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Decorative Pictures & Collectables — Davidson Auctions

Auction House:Davidson AuctionsNumber of lots recorded:392
Sale Title:Decorative Pictures & CollectablesLots with images:382
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:300
Date:17-May-2008
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NSW Rugby League Balmain Tigers Nodder Doll. 1960's issue with magnetic base
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NSW Rugby League 'Wooden Spooners' Award Shield. Engraved for competitions 1947 (Parramatta) to 1955 (Western Suburbs)
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Rugby League Team Transfers c.1965 plus photo of Touring Team 52/53 and 195657
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4 Australian Cricket Books. 'Brown & Co. Fingleton,' 1951. 'From the Boundary,' Robinson, 1950. 'Cricket from the Grandstand,' Miller, 1959. 'History of the Tests,' Smith, 1946. First Edt
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Townsville Jockey Club - horse sash. 'T.J.C. North Queensland Derby, 1920.'. 240 x 15 cm
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1918 Williamstown Pigeon Club Season Results and Award Certificate. Some water staining to margin and bent corner
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Edward R. G. R. Evans, British Antarctic Pioneer, fine pencil sketch on pink album page 13 cm x 13 cm by Aberdeen artist Harry Henderson (unsigned by artist), autographed in dark blue ink, 'E. R. G. R. Evans 1937.'
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1928 Toti Dal Monte and Enzo Lomanto Wedding Breakfast Menu. Printed signature, cover heavily foxed. 20.5 x 12.5 cm
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(Cecil Beaton) Sir Winston S. Churchill, matt finish black and white photograph of the great statesman looking bullishly direct at the camera from behind his desk crowded with papers, correspondence and telephones
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Sir Robert Falcon Scott, Antarctic pioneer, signature cut from a letter, in black ink, 'Yours Ever, R Scott'
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Sir Clements Markham. Britain's Great Force in Polar Exploration. Signed slip 7 cm x 2 cm in dark ink: 'Yours affectionately Clements R. Markham.'
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H.A. Litchfield autograph, navigator to Kingsford Smith, a plain signature to Hamilton Hotel notepaper
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Edward R. G. R. Evans. Evans of the Broke, Antarctic pioneer, exceptional autograph example to rear of Robert Scott letter. Evans pens in black ink: 'Edward R. G. R. Evans 'Terra Nova' British Antarctic Expedition 1910.' to verso, beginning of five part l
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Sir Henry Parkes. The Father of Federation. Summons document served against Sir Henry Parkes. 1p folio on blue watermarked paper. 25 September 1886. from The Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited concerning a dishonoured cheque for 112 pounds ten shillings
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Sir William Edward Parry. British Arctic Explorer, Commissioner for the Australian Agricultural Company in NSW. Autograph Letter Signed 1.5pp quarto. Some minor spots to verso not effecting text. London, 14 December 1818 to an unknown correspondent profus
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John Ruskin. British author and artist who discovered J. M. W. Turner. Autograph letter signed to: 'My Dear Arthur' (the painter Arthur Severn), dated: Easter eve, extending an invitation to see his garden, on embossed letterhead 1p 8vo with blank integr
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Arthur Loesser, 1920 Australian Photo by May Moore. Heavy crease. Also signed photo of Elenor de Cisneros. Cisneros 19 x 13.5 cm
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Sir Vivian Fuchs. British Antarctic Pioneer. Black ink signature:' V. E. Fuchs' on original embossed letterhead of: The Trans - Antarctic Expedition (1957-58) 16 cm x 9 cm. Rare in this form
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Sir Henry Parkes. Father of Federation. Speeches on Various Occasions Connected with the Public Affairs of New South Wales 1848-1874 by Henry Parkes. George Robertson, Melbourne 1876. Fine dark ink inscription facing Prefatory Note page: 'William Harbottl
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Douglas Mawson Autographs. Antarctic explorer. Plain signature to back Hamilton Hotel notepaper
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Opera Singer Geraldine Farrar. 1952 letter relating her early days, plus a signed photo. '..three voices which came thro in absolute ease and perfection, Caruso, John McCormack and Lama Gluck..'
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Richard W. Richards G.C. Antarctic Explorer, holder of George Cross for Antarctic heroism. The Ross Sea Shore Party 1914-17, Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute, 1962. Special Publication Number 2. Soft covers, fragile. Some archival tape repairs
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Attested Copy to land where white settlement first began in Australia - Area of the Tank Stream, landing place of the First Fleet in 1788. 6pp Large Legal Folio with an integral blank leaf, 34 cm x 42 cm approx. Of Town Grant to Sarah Wentworth and Henriet
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Three Land Grants: large oblong folio on vellum, dated 1 June 1854, signed by Governor Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, witnessed by Riddell, Colonial Secretary. Good attached paper seal of the Colony, dated 4 November 1857, signed by Governor
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Sir Joseph Banks (the father of Australia) autograph soho square letter dated 5 August 1817, addressed to customs, alerting them of special experimental packages from France, signed 'I Am Sir Your Most Humble Servant Jos. Banks'
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Sir Robert Menzies, 16th Prime Minister of Australia, black and white photograph, stamped verso 'Associated Newspapers Ltd 'Sun' Feature Bureau, Sydney. The Prime Minister and his wife (Dame) Pattie Menzies are seen escorting Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II'
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Sir John Robertson. Five times Premier of New South Wales. Major Colonial figure in land reform. Autograph Letter Signed 1p 8vo dated 4 February 1865, to (Marshall) Burdekin. A hurried note: 'We are to be sworn in at Govt House at 12 oclock this day. You
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Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia. fine signature on coloured album page 15 cm x 9 cm, in dark blue ink, adding his then Ministries of Immigration and Labour, dated 1950
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John Tebbutt. Australian Astronomer whose portrait appears on the first issue $100 notes. Note signed 15 cm x 8 cm. An acknowledgment of receipt of legal documents. Removed from solicitor's receipt book, 9 August 1880
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Sir Winston S. Churchill. Typed letter Signed to NSW M.L.C. The Hon. A. A. Alam, thanking him for his kind message. 1p 8vo Chartwell letterhead, dated December 1948. Signed in blue biro with full signature: 'Yours sincerely Winston S. Churchill.'
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Sir Henry Parkes, the father of Federation, autographed letter to the Empire office, 6 August 1852, regarding extension to his lease for the office occupied by his newspaper 'The Empire', at a rental of 60 pounds per annum
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Lord (Sir John) Forrest, First Australian Peer. Explorer who in 1868 commanded an expedition to search for Leichhardt. Typed Letter Signed. Dated 26 November 1903 to Richard A Crouch (1868-1949), politician and soldier. Forrest wishes Crouch every succes
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Sir F. Leopold McClintock. British Arctic Navigator who commanded the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. Note signed. 1p 8vo on crested letterhead: to Norman MacMunn Esq: '14 April (18)92 Dear Sir, I have much pleasure in complying with your reque
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Norman Lindsay. Australian Artist, Etcher, Painter and Author of The Magic Pudding. Typed Letter signed (dated 1931 by recipient). fine dark ink signature.
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John Piper. The Prince of Australia - because of his lavish Colonial lifestyle. Autograph Letter Signed 1 p 8vo with blank integral leaf. A fair copy written out by Piper of a letter addressed to His Excellency the Governor Richard Bourke: 'I cannot suffe
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Stanley M. Bruce. (Viscount Bruce of Melbourne) 8th Prime Minister of Australia. Lower quarter of TLS 20 cm x 6 cm as Prime Minister: 'On Behalf of the Government of Australia, I Desire to Extend to General the Earl of Cavan a Cordial Invitation to Includeà
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Joseph Aloysius Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia,signed letter on an embossed Prime Ministerial letterhead, Canberra 17 August 1932 with important contents regarding Arthur Phillip and addressed to 'Dear Lord Wakefield'
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Lord (Sir John) Forrest, First Australian Peer. Explorer who in 1868 commanded an expedition to search for Leichhardt. Typed Letter Signed to R. A. Crouch. Dated 25 October 1909, as Treasurer of Australia, referring to the granting of a pension to a Mrs M
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William Morris 'Billy' Hughes. Australia's World War I Prime Minister, nicknamed the 'Little Digger.' fine blue ink signatures on coloured album page 15 cm x 9 cm of both 'W. M. Hughes' and his wife 'Mary Hughes' who has dated the page: 'Canberra 7 / 6 /
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Charles Cowper. second Premier of New South Wales since Responsible Government. Autograph Letter Signed 1p 8vo to (Marshall) Burdekin, a follower of Copwer in the Legislative Assembly. A hurried note stating: 'You should not be away. The other Benches ar
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Typed and signed letter from Walter Lindrum, billiards world champion, on his personal letterhead, thanking (the Reverend Sir Irving) Benson for a humorous article, with a fine blue ink signature and dated 24 February 1952
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Henry Lawson, legendary 'People's Poet' and pioneer of Australianism in literature, two unsigned notes in pencil, envelope 9 from The 'Murrumbidgee Irrigator' Every Friday at Leeton
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John King Davis. British Antarctic Pioneer. Fine autograph example on slip of paper 13 cm x 5 cm: 'With every good wish John K. Davis, Melbourne Feb. 21st 1920.'
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Emmerich Kalman. Hungarian Operetta Composer. Original score for operetta Grafin Mariza, first performed in Vienna 28 February 1924. Autographed by Kalman on front cover with a musical quotation, dated Wien 2 February 1924. On title page also autographed
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Franz Lehar. Hungarian Operetta Composer. Original musical score for operetta Frasquita, first performed in Vienna 12 May 1922. autographed by Lehar on front cover with a one line salutation in German, dated Wien 9 March 1923. Some minor archival restorat
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1926 Nellie Stewart Program 'Sweet Nell of Old Drury'. Charity Program for The Purchase of Radium Needles for Sydney Hospital, poor condition
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Jasch Heifetz (violinist) and Walter Lindrum (billiards player), double sided, cut album page, signed 'With Best Wishes Jascha Heifetz, June 1, 21 Melbourne, and Walter Lindrum' in black ink with a headline newspaper clipping on the reverse
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1911 May Moore portrait photo of Alberto Quisnel. Ink inscription, 'To Monsieur Ladislav De Noskowski En Souvenir De Notre Visite Australiene. Alberto Quisnel Sydney 1911.' Quisnel sang with Melba's Grand opera Company. 19.5 x 14 cm
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Noel Coward, British playwright and author. second Play Parade, William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1939. Signed on the title page:' Noel Coward.'
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Stephen Spender. British Poet. Selected Poems by Stephen Spender, Faber and Faber, London, Fifth impression December 1945. In chipped dust jacket. Autographed in red biro pen on title page: 'Stephen Spender.'
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Candid Nellie Melba photo posed with Camel and photo of Madames Wayda and de Ciseros, Marseille 1911. Also photo of the Melba Grand opera Co. Departing Melbourne on board the 'Mahra,' Dec. 1911; and unpublished article on Melba opera Co. Provenance: deNoskow
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Dorothea Mackellar. Australian Poet. Crystal inkwell from her estate together with the book a Peck O'Maut, by Patrick R. Chalmers, Methuen, London, 1925, from her library with her ink signature: 'Dorothea Mackellar' to front end paper. Purchased at Estat
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Conservation framed and glazed Dame Nellie Melba sepia photograph by May Moore, signed 'Nellie Melba 1927' and 'May Moore Sydney'
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Canadian Opera Singer Dame Madame Albani. Signed hand written note 'There's no place like home,' dated 1922. Also signed notepaper and personal note in French with accompanying translation - 'A good year, good health, a thousand thanks and a very sincere hand
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Helen Keller, Blind US Author, Midstream: My Later Life, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London, 1929. Signed: 'Helen Keller' in pencil on front end paper. Also signed by previous owner Sir Irving Benson
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Zane Grey, US author of Westerns, Desert Gold - A Romance of the Border, Thomas Nelson, London, c.1936. Inscribed on the title page: 'Beatrice Wagner - Zane Grey.'
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Enrico Caruso - Opera Singer. Real photo postcard hand inscribed in black ink Enrico Caruso N.Y. 1918; and autograph in black ink 'With All Good Wishes, Sincerely Yours, E Caruso.'. photo 14 x 9 cm, Sheet 24 x 20.5 cm
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Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera Singer. Black ink signature dated 1911 on photogravure portrait; plus blue ink signature, 'Yours Truly Nellie Melba' on cut blue piece of page. 34 x 17 cm
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Luciano Pavarotti. Italian Opera Star. Large programmme, 35 cm x 50 cm fully opened, Royal Opera House Covent Garden. A Gala Performance of Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball by Verdi) in honour of the President of the French Republic and Madame Valery Gi
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Anna Pavlova. Russian Prima Ballerina. Photograph 18 cm x 23 cm signed: Anna Pavlova. 'Attractive in that the flying loop of the 'P' delicately supports Pavlova's raised right foot in this famous 1914 pose of The Dragonfly, Pavlova's finest allegro moveme
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Franz Lehar. Hungarian operetta composer. Original musical score for operetta Die Gelbe Jacke, first performed in Vienna 9 February 1923. autographed by Lehar on front cover with a two line salutation in German, dated Wien 9 March 1923. Some archival rest
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Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata. James Bond Character Actor. Large autograph example on board 29 cm sq. Autograph dedication: 'My Aloha Harold 'odd Job' Sakatata, Honolulu, Hawaii Dec. 25, 1974' adding sketch of his flying hat. Sakata was best known for his role
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Gilbert Frankau, British Novelist and Poet. The Poetical Works of Gilbert Frankau. Two volumes, Chatto and Windus, 1923. Volume one, signed and numbered: '305 Gilbert Frankau,' of this Edition de Luxe 310 numbered sets (of which the first 300 are for sale)
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W. B. Yeats. Nobel Prize for Literature 1923. Three Things, No 18 of The Ariel Poems, Faber and Faber, London, 1929. Drawings by Gilbert Spencer. Printed in England at the Curwen Press. Number 472 of 500 copies signed: 'W. B. Yeats.' The large-paper editi
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Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister. An Interpreter of England, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1939. Inscribed on title page after his elevation to the peerage: 'Baldwin of Bewdley 5th July 1939'
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Margaret Kennedy. British Author. Dewdrops, William Heinemann Ltd, 1928. Limited edition 525 copies. Signed: '271 Margaret Kennedy.' The Game and the Candle, William Heinemann Ltd, 1928. Limited edition 525 copies. Signed: 231 'Margaret Kennedy.' Both in or
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Aldous Huxley. British Author. Essays New and Old, At the Florence Press, Chatto and Windus, London, 1926. Limited edition of 650 copies. Signed: '632 Aldous Huxley.'
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Nellie Stewart. 'Our Sweet Nell' Hugely popular Australian actress. My Life's Story, John Sands Ltd, Sydney, 1923. No 286 of the limited edition, autographed: Faithfully Nellie Stewart, July 29th 1924.' 'Lengthy autograph dedication to front free end pape
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Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States. An Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, Cosmopolitan book Corporation, New York, 1929, signed 'Calvin Coolidge,' limited edition No. 712 of 1000. in slip case
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T. S. Eliot. Nobel Prize for Literature 1948. T. S. Eliot / Dikter, Albert Bonniers Forlag, Stockholm 1942. Soft covers. Autographed to half title page: 'Inscribed for Mrs Barbro Appelquist by T. S. Eliot Stockholm 12 V 1942.' Scarce Swedish translation o
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Lores Bonney. Pioneer Australian Aviatrix. Pioneer Airwoman, The Story of Mrs Bonney by Terry Gwynn-Jones, Rigby, Adelaide, 1979. In dust jacket. Autographed on half-title page: 'Lores Bonney' '(signature affixed) and fellow aviatrix:' Nancy Bird 1983.' T
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Sir Paul Hasluck. 17th Governor General of Australia (1969-74), former Minister in Federal Parliament, author and poet. Workshop of Security by Paul Hasluck Formerly Counsellor-in-charge of the Australian Mission to the United Nations and Acting Represen
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(John Pascoe Fawkner. One of the two Founders of Melbourne). Lays of Ancient Rome: with Ivry, and the Armada by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, London 1851. Book from the library of John Pascoe Fawkner. Aut
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Emmerich Kalman. Hungarian Operetta Composer. Original score for operetta Die Zirkus Prinzessin, first performed in Vienna 26 March 1926. autographed by Kalman at top of title page with three line salutation in German, dated Wien 26 January 1927
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Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States. The Challenge to Liberty, Charles Scribner's, New York, 1934. Inscribed on front end paper: 'The compliments of Herbert Hoover
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Archibald MacLeish, US poet, Songs for Eve, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston/The Riverside press, Cambridge, 1954. Signed on the half title page: 'Archibald MacLeish.' In slip-case
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(Sir John Monash). W. Shaw Sparrow, The Fifth Army in March 1918. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1921. From the library of one of the most outstanding Generals of World War I, General Sir John Monash, bearing his name plate and signed in pencil : '
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Book: 'The Story of the Royal Hotel and Theatre Royal, Sydney,'. by Charles Height Bertie, published by Simmons Ltd, Sydney, 1927
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Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister. On England and Other Addresses, Allan & Co. Ltd, Quality Court, April, 1947. Inscribed on title page: 'Signed for Irving Benson, Stanley Baldwin'
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Sir Francis Chichester. British Pioneer Air Navigator, Adventurer and round-the-World Yachtsman. Ride on the Wind, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1936, in bumped original dust jacket. autographed on title page in dark ink: 'Best Wishes From Francis Chichester T
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. British Writer, creator of detective Sherlock Holmes. The White Company, Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1903. Re-bound in original boards. Author's Edition. No 178 of 1000. In dark ink fully signed: 'Arthur Conan Doyle.'
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(Zane GREY) Sara Teasdale, US poet, Rivers to the Sea, Macmillan London 1931. Inscribed on front title page: 'To Lola Gorvall from yr friend Zane Grey
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Icelandic / Canadian Arctic Explorer. My life with, the Eskimos, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1924. Two effusive autograph dedications in black ink on free end paper: 'To All the Heysens From Their Friend Vilhjalmur Stefansso
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Mary Durack. Australian Author. second printing of her most famous book Kings in Grass Castles, Constable, London, 1960. Significant autograph dedication on title page: 'To a great Australian and his wonderful lady - Sir Hudson and Lady Fysh. With warmest Tha
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Richard E. Byrd. US Arctic and Antarctic Explorer. Discovery, The Story of the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1935. In original dust jacket. On free end paper signed below ownership bookplate: 'R. E. Byrd.'
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Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States. Mr Citizen, Bernard Geis Associates, New York, 1960. With dustwrapper. Inscribed on half title page: 'from Harry S Truman, best wishes to Edina J. Andrews 11-28-63.'
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John Galsworthy, British Novelist. 1932 Nobel Prize for Literature. Flowering Wilderness, William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1932. Signed and numbered: 203 'John Galsworthy,' of this edition limited to 400 copies
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John Pascoe Fawkner. John Pascoe Fawkner's Library. Facsimile of the sale catalogue of 1868. With an introductory essay by Wallace Kirsop. Book Collectors Society of Australia, Melbourne, 1985. Limited Edition of 500 copies
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Tenzing Norgay. Known as Sherpa Tenzing. Nepalese Mountaineer. With Sir Edmund Hillary, first to reach summit of Mt. Everest in 1953. After Everest, An Autobiography by Tenzing Norgay Sherpa as told to Malcolm Barnes. George Allen and Unwin Ltd, London, 197
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John Galsworthy, British Novelist. 1932 Nobel Prize for Literature. Maid in Waiting, William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1931. Signed and numbered: '18 John Galsworthy,' of this edition limited to 525 copies
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Stephen Spender. British Poet. Collected Poems by Stephen Spender, Faber and Faber, London, Third impression 1969. In dust jacket. Autographed in red biro pen to title page: 'For Sydney from Stephen Spender.'
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Ernest Howard Culbertson, US Author, Goat Alley - A Tragedy of Negro Life, Stewart Kidd Company, Cincinnati, 1922. Inscribed on front end paper: 'To Mr. S Goodman in grateful appreciation of all he did to help me 'put over' Goat Alley. Ernest Howard Culbe
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