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The Berry Collection Part 1, Day 2 — Young's Auctions (No longer trading)

Auction House:Young's Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:309
Sale Title:The Berry Collection Part 1, Day 2Lots with images:179
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:269
Date:25-Aug-2008
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Two part sets of military theme postcards 'Love & War' colour series, 5 of 6 cards plus a duplicate. Plus Sam Wells comic cards, 4 cards from the set.
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American Fleet postcards Group of 7 postcards, with reference to the American Fleet visit to Australia in 1908.
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English battle scene postcards Set of 6 postcards, issued by Price's Patent Candle Company. Depicting famous English battle scenes, the reverse with corresponding history & advertising.
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Set of 6 military postcards 'War Series-Six Scenes From The Kaiser's Life' Published & illustrated by L. L Quarrill, the reverse with a dead Imperial Eagle.
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Australiana postcards Group of 9 Maisie Carte Australiana novelty postcards. 'Wattle Series' & 'Native Bear & Flannel Series'. Dated 1915.
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A collection of 22 novelty war theme postcards Including part series by Fred Spurgin,. A A Nash, Donald Mcgill, D. Tempest, Zoe Rothwell & Arthur Butcher. World War I. vintage.
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S. T. Gill postcards 'Melbourne In The Fifties' series, 15 cards plus 5 duplicates.
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Group of 20 Australian advertising postcards Showing hotels in Sydney, Nowra, Melbourne, & Tasmania. Four cards by F. W. Niven & Co.
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Collection of 14 Australiana postcards Including a set of 4 Floral Beauties & others by Norman Lindsay, Leslie Board, Taylor etc.
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Collection of 34 postcards. A good variety of cards with scenes of disasters, floods, mining strike, fire brigades, industry, Melbourne & Sydney.
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Collection of 24 postcards Rare views of swaggies, bushmen, hermit camp, (by Niven), wowsers, suffragettes & How To Vote cards.
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Collection of 35 postcards Views of Melbourne suburbs. Including St Kilda (Dreamland, Princes Court, views of donkeys, horses & carts on the beach), Templestowe, Williamstown, Canterbury, Richmond park & Mercer Rd., Malvern. A fascinating look back into Melbourne about 100 years ago, with views that are hard to comprehend today.
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Collection of 72 Edwardian postcards Series of Rutherglen views (single family addressee), Melbourne views, Portsea & Sorrento (1 by Caire), Gippsland, Narbethong & the Dandenongs.
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Collection of 27 European postcards From the late 19th & early 20th centuries, a selection of beautiful printed, embossed, gilt & cloth decorated cards, mostly printed in Germany. Scenes include Royalty, actresses, children & greetings.
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Post & letter cards Collection of approx. 35 Australian & international post cards & letter cards with interesting designs, stamps or postmarks. Late 19th & early 20th century.
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Two albums of postcards Predominantly English town, country & coastal scenes.
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Album of postcards. A large collection of cards featuring English churches and cathedrals, towns and villages.
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Two albums of postcards English and continental scenes including France, Germany, Belgium etc.
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Two albums of postcards Predominantly English and French
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Stereoscope and collection of 47 Stereoscopic cards Featuring scenes from North America, New Zealand (Rotorua), England and Europe. Including photographers such as B.W. Kilburn, Bierstadt, A.S. Jarvis and others.
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Aboriginal photographs Stereoscope card of a group of Aboriginal men, Captioned 'Son's of Australia's aboriginal huntsmen and warriors, with their boomerangs.' By Underwood and Underwood. Circa 1908. Plus an Edwardian photograph of 3 Anglo children with aboriginal weapons.
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Two optical viewers. A hand held viewer with parabolic mirror & a Victorian mahogany (part) photo viewer.
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Antique cheque franking machine Cast iron & brass, painted black with gilt decoration.
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Historical 19th century photographic record of Walhalla and surrounds with one hundred and twenty glass slides providing a fascinating view of the famous Victorian mining town in its heyday. Many photographs show fine detail of the town's buildings, including the State Bank, the Police station, shops, a visit by the Wall Bros. of St Kilda etc. Many photos include the local inhabitants. All housed in a pine box
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Two daguerreotypes, in folding leather cases, both handcoloured portraits including one rare studio panel size
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Daguerreotypes Four daguerreotypes in folding leather cases, of varying sizes.
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Daguerreotypes Five daguerreotypes in very presentable folding embossed leather cases, including one family portrait.
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Daguerreotypes Four Victorian daguerreotypes, all in decorative folding presentation cases.
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Daguerreotypes Five Victorian daguerreotypes, four leather folding cases, one moulded case, 4 of which are hand-coloured.
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Daguerreotype Early Victorian daguerreotype portrait of a Gentleman, in an ebonised frame with decorative ribbon mount.
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Daguerreotypes Four daguerreotypes including a pair of portraits of women, a scholar & a colonial gent.
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Daguerreotypes Four Victorian daguerreotypes, all in decorative embossed leather folding cases.
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Daguerreotypes Four Victorian daguerreotypes, all in folding leather cases, one with the photo studio name of 'W. H. Kent, 147 Oxford St.'
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Four antique photographs of Geelong shop-fronts Including a 2-part photo of 'G. Chaster Boot & Shoe Maker' & 'Geelong Co-operative Store'. A single photo of 'Bray & Joyce' a local tailor, draper & milliner mounted on advertising card. This lot also includes a duplicate of a Chaster photo.
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Group of 8 antique Australian photographs showing shop fronts and store owners. Includes Treasury Building (by Roach & Co.), Melbourne Tailoring Co., Cattran's & Eastern Station Hotel.
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Group of 8 antique architectural photographs & facsimile sketches of Melbourne churches, houses, school & store fronts. Includes Hardwick store, inscribed on the back, 'The birthplace of master W. H. Hardwick, South Yarra, August 14, 1869.'
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Group of 11 Victorian photographs Includes country homes & shops, Carisbrook bridge etc.
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Collection of 19 carte-de-visiteportrait photographs, all taken by Kyneton & Beechworth photographers, plus 4 tombstone photographs.
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Castlemaine characters Set of 4 rare antique photographed drawings of. Scenes of Castlemaine police court & 'Castlemaine Lions'. The reverse printed 'F. H. Coldrey, Photographic Studio, Baker Street, Castlemaine, Established 1855'.
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Nicholas J. Caire Group of 8 photographs by Nicholas J. Caire. One cabinet portrait & 7 carte-de-visite portraits.
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Collection of 12 antique photographs of European royalty, military & political figures. Australian & English photographic studios, showing Queen Victoria, Prince & Princess Of Wales, Grand Duke Alexander Of Russia, Lord Carrington, Gladstone and others.
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Collection of 17 Victorian & Edwardian carte-de-visites of celebrities & starlets of the times. Includes Captain Boyton (who swam the English Channel), the Arch Duchess of Russia, Miss Ash, Barry Sullivan etc.
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Collection of 10 antique cartede- visite portrait photographs. Subjects include circus & theatrical performers, sports people etc. Melbourne, English, German & Guatemalan studios.
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Military photograph album, an archive of Ballarat studio portraits of soldiers from the VRA Queens Thirty, local fire brigade and the City Of Ballaarat (sic) Council, two of the photographs depict the Council from 1879/1880 and 1890-1892, with cameos of Mayor Morrison, councillors Brophy, Hickman, Wilson Lewis, Claxton, Gray, Smith & Leggo, also included is a cabinet portrait of Mayor J. Hickman. All contained in an embossed leather album with a military motif and colour lithograph military themed pages,…
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Victorian photograph album. A gilt metal mounted leather album, containing cabinet & carte-de-visite portrait photographs and 2 shopfront photos. Photography studios include Stewart & Co., Paterson Bros., Johnstone & O'Shannessy. The album pages with colour lithographic floral bouquets.
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Victorian photograph album Includes an archive of Clarke House, Geelong with photograph of the home & family with names listed underneath. Many studio portraits and some albumen prints laid on pages. Album also includes European military & royalty photographs. Beautifully embossed & gilt decorated leather binding.
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Victorian photograph album in leather binding Colour lithograph pages with views of cities of the world, many tin portrait photos & others by Australian & European photographers.
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Queen Victoria Jubilee (1837 - 1857) photograph album Colour lithograph pages with views of London, palaces, military & naval scenes etc. Includes many studio photographs from Australia & England.
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Victorian photograph album Embossed leather binding with colour lithograph pages with romantic scenes, complete with studio portraits.
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Victorian photograph album Containing a collection of carte-de-visite & cabinet studio portraits. Interesting portraits include Russian royalty & religious figures and a photograph by Nettleton inscribed, 'Corporal Knight Waterloo veteran'. Many photos inscribed on the reverse along with studio names from Melbourne, Japan, Noumea, America, France etc.
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Antique leather bound photo album Edwardian studio portraits, shop fronts, sporting portraits & commemorative death cards. Mainly Melbourne photographers.
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'Advance Australia' antique leather bound photo album. A collection of carte-de-visite portraits and various views of Australian country scenes. Melbourne, Ballarat, Geelong & South Australian photographers. Colour lithograph pages.
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Two antique photograph albums One green cloth binding, the other leather bound with metal mounts. Portrait photos, tin photos & scenes of shop front. Australian & English photographers.
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Two antique leather bound photo albums One album with a family archive of Scottish studio portraits followed by a series of Melbourne & Sandhurst studio photos. The other album with mainly Melbourne studio photos.
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Two Victorian photo albums Containing a selection of studio portraits by Benson & Stevenson, (Elizabeth St., Melb.) Latimer (Fitzroy), Stewart & Co. (Melb.), American Photographic Co. (Melb) and others.
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Two antique leather bound photograph albums Mainly English & Scottish photos including a series of women in fancy clothes, a Maori woman, sailors, family portraits, children, and so on.
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Victorian red leather bound photo album Many carte-de-visite portraits including French religious leaders, Indian Raj, English royalty (mourning scenes), Livingston, Disraeli, Prince Leopold, Lord Palmerston, Theodore Martin, Sir D. Brewster and others. Many by Mayall of Regent St., London. An impressive album of important dignitaries from the 19th century.
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Three antique leather bound photo albums. A collection of New Zealand & Australian cart-de-visite studio portraits.
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Two antique leather bound photo albums. A collection of carte-de-visite & cabinet portraits, predominantly Adelaide and South Australian photographers.
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Collection of ten military photos, includes studio portraits of Boer War soldier (by Chidley & Co, Fitzroy), Irish sailors, army officers & an advertising card by F. C. Gould (Gravesend) showing the Steamship Kaiser-I-Hind
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Two Edwardian photograph albums Many photos (laid on pages) with European scenes including Rome, Pisa, Versailles, Edinburgh, Tonbridge Wells, coastal towns and others.
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Group of 3 early 20th century holiday photo albums Views of London, Edinburgh, Wales, Barrow Boy Scouts, baby show, seaside visits and others. Plus a vacation diary from B. Le Tall, dated 1889 -1891, documenting a grand tour through Europe.
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Five Australian photo albums Personal records of travels to the Blue Mountains, Sydney, Townsville, Melbourne etc. Panoramic views, some military portraits, animals, natural history etc.
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Early 20th century photographs Collection of 33 photos of famous European landmarks including Versailles, Arc De Triomphe, Notre Dame, Venice, Napoli, Rome, Rheinfalls, etc.
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Military scrap album, an historical archive compiled by Lieutenant Harry W. C. Smith of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, Melbourne, comprising a collection of invitations, menus, music programs, calling cards, dance cards and tickets relating to military and jubilee events held in England in 1897, all laid out in an almost military fashion
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Four Australian photograph albums Military & holiday photos, many captioned, including a photo of the King on Salisbury Plains, Egyptian scenes with Aif soldiers, views of military camps etc.
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Collection of military photographs & postcards Plus an album of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade in Jordan, 1918.
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Two World War I. letters One typed 2-page letter of condolence, addressed to Mrs. Featherston, informing her of the death of her husband near Passchendaele on the 20th of September, 1917. Signed (General)'W. R. Birdwood', addressed from 'Headquarters, Australian Corps, B.E.F., France, 20th January, 1918' The other a personal letter to Miss McWaters of Fitzroy, from 'Pte. H. J. Dickson, C. Coy, 7 Battn., A.I.F. Abroad', dated 26.11.18.
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Collection of military ephemera Including religious service programmes, tickets, invitations, tags, comics, clippings, book mark, A.I.F. 1916 music programme & 3 naval hatbands.
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Collection of World War I. photographs Showing bombed towns, German prisoners captured by New Zealand soldiers, Australian soldiers harvesting wheat & 2 official photographs of the A.I.F. in Egypt.
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Francis Dufty Fijian photographs, collection of eight Victorian carte-de-visite portraits of Fijians and a self portrait of Dufty. Photographed in the studio of Francis Herbert Dufty, Levuka, Ovalau, Fiji Islands. One with caption, 'Mariki, only survivor of the 'Meoa' crew'
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New Zealand and Pacific Islanders Group of four carte-de-visite portraits. Pacific Island men and women, and one English studio portrait of two New Zealand Maori warriors, titled '1.-Kihiringi Tuahu. 2.-Wharepapa.'
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Early 20th century black lacquered photograph album. A collection of New Guinea photos showing Australian military contingents, Papuan soldiers, Papuan warriors in traditional costumes, Papuan prisoners and scenes of daily life. Includes 4 photos of a condemned man, gallows and the resultant hanging.
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Ephemera Collection of assorted ephemera including greeting cards, Agricultural Show prizes, clippings, invitations, antique maps of Melbourne & Victoria and so on.
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Victorian folio scrap album The album, dated 1884, in poor condition but many pages pasted with black & white clippings, colour cards of beautiful women, animals etc. Includes a Troedel colour lithograph of Longstaff's 'Breaking The News', Calvert engraving of Sir Henry Brougham, Ferguson & Mitchell litho of Windsor Castle, hand coloured English engravings and others.
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Victorian scrap book Inscribed inside the front cover, 'F(rederick) R(ichard) Chapman, from his dear Mamma, 1st October, 1869'. A delightful album with many romantic greetings, personalised printed poems by T. J. Ousley, Christmas cards, paper lace & silk cards. A wonderful find.
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Victorian red leather bound scrap album. A most impressive album showcasing a fascinating collection of 19th century pieces including; albumen photos, original pencil drawings, hand written poetry, hand coloured prints, crests & engravings. Also included are 2 rare miniature samplers, one dated 1835, a photo of a cricket club & a manuscript letter from the Vice Consulate Of Spain, dated 'Melbourne 1885'
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Two Victorian scrap albums, The pages pasted with many greetings, decoupage cut-outs, hand written poems and so on.
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Three scrap albums Edwardian & Victorian newspaper clippings. Includes one 'disaster' album with clippings of train & ship wrecks, car crashes, murders, suicides etc.
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7 assorted scrap albums & sketch-books Including one Victorian album with colour lithographs of Aborigines & Chinese gold miners.
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Two small folio Victorian scrap albums Both with Phil May facsimile drawings cut from The Sketch, The London Charivari and other journals.
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Ephemera & receipts Collection of old receipts, invoices business cards etc., from the late 1800's & early 1900's. Australian & English businesses incl. Rhodes Motorcycle Co. (Indian Motorcycle), Vict. Portland Cement Co. etc.
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Ballarat memorabilia Ballarat printing plate (1878) depicting a view of the intersection of Sturt & Liddiard Streets. Plus a cast iron phoenix, engraved on the reverse 'Crest of Phoenix Iron Works Ballarat' and a Ballarat sugar sack.
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Antique Australiana folk-Art chair kauri pine in Gothic style with a high-back, decorated with stencilled fern and floral motifs.
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Colonial Tasmanian cedar commode with a lift top inlaid with cedar and musk parquetry, a square body, turned legs and porcelain castors
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Tasmanian blackwood and pine wall cabinet with a single panelled door and an inlaid pine circular design to the top
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Australian cedar sarcophagus shaped storage trunk with its original green cloth covering and a padded tapestry and bead worked seat
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Kauri pine chip carved table decorated with starbursts, geometric patterns and thistles
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Kauri pine chip carved bench seat or low table
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Antique Australian cedar dumbwaiter with three shelves on turned columns, missing the gallery
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Antique bentwood towel rail European origin, 91 x 69 cm
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Kauri pine hallstand with hand carved decorations including the Australian Coat of Arms, a Southern Cross motif flanked by an emu and a kangaroo and an 'Advance Australia' banner
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Colonial cedar chiffoniere with a Thomas Hope scroll back, a display shelf, 'S' shaped supports, a cross banded edge, a full length pillow front drawer, two shield doors, turned columns and turned feet. Note the unusual carved tulip and roundel decorations to the drawer and the cedar secondary timbers
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Robert Prenzel carved timber portrait panel of an Aboriginal woman wearing a red headscarf, with a carved signature, dated 1922 and a silky oak frame
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Iinlaid maple picture frame and panel, the panel depicting an Aboriginal family seated in front of a mia-mia, the male holding a shield, boomerang and a club, the female nursing her child, the frame with an inlaid timber scene of woodcutters and giant eucalypts
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Australian folk art timber panel. A specimen piece inlaid with Australian & exotic timbers including blackwood, maple, silky oak and others showing an urn & flowers, birds, floral sprays & horse with cropped tail. Jarrah & silky oak frame. 67 x 45 cm
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Edwardian blackwood carver chair, embroidered seat and back with folk-art scenes of horses and flowers. 99 x 61 cm
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Colonial group of 4 silhouette portraits. With attached notation 'Robert Wallen & relatives, lived at Harlech, Hawthorn...' Reverse inscribed with Wallen family history & original framers label. 9 x 6 cm each
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Colonial Australian portrait 'So Early in the Morning' circular, watercolour of a Victorian gentleman portrayed in a music Room, circa 1870. 13 cm diameter
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P. J. Lysaght 'View on the Campaspe' oil on canvas, inscribed on the reverse 'From the N. E. of Piper Street Bridge', signed to the lower left and dated 1871
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