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 Contact: Tom Thompson on 0422 967 432 [email protected] “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 Cricket 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 Victor Trumper to change to League. Many Internationals (of both codes) are featured here, including Judd and 2 Carroll for St. George, who went 5 Don Bradman, 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; not out, 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 batting 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 Captain and taking four of Fender to help 15.11.1889', wide gadrooned Vice-Captain, but signed in Australia beat Surrey at the Oval. 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 Monty Noble. Trumper rare Sid Barnes. 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, Hugh Trumble and Clem Hill, 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 Adelaide, 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 South Australia. 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 Melbourne 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.