Australian Icons

Auction: An Exhibition & Sale

On View: Saturday 4 November 1 - 5pm Sunday 5 November 11am - 5pm

The Coles Room Level 3 State Library of New South Wales Macquarie Street, Sydney

GUMQUEST Pty Ltd in association with Aalders Antiques Pty Ltd

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“We Value Australian Icons”

Lot 15 – Fantasia, by Charles Conder (1904)

Gumquest Pty Ltd PO Box R.1906, Royal Exchange NSW 1225 T: 0422 967 432 www.ettimprint.com or www.katekelly.biz ICONS 1 created as a supplement to the Sydney Mail that year, and much later as the cover of his autobiography Farewell to Mounted by the photographer for Tom Howard, treasurer for the 1930 Australian Cricket Team; then by descent. $1500 - $2000

1 The Australian Team, 1921 4 An original sepia photograph by Australian X1 1934 signed Bolland of London, 22.8 x 28.3 A page 16 x 9.5 cm, headed cm, mounted to card with player 'Australian X1' and signed by the information. Signed to the touring Australian Ashes squad in photograph by the players Mailey, black ink, with crisp signatures McDonald, Collins, Pellew, throughout; Woodfull, O'Reilly, Armstrong (Capt), Macartney, Barnett, Chipperfield, Oldfield, Oldfield, Carter, Taylor, Bardsley, Grimmett, Ebeling, Kippax, Ryder, Hendry, Gregory, Mayne, McCabe, Wall, Fleetwood-Smith, Andrew and Smith (Manager, these last four autographs faded). Darling, Bradman (left side), Brown & Ponsford (right side). Tom Howard’s copy. 3 Framed. $3000 - $4000 Daniel Carroll, International $900 - $1200 Rugby Great Two original programmes for St George Rugby Union matches in 1907, both 16 x 25 cm, printed in blue on cream card; one in fine condition dated May 18 1907 St. George v South Sydney (with team portrait of South Sydney); the other match-used dated August 3 1907 St. George v Manly (with Balmain team photograph rather sunned). August 1907 was the critical moment for rugby, with St George’s Harold Judd being approached by to change to League. Many Internationals (of both codes) are featured here, including Judd and 2 Carroll for St. George, who went 5 , 1930 by Sam on to play for Australia in the gold- The Captains, 1948 Hood medal winning 1908 Olympic A large framed collage, 72 x 58 An original sepia photograph of team – then was chosen as cm with photographs of the 1948 Bradman executing the cover- player/ coach of the gold-medal Australians, and the captains Don drive during his World Record 452 winning US Rugby teams of 1920 Bradman and Norman Yardley; , for NSW v Qld 1930 at and coach of their winning 1924 with an original 1948 Test Record the SCG No. 2 ground. This team. Carroll’s feat is unique in and personal autographs of classic work, 30 x 23 cm, was Olympic history (2). Bradman and Yardley. Bradman’s favourite, being first $800 - $1000 $1500 - $2200 7 Victor Trumper's glove A right-hand glove, match-used by Victor Trumper in 1898-99 and given by him to his doctor and team-mate at Gordon Cricket Club, LB Heath around 1913. $4000 - $5000

8 Victor Trumper's 1899 Presentation Tray A silver-plate presentation tray, 480mm x 680mm, engraved 'Presented to Victor T. Trumper, 9 6 Esqr, Member of the Xth Bradman in England, 1934 An Invincibles "team sheet" Australian X1 on his return from An original press photograph titled England by the ex-students & A handwritten 1948 Australian 'Bradman Makes The Winning Hit' teachers of the Crown St. Team "sheet" on card, 27 x 20 dated 3.7.1934 showing Bradman Superior Public School, cm, noting only the and taking four of Fender to help 15.11.1889', gadrooned Vice-Captain, but signed in Australia beat Surrey at . borders, handles with leaf scrolls, various coloured inks by the entire Details of Central Press Photos to engraved with wide borders of squad, including Bradman, reverse. Signed in ink by floral sprays, bouquets and swags Hassett, McCool, Loxton, Bradman, and two Surrey players, (some wear). Trumper attended Lindwall, Toshack, Miller, ER Holmes and EW Brooks. Crown Street School from the Johnstone, Hamence, Tallon, Elegantly framed. early 1880s to the summer of Ring, Saggers, Brown, Harvey, 1894-95, playing for his school $2000- $2500 Morris, Johnson and even the alongside . Trumper rare . Elegantly played in the school's First Eleven mounted and framed. from the age of ten years old, and $4000 - $6000 this is an explicit reminder of the value of the role Crown Street School played in the development of the champion of the Golden Age. Sold at Christies Ramamurthy sale 1997, Lot 403. $9000 - $12000

10 Don Bradman, unique signed ball 1933 A tennis ball, noted as ‘Ernest Jones Testimonial – It Ain’t Cricket – Dec.16 1933’ signed by Ernest Jones, Don Bradman, and , and many others faded. Together with a copy of the script of the play ‘It Ain’t Cricket’ by Kerwin Maegraith, 24 pp foolscap signed in pencil by the author; and a copy of the original illustrated JC Idriess has first written these Following his failure at recent Williamson Ltd Magazine chapters in pencil, and noted on examinations, Upfield was sent to Programme for the event in the cover 'Mer 20,21', then Australia by his father to seek his , with portraits of Jones, extensively edited in black and fortune in 1911. The ticket and Bradman and the author, signed blue inks with major corrections to this bible were his father's parting by Don Bradman to his portrait (3) each page, with a couple of gift. Arthur Upfield went on to The author of this play was a interleaves tipped in. Each stage write 29 novels with the Aboriginal noted cartoonist in both Sydney of the edit can be easily identified. detective, Boney as key and Adelaide, and while working The Drums of Mer was first character. These were published for the Advertiser during the published by Angus & Robertson worldwide. Bodyline Test, was the first to in 1933, following the author's $400 - $600 rush to Oldfield’s aid from the engagement with the early oral fence after he was felled by history of the Torres Strait Larwood. His social satire is Islanders and Alfred Haddon's notable for being the first to anthropological histories as feature Bradman as himself, and published 1908-12, but with the one that introduced Bradman to novelist's touch: "He knelt down his future boss in Adelaide, Harry and pushed one bony knee into Hodgetts. Indeed, the good will the back of the Amazon's neck, engendered by this post Bodyline lovingly clawed his great hands salve was instrumental in getting around her throat, the left hand Bradman to move from NSW to with the fingers all lopped off, then . These are unique jerked and pushed - quickly. An Bradman-Bodyline mementos, oily snap tickled the night..." Rare, doubly important in that they carry as no Australian institution holds 14 within them Ashes heroes from any original Idriess manuscript. Hans Heysen's paintbox & the Golden Age – in Hill, Jones $3000 - $5000 and Trumble. Provenance: The easel Producer, Harold Gard’s copy, A folding paintbox, 44.5 x 37.5 x then by descent. 9.5 cm, with four extended Estimate $12,000 - $15,000 attachments and used artist's palette, together with an folding easel, 213 x 52 cm. The paintbox has railway stickers Sydney to 12 Canberra, another inscribed Kalanga, and to reverse the labels 1934 boomerang of WHA Clues, storage agent of A boomerang 53 cm across, with Unley. Also attached (in separate poker-work to the front face of the envelope) are the Clues labels Sydney Harbour Bridge, addressed to artist Dorrit Black, kangaroo, emu and possum and the label address for Nora motifs; signed to the back in Heysen, as Passenger to Sydney. pencil 'A. Perrett / Maker La Hans Heysen was born in Perouse / NSW / 1934' An early Germany in 1877 and arrived in example of commercial curio by Australia in 1883. His first one- one of the indigenous artists of man show in was Botany Bay. The Australian opened by the Prime Minister Museum holds a later uncoloured 11 Alfred Deakin, and opened the example of this artist's boomerang way for national success. In 1912 An original manuscript by Ion (E92408) he purchased The Cedars in the Idriess 1932 Ion Idriess' $900 - $1200 Adelaide hills, where he lived till Challenge Bank Writing Tablet, 13 his death in 1968. His daughter, 25.5 x 20 cm, containing 57 hand- the artist Nora Heysen, purchased written leaves, with four leaves Arthur Upfield's bible her father's paintbox and easel with original manuscript to A Holy Bible, 12 x 7 cm, Oxford, from the sale of his estate. reverse, being the first draft and inscribed 'Arthur W Upfield, Alma $4000 - $6000 all author's corrections to The House, Gosport' and signed and Drums of Mer, Chapter 20 and 21. dated by father 1.9.1911. 15 recline against mythical Lap during the 1930-31 season. Fantasia, by Charles Conder backgrounds suggestive of Italy or Provenance: Mrs Olga Pike. (1904) Spain. Most of Condor’s $3000 - $4000 embellishments to this house, Watercolour on silk, signed lower which had been used for many right; 78.7 x 43.2cm; with years as a clubhouse for the numerous labels to reverse from Knights of Columbia, were torn 1905 onwards out in the 1970s by a London art Purchased Berlin Photographic dealer with an Australian art Gallery, NY by John Quinn, market in mind… Few escaped August 1912. Quinn Estate 1924- damage the night his bath 27. JH Johnstone London. overflowed.” 18 Archibald GB Russell, (Lancaster Barry Humphries in Charles Herald); Maas Galleries, London Conder by Galbally & Pearce Gawen by Martin Stainforth, 64; The Leicester Galleries, 1965- (AGNSW 2003) 1923 66; Private Collection, London. An oil on canvas, 32 x 39 cm, $60,000 - $80,000 Christies London, 28 May 1987 showing Gawen with foal, signed Lot 167. Noted in Charles Condor, by the artist lower right and His Life and work (Gibson, named and dated below. Martin London 1914, illustrated plate Stainforth is the penultimate XC1X; The Life and death of painter of Australian Condor (Rothenstein, London thoroughbreds, and the author of 1938, p 207). Racehorses in Australia (Art & While holidaying in Venice in Australia, Sydney 1922). 1903, Conder met his friends $15,000 - $18,000 Edward and Mary Dawson and they commissioned him to paint a room in their house at 11-13 Lansdowne Street, Holland Park. In 1904 Conder had moved to 91 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, and during October and November of that year, created fourteen watercolours on silk. The Studio published the Conder Room extensively in April 1905 in an 16 article by T. Martin Wood, who Lord Fury, race-worn silks sees the silks as “full of fancy; crowded with images, pictures Ray Selkrig's orange and green and memories of faded things” racing silks, with Anthony and specifically evoking Verlaine’s Horderns & Sons label, initialled aesthetic. Noted is the Dolman & by the jockey; as raced to win the Co label to reverse, with Dolman Melbourne Cup in 1961. Faded, preparing the images for with some small tears to lower publication by John Lane. L’Art front, but otherwise in good Moderne, 7 May 1905 praises the condition. Provenance: Mr NS 14 silk panels the effect of which Cohen, then by descent. was “to take us with persistent $6000 - $8000 feeling back to the delicious and charming art of the eighteenth .” 17 “Conder produced a large number Jim Pike's racing bridle for of decorative metopses of white Phar Lap silk panels on which he freely A racing bridle, being 59 cm to improvised with a brush loaded two strapped chromed metal bits with violet watercolour… these each 14.5 cm, the reins being 145 scenes… are filled as usual with cm long, with full strapping; as women who drift, promenade and used by jockey Jim Pyke on Phar whose signature theme is the briar-rose, each set has been connected to Irish families 1879- 1881. We believe the scrimshaw artist is indeed Kelly's stepfather, George King, who disappeared in 1878 and fled by ship to New Zealand. These scrimshaws are personal mementoes passed on to sympathisers. $30,000 - $40,000

20 Ned Kelly (Head) by Sidney Nolan, 1968 19 A coloured lithograph, 60 x 59 cm, 1961 Melbourne Cup for Lord numbered 44/65 and signed by Fury, the Melbourne Cup for the artist in pencil lower right. 1961, as won by Lord Fury. Framed. 22 Original William Drummond & Co $3000- $4000 A Kelly - Fitzpatrick double hand beaten 18 carat gold cup scrimshaw with three handles (making a total Two buffalo horns, each of 32 oz of gold) engraved thus: approximately 45 cm long, each 'MELBOURNE CUP/1961/Won horn incised with symbols of lost by/Mr & Mrs N.S.Cohen's/LORD love, adventure, horses, troopers, FURY/Edwards11 - Sea and threatening gestures - Ruffle/Trainer F.B. Lewis/Ridden relating to Kelly Gang, including by Ray Selkrig/Time one with chinstrap in the larrikin 3'191/2"/Equals Australian and Greta mob fashion, wearing a Race Record'. With the change to 21 spotted shirt, being chased by a metric, Lord Fury's record cannot mounted trooper; a woman with a be beaten. On a hand-turned A Kelly Gang double scrimshaw, 1880 knife with the bearing of Isley's base of Queensland maple portrait of Maggie Skillion; a crafted by William Drummond & Two cowhorns, nailed to a unicorn topped by a lonely camp Company, Melbourne (with their wooden centrepiece, and arrowed hearts; an label to base). In its original approximately 83 cm in total extraordinary Austral Coat-of- presentation box of plush blue width, on a further oblong cedar Arms with an emu and kangaroo, velvet. Together with Ray base, approximately 28 x 19 x 2 and plough-shares; with a scrolled Selkrig's parade silks and red cap cm, locked to the rest with three snake with indecipherable (the latter two in excellent hand-forged nails. Each horn has inscription. The other horn with condition). Rare and desirable. been incised with portraits of Ned similar top and tailed decoration, Provenance: The owners by Kelly, gang members, and many and no Glenrowan briar. This one descent. articulated Glenrowan briar-roses holds a finely cut young woman $120,000 - $150,000 to both sides. Kelly can be seen pointing at a scroll clearly incised on the right horn, with his horse 'AM Fitzpatrick'; tall ships, an Daylight above, and Steve Hart American Eagle with flag, a dressed as a woman to the top. cornstalker popping out from the On the left horn, George King can other-side-of-the-world; more wild be seen on the lower right, Dan animals and arrowed hearts of Kelly above him, with Joe Byrne lost love. second from the top. Steve Hart appears again in fancy dress top $30,000 - $40,000 left. Having sighted three double scrimshaws by this same artist, As a teenager Kate Kelly rode the shows an example of this as "the ranges taking ammunition and only surviving copy of an food to her brothers, being undocumented postcard wounded in the legs and hip. She distributed in the 1890s... Judging carried a revolver in 1879 and by from their characteristics, the men 1880 was exhibiting revolvers and can be identified with some rifles in Sydney. One of the most confidence. The man on the grey significant women in the Kelly horse in the centre could be Ned saga, this young woman, Kelly and the man on the right 23 assuming the names Ada might be Steve Hart... The Kellys Kate Kelly’s revolver Hennessy and Kate Ambrose, wrapped their firearms in a coat or performed equestrienne displays blanket and held them in front of A Henckell & Co, Solingen.32 at shows and circuses in the pommel on their saddles. In calibre revolver, with a wooden Adelaide, Sydney and Central the photograph, all three men stock, inscribed with the initials NSW. She would later work at the hold such bundles... The KK, uncovered some years ago in Promenade Hotel in Albury in photograph was not given any the demolition of a house in the 1884, at Glendore as a domestic, publicity, and from the Forbes-Condoblin area of NSW, and at Cadow Station, in 1885. In identifications on the card, the occupied by Ned’s younger sister, Forbes, she worked as a photographer certainly did not Kate. Found in the cavity of her domestic, where she met her know his subjects... the image family home, it was covered in husband, William 'Brickie' Foster, must have been taken late in the lard and wrapped in leather before working for a time at a gang's career (p101)'. Together strapping. The revolver bears the hotel in Myrrhee. In 1888, aged with an original hand-written letter insignia of the Royal 25, she married William Foster. by JW Rosier, on his header at Constabulary, associated with the Ten years and six children later 432 Bourke Street, Melbourne, police force that hunted the Kelly she was dead, reported missing dated 23 September 1907 to a gang in the period 1878-1880. on the 6th October 1898. Her recent Irish emigre to West Such relics were on show as early body was found in a lagoon off Australia, remarking "as your as 1880 at a display known in the the Condobolin Road. According letter bears the stamp and tone of popular newspapers as the Kate to the death certificate, there was A Gentleman" he is sending his Kelly Exhibition: ‘The brother and no evidence of foul play. order for a saddle and rifle to Mr sister of notorious bushranger Woulfe despite there being no Ned Kelly have paid a visit in POA "cash with order". Rosier goes on Sydney for the purpose of to "as my hides are made to Govt exhibiting themselves and some standard, they invariably fit of the relics of the bushranging alright... keep this transaction conflicts; but the police interfered, inviolate, as I have refused almost and the exhibition has been to a man to (give) goods without stopped…’ securing cash orders.' Fully Kate's story, ending in her tragic signed James W Rosier. Rosier early death in 1898, has lain in provided guns and ammunition for the long shadow cast by Ned. the Victorian Government during This revolver, be it the fated the Kelly Outbreak, as well as Fitzpatrick weapon or one of the providing ammunition to the Kelly many appropriated by the Kellys girls when in Melbourne (2) during the Outbreak, helps $1500 - $2000 reclaim her story, till now the subject of contemporary ballads like Ye Sons of Australia: The daring Kate Kelly how noble her mien As she sat on her horse like an 24 The Kelly Gang & Rosier Amazon queen, A postcard of The Kelly Gang - She rode through the forest from an original photograph revolver at hand (Regal 1890s). In Keith Regardless of danger, who dare McMenomy's Ned Kelly: The bid her stand. Authentic Illustrated History he The following items will soon be Dan Kelly for their "roles" in the Wangaratta. Bracken had served available for viewing and sale: Fitzpatrick incident. The Kellys with the Victoria Police at Greta found them at their camp at before 1878, and following the Stringybark Creek, and Kelly shot Stringybark Creek massacre, 25 Ned Kelly, by Burman Kennedy, whom he later called equipped himself and continued A sepia cartes-des-visite, 9 x "the gamest man I ever heard". to play a part in the Kelly saga. 5.5cm; being a widely reproduced $2000 - $3000 Stationed at Glenrowan in 1880, portrait of Kelly prepared for he was taken hostage by the police purposes in 1880, with the Kellys along with 40 others in the photographer reworking the 29 Trooper Lonigan Shot at Glenrowan Inn, escaped and existing younger portrait to the Wombat alerted police of the Kelly's body of a squatter, and adding the A sepia carte-de-visite, 9 x 5.5cm; position, and was party to the moustache and beard. With being the only known copy of the firing of the Glenrowan Inn; contemporary title to front and original portrait of Lonigan. With standing the fallen Kelly decorative details of Burman's contemporary title to front and when it looked like he might be Melbourne establishment to decorative details of Burman's killed instead of captured. In 1900 reverse. establishment to reverse, where he committed suicide in $3000 - $4000 there is inscribed "Trooper Beveridge, the birthplace of Ned Lonigan Shot at Wombat". Kelly. Lonigan was included in the $2000 - $3000 26 Dan Kelly, by Burman police detail to the Wombat A sepia carte-de-visite, 9 x 5.5cm; Ranges as he knew and could being a portrait of Dan Kelly by identify the Kellys. When the 32 Police Firing At Hotel Bray of Beechworth in 1878 which Kellys found them at their camp at A sepia carte-de-visite, 5.5 x 9cm; Burman has copied. With Stringybark Creek, Lonigan did being a Burman print of a Oswald contemporary title to front and not surrender and was shot by Madeley original, being one of the decorative details of Burman's Ned Kelly. In excellent condition 18 'Kelly Tragedies' series that establishment to reverse. except for slight foxing, mostly the two photographers created in $3000 - $4000 outside the oval frame. 1880. With contemporary title to $3000 - $4000 front and details of the 27 Dan Kelly, by Burman "Tragedies" to reverse. The A sepia carte-de-visite, 9 x 5.5cm; group includes the blacktrackers, being a full-length study of Dan 30 Trooper Scanlan Shot at Moses and Spider and Constable Kelly by Bray of Beechworth in Wombat Dwyer of Wangaratta. 1878 which Burman has copied. A sepia carte-de-visite, 9 x 5.5cm; $2000 - $3000 An excellent example, apart from being copied by an unknown fold-damage across the image. photographer, possibly Burman's With contemporary title to front brother Frederick, who was a 33 Burnt Body of Dan Kelly and decorative details of police photographer. With A sepia carte-de-visite, 5.5 x 9cm; Burman's Melbourne contemporary title to front and being a Burman print of a James establishment to reverse. decorative details of Burman's Bray original. With contemporary $3000 - $4000 Melbourne establishment to title to front and decorative details reverse, where there is inscribed of Burman's Melbourne "Trooper Scanlan Shot at establishment to reverse, 28 Sergeant Kennedy, by Wombat". When the Kellys found including title again. Following the Burman the police at their camp at removal of the burnt bodies of A sepia carte-de-visite, 9 x 5.5cm; Stringybark Creek, Scanlan was Steve Hart and Dan Kelly, both being a family portrait of Kennedy shot by Ned Kelly, then fatally by Kelly sisters were deeply grieving, that Burman has copied during Joe Byrne. and Superintendent Sadlier the Kelly Outbreak. With $2000 - $3000 handed over the bodies to Kate contemporary title to front and Kelly and Maggie Skillion, thus decorative details of Burman's averting further tragedy. Melbourne establishment to 31 Constable Bracken, by $3000 - $4000 reverse, where there is inscribed Barnes "Shot at Wombat". In October A sepia carte-de-visite, 9 x 5.5cm; 1878 Kennedy led the four-man being a full-length study of police party into the Wombat Bracken by WE Barnes of Ranges searching for Ned and