Australian Icons An Exhibition & Sale 2007 On View: Saturday 27 January 10 - 5pm Monday 5 February 10 - 5pm Shapiro 162 Queen Street Woollahra, Sydney 2025 Tel: (02) 9326 1588 Fax: (02) 9326 1305 GUMQUEST Pty Ltd Contact: Tom Thompson on 0422 967 432 [email protected] Lot 13 – Kate Kelly, 1881, signed to reverse “We Value Australian Icons” Gumquest Pty Ltd │ PO Box R.1906, Royal Exchange NSW 1225 │ T: 0422 967 432 │ www.ettimprint.com or www.katekelly.biz ICONS 1 4. Bradshaw, Jack. The True History of the Australian Bushrangers (WJ Anderson & Co, 1 possibly 1911). 157pp. 8vo. 1.BEN HALL, REWARD NOTICE Paperback, with 11 illustrations, 1863 including two rare ones of Kate Kelly. Bradshaw offers accounts Reward notice published in the of Gardiner, Hall and his gang, NSW Government Gazette, Melville, Thunderbolt, Morgan, November 27 1863. 32pp, Moonlight and the Kelly Gang. foolscap. One for 4000 pounds “for the apprehension of John $100 Gilbert, John O’Mealley, Benjamin Hall, and John Vane”, also noting a 50 pounds reward for the recapture of the convicts Frederick Brittain and Frederick Ward. Brittain was serving 16 years for robbing a mail coach – Ward escapes to become 6. Fitchett, WH. Ned Kelly and his ‘Captain Thunderbolt’. Includes Gang : The true story of the descriptions of both outlaws. exploits of Australia’s most famous gang of bushrangers told $300 by a notable historian . Also refers to Gardiner, Hall, Thunderbolt and other bushrangers. Melbourne 2. BUSHRANGER REWARD (Fitchett Brothers, c1936). 63pp. NOTICES 1863 8vo. Paperback. Tear in the back wrapper. Good bright artwork on Reward notice published in the front cover. NSW Government Gazette, October 30 1863. 20pp, foolscap. $100 One for 4000 pounds “for the apprehension of John Gilbert, 5. Clow, RJ. The Cause of Kelly : 7. Haydon,AL. The Trooper Police John O’Mealley, Benjamin Hall, A Complete History of the of Australia: A record of mounted and John Vane”, also noting a 50 Primative Colonial War and the police work in the Commonwealth pounds reward for the recapture Police. In blank verse. Ballarat from the earliest days of of the convicts Frederick Brittain (Baxter & Stubbs 1919). 106pp. settlement to the present day. and Frederick Ward, both with 8vo. Original wrappers. Excellent London, Andrew Melrose. 1911 descriptions. copy. nd 2 Impression. 431pp. 8vo. $300 $300 Original cloth, a very good copy. Illustrated with 46 pages of photographs and 6 maps. 3. BUSHRANGER REWARD Includes chapters on Ben Hall NOTICES 1863 and his contemporaries, Ned Reward notice published in the Kelly, Black Trackers, NSW Government Gazette, Queensland native police and October 23 1863. 18pp, foolscap. much more . On the front page, one for 2500 $275 pounds “for the apprehension of John Gilbert, John O’Mealley, Benjamin Hall, and John Vane”, also noting a 50 pounds reward for the recapture of the convicts Frederick Brittain and Frederick Ward, both with descriptions. $300 Sheet, 28.5 x 20.5 cm, dated 20 connected to Irish families 1879- July 1879 for James Wilson alias 1881. We believe the scrimshaw Kelly. With full hand-written artist is indeed Kelly's step-father, details describing his original George King, who disappeared in Cattle Stealing charge in 1878 and fled by ship to New Beechworth, and subsequent trial Zealand. These scrimshaws are at Wagga on 29 June 1877 for personal mementoes passed on Horse Strealing, with his original to sympathisers. false birth details (Dublin 1855!), but noting he is now 6 foot, and a shoemaker. This document was created during the Kelly Outbreak, 8. Sadlier, and features an original black and John. Recollections of a Victorian photograph of Jim Kelly, 8.5 x 5 Police Officer . Melbourne (George cm, in prison gear. Additional Robertson, 1913). 312pp. 8vo. remarks include “17 th January Original decorated cloth covers, 1880 – Sentence remitted”. some wear. Lacks frontispiece. James Kelly then disappeared 12. A KELLY-FITZPATRICK With 47 photographs, including and was not seen till after DOUBLE SCRIMSHAW twenty relating to the capture of Glenrowan. In good condition, the Kelly Gang. with some loss of paper on the Two buffalo horns, each $120 two folds and two small tears on approximately 45 cm long, each left side, not affecting the writing. horn incised with symbols of lost love, adventure, horses, troopers, 9. White, Henry. Tales of Crime and threatening gestures - and Criminals in Australia : Based relating to Kelly Gang, including Principally Upon Reminiscences one with chinstrap in the larrikin of Over Thirty Years Official Greta mob fashion, wearing a Experience in the Penal spotted shirt, being chased by a Department of Victoria . London mounted trooper; a woman with a (Ward & Downey, 1894). 296pp. knife with the bearing of Isley's 8vo. Original cloth. Some fraying portrait of Maggie Skillion; a to the endpapers at the spine. 11. A KELLY unicorn topped by a lonely camp The second edition, containing 95 GANG DOUBLE SCRIMSHAW, and arrowed hearts; an pages on the Kelly Gang, is rare. 1880 extraordinary Austral Coat-of- $250 Arms with an emu and kangaroo, Two cowhorns, nailed to a and plough-shares; with a scrolled wooden centrepiece, snake with indesciperable approximately 83 cm in total inscription. The other horn with width, on a further oblong cedar similar top and tailed decoration, base, approximately 28 x 19 x 2 and no Glenrowan briar. This one cm, locked to the rest with three holds a finely cut young woman hand-forged nails. Each horn has pointing at a scroll clearly incised been incised with portraits of Ned 'AM Fitzpatrick'; tall ships, an Kelly, gang members, and many American Eagle with flag, a articulated Glenrowan briar-roses cornstalker popping out from the to both sides. Kelly can be seen other-side-of-the-world; more wild on the right horn, with his horse animals and arrowed hearts of Daylight above, and Steve Hart lost love. dressed as a woman to the top. On the left horn, George King can be seen on the lower right, Dan Kelly above him, with Joe Byrne second from the top. Steve Hart appears again in fancy dress top left. Having sighted three double scrimshaws by this same artist, 10. JAMES KELLY, 1879 whose signature theme is the An original NSW Police Charge briar-rose, each set has been police force who hunted the Kelly the 6th October 1898. Her body gang in the period 1878-1880. was found in a lagoon off the Such relics were on show as early Condobolin Road. According to as 1880 at a display known in the the death certificate, there was no popular newspapers as the Kate evidence of foul play. Kelly Exhibition in Sydney 1881: ‘The brother and sister of notorious bushranger Ned Kelly have paid a visit in Sydney for the purpose of exhibiting themselves and some of the relics of the bushranging conflicts; but the police interfered, and the 13. A PHOTOGRAPH OF KATE exhibition has been stopped…’ KELLY, 1881, SIGNED Kate's story, ending in her tragic A sepia cartes-des-visite, 5.2 x early death in 1898, has lain in 8.8 cm; being an original mounted the long shadow cast by Ned. photograph from a Sydney studio This revolver, be it the fated showing Kate Kelly in full riding Fitzpatrick weapon or one of the habit, including hat and veil, 15. JESSE DOWSETT’S many appropriated by the Kellys facing the camera; this being a REVOLVER during the Outbreak, helps variant of one of a series (noted A .38 calibre revolver and leather reclaim her story, till now the by Keith McMenomy in his Ned carrying pouch owned and used subject of contemporary ballads Kelly, 1984 p239), another being by Jesse Dowsett, the Railway like Ye Sons of Australia : reproduced in the Argus noted as Guard who overpowered and owned by Mr A Skinner of The daring Kate Kelly how noble captured Ned Kelly at Glenrowan. Victoria. This photograph on offer her mien Dowsett had accompanied the police railway transports sent out is previously unknown and As she sat on her horse like an in pursuit of the Kelly Gang. He unpublished in any form, and is Amazon queen, signed to the reverse ‘ Kate Kelly’ was there when the with the following: “Bought at the She rode through the forest schoolteacher, Curnow, waved Waxwork Exhibition (signature); revolver at hand them down with a red (then) N.Z. April 13 1881 H.H.” Regardless of danger, who dare handkerchief, to warn them the Originally owned by Harold bid her stand. Kellys were derailing the train. He was there in smoking bush Hobson. Unique. As a teenager Kate Kelly rode the outside Mrs Jones’s Inn, and it ranges taking ammunition and was Dowsett who pulled hostages food to her brothers, being Mrs Reardon and her baby to wounded in the legs and hip. She safety, after police had repeatedly carried a revolver in 1879 and by fired on her, taking her to safety at 1880 was exhibiting revolvers and the Railway Station before rifles in Melbourne and Sydney. returning to the fray. One of the most significant Dowsett returned fire with Kelly women in the Kelly saga, this outside Glenrowan, watching in young woman, assuming the amazement as the bullets names Ada Hennessy and Kate bounced off his armour, like Ambrose, performed equestrienne 14. KATE KELLY’S REVOLVER “parched peas.” He saw Ned sit to displays at shows and circuses in A Henckell & Co, Solingen.32 reload, he saw Constable Kelly Adelaide, Sydney and Central calibre revolver, with a wooden shoot him and Steele wrestle him NSW. She would later work at the stock, inscribed with the initials to the ground.