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Lot Type Grading Description Est $A BOXING

Ex Lot 2015 2015 MUHAMMAD ALI: Group with signature on piece; talking figurine (44cm tall); 'Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee' poster; framed photograph; display with photos of Ali, Rocky Marciano & Jake La Motta with facsimile autographs. (5) 300 - AUSTRALIA - 19th 2059 1884 Australian Tour to England 'Our Cricketing Guests' colour supplement from 'The Boys Own Paper' featuring the Australian & Philadelphia teams. Very Fine condition. [In 1884, teams from Australia & Philadelphia toured England]. 80 CRICKET - AUSTRALIA - 1928-1948 - The Bradman Era 2080 : 1932 Honeymoon Tour to North America display comprising cricket card signed by Don Bradman, window mounted with three pictures from the tour, framed & glazed, overall 51x40cm. 150

Lot 2086 2086 DON BRADMAN & BABE RUTH: display comprising photo of Bradman meeting Babe Ruth, window mounted with photograph of Babe Ruth waiting to bat, and facsimile autographs of Don Bradman & Babe Ruth, framed & glazed, overall 61x64cm. 200 Page:2 www.abacusauctions.com.au Nov 25, 2018

Lot Type Grading Description Est $A CRICKET - TEAM SHEETS & AUTOGRAPH PAGES

Ex Lot 2123 2123 1932 Australian Team to United States & Canada, autograph page with 14 signatures including Don & Jessie Bradman (on their honeymoon), , Victor Richardson, Alan Kippax, Hanson Carter & Stan McCabe, framed & glazed, overall 29x24cm; together with photo of the World's Greatest Cricketer meeting the World's Greatest Baseballer (signed by Don Bradman); plus book "The Don Meets the Babe - The 1932 Australian Cricket Tour of North America" by Sissons (signed by Bradman & author) [Cambridge, 1995]. (3) 1,000 FOOTBALL - AUSTRALIAN RULES

Lot 2210 2210 1963 extremely rare programme 'Souvenir Programme, First Exhibition of Australian Rules Football Ever Played in North America' at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco'. on 26.10.1963 between Geelong Cats the 1963 Premiers v Demons 1963 Finalists. Fair/Good condition. 300 Page:3 Nov 25, 2018

Lot Type Grading Description Est $A MOTOR SPORT - Motoring

Lot 2366 2366 1973 'INDIANAPOLIS/Gordon Johncock wins on Goodyear tires' advertising poster, linen-backed, size 147x108cm. Fine condition. [The 1973 Indianapolis 500 was marred by two separate fatalities, one to a driver, David Savage, and another to a crew member] 1,800 OLYMPIC GAMES

Ex Lot 2374 2374 1906 POSTCARDS: Lovely postcard of 1906 gold medallist in Gymnastics Georgios Aliprantis of Greece; real photo postcard of Australian Team at 1932 Los Angeles Olympics (diagonal corner ); also c.1934 Malvern Star trade card of Hubert Opperman. (3) 100 Page:4 www.abacusauctions.com.au Nov 25, 2018

OLYMPIC GAMES (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A

Lot 2376 2376 1932 LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS: Team photograph, 'The Australian Olympic Team, Los Angeles, 1932/Wearing "Challenge" Club Blazers', and with names of team members including Andrew 'Boy' Charlton, Dunc Gray, Bobby Pearce & Clare Dennis, size 32x37cm. [Because of the Great Depression, Australia could afford to send only 13 athletes to the Games] 200 Page:5 Nov 25, 2018

OLYMPIC GAMES (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A

Ex Lot 2396 2396 1956 SWIMMING LIBRARY, ex Harry Gallagher collection, noted 'Traite de la Natation' by Karr [Bruxelles, 1844]; 'Captain Webb's Swimming Instructor' [New York, 1891]; 'Petit Cours de Natation' by Cooreman [Bruxelles, 1891]; 'Swimmers and Swimming' by Newman [London, 1899]; 'The Outline of Swimming' by Bachrach [Chicago, 1924]; also four titles by Harry Gallagher - these all signed. (13 items) 300 SURFING

Lot 2412 2412 'Rip Curl' shorty wetsuit signed by Kelly Slater, eleven-times Surfing World Champion. 150 Page:6 www.abacusauctions.com.au Nov 25, 2018

Lot Type Grading Description Est $A TENNIS

Ex Lot 2415 2415 PROGRAMMES (12), noted Davis Cup 1946 & 1956; 1948 World's Professional Tennis Tour signed Jack Kramer, Bobby Riggs, Pancho Segura & Dinny Pails; Wimbledon 1965 & 1972; Australian Championships at Kooyong 1948 (2) & 1972; other tennis ephemera (5); 1966 Davis Cup tickets (3). Mainly Fine/Very Fine. (20) 400 EXHIBITIONS & EXPOSITIONS 2444 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition trade card advertising Royal Worcester porcelain plus 1897 Bruxelles Exposition, set of 12 coloured pictures published by Amidon Remy. Fine/Very fine condition. 100 2445 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition 'Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893' by Maud Howe Elliott [Chicago, 1894]. Very Fine condition. 150 2448 1904 St Louis Exposition view book; 1913 Gand Exposition view book; 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco view book & colour prints (9); 1931 Colonial Exposition in Paris map & mini-guide; 1935 Bruxelles official guide; 1937 Paris view book, fold-out map & brochures (2). Mainly Fine/Very Fine. (19 items) 150 PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOGRAPHY

Ex Lot 2449 2449 Collection including c.1880 'Government House, Farm Cove, '; c.1897 troops in India (12); 1930s 6-part panoramic photo of Bulolo (New Guinea); polar explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins; 1935 cruise Sydney-Fiji (59); 1939 San Francisco World's Fair (4); photo album of a globe-trotting boy 1919-28 (113). Fair/Very Fine. (220+) 200 Page:7 Nov 25, 2018

Lot Type Grading Description Est $A AUTOGRAPHS 2457 Signed books comprising Peter Finch inside 'Robbery Under Arms'; Thomas Keneally in leather-bound first edition of 'American Scoundrel'; John Woo in 'Windtalkers'; Jack Nicklaus in 'My Golden Lessons' & Rockwell Kent in 'Salamina'. (5 books) 150 2458 Signed photographs of Robert Duvall, Bo Derek, Chuck Norris, Robert Powell, Sigrid Thornton & Bryan Brown. (6) 120 2461 IRVING BERLIN: signature inside his biography 'Irving Berlin' by Michael Freedland [New York, 1974]. Considered by many to be the greatest songwriter in American history. 150 Page:8 www.abacusauctions.com.au Nov 25, 2018

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Lot 2462 2462 AMELIA EARHART: display comprising signature on piece, window mounted with photograph, framed & glazed, overall 35x40cm. American pioneer aviator; the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic; disappeared the Pacific Ocean in July 1937 during an attempt to fly around the world. 400 2463 JAMES GANDOLFINI: book 'The Sopranos' by Allen Rucker [New York, 2000] signed on title page by James Gandolfini plus cast members Michael Imperioli, Tony Sirico & Steven Van Zandt. Very Fine condition. 100 Page:9 Nov 25, 2018

AUTOGRAPHS (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A

Lot 2466 2466 CARY GRANT: signature in 'Cary Grant - The Light Touch' biography by Lionel Godfrey [New York, 1981]. With AACS Authentication. 150 2467 J.EDGAR HOOVER: signature inside his book 'Masters of Deceit' [New York, 1958]. Hoover was the first director of the FBI. 100

Lot 2468 2468 LAUREL & HARDY: lovely photograph of the pair signed by Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, size 24x30cm. 400 2469 NICK McDONALD: signed photograph in his police uniform, holding Oswald's .38 pistol. The police officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald after the shooting of John F Kennedy in Dallas,TX in 1963. 50 Page:10 www.abacusauctions.com.au Nov 25, 2018

Lot Type Grading Description Est $A CIGARETTE AND TRADE CARDS See also Lots 2164-2194 under 'Cricket'; Lots 2245-2299 under 'Football' and Lots 2345-2354 under 'Horse Racing' above. 2475 1889 Duke Sons & Co 'Heroes of the Civil War' scarce album (with covers replaced by boards) containing almost full set of N78 'Histories of Generals' {46/50}. Fine Condition except for covers. 100 MOVIE MEMORABILIA

Lot 2481 2481 1971 'Charlie Chaplin' movie poster depicting Chaplin's most famous persona, the Little Tramp, published by Personality Posters Mfg Co, New York, linen-backed, size 68x100cm. 150 Page:11 Nov 25, 2018

Lot Type Grading Description Est $A UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BANKNOTES

Ex Lot 2565 2565 1777 Feb 26 $4 (Spanish Dollars) 7th Issue black on thick stock (94mm x 73mm), emblem showing wild boar charging into spear P #S134; Confederate States $1 1862 March 24th 'The Police Parish Of Point Coupee', serial '#3714', uniface with plough in field within oval; plus Fractional Currency 1863 5c & 1874 10c 'William Meredith' at left; all aFine. (4) 150