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Ex Lot 1702 1702 Railway stations comprising Central, suburban Ashfield Granville & Summer Hill, x2, Balranald real photo, Cootamundra, Cowra, Eskbank, Kiama, Mudgee, Tenterfield with local solicitors' advice on the reverse (unused) & , mostly fine to very fine. (14) 80

Ex Lot 1703 1703 CA Islands Regal ' HARBOUR, SHOWING GARDEN ISLAND', Rose 'STOTT'S ISLAND, TWEED RIVER...' and 'Sword-fishing Grounds, Montague Island, Narooma Entrance', all fine unused; plus PPC-size colour photo of 'MT WARNING FROM CONNOR'S ISLAND...' (4) 50

Ex Lot 1704 1704 C A/B Post Offices at Broken Hill (Argent Series, unused), Newcastle (Hunter Newcastle, used) and real photo of Tenterfield (used under cover with message "...The photographer...ran last Sunday to catch the train...he died about five minutes after it started" ! ) (3) 75 Page:2 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020

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Ex Lot 1705 1705 C A/B Town views comprising Bathurst, Broken Hill x5 different, Glen Innes multi-view, Kyogle real photo, Murwillumbah x2, Newcastle, Nowra and Wagga Wagga, fine to very fine used or unused. (12) 160

Ex Lot 1706 1706 C A/B Chromolithos with Undivided Backs, one produced in Germany has plate-burnishing around the edges & a small surface abrasion, otherwise fine to very fine unused (3) used or used under cover. Scarce & beautiful early cards. (5) 140

Ex Lot 1707 1707 CA Robert Jolley (Melbourne) Undivided Backs 'Lands Department Sydney' (unused), and Manly bi-view (underpaid to Sweden and taxed). Scarce & beautiful early cards. (2) 60 Online Auction 2 Page:3

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Ex Lot 1708 1708 C A/B Kerry (Sydney) mostly black & white rural & agricultural scenes selected for more interesting subjects/views, generally fine to very fine unused (3) or used. [Charles Kerry is widely regarded as the pre-eminent Australian photographer of his era. After taking over a bankrupt studio, he developed it - pardon the pun! - into Australia's largest photographic business] (11) 125

Lot 1709 1709 C A- Government Tourist Bureau promotional card showing 'Kurnell, The Landing Place of Captain Cook, Botany Bay' coloured view on front with NSW population data and sepia 'Broken Hill Silver Mines' view of hilltop mine on address side, unused and scarce thus, couple of minor blemishes. 75

Lot 1710 1710 C A+ The Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corporation, Sydneypromotional PPC with lovely illustration of Lighthouse on address side and ornately-headed list of risks insured, funds & claims paid on message side, unused. Superb!. 100 Page:4 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020

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Lot 1711 1711 CB 1920 (c.) Sayers Allport & Potter humorous advertising card for SAP Rabbit Poison 'That's why I'm the only rabbit on the run!', minor blemishes, used in South Australia with the stamp removed. [Sayers Allport & Potter was a Sydney-based wholesale pharmaceutical & veterinary supplies business, catering mainly to the rural sector. They were notorious for SAP, a phosphorus-based rabbit poison] 60

Lot 1712 1712 CB Balldale (Riverina): Real photo mountains of bags of wheat inscribed 'DARLING & SON BALLDALE', bumped corners but fine used under cover. [Balldale is in the southern Riverina, close to the Murray. The Draling Family were prominent farmers & established a large flour-milling business in Sydney] 50

Ex Lot 1713 1713 C A/A- Bathurst: LD Marshall (Bathurst) five views with photos by HC Beavis, one used the others fine unused. (5) 80 Online Auction 2 Page:5

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Ex Lot 1714 1714 C A/B - JR & A Jones (Bathurst) views of Bathurst including five with brown-purple colouration (all unused), at least two with photos by HC Beavis, generally fine to very fine unused. (10) 150

Lot 1715 1715 C A- Blackheath: c.1910 'The Ivanhoe Hotel' with endorsement "Blackheath NSW" added unnecessarily because the address is printed on the viewside, faint blemishes still fine unused. 50

Lot 1716 1716 C A- Broken Hill: Government Tourist Bureau Intelligence Department card with view of 'Broken Hill Silver Mines' on address side and 'Kurnell, the landing palce of Captain Cook, Botany Bay' in colour on reverse, used 1906 to George's River (NSW) with Arms 1d tied 'MOSMAN/NSW' cds, couple of minor blemishes. 100 Page:6 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020

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Ex Lot 1717 1717 C A/B - Very attractive mining group, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. (10) 100

Ex Lot 1718 1718 C A/B - J Brokenshire views of Broken Hill including a massed crowd in Argent Street (Eight Hour Day ?), two with steam trains, the Post Office with people in the street, and the Cathedral, some minor staining but fine to very fine used or unused. (5) 75

Ex Lot 1719 1719 C A/B - J Brokenshire views of Broken Hill mines including two terrific underground shots, one with abrasions on the viewside, some blemishes but fine to very fine used or unused. (6) 100 Online Auction 2 Page:7

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Lot 1720 1720 C A- - c.1908 real photo 'Argent Street...' featuring JH Burns (Tailor) and Tattersalls Hotel with a huge crowd in the street, endorsed on the reverse "...on Xmas Eve", fine unused. 50

Lot 1721 1721 C A- - Real photo 'DRIVER PACKHARD AND THE PROVISION WAGGON [sic] JAN 09' being escorted along a major street by a troop of mounted police, a bit over-exposed but fine unused. Great social history. [A standoff between mine management & unions turned ugly when a mob attacked and severely beat a group of mine officials. When the police arrived they were also attacked. A newspaper report speaks of one Charlie Packard driving the supply wagon & 'always escorted by 20 to 30 troopers...'] 100 Page:8 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020

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Lot 1722 1722 CB - Real photo of a mock grave & headstone 'HERE LIES/PETER/CORNEY/1909 SCAB/SOFT AS THE FADING RAYS OF VESPER/AT THE BREAKING OF THE DAY/IN ANSWER TO THE UNION'S WHISPER/PASSED HIS SCABBY LIFE AWAY...' with his (?!) bicycle alongside, minor blemishes but fine unused. [A series of such mock graves were established along BHP's Crystal Street boundary] 100

Ex Lot 1723 1723 C A/B Cowra: 'The Railway Station' x4 plus 'Railway Station Wagga' all by local publishers Legge & Co x2, AW Marshall x2 and FP Hobbs (Wagga), some soiling. (5) 100 Online Auction 2 Page:9

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Ex Lot 1724 1724 C A-/B Dubbo: 'The Railway Station' x3 plus 'Railway Bridge' all by local publishers SJ Cadman x3, Miss M Ley and SA Moseley & Co, a few blemishes but fine to very fine used. (5) 100

Ex Lot 1725 1725 CA Hunter Valley: 1905 T Dimmock (Maitland) 'Stanford Merthyr Colliery Explosion Oct 1905' and 'Stanford Merthyr Colliery on Fire Oct 1905', fine used under cover. [At the time of the explosion, noone was working underground. The six men killed were all 'officials' and it was rumoured that the fire was the work of an arsonist] (2) 60

Ex Lot 1726 1726 CA Jenolan Caves: 1910 Kerry & Co Jenolan Caves real photo cards 'Grand Arch West Side' (early automobile), 'The Punt/River Cave' (with children) & 'River/in River Cave' (punt with seven adults), very fine unused. (3) 75 Page:10 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020

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Lot 1727 1727 C A- Katoomba: c.1910 'Abbotsford Private Hospital, Katoomba Street, Katoomba, Blue Mountains, NSW, Tel 221K' with two nurses in the foreground, minor blemishes on address side otherwise very fine unused. 50

Lot 1728 1728 CA Liverpool: 'German Concentration Camp Liverpool NSW Australia 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918' postcard-size card (blank on back) showing artist's impression of aerial view of the camp showing huts, guard towers, perimeter fences and buildings outside the camp, inscribed 'Froehliche Weihnachten' [Merry Christmas], unused. 100

Ex Lot 1729 1729 C A/A- Lord Howe Island: c.1920s five real photo PPCs of island scenery, all unused; also pre-WWII tourist photos x11 of various sizes, all with Picture Library cachet on the address side. (16) 150 Online Auction 2 Page:11

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Lot 1730 1730 CA Manildra: ADH (Greenwich) real-photo of a large shipment of bagged wheat at railway siding with advertising for 'Worrall Bros celebrated granular/Gem of the West Flour/...', unused. 75

Ex Lot 1731 1731 CA Mosman: MS Benjamin (Sydney) studies of Taronga Zoo x4 and the Mosman Ferry, very fine unused. (5) 100

Ex Lot 1732 1732 C A/B Murwillumbah: 1907 Zerbst Studios real photo 'N STREET M'BAH/AFTER THE FIRE' showing destruction of a street of houses and shops with many lookers-on, fine unused; and no publisher 'Murwillumbah Fire, Sept 15th 1907/...', minor defects (used with very fine BN '412' & 'BYRON BAY' cds). Nice duo. [Residents had been agitating for a local fire brigade but to no avail. They had to fight the fire with one fire cart and a bucket brigade. Some 60 buildings were lost on what was dubbed 'Red Sunday'] (2) 80 Page:12 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020

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Ex Lot 1733 1733 C A/A- Sydney Suburban: Hotel advertising cards for Nar-be-Thong at Neutral Bay (unused), Virginia at Potts Point (used) and Hotel Mansion on Bayswater Road Sydney (used). Scarce trio. (3) 75

Lot 1734 1734 CA - 1906 Art Series 'Ruins - Toomey's Cottage North Sydney Tornado' showing furniture on a dirt floor & the walls falling over, very fine used in Victoria. [On 28.3.1906, a tornado devastated parts of the North Shore. Patrick Toomey, of Toomey's Cottage, was the only fatality] 50 Online Auction 2 Page:13

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Lot 1735 1735 C A- - 1906 blurry image of 'THE SOUTHERN ELEVATION/of old Redfern Station/Photo 2-11-1906 By J HILL' apparently of the brick facade about to be demolished, minor soiling but fine used. [The station built in 1874 was razed to be replaced by what became Sydney Central Station, opened on 4.8.1906] 40

Ex Lot 1736 1736 C A/A- Sydney: Regal Series coloured views in and around Sydney, one used otherwise fine to very fine unused. (7) 75

Ex Lot 1737 1737 CA - Samuel Wood (Sydney) 'Nature' Series scenes in and around Sydney, very fine unused. (6) 40 Page:14 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020

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Ex Lot 1738 1738 C A-/A - Mark Foy's Ltd Department Store two completely different styles of advertising card, one unused (small surface fault clear of the view), the other very fine used. (2) 80

Ex Lot 1739 1739 CA - H Phillips (Sydney) 'See Australia First' Series views in & around Sydney including some unusually imaginative shots, very fine unused. Nice lot. (13) 150

Ex Lot 1740 1740 C A/B - Star Photo (Sydney) coloured views in & around Sydney, about half unused, generally fine to very fine. (21) 125 Online Auction 2 Page:15

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Ex Lot 1741 1741 C A/B - Kerry (Sydney) mostly coloured views in & around Sydney selected for more interesting subjects/views, generally fine to very fine, mostly used or addressed but not cancelled. [Charles Henry Kerry is widely regarded as the pre-eminent Australian photographer of his era. After taking over a bankrupt studio, he developed it - pardon the pun! - into Australia's largest photographic business] (19) 200

Ex Lot 1742 1742 C A/C - Very early Undivided Back (two parroting the NSW Waratah Postal Card back) chromolithos of the Town Hall & Sydney Harbour both very fine unused and of the Harbour & Queen Victoria Markets, used to Germany (faults on the back). (3) 75

Lot 1743 1743 C A- - 1905 Undivided Back & Rouletted on 3 Sides 'FARM COVE, HAFEN VON SYDNEY', to Germany with German 10pf tied by 'DEUTSCHE/SEEPOST/AUSTRALISCHE/HAUPTLINIE/ e ' cds. We have seen very few instalment cards with Australian themes. 60 Page:16 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020

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Lot 1744 1744 PS A - 1901 usage of 1d Arms Die I Postal Card with view of 'TOWN HALL SYDNEY' (with horse-drawn carriages) in orange-brown, to Germany with ½d tied by Sydney duplex, very fine postal usage. 60

Lot 1745 1745 CA : c.1920FW Collison real photo 'TRIAL BAY GAOL, DURING THE WAR...', very fine unused. 50