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Lot Type Grading Description Est $A AUSTRALIAN PICTURE POSTCARDS See also World Postcards: Lots 995 to 1009. 313 C Eclectic group mostly (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 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

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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; x15 with several Undivided Backs including 'Adelaide from a Balloon' x3 different; and 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', ' 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

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Ex Lot 322 322 CPS A/A- 1908 Visit of the American Great White Fleet selection including 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

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Ex Lot 326 326 C : 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

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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

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Ex Lot 332 332 C A/B - Selected cards including vignette views & undivided backs, Zieher-type 'Stamps' with inset view of Queen Street, Dalby 'Cunningham Street' with Post Office, Dunk Island, Gladstone 'Gathering Oysters', Gympie 'Jones' Hill Waterworks Pumping Station', Killarney Post Office, Magnetic Island 'Huts, Picnic Bay', Mareeba Post Office, Mount Morgan 'Steam Shovel' in mine, 'Lakes Creek Meat Works' & 'Boys State School' real photo, Stanthorpe Main Street, Thursday Island group (6) including Grand Hotel, Jetty with shipping, Township colour view & real photo and Quetta Cathedral outside & interior, Thurgoona 'No11 Bore ... 93,120 Gal daily', Toowoomba 'Masonic Hall' & 'Convent' real photos, Townsville Queen's Hotel, Warwick Langham Hotel, etc, lots of street scenes & shopfronts, a few used, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (80+) 500

Ex Lot 333 333 C - Queensland: Intelligence & Tourist Bureau issues with No Imprint x3, Cumming Imprint x19 or Vaughan Imprint x3, also 1908 Franco-British Exhibition types x16, wide range of subjects including scarce types & many coloured views, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. (41) 300T

Ex Lot 334 334 C - Brisbane: Numerous fine topographicals, trams, beaches, churches, schools etc, some by local publishers, generally fine & mostly used. (100+) 250T

Ex Lot 335 335 C A/B - Islands: Intelligence & Tourist Bureau issues x3, 1908 Franco-British Exhibition types x4 (one used in England), & three others, mostly fine unused. (10) 150T Page:7 Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2020

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Ex Lot 336 336 C SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Box of mostly 1940s & 1950s cards including many Rose cards with minor duplication in superb condition, other real photo types, etc, mostly unused & generally fine to superb. (100 approx) 300

Ex Lot 337 337 C A/A- - Selection including vignette views & undivided backs, Tourist Bureau 'Vineyard', 'Wool Sale', 'Salt' mounds & 7 more, 'Driving Camels in Harness', Adelaide Oval real photo, Zieher-type 'Stamps' with inset view of Rundle Street, town & country views including 'Beetaloo Reservoir' real photos x2, Crystal Brook 'Bowman Street', Goolwa Cadell Street, Hotels & Institute, Port Lincoln 'St Thomas Church', Renmark 'HH Holden, Bookseller, Chemist' shop, Semaphore 'Convalescent Home', etc, lots of street scenes & shopfronts, quite a few used with possible postmark interest, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (100+) 500

Ex Lot 338 338 C : Box of mostly 1940s & 1950s cards including many Rose cards with minor duplication in superb condition, other real photo types, etc, mostly unused & generally fine to superb. (70 approx) 300 Page:8 www.abacusauctions.com.au Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2020

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Ex Lot 339 339 C - Mostly topographicals including by Beattie, Spurling and Walch, also Mount Lyell Tourist Association x6 and Mount Lyell Railway artist cards x11, two different 'North Lyell Disaster' (one damaged), some bumped corners but generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. (55) 500

Ex Lot 340 340 C - Tasmania: Selected cards noted vignette views & undivided backs, town & country views including Devonport 'Uncle Leek's Teahouse'; Glenora 'Hop Picking'; Huon 'Bridge and Picnic Hotel', Lebrina 'Amongst the big logs'; Low Head 'Pilot Station'; semi-officials Scenery Preservation Board 'Entally House' and interiors x5; Mount Lyell Tourist Assoc'Gordon River, Western Tasmania' with steamer; Government Tourist Bureau 'Browns River'; real photoviews of Hobart 'Liverpool Street' with tram & shopfronts, 'Reservoirs, Waterworks', 'Hotel Mt Wellington' & 'Ansett Flying Boat'; New Norfolk 'Bush Inn' hotel; 'Forth Falls' & 'Russell Falls'; Port Arthur 'Isle of the Dead';, etc, a few used, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (110+) 500

Lot 341 341 C A- - 1912 Niven with a fantastic photo of staff & vehicles outside 'FINLAYSON BROS DEVONPORT' workshop, address side with Finlayson Bros advice & Pictorials 1d pair with 'TPO No 6' cds, faint bend. A cracker! 150T Page:9 Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2020

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Ex Lot 342 342 C VICTORIA: Shoebox of mostly topographicals with good sections from Melbourne with excellent streetscapes, Suburbs, Gippsland, Alpine Regions including Kiewa Hydro-Electric Scheme, Mornington Peninsula, Phillip Island, Ballarat, Great Ocean Road, Daylesford & Hepburn Springs etc, artist cards by ST Gill x12, many better subjects including mining, agriculture, advertising, public buildings, construction of Lake Eildon, etc, many 1940s-1950s Rose cards with some duplication, condition variable but generally good to superb. (400 approx) 1,000

Ex Lot 343 343 C - Box of mostly topographicals with some unusual streetscapes & scarce suburban scenes, goldmining, advertising types & JW Lindt Photographer, a couple of attractive Nivens, Valentine's superb set of 12 artist cards in damaged packet, Rose 'Grampians Set 2' booklet of 6 cards, some real photo types including 'Instructional Staff 3rd Military Dist Langwarrin Oct 1913, etc, generally fine to very fine used or unused. A very good lot extracted from an original collection. (200 approx) 800

Ex Lot 344 344 C - Victoria: Superior group of mostly topographical cards with many excellent streetscapes with businesses identified, a few suburbans, useful groups from Gippsland & Ballarat, the odd advertising card, publishers include Jolley and Neville also a superb group of 1950s Rose cards with better subjects, several Undivided Backs & usages as early as 1901, a few problems but generally fine to very fine used or unused. One of the most engaging Victorian groups we have offered in recent years. (100 approx) 750 Page:10 www.abacusauctions.com.au Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2020

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Lot 345 345 CB - 1909 with B&W photo of 'PLOURIGHT'S/COMMERCIAL - HOTEL/MURCHISON' on the face, to Nagambie with 'TPO 17/UP.../VICTORIA' cds, minor defects. 100T

Ex Lot 346 346 C - Dandenongs: Selection noted Healesville 'Mitchell Produce' storefront, "Nyora" tennis court, 'Recreation Ground', plus real photos of 'Wildwood Guest House', 'Maroondah Dam' & 'Donnelly's Creek Weir', also Ferntree Gully real photo vignette views of Hotel, State School & Shire Hall; Warburton 'Mountain Grand' hotel; plus real photosof Kallista "Arcadia" Monbulk Road, Sherbrooke "Marybrooke" Guest House & Warrandyte 'Looking West' township, etc, a few postally used, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (50+) 250

Ex Lot 347 347 C - Geelong & Western District: Selection including 'Volunteer Fire Bigade Station', 'Moorabool St' & 'Little Malop Street' shopfronts, 'Fenwick Street Baptist Church', 'Scotch College & Grounds' real photo; Barwon Heads 'Beach Houses'; Colac 'Public Library'; Darlingford 'Big River' real photo with 'UP TRAIN' d/s; Lorne 'Cumberland', 'The Chalet' and Waterfalls vignette views undivided backs x3 different postally used with 'LORNE-838' duplex cancels; Ocran Grove 'The Chalet'; Queenscliff 'Post Office'; 'Esplanade Hotel' & 'Back Beach' with lighthouse; Port Fairy 'The Crags'; Warrnambool 'Camping Park' with lighthouse; Werribee 'The Manor', plus range of real photo coastline views including Great Ocean Road, etc, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (70) 300 Page:11 Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2020

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Ex Lot 348 348 C - Gippsland & Alpine Region: Selection including Bairnsdale 'Wharf' with steamers and 'Mitchell River & Boat Shed' Bulmer photo; Bogong 'No3 Power Station' & 'Junction Dam & Spillway, Lake Guy'; Corner Inlet 'Granite Island'; Eildon 'Outlet Tower' & 'Spillway Gates'; Buchan 'Fairy Cave' x2 different; Foster 'Cattle Sale'; Harrietville real photo vignette views; Lake Tyers Aboriginal Mission real photos 'Stripping a Bark Canoe', 'Making Baskets', child with boomerang (!) + 3 more; Mt Buffalo 'The Hut, Echo Point'; Sale 'Foster Street'; Walhalla 'In Winter' with snow; Warragul 'Post Office'; Wonthaggi real photos 'State School' plus Powlett Coal Mine (?) open-cut with steam shovel; etc, a number postally used, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (40+) 300

Ex Lot 349 349 C - Victoria - Goldfields & Grampians: Selection noted Ballarat 'New Electric Power House'; Bendigo 'Hotel Shamrock' undivided back used 1904; Castlemaine Post Office; Creswick 'Forestry Plantation'; Daylesford 'Wesley Church' real photo; Halls Gap real photo 'Mountain Grand Guest House' & 'Borough Hut Settlement'; Inglewood 'Verdon St' & 'St Augustines'; Mount Ophir 'Fermentation House at Model Winery'; Skipton 'Hall & Institute' real photo; Stawell 'Main Street' with Kay's Star Hotel; Talbot 'Camp St Bridge' & 'Reservoir' real photo; etc, quite a few postally used, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (60+) 300

Ex Lot 350 350 CL - Melbourne & Suburbs: Selection including vignette views & undivided backs, noted 'Cricket Ground' with match in progress, 'Federal Palace Hotel', 'Menzies Hotel', 'Railway Offices, Spencer Street' with steamroller (!), Fire Brigade 'General Turn Out', Yarra River rowing & boating real photos x3 different, semi-official Garden State 'Henley-on-the-Yarra 1912'; East Melbourne 'Lutheran Church School' real photo; Flemington 'Children's Hospital' & 'Cup Day'; Footscray 'Town Hall' & 'New Dispensary'; Kew 'Dight's Falls, Studley Park'; Surrey Hills 'View'; Prahran 'Alfred Hospital'; St Kilda 'George Hotel'; South Melbourne 'Beaconsfield Parade'; etc, quite a few used, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (80+) 300 Page:12 www.abacusauctions.com.au Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2020

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Ex Lot 351 351 C - Murray River & Mallee: Selection including Beechworth 'Shire Hall' undivided back used 1904 plus 'Lake Kerferd' Niven-like card published locally; Corowa (NSW) 'Sanger St showing Wahgunyah in distance'; Euroa 'Butter Factory' & 'Benney St' with A Miller & Co store; Nathalia 'Weir - Tower & Engine House' Nivenwith 'TPO 17' cds; Kerang 'Panoramic View'; Manangatang shop on fire (!) x2 different views; Mildura 'Settlers Club', 'Raisin Drying' & 'Grape Harvest undivided back used 1904; Nhill 'Tattersalls Hotel'; Riverview real photo 'Fat Lambs' & 'Milkers'; Rutherglen 'State School' & 'Wine Making'; Shepparton 'Queen's Gardens' Niven with 'UP TRAIN' cds; Swan Hill 'Murray Bridge' real photo x2 different plus 'Post Office & Court House'; Yarrawonga 'Murray in Flood' real photo; etc, a couple with minor blemishes but mostly fine. (45+) 300

Ex Lot 352 352 C - Port Philip & Western Port Bays and Mornington Peninsula: Selection noted Cape Schanck Lighthouse real photos x2 different; Dromana 'Kangerong' homestead real photo; Flinders real photo "Katoomba" tennis court & 'Elephant Rock' (NJ Caire); Frankston 'Pelican Point' & 'Breakwater & Pier'; Mordialloc 'Bridge Hotel' used locally; Philip Island 'Pyramid Rock' used with 'COWES' d/s, penguins x2, 'Seal Rocks' & San Remo 'The Suspension Bridge'; Portsea Pier; Sorrento 'Train and Road to Back Beach' and Pier with Victoria Hotel; etc, condition generally fine. (30) 150

Ex Lot 353 353 C WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Selection with many better cards including undivided-back vignette views of 'Entrance to River, Fremantle', 'Hay-Street Perth' with tram & 'Moir's Buildings, St George's Terrace'; Fremantle News Agents Association local views; Falk and Austral Stores Perth street scenes plus 'Railway Buildings', 'Railway Station, Fremantle' & 'Victoria Quay, Fremantle' (warship docked); also Albany real photo 'Post Office' & 'HMAS Encounter' in bay; Margaret River 'Mammoth Cave'; Bunbury town & jetty, etc, condition generally fine. (70+) 400