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Page:1 Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2020 Lot Type Grading Description Est $A AUSTRALIAN PICTURE POSTCARDS See also World Postcards: Lots 995 to 1009. 313 C Eclectic group mostly Queensland (hardly any Brisbane) noted 1909 'Church of England, Ipswich', some real photo cards including 'Central State School, Mackay' & 'Gray Street, Crow's Nest', various Townsville & Islands scenes, also Sydney 'Book Post' panorama cards x8, then lots of 'moderns' from the 1950s onwards, etc, condition variable but mostly fine. 200 Ex Lot 314 314 C Handy selections from ACT x26 mostly 1940s & 1950s including Mount Stromlo Observatory group, Cotter Dam, US Embassy, etc; NT x32 mostly 1950s to 1970s including Albert Namatjira group & Cyclone Tracy group; and Western Australia x24 including Murray, Valentine & Royal real photo types; generally fine to superb & mostly unused. (82) 400 315 C Box with many rural & agricultural scenes plus a good range of bush-artist cards, military, ships, automobiles including some photographs, etc, generally fine to very fine. (150 approx) 150 Ex Lot 316 316 C A/A- Beautiful group of Robert Jolley Undivided Backs each with State emblem plus black & white view, all States represented, plus one from a different series, fine to very fine unused. (15) 150 Ex Lot 317 317 C Railways steam locomotives, trains & stations noted Qld Toowoomba 'Spring Bluff' & 'Sydney Mail', SA Clare, Glenelg, Mt Lofty x3 different, Tas Campania 'Railway Accident', Vic Belgrave 'Puffing Billy', Castlemaine, Echuca 'Murray Bridge', Flinders Street 'Southern Mail', Gembrook, Kyabram Station, Monbulk, South Yarra 'Train Passing Through Flood Waters', Sunshine 'Railway Accident' 1908, Walhalla 'Train on Thompson Bridge', Warragul, etc, plus Trams Victor Harbor 'Old Horse Tram', Hobart 'Municipal Tramways' double-decker twin-car real photo plus another on Elizabeth Street with 'Wolfe's Schnapps' advertising, also Ballarat, Bendigo, etc, mostly fine. (30+) 300 Page:2 www.abacusauctions.com.au Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2020 AUSTRALIAN PICTURE POSTCARDS (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A Ex Lot 318 318 C Attractive bundle of mostly topographicals from NSW x38 including several Jenolan Caves, a few Undivided Backs, advertising cards for 'The Ivanhoe/Blackheath' & 'Hotel Masnsion/Bayswater Road'; Queensland Undivded Backs x3; South Australia x15 with several Undivided Backs including 'Adelaide from a Balloon' x3 different; and Western Australia x11 mostly Undivided Backs and Caves Board of WA 'Crystal Terrace'; generally fine to very fine used or unused. A very good lot extracted from an original collection. (67) 500 Ex Lot 319 319 C Shipping steamships 'Hygeia' at Sorrento & Mornington piers, 'Weeroona' excursion steamer on Port Philip Bay, 'Excelsior leaving Moorabool St Pier' Geelong, 'Coonawarra' paddle steamer at Echuca, 'TSS Canberra, Howard Smith Ltd', 'SS Ramornie', 'P&O SS Mongolia', 'RMS Aorangi Canadian-Australian Royal Mail Line', 'AUSN SS Suva', 'Melbourne Steamship Line TSMV Duntroon', 'Orient Line SS Orsova ... Dining Saloon' advertising card, plus 'HM Submarine No.2' & 'HMS Powerful', also Sydney Circular Quay & Harbour ferries, Outer Harbour, SA wharves, Hobart 'Ocean Pier' real photo, Bairnsdale (Vic) pier, etc, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (30+) 200 Ex Lot 320 320 C Advertising including cards for Barraclough Opticians 'The Federal Judges Wear Our Glasses', Barracluff Ostrich Farms x2 different, SAP Rabbit Poison 'This is no place for us ...', Duguid Land Agents (Sydney) horses, Bridestone Estate Lavender (Lilydale Tas), Commercial Hotel (Rockhampton), Ball & Welch (Melbourne), Bensdorp Royal Dutch Cocoa (Melbourne), RB Lawrence Dyer 'Don't Die with Fright ..!' (woman with handgun), J Bartram 'Milking Machine', 'Dug-Out' Allied Services Club (Melbourne), various performers & plays noted 'Woman in the Case' x2 different, etc, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (30+) 250 321 C A/A- Suffragettes 'Senate Election. Vote for the Woman Candidate, Who Polled 51,497 Votes in 1903. Vida Goldstein'; also Rose Stereographs No.11950-51 'Great Suffragette Demonstration in London. Mrs Fisher, Mrs McGowen and Miss Vida Goldstein from Australia' & 'Great Suffragette Demonstration in London. The Empire Car (different Colonies) passing through Trafalgar Square'. Rare Australia-related suffragette items. (3) 250 Page:3 Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2020 AUSTRALIAN PICTURE POSTCARDS (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A Ex Lot 322 322 CPS A/A- 1908 Visit of the American Great White Fleet selection including Victoria 1½d (unused), semi-official cards with 'TO/SYDNEY' or 'TO/MELBOURNE' at L/L, WTP chromolithos x5, REM artist card, Wellman (St Kilda) Fleet n Flags, Stratton (Tennessee) of American sailors marching through Sydney & on R&R at Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, etc, mostly unused. A very attractive group. (18) 250 Ex Lot 323 323 C 1908 Visit of the American Great White Fleet attractive group with Ships of the Fleet by W&B in blue (x14 different + one with advertising for ANA Sewing Machines) or F&J chromolithos x4, also WTP chromolithos x6 different (one damaged), 'Victoria: God's Own Country' card (trimmed at left, possibly because it exceeded size-limits), 'Drink Resch's Lager & Ales' (corner fault), and a few others, mostly unused or used under cover, condition variable; plus eleven sub-standard duplicates. (41) 250 Ex Lot 324 324 C A/A- 1908 Visit of the American Great White Fleet selection noted USS 'Ohio' with ANA Sewing Machines advert, USS 'Georgia' used under cover, USS 'Virginia'real photo card, 'Australia Greets America' x2 slighty different one from Melbourne with message "... fleet arrived yesterday it is all stars & stripes & souvenirs ..", 'Uncle Sam in Australia' humorous card, 'Sydney Town Hall USA Fleet Visit' decorated with flags, 'Sailors Excursions to Black Heath [sic] ... August 22, 1908', 'American Fleet Passing Through Magellan Straits' with Wolfe's Schnapps advertising unused, F&J 'Georgia' & 'Vermont' battleships, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (11) 150 Ex Lot 325 325 C 1917 Australian Comforts Fund group of real photo cards of troops in France including officers, stretcher bearers, town ruins, entertainment etc, unused, condition quite mixed. Scarce. (20) 200 Page:4 www.abacusauctions.com.au Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2020 AUSTRALIAN PICTURE POSTCARDS (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A Ex Lot 326 326 C NEW SOUTH WALES: Wide-ranging group of mostly topographicals including smaller towns, caves, beaches, mining, Blue Mountains & waterfalls, etc, condition variable but generally good to very fine. (150+) 350 Ex Lot 327 327 C A/A- - Small group of better cards including real photos of hotel with fully-laden stagecoach outside (location unidentified; used 1906 with NSW 1d), 'Cycling at the Kindergarten Tooronga Zoo' with Monkey on Bicycle, Molong store display with products, 'Lachlan Street, Forbes' with J&W Thomas Grocers & Drapers store, 'Railway Station, Cobar' with steam locomotive & train, 'First Engine Driver, NSW Railways, 1855', 'Screen at Colliery, Newcastle, NSW', 'Wallaringa Mansions' Neutral Bay & 'Bernley' Potts Point private hotels advertising cards, etc, generally fine. (12) 140 Ex Lot 328 328 C A/A- - New South Wales: Selection including vignette views & undivided backs, real photos Bathurst main street withMcSorley Hotel, Broken Hill 'Camels loaded for Outback' carrying Onepah Station trunks, Burrinjuck Dam x4 under construction & in flood, Campbelltown 'Presbyterian Manse' sent 1908 to USA with postage due, Katoomba Sans Souci guesthouse, Tocumwal hay cart, lots of other town & country views including Lithgow Pottery & Brick Works, Grafton Ferry on Clarence River, Murwillumbah 1907 'Main Street after the fire', Singleton 'J Moore & Co Stores', Tamworth Peel Street under flood, as well as plenty of Sydney Streets, Harbour Bridge, Beaches, Blue Mountains & Jenolan Caves, etc, many used with possible postmark interest and some tax markings, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. The illustration is above Lot 327. (160+) 500 Page:5 Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2020 AUSTRALIAN PICTURE POSTCARDS (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A Ex Lot 329 329 C A/B NORTHERN TERRITORY: Group including 'New Jetty' undivided-back endorsed "Darwin" with railway tracks & steamer docked unused, South Australia flag series with NT vignette views of 'Ant Hill' with sightseeing coach, 'Railway Bridge over Adelaide River' & Boab Tree 'Marked by Gregory's Exploring Party 1856', Blackwood (Darwin) 'Groups of Anthills' & 'Artesian Bore' unused, Sanbride 'Adelaide River' & 'Adelaide River Bridge' unused, real photos Alice Springs PO (circa 1950), DB Neck 'Simpson's Gap, McDonald Ranges', Tomkins 'Alice Springs from ANZAC Hill' and Murray Views 'Hotel Darwin & Christ Church' double-view & 1959 'Glimpse of Mt Olga' airmail to Melbourne, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (13) 200 Ex Lot 330 330 C QUEENSLAND: Attractive bundle of mostly topographicals with no Brisbane, good selections from Ipswich, Mackay, Cairns, Townsville & Toowoomba plus many from smaller towns, a few aboriginal subjects, railways, bridges etc, some local publishers, generally fine to very fine used or unused. (100+) 400T Ex Lot 331 331 C - Bundle of mostly 1940s & 1950s cards including many real photo types, some with plain backs (proofs?) etc, several of islands, mostly unused & generally fine to superb. (56) 200 Page:6 www.abacusauctions.com.au Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2020 AUSTRALIAN PICTURE POSTCARDS (continued) Lot