering to a narrow neck with a rim in the form of an open flower. Two twisted scroll handles extend from the body to the neck. The rim and borders are decorated with a raised gold foliate pattern. Both vases are hand painted with Australian flowers including Australian daisies, wattle and amaryllis belladonna. One signed ‘L Bilton’. Printed factory mark to base, lusian ware, Registered R4 2072. Height 31.2cm OTHER NOTES: Louis Bilton (b. 1860) spent time in Australia working on the ‘Picturesque Atlas of Australasia’ this provided him with a portfolio of floral motifs which he reproduced for Doulton at their Burslem factory. $3,000-5,000 819 A DOULTON LAMBETH STONEWARE BOER WAR JUG The commemorative jug with brown transfer printed oval portrait of Lord Roberts. A beaver is depicted above the portrait and a lion reclines below ‘South Africa 1900’. There is a Kangaroo and an oval portrait of Major General Baden Powell at the left and an ostrich and an oval portrait of Lord Kitchener at the right. Impressed factory mark ‘Doulton Lambeth England /23.’ Height 21cm $500-700 820 A DOULTON LAMBETH STONEWARE COMMEMORATIVE CRICKET JUG With a central oval portrait of W. G. Grace flanked by Geo Giffin and K. S. Ranjitsinghjl either side. Stamped factory marks to base ‘Doulton Lambeth England 4699’. Height 19cm $500-700
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821 A ROYAL DOULTON KINGSWARE DEWARS WHISKY FLASK The brown body decorated in relief with a figure of Captain Phillip with a ship in full sail on the reverse. ‘CAPTAIN PHILLIP’ and ‘1788-1938’ in relief. Black printed factory marks and ‘Dewar’s Whisky’ to base. Circa 1938. Height 22cm $500-700
824 TWO DOULTON BURSLEM MOLLUSC KANGAROO ISLAND VASES White ground, one decorated in pale blue with gilt seaweed and star designs with a molded head to the base after a design by Charles Noke, inspired by Kangaroo Island. Green printed factory marks to base. Artist mark ‘C8307’ in script. Height 12cm $400-600
827 THREE PIECES OF DOULTON BURSLEM IVORY GROUND CERAMICS A pair of bottle vases with elongated trumpet necks, one transfer decorated with wattle, both with stamps for the ‘Art Union of London’; and a two handled ovoid vase decorated with melaleuca scabra blossoms. Late 19th century. Height of pair 25cm $800-1,200
822 A ROYAL DOULTON KINGSWARE DEWARS WHISKY FLASK The brown body decorated in relief with a figure of Captain Phillip with a ship in full sail on the reverse. ‘CAPTAIN PHILLIP’ and ‘1788-1938’ in relief. Black printed factory marks and ‘Dewar’s Whisky’ to base. Circa 1938. Height 22cm
825 A DOULTON BURSLEM CABINET PLATE Scalloped border with gilt edging, painted with wattle sprigs. Brown printed factory marks to base, Rd no. 72067. Circa 1891-1902. Diameter 23cm $300-500
828 NINE DOULTON BURSLEM AND ROYAL DOULTON IVORY GROUND VASES Including a pink ground vase with wattle; a squat vase with reeded sides and silver mounts; three varying cylindrical vases; and three varying twin handled vases; all transfer printed with flowers. Late 19th century. $2,000-4,000
PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $500-700 823 A ROYAL DOULTON STONEWARE MATCH HOLDER Brown glaze with dark blue border, a raised band in relief of kangaroo in a landscape. Impressed factory marks ‘22IY’ and ‘BB5’, ‘1713’ in script. Diameter 11.5cm $300-500
826 A COLLECTION OF ROYAL DOULTON AND OTHER TEAWARE DECORATED WITH WARATAHS Comprising two pairs of trios; five cake plates; a Royal Stafford ‘Australasian Flowers Waratah’ trio and a Japanese cup and two saucers. (26) $500-700
829 A COLLECTION OF DOULTON BURSLEM IVORY GROUND CERAMICS Comprising an ovoid vase with wattle; a slender ovoid vase with wattle and gilt mask handles; a footed ovoid vase with wattle and a shaped rim; a shell shaped dish and a fluted square plate; cheese cover and an associated base; four side plates and a square footed comport. Late 19th century. (12) $800-1,200
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830 FOUR PIECES OF DOULTON BURSLEM IVORY GROUND CERAMICS An ovoid jug, two vases and pin tray all decorated with Australian flowering grass, Dianella. Late 19th century. Height of largest 13cm $800-1,200 831 THREE DOULTON BURSLEM IVORY GOUND COMPORTS Two square and an oval example on foliate scroll feet, painted with peonies and begonia. 1886-1890. Width of oval dish 27cm $400-600 832 TWELVE DOULTON BURSLEM IVORY GROUND CABINET PLATES DECORATED WITH AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS The richly cast gilt rocaille borders enclosing different named examples of Australian flora, including: flowering grass; tecoma australis; lily pily; purple acacia; wattle; eucalyptus; epacris; flannel flowers; and Australian clematis. 1886-1890. Diameter 23cm $3,000-5,000
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833 A COLLECTION OF ROYAL DOULTON FOR THE AUSTRALIAN MARKET All transfer decorated with Australian flora, comprising a chamber pot; a trio with wattle; two cake plates; three various cups and saucers; a small plate; a cup and saucer and another cup painted by E.W.; a ‘Rose and Waratah’ ovoid vase and a Doulton Lambeth vase with a waratah. (12) $500-700 834 A LARGE COLLECTION OF ROYAL DOULTON ROSE AND WARATAH PATTERN TEAWARE Consisting of: seven teacup, saucer and plate sets, six side plates, three milk jugs, two sugar basins, two small dishes and a cake plate. Elaborate black border transfer decorated with waratah and pink roses. Printed factory mark ‘III’, impressed marks. $800-1,200
835 AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF ROYAL DOULTON ‘PIPES OF PAN’ SERIES WARE Each piece transfer decorated with an extensive landscape featuring a seated figure of Pan by a clump of trees, and handpainted waratahs, with variations; comprising; a rose bowl; a large and a small vase; three various jugs; a coffee pot; a tea pot; sugar basin and cover; a comport; two oval serving bowls; a circular serving bowl; a rimmed serving bowl; an octagonal handled dish; a rectangular sandwich plate; five breakfast bowls; three tea cups and saucers; six coffee cans and saucers; two small bowls; six square sandwich plates; a small and a large square plate; a square deep dish; a rectangular small tray; two further rectangular trays with moulded borders, small and larger; and five graduated circular plates. (49) $1,000-1,500 836 A COLLECTION OF ROYAL DOULTON ‘WATTLE & BOTANIC’ PRINTED WARE Comprising a jardiniere, a large bowl, a jug, a vase, a breakfast bowl and two frilled dishes; with transfer printed bands of wattle and a ground of flowers and foliage. (7) $300-500
837 AN EXTENSIVE ROYAL DOULTON ‘ROSES & WATTLE’ DINNER SERVICE Comprising trios, egg cups, serving and cake plates, soup plates, sandwich plates, vegetable dishes, sauce boats, and others; a quantity. First half 20th century. $2,000-4,000 838 A VERY EXTENSIVE ROYAL DOULTON ‘WATTLE’ PATTERN SERVICE Each piece decorated with a colour transfer of a spray of wattle; including tea pots, coffee pots, cream jugs, toast rack, cups and saucers, serving plates, dinner plates and bowls, vases, canisters, ashtrays, baskets a cake stand and others, a quantity. $1,500-2,500 839 FOUR PIECES OF ROYAL DOULTON SERIES WARE RELATING TO TASMANIA A salt and pepper shaker statue of Sir John Franklin, Hobart Tasmania and St. David’s Church Port Arthur Tasmania. Printed factory marks to base, ‘HB8600’ and ‘H993’ in script, impressed ‘22’, circa 1922. A plate, Goverment House Tasmania. Printed factory marks, ‘HB8600’ and ‘H993’ in script, impressed ‘4.20’, circa 1920. A smaller plate, Soldiers Memorial, Hobart, Tasmania. Printed factory marks, ‘HB8600’ and ‘H993’ in script, impressed ‘4.20’, circa 1920. Height of shakers 8cm; Diameter of plate 17.5cm; Diameter of smaller plate 13cm
842 A GROUP OF DOULTON BURSLEM & ROYAL DOULTON SERVING CHINA, VARIOUS PATTERNS AND COLOURWAYS Comprising a plate and two platters in ‘Wattle’ pattern; a large platter, soup plate and six various plates in ‘Manly Beach’ pattern; a large platter, two oval dishes and an underplate in ‘Rose & Waratah’ pattern; a sauce boat and underplate in ‘Boronia’ pattern; six small dishes in ‘Adrian’ pattern and a lidded vegetable dish and two saucers in unnamed patterns, thirteen pieces with a NSW Christmas Bush pattern. Late 19th/early 20th century. (38) $600-800 843 A LARGE DOULTON BURSLEM JUG Transfer decorated in brown and colours with a design of waratah sprays and other flowers. Height 31.5cm $400-600 844 A PART ROYAL DOULTON AUSTRALIAN CHRISTMAS BUSH DINNER SERVICE Comprising of fifteen plates of various sizes, three lidded tureens (one with ladle), one teacup and saucer, one teacup, saucer and plate, one gravy boat on stand and a large oval platter. Printed factory marks to underside. $600-800
845 ROYAL DOULTON ‘WARATAH’ CAKE PLATES PLUS ONE SMALLER Each with a pink ground, black edging decorated with a band of waratah and wattle flowers. Printed factory marks, ‘H2271’ in script. Circa 1925. Diameter of six 5.5cm; Diameter of one 3cm with a silver plated earring handle $300-500 846 FOUR PIECES OF ROYAL DOULTON DECORATED WITH KOOKABURRA AND GOLDEN WATTLE Comprising a cup and saucer, a plate, two dishes and a bowl. $300-500 847 A ROYAL DOULTON AUSTRALIAN HEATH TEAPOT, STAND, JUG AND BOWL Gilt edging, transfer decoration in bands of Australian heath. Factory marks to base, ‘E 8438’ in script. $300-500 848 A ROYAL DOULTON AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS CUP, SAUCER AND PLATE SET, RECTANGULAR CAKE PLATE AND A ROUND DISH All transfer decorated with waratahs and pink roses. Factory mark to base ‘H2433’ in script. $200-400
LITERATURE: L. Irvine, Doulton Series Ware Vol 4, pg 45-8. $800-1,200 840 A GROUP OF DOULTON BURSLEM ‘WATTLE’ PATTERN SERVING CHINA Brown transfer decorated comprising five graduated rectangular platters; three sauce boats; a rectangular lidded vegetable dish; a rectangular dish; five various soup plates; nine various dinner plates. Late 19th century. (24) $600-800 841 A GROUP OF DOULTON BURSLEM ‘WATTLE’ PATTERN SERVING CHINA Green and blue transfer decorated comprising three rectangular and an oval lidded vegetable dishes and one underplate; two oval platters; a side plate and four various larger plates. Late 19th century. (12) $600-800
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849 TWO ROYAL DOULTON CUP, SAUCER AND PLATES PLUS TWO CUPS AND SAUCERS Pale yellow ground with ornate gilt borders, transfer decorated with pink heath flowers and leaves. One cup and saucer with a white ground instead of yellow. Printed factory marks and ‘F Lassetter & Co Ltd Sydney’. $400-600 850 FOUR ROYAL DOULTON TEACUPS AND SAUCERS Transfer decorated with native Australian flowers, gilt borders. Printed factory marks to base, one retailed by Farmer & Co. Sydney. $400-600 851 A COLLECTION OF ROYAL DOULTON WATTLE TEAWARE Cake plate, small comport, two cups and saucers, a cup saucer and plate set and a round dish. Printed factory marks to base. $300-500 852 A COLLECTION OF ROYAL DOULTON AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWERS PIECES Three spill vases, two eggcups and five small dishes, transfer decorated with waratah, christmas bush and other flowers. Printed factory marks to base. $600-800
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853 THREE ROYAL DOULTON BONE CHINA CUPS, SAUCERS AND PLATES Cream ground, green edging decorated with transfer and painted Australian flowers. Printed factory marks, ‘VI272’ in script, impressed ‘3.9.32’. $600-800
857 TWO PIECES OF ROYAL DOULTON COMMEMORATIVE WARE A loving cup with the First Fleet and Sydney Harbour, and a Toby jug depicting Captain Cook, for Jim Beam Bourbon Whiskey. Height of tallest 16.5cm $200-400
854 TWO ROYAL DOULTON CUP, SAUCER AND PLATE SETS The first transfer decorated with native heath, gilt rim. Printed factory marks, ‘H2434’ in script, impressed ‘8.28’, ‘7.34’. The second transfer decorated with waratah, gilt mounts. Printed factory marks ‘H2433’ in script, impressed ‘2.26’, ‘7.30’. $400-600
858 TWO ROYAL DOULTON JAMES COOK BICENTENARY LOVING CUPS Numbers 373/500 and 379/500 in black basalt with low relief profile portrait and a scene of The Landing, gilt lettering ‘CAPTAIN COOK 1770 AUSTRALIA 1970’. Height 21cm $600-800
855 A PAIR OF ROYAL DOULTON BONE CHINA COFFEE CUPS AND SAUCERS Gilt edging, decorated with an overall design of flowering wattle. Each piece signed T. Parton. Green printed factory marks to base, Rd No. 708898, Ra 94 and H2375 in script. $200-400 856 FOUR ROYAL DOULTON TEA CUPS AND SAUCERS Transfer decorated with waratah, wattle, native fuschia. Printed factory marks to base. $400-600
859 A ROYAL DOULTON BONE CHINA CUP, SAUCER AND SCALLOPED EDGE DISH Transfer decorated with green wattle pattern. Green printed factory marks. (3) $200-400 860 FOUR PIECES OF ROYAL DOULTON PAINTED BY MYRA BEGG Comprising three pin trays and a bowl, painted with flowers including wattle and Christmas bells. Signed and printed marks. (4) Width of largest pin tray 14.5cm $100-150 861 TWO ROYAL DOULTON KOOKABURRA PLATES Both transfer decorated with the bird on a branch with wattle, one within a leaf border, the other with shaped rim. Diameter 26cm $200-400
862 A ROYAL DOULTON LAMBETH BIBELOT The naturalistically painted base with blue interior supporting a koala on a branch amongst gum leaves, designed by Maud Bowden. Impressed factory marks to base ‘X8362’, ‘MB’ in script. Circa 1912-20. Diameter 14.5cm; Height 11cm $600-800 863 A ROYAL DOULTON KOALA PIN TRAY The marsupial holding a branch sitting in a circular dish modelled with gum leaves, glazed brown, blue and green. Impressed marks. 1934. 11 cm high, 15 cm diameter $600-800 864 A DOULTON AUSTRALIA CERAMIC PEDESTAL Glazed brown, with fluted and leaf cast shaft. Impressed mark. Height 57cm $400-600
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868 A COLLECTION OF ROYAL DOULTON ‘BIRD OF PARADISE’ TITANIAN WARE PORCELAIN Each decorated with a stylised bird of paradise on a mottled grey ground within blue and brown geometric and leaf borders, comprising a jardinière, a small vase, a larger square vase, a handled conical vase, four jugs of varying sizes, a bowl with a silverplate rim, another bowl, a small bowl, an oval bowl, three various sandwich plates, two large dinner plates, two smaller plates and two entrée plates, a small dish and an experimental coffee pot with cancelled mark. (23) $2,000-3,000
871 A ROYAL DOULTON PIN TRAY AND A TRIO PAINTED BY MAMIE VENNER The pin tray painted with a spray of flowering eucalypt, blue and gilt borders; the trio of mixed makers painted with yellow flowers with gilt wrigglework. (4) Width of pin tray 15cm $300-500
872 A GROUP OF WATTLE PATTERNED TEA WARE Comprising a Shelley trio; a Royal Doulton black ground cup and saucer; a continental cake plate; and four small Grafton plates with pink, black and wattle borders. (10) $300-500
869 A GROUP OF ROYAL DOULTON ‘BIRD OF PARADISE’ TEA WARE A cake plate with yellow border; two further plates, a small cream jug and another plate with a variant design. (5) $300-500 870 A GROUP OF PORCELAIN WITH FLANNEL FLOWERS AND WARATAHS Comprising a transfer ware bowl in the ‘Flannel Daisy’ pattern, a basin and smaller bowl by Royal Doulton; and two cake plates with waratah and blossom borders. (5) $300-500
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873 A ROYAL WORCESTER CROWN WARE OVAL PIN DISH Black gloss glaze with a model of a kookaburra. Green factory mark to base, 'CW225'. Circa 1925. Length 15cm; Width 10cm $1,000-1,500 874 A ROYAL WORCESTER CROWN WARE KOOKABURRA ASHTRAY Powder blue mottled glaze with a model of a kookaburra. Green factory mark to base, 'CW227'. Circa 1925. Diameter 14.2cm PROVENANCE: Alan Landis acquired from the above $1,000-1,500 875 A ROYAL WORCESTER CROWN WARE KOOKABURRA ASHTRAY Powder blue mottled glaze with a model of a kookaburra. Green factory mark to base 'CW227'. Circa 1925. Diameter 14.2cm $1,000-1,500
876 A ROYAL WORCESTER CABINET PLATE Gilt edging, green border with ornate gilt overlay decoration. The central reserve painted with Australian orchids. Signed R. Austin. Printed puce factory marks, ‘Hi’ in script, impressed ‘29’ to base. Diameter 26.5cm PROVENANCE: Alan Landis acquired from the above $800-1,200 877 A ROYAL WORCESTER SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1879 PLATE The stylised rope design painted turquoise and gold, painted with butterfly and other insects amongst various grasses. This plate was produced to commemorate the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879. Impressed factory mark to base, artist possibly James E. Sherriff Jnr. Diameter 23cm $300-500
878 TWO ROYAL WORESTER AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS PLATES AND A COMPORT Gilt edging and acid etched waratah border. Each painted with epacris impressa (common heath). Plates signed P. Austin. Printed puce factory marks, ‘Flavelle Brothers Ltd’ to base. (3) Diameter 23cm $1,500-2,500 879 THREE ROYAL WORCESTER CIRCULAR AUSTRALIAN FLOWER LIDDED BOXES Gilt edging, cream ground, each painted with Christmas bells, two with native heath. Printed puce factory marks, ‘Flavelle Brothers Ltd’ to base. $1,200-1,400
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880 A ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS SERIES VASE Bulbous ovoid shape with slender neck, gilded base and neck with raised foliate design. Painted with flowering gum back and front on a cream case. Made for Thomas Webb & Sons Melbourne. Purple printed factory marks to base, Australian Wild Flower series shape H304 RD No. 19792. Height 16cm $2,000-4,000
881 A ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS VASE The ovoid vase with slender neck, gilt band to top and base. Painted with a banksia front and back on a cream ground. Signed A. Shuck. Designed by Marian Ellis Rowan (1848-1922). Blue printed Worcester blue factory mark to base and purple ‘Flavelle Brothers Ltd 413’ painted mark. Height 22cm OTHER NOTES: Ellis Rowan had a major exhibition of Australian flora at Angus and Robertson, Sydney in August 1910. Her aim was to record all known Australian wildflowers. Several designs of waratah, gum blossom and other Australian flora were acquired by the Flavelle Brothers. William Flavelle either purchased them from the 1910 exhibition or, more likely, commissioned specific designs directly from Rowan. These were forwarded to Royal Worcester Porcelain Co Ltd to produce a series of Australian wild flowers. Several dozen original watercolours by Rowan still survive in the Worcester archives. $2,000-4,000
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882 A ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS VASE Inverted baluster shape with gilded top and base. Painted with native heath back and front. Signed W. Hale. Printed blue factory marks to base, shape 2195, ‘Erica Longifolia’ in script to base. Height 19cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,200-1,400
883 A ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWERS VASE The inverted baluster shape with gilded lip and base, ornately decorated central oval panel painted with native heath. Signed W. Hale. Printed blue factory marks, shape 2195, ‘Erica Boweiana 2’ in script to base. Height 19cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,200-1,400 884 A ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWERS LIDDED VASE The baluster shape with gilded lip and base. The ornatelly decorated central oval panel painted with native heath. Signed W. Hale. Blue printed factory marks, shape 2470, ‘Erica Longifolia’ in script to base. Height 24cm PROVENANCE: Alan Landis acquired from the above $4,000-6,000
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885 A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWERS TWO HANDLED VASES Classical vase shape with gilded highlights, painted front and back with christmas bells flowers. Signed R. Austin. Printed ‘Flavelle Brothers Ltd (D)’. Printed blue factory marks to base, RD No. 656541, shape 2628. Height 31cm $3,000-5,000 886 TWO ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWERS TEACUPS AND SAUCERS Each with waratah transfer decorated border to the cup and saucer. One painted with waratah, the other with flannel flowers, unsigned. Printed purple factory marks, c2516, ‘waratah’, ‘flannel flower’ in script, one saucer unmarked retailer’s stamp. (4) $1,000-1,500 887 A ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS CUP, SAUCER AND PLATE PLUS THREE SAUCERS Gilt edging with broad quaker acid etched border. Each painted with flowers including waratah, wattle and flannel flower. Wattle signed P. Austin, waratah saucer signed A. Shuck. Printed puce factory mark, ‘Flavelle Brothers Ltd’, Rd No’s 565106 and 565107. (6) $1,000-1,500
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888 A ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS PIN DISH Gilt edging, cream ground painted with native heath. Printed puce factory mark, ‘Flavelle Roberts & Sanky Ltd, Brisbane’ to base. Diameter 7cm $300-500 889 A ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS SQUARE PLATE Gilt edging, cream ground painted with a malalenca lencodendrum (bottle brush). Signed R. Austin. Printed puce factory marks ‘Flavelle Brothers Ltd’, ‘Malalenca Lencodendrum 551’ in script to base. 14.3 x 14.3cm $300-500
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890 A ROYAL WORCESTER SQUARE PLATE Acid etched border with gilt edging. The cream ground painted with wattle branches. Signed R. Austin. Printed puce factory marks, ‘Flavelle Brothers Ltd’, Rd No. 565107, ‘C346’ in script to base. 21.8 x 21.8cm $300-500 891 SIX ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWERS COFFEE CUPS AND SAUCERS Cream ground, narrow acid etched gilt borders at gilt handles. Each decorated with Australian wildflowers. Retailers mark ‘Flavelle Roberts & Sankey Ltd., Brisbane’. Printed puce factory marks, , c2963, ‘Christmas bells’, ‘flannel flower’, ‘wattle’, ‘melaleuca lancadendum’, ‘waratah’, ‘heath’ in script to base. (12) $5,000-7,000
892 A ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS CUP AND SAUCER Gilt edging, each painted with a flowering wattle branch. Printed ‘wattle C2514’ in script. Printed puce factory marks. $300-500 893 A ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIA FLOWERS PLATE Gilt edging with waratah design, border painted with a boroma flowering branch. Printed puce factory mark, impressed ‘8’ and ‘Y2’ to base. Diameter 23.5cm $400-600
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894 THREE ROYAL WORCESTER ELLIS ROWAN AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS POTS Each with acid etched rim with gilt border, the fronts painted with Australian flowers. Printed puce factory marks to base; The Mrs Ellis Rowan Series Australian Flowers, Prouds Ltd., sum Helichrysum Semigapposum G. P. ID C547 The Mrs Ellis Rowan Series Australian Flowers, Prouds Ltd., Marrianthos Bienoniaceus 6.K ID C547 Flavelle Brothers Ltd, RD No. 565107 $300-500 895 A ROYAL WORCESTER CUP AND SAUCER, MILK JUG AND SUGAR BOWL Light green ground decorated with wattle sprigs. Signed H. Everett. Stamped puce factory marks, painted 21155, impressed ‘6’. (4) $300-500
896 A RARE ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS CUP AND SAUCER Gilt interior, handle and central saucer reserve. Painted with flowering wattle branches. Signed Delia Cadden. Printed puce factory marks, date sequence for 1911, impressed mark ‘9k’. OTHER NOTES: Delia Cadden was born in Ascot, Victoria. In about 1907-8 she studied china painting under J. A. Peach at the Sydney Technical College and continued her studies in the Art Department until 1911. She exhibited in the 1907 Women’s Work Exhibition of Melbourne. Between 1912-17 she exhibited with the NSW Society of Arts and Crafts. Cadden, a china painter of considerable ability, decorated vase, tea and coffee sets, plates, wall plaques and buttons. $2,000-4,000
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897 ROYAL WORCESTER TWO COFFEE CUPS AND FOUR SAUCERS Each with gilded edging, one cup with gilt interior. Painted with Australian birds, including kookaburra, spotted fairy wren, jacky winter. One signed W. Powell, the others signed R. Austin. Printed puce factory marks, one printed ‘Flavelle Brothers’, ‘C2087’, ‘C528 (5F)’ in script to base. (6) $800-1,200 898 A ROYAL WORCESTER VASE Cylindrical with flared rim and base. Painted with a pair of buff-brested paradise kingfishers on a branch. Signed R. Austin. Printed blue factory marks, shape 2510. Height 23cm PROVENANCE: The Austin Family Alan Landis acquired from the above $5,000-7,000
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899 A ROYAL WORCESTER COFFEE POT AND COVER Gilt highlights and edging. Fully painted with a kookaburra on a branch in a landscape on both sides. Signed R. Austin. Printed puce factory marks on base and lid. Height 17.5cm PROVENANCE: Alan Landis acquired from the above $2,500-3,500 900 A ROYAL WORCESTER COFFEE POT AND COVER Gilt handle and edging. The pale yellow ground painted with a bird of paradise on a branch. Signed R. Austin. Based on a painting by Ellis Rowan sent to the Worcester factory by Flavelle Brothers Ltd. Painted puce factory marks to base and lid. Height 17.5cm $2,500-3,500
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901 A ROYAL WORCESTER RECTANGULAR DISH Cream ground with gilt edging. The interior decorated with a bird of paradise on a branch. Signed R. Austin. Printed puce factory mark, ‘bird of paradise’ in script to base. Length 23cm; Width 15cm; Height 7.5cm $1,500-2,500 902 A ROYAL WORCESTER PLATE Gilt edging, white ground, transfer print of a kookaburra on a branch in a landscape. Printed puce factory marks, ‘Kookaburra C2420’ in script to base. Diameter 15.5cm $300-500 903 A ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN BIRDS PLATE Gilt edging, cream ground painted with two spotted diamond birds on branches. John Pinnick Collection label attached. Signed B. M Bradshaw. Printed puce factory stamp, ‘Spotted diamond bird 5V’ in script to base. Diameter 15cm $300-500
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904 A ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN BIRDS PLATE Gilt acid etched foliate border, painted with two azure kingfishers on a branch in a landscape. Signed R. Austin. Printed puce factory marks, ‘Flavelle Brothers Ltd’, ‘Azure Kingfisher (55)’ in script, impressed mark ‘13.05’ to base. Diameter 23cm $1,500-2,500
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905 A FRAMED SQUARE ROYAL WORCESTER PLATE Gilt edging, acid etched quaker border. Painted with a kookaburra on a wattle branch in a landscape. Signed R. Austin. Printed factory marks, ‘Prouds Ltd’, ‘C546 5A’ in script to base. Dated 1911. Plate 4.3 x 4.3cm $500-700 906 A ROYAL WORCESTER SQUARE PLATE Gilt foliate design border, the cream ground painted with a blue wren on a branch. Printed puce factory marks, ‘blue wren C2431’ in script to base. Diameter 14.5cm $300-500
907 A MINIATURE ROYAL WORCESTER JUG Gilt handle and edging, cream ground painted with a kookaburra on a branch. Signed Powell. Printed factory marks to base. Height 3.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $300-500 908 A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PLATES BY C. JOHNSON Each painted with three flamingoes within a landscape. The 3.5cm acid etched quaker border decorated with botanicals. Signed lower right. Printed puce factory marks verso and ‘W639’ in script. $2,000-4,000
909 TWO ROYAL WORCESTER PLATES BY C. JOHNSON Each painted with three flamingoes in a landscape. One with an acid etched quaker border decorated with grapes, the other with botanicals. Both with printed puce factory marks, one with ‘RDNo 564931’ and ‘W9639’ in script, the other ‘Made in England for Thos Webb & Sons, Melbourne’ and ‘W9736’ in script. $1,500-2,500 910 A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN AUSTRALIAN BIRDS BROOCH Plain silver frame containing a circular plaque painted with two kookaburras on a branch with safety chain. Signed R. Austin. Puce factory mark to base. Circa 1925. Diameter 4cm $600-800
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911 A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN BROOCH Plain gold frame containing a circular plaque painted with a bird of paradise on a branch. Signed R. Austin. Puce factory mark to underside with original Flavelle, Roberts & Sankey Ltd box. Diameter 3.5cm PROVENANCE: Alan Landis acquired from the above $2,000-4,000 912 A COLLECTION OF FIVE ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN AUSTRALIAN BIRDS PLAQUES Four oval and one round, each painted with Australian birds including kookaburras, blue robin or spotted dunond. One with brooch fitting. Either monogrammed or signed by R. Austin. Printed factory marks to underside. Circa 1925-26. Diameter of circular 3.2cm; One oval 3.2 x 2.5cm; two oval 4 x 2cm; mounted in a frame $1,500-2,500 913 THREE ROYAL WORCESTER AUSTRALIAN BIRDS PLAQUES One circular, painted with flannel flowers. One circular painted with a blue wrenon a wattle branch. One oval painted with a bird of paradise on a branch. Each initialed R. A for R. Austin. Puce factory marks to reverse. Circa 1925. Diameter of circular 3cm; Oval 2.8 x 2cm
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914 A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN AUSTRALIAN BIRDS PLAQUE Circular, painted with two kookaburras on a branch. Signed R. Austin. Puce factory mark to base. Circa 1925. Diameter 4cm $600-800
WEDGWOOD LOTS 915-920 915 A WEDGWOOD JASPERWARE ‘SYDNEY COVE’ MEDALLION With the classical figures of Hope encouraging Art and Labour under the influence of Peace, over the word ‘ETRURIA’ and the date 1789 in white on a black basalt base, in a later gilt frame retailed by ‘D. BERNARD FINE ART GALLERY 387 George St SYDNEY’. Mid 19th century. Diameter of the medallion 7.5cm PROVENANCE: Alan Landis acquired from the above $5,000-7,000 916 A WEDGWOOD BLUE JASPER WARE PLAQUE With a 15ct gold rope twist border frame, the front decorated with four maidens and ‘ETRURIA 1789’. The back stamped ‘WEDGWOOD’. $2,000-4,000
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917 A WEDGWOOD BLUE JASPER WARE PLAQUE The plaque with a relief of Captain Cook to the centre with a laurel leaf border. Designed to commemorate the bicentenary of Australia, 1788-1988. Edition 129/500, impressed marks ‘WEDGWOOD MADE IN ENGLAND’, signed in script ‘D Hayes’. $5,000-10,000 918 A WEDGWOOD JASPERWARE PORTRAIT PLAQUE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK Shown in profile, after the wax portrait by John Flaxman. Impressed ‘WEDGWOOD’ and incised ‘Capt. Cook’ to verso. Circa 1790. 12.5 x 10cm
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920 920 A DESSERT SERVICE HANDPAINTED WITH AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWERS The porcelain by Wedgwood with scalloped rim, comprising a large and small comport and five plates all decorated with different blooms of the bush signed with initials H.A.F. (7) Diameter 24cm $300-500 921 A WEDGWOOD ‘SEAWEED’ BOWL Decorated with seaweed and applied lobster feet. Printed mark to base ‘SEAWEED’, ‘ETRURIA, ENGLAND’ AND ‘WEDGWOOD’. Impressed ‘WEDGWOOD’, in script ‘C2457’. $500-700 922 A WEDGWOOD CABINET PLATE PAINTED WITH A COCKATOO BY E.J. EVERARD The plate with moulded reeded border and green flowerhead rim, the blue central reserve with a cockatoo on a fruiting branch. Impressed mark. Diameter 23cm $400-600
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923 A WEDGWOOD PORCELAIN FIGURINE OF SIR DONALD BRADMAN The celebrated cricketer holding up his bat and green baggy cap in his other hand. Edition 194/2000. Height 17.5cm $300-500 924 A COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN COMMEMORATIVE JASPERWARE A silverplate mounted salad bowl and servers by Adams with the arms of Melbourne; a Wedgwood trinket box, lozenge shaped tray and spill vase with Western Australia; two small vases with Sydney NSW; and two small vases with South Australia and Queensland. (10) $400-600 925 THREE ITEMS OF WEDGWOOD JASPERWARE COMMEMORATING CAPTAIN ARTHUR PHILLIP AND THE BICENTENARY AND TWO JASPER MOULDS An oval plaque, a bud vase and a square trinket box, each with a portrait of the first governor, and two Wedgwood moulds for the Australian coat of arms. Impressed ‘WEDGWOOD’. (5) $200-300
926 TWO ITEMS OF SUNDERLAND LUSTRE WARE Both with transfer decoration of ‘THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN CLIPPER SHIP’, comprising a jug and a basin with orange lustre bands, the bowl impressed ‘SCOTT’. Mid 19th century. Height of jug 19.5cm $400-600 927 A SUNDERLAND LUSTRE JUG Transfer printed with ‘THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN CLIPPER SHIP” to one side and ‘NORAN GREINA STEAM YACTH” (sic) to the verso, with mauve lustre decoration. Mid 19th century. Height 22cm $200-400 928 A CERAMIC BOWL MODELLED WITH SEA LIFE Signed D. Pickering and dated 14.10.37, the rim formed as waves with coral, seaweed, seahorse and fish. Width 31cm $200-400
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929 A COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN PINK GROUND CERAMICS Comprising a large English jug with a view of the unrealised design for the Houses of Parliament Sydney; and five pieces of Continental porcelain with Sydney buildings. (6) $400-600 930 A CAVERSWALL PORCELAIN COMMEMORATIVE LOVING CUP FOR THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Decorated in gilt with blue reserved panels having a portrait of Prince Charles and two others. Height 16cm $500-700 931 A LARGE MEASHAM POTTERY BARGEWARE TEAPOT WITH AUSTRALIAN INSCRIPTION The domed cover with a teapot finial, the brown glazed body sprigged with flowers, baskets and pheasants and ‘A PRESENT TO MR & MRS HAWKSWORTH VICTORIA ST MELBOURNE’. Late 19th century. Height 30.5cm $2,000-4,000
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932 A SMALL MEASHAM POTTERY BARGEWARE TEAPOT WITH AUSTRALIAN INSCRIPTION The domed cover and brown glazed body sprigged with flowers within flower borders, and the inscription ‘PRESENTED TO MR & MRS STONE MELBOURNE’. Late 19th/early 20th century. Height 18cm $1,000-1,500 933 A LITHGOW POTTERY LIDDED JAR Ovoid with a flared neck, having impressed decoration to the cover and around the shoulder, brown glaze. Late 19th century. Height 26.5cm; Diameter 24cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,500-2,500 934 TWO ROY KIRKHAM TOBY JUGS One depicting a “Swaggie” the other a “Shearer”. Height of tallest 24cm $300-500
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935 A PAIR OF GOUDA WARE OVOID VASES Marked Regina, with a design of flowers on a pale blue ground. Height 24.5cm $800-1,200 936 A RARE CERAMIQUE RAMBERVILLERS MODEL OF A KANGAROO In green/blue iridescent glaze. Impressed marks. Early 20th century. Height 26cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 OTHER NOTES: In 1903 Alphonse Cytère (1861-1941) set up an art studio in Rambervillers near Strasbourg, which produced ceramics often designed by prestigious artists of the Ecole de Nancy such as Bussiere, Gruber, Jeandelle, Majorelle. Rambervillers specialised in unusual and iridescent glazes on organic forms. $400-600
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941 THREE 19TH CENTURY CERAMIC KANGAROO SPILL VASES A humorous creamware spill vase marked in script to the underside ‘A real Australian, but all Australians are not like this’; a flower and foliage encrusted Ernst Bohne & Sohne vase with a pair of wallabies; and another German double vase centred with a kangaroo and joey. Height of tallest 15cm $200-400 942 A COLLECTION OF CERAMIC KANGAROO FIGURINES Of varying sizes, origins and designs including a Beswick ‘roo; a Goebel kangaroo and joey; a German group of boxing kangaroos; an Edwin Leech & Co stump figure; a Beswick kangaroo; a Beswick koala; a Japanese salt and pepper mother and joey and others. (14) $300-500
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943 FOUR EUROPEAN PORCELAIN KANGAROOS A large Lladro figure of a mother with bandaged tail and joey in pouch and a smaller Lladro figure similar and two Hungarian Drasche porcelain ‘roos on triangle bases. Height of tallest 16.5cm $400-600 944 TWO AUSTRALIAN THEMED BISCUIT BARRELS A Locke & Co. crested barrel ‘Advance Australia’ with arms of Australia having a silver plated mounted handle and lid, and a McCoy pottery biscuit barrel in the form of a kangaroo and joey. $200-500
951 937 AN AUSTRIAN ‘AMPHORA’ PORCELAIN KANGAROO Naturalistically modelled and coloured. Impressed marks and decorator’s mark Height 24cm $300-500 938 TWO CARLTONWARE ‘BUTTERFLY GIRL’ FIGURINES FOR THE AUSTRALIAN MARKET, AND A BUNNYKINS LIFESAVER The Butterfly Girls with Australian Flag wings, produced for Artware Collectables; the special edition Royal Doulton “Federation Bunnykins” produced for Dalbry Antiques, Melbourne. (3) Height of The Butterfly Girl 23.5cm $400-600
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939 A COLLECTION OF KANGAROO THEMED ITEMS AND A TRENCH ART BRIAR PIPE Comprising a Carltonware kangaroo advertising figure for Guinness, another of a porter and Joey, an ostrich and two jugs titled ‘My Goodness My Guinness’; a jointed toy kangaroo; a copper kangaroo lighter; and a black painted brass kangaroo pipe stand; the pipe with all over carved detail including inscription ‘TO A.H. READ FROM JOHN W. READ’ and other inscriptions relating to the battlefields of Flanders in World War I. (9) $300-500 940 A COLLECTION OF KANGAROO FIGURINES Comprising two Malaysian metal money boxes; a musical porcelain group; a Coalport and a Wedgwood porcelain kangaroo; two brass roos; a frosted glass macropod; two small brass examples; a kangaroo mounted glass box; a ceramic roo decanter; a painted lead figure and a metal advertising figure; and two plastic examples. (16) $500-1,000
945 TWO LANCASTER & SONS BISCUIT BARRELS Both with silver plated lids and handles and transfer decorated with kookaburras, blue borders, one of square outline the other cylindrical. $200-400 946 A ROYAL DOULTON AND A DOULTON BURSLEM BISCUIT BARREL Each with silver plated lids and handles, The Royal Doulton barrel transfer decorated with Christmas bush, the Burslem barrel with waratahs in underglaze blue. (2) $300-500
947 A MT LONARCH VASE AND COVER PAINTED BY LORRAINE LUCEY The domed cover with gumnut finial, the ovoid body with scroll handles and moulded foot, painted in colours with a creek winding between eucalypts. Height 24cm $1,000-1,500 948 AN ART DECO PORCELAIN VASE DECORATED WITH WARATAHS The ovoid body with a pair of squared handles, painted with stylised waratah flowers and foliage in shades of orange and blue. Signed A A Cardiff. Height 22cm $800-1,200 949 THREE WALL VASES AND A TROUGH VASE A Pate’s Potteries wall vase moulded as gum leaves and a smaller similar in brown glaze; a McCredie art deco wall vase with blue interior; and a Diana trough with green brown glaze. (4) $300-500
953 FOUR AUSTRALIAN CERAMIC GUM LEAF MOULDED WALL VASES Of similar design, two with a burgundy glaze, one with mottled brown and another with mottled brown/green glaze. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $400-600 954 THREE AUSTRALIAN ART DECO CERAMIC VASES A stepped Bossley ware wall pocket in blue mottled glaze with a kangaroo in relief; a Diana wall pocket with sgraffito decoration of three flying ducks; and a Modern Ceramic Products circular vase modelled with a dancer in pink glaze.
955 FIVE AUSTRALIAN ART POTTERY VASES BY REGAL MASHMAN, JOHN CAMPBELL AND MELROSE WARE The two Regal Mashman vases with brown/blue glaze; the two blue glazed Melrose vases moulded with gum leaves and koalas; the Campbell vase of flattened conical form with streaky brown glaze. $400-600 956 A SMALL PORCELAIN BOWL PAINTED BY ADA IONE NEWMAN With a design of stylised trees in shades of blue lustre, the interior with orange and blue mottled glaze. Signed to base. Height 5cm; Diameter 7.5cm $600-800
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950 A DIANA CERAMIC WALL VASE AND A PAIR OF WALL VASES The Diana vase with kangaroo paw in relief, pink and grey glaze; the pair of elongated conical vases with mottled brown, green and orange glaze. (3) PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $500-700 951 THREE AUSTRALIAN CERAMIC WALL VASES A mottled brown pine cone example incised ‘Bennett Adelaide’; another with gum leaves and nuts, and an aquatic example with a crab and seaweed incised ‘GRES AUTUMN TONES AND RUSSETT’ to verso.
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957 A CYLINDRICAL VASE PAINTED BY ADA IONE NEWMAN With a continuous design of art nouveau style trees in brown on a deep orange ground. Signed to underside and monogrammed, transfer mark of B & Co Limoges. Height 26cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 OTHER NOTES: Ada Newman (1869-1949) was a founding member of the Arts and Crafts Society of NSW created in 1906. Her china painting was shown in the 1907 Women’s Work Exhibition in Melbourne, as well as with the Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria. By 1914 she had set up a studio on Hunter Street and also taught china painting with her partner Ethel Atkinson. $1,500-2,000 958 A PORCELAIN MEIPING VASE PAINTED BY ADA IONE NEWMAN With a continuous band of peacock feathers on a blue and purple lustre ground. Signed to base, Rosenthal back stamp. Height 29cm $1,500-2,500
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959 A DIANA POTTERY VASE PAINTED WITH AN OUTBACK SCENE ATTRIBUTED TO NORMAN SHERRATT Of squat baluster form. Painted mark to base ‘Australian Bush Scenes Hand Painted’. Height 14.5cm $400-600 960 TWO JUGS BY REMUED A green and brown mottled jug and a brown jug with a relief profile of Edward VIII, both incised ‘Remued’ to base. Height of tallest 21cm $400-600 961 A STONEWARE VASE BY MERRIC BOYD Of graduated conical form with flared rim, mottled blue glaze, incised signature and date to base. 1926. Height 26cm $800-1,200 962 A RARE ‘JOLLIFF’ JUG BY FREDERICK E. COX Of open mouthed form with a weeping tree handle, blue green glaze, incised to the base: ‘Jolliff HAND BUILT CFE VICTORIAN CENTENARY 1834-1934’. Dated 1934. Height 15cm; Diameter 20cm $7,000-9,000
963 A PORCELAIN COFFEE POT, PAINTED BY MAMIE VENNER The Limoges body painted in colours with a phoenix to either side on a gilt lustre ground. Signed to the base. Height 22.5cm OTHER NOTES: Mamie Venner (1881-1974) was a leading member of the South Australian Society of Arts and her work is represented in the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney. $3,000-5,000 964 A PORCELAIN VASE PAINTED BY MAMIE VENNER The Limoges porcelain body of flattened ovoid form with gilt banded neck and foot rim painted all over with tropical fish, shells and seaweed. Signed to base. Height 20.5cm PROVENANCE: Alan Landis Antiques acquired from the above $4,000-6,000
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965 AN OVOID VASE PAINTED BY MAMIE VENNER The ovoid body with a circular spreading foot, having a pair of gilt scrolled “flame” handles and a frilled neck, the body painted with an abstract all over design in reds, orange and gold lustre. Signed and dated 1934 to base. Height 40cm $1,000-1,500 966 A PAIR OF AUSTRALIAN MELROSE WARE CERAMIC BOOKENDS AND ANOTHER PAIR OF BOOKENDS The Melrose ware with the mask of Tragedy in green glaze; and a pair cast as three horse heads in pale green glaze. (2) Height of tallest 17.5cm $800-1,200 967 FIVE PIECES OF AUSTRALIAN ART POTTERY BY E. BRYCE CARTER AND MASHMAN Comprising a gum nut and leaf wall vase, pin dish, small vase and toast rack by Carter; and a pair of gum nut and leaf bookends by Mashman Pottery. $300-500
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968 A COLLECTION OF HELLFIRE CERAMICS Comprising a large crocodile modelled teapot, a mug and a cream jug ensuite; a mug with a kookaburra, a small jug with a dragon and a dragon candlestick. (6) $400-600 969 A SHELLEY PORCELAIN COFFEE SET PAINTED WITH WESTERN AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWERS Each creamware piece of fluted art deco design decorated with a spray of wildflowers, identified on the underside of each saucer. 1925-1945. (7) Height of coffee pot 19cm $800-1,200 970 A COLLECTION OF GRIMWADE’S ‘KOOKABURRA’ PORCELAIN With orange lustre ground, transfer decorated with a pair of kookaburras on a branch or in a landscape; a quantity comprising candlesticks, vases of various shapes, a float bowl, a tobacco jar, a teapot, a jug, dishes, and plates in varying shapes and sizes. (41) $2,000-3,000
972 COLLECTION OF LATE VICTORIAN COMMEMORATIVE WARE ‘ADVANCE AUSTRALIA’ Comprising a small jug with the arms and motto; a NSW Centennial mug and plate; a Continental cup and saucer and a plate with similar design; two similar trinket boxes and a cover; a shaped sandwich plate; an Adelaide commemorative plate; a Queen Victoria golden jubilee plate; an Aynsley mug with the animals of the Empire; and a Royal Winton chintz ashtray with the Commonwealth arms. (14) $500-700 973 A QUANTITY OF ROYAL COMMEMORATIVE CHINA Comprising a cup and saucer for Queen Victoria’s 1887 Jubilee; a plate for the 1887 Jubilee; various trios to celebrate royal visits and coronations and the British Empire Exhibition 1925; a plate celebrating the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer; a plate from the State luncheon for H.M. Queen Elizabeth in Sydney 1988 and others. Late 19th to late 20th century. (37) $500-700
971 A QUANTITY OF VICTORIAN AND LATER CRESTED TABLE WARE Including a meat platter for the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Co.; Queensland and N.S.W. Parliaments; Civil Service Stores Restaurant; R.A.A.F. and others. (28) $600-800
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974 A COLLECTION OF SHELLEY PORCELAIN SOUVENIR WARE FOR ‘KOSCIUSKO N.S.W.’ Including three trios; a pair of vases; a fish shaped vase; an ovoid vase; two further cups; a circular box and cover; two tennis racquets; and three shaped pin dishes all decorated with a woman skiing. (22) $600-800 975 A COLLECTION OF MELBOURNE 1956 OLYMPIC GAMES COMMEMORATIVE PORCELAIN Comprising three trios by Royal Albert, a cabinet plate and two small dishes of Japanese manufacture. $600-800 976 A QUANTITY OF CRESTED WARES OF AUSTRALIAN INTEREST By Goss, Shelley, and Royal Doulton including a coffee pot; a tea pot; a shaving mug; a loving cup; a ewer; a baby’s plate; and smaller pieces similar including a match striker and stand all decorated with the arms of states, institutions etc. some pieces retailed by Flavelle Bros. (30) $400-600 977 A QUANTITY OF ROYAL DOULTON CRESTED CHINA FOR ST PETER’S COLLEGE ADELAIDE Each with the coat of arms and motto. Early 20th century. (18) $300-500
978 A QUANTITY OF PORCELAIN TABLE WARE AND SILVER PLATE FOR PARLIAMENT HOUSE CANBERRA Decorated with black line rims and the Commonwealth coat of arms in colour, various makers including Wedgwood and Royal Doulton, seven soup plates, various dinner and side plates, tea cups and coffee cups and some saucers; eight crested plated knives and soup spoons. Mid 20th century. (50) $600-800 979 A QUANTITY OF PORCELAIN TABLE WARE FOR THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Plates, side plates, serving platters, jugs, and others each with a gilt rim and Commonwealth coat of arms by Minton; a teapot, creamer and sugar basin similar by Wedgwood; and other pieces similar by other makers. Late 20th century. (40) $800-1,200 980 A COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN AND LATER COMMEMORATIVE PLATES AND TABLE WARE RELATING TO THE COLONIES Including old Sydney and Melbourne views; maritime subjects; transfer printed Australian flora and subjects; and others. (16) $400-600 981 TWO NOVELTY SPORTING DECANTER AND CUP SETS BY DIANA CERAMICS A football shaped decanter moulded with a Richmond player taking a mark and five cups; and a golf ball decanter with moulded player and six cups. (13) $400-600
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982 THREE DUNSMORE TILES WITH KOOKABURRAS Two blue ground, one mounted on a wooden trivet, and one larger yellow ground. The largest 15 x 15cm $600-800 983 AN ENGLISH GLAZED CERAMIC TILE WITH TWO KANGAROOS AND A CORTONA OVAL DISH WITH A FLOWER AND GUM LEAVES The Cortona dish incised ‘Cortona handmade 1937’. (2) PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $800-1,200 984 A COLLECTION OF CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN TEA WARE WITH WARATAHS Probably German, transfer decorated with waratah, flannel flowers and Christmas bells, comprising: four tea cups, saucers and plates; a jug; a deep rectangular plate; two small shell shaped dishes; eleven small plates; four small plates similar with apricot borders; three plates with rocaille borders and two further circular plates, most marked ‘No.2770 Australian flowers’. Late 19th century. (36) $1,000-1,500 985 A COLLECTION OF TABLEWARE DECORATED WITH KOOKABURRAS BY J.A. CRISP The Wilkinson “Honeyglaze” plates with orange rims, transfer decorated with various scenes, some titled; and a Collingwood Bone China mustard pot and cover and plate with three kookaburras, signed J.A. Crisp. (9) $1,000-1,500
986 A PAIR OF ROSENTHAL CABINET PLATES Each painted with a bunch of Australian wild flowers, titled to verso. Diameter 33cm $100-150 987 THREE PIECES OF KOOKABURRA DECORATED PORCELAIN A pink ground Grimwade’s jug, a green ground vase, and a handpainted vase by Thelma Jamartz dated 1983. (3) Height of tallest 35.5cm $300-500 988 AN EXTENSIVE WILKINSON CREAMWARE DINNER SERVICE DESIGNED BY ADRIAN FEINT Transfer decorated with borders of stylised flannel flowers, foliage and lattice, comprising: dinner plates, entrée plates, side plates, two sizes of bowls, tea and coffee cups and saucers, egg cups, small and large jugs, sugar basins, two covered vegetable dishes and under plates, gravy boat and under plate, oval serving plates and a coffee pot (a quantity, variations). $1,000-1,500
990 A COLLECTION OF GRIMWADES ‘KOOKABURRAS’ FLOAT BOWLS AND A VASE AND OTHERS SIMILAR In various lustre colours, all with two kookaburras on a branch. (6) $400-600 991 A GROUP OF GRIMWADES ‘WATTLE’ PATTERN & OTHER SERVING CHINA Transfer decorated in brown and blue, two oval lidded vegetable dishes, a side and dinner plate and an underplate; two sauce tureens, another lidded vegetable dish; two dinner plates and an oval platter; and two rectangular platters. Late 19th century. (12) $400-600 992 A GROUP OF FOUR PIECES OF BAKEWELL’S TRANSFER PRINTED SERVING CHINA A rectangular lidded vegetable dish, and three graduated oval platters, all with brown transfer decoration of boronia, marked ‘LICHFIELD’ BAKEWELLS LTD ERSKINEVILLE. Late 19th century. The largest platter 33 x 42cm $500-700
989 THREE PIECES OF GRIMWADE’S WINTON WARE Each decorated with a band of wattle; two vases with black ground and a jardiniere with a fishnet ground. $300-500
993 FOUR ITEMS OF VICTORIAN TRANSFER WARE POTTERY OF AUSTRALIAN INTEREST Comprising an ‘Australia’ pattern blue and white soup plate by Jamieson & Co.; and a pair of sepia soup plates by Dixon Phillips & Co. in their ‘Australia’ pattern, and a matching soup tureen and cover. $400-600 994 A BLUE & WHITE TRANSFER WARE CUP AND SAUCER COMMEMORATING THE REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS ‘Australia’ decorated all over with a design of wheat and flowers and ribbons inscribed ‘FREE’. Maker J. Jamieson & Co. Circa 1840. $400-600 995 A LARGE NORITAKE SERVING SET Consisting of four large bowls on stands, three smaller, four pairs of salad servers and a small ladle; decorated with cabbage leaves, lobsters, oysters and vegetable. Printed factory marks to base. $800-1,200 996 AN IMPRESSIVE SATSUMA DISH IN THE FORM OF AN ABALONE SHELL Profusely decorated with figures in a landscape with prunus blossom, the underside with applied seashells. $2,000-3,000
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997 A PORCELAIN COCKATOO AND A GALAH BY CROWN STAFFORDSHIRE Modelled by G.T. Jones, each alert bird seated on a foliage and rockwork base. (2) Height 33cm $400-600 998 FOUR PORCELAIN COCKATOOS A stylised bird by Lyndale, modelled by J. Moss in yellow and green glaze; another with multicoloured glaze; a cockatiel on a tripod stand by Eno; and a Crown Staffordshire sulphur crested modelled by G.T. Jones. Height of tallest 34.5cm $800-1,200 999 A WHITE STONEWARE COCKATOO Seated on a perch and square base, white glazed. Early 20th century. Height 39.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $300-500 1000 A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN COCKATOOS Each blanc de chine with stylised plumage on a tripartite branch base. Blue transfer crown and crossed swords mark. Late 19th century. Height 31cm $600-800 1001 A MEISSEN COCKATOO With naturalistically modelled plumage, standing on a stump with grasses. Blue crossed swords mark. Late 19th century. Height 35cm $5,000-7,000
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1003 A COLLECTION OF SIX PORCELAIN BIRD GROUPS Comprising a pair of Royal Worcester chaffinches; a Crown Staffordshire house wren; a Franklin Mint fairy wren; a pair of Derby China fairy wrens; a Goebel long tailed titmouse and a Crown Staffordshire wren modelled by J.T. Jones. Height of tallest 17cm $300-500 1004 THREE CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN BUDGERIGARS A Royal Copenhagen example in shades of blue and grey, a Bing & Grøndahl example identical, and an Ens bird in yellow and grey with outstretched wings. Height of largest 17.5cm $400-600
1005 FOUR PORCELAIN BUDGERIGAR GROUPS By various makers, including Royal Adderley, each in the form of one or a pair of birds on a branch with flowers. Height of tallest 11cm $500-700 1006 FOUR PORCELAIN COCKATOOS A sulphur crested on a stump by Minton’s; another modelled by G.T. Jones by Crown Staffordshire, and two by Royal Dux. Height of tallest 35.5cm $800-1,200
1002 THREE PORCELAIN KOOKABURRAS A Beswick example painted in colours on a stump, another by Goebel; a pair of kookaburras indistinctly marked and a painted plaster example. (4) Height of talleset 14.5cm $300-500
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1011 A QUIMPER DISH, A SYLVAC DISH AND A PAIR OF SALAD SERVERS The quimper dish decorated with two figures in a landscape with a lobster handle, marked to base ‘HENRIAT, QUIMPER 119’. The sylvac dish decorated with seashells and impressed mark ‘SYLVAC ENGLAND 154’. The silver plated salad servers with ceramic handles decorated with seaweed and seashells. $300-500 1012 AN ENGLISH POTTERY MARINE VASE Decorated with applied seashells, seaweed and coral. Printed registration mark to base for 1879. $400-600 1013 A MAJOLICA FISH SWALLOWING TEAPOT Modelled as one large fish swallowing a smaller fish. Circa 1880. $400-600 1014 A MAJOLICA NATURALISTIC TEASET Consisting of a teapot, milk jug, lidded sugar and four cups and saucers modelled in the form of seashells. $300-500 1008
1007 A MINIATURE BENDIGO POTTERY COCKATOO AND A MINIATURE MEISSEN COCKATOO (2) Height of tallest 11cm $200-400 1008 TWO MARBLE SCULPTURES OF COCKATOOS One signed with the initials NR and retailed by KOCHENDÖRFER, Munich; the other of stylised design. Height of tallest 23cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $800-1,200
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1009 A PAIR OF BROWN GLAZED CERAMIC KOOKABURRA LAMPBASES Each with the bird seated on a branch, on a log shaped base with moulded foot. Height 40cm $700-900 1010 THREE PAIRS OF AUSTRALIANA BOOKENDS Comprising a pair of glazed ceramic koala with her young seated on books; another pair of koalas seated in a gum tree; and a painted cast iron kookaburra. (3) $400-600
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1015 AN AUSTRIAN MAJOLICA FISH SET Consisting of a large serving dish, six plates and a sauce tureen. Pale green ground decorated with fish. Impressed mark ‘Austria’. $600-800 1016 A PORTUGUESE MAJOLICA PALISSY PLATE Decorated in ‘tradion’ style with applied lizards and insects. Impressed marks ‘M. MAFRA CALDAS’. Portugal, circa 1880. $1,000-1,500
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1017 A BURLEIGH WARE JUG AND SYLVAN WARE COMPORT The jug decorated with a large rim and spout with a tree trunk-shaped handle, the body with two kangaroos within a landscape in relief. Stamped ‘Burleigh Ware’, ‘B & L Ltd’, ‘Made in England’, painted in script ‘4911’; Together with a Victorian Sylvan Ware comport, decorated with a kangaroo and joey in a landscape of Australian flora and fauna, stamped to the base ‘SYLVAN’, ‘WB & SON’, ‘THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH’, Brownfield & Son trademark. (2) $300-500 1018 A PRATT WARE PLAQUE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK Oval with scrolled cresting and apron and beaded frame with the great explorer shown after the portrait by William Hodges above a pair of crossed laurel branches, the creamware with orange, black, blue and green glazes. Circa 1780. 20 x 12cm PROVENANCE: Alan Landis Antiques acquired from the above $3,000-5,000 1019 A PRATT WARE EMBOSSED POTTERY PLAQUE OF CAPTAIN COOK Yellow ochre border with raised seed pearl decorative border. Oval 13.5 x 12.3cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-4,000
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1020 A FRAMED GROUP OF FOUR VICTORIAN TRANSFER DECORATED TILES With a design of kookaburras, bulrushes, iris and a dragonfly, probably one side of a fireplace insert. Overall 80 x 32cm $500-700 1021 SIX ROYAL COPENHAGEN DISHES AND ONE BING & GRONDAHL DISH Decorated with lobsters, crabs and fish. Printed factory marks to base. (7) $600-800 1022 THREE HOLLOHAZA FIGURES One kangaroo, one koala and a pair of birds. $300-500 1023 A COLLECTION OF SIX HEREND FIGURES Two platypus; three cassowaries; and a koala. $400-600 1024 THREE HEREND MODELS OF KANGAROOS $300-500 1025 FIVE ROYAL CROWN DERBY FIGURES Two platypus and three koalas. $400-600 1026 SEVEN ROYAL CROWN DERBY FIGURES Including a kookaburra, a budgerigar, a criton cockatoo, and four other birds. $400-600 1027 THREE ROYAL CROWN DERBY FIGURES One cockatoo and two kingfishers. $400-600 1028 SIX ROYAL CROWN DERBY FIGURES Including the tasmanian devil, duck-billed platypus, echidna, wombat, and two kangaroos. $400-600 1029 A PAIR OF GOEBEL FIGURES OF AN EMU $300-500
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1030 AN AUSTRALIAN SILVERPLATED TRIPLE DECANTER STAND BY J. M WENDT, ADELAIDE Plain design with tubular mounts and hinged handle, the three decanters with etched leaf pattern around the middle. Attached plate to front ‘J. M. Wendt Adelaide’, with a bust, crown and lion. Height 36cm $2,000-4,000 1031 A VICTORIAN STERLING SILVER MOUNTED CLARET JUG In the form of a southern rockhopper penguin by Sampson Mordan & Co. Ltd. The pressed glass body with silver base, head and handle, glass eyes, engraved registration marks to base ‘26 April 1882’. London 1881. Height 24cm $8,000-10,000 1032 AN EDWARDIAN ETCHED GLASS EWER The body finely etched with a huntsman on horseback with a dog chasing Kangaroos. England, late 19th century. Height 27cm
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1037 A COLLECTION OF TUMBLERS AND A DECANTER ETCHED WITH A KOOKABURRA Comprising a pair of tumblers; five various tumblers including two from the Adelaide Souvenir Exhibition 1930 etched with names Pearl, Ruth, Peggy, Mick and F.E.J, a plain example and the decanter with teardrop stopper. First half 20th century. (9) Height of decanter 28cm $400-600
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1038 A COLLECTION OF GLASSWARE ETCHED WITH A KOOKABURRA AND OTHER BIRDS Comprising two small decanters with cut glass stoppers, three miniature tankards with inscriptions, a footed glass engraved ‘Josephine’, and other glass with a fluted base, a lidded cruet and two shot glasses from the Adelaide Royal Show with birds. First half 20th century. (10) $400-600 1039 A MATCHED SET OF GLASSWARE ETCHED WITH A KOOKABURRA Comprising a decanter with stopper, and four cylindrical tumblers all etched with a kookaburra on a branch. Early 20th century. (6) Height of tumblers 9.5cm; Height of decanter 18cm $500-700
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1040 A CASED GLASS PEDESTAL BOWL FOR THE AUSTRALIAN MARKET BY VICKE LINDSTRAND FOR KOSTA, SWEDEN The amber glass deeply etched with a continuous frieze of kangaroos, signed ‘Lindstrand 1970’ to base, Kosta label. Diameter 16cm; Height 13cm $400-600 1041 A DECANTER, FOUR BEAKERS AND TWO STEMMED GLASSES All etched with the ‘kookaburra on a gate’ pattern. (7) $400-600 1042 A COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN GLASS BEAKERS AND A LIDDED DECANTER AND JUG With engraved decoration of flannel flowers and Australian birds. Some dated 1918. (7) PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $600-800
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1043 FIVE GLASS BEAKERS Engraved with Australian flowers. $400-600 1044 A COLLECTION OF PRESSED GLASS BY CROWN CRYSTAL SYDNEY OF WARATAH DESIGN Comprising a comport, a bowl, a square bowl, a pair of tumblers, a small jug, two covered circular boxes and another similar frosted all pressed with a stylised design of waratahs and christmas bells. (9) $400-600
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1045 TWO HANDBLOWN FLYTRAPS WITH A PAINTED GLASS ROLLING PIN $300-500 1046 A LALIQUE PLATE With pressed decoration of flowers, inscribed ‘SEPTEMBER 1976 AUSTRALIA’, engraved ‘Lalique France’ in script. $400-600 1047 A LARGE GLASS DOME $400-600 1048 A LARGE GLASS DOME $400-600
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1053 TWO BALER SHELLS, A CLAM, A WHELK AND A PAPER NAUTILUS (5) $300-500 1054 A BALER SHELL LAMP Carved in relief with a kookaburra with glass eye, on a circular wooden base. Height 26cm $300-500 1055 A PAINTED BALER SHELL LAMP On a scallop shell base, with an aborigine by a lagoon to the interior. Height 18cm $300-500
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1061 THREE CHINESE CARVED MOTHER OF PEARL SHELLS AND TWO PAPER KNIVES The shells carved all over in low relief with various battle scenes and city life scenes; one paper knife incised ‘Tahiti’. 19th century. (5) $300-500 1062 A PIERCED AND INCISED MOTHER OF PEARL SHELL The shell with a design of a kangaroo. Height of shell 16cm $300-500
1064 AN ABORIGINAL INCISED MOTHER OF PEARL SHELL With a design of emus, goannas and a snake in red ochre. Diameter 14cm $400-600 1065 A SILVER MOUNTED MOTHER OF PEARL SHELL The shell serving dish with silver mount marked ‘Levinsons Perth Silver’ surmounted by a kangaroo on a boomerang, standing on three scroll feet with swans. Width 21cm $700-900
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1066 A SILVER PLATE MOUNTED NAUTILUS SHELL HERON AND A SILVER MOUNTED MOTHER OF PEARL SHELL (2) Height of the heron 29cm $400-600 1067 TWO DEPRESSION ERA SHELL ENCRUSTED TIN JARDNIERES Height of tallest 21cm $400-600 1068 A SHELL ORNAMENT WITH A MAP OF AUSTRALIA In the form of a circular rotating frame with a map of Australia within, on a square base. Height 40cm; Diameter 36cm $400-600
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1072 A LATE VICTORIAN SAILOR’S VALENTINE The rectangular frame encrusted with shells, having a typical geometric arrangement to the centre. Height 58cm; Width 68cm; Depth 5cm $600-800
1070 A SHELL COVERED BOX With rising top, encrusted with geometric patterns. First half 20th century. Height 13cm; Width 21cm; Depth 14.5cm $300-400
1073 A SHELL ART FLOWER ARRANGEMENT IN A SHELL ENCRUSTED VASE Height 40cm $300-500
1071 A SHELL ENCRUSTED CASKET The removable top with a design of seaweed, the sides with repeated oval patterns. Mid 20th century. Height 30cm; Width 50cm; Depth 30cm $300-500
1074 THREE SHELL FRAMED RELIGIOUS IMAGES, AND A STATUE Christ in the garden of Gethsemane; Christ Pantocrator; The Guardian Angel and a statuette of our Lady of Fatima. (4) $200-400
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1075 A PAIR OF SHELL ENCRUSTED MINIATURE SLIPPERS With green velvet trim and handwritten inscription: ‘made by the aboriginals at the La Perouse camp Sydney NSW Australia’ and ‘a pair of shoes for Wee Grannie’; and a string of shells. Early 20th century. (3) $200-400 1076 A SHELL ART MAP OF TASMANIA STRUT MIRROR AND AN INDONESIAN SILVER MOUNTED ABALONE SHELL The mirror with various shells and a mother of pearl and silver map above the plate; the abalone with foliate chased mounts. (2) Mirror 19 x 17cm $200-400 1077 A VICTORIAN SHELLWORK PICTURE OF A VASE OF FLOWERS With grasses and on a gold velvet panel and gilt composition frame. Height 72cm; Width 56cm; Depth 9.5cm $800-1,200 1078 A PAIR OF LATE GEORGIAN SEAWEED PICTURES Each with an arrangement of sponges and seaweeds in a wicker basket (losses). (2) Height 24cm; Width 27cm; Depth 5cm $400-600 1079 A VICTORIAN SEAWEED AND SHELL ARRANGEMENT Issuing from a scallop shell, in gilt composition frame. Height 35cm; Width 35cm; Depth 9cm $400-600
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1080 A SHELL MODEL OF A HOUSE IN A CEDAR CASE The two story structure with lace curtain details and a tin picket fence, within a glazed cedar case having a shaped cresting. First half 20th century. Height 47cm; Width 53cm; Depth 39cm $400-600
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1081 A VICTORIAN CASED SHELLWORK HOUSE FACADE Centred with a clock, the garden with paper flowers. Height 45cm; Width 49cm; Depth 10cm $600-800 1082 A SHELL ENCRUSTED SEASCAPE The circular frame with convex glass enclosing a view of a sailing boat with coral, seaweed and shells to the foreground. Early 20th century. Diameter 28cm $200-400 1083 TWO FOLK ART MATCHSTICK DECORATED TRAYS WITH SHELL BORDERS Both with checkerboard pattern and metal handles. Mid 20th century. 29 x 19cm; 41 x 35cm
1084 THREE ITEMS OF SHELL ART A small vase with an arrangement of shells in the forms of an owl; a miniature well encrusted with shells; a small box with coral and shell decoration and a booklet entitled ‘MEET THE SHELL MAN!’. (4) $200-400 1085 TWO SHELL ENCRUSTED BOXES The largest centred with a cowrie. PROVENANCE: David Ell $200-400 1086 THREE SHELL ENCRUSTED JEWEL BOXES One with rising top and fitted interior, another with satin lined interior, and a small ring box. $300-500
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1087 A SHELL FRAMED VIEW OF SYDNEY HARBOUR 90 x 116cm PROVENANCE: David Ell $500-700 1088 A SHELL ENCRUSTED MAP OF AUSTRALIA Inset with a vintage photo of ski lodges on Diggings Terrace, Thredbo. 62 x 76cm $300-500 1089 A SHELL ENCRUSTED PICTURE FRAME AND TWO VIEWS OF THE KIAMA BLOWHOLE Frame 86 x 47cm; views 17 x 21cm PROVENANCE: David Ell $100-150 1090 THREE SHELLWORK PICTURES One depicting a pair of parrots in flowering branches, another of two birds in an oval basket mount and a flower arrangement in shells. $200-400 1091 A COLLECTION OF CARVED SHELLS Comprising five various cowrie shells with kangaroo, kookaburra, koala, octopus, and flag motifs; a set of five napkin rings made from cowrie shells from Lakes Entrance; and six scallop shells with kangaroos. (16) $300-500
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FURNITURE LOTS 1092-1193 1092 AN AUSTRALIAN ART NOUVEAU ELBOW CHAIR Cedar framed, the shaped top rail and splat inlaid with stylised gum leaves, the strung, shaped arms on turned supports, flanking the padded seat, turned stretchers uniting the turned legs. Early 20th century. Heigiht 107cm; Depth 49cm; Width 58.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-4,000 1093 A COLONIAL CEDAR ADJUSTABLE ARMCHAIR The rectangular padded back planked by scrolled padded arms above the movable seat panel with pin lock, on leaf carved turned front legs with castors. Mid 19th century. Height 107cm; Width 63.5cm; Depth 81.5cm $3,000-5,000
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1094 A COLONIAL CEDAR OCCASIONAL TABLE The circular tilt top on a well turned baluster pedestal with reeded knop, on triform base with reeded bun feet. Second quarter 19th century. Diameter 69cm; Height 70cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $5,000-7,000 1095 A COLONIAL CEDAR OVAL OCCASIONAL TABLE The oval fixed top on a baluster turned pedestal on three shaped swept supports. Mid 19th century. Height 69cm; Width 60cm; Depth 47cm $1,000-1,500 1096 A COLONIAL BLACKWOOD ELBOW CHAIR The upholstered oval moulded back with a scroll and rocaille carved cresting and scroll supports, above a padded seat flanked by padded scroll arms, on leaf carved cabriole front legs with leaf and scroll toes, upholstered in needlepoint tapestry. Mid 19th century. Height 92cm; Width 55cm; Depth 56cm OTHER NOTES: This solid blackwood chair is a charming colonial interpretation of the popular Louis XV revival style prevalent in the early Victorian period. $2,000-4,000
1097 A VICTORIAN OAK JOCKEY’S SCALES The brass scales stamped ‘Youngs’, London’, in an oak bench with padded seat, with rosette carved frieze and barley twist legs. Height 74cm; Width 88cm; Depth 52cm $8,000-10,000 1098 A COLONIAL CEDAR WRITING TABLE The moulded rectangular top above a plain strung frieze with a central drawer to one side, on turned tapering legs. Mid 19th century. Height 73.5cm; Width 134cm; Depth 74cm $1,500-2,500
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1099 A RARE BLACKWOOD EDWARD VII COMMEMORATIVE ARMCHAIR CARVED BY MABEL YOUNG The top rail centred with a crown and flanked by a pair of padded roundels above a carved, pierced splat in the form ER VII 1902 with the Australian flag and the Union Jack, flanked by turned uprights and curved armrests, the padded seat in abstract needlework on turned legs with an H stretcher. Stamped ‘MABEL YOUNG’. Height 99cm; Width 53cm; Depth 56cm OTHER NOTES: Mabel Ellen Young (née Sawyer) (1875-1957) was an accomplished wood carver and metalworker and married the artist Blamire Young in 1895. $4,000-6,000 1100 A VICTORIAN CEDAR HALL CHAIR The back with channeled uprights and fleur de lys finials, flanking a relief carved panel of scrolls and foliage, the solid seat on leaf carved turned front legs. Height 96cm; Width 45cm; Depth 41cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,500-2,500 1101 A COLONIAL CEDAR ROCKING CHAIR With scroll arms and caned seat. Mid 19th century. Height 97cm; Width 56cm PROVENANCE: Mason Gray Strange Auctions, Colonial Furniture from a Benedictine Abbey, 28th May 1988 The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $3,000-5,000
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1102 A COLONIAL CEDAR ELBOW CHAIR The shaped panel top rail above a bar back flanked by scrolled arms, the panel seat on turned front legs. Second quarter 19th century. Height 88cm; Width 53cm; Depth 53cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,000-1,500
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1103A A COLONIAL CEDAR MUSIC CANTERBURY With turned finials above the three slatted divisions, on turned legs with castors. Second quarter 19th century. Height 50cm; Width 49cm; Depth 36cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $8,000-10,000
1104 A COLONIAL CEDAR WHATNOT, TASMANIA Of three tiers with turned finials and slender baluster uprights, the lower tier with a drawer, raised on turned legs with brass castors. First half 19th century. Height 144cm; Width 45cm; Depth 50.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 LITERATURE: Kevin Fahy, Christina Simpson and Andrew Simpson, 19th Century Australian Furniture, p. 517 $15,000-20,000
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1105 A CEDAR BREAKFRONT OPEN BOOKCASE, BY ALEXANDER NORTON The central section with moulded cornice above fluted uprights and adjustable shelves, flanked by conforming sections both with spindle turned gallery back, on a plinth, paper trade label. Late 19th century. Height 187cm; Width 154cm; Depth 36cm $15,000-20,000
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1106 A GEORGE IV ANGLO INDIAN SPECIMEN WOOD GAMES TABLE The rectangular fold over checkerboard top with a baize lined surface, and a removable backgammon board, the well inlaid with lozenges and a spiral patera, with an original drawing naming the exotic timbers including yucca, palm, calabash, pimento and others, all on a bead and reel moulded frieze, octagonal tapering column and quatreform base with paw and palmette carved feet. Height 76cm; Width 55cm; Depth 54cm $30,000-50,000
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1107 A COLONIAL CEDAR AND BLACKWOOD SIDEBOARD, TASMANIA The rectangular crossbanded top with knulled edge above two deep drawers flanking a central drawer and arched opening and having angled reeded mouldings throughout, on turned legs. First quarter 19th century. Height 83.5cm; Width 105cm; Depth 67.5cm PROVENANCE: Tunbridge Wells Inn, Tasmania Fallgrove, Evandale, Tasmania Tulloch’s Auctions, 1983 Launceston, Tasmania The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 LITERATURE: T & J Hooper; A Guide to Collecting Australiana, Macmillan, 1978, p.50. illustrated $60,000-80,000
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1108 AN IMPORTANT COLONIAL CEDAR CENTRE TABLE The circular top with gadrooned edge above a plain frieze with bead and reel moulded lower edge, on a square tapering pedestal with bead and reel moulding, the quatreform platform base with four outswept leaf carved legs terminating in brass lion paw castors. First quarter 19th century. Height 71cm; Diameter 120cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 LITERATURE: Kevin Fahy, Christina Simpson and Andrew Simpson, 19th Century Australian Furniture, p. 469 $80,000-100,000
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1109 THE SPEAKER’S CHAIR FROM THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT AFTER A DESIGN BY CHARLES PASLEY (1824–1890) The fiddleback blackwood frame richly carved to the centre of the top rail with a circular panel flanked by foliate scrolls above an upholstered back and seat, the scrolled and paneled sides with a central circular reserve flanked by relief carved scroll panels on arched legs, the armrests with richly scrolled terminals and front legs with relief carved spandrels, the back paneled and moulded. Maker’s stamp of Charles Johnston & Co. Gertrude St Fitzroy ‘EUROPEAN LABOUR ONLY’. Circa 1900. Height 110cm; Width 80cm; Depth 80cm $300,000-500,000
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THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT AND THE SPEAKER’S CHAIR, J. B. HAWKINS — Originally published in Furniture History, Vol. 37, 2001, Victoria & Albert Museum, London The Colony of Victoria in Australia was established by separation from New South Wales in 1851; it was named after the Queen. A Legislative Council onethird nominated and two-thirds elected from a property-owning franchise first sat under Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe in St Patrick’s Hall, Bourke Street West, Melbourne, on 18 November 1851, as depicted in a sketch by William Strutt. The 1838 census listed the population as 3,511. This number had risen to slightly less than 77,000 when the discovery of gold only weeks after separation dramatically changed the prospects of the infant colony. This untouched idyllic bush landscape was to be decimated by the immigration, within ten years, of over half a million ‘Diggers’ to the Victorian gold fields. This sudden and enormous increase in population required, amongst other obvious infrastructure, the establishment of a properly elected Victorian Parliament, with an Upper House, the Legislative Council, and a fully elected Lower House, the Legislative Assembly, so contracts were let in December 1855 for a huge complex ‘Intended to invoke the splendours of Imperial Rome’.1 The two Chambers in the new Parliament Building were completed within three years by the architects Knight & Kerr from an original design concept by Captain Charles Pasley and fitted out by the cabinet-maker Thomas Chuck. Peter Kerr (1820—1912) emigrated to Melbourne in 1852, having worked in the London office of Sir Charles Barry, architect to the new Palace of Westminster, and, more importantly, the Reform Club, from whose entrance hall Kerr gained inspiration. The execution of the project fell to his partner John Knight (1826— 92), born in London into a family of stone and marble merchants in 1826. Knight, an architect by training, worked for the Victorian Public Works Department in Australia before becoming a partner in the firm.2 His thorough knowledge of local craftsmen and their work gave him access to those capable of exhibition standard work, as is evident in the fine execution of the Victorian Parliament Building of 1856. He was appointed Victorian Commissioner to the London Exhibition of 1862.3 Charles Pasley was born in 1824 and entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, being commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 20 December 1844.4 From 12 February 1851 to 1 February 1852 he was on the staff of the Great Exhibition in London.5 After commanding the skirmishes in the centre of the ‘Eureka Stockade’, he was nominated for the Legislative Council, becoming Commissioner of Public Works in Victoria on 28 November 1855.6 Like John Knight, Pasley was also an exhibitor at the 1862 Exhibition, showing ‘an inlaid desk of Australian woods with gold mountings’.7 Pasley was closely involved in the original design of the building, submitting the plans and elevations to the Legislative Council on 5 April 1854. Knight and Kerr took control as architects of the building on 22 December 1855, and produced the working drawings, altering some of Pasley’s designs in the process. Pasley fitted out the Upper House and the designs survive: The Vice-Regal platform is an elaborate piece of workmanship — clusters of miniature Corinthian columns, canopies, enriched cornices — full details and proportions of the order are strictly preserved ... The work has been designed under the general instructions of Captain Pasley. The architects being Messrs Knight & Kerr.8 Pasley consistently favoured the use of local materials and made considerable efforts to encourage local designers and craftsmen while working on Parliament House. One of these was Thomas Chuck. John Chuck of London, a cabinet-maker, upholsterer, appraiser and furniture broker, ran his business from 18—19 Shoe Lane between 1822 and 1829, and from 1835 to 1839 154 High Holborn, where he traded as John & Joseph Chuck,9 at which point the disappears from the London Trade Directories. It is interesting to observe that from December 1838 to 24 July 1841, the South Australian Register carries an advertisement submitted by a John Chuck: 10 Cedar. The undersigned has on hand a large quantity of the above material. Parties requiring the same can be supplied at the lowest rate with any quantity 154
and dimensions at his Chair and Cabinet Manufactory, Leigh Street, Adelaide. John Chuck.11 The name Chuck then disappears from the record in Adelaide to reappear in Melbourne at a time when Thomas Foster Chuck (1826—98) left London (on 15 July 1852) and arrived as an unassisted cabin passenger in Melbourne on 25 November 1852, his age being as 26, his occupation, gentleman.12 This Chuck — who may be a relation of John Chuck, and, therefore, emigrated to join him — is noted at 95 Bourke Street East as an upholsterer, exhibiting in Melbourne prior to the Paris Exhibition of 1855, Á four post bedstead made in the Colony from Huon pine wood and an English made top’.13 The signatures of Thomas Chuck and John Knight are found on three surviving working drawings, traced from originals, of the Victorian Parliament’s Speaker’s Chair, The Canopy of State, and The Bar and Enclosure Benches. The drawing for the chair shows a design more ‘Tudor’ than ‘Gothic’, with the Arms of Victoria on the side panels and the roundel on the top rail. The design, with the four arches joining the legs, appears to be, for its date, an original conception. The plain uncarved panels to the back balance the arches with half circles and circles in a most unusual and innovative way. The addition of Gothic carved decoration to the terminals of the back and arms provides an historical link with the idea of A. W. N. Pugin. The drawing, entitled ‘Houses of Parliament Legislative Council Chamber, centre chair on Vice Regal Platform’, is inscribed by Chuck as, ‘This is one of the drawings referred to in my Tender dated 26th August, 1856, Thomas Chuck August 29th’, and by Knight as, ‘Witness, J. Knight, 29/8/56’. Chuck was to receive various payments under these tenders, which presumably were accepted, although some documents are now missing. Two contracts were drawn up; the first for £472 55. od.14 may well have included the President of the Legislative Council’s Chair, which is separately accounted for at a cost of £15 and noted as, ‘Chair for President of Council Chamber carved and enriched, cedar design furnished by Architect’.15 The second contract, for £1,365 155. od. for fittings, probably included the Canopy of State, Bar and Benches for the Legislative Council Chamber.16 The chairs used in the Legislative Assembly may have been those used previously in the La Trobe Legislative Council held in St Patrick’s Hall, Bourke Street in 1851, later adapted by Alexander Amos & Co., who submitted an account ‘For repairing and adapting old furniture for the new Houses of Parliament’.17 Therefore, the President of the Legislative Council’s cedar chair was made in 1856 at a cost of £15 by Thomas Chuck to a design by Captain Charles Pasley, under the auspices of the architect John Knight. It is remarkable that both the design and the chair have survived.18 No earlier example of signed and designed Australian furniture is known to exist. With the decision to Federate the Colonies within Australia into one Nation in 1900, new chairs were required for the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Sir Frederick Holder, and the President of the Senate, Sir Richard Baker, in the new Federal Parliament, to be opened by The Duke of York in the Melbourne Royal Exhibition Building. These chairs were made to the Pasley design in blackwood by Charles Johnston & Co. of 186 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy.19 The shop buildings still stand on the corner of Gertrude & George Streets.20 They are suitably stamped and of the highest quality. The makers’ stamp of Charles Johnston and Co. on the seat rail includes the wording ‘European Labour Only’, so as to comply with the Factories and Shops Act of 1896. This Act made it mandatory to stamp all manufactured furniture with the address and name of the maker, and if made by European or Chinese labour.21 The new chairs may have been carved by Robert Prenzel,22 then working with Johann Treede as carvers, designers and out-workers to another leading Melbourne firm of cabinet-makers, Nunan Brothers, at 248 Swanston Street, Melbourne. It should be noted that Nunan Brothers issued an undated catalogue of c. 1900,23 presumably produced with the aim of gaining a contract for the Chairs of State in the new Federal Parliament. It illustrates three President’s Chairs designed by Treede, with Royal motifs.24
After the official opening, as a gesture of goodwill, the Victorian Parliament agreed to move to the Exhibition Building, thereby allowing the Federal Parliament to sit in Spring Street. As a result the Victorian State Parliament also commissioned new chairs: A contract has been let for the supply of chairs for the use of the LieutenantGovernor, the President of the Legislative Council, the Speaker, and the other officers of Parliament at the new Parliamentary chambers in the Exhibitionbuilding. Ten chairs are to be provided at a cost of £191/5/-, an average of £19/2/6 each. If all the furnishings are to be on the same scale of grandeur members of the state Houses will have little to complain of regarding the luxuriousness of the environment.25 Whether these chairs were ever completed, and by whom, and to which design, I have been unable to establish. The only traceable account in the Federal Government records is a charge for £1,780 being expenditure in connection with the opening of Parliamentary celebrations, for timber and the erection of a dais.26 This large bill may have concealed the cost of the blackwood chairs. The Sydney Bulletin of 6 April 1901 refers to George Jenkins, who was Clerk of the Victorian Parliament and had been appointed Master of Ceremonies to the Federal Government: A poor squalid undignified row about the invoices appears to follow every spontaneous outbreak of loyalty in this country... the story goes that when fat Jenkins of the Beard was arranging for the visit of the Yorks to the Melbourne Exhibition Building, it was decided that the Trustees’ room would do to receive them in. Whereupon the Trustees refurnished the room at a cost of £481.27 The opening of the First Federal Parliament took place in the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, in the presence of the Duke and Duchess of York, on 9 May 1901. On a raised dais, The Royal Suite, the Governor General’s staff, the State Governors with their A.D.C.’s, and a few other favoured persons standing or sitting,’ behind the throne ... ‘Seated on benches facing the dais, but separated from it by a rampart of beautiful flowers, are the thirty six senators and the senate officials ... The members of the House of Representatives, corresponding to the House of Commons, are assembled in an adjoining room, which is to be considered for the moment as the Lower House, waiting to be summoned to hear the King’s speech, which is to be read, in the unavoidable absence of His Majesty, by H.R.H. The Duke of Cornwall and York.’28 This was the scene depicted by the leading Australian artist of the period, Tom Roberts, who was commissioned by the King at a cost of 1,000 guineas to paint the event.29 Roberts, in his wisdom, painted the dais free of thrones; however, a contemporary photo graph enables us to establish their location and use. According to Westminster tradition, the Sovereign does not enter the Commons but summons the people’s representatives from the Lower House to that of the Lords for the State opening of Parliament. Parliament is then opened from the Royal throne situated on a dais, thereby keeping the Sovereign ‘conspicuously visible to all’, under a Canopy of State surmounted by the Crown of Authority. All elements of this tradition were observed in Melbourne.30 Chairs of State would, under normal circumstances, be those in use in the Upper House of an existing Parliamentary building, becoming thrones when used by the Sovereign, or his Regal or Vice-Regal representative. In this particular case, some had been commissioned for the ceremony, while others were temporarily removed from the Victorian State Parliament for the occasion. The Governor General, Lord Hopetoun, and Lady Hopetoun, were seated in the front row at the extremities of the dais and used two cedar chairs designed by Pasley and made by Chuck. They were of tub form and were borrowed from the Upper House of the Victorian Parliament. The Duchess of York sat in the blackwood chair made by Johnston for Sir Frederick William Holder, Speaker of the House of Representatives, while the Duke of York was seated in the President of the Legislative Assembly’s cedar chair from the Victorian Parliament. It was from
these Chairs of State that the Nation and its Parliament were authorized and, as such, they are objects of great historical significance to Australians. The two Federal blackwood chairs made by Johnson were created for the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President of the Senate. Therefore they were the property of the National Government, although they were to leave the Victorian Parliament Building in Spring Street. One was removed by Sir Frederick William Holder, first Speaker of the House of Representatives until his death in 1909, and is now in a private collection. The other blackwood chair, removed by Sir Richard Chaffey Baker, first President of the Senate until his resignation on 31 December 1906, was later gifted by him to the Adelaide Club. The removal of the Senate chair by Baker necessitated the making of at least one more Pasley-designed chair in blackwood, for there exists in the current new Federal Parliament building in Canberra an identical blackwood chair with a silver plaque bearing the inscription, ‘President of the Senate, the Honourable Thos Givens, 9-July-1913 to 30-June-1926, chair bequeathed to the Senate by Mrs T Givens’.31 The Chair would appear to be unstamped with any makers’ marks.32 It is this author’s opinion that one of the two Pasley-designed cedar chairs – one stamped Svensson, the other bearing a Foy and Gibson stencilled label, and both still in the Victorian Parliament building – are the replacements of the two original chairs made in blackwood. How was it possible that three of these important chairs could be legally removed from the Australian National Parliament? The hereditary position of Lord Great Chamberlain in Britain gave the holder the right to carry out the Sovereign’s commands with regard to the furnishing of the House of Lords and the Palace of Westminster. This entitled the incumbent to claim for his benefit or the benefit of other Officers of State old or redundant furniture. Australian has no hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain, and the House of Lords, which is the locus classicus of thrones, was normally refurnished either partially or completely at the commencement of every reign.33 The surplus furniture of both Houses, Upper and Lower, generally became a perquisite of the Speaker in each Chamber. In the Victorian Parliament Building, where the Federal Parliament sat from 1901 until 1927, there is a Speaker’s chair gifted by John Henry Thomas Manners Sutton, later 3rd Viscount Canterbury, Governor of Victoria from 1866 to 1873. He inherited the chair from his father, Charles, 1st Viscount, who was eight times speaker of the House of Commons in Westminster. 34 Physical evidence of this tradition was therefore available to all Members of the Federal Parliament, as the Chair stood in Queen’s Hall in the Victorian Parliament building. With this in mind, the following newspaper reference is of interest: We learn that letters have been received by Viscount Canterbury, which announce his intention of making an interesting present to the colony. The chair occupied by his father when Speaker of the House of Commons, and when the Reform Bill of 1832 was passed, has become his property, in consequence of the practise that when the Speaker of that House resigns his position, the chair he has occupied becomes his own.35 A precedent had been set and colonial officials were quick to follow. In 1927, with the opening of the first Australian Federal Parliament in Canberra, a new Speaker’s Chair was made, copied from the original Gothic designs by A.W.N Pugin for the Westminster Parliament of some eighty years earlier. It was installed in the House of Representatives. The chair, a gift from members of both Houses of the Westminster Parliament, remains in situ (being so large and heavy that no Speaker can remove it!) as visual evidence of the strong historic links between the British and Australian parliamentary traditions.36
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REFERENCES 1 George Tibbits, Historic Public Buildings of Australia (Melbourne: Australian Council pp. 152-63. 2 Knight, Australian Dictionary of Biography (Melbourne University Press, 1974), p. 37. 3 The International Exhibition London, 1862: Colonial and Foreign Division (London, 1862), Knight exhibited the following in the Victorian Section: item 63, specimen of building stones at present known in Victoria and treatise thereon; item 404, pyramid, 44’ 9/4 inches high, 10’ square at the base representing over 800 tonnes of gold mined in Victoria since 1851; item 468, design for Government House; item 438, bricks and tiles from various parts of the Colony. 4 Dictionary of National Biography (London, 1909), pp. 437—38. Major General Charles Pasley (1824—90), son of General Sir Charles Pasley, author of Practical Architecture and a book 011 Portland Cement. 5 Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, London, 1851, Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue, Supplementary Volume (London, 1852), pp. 46—47, lists Pasley as the Superintendent of District Seven, where the exhibitors were Class XXIV, glass, and Class XXV, ceramics. ‘ 6 Argus (22 September 1856), p. 7. An advertisement reads: ‘Public Works Office, Melbourne, 20th September, 1856. Fittings and Furniture at the New House of Parliament. — Tenders will be received until eleven o’clock on Friday, 26th September, for the Fittings and Furniture required for the Legislative Council Chambers at the New House of Parliament. Charles Pasley.’ 7 The International Exhibition, London, 1862: Victoria, item 394, ‘a portable writing desk with gold mounts’, presumably made by a leading but unknown Victorian cabinet-maker and now in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Felton bequest, 1962, item 431—5. The desk is, in fact, silver-mounted and bears the following inscription: ‘Presented / to / Captn Pasley RE. / late Inspector General of / Public Works Victoria / by the Officers of that department as a memorial of / the high respect and esteem in which he / has ever been held by them/ Melbourne Deer 1860. / FORSAN ET HAEC OLIM MEMINISSE JUVASIT.’ See also The Australian Builder (26 January 1861), The Pasley Testimonial. 8 Anon., ‘The New Houses of Parliament’, Argus (19 November 1856), p. 3. ‘’ 9 Christopher Gilbert & Geoffrey Beard (eds). Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660 to 1840 (Leeds: W. S. Maney & Son, with the Furniture History Society, 1986), p. 71. The shop front is illustrated in Tallis, London Street Views (London, 1838-40), plate 37. 10 From the advertisement it would appear that a John Chuck had moved from London to Adelaide. John Chuck, no age given, married Harriet Jellett in a Church of England ceremony in Adelaide on 18 August 1841. He is listed in the Adelaide Street Directories until 1843, the year of the death of their first child, Emily. Assuming that this was his first marriage, it would make him a possible brother of Thomas. 11 Cedar, or Toona Australis, is a native Australian timber; it gained usage due to its colour and texture, being similar to a poor grade West Indian mahogany. Cedar was readily available and much used in Australian furniture to 1860. 12 Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Melbourne, Victoria (Marriage certificate #2134.) In 1854 Thomas Chuck, born in London and aged 27, married Adeline Holt in Melbourne, giving his occupation as upholsterer. His father was noted as John Chuck, an upholsterer. Thomas Chuck married for the second time in 1869. (Marriage certificate #2540.) This marriage certificate states him to have been born in London, his occupation, artist, a widower, with one living child and five deceased, aged 42; his father John’s occupation was now given as that of a gentleman. By 1869 Chuck had become a noted Australian photographer; his career, from his arrival in 1852, to his death in 1898, covered many fields. His death certificate, dated 6 December 1898, #752 Melbourne, gives his occupation as Evangelist and his father’s occupation as cabinet-maker. He is buried St Kilda Cemetery, Melbourne, with his first wife, Adeline, and second wife, Mary. 13 The Official Catalogue of the Melbourne Exhibition, 1854 (Melbourne, 1855), p. 122. 14 Victorian Public Record Series, PROV, 973 Unit 2, Register of Accounts, 1856, p. 287, #1675. ‘Thos Chuck, Second Hs. Pari. & Lib. First payment on contract for fittings for Leg. CI. Chamber. Total amount of contract 472 pounds 5s. Payment made 200 pounds, Folio Works Book 3, #283 submitted to the Treasury on the 30 October 1856.’ 15 Ibid., Contract #7, Houses of Parliament Legislative Council Chamber, 26 August 1856, P.W.D. summary contract book, 1857, item #2172. 16 Ibid., VPRS 973, Unit 2, Register of Accounts, 1856, p. 301, #1758, 1 November 1856. ‘Thos Chuck, Melb, First payment on Contract for fittings for Leg. CI. Chamber, Total Amount of Contract 1365 pounds 15s., Payment 200 pounds, Folio Works Book 3, #364 to Treasury, 10 November 1856.’ Other firms listed in the Register of Accounts who exhibited in the Paris Exhibition of 1855 and supplied items to the Parliament Buildings were: Paxton & Allen of 97 Little Collins Street East, with two writing tables for £13 and twenty four cedar ‘sweep’ back chairs covered with Morocco for 12s. od.; Thomas Bell of Bell & Beauchamp supplied six mahogany tables with drawers, and six without, at £6 and £5, respectively, a total of
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£66; Paxton & Allen, with the superb octagonal library table still the centrepiece of the Parliamentary Library, P.W.Contract Drawing, dated 29 October 1860, contractor Alexander Allen, 86 Collins St, Melbourne. 17 Ibid., VPRS 973 Unit 2, Register of Accounts, 1856, p. 381, #2419, 1 December 1856. Amos, repairing adapting old furniture for new Houses of Parliament, Folio Works Book 4 to Treasury, 13 January 1857. 18 A further two cedar chairs of the Pasley design remain in the Parliament Building. One is stamped on base of the seat, ‘Foy & Gibson, Smith Street, Collingwood’. This stamp is mid-twentieth-century and probably relates to the reupholstery of the chair. The other chair, also cedar, is stamped A Svensson of 169 La Trobe Street, Melbourne’. Svensson was born in April 1840 in Lund, Sweden, and arrived in Melbourne on Nations Hope from Gothenburg, on 26 July 1869. He was naturalized 9 May 1871, Certificate no. 553, and married 1872, his occupation given as cabinet-maker. He died in 1917 leaving a net worth of £1,906 7s. 11d. 19 Blackwood, or Acacia melanoxylon, was considered the finest Australian cabinet timber. A hardwood, it is both heavy and close grained and polishes finely. The ‘fiddleback’ cut made it the most prized of Australian native timbers. Between 1870 and 1910, most of the best timber was felled. 20 Australian Representative Men, ed. Wells & T. W. H. Leavitt (Melbourne, 1887), unpaginated. Charles Johnston(e), born in Cork, Ireland, on 6 October 1845, came to Victoria with his parents in 1853, eventually gaining a ten-year lease over numbers 134, 136, 138, 140, 142 and 144 Gertrude Street. He died on I4 july 1896 leaving an estate of £728 10s. His business was taken over by his son, George, the firm becoming ‘Cabinetmakers. Upholsterers and Furniture Makers’ to the Victorian Government in 1899, as noted in the Sands & McDougall Melbourne Directory of that year. 21 Convict transportation to Australia ceased in the 1840s, to be replaced by cheap labour from mainland China. The 1861 Victorian Census showed alluvial miners on the gold fields comprised 67,348 Europeans and 24,539 Chinese. Many second- or third-generation Chinese Australians later turned to cabinet-making. The Factories & Shops Act of 1896 provided for the ‘Stamp of Distinction’ and listed 405 Chinese cabinet-makers, as against 228 Europeans active in Victoria. The Victorian Furniture Manufacturers Employees Trade Protection Association was formed to ‘retrieve and maintain the furniture trade in the hands of Europeans by every legitimate means’. Pressure from this union, combined with antiChinese sentiment, was a major factor in introduction in 1901 of the Act, debarring Asiatics and others from entry into Australia thereby introducing the ‘White Australia’ Policy. 22 Terence Lane, Robert Prenzel, 1866-1941: His Life and Work (National Gallery of Victoria, 1994), pp. 8-9. 23 Nunan Brothers, Illustrated Catalogue of Furniture, Swanston Street, Melbourne, n.d. The only known copy is the State Library of Victoria, stamped with the acquisition date, 9 June 1904. 24 Ibid., Presidents’ Chairs, design nos 245, 247. 25 Argus (22 April 1901), p. 4. 26 Australian Archives, Canberra. CRSA8 01/214/3, expenditure in connection with the Opening of Parliament celebrations. 27 This charge was, after considerable argument, reduced, and the firm of Tye Co., bicycle importers, upholsterers, furniture, bedding, wire mattress and baby carriage manufacturers of Sturt Street, South Melbourne were paid £188 13s. 6d. for the hire of furniture for the Exhibition Trustees Room on the 25 July 1901 (ibid., CRSA8 01/214/3). 28 Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace. The Web of Empire: a diary of the Imperial Tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901 (London, 1902), pp. 126—35. This was written by the Assistant Private Secretary to the Duke during the Royal Tour. The death of Queen Victoria caused Edward VII to remain in England and send his eldest son to inaugurate the Commonwealth of Australia and its first Parliament. 29 This painting, the property of Her Majesty the Queen, currently hangs in the new Parliament House in Canberra. 30 Mackenzie Wallace, The Web of Empire. This book provides an eyewitness account of these events. 31 Now the Presiding Officer’s Chair in Room I.R.I., the National Parliament, Canberra. It should be noted that Givens was not using a blackwood, Pasley-designed chair in the Chamber in 1923. 32 It has been recently reupholstered and close inspection was no feasible. 33 Hugh Roberts, ‘Royal Thrones, 1776-1840’, Furniture History 25 (1989), pp. 61-78. 34 Another pair of chairs with a Manners-Sutton provenance, removed from the Speaker’s House at the Palace of Westminster, was sold by Sotheby’s in New York on 16 October 1998, lot 312. 35 Argus (30 June 1873), p. 5. 36 The wooden arms of this chair are made from timber removed during the restoration of Nelson’s H.M.S. Victory in 1922.
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1110 AN IMPORTANT COLONIAL CEDAR BOOKCASE ON CHEST Of Pepys type, the moulded cornice above a pair of astragal glazed doors enclosing four fixed shelves, on a base with a pair of ebony strung drawers and short turned legs. First quarter 19th century. Height 220cm; Width 145cm; Depth 59cm OTHER NOTES: A rarity among Colonial furniture, this cedar bookcase is a simplified version of one of the set of “book presses” made for the famous diarist Samuel Pepys, widely regarded as the earliest domestic bookcase. Pepys held his first deliberations with ‘Sympson the Joiner’, on July 23rd 1666, and the twelve original bookcases were bequeathed by Pepys to the Bibliotheca Pepysiana at Magdalene College, Cambridge were they remain to this day. These have glazed doors to the lower section, whereas the early cabinet maker in Australia has replaced these with deep drawers and also not attempted to replicate the rich carved cornice of the originals. $60,000-80,000
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1111 AN IMPORTANT COLONIAL HUON PINE CABINET The pedimented raised back with scrolled mouldings and spindle supported shelf, above a cabinet with a pair of arched moulded doors enclosing shelves, veneered all over with well-figured Huon pine, on a plinth base. Mid 19th century. Height 170cm; Width 107cm; Depth 56cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $60,000-80,000
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1112 A PAIR OF COLONIAL CEDAR SIDE TABLES Each with a moulded D-shaped top on a plain pine strung frieze, and four turned tapering legs. First half 19th century. Height 74cm; Width 135cm; Depth 60cm $5,000-8,000
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1112A A COLONIAL CEDAR LIBRARY BOOKCASE The moulded cornice above a plain frieze and a pair of glazed doors enclosing adjustable shelves, the base with a concealed frieze drawer above a pair of panelled cupboards and flanked by turned columns, on short turned feet. Mid 19th century. Height 217cm; Width 115cm; Depth 49cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $15,000-20,000
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1113 A COLONIAL CEDAR UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIR BY ANDREW LENEHAN The buttoned padded back with a pair of leaf carved and scrolled arms, the moulded seat rail terminating in rosettes, the turned and lapetted front legs with brass castors. Second quarter 19th century. Height 104cm; Width 65cm; Depth 82cm OTHER NOTES: Andrew Lenehan, a prominent cabinetmaker (circa 1815-1886) arrived in the colony in the early 1830's. Lenehan was in business on his own account from 1841, being last listed in 1873 in Bridge Street. Lenehan's billhead, decorated with the Royal Coat of Arms indicating vice-regal patronage, described him as a "designer and manufacturer of superior furniture" which he provided for some of the finest houses in Sydney. $8,000-12,000
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1114 A COLONIAL CEDAR RECLINING ARMCHAIR BY ANDREW LENEHAN The buttoned upholstered back between swept uprights, the padded seat flanked by upholstered scrolled arms, on turned front legs with brass castors, covered in black horsehair, paper trade label to rear seat rail. Height 103cm; Width 63cm; Depth 72cm OTHER NOTES: Irish furniture maker Andrew Lenehan (1815-1886) arrived in Sydney in 1835 with James Templeton, another Irish cabinet maker and by 1841 had acquired Templeton’s business and continued to thrive in various locations in Sydney designing and supplying “superior furniture” to the wealthy of the colony, including Government House. $7,000-9,000
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1115 A COLONIAL CEDAR UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIR The buttoned back and seat flanked by scroll and leaf carved armrest supports above a moulded apron on lappet carved turned front legs with porcelain castors. Second quarter 19th century. Height 104cm; Width 67cm; Depth 85cm $5,000-7,000 1116 A COLONIAL CEDAR WRITING TABLE The well figured rectangular top with moulded edge, having two drawers flanking a kneehole, on turned legs. Second half 19th century. Height 78cm; Length 259cm; Depth 60cm $7,000-9,000
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1117 A COLONIAL CEDAR BOW FRONT CHEST OF DRAWERS The moulded top above two short and three long drawers on swept bracket feet. First half 19th century. Height 116.5cm; Width 114cm; Depth 59cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $8,000-10,000 1118 A COLONIAL HUON PINE AND BLACKWOOD CHEST OF DRAWERS The moulded rectangular top above two short and three long drawers, bordered in blackwood, having blackwood turned knobs, and standing on turned blackwood feet. Mid 19th century. Height 110cm; Width 119.5cm; Depth 53cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $10,000-15,000 1118
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1119 A CEDAR AND CASUARINA PEMBROKE TABLE The oval twin-flap top above real and false end drawers on square tapering legs. Height 76cm; Width 92cm; Depth 90cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $20,000-25,000
1120 A VICTORIAN CEDAR LIBRARY TABLE The rexine inset top above three frieze drawers to each side, five with maker's stencil; 'FROM H.T. JONES CABINETMAKER & Upholsterer PARRAMATTA' and one drawer stamped 'AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM' on massive ring turned and incised baluster legs with porcelain castors. Maker H. Jones, Parramatta. Late 19th century. Height 77cm; Length 367cm; Width 136cm $8,000-12,000
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1120A A COLONIAL CEDAR LIBRARY TABLE The moulded rectangular top above six frieze drawers to either side, on turned tapering legs. Last quarter 19th century. Height 79cm; Width 121cm; Length 306cm PROVENANCE: Bonham’s & Goodman, Australian & European Furniture & Decorative Arts, 24th July 2006, lot 1074 $8,000-12,000
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1121 A COLONIAL CEDAR WARDROBE The moulded cornice above a pair of panelled doors enclosing hanging pegs, on a deep moulded plinth base. Mid 19th century. Height 210cm; Width 111cm; Depth 51.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $8,000-10,000
1122 A COLONIAL TASMANIAN CEDAR DOUBLE SCROLL END SOFA Centred with a well carved scroll to the padded back, the scrolled arms with acanthus terminals flanking the padded seat with bolsters, on facetted inverted baluster front legs with rosette headers and a plain apron, on porcelain castors. Height 99cm; Width 221cm; Depth 66cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $25,000-35,000
1123 A COLONIAL CEDAR CENTRE TABLE The circular tilt top with gadrooned edge, on a turned pedestal and triform base terminating in lion paw feet with concealed castors. Second quarter 19th century. Height 72cm; Diameter 102cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $8,000-10,000
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1127 A COLONIAL CEDAR AND INLAID DINING TABLE The rectangular moulded top with rounded corners, having ebony line and scroll inlaid border, on turned, leaf carved and reeded baluster legs. First half 19th century. Height 84cm; Width 120cm; Length 189cm $5,000-7,000 1128 A COLONIAL CEDAR HANGING SHELF The 3/4 gallery top above three graduated shelves with shaped open side supports. Mid 19th century. Height 55cm; Width 74cm; Depth 18cm $4,000-6,000
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1129 A COLONIAL CEDAR OPEN BOOKCASE The moulded cornice above two sections of four adjustable shelves, on a base with two further shelves, originally with sliding doors, now lacking. Second half 19th century. Height 281cm; Width 295cm; Depth 51cm $8,000-10,000
1124 A COLONIAL CEDAR DRESSING TABLE The moulded rectangular top above an arrangement of four drawers around a central kneehole flanked with foliate scrolls, on turned tapering legs. First half 19th century. Height 74cm; Width 106cm; Depth 55cm $8,000-12,000 1125 A COLONIAL CEDAR LIBRARY TABLE The moulded rectangular rexine lined top on a plain frieze with lockable end drawers, on turned tapering legs terminating in castors. Mid 19th century. Length 181cm; Width 83cm; Height 74cm $2,000-4,000 1126 A COLONIAL CEDAR DWARF OPEN BOOKCASE The moulded rectangular top above three sections with recessed shelves, plinth base. Second half 19th century. Height 78cm; Length 259cm; Depth 60cm $4,000-6,000
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1130 A COLONIAL CEDAR BIDET STOOL BY ANDREW LENEHAN Rectangular, the solid lift up top revealing shaped cut out (lacking basin) on turned tapering legs, paper trade label inside top. Height 44cm; Width 60cm; Depth 36cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection Privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-3,000 1131 A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY BIDET STOOL The solid lift off top revealing a creamware basin, on turned and incised legs, with paper retail label of Toogood & Jones, Cabinet Makers Upholsterers Parramatta. Height 45.5cm; Width 53cm; Depth 32cm $400-600
1132 A CHILD’S COTTAGE ARMCHAIR, PROBABLY BY THE MELBOURNE CHAIR COMPANY The top rail stem pressed with a kangaroo and flowers, above turned uprights and stick back, the solid seat with circular pot cut out, flanked by turned arms and on turned legs. Height 57cm; Width 40cm; Depth 30cm $300-500 1133 A LARGE CEDAR LIBRARY TABLE The moulded rectangular top on turned tapering legs with brass castors. Late 19th century. Height 72.5cm; Length 273cm; Width 121cm $4,000-6,000
1134 A LATE VICTORIAN KAURI PINE PARTNERS’ DESK The rectangular top with two drawers to either side on turned legs and porcelain castors. Height 80cm; Width 182cm; Depth 119cm $2,000-4,000 1135 A COLONIAL PINE KITCHEN TABLE, PROBABLY BAROSSA VALLEY The rectangular plank top above two frieze drawers, on square tapering slightly swept legs. Mid 19th century. Height 78cm; Depth 87cm; Length 215cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $3,000-5,000
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1140 A LATE VICTORIAN INLAID OCCASIONAL TABLE OF QUEENSLAND SPECIMEN WOODS The octagonal top inlaid to the centre with a patera and bordered with crossbanding, the open spindle frieze above four turned legs with an octagonal under tier and spindle stretchers; on porcelain castors. Height 77cm; Width 71cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $3,000-5,000 1141 A CEDAR PEDESTAL The square top above tapering panelled sides, on a plinth base. Late 19th century. Height 84cm; Width 63cm; Depth 63cm $600-800
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1136 A COLONIAL HUON PINE OPEN BOOKCASE The simple angled cornice above six adjustable shelves, on turned legs. Mid 19th century. Height 207cm; Width 154cm; Depth 36cm $3,000-5,000 1137 AN AUSTRALIAN CEDAR LOW CABINET The rectangular top above three frieze drawers with brass inset handles, having sliding panelled doors below on a plinth base. Early 20th century. Height 76cm; Width 155cm; Depth 39cm $600-800
1138 A CEDAR HALL TABLE The rectangular top on slender turned legs. Last quarter 19th century. Height 76cm; Width 92cm; Depth 42cm $700-900 1139 A BLACKWOOD ARMCHAIR BY THE MELBOURNE CHAIR COMPANY The shaped top rail stem pressed with a pair of emus in a landscape above a baluster splat and padded seat flanked by arms, on turned legs with spindle turned stretchers. Early 20th century. Height 101cm; Width 57cm; Depth 45cm $1,200-1,600
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1141A AN AUSTRALIAN ART NOUVEAU CARVED BLACKWOOD PEDESTAL The three slender legs sweeping up to stylised lily bud and leaf terminals and scrolled clasps holding the moulded circular top. Early 20th century. Height 140cm; Diameter 49cm $1,500-2,500 1142 A BLACKWOOD OCCASIONAL TABLE The circular radially veneered top above a frieze inset with a silvered map of Australia engraved ‘From AUSTRALIAN SCOTTISH DELEGATION 1928’ on square tapered legs with a circular undertier. Height 75cm; Diameter 68.5cm $400-600
1143 A CONTINENTAL MAHOGANY TEA TABLE The fold over top of serpentine outline, with confirming apron, on slender cabriole legs. Mid 19th century. Height 78cm; Width 86cm; Depth 44cm $1,500-2,500 1144 A STAINED PINE SPATTERWORK OCCASIONAL TABLE The octagonal top with an all over design of different ferns, on square sectioned swept legs united by an under tier. Late 19th century. Height 65cm; Diameter 60.5cm $1,500-2,500 1145 A POKERWORK OCCASIONAL TABLE The circular top with a pyrographic design of three waratahs within a geometric border, on a turned and reeded pedestal and circular base with three block feet. Height 55cm; Diameter 47cm $500-700 1146 AN AUSTRALIAN BLACKWOOD CHIP-CARVED OCCASIONAL TABLE The square top with an all over geometric design and matted field, on cabriole legs with square undertier. Height 69cm; Width 56cm; Depth 56cm $400-600 1147 A CARVED AND STAINED CEDAR HALL SEAT In the Aesthetic style, the back panel carved in relief with a kookaburra catching a snake amongst bulrushes, inset with three circular mirrors, above a bench with rail ends, on turned legs. Late 19th century. Height 130cm; Width 83cm; Depth 48cm $1,000-2,000 1148 AN AUSTRALIAN STAINED PINE PEDESTAL ETAGERE The shaped square top above solid sides carved in relief with a kookaburra and a heron below a shield shaped opening, united by two shelves, on scroll feet. Height 82cm; Width 27cm; Depth 27cm $4,000-6,000
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1149 AN AUSTRALIAN BLACKWOOD DROPSIDE OCCASIONAL TABLE The cruciform top centred with a carved ‘D’ and relief carved panels of eucalyptus leaves and nuts, on scrolled cabriole legs with a shaped under tier and terminating in ball and claw feet. Early 20th century. Height 70cm; Width 81cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $3,000-5,000 1150 A CIRCULAR POKERWORK OCCASIONAL TABLE The top centred with three waratahs on a painted tortoiseshell ground, on four turned supports and cruciform base with shaped feet. Height 67cm; Diameter 62.5cm $1,200-1,400
1151 A COLONIAL CEDAR AND SPECIMEN WOOD SIDE TABLE The moulded rectangular top inset with a lozenge design inlaid in casuarina, musk, blackwood and other local timbers above a frieze with pendant corners and on baluster shaped trestle-end supports united by a turned stretcher and on short turned legs with brass castors. Mid 19th century. Height 75cm; Width 94cm; Depth 48cm $1,000-1,500 1152 AN AUSTRALIAN CEDAR AND BLACKWOOD DRINKS TROLLEY The tray top with border of leaf and entrelac above a shelf and cupboard with leaded glass doors. Height 85cm; Depth 48cm; Length 93cm $800-1,200
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1159 A SET OF SIX AUSTRALIAN PINE COTTAGE CHAIRS PROBABLY BY THE MELBOURNE CHAIR COMPANY The panel top rail steam impressed with an art nouveau design of waratahs and flannel flowers, having turned stick splats and uprights, shaped solid seats, turned legs and stretchers. Early 20th century. Height 97cm; Depth 42cm; Width 37cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-4,000 1161 A SET OF FOUR PINE COTTAGE CHAIRS The panel top rail steam impressed with a pair of emus flanked by native flora and ferns, above a stick back, the padded seat on turned front legs and stretchers. Height 96.5cm; Width 41cm; Depth 40cm $600-800 1162 A PAIR OF PINE KITCHEN CHAIRS Each with turned uprights and steam pressed top rail, stick back and solid seat, on turned legs. $400-600
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1153 AN OAK DINING ROOM SUITE Comprising a mirror backed sideboard, an extending dining table and six dining chairs carved with a stylised waratah. First quarter 20th century. (8) $1,000-1,500 1154 A PAIR OF CEDAR MASONIC THRONE CHAIRS Each with a pediment top having ball finials, moulded uprights and armrests flanking the plain back and seat, and panelled sides. Late 19th/early 20th century. Height 166cm; Width 59cm; Depth 57cm $2,000-4,000 1155 A MAHOGANY PEDESTAL In the Victorian style, the square moulded top on a turned and reeded shaft with leaf carved knop and square base. Height 110cm; Width 35cm; Depth 35cm $400-600
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1156 AN AUSTRALIAN TURNED SPECIMEN WOOD PEDESTAL Of inverted baluster form, turned from laminated sections of various Australian timbers. Late 19th century. Height 116cm; Diameter of top 29cm $4,000-6,000 1157 TWO CEDAR STOOLS Each with a rounded rectangular top with central cut out, on square tapering legs. Height 45cm; Width 42cm; Depth 31cm $500-700 1158 A SET OF THREE AUSTRALIAN BLACKWOOD AND PINE COTTAGE CHAIRS, PROBABLY BY THE MELBOURNE CHAIR COMPANY The panel top rail steam impressed with a lyrebird flanked by a scrolling design of Sturt’s desert pea, having turned stick splats and uprights, shaped solid seats, turned legs and stretchers. Early 20th century. Height 94cm; Width 44cm; Depth 44cm $1,000-1,500
1163 A RUSTIC AUSTRALIAN HARDWOOD ELBOW CHAIR The slatted back and seat flanked by scrolled uprights and arms, on square tapering legs with an H stretcher. Early 20th century. Height 87cm; Width 53cm; Depth 60cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-4,000 1164 FOUR SIMILAR COLONIAL CEDAR DINING CHAIRS Each with a broad shaped top tail above a bar back and solid seat on turned front legs. Second quarter 19th century. Height 88cm; Width 47cm; Depth 43cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-4,000
1165 A COLONIAL FIDDLEBACK BLACKWOOD ‘JIMMY POSSUM’ TYPE CHAIR Having a plain shaped top rail above four stick supports, panel seat and four square sectioned legs with stretchers. Mid 19th century. Height 81.5cm; Width 50cm; Depth 40cm $800-1,200
1170 A COLONIAL RUSTIC HARDWOOD ARMCHAIR AND OCCASIONAL TABLE, NORTHERN NSW The chair with openwork stick back, seat and sides; the hexagonal table with “trunk” pedestal and tripod base. Late 19th century. (2) Height of chair 93cm; Height of table 73cm and diameter 43cm
1166 A BERNARD HESLING ENAMELLED LOW OCCASIONAL TABLE Painted to the centre with a spray of flowers and ferns on a white ground within dot border, on wire legs. Circa 1960. Height 36cm; Length 58.5cm; Depth 43.5cm $300-500
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1167 A COLONIAL CEDAR FOOTSTOOL Shaped oval the padded top on four ring turned legs, maker’s stamp; ‘E BRADLEY MAKER 135A LT. COLLINS ST E. MELBOURNE’. Height 15.5cm; Width 32cm; Depth 25cm
1171 A ‘JIMMY POSSUM’ ARMCHAIR With stick back and solid seat, weathered finish. Late 19th century. Height 105cm; Width 57cm; Depth 35cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,000-1,500
PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,000-1,500
1172 A VINTAGE CHILD’S RIDE-ON KANGAROO With cast iron wheels. Height 80cm; Length 100cm; Width 58cm $800-1,200 1173 AN ASH AND ELM WINDSOR CHAIR The typical arched stick back with pierced splat, the bowed back rail with spindle turned supports above a shaped solid seat on turned legs with turned stretchers. 19th century. Height 114cm; Width 67cm; Depth 60cm $1,500-2,000 1174 A GEORGE III OAK BENCH The plank top on angled baluster supports, joined by a stretcher. Height 46cm; Length 172cm; Width 32cm $1,000-1,500 1175 A PAIR OF MODERN STANDING DISPLAY CABINETS In satin birch, with geometric rosewood banding and metal inlay, having glass shelves to the interior and three drawers below, on a plinth base. Height 180cm; Width 74cm; Depth 54cm $1,000-1,500
1168 A RUSTIC ARMCHAIR Formed of natural hardwood boughs with a carpet covered drop in seat, original green painted finish. Early 20th century. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-4,000 1169 A RUSTIC ARMCHAIR Formed of natural hardwood boughs with an arched back and slatted seat, traces of original green painted finish. Early 20th century. Height 116cm; Depth 61cm; Width 61cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $3,000-5,000
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1176 A PAIR OF MODERN SHOP COUNTER DISPLAY CABINETS In satin birch, with rosewood banding and metal inlay, having three upper sections with slide out trays, above display space and three pairs of drawers below, on a plinth base. Height 85cm; Length 182cm; Depth 50cm $1,000-1,500
1178 A PAIR OF MODERN SHOP COUNTER DISPLAY CABINETS In satin birch, with rosewood banding and metal inlay, having three upper sections with slide out trays, above display space and three pairs of drawers below, on a plinth base. Height 85cm; Length 242cm; Depth 70cm $1,000-1,500
1180 A PAIR OF FREESTANDING MODERN SHOP COUNTER DISPLAY CABINETS In satin birch, with rosewood banding and metal inlay, having four upper sections with slide out trays, above display space and a drawer to either side, on a plinth base. Height 85cm; Width 94cm; Depth 94cm $800-1,200
1177 A MODERN SHOP COUNTER DISPLAY CABINET In satin birch, with rosewood banding and metal inlay, having three upper sections with slide out trays, above display space and three pairs of drawers below, on a plinth base. Height 85cm; Length 242cm; Depth 70cm $500-700
1179 A PAIR OF FREESTANDING MODERN SHOP COUNTER DISPLAY CABINETS In satin birch, with rosewood banding and metal inlay, having four upper sections with slide out trays, above display space and a drawer to either side, on a plinth base. Height 85cm; Width 94cm; Depth 94cm $800-1,200
1181 A FREESTANDING MODERN SHOP COUNTER DISPLAY CABINET In satin birch, with rosewood banding and metal inlay, having four upper sections with slide out trays, above display space and a drawer to either side, on a plinth base. Height 85cm; Width 94cm; Depth 94cm $500-700
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1182 A FREESTANDING MODERN SHOP COUNTER DISPLAY CABINET In satin birch, with rosewood banding and metal inlay, having four upper sections with slide out trays, above display space and a drawer to either side, on a plinth base. Height 85cm; Width 94cm; Depth 94cm $400-600 1183 AN EDWARDIAN OAK AND GLASS SHOP DISPLAY COUNTER L-shaped with a domed section, adjustable glass shelves and inlaid bands to the base, on cabriole legs with carved cartouches, and carved aprons. Height 146cm; Length 200cm; Depth 80cm $3,000-5,000 1184 AN EDWARDIAN OAK & GLASS SHOP DISPLAY COUNTER BY DUFF Rectangular with rounded ends, having adjustable glass shelves and bands of inlay to the base, on cabriole legs. Height 103cm; Width 308cm; Depth 50cm $2,000-4,000 1185 A COLONIAL CEDAR RETAIL DISPLAY CABINET Having scrolled cresting centred by a scallop shell, above a moulded cornice and incised frieze with slender turned column angles, enclosing three adjustable glass shelves, and a pair of glazed doors on a deep moulded pedestal base. Late 19th century. Height 210cm; Width 102cm; Depth 60cm $4,000-6,000
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1186 A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY FREESTANDING MUSEUM VITRINE The glazed upper section with four panels and glazed sides enclosing a velvet lined interior, on a base with six turned and incised legs joined by shaped aprons and incised stretchers, numbered 81. Height 109cm; Length 492cm; Depth 89cm $3,000-5,000 1187 A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY FREESTANDING MUSEUM VITRINE The glazed upper section with four panels and glazed sides enclosing a velvet lined interior, on a base with six turned and incised legs joined by shaped aprons and incised stretchers, numbered 31. Height 109cm; Length 492cm; Depth 89cm $3,000-5,000 1188 A LARGE MAHOGANY FREESTANDING MUSEUM DISPLAY CABINET The sloped top with three pairs of rising glazed panels, the base having three pairs of cupboards enclosing shelves to each side, separated by pilasters, on a plinth base with fretted ventilation grilles, numbered 19. Early 20th century. Height 106cm; Length 360cm; Depth 146cm $2,000-4,000
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1189 A NICKEL AND GLASS SHOP DISPLAY CABINET With the adjustable glass shelves standing on short cabriole legs. First half 20th century. Height 98cm; Width 89cm; Depth 51cm $400-600
1190 A CEDAR VITRINE TABLE With glazed lift up top on turned tapering legs. Height 81cm; Width 67cm; Depth 61cm $1,000-1,500 1191 A LATE VICTORIAN KINGWOOD AND GILTMETAL MOUNTED VITRINE In the Louis XVI style the rising glazed top with cross and feather banded edges, the frieze centred with a tablet of scrolling roses, flanked by marquetry panels, on square tapering, fluted legs with floral drops, square sabots. Height 72cm; Width 93.5cm; Depth 57.5cm $2,000-3,000 1192 A LOUIS XVI STYLE MAHOGANY AND ORMOLU MOUNTED VITRINE TABLE With rising glazed top above a panelled frieze with a concealed central drawer, the square tapering legs with wreath hung headers and leaf cast sabots. Height 90cm; Width 116cm; Depth 60.5cm $2,000-4,000 1193
1193 A COLONIAL PINE AND SPATTERWORK DISPLAY CABINET, SOUTH AUSTRALIA The moulded cornice above a glazed cabinet enclosing glass shelves, on scroll front supports and undertier, decorated all over with arrangements of differing ferns in characteristic spatterwork style, on porcelain castors. Circa 1870. Height 162cm; Width 85cm; Depth 29cm $8,000-12,000
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1194 TWO PRINTS OF WORLD WAR I BATTLES ‘The Landing at Anzac Cove’ after Charles Dixon, 1915, coloured lithograph published by the Fine Art Society, 1916; and ‘Saving Amiens’ after F. Matania, lithograph, 1919 in chip carved frame. Dixon 49 x 78cm; Matania 61 x 38cm $500-700 1195 after JOHN SKINNER PROUT (1805-1876) Miller’s Point, Sydney from the Flagstaff Hill lithograph 18 x 25cm $500-700 1196 A GROUP OF TEN HAND COLOURED WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF COLONIAL VIEWS Comprising Sydney Harbour and environs including the Heads; Albany and King George’s Sound. Late 19th century. $1,000-1,500
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1197 A.H MACK (Early 20th century, Australian School) Burdekin House, Macquarie Street, June 1933 pencil signed lower right 19 x 21cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-4,000 1198 A FRAMED ENGRAVING BY SYDNEY URE SMITH (1887-1949) Of Burdekin House, Macquarie Street. $300-500 1199 ELIOTH GRUNER (1882-1939) The Wattles c.1922 etching signed, and titled No.2 in the border 29.5 x 23cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $600-800
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1200 TWO LITHOGRAPHS, ONE AFTER EDMUND THOMAS (1827-1867) AND ONE AFTER WILLIAM MCLEOD Thomas: ‘The Rose Bay Quadrilles’, lithograph, sheet music cover, signed lower right. Mcleod: ‘First landing’, lithograph with hand colouring. PROVENANCE: Thomas: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 OTHER NOTES: William Stanley (1820-1902) composer of the Quadrilles was an English born musical prodigy who came to Sydney in 1837 as a member of the 80th Regiment of Foot, and on his discharge three years later attained local fame as a musician and keyboard performer. $800-1,200
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1201 after SAMUEL THOMAS GILL (1818-1880) Scenes from the Diggings, including: Diggers of High Degree; License Inspected; Wayfaring Diggers and Dangerously Suspicious lithographs with handcolouring 18.5 x 13cm $400-600 1202 TWO BAXTER PRINTS ‘NEWS FROM HOME’ & ‘NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA’ AND TWO WOODCUT PRINTS OF COLONIAL INTEREST The Baxter prints published 1854; and ‘Capture of the Kelly Gang of Australian Bushrangers’ and ‘Saturday Night at Paddy’s Market’. (4) $200-400
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1203 A GROUP OF BAXTER PRINTS Including ‘News From Home’ and ‘Christmas Time’. (5) $800-1,200 1204 A GROUP OF FOUR VANITY FAIR PRINTS OF STATESMEN AFTER SPY Relating to the Australian colonies, comprising The Earl Beauchamp, the Earl of Jersey, Lord Northcote and another. (4) $600-800
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1208 JAMES ALEXANDER CRISP (1879-1962) The Quintette etching signed and editioned 11/50 lower right 11 x 26cm $400-600 1209 ‘AN ENGLISH TEAM’ & ‘AN AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN’ After Harry Bright, a pair of chromolithographs of birds on a branch, original frames. Circa 1880. (2) Overall 44 x 75cm $700-900
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1210 ‘AN ENGLISH TEAM’ & ‘AN AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN’ CIRCA 1880 After Harry Bright, a pair of chromolithographs of national birds on a branch, original oak frames. (2) Overall 42 x 72cm $500-700 1211 HERBERT HEPBURN CALVERT (1870-1923) Australian XI watercolour, signed, titled and dated 1921 lower right 27 x 89cm $400-600 1212 O. STOHL (Late 19th/early 20th century) A Pair of Watercolours: ‘Im and ‘Er and Willies Woeing 1908 watercolour Both titled, signed and dated ‘08. Both in gilt frames with frog and flower detail. Each: 23 x 14cm $300-500
1205 THREE LITHOGRAPHS FROM 'BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA' AFTER G. J. BROINOWSKI, IN BLACKWOOD AND MUSK FRAMES Comprising 1) Allied Flycatcher and other flycatchers; 2) White Backed Crow Shrike and Piping Crow Shrike; 3) Long Tailed Superb Warbler and other warblers. Overall 59 x 50cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,500-2,500
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1206 JAMES ALEXANDER CRISP (1879-1962) Quoth the Raven Nevermore ink and body colour on toned paper signed and inscribed ‘TO GORDON DRAWN FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL’ lower right 27 x 23cm $800-1,200 1207 JAMES ALEXANDER CRISP (1879-1962) The Conference etching signed and editioned 6/50 lower right 8.5 x 29cm $400-600
1213 A GROUP OF SIX WATERCOLOURS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS Signed ‘A.V. Summers Nth Sydney’ and dated 1912, comprising a blue wren, a magpie, two kookaburras , a pair of black swans and wild ducks. (6) $1,000-1,500 1214 MARIE TUCK (Australian, 1866-1947) Two kookaburras in a gum tree oil on canvas signed lower left 67 x 57cm $800-1,200
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1215 AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL (Early 20th century) Still Life of Wattle oil on canvas signed with initials E.A.W. and dated 1917 lower right 34 x 49cm $500-700 1216 IAN HASSAL (1899-1970) Red Gum Blossoms oil on panel signed lower left 39 x 41cm $500-700 1217 M. E. SUTTON (Australian School, early 20th century) Gum Blossoms and Foliage (Eucalyptus maculata) oil on canvas board signed lower right 53 x 34cm $400-600 1218 ELIZABETH CAROLINE ARMSTRONG (Australian, 1880-1930) Waratahs oil on canvas signed and dated 1900 lower left 66 x 50cm $3,000-5,000 1218
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1219 AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL (Early 20th century) Still Life of Waratahs and Flannel Flowers in a Chinese Vase oil on canvas board indistinctly signed lower right 53 x 35cm $300-500 1220 IDA ROBERTS Christmas Bells on a Green Background oil on board Signed lower left ‘Ida Roberts’. 29 x 19cm $400-600 1221 attributed to ADRIAN FEINT (1894-1971) Flowers in a Vase oil on board 34.5 x 23.5cm $400-600
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1222 MARGARET FLOCKTON (1861-1953) Red Nasturtiums in a Glass Vase watercolour signed lower right ‘Margaret Flockton’ 33 x 25cm $300-500 1223 EDWARD SALTER (fl. 1876-1902) Australian Red Winged Wren oil on paper signed lower left ‘SALTER’. 22 x 18cm OTHER NOTES: Edward Salter was a painter at the Royal Worcester Porcelain Works. $800-1,200 1224 A PAIR OF FRAMED WATERCOLOURS OF KOOKABURRAS BY W. H. AUSTIN OTHER NOTES: W. H. Austin was the famous Royal Worcester artist who was commissioned to paint Australian studies of birds and flowers. $1,200-1,500
1225 PAUL OSBORNE JONES (Australian, 1921-1997) Flannel Flowers, Grevillea and Philoteca pencil and watercolour signed lower right 47 x 33cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $3,000-5,000 1226 PAUL OSBORNE JONES (Australian, 1921-1997) Waratah gouache signed lower right 41 x 31cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $3,000-5,000
1227 A FRAMED COLLECTION OF NINE EUROPEAN LITHOGRAPHIC TRADE CARDS OF AUSTRALIAN SUBJECTS Last quarter 19th century. Overall 60 x 57cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,000-1,500 1228 FOUR SMALL WATERCOLOURS FRAMED IN ONE MOUNT Each of Australian wildflowers including flannel flowers, Christmas bells, wattle, and sturt desert pea. One initialed AM. Each 11.5 x 8.5cm $400-600 1229 TWO ORIGINAL CARTOONS FROM THE BULLETIN ‘…once again Princess Diana has insulted the Australian People by turning out in another incredibly shoddy…’ by Mac; ‘You’re entitled to all flotsam and jetsam and any other British rubbish that washes in.’ Artist unknown Ink on card. (2) 50 x 37cm $500-700 1230 after FREDERICK WOODHOUSE JNR (1847-1927) Cranbrook, Winner of the Newmarket Handicap 1888 coloured lithograph from “Woodhouse’s Australasian Winners” 53 x 70cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $2,000-4,000 1231 after HENRY GRITTEN (1818-1873) The Eastern Market lithograph with colouring printed and published by Charles Troedel, Melbourne Album Office, 73 Collins Street East. Titled below. 32 x 44cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $800-1,200
1232 WILLIAM RAWORTH (1821-1904) Narara Creek, Brisbane Water NSW watercolour signed and inscribed to reverse “Narara Creek, Brisbane Water, NS Wales” 66 x 89cm $2,000-4,000 1233 A FRAMED MAP OF NEW SOUTH WALES Engraved and hand coloured map, illustrations by H Warren, engraved by J Rogers, for J Tallis & Company London and New York. The map drawn and engraved by J Rapkin. 37 x 27cm $300-500
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1234 after ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS (1898-1996) ‘The Heart of Sydney in the Year 1938’ a three colour map. published by John Fairfax & Sons. 1938. 47 x 59cm $300-500 1235 A WORLD WAR I MAP OF THE GALLIPOLI WAR AREA Published by the ‘Farmer & Settler’. 1915 76 x 100cm $1,000-1,500
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1236 TWO LITHOGRAPHS DEPICTING WORLD WAR I BATTLES ‘Australians Landing at Anzac, 25th April 1915’ after George Lambert and ‘1st Australian Divisional Artillery Going into Action, Near Ypres, 31st July 1917’ after Septimus Power, both copyright Australian War Museum. 21 x 42cm $200-400 1237 AN AERIAL VIEW OF SYDNEY, 1874, AND ANOTHER FACSIMILE, 1879 The handcoloured wood engraving by S. Calvert after A.C. Cooke, from the west looking above Darling Harbour towards the East; and a modern facsimile of the 1879 aerial view from the North looking south, originally a supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News. (2) Calvert 60 x 95cm $1,000-1,500
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1238 after JOSEPH FOWLES (1810-1878) The Jews Synagogue, Sydney engraving and a photograph Of Elizabeth Street Sydney in the mid 1920s showing the old T&G building and the Great Synagogue. (2) $1,500-2,500 1239 after EUGENE VON GUERARD (1811-1901) Sydney Heads New South Wales lithograph with colouring printed and published by Hamel & Ferguson, Melbourne, Victoria. Signed in the plate and titled below. 34 x 51cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $600-900
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1240 after JOSEPH LYCETT (1774-1828) View of Captain Piper’s Naval Villa 1825 coloured aquatint 34 x 24.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $500-1,000 1241 A COLOURED LITHOGRAPH OF ‘DOUBLE BAY, PORT JACKSON - FROM EDGECLIFFE ROAD, WOOLLAHRA’ From the Australian Illustrated News, published by Gibbs, Shallard & Co. 37 x 50cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $300-500
1242 after FREDERICK CHARLES TERRY (1827-1869) Sydney Garden Island, Pinchgut & from Point Piper; Sydney from the Old Point Piper Road two engraved plates from ‘New South Wales Illustrated’ published by Sands and Kenny 25 x 20cm $600-800 1243 TWO EARLY PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS Pott’s Point from the Domain by Henry King; and Double Bay from Darling Point, oak frames. Late 19th century. PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,500-2,000
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1244 after JOSEPH LYCETT (1774-1828) View of Captain Piper’s Naval Villa 1825 coloured aquatint 34 x 24.5cm $1,500-2,500 1245 A HAND COLOURED ENGRAVING ‘THE BOTANIC GARDENS- MELBOURNE IN THE DISTANCE JULY 18, 1863’ In an ebonised and tortoiseshell frame. Overall 37 x 47cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $400-600
1246 HENRY GRANT LLOYD (1829-1904) Mountainous Landscape with travellers on the road watercolour signed lower left 27 x 42cm $800-1,200 1247 SAMUEL THOMAS GILL (1818-1880) Outer Manly Beach c.1856 watercolour signed with initials lower left 15 x 20cm PROVENANCE: Sotheby’s Sydney, Australian Colonial Books and Paintings, 16 October 1984, lot 253 $1,500-2,500
1248 AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL (Early 20th century) Lover’s Walk Manly; Shelly Beach Manly; Curl Curl Head Manly three watercolours dated 1.5.10, titled and dated lower right Overall 59.5 x 34cm $500-700 1249 ARTIST UNKNOWN (Early 19th century) Portrait of a Young Girl, believed to be Frances Anne Bligh, (1788-1862) daughter of William Bligh pencil and watercolour With indistinct pen inscription to verso: ‘For Mary Williams(?) give this to her from me Frances Bligh’ 14.5 x 19cm PROVENANCE: By descent until sold Rosebery’s Auctions U.K. sale 8th September 2009, lot 653 $1,000-1,500
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OTHER NOTES: Richard Read junior arrived in Sydney from London in November 1819 and by March 1821 he was advertising in the Sydney Gazette as a ‘Miniature, Portrait and Historical Painter’ operating from premises at 59 Pitt Street. He also advertised his services as a teacher, and offered for sale ‘a most elegant collection of drawings consisting of Natives of New Zealand and New South Wales, Views, Flowers, etc.’. He styled himself ‘Read junior’, noting that patrons ‘be particular to observe that R.R. jun. has no connexion whatever with any other person in the same profession’, not wishing to be tainted by association with the other artist Richard Read in Sydney - his convict father. $30,000-50,000
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1251 ARTIST UNKNOWN (Australian School) Portrait of Senior Sergeant Harry Dalton, New South Wales Police, Governor’s Escort Charcoal and coloured chalk on toned paper In an oak and gilt composition frame 40 x 33cm OTHER NOTES: Harry Dalton was born in London in 1832, and served in Crimea and Turkey at Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastapol taking part in the Charge of the Light Brigade. He also served in India at the Siege of Kotah, recapture of Chundaree Kotah Ki Seari, capture of Gwalior Powrie, Sindwah and Koonoyr. He spent twenty five years in charge of the Governor’s Escort in New South Wales and died in Balgowlah, Sydney in 1891. $1,200-1,400 1252 JOHN ALLCOT (1888-1973) HMS Supply watercolour signed lower left and titled lower right 26 x 37cm $800-1,200 1253 JOHN BOWER (British, 19th century) The clipper ship ‘West Australian’ oil on panel signed lower right 24 x 33cm OTHER NOTES: An iron-built 599-ton clipper, the West Australian was built at Hartlepool, England in 1859 for Park Bros. Intended for the Indian trade, she made a voyage to Australia in 1861/62, and three others from London to New Zealand in 1863-1866. $600-800
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1254 SAMUEL BEGG (1854-1919) Her First Ride watercolour signed lower right 43 x 30cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $500-700 1255 after SAMUEL THOMAS GILL (1818-1880) Scenes from ‘The Australian Sketchbook’: Cattle Branding; Native Police; Native Sepulchre; The Duff Children; Splitters; Bush Funeral; Squatters Tiger; Attacking the Mail & Attack on Store Dray coloured lithographs published by Hamel & Ferguson, Melbourne, unframed. (10) Sheet size: 29 x 39cm $1,000-1,500 1256 A PAIR OF VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS OF SIR JAMES LUMSDEN AND LADY LUMSDEN Each large format image in a gilt mount and frame inset in a glazed rosewood frame. 60 x 50cm OTHER NOTES: James Lumsden (1808-1879) was a Scottish stationer and merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1866 to 1869. $800-1,200
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1257 A COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN DISPLAY FRAMES Originally from photographs, comprising a pair of swept Louis XV style gilt frames in rosewood boxes; a leaf cast gilt frame, in a rosewood box; and two victorian photographic portraits in a gilt frame and box mount similar. (5) $500-700 1258 A FRAMED VICTORIAN AMBROTYPE WITH GILT METAL FRAME The subject is Mrs Henry Wilson. In original tooled leather case. OTHER NOTES: Victoria Wilson (née Watson) of Ashfield Street, Hobart, was born in Bendigo, Victoria in 1862 and moved to Hobart in 1886. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Horrace Watson. $300-500 1259 ADRIAN FEINT (1894-1971) Still Life of a Jug of Roses on a Ledge, a Landscape Beyond oil on board signed and dated 1953 lower left 20 x 15cm $1,500-2,500 1260 ADRIAN FEINT (1894-1971) Still Life of Waratah and other Australian flowers, a bookplate for Carlyle S. Baer woodblock print with later colouring 13 x 10.5cm PROVENANCE: The Ruth Simon Collection privately acquired from the above in 2005 $1,000-2,000
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1261 ADRIAN FEINT (1894-1971) Still Life with Flowers in Cornucopia Vase, study oil on masonite signed upper left 9 x 7.5cm $200-400
1264 KEVIN CHARLES “PRO” HART (1928-2006) Scurrying Ants a painted reclaimed bucket Signed PRO HART Height 28cm $600-800
1262 after ADRIAN FEINT (1894-1971) The South Wind etching artist proof posthumously printed 1982 16.5 x 14cm $200-400
1265 MARIAN ELLIS ROWAN (1848-1922) Root study pastel signed lower right 20 x 36cm $200-400
1263 KEVIN CHARLES “PRO” HART (1928-2006) Bush Ants ceramic tile signed lower right 10.5 x 21cm $700-900
1266 SEBASTIAN JOHN ROSS (1919-2008) A Silhouette of David Ell paper silhouette In a chip carved frame with elaborate design including attached oars, boat, etc. 18 x 14cm OTHER NOTES: Sebastian John Ross was also known as The Silhouette Man or the Master of the Silhouette. David Ell was a publisher and a fine photographer who published books on Australian history. $400-600
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1267 A RARE AUSTRALIAN PAINTED TILE BY H. HAINSSELIN The Minton Hollins blank painted in colours with a young boy in a sailor suit standing in the sea with a toy yacht, ebonised frame, signed to verso ‘HHainsselin Desd. & Painted St Kilda Victoria Australia 1883’. Dated 1883. Overall 21 x 21cm $2,000-3,000 1268 A NINETEENTH CENTURY MINIATURE OF A LADY In an ornate gilt frame. $400-600 1269 A NINETEENTH CENTURY MINIATURE ON PORCELAIN OF THE KING OF BOHEMIA After Jan Hoskins. $400-600
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1270 ‘MAORI ART: THE ART WORKMANSHIP OF THE MAORI RACE IN NEW ZEALAND’ BY AUGUSTUS HAMILTON Two volumes, quarto, frontipiece and 64 plates, some colour. Originally issued in five parts over five years, this is the collected issue with a new title-page dated 1901. OTHER NOTES: A remarkable study of the decorative arts of the Maoris from intricate wood and stone carving to tattooing, extensively documented with photographs and diagrams. $1,500-2,500
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1271 ‘JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES 1787-8’ BY JOHN WHITE ESQ. ‘With sixty-five plates of non-descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural reproductions’, with an engraved title page and 65 coloured-plates. First edition, printed for J Debrett, Piccadilly in 1790. OTHER NOTES: John White Esq. (1757 or 1758-1832) was chief surgeon of the First Fleet, and was particularly successful in managing both the difficult conditions on the voyage out and the early years of the settlement. He was also a keen amateur naturalist. His journal provides valuable insights into the role and duties of an eighteenth century physician, health problems experienced by the First Fleet population and relationships with Aboriginal people. $7,000-9,000
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1272 ‘AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY’ VOLUMES 1-12 EDITED BY JOHN RITCHIE Together with ‘Index to Volumes 1 to 12, 1788-1939’, published by Melbourne University Press, Melbourne in 1990; and ‘Volume 13: 1940-1980 A-De’ published 1993. $1,000-1,500 1273 A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO DAME NELLIE MELBA (1861-1931) Including ‘Trois Femmes (Three Women)’ songbook, No 104 - Paling’s Song Series; a letter from Dame Nellie Melba to Colonial Lowther from 30, Great Cumberland Place, London; and a mounted magazine page March 4, 1931 ‘Melba as Desdemona, Her First Great Triumph’. $1,000-1,500 1274 THE SPHERE AN ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Volume 5, April 6 - June 29 1901. $300-500 1274 191
1275 TWO VOLUMES J.L. Treloar, editor: ‘Australian Chivalry Reproductions in Colour and Duo-Tone of Official War Paintings’ & ‘The Changing of the Guard Graphic Incidents of the two World Wars’, Australian War Memorial 1933 & 1943. (2) $700-900 1276 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS RELATING TO AUSTRALIAN POTTERY, CERAMICS, GLASS AND BOTTLES Including; John Freeland, Kevin Fahy et al. editors ‘Australian Art Pottery 1900-1950’ edition 65/2000; Ian Evans, ‘The Lithgow Pottery’; Janet Mansfield ‘Modern Australian Ceramics’; John Vader, ‘The Pottery & Ceramics of David & Hermia Boyd’; Geoff Ford, ‘Australian Pottery the First 100 Years’ and others. $200-400
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1277 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON THE DECORATIVE ARTS Including: Henry Sandon ‘Royal Worcester Porcelain’; A. Ziffer ‘Nymphenburger Porzellan’; Desmond Eyles ‘The Dolton Lambeth Wares’; Dennis & Edwards ‘Moorcroft Pottery’ and others. $300-500 1278 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS, CATALOGUES AND PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO AUSTRALIANA Including early issues of The Australiana Society Newsletter; Guides to collecting Australiana; biography; nostalgia and fashion. $200-400 1279 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON AUSTRALIAN ART Including: Joanna Mendelssohn ‘Sydney Long’; Helen Topliss ‘Tom Roberts; a catalogue raisonné’ two volumes; Darleen Bungey ‘Arthur Boyd A Life’ and other books and exhibition catalogues. $200-400 1280 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON COLONIAL AND VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE AND GARDENS Including: James Kerr ‘Design for Convicts’; Suzanne Forge ‘Victorian Splendour’; Barrie Dyster ‘Servant & Master’; Philip Cox & Wesley Stacey ‘The Australian Homestead’; and others. $300-500
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1281 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON EARLY AUSTRALIAN SILVER, GOLD AND JEWELLERY Including: John Hawkins, ‘Nineteenth Century Australian Silver’; Anne Schofield ‘Australian Jewellery’; Kurt Albrecht ‘Australian Gold & Silver Smiths’ and others. $400-600 1282 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS RELATING TO HERITAGE AND COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE Including: James Broadbent ‘The Australian Colonial House’; Susanna Evans ‘Historic Sydney as seen by its Early Artists’; Terence Lane and Jessie Searle ‘Australians at Home’; various contributors ‘The Heritage of Australia’; Sarah Guest ‘Private Gardens of Australia’; Patricia Tryon Macdonald ‘For Auld Lang Syne’ and others. $200-400
1283 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON FURNITURE COLLECTING Including Clifford Craig et al ‘Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and van Diemen’s Land’; Graham Cornall, ‘Memories…’; Leslie Lauder and Mark Howard ‘An Introduction to Western Australian Colonial Furniture’; John Earnshaw ‘Early Sydney Cabinetmakers’; John Buttsworth ‘Australian Colonial Furniture’ and others. $200-400 1284 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS PERTAINING TO CONNOISSEURSHIP, ANTIQUE COLLECTING & EARLY SYDNEY Including: Terry Ingram 'A Question of Polish' and 'A Matter of Taste'; John P. Rogan 'Antiques in Australia from Private Collections'; Peter Cook 'The Antique Buyer's Handbook'; Helen Rutledge 'My Grandfather's House'; Tim McCormick 'First Views of Australia' and others. $200-400
A spectacular 18 Carat Gold, Fancy Coloured Sapphire, Emerald and Diamond 'Sapphire Flower' Bracelet, Bulgari 2004 $75,000 – 100,000
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