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Ex Lot 1850 1850 C A-/C Major floods comprising Semco 'Murray River in Flood, Mildura' (used under cover), Niven/Colliver 'Main Street, Mooroopna' (creased; used in 1909), H McDonald 'Blake Street, Nathalia in flood 1916' (unused, creased), 'High-St, Seymour' (used c.1910, stamp removed) & Bernicke (Tallangatta) 'Tallangatta Township' (unused). (5) 60
Ex Lot 1851 1851 C A/B Mining group comprising views of mines at Ballarat x2, Bendigo x2, Chiltern, Eaglehawk, Rutherglen, Stawell, Walhalla x4 and 'Miners Crossing the Creek, Warrandyte' (the 'creek' is the Yarra River!), fine to very fine & a few are unused. Good lot. (13) 100
Ex Lot 1852 1852 C A/B Post Offices group comprising Avoca (creased), Bacchus Marsh, AW Burman Bairnsdale, Ballarat x2, WW Rickards and Rose Echuca, Miss Killeen Leongatha, H Harstedt Maryborough, Nhill, Numurkah, Stawell, H Harrigan Wangaratta, CV Davies Wonthaggi, Yackandandah & A Ferguson Yarrawonga, a few problems but generally fine to very fine used or unused. (16) 350 Page:2 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Ex Lot 1853 1853 C A/B Robert Jolley (Melbourne) Undivided Backs all different from four different series, one a bit aged the others very fine unused. By far the most artistic of the early publishers. (5) 125
Ex Lot 1854 1854 C A/C Town views including Mildura, Yarram, Castlemaine, Bethanga Lower (real photo with Undivided Back), Hamilton, Chiltern, Healesville, Omeo x2 (one creased), etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used. (12) 100
Ex Lot 1855 1855 C A/A- Town views of Apollo Bay (Robbins), Bendigo (REM), Daylesford and Kaniva plus real photo types of Bairnsdale (Bulmer), Diamond Creek (Frazer & Vallance), Lang Lang (Super Series) & Omeo (Rose), very fine unused. (8) 160 Online Auction 2 Page:3
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Ex Lot 1856 1856 C A/C Railway Stations at Armadale (little changed 110 years later), Euroa, Footscray x2 and Mildura plus real photo types of Beechworth, Camberwell, Croydon, Maldon and Newmarket (a terrific animated scene of the original 1886 buildings that were replaced in 1925, unfortunately creased) plus '9AM EXPRESS/CHILTERN' and Rose Train crossing the Murray River at Echuca, mostly fine to very fine. A very good lot. (12) 250
Ex Lot 1857 1857 PS B 1895 1d blue postal card with advertising for Havelock Tobacco and Foster's Beer local commercial usage at Melbourne on NO20/95, bumped corners; plus an unused example with minor soiling. [The infamous 'Beer n Baccy' card was issued 1.11.1895 but caused such a public outcry, especially from the Temperance Movement, that all stocks were withdrawn on 19.11.1895. This usage is the first day after that] (2) 60
Lot 1858 1858 CB 1900 Robert Jolley'LIFE ON THE GOLDFIELDS, VIC' purple view with elaborate blue border, to Germany with scarce franking of 1½d yellow-green tied by Melbourne cds of 2.10.00, corner crease at L/L. A beautiful card. [Pre-1901 Australian cards are very scarce] 50 Page:4 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Ex Lot 1859 1859 C A/B 1904 Undivided Back chromolitho cards for Bensdorp's Royal Dutch Cocoa & Confectionery each with 'Sole Importer/ A LEIBNER/Melbourne' incorporated in the design, two feature pipe-smoking, a few blemishes, one postally used at 'BERWICK', the others unused. (4) 60
Lot 1860 1860 CB 1907 (c.) advertising card for Humphrie's [sic] Patent Bracket & Scaffold Co (Melbourne) with terrific shot of a fine Edwardian home under construction with a dozen riggers posing for the camera, a couple of small surface faults, unused. 50 Online Auction 2 Page:5
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Ex Lot 1861 1861 C A/B 1907-10 Railway Disasters comprising McGeehan (Prahran) 'Train passing through Flood Waters/South Yarra 25-1-07', used 14MR07; real photo 'The Railway Accident at Sunshine/April 20 1908 over 40 Lives lost' sent under cover with note that the incident was on Easter Monday; and Marlborough Art Co 'Elsternwick Express Disaster at Richmond Railway Station July 18 1910', minor faults, unused. (3) 60
Lot 1862 1862 CB 1908 FW Niven & Co (Melbourne) children with a goat-drawn cart advertising 'GOLDFINDER/SOAP', bumped corners & light soiling on the back, unused. 50 Page:6 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Lot 1863 1863 CB 1909 FW Niven advertising card for The Melbourne Coffee Palace, minor soiling on the back, to Wagga Wagga (NSW) & forwarded to 'GANMAIN' (arrival cds). A lovely 'Niven'. [The Coffee House Movement originated in Scotland. The aim was to provide hotel accommodation without the lure of liquor. By 1888 there were more than 50 of these temperance establishments in Melbourne alone] 100
Lot 1864 1864 CB 1910 (c.) real photo with Kodak back of an impressive derailment of a railway locomotive & passenger carriages with numerous bystanders (passengers?), diagonal crease at left doesn't greatly detract, unused. The location is believed to be in Victoria, and possibly in Gippsland. 50 Online Auction 2 Page:7
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Lot 1865 1865 C A+ - (c.) postcard-size advertising card for Young's Customs Brokers & Forwarding Agents with a great photo of the firm's fleet of delivery trucks line-up outside their premises at the Flinders Street Viaduct (aka the Banana Alley Vaults). Superb! 60
Lot 1866 1866 CA 1934 'FIRST AUSTRALIAN AUTOGIRO FLIGHT/...' flown Melbourne-Portland with KGV 1½d brown cancelled on arrival with 'MOO PORTLAND/VIC' cds, unusually fine. 40 Page:8 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Ex Lot 1867 1867 C A+ 1940s (?) Collegiate Etchings & Fine Arts Co set (?) of Explorers & Pioneers artist cards by James Flett comprising John Batman, James Cook, John Pascoe Fawkner, Matthew Flinders, Edward Henty and William Lonsdale, unused. Superb! [The publishers must have failed quickly & sunk without a trace for they are unknown to Professor Google] (6) 60
Lot 1868 1868 C A+ 1947 Pan-Pacific Jamboree (Yarra Brae) featuring the flags of Australia and ten other participating nations including Lithuania (!) and the newly divided India & Pakistan, unused. Superb! 50 Online Auction 2 Page:9
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Ex Lot 1869 1869 CA Ballarat District: 1910 HI Summerscales (Ballarat) untitled card of a traction engine pulling three carts laden with wooden slats, & a portable loo (?), used; plus a different coloured version of the same photo titled 'Mount Warrenheip near Ballarat', unused. Very fine pair. [The engine has a nameplate 'GEORGE'. It was manufactured by the Leeds firm John Fowler Steam Plough Works] (2) 50
Lot 1870 1870 C A- Belgrave: 'Puffing Billy at Belgrave' real photo (Rose Series) showing station & platform with passengers alongside train pulled by steam locomotive, unused, couple of minor blemishes. 60
Lot 1871 1871 CA Berringa: 1912 real photo of a premises destroyed by fire, very fine used under cover, the message headed "Berringa" states "...This...is what is left of the Kangaroo plant..." [The town was known as Kangaroo into 1900. Gold mining was the major industry & the 'Kangaroo plant' was probably related to this activity. Golden Plains Shire] 60 Page:10 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Lot 1872 1872 CB Diamond Creek: WG Gray advice card with photo of staff at Allwood Nurseries preparing large orders for transport, to Abbotsford with KGV 1½d tied by Melbourne slogan cancel, corner crease. An exceptional advertising card. [The nursery was renowned for supplying exotic plants from around the world] 80
Ex Lot 1873 1873 C A/B Gippsland: Scenery at or near Wilson's Promontory, San Remo, Beaconsfield, Tarra Valley, Inverloch, Bulga Park, etc, many are real photo types, generally fine to very fine used or unused. (30) 300 Online Auction 2 Page:11
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Ex Lot 1874 1874 C A/B - River views on the Albert River with people on the riverbank, Bulmer Genoa River, Mitchell River x5 (two with groups of houses), Snowy River with old man in boat, Bulmer real photo Snowy River x2, Tambo River with a tourist boat, Thompson River x2 one with 'SWING BRIDGE OPEN, SALE', and CH Tuckey real photo 'Wallagaraugh River, Mallacoota' (never heard of it!), fine to very fine used or unused. (14) 250
Ex Lot 1875 1875 - c.1940s real photos 'WESTERNPORT ROAD, LANG LANG', 'ST JOSEPH'S CHURCH, LEONGATHA', the Rotunda at Omeo, Lakes Studio 'GOLDEN AGE HOTEL, OMEO', two interiors of St Mary's in Bairnsdale & Bulmer 'Main Street Gardens, looking west Bairnsdale', very fine used under cover or unused. (7) 80
Lot 1876 1876 CA - Bairnsdale real photo 'MAIN ST...', very fine unused. 50 Page:12 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Lot 1877 1877 CA - Bairnsdale J Vogt (Bairnsdale) real photo 'MAIN STREET RESERVES...'Adelaide Coffee Palace in the foreground and several buggies on the unmade road, very fine unused. A cracker! 80
Ex Lot 1878 1878 C A/B - Buchan with Bulmer real photo cards x4 including 'FAIRY CAVE...', Rose x4 including 'Niobe's Bower Royal Cave', and Valentine 'The Pyramid...', fine to very fine unused. (9) 150 Online Auction 2 Page:13
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Lot 1879 1879 CA - Foster 1906 Foster Echo Series 'Shall we be homeless to-night/1906 Fire in Foster', very fine used under cover, message states "This Photo was taken the time of the big bush fire". [The fire swept from Hoddle Range to the west of Foster, south to Welshpool] 50
Lot 1880 1880 CB - Jeetho c.1910 (?) 'Greetings/FROM/JEETHO' triptych of the Railway Station, School & Felling Timber, used under cover, minor blemishes. [Gippsland] 50 Page:14 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Ex Lot 1881 1881 C A/B - Lake Tyers/Toorloo Arm group with a Bulmer real photo card, Victorian Railways Tourist Series x2 (one of aborigines spear-fishing), NJ Caire with two rowboats, and five others, fine to very fine used or unused. (9) 120
Ex Lot 1882 1882 C A/B - Lakes Entrance/Cunninghame real photo types of "REEVES RIVER CUNNINGHAME" (pleasure craft), Bulmer x2 (one an excellent panorama of the town from Jemmy's Point) and Valentine x2 (one of the town from the Lookout Tower), plus coloured views Victorian Railways Tourist Series x2 and WTP 'Cunninghame' with bridge at entry to town, fine to very fine unused. [Cunninghame was renamed Lakes Entrance on 1.1.1915] (8) 200
Ex Lot 1883 1883 CA - Morwell Brown Coal Mine real photo cards of local scenery No 3 4 8 & 9, very fine unused. (4) 100 Online Auction 2 Page:15
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Ex Lot 1884 1884 C A/A- - Omeo real photo types comprising an excellent view of the town inscribed in pencil "TAKEN FROM THE HILL", another of houses along the Bingo Track & a third "View of New Road" (corner fault), then a series of 20 local views and landmarks, very fine unused. (23) 300
Lot 1885 1885 C A- - Orbost c.1925 (?) real photo of major flooding at Orbost captioned "The Crossing" with a trademan's wagon & people on foot trudging through the water, 'HF WARREN/ORBOST' cachet on the address side, unused. 50
Ex Lot 1886 1886 C A/B - Phillip Island Ajax Series 'Cowes from the Pier', real photo seascapes x3 (over-exposed), Valentine's 'PENGUINS', Photo Shop 'PARADE OF THE PENGUINS' & 'Seals on Seal Rocks', and Rose seascapes x7 including of Seal Rocks, mostly unused & generally fine to very fine. (14) 100 Page:16 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Ex Lot 1887 1887 C A/B - Walhalla WH Lee x3 or Lee Brothers x2 comprising two views of the town (one with minor surface damage), 'Mt Baw Baw Walhalla', 'Incline Tramway...' and a terrific shot of miners at the bottom of a tunnel shaft, a few minor blemishes of the address sides but the views are fine to very fine unused. (5) 150
Lot 1888 1888 C A- - Walhalla 'Walhalla Train on Thomson Bridge' (Lee Bros, Stationers etc, Walhalla) showing steam locomotive pushing goods train across the steel bridge over the river, unused, couple of minor blemishes. 60 Online Auction 2 Page:17
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Lot 1889 1889 CA - Walhalla real photo card of the township, very fine unused. 50
Lot 1890 1890 C A- - Warragul 'Greetings from ...' with two vignette views of 'Queen Street looking West' and 'Railway Station' with steam locomotive & passenger train at platform and goods wagons being shunted in background, used under cover with message on back, couple of minor blemishes. 50 Page:18 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Ex Lot 1891 1891 CA Grampians: Rogers real photo types mostly of Grampians beauty spots including extraordinary rock formations, many including tourists, very fine unused. (19) 200
Ex Lot 1892 1892 C A/B - Mostlyreal photo types of beauty spots including some unusual views, mostly Rose Series, the majority are very fine and most are unused. (25) 150 Online Auction 2 Page:19
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Ex Lot 1893 1893 C A/A- Healesville: 'AP' orange-framed photos of Healesville and Marysville Districts, all but one unused & all fine to very fine. Complete set? (12) 200
Lot 1894 1894 CA Heidelberg: Robert Jolley (Melbourne) Undivided Back 'AT HEIDELBERG, NEAR MELBOURNE' (children paddling in the shallows of the Yarra), very fine unused. Surely one of the earliest Melbourne 'suburban' cards, albeit Heidelberg at the time was rural. 50
Lot 1895 1895 C A- Kyabram: 'Kyabram Railway Station' real photo (published by Clarke & Co, Melbourne for Geo Clements, Kyabram) with vignette view of station & platform showing passengers alongside train pulled by steam locomotive, unused, a couple of minor blemishes. 60 Page:20 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Lot 1896 1896 C A- Kyneton: 1909 real photo PPC showing main street with shopfronts including 'R O'Neill & Co, Auctioneers' & 'Geo F Roden, Bootmaker' as well as Post Office Clocktower, to Brighton with 1d pink tied Kyneton duplex cancel, a couple of minor blemishes. 50
Ex Lot 1897 1897 C A/B Lilydale: Real photo 'LILYDALE FROM TOWERS' panorama showing David Mitchell's quarry - now Lilydale Lake - in the distance & prominent sign for 'BEREFORD/CHEMIST', 'Castella Street from Main Street' (showing Morey & Co Ironmongers, 'Main Street looking West' (little more than a dirt track), 'Shire Buildings' that more prominently features a band playing outside the Athenaeum Library, and 'Public Baths' (essentially a dam; creased). (5) 80
Lot 1898 1898 CA Mansfield: c.1915 Vallan Studio (Mansfield Vic) real photo PPC of a group of soldiers with rifles in front of a YMCA hut dug into a trench, issued for a 'Returned Soldiers Concert Party' with soldiers' names and postings (one deceased) at left, unused. 75 Online Auction 2 Page:21
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Lot 1899 1899 C A- Melbourne Suburban real photo type with Kodak back of a newly cleared construction site with lookers-on, boundary stonework exposed, nearby advertising for McAlpin's Flour and Lifebuoy Soap may help identify the location, unused. Terrific photo! 40
Lot 1900 1900 CA - - Ascot Vale: 1910 AG Jones (Sears Photo) 'General View - Royal Agricultural Show, Melbourne', a very lively panorama across to the Main Arena with lots of activity plus signage for Cameo and Vitadatio (a new cure-all potion for everything from hydatids to cancer!), used under cover. [The Showgrounds were established at Ascot Vale in 1882] 50
Lot 1901 1901 C - - Balaclava: WTP 'Main Street...' featuring the Balaclava Hotel, two newsagents, insurance agency, RT Barnes Watchmaker and the railway bridge, very fine used under cover. Cards of Balaclava are rare. 60 Page:22 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Lot 1902 1902 CB - - Balwyn: c.1920 Valentine's Real Photo Series 'WHITE HORSE ROAD BALWYN' with dirt roads, a No 66 tram heading to 'MONT ALBERT' & horse-drawn buggy, sent under cover with writing indents on the face. Very few early Balwyn cards have been recorded. ['Bal' (Gaelic) & 'wyn' (Saxon) = home of the vine. The message states "This is a view of the town of Balwyn but it [the town] is not very good. It has grown considerably since this was taken...". The tramline was extended to Mont Albert on 30.9.1916. In 2011, Balwyn's post office was saved by the intervention of the local member, now Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg] 50
Ex Lot 1903 1903 C A-/B - - Bayside: comprising 'Regatta Day at Black Rock' (small surface abrasion, unused), 'Brighton from the Pier' (used), 'Hampton Bay' (unused), Mordialloc (not a beach scene; used) & 'View near Sandringham from Hampton Bluff' (minor spots, used). (5) 60 Online Auction 2 Page:23
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Ex Lot 1904 1904 C A- - - Brighton: 'Rosbercon Girl's Grammar School' real photo showing main building from neighbouring vacant block, to Queensland with 1d pink tied Melbourne machine cancel, plus real photo view of smaller building with school childern & teachers posing outside endorsed "Schoolrooms, Rosbercon" used under cover, minor blemishes. ['Rosbercon' operated from 1906 until 1941 from 'Ashburnham', a large Victorian villa at 106 North Road, Brighton.] (2) 60
Lot 1905 1905 CA - - Brighton: c.1920 (?) JC Simmons Newsagent (North Brighton) real photo 'BAY STREET LOOKING EAST MIDDLE BRIGHTON' with 'MIDDLE' erased, beaut shot with old jalopies, horse-drawn carts & a bicycle, unused. 60 Page:24 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Ex Lot 1906 1906 C A/C - - Canterbury: Real photo views of Canterbury Road by Valentines (surface damage),'Semco' (small surface abrasion) and CW Solomon (with the railway & level crossing, unused). Very scarce trio: at least the first two show the road to be unpaved. (3) 60
Ex Lot 1907 1907 C A-/C - - Carrum: O & Co 'Carrum Township' with unmade Nepean Highway & 'CARRUM CAFE & TOURISTS RES[THOUSE ?]' and 'POST TIME' with children outside the newagency that was also the Post Office, WW Miller & Sons 'Camping at Carrum, and Rose 'NEPEAN HIGHWAY LOOKING SOUTH with 1940s cars & 'CARRUM/SERVICE STATION' (some faults). (4) 75
Ex Lot 1908 1908 C A/B - - Chelsea: Two different 1940s Valentine's of essentially the same view of the clock tower on 'NEPEAN HIGHWAY' or 'POINT NEPEAN ROAD' (this with railway infrastructure, unused), and real photo multiview of the clock tower, pier & hall at Chelsea Park. [The clock tower was erected in 1934 as part of the Victoria/Melbourne Centenary Celebrations] (3) 60 Online Auction 2 Page:25
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Ex Lot 1909 1909 C A/A- - - Coburg: 1927 Prep & 1929 Grade 3B real photo types of classes at Coburg Primary School, the first by W Edmends (Brunswick), unused. (2) 40
Ex Lot 1910 1910 C A/B - - East: comprising 'Burke Road, Camberwell, Looking South' (unused), 'Gardens, Canterbury' (featuring Canterbury Hall, unused), 'Albany Crescent, Surrey Hills' (used under cover) and 'White Horse Rd, Box Hill from the Fire Tower' (used), fine to very fine. Very scarce quartet. (4) 150
Lot 1911 1911 CB - - Elwood: 1916 real photo of two men in suits with a life-saving reel, 'ELWOOD LIFE SAVING CLUB' & 'WA OSBORN/Secretary' handstamps in violet, very minor delamination, used under cover. Elwood cards are rare. [The writer "Uncle Wallie" is presumably WA Osborn who also is likely to be one of the subjects. The life-saving reel is an Australian invention, credited to Ormsby, Flynn & Fulwood in 1906] 50 Page:26 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Ex Lot 1912 1912 C A/A- - - Fitzroy: c.1910 colour views all from the same series 'Brunswick Street looking South' with lots of signage; 'Gertrude Street' (with tram & lots of signage); tree-lined 'Napier Street', wide intersection on 'Nicholson Street' with tram (unused); 'Victoria Street' with signage for Wertheim Pianos (unused); and 'Northcote from North Fitzroy' over ramshackle bridge across the Merri Creek. Good lot. (6) 120
Lot 1913 1913 C A- - - Greensborough: c.1920 real photo 'GREENSBOROUGH/LOOKING NORTH' of a horse & buggy and its disgorged complement of men & women outside 'RIVER VALE/ESTATE', minor blemishes, used another cover. Another locality of which PPCs are rarely found. [From the late-1880s, the area was popular for day-excursions from Melbourne] 60
Ex Lot 1914 1914 C A/B - - Inner North: comprising Carlton x3, Collingwood x4 including two excellent streetscapes of Smith Street, and Fitzroy x2, fine to very fine used or unused. (9) 200 Online Auction 2 Page:27
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Ex Lot 1915 1915 C A/B - - Inner South: comprising Albert Park x4 including 'Boat Racing on Albert Park Lake' (which is a foot deep on a good day!), Elsternwick, Port Melbourne, South Melbourne and South Yarra, fine to very fine used or unused. (8) 200
Ex Lot 1916 1916 C A/B - - Kew: Attractive group including Dempster's 'Post-Office Kew' (with Barnard's Chemist shop), Oastler (Kew) 'Alexandra Gardens, Kew', WTP including 'Cotham Road showing Post Office', three different High Street views with trams & signage, and 'The Kew Asylum & Yarra Bend Asylum', others including 'Entrance to the Kew Cemetery' & a few Yarra River scenes, generally fine to very fine. A very good lot. (12) 200
Ex Lot 1917 1917 C A/C - - Malvern: Ajax 'HIGH STREET' (tramlines & horse-drawn vehicles) and real photo views of 'TOWN HALL' (surface abrasions) & 'GLENFERRIE ROAD' (tram headed for 'ST KILDA RD' & horse-drawn milk-cart ?, very fine unused). (3) 60 Page:28 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Lot 1918 1918 C A- - - Middle Park: real photo of Ladies Day at the Bowls Club, corner bend still fine unused. A rare card, especially for showing women playing sport. 80
Lot 1919 1919 CB - - Middle Park: real photo of a group of boys in the middle of Richardson Street with Jones's Milkbar on the corner, a bit discoloured on the address-side still fine unused. Another rare card. 80
Ex Lot 1920 1920 C A/B - - Mordialloc: Three views of the town (one with a procession of excursioners) and four views of the creek (one with boats plus men & children), all used or used under cover. The town views are scarce. (7) 75 Online Auction 2 Page:29
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Lot 1921 1921 CA - - Port Melbourne: real photo of the State School with seemingly hundreds of children in the foreground & many looking at the camera, very fine unused. Terrific subject. 75
Lot 1922 1922 CA - - Port Melbourne: 'Graham Street' being a large group of men women & children posing for the camera, features Whithorn & Son Shipping Providores, very fine unused. A cracker! 60
Ex Lot 1923 1923 C A/B - - Prahran: selection comprising five terrific streetscapes of Chapel Street with lots of signage, the Institution for the Blind, Victoria Gardens x4 & Greville Street Gardens, fine to very fine unused or used. (11) 200 Page:30 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Ex Lot 1924 1924 C A/C - - St Kilda: Beachside & Esplanade views x7 plus scarce views of 'FITZROY ST' (faults), 'HIGH ST' with tram & lots of signage, and 'The St Kilda Junction' with tram & a few pedestrians. (11) 60
Ex Lot 1925 1925 C A+ - - St Kilda: c.1910 JA Mackenzie (Barkly Street) black/yellow set (?) of 6 including 'LOWER ESPLANADE' featuring 'LADIES HOT SEA BATHS/& TRAMWAY BATHS' (one can imagine the trams cavorting with the ladies!), 'SHELTER, PAVILION' with many picnickers & a 'penny-farthing' perambulator, 'ST KILDA PIER' (a throng of be-suited gents in bowlers & boaters), etc, used under cover. Lovely cards in superb condition. (6) 140
Ex Lot 1926 1926 C A/B - - St Kilda: selection of non-beach views, fine to very fine unused or used. (10) 200 Online Auction 2 Page:31
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Lot 1927 1927 C A- - - St Kilda real photo of 'DREAMLAND, ST KILDA' featuring the 'BIOGRAPH' (a very early picture show), overexposed but fine unused. [Dreamland was an amusement park built on reclaimed wasteland. It opened in 1906 but was demolished only three years later. In 1912, Luna Park opened on the same site] 60
Lot 1928 1928 C A+ - St Kilda: c.1910 real photo card of 25 runners & officials of the St Kilda Harriers & Athletics Club, unused. Superb! 75
Ex Lot 1929 1929 C A/B - - Inner West & North: comprising Flemington x2 (one a lovely shot of Fashions on the Field), Footscray x3 (one of the Post Office), Maribyrnong, Moonee Ponds x2 & Coburg, fine to very fine used or unused. (9) 200 Page:32 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Ex Lot 1930 1930 C A/B - - Yarra River: wending through Richmond (real photo with rowboats & two punts!), Dight's Falls x2, Hawthorn, Kew x3 including 'Mac Auleys Boat House' (women & children apparently waiting for their boat to propel itself!) & an impressive diving platform with doubly-erroneous caption 'Upper Jarra', Heidelberg x3 (two are not river views) & Templestowe, mostly used & generally fine to very fine. A good lot. (11) 250
Ex Lot 1931 1931 C A/B Melbourne: Very attractive group of Undivided Backs including four chromolithos & several with diffused borders, fine to very fine unused. A very scarce lot. (24) 300
Ex Lot 1932 1932 C A/B - Another attractive group of Undivided Backs including some excellent subjects & several with diffused borders, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. (29) 250 Online Auction 2 Page:33
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Ex Lot 1933 1933 C A/A+ - Series of oval-framed coloured illustrations on cream card, each with 'wood-grain' border, very fine to superb unused. Gorgeous cards that we have not previously seen. [Presumably missing one view] (11) 160
Ex Lot 1934 1934 C A/B - Robert Jolley (Melbourne) Blue Shield Undivided Backs 'BOURKE STREET...', COLLINS STREET...' (2 different) & 'EXHIBITION BUILDINGS...', one with the stamp neatly removed otherwise fine used. (4) 80
Ex Lot 1935 1935 C A/B - Selection of more unusual streetscapes including real photo types of Russell Street & Market Street, also Eastern Markets, Block Arcade, etc, lots of trams and large advertising signage, a few blemishes but generally fine to very fine unused. Some outstanding images. (17) 175 Page:34 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Ex Lot 1936 1936 C A/B - Selection of more unusual streetscapes including lots of trams and large advertising signage, the best is of horse-transport & trams on Queens Bridge, a few blemishes but generally fine to very fine unused. (14) 80
Ex Lot 1937 1937 C B/C - 1901 McCarron Bird Undivied Back chromolitho multiviews 'SOUVENIR OF MELBOURNE' (Public Library/Law Courts/Statue oi Redmond Barry, no message, to Sicily), 'A GREETING FROM MELBOURNE' (four buildings at University of Melbourne, to GB with stamp removed) and 'SALVE! MELBOURNE' (St Patrick's Cathedral before & after erection of the spires, to GB), some faults but quite presentable. A rare trio, discounted for condition. (3) 100 Online Auction 2 Page:35
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Lot 1938 1938 C A- - c.1901 Atlas Undivided Back chromolitho of a view along Elizabeth Street with the GPO clock tower by artist 'Heine Rath' so probably a German publisher, the back based on the 1889 2d & 3d Postal Cards, bumped corners, unused. The back not previously seen by us. 50 Page:36 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Lot 1939 1939 C A+ - c.1911 Zercho's Business College advertising card of the firm's 6-storey building at 157-9 Collins Street (opposite Scots' Church), unused. Superb! [Frederick Zercho established the business in 1907, firstly in Flinders Street, then from 1911 in Collins Street. In 1968 the business was sold to the now better-known Stott's Business College] 60
Lot 1940 1940 CB - 1925 real photo multiview card with four vignettes of the collapse of a verandah, rescue of the injured and police on horseback controlling the crowd, Biro notation on the viewside otherwise very fine. [The incident occurred during a parade to welcome 43 ships from the visiting American Navy. By comparison, the more well-known 1908 Visit involved only 15 ships] 75 Online Auction 2 Page:37
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Lot 1941 1941 CB - c.1930s advertising card for Carlyon's Hotel, Cafe & Dining Rooms, minor blemishes, unused. The hotel was directly opposite Spencer Street Station. 40
Lot 1942 1942 C A- Monbulk: 1908 real photo of 'POST OFFICE, MONBULK' annexed to a wooden house, a couple of minor blemishes still fine unused. 50
Lot 1943 1943 C A- Mount Dandenong: 1910 real photo PPC 'MOUNT JOY, MT DANDENONG' with the message similarly headed & 1d tied by superb strike of the scarce 'MOUNT DANDENONG NORTH/VIC' cds (recorded 1910-1911 only). [Mount Joy was a guesthouse that by 1918 was a boarding house. The message is signed by the owner/manager (?) "EH Jeeves"] 75 Page:38 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Lot 1944 1944 C A+ Mount Macedon: c.mid-1930s advertising card for 'OLD GOVERNMENT COTTAGE GUEST HOUSE...', unused. Superb! [The property known as Rosenheim was acquired in 1886 as a country retreat for successive Governors. It was sold at auction in 1934 to raise funds for the Consolidated Revenue] 50
Ex Lot 1945 1945 C A/C Point Lonsdale: Group typically featuring the Lighthouse & Siignal Station and beach scenes (one with bathing boxes, creased) including by R Thompson (Queenscliff) x7 (five of which are unused) & Thackertypo, and 1957 Rose along the Main Street featuring the newsagency that was probably also the Post Office, condition variable. (13) 100
Ex Lot 1946 1946 C A-/A Point Nepean: 1904 'RMS Australia on the Corsair Reef Pt Nepean June 20th 1904' bumped corners otherwise fine unused; and 'MAIN DECK RMS AUSTRALIA AFTER THE FIRE', fine unused. (2) 50 Online Auction 2 Page:39
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Lot 1947 1947 CA Red Cliffs: c.1920 Rose 'WOODBINE AVENUE, RED CLIFFS' real photo of the earliest settlement of tents & shacks, very fine unused. [Red Cliffs was established under the post-World War I Soldier Settlement Scheme] 50
Lot 1948 1948 CA Rodborough: 1909 real photo of a collapsed bridge and derailed locomotive & First Class carriages, very fine locally used at 'RODBOROUGH'. [On 19.8.1909, a bridge across the McCullum's Creek near Maryborough collapsed due to flooding. The night train from Ballarat careened off the bridge. Rodborough is now below Lake Cairn Curran] 75
Ex Lot 1949 1949 C A/A- Trawool: c.1910 (?) real photo cards with Kodak backs all of views at and around Trawool including of the Goulburn River in flood, unused. [Goulburn Valley] (7) 75 Page:40 www.abacusauctions.com.au 10 - 12 October 2020
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Lot 1950 1950 CA Wandong: 1908 AZ Clark/Wandong Cyanide Works real photo card of horse-drawn cyanide vat, VFU to GB. 50
Lot 1951 1951 C A- Warrnambool: 1905 Wreck of the 'La Bella' colotype of 'William Ferrier the brave fisherman...' with his facsimile signature, corner bend otherwise fine used. [On 10.11.1905, the La Bella was wrecked on rocks S of Warrnambool. The site was named La Bella Reef. William Ferrier rescued five crew members & became a national hero] 50