Online Auction 3 Page:1 Lot Type Grading Description Est $A AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria See also '1901 Federation' Lot 169 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 169 BOTTLES: Vintage soda syphon bottles, one with 'Rogers Bros, 19 Malmsbury St, Estimate A$70 Hawthorn, Melbourne' on glass bottle and 'Rogers Bros' on metal trigger pull; other with 'G.H.Billson & Co., Brighton Rd St Kilda 1915, Melbourne' on bottle, and 'Wangaratta Reserve A$55 Brewery, Wangaratta' on metal trigger pull. Both need a clean, but would look great with some tender loving care. (2) Lot 170 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 170 DOCUMENTS: Group including 1859 indenture re sale of land at Campbells Creek Estimate A$100 (Victoria); 1862 document re land at Kyneton; 1889 Transfer of Land to ratepayers of Caulfield for footpath along railway; 1897 Will of Major Charles Parish of Royal Marine Reserve A$75 Light Infantry; attractive 1919 City of Malvern £100 Debenture. (5 items) Lot 171 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 171 LEGAL SYSTEM: 18cm tall totempole candle in the form of Henry Bolte as all three of the Estimate A$150 Wise Monkeys (Hear No Evil/See No Evil/Speak No Evil) produced to protest the hanging of Ronald Ryan in 1967. Fascinating item of Victorian history & surely a rare survivir: if you Reserve A$115 weren't a fan, surely you would have lit it! [Ronald Joseph Ryan was convicted of murder of a prison warder and sentenced to death by hanging. His execution was the last legal hanging in Australia and was carried out inside the walls of Melbourne's Pentridge Prison, while a mass protest & vigil was taking place outside. Henry Bolte was the take-no-nonsense Premier of Victoria who refused to commute Ryan's sentence] Lot 172 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 172 MINER'S RIGHT: 1902 Victoria 2/6d Miner's Right issued to Alfred Rayner of Ballarat for Estimate A$50 an area of 209x208 feet at "Sawpit Gully, Little Bendigo". [Little Bendigo was 4km NE of Ballarat. In 1881, the name was officially changed to Nerrina. However, the primary school Reserve A$38 retains the original name. No confusion here: Bendigo is only 115km to the north! It's a bit like Croxton which is a suburb of Melbourne, and Croxton East, which is in the Western District, just east of Hamilton. What's in a name!?] Page:2 www.abacusauctions.com.au 20 - 23 November 2020 Lot 173 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 173 PERIODICALS: University High School 'The Record' bi-annual magazines from June Estimate A$60 1934 to Xmas 1938. Fair/Good condition. (11 items) Reserve A$46 Lot 174 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 174 PHOTOGRAPHS: 1880 'Melbourne International Exhibition' photograph by Charles Estimate A$50 Nettleton showing the Bright Brothers & Co. exhibit of Antimony in the Mines & Minerals section, overall 46x37cm. Reserve A$38 Lot 175 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 175 PHOTOGRAPHS: c.1890 album with 62 photographs of Victorian buildings and scenery Estimate A$1,800 by Thomas Foster Chuck, noted Melbourne, Ballarat, Sandhurst, Maryborough, Queenscliff, Lorne, Warrnambool, Echuca, Ballarat & district, Gippsland, annotated in Reserve A$1,350 pencil beneath each image, some foxing on the pages but the photographs generally fine to very fine. [Thomas Foster Chuck (1826-1898), photographer and entrepreneur, was born in London and arrived in Victoria in 1861. The following year he produced and toured a 'Grand Moving Diorama' of dramatic painted scenes based on the Burke and Wills Expedition] Lot 176 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 176 PHOTOGRAPHS: 1930s photographs (42) & postcards (2) by Francis Cole Hitchins Estimate A$100 (1897-1971) including a range of aerial views of Melbourne, Bendigo & Mt Macedon, steam engine, locomotive, Henry Berry & Co delivery vans, Metcalfe bridge, various sizes. Reserve A$75 (44 items) Lot 177 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 177 PHOTOGRAPHS: Camberwell Grammar School 1915-1919 (circa) team photographs Estimate A$100 including cricket (2), football, tennis (2) & drama; plus group of maternity doctors, nurse & Reserve A$75 students with 12 signatures on mount. (7 items) Lot 178 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 178 PHOTOGRAPHS: Coburg 1937 Spicers & Detmold staff photograph posing in front of Estimate A$50 their Coburg factory, with 14 signatures and date 'Taken 16-7-37' on reverse, some staining on mount, overall 56x18cm. Reserve A$38 Online Auction 3 Page:3 Lot 179 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 179 POSTCARDS: 1904 'RMS Australia on the Corsair Reef Pt Nepean June 20th 1904' Estimate A$50 bumped corners otherwise fine unused; and 'MAIN DECK RMS AUSTRALIA AFTER THE Reserve A$38 FIRE', fine unused. (2) Type: C Quality: A-/A Lot 180 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 180 POSTCARDS: 1905 Wreck of the 'La Bella' colotype postcard of 'William Ferrier the brave Estimate A$50 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 Reserve A$38 La Bella Reef. William Ferrier rescued five crew members & became a national hero] Type: C Quality: A- Lot 181 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 181 POSTCARDS: 1910 Royal Agricultural Show, Melbourne 'General View' postcard (AG Estimate A$50 Jones; Sears Photo) 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 Reserve A$38 to cancer!), used under cover. [The Showgrounds were established at Ascot Vale in 1882] Type: C Quality: A Lot 182 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 182 POSTCARDS: Brighton 1920 (circa) 'BAY STREET LOOKING EAST MIDDLE Estimate A$60 BRIGHTON' [with 'MIDDLE' erased] real photograph postcard published by JC Simmons Newsagent (North Brighton) showing shopfronts including 'IRONMONGER', two vintage Reserve A$46 automobiles, horse-drawn carts & a bicycle, unused. Type: C Quality: A Lot 183 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 183 POSTCARDS: Elwood 1916 real photograph postcard showing of two men in suits with a Estimate A$50 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 Reserve A$38 "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] Type: C Quality: B Lot 184 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 184 POSTCARDS: Foster (Gippsland) '1906 Fire in Foster/Shall we be homeless to-night' Estimate A$50 Foster Echo Series postcard showing main street with onlookers watching bushfire, very fine used under cover, message states "This Photo was taken the time of the big bush Reserve A$38 fire". [The fire swept from Hoddle Range to the west of Foster, south to Welshpool] Type: C Quality: A Page:4 www.abacusauctions.com.au 20 - 23 November 2020 Lot 185 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 185 POSTCARDS: Mansfield 1915 (circa) Vallan Studio (Mansfield Vic) real photograph Estimate A$75 postcard 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) Reserve A$55 at left, unused. Type: C Quality: A Lot 186 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 186 POSTCARDS: St Kilda 1910 (circa) real photograph postcard showing 25 runners & Estimate A$75 officials of the St Kilda Harriers & Athletics Club, unused. Superb! Reserve A$55 Type: C Quality: A+ Lot 187 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY - Victoria Lot 187 POSTCARDS: Wandong AZ Clark '16Ftx7Ft Vat Being Consigned By Road to the Estimate A$50 Wandong Cyanide Works' real photograph postcard showing the vat loaded onto a horse-drawn 'wagon', postally used 1906 to Great Britain. Reserve A$38 Type: C Quality: A.