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The Geoffrey Stillwell Collection — Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)

Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:332
Sale Title:The Geoffrey Stillwell CollectionLots with images:332
Auction Location:HobartPrices available:321
Date:22-Nov-2015
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A Georgian brown glass gilt Shrub bottle, circa 1820, 23 cm high
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A Georgian pair of Bristol blue glass and gilt decanters and stoppers, marked Brandy and Hollands, circa 1820, 23.5 cm high
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An Arts and Crafts pewter rectangular dish with glass liner and spoon, stamped Tudric circa 1890, made by Liberty & Co. of London, 19 cm wide
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A pewter tastevin, a smaller tastevin, 5 modern mugs and 8 small dishes
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A rare 17 th century pottery jug with green glaze, circa 1690, 29 cm high
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A pewter two handled quaich, circa 1820, 16 cm wide and a bowl, 11.5 cm diameter
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Three Georgian pewter table spoons, circa 1730
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Seven various sized bulbous pewter mugs, 19th century, 4/8 cm high
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Four antique Dutch tiles, painted with ships, circa 1700
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A German blue and grey pottery jug, with pewtar lid inscribed ICS, circa 1700, 22 cm high
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A John Campbell of Launceton blue glazed jug and cover, circa 1933, 18 cm high
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An extensive Blue Danube pattern dinner set (Japan) for 16 persons, circa 1960, comprising dinner plates, side plates, serving dishes, soup tureen stand and cover, vegetable dishes and covers, comport, salt and pepper mills, butter, pickle and condiment dishes and jugs, soup and breakfast bowls, platters and dishes. 180+ pieces
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A Wedgwood Queens ware cream bowl with grapevine border, circa 1920, 23 cm diameter, 3 similarly decorated plates and a grape pattern part dinner set
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A pair of small pottery embossed hunting jugs, circa 1920, 11 cm high
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An Art Nouveau brass embossed jug, circa 1890, 18 cm high, a brass chamber stick and a candlestick
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ALBUM: A hard-cover leather-bound album containing tipped in or loose water colours, pen & ink drawings, pencil sketches, etc. A few are dated (1820 - 1850) and Dutch, Swiss or Flemish though some are certainly English. (40+ items).
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BUFTON, John: 'Tasmanians in the Transvaal War' 1905. 4to, original charcoal cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover, pp. (xvi) + 534, several photographic illustrations.
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HUMPHREYS, Thomas 'The IRISH Builder's Guide, exhibiting the VALUATION OF BUILDINGS Throughout Ireland. . . The whole illustrated with plates.' [James Charles, Dublin, 1813] 353 pp incl the Errata page.
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HODSON, V. C. P. Major 'List of the Officers of the Bengal Army, 1758–1834. Alphabetically Arranged and Annotated with Biographical and Genealogical Notices'. [London: Constable & Co or Phillimore & Co., 1927-47] 4 volumes octavo. Original red cloth, titles gilt to the spines, blind banding to covers. First editions. Extremely uncommon. There was a hiatus of 18 years between the publication of volumes II and III, the final two volumes were issued in a limited edition.
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STOKES, John Lort: 'Discoveries in Australia, with an account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. . . Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.' [T. and W. Boone, London, 1846], 1st ed. Two volumes, octavo, with 26 engraved plates (including frontispieces) and 2 folding charts (6 loose charts are absent, as usual), some occasional light spotting in the margins of plates but…
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AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: 'Ludwig Becker' by Tipping [1979], 'The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines 1802' by Plomley [1983], 'First Views of Australia' by McCormick [1987], 'Baudin in Australian Waters' by Bonnemains et al [1988], 'The Archers of Van Diemens Land' by Chick [1991], 'The Australian Colonial House' by Broadbent [1997], all large format hard cover books with dust jackets. (7 vols.)
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WALCH, Charles Edward 'The Story of the Life of Charles Edward Walch' presentation copy No.38 of 150, signed and endorsed by the author and accompanied by an 1882 Beattie photograph of Walch and several brochures and cuttings loosley inserted, also 'TASMANIA: The Postal History and POSTAL MARKINGS' (2 vols. 1962 & 1975) by Campbell & others. (3 vols.)
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The QUEENS CLOSET OPENED: Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chyrugery, Preserving and Candying, &c. Which were presented unto the QUEEN By the most Experienced Persons of the Times. .' [London, Christ. Eccleston, 1662]. bound together with 'A QUEENS DELIGHT: or, THE ART of Preserving, Conserving, and Candying. As also A right Knowledge of making PERFUMES, and Distilling the most Excelleny Waters. [R.Wood, 1662] And, 'The COMPLETE COOK: Expertly prescribing the most ready wayes, whether Italian, Spanish or…
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PUGIN, A. Welby 'CONTRASTS, or a parallel between the Noble Edifices of the Middle Ages, and corresponding buildings of the present day, shewing The Present Decay of Taste. Accompanied by appropriate Text' [Charles Dolman, Lodnon, 1841] 2nd ed. 104 pp + plate. Decorative green cloth with ornate gold embossing to upper cover.
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Proceedings, Including Original Correspondence, Official Documents, Exhibits, etc., Duly Attested and Authenticated as Correct Extracts from the Records of the Court of Justice, At the Cape of Good Hope, in a Criminal Process for a Libel instituted at the Suit of Lieut-Gen. The Hon. H.G. Grey and by Order of The Right-Hon. Earl of Caledon, Governor of that Colony, against Laurence Halloran. . ' [T.Harper, London, 1811]. 711 pp. Laurence Hynes Halloran [1765-1831] was a poet, unordained clergyman and felon…
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MISSALE ROMANUM ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilij Tridentini restitutum. . ' [Ex Typographia Camera Apostolica, Rome, MDCXX [1620] 644 pp. Bound together with 'Missae Proprie Sanctorum de Praecepto Recitandae. . ' [Venice, 1647] 15 pp, and 'Missae Propriae Sanctorum Partim de Praecepto. . .' [Venice, 1690] 20 + 24 pp, 'Missa Propria De S. Aloysio Gonzaga Confessore. .' [Rome, 1736] and other. Full leather binding with gilt tooled decorations and title to spine.
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A MISCELLANY including 'Idylls of the Kings' by Tennyson [1861, Edward Moxon] in decorative gilt calf binding, 'The Book of Common Prayer' [John Baskett, London, 1725], 'Visits to Monasteries in the Levant' by Curzon [London, 1849], '1914 & other Poems' by Rupert Brooke [London, 1927], 'Pastoral Settlement in Northern Victoria - Vol. 1 The Coliban District' by Randell [Melbourne, 1979], plus others. Mixed condition (approx 50 volumes)
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CHARLES DICKENS: 'The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club' [1837] and 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby' [1839], both first editions by Chapman and Hall, London, with illustrations by Phiz.
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MEREDITH, Louisa Anne: 'Last Series Bush Friends in Tasmania, Native Flowers, Fruits and Insects, Drawn from Nature with prose descriptions and illustrations in verse.' [MacMillan, London, 1891] A Limited edition, No.437 of 700, signed by the artist. The 15 plates are present as are the original green decorated boards with gold embossing. Largely disbound. Sold as a collection of plates.
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HENDERSON, Alexander 'Henderson's Australian Families. A Genealogical and Biographical Record. Volume 1' [all published], 1st Edition [Melbourne, 1941]. 408 pp. with very many black and white illustrations (portraits, houses and family crests), orig. red cloth with gilt spine title, gilt crest on upper board, bevelled edges. The Australian Institute of Geneological Studies was founded in 1973 to assist its members to undertake family history research in Victoria and the other states of Australia, England,…
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MEREDITH, Mrs. Charles 'MY HOME in TASMANIA, during a residence of Nine Years.' [John Murray, London, 1852]. in 2 vols. Hardcover original green cloth ornamented in blind-stamp, spine lettering gilt. 274, viii + 275 pp. Illustrated with engraved plates & headpieces. Ferguson 12506.
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MEREDITH, Louisa Anne [1812-1895] 'Some of my Bush Friends in Tasmania. Native flowers, berries and insects drawn from life, illustrated in verse and briefly described' [Day & Son, London, 1860]. Folio. Orig. tooled cloth with bevelled boards. Ornamented in gold on front cover & spine. With colour engraved half title-page, lithogr. title-page & dedication page, the text in litho-illustrated borders of which 2 are coloured, 11 full-page colour chromo-litho. plates, and illust. head & tail pieces.
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EVELYN, John [1620-1706], BRAY, William - Editor: 'MEMOIRS, ILLUSTRATIVE Of The LIFE And WRITINGS Of JOHN EVELYN, ESQ. F.R.S. . . .' [Printed for Henry Colburn, and sold by John and Arthur Arch, London, 1819] 2 volumes, Index in Volume II. Frontis in each volume, 9 other inserted plates (2 folding), Pedigree chart in Volume I. Also, 'The MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS of JOHN EVELYN, Esq. F.R.S. author of SYLVA, or, A DISCOURSE OF FOREST TREES. . ' [Henry Colburn, London 1825]. All in matched bindings and with…
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HENDERSON, Alexander 'Early Pioneer Families of Victoria and Riverina - A Genealogical and Biographical Record' [McCarron, Bird, Melbourne, 1936], 1st Edition. 584 pp. Quarto, illustrations throughout (portraits and homesteads), original red leather with gilt embossed titel to spine, gilt edges. The Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies was founded in 1973 to assist its members to undertake family history research in Victoria and the other states of Australia, England, Scotland and Ireland as well…
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The Cyclopedia of Tasmania, an Historical and Commercial Review' Vols. 1 & 2. Published by Maitland and Krone, Hobart, 1900. Full leather bindings with gold embossing. 629 pp + 425 pp. Many photgraphs with the attribution of the photographer noted.
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MUNDY, Godfrey Charles 'OUR ANTIPODES: or, Residence and Rambles in The Australasian Colonies with A Glimpse of the Gold Fields' [Richards Bentley, London, 1852] 2nd Edition, revised. 3 volumes. With all plates as called for. Ferguson 12957. Also, 4 other volumes of Tasmanian interest. (7 items).
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NIXON, Francis Russell, Bishop of Tasmania: 'The Cruise of the Beacon: A Narrative of a Visit to The Islands in Bass's Straits, with illustrations.' [Bell && Daldy, London. 1857] Hardcover First edition. 116pp and 24 pages of ads. Illustrated half-title, frontis + 8pp steel engraved ills. Blue buckram. Ferguson 13424. Also, COX, William 'MEMOIRS of William Cox, J.P., Lieutenant and Paymaster of N.S.W. Corps. .' [William Brooks, Sydney, 1901], Hardcover First Edition, portrait frontispiece, coloured plate…
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GIBSON (Clarke) Caroline [1820-1886] 'A Simple Abstract of the GEOGRAPHY and HISTORY of TASMANIA. Intended for Young Learners. [Hudosn & Hopwood, Launceston, 1871], small hardcover with grey boards - title (front) & adverts. (back) printed in black. With frontispiece folding colour map. Also, 'The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. . A Narrative of her Life in. . Tasmania during the years 1826-1830' [Edward Arnold, London, 1901] 396 pp + adverts & index. (2 vols.)
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Doyley, Charles 'The European in India, From a Collection of Drawings, By Charles Doyley, Esq. Engraved by J. H. Clark and C. Dubourg, With a Preface and Copious Descriptions, By Captain Thomas Williamson, Accompanied with A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India, From the Earliest Periods of Antiquity to the Termination of the Late Mahratta War, By F. W. Blagdon, Esq.' [Edward Orme, London, 1813] 1st edition. With 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates.
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42 books, mostly fiction, including works by Betjeman, Summerson, Marjorie Barnard.
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Matthew Flinders' Narrative of His Voyage in the Schooner Francis: 1798. . Flinders, Matthew, Buckland Wright, John (engraver), Rawson, Geoffrey (preliminary text) [The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. London]. Limited to 750 numbered copies (this copy being No. 83). Full green morocco binding, 1 full page plate, six head-piece vignettes, and printer's device). Map. Printed in black and green. In original slipcase.
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62 books including pamphlets on Australian and convict history.
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ROBERTSON, E. Graeme & CRAIG, Edith N. 'Early Houses of Northern Tasmania - An Historical and Architectural Survey' [Georgian House, Melbourne, 1964] in 2 volumes. Limited edition [#198] signed by the authors and endorsed 'To Geoffrey Stilwell with many thanks for his great help.' Accompanied by a folio of original correspondence, newspaper cuttings, etc. Superb condition, with dustjackets protected by plastic sleeves.
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36 books, mainly on Tasmanian history and architecture, including leather facsimile edition of Butler Stoney Residence in Tasmania
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54 books and pamphets including Clifford Craig More Tasmanian Prints, Ellis Early Prints of New Zealand and Eardley Wilmont Our Journey in the Pacific. on the Zealous 1873, Atkinson Ellen Nora Payne
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78 books and pamphlets mostly on Colonial history and art including Colvin English Architects, Ellis Conrad Martens, Anson Fashion in Church Furnishing, Clarke Anglican Cathedrals Outside the British Isles
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53 books including Parkes ABC of Gothic Architecture
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45 books and pamphlets including A'Beckett A Comic Blackstone (1887), Michaelis Antique Pewter of the British Isles
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22 volumes including Historial Records of Australia Vol III, 1-6, O'May Hobart River Craft and Sealers of Bass Strait
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23 volumes including Plomley Weep in Silence, Paley's Gothic Moudings (4 th edition, Papworth's Ordinary of Arms, Freeland Horbury Hunt
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30 books and pamphlets including Greener Ross Bridge and the Sculpture of Daniel Herbert, Lempriere's Classical Dictionary (1839) Strutts Dictionary of Engravers (1835), E.J.Brady Australia Unlimited, Buscomb Artists in Early Australia and Their Portraits, Holden Photography in Early Australia
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43 books and pamphlets Andrews Australasian Medals and Coins, Mowle Pioneer Families of Tasmania, Searle Australians at Home, Kerr Heritage: The National Women's Art Book
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A journal by Nurse Alice Stilwell, kept at Fir Grove Military Hospital, Hampshire, 1915/17 with cartoons, caricatures and messages of thanks from soldiers from the Sutherland Highlanders, South Wales Borderer's, Royal Sussex Regiment, Devonshire Regiment, Black Watch and others
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A sketchbook with botanical watercolours and pressed flowers by Mary Stilwell, 1921
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A journal (distressed) by Norah Georgina Stilwell, 1891, with watercolour vistas and photographs of travels to Switzerland with two Stilwell Aunts
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24 volumes including Campbell Golden Wattle – our National Floral Emblem (1921), Fox – Davies Armorial Families Vol 1&2, Burkes Colonial Gentry Vol 1&2 Pub 1895 with Stilwell Bookplates to inside cover, Pioneer Families of Australia with Stilwell Bookplate and extensive notes by GT Stilwell A Briefe Cataolgue of the Reignes and Wives of Issues of the Kings and Queens of England … (1640) rebound in gilt cloth binding. Libraries Board of South Australia Journal of Nicholas Baudin, Cantlon Homesteads of…
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volumes and pamphlets including Flinders Voyage to Terra Australis 3 Vols, Picturesque Atlas of Australia 3vols, Weaver Small Country Houses – Their Repair and Enlargement
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43 volumes including Stancombe Highway in Van Diemen's Land, G.Nesta Griffiths Some Houses and People of NSW, Kerr & Broadbent Gothick Taste in the Colony of NSW, Craig Mr Punch in Tasmania, Herman The Early Australian Architects and their Work, Backhouse, James & Tylor, Charles The Life and Labours of George Washington Walker, of Hobart Town, Tasmania. London 1862. Brown cloth as issued. Slight staining. A very good copy partly unopened. G.T. Stilwell bookplate. Sharland Stones of a Century, Norman, Sea…
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27 volumes and pamphlets including Dupain Old Colonial Buildings of Australia, Cox & Lucas Australian Colonial Architecture, G.Nesta Griffiths Some Northern Homes of NSW, Gurney, A., Tasmanians Today caricatures and Cartoons pub 1926 Arms, Crests and Mongrams – an extensive album of assorted 19 th century items, The Book of Animals Pub 1837, presentation copy from Alfred Stephen Esq before proceeding to Sydney 1839, to Master Churchill Simmons, Fletcher Costume in Australia, Jorgenson Biography of the…
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de RAPIN, Paul [1661-1725] translated by TINDAL Nicolas [1687-1774] 'The HISTORY of ENGLAND' Vol. 1 [1743], Vol. 2 [1743], Vol.3 [1744], Vol.4 [1745], Vol.4 Part 2 [1747] plus a volume of 65+ maps and charts by Searle or Basire 'For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England' which appears to duplicate the maps and charts found throughout the published volumes. (6 volumes). With engravings, fold-out maps, fold-out plates, maps, charts and other plates.
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EVELYN, John, F.R.S. [1620-1706] 'SYLVA, or a Discourse of FOREST-TREES and the Propagation of Timber In His Majesties Dominions. . To which is annexed POMONA, or, An Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in relation to CIDER, The Making, and severall wayes of Ordering it. . . Also KALENDARIUM HORTENSE, Or, the Gard'ners Almanac, Directing what he is to do Monthly throughout the Year.' [John Martyn, London, 1670] 2nd/3rd Edition 'much Inlarged and Improved'. Bound in contemporary full calf with with 5 raised…
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48 pamphlets and books including Lawson Blue Gum Clippers and Whale Ships of Tasmania
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50 volumes and pamphlets including Curling Janus Weathercock, Crossland Wainewright in Tasmania, Smith John Lee Archer, Craig, Old Tasmanian Prints, The VDl Pickwick Papers, Notes on Tasmania, Facsimilie edition Prinsep's Journal, Chapman Boyes Diaries, Clyde Company Papers (7 x vols).
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TASMANIA: 1899-1900 Electoral Rolls for the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives, ordered by electoral districts. Large h/c volume, contents in VG condition, binding distressed.
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AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE: 'Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land' [1972] by Craig, Fahy & Robertson. Nineteenth Century Australian Furniture' [1985] by Fahy, Simpson & Simpson. Australian Furniture Pictorial and Dictionary 1788 - 1938' [1998] by Fahy & Simpson. All books with dust jackets and in superb condition. (3 vols.)
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JEWELLERY: 'Australian Jewellery' [1990] by Schofield && Fahy. together with a 'Mappin & Webb and Webb Bros' hard cover catalogue c.1905 illustrating the enormous range of products they sold or manufactured, all with prices. (2 items).
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WILSON, Hardy 'Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania' [Sydney, 1924]. Hardcover. SIGNED Number 240 out of 1,000. Gilt lettering and decoration on front/ back cover and along spine. All plates and tissue guards present and intact.
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27 volumes including Burkes History of the Commoners, Craig The Engravers of Van Diemen's Land, Craig More Old Tasmanian Prints, Kerr The Dictionary of Australian Artists, Fox – Daivies. Complete Guide to Heraldry, Leask's Australian Genealogies
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A collection of children's clothing comprising four dresses, a petticoat and a singlet
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A collection of various linen table cloths, place mats and serviettes with coloured embroidery
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A collection of various watercolours of journeys by Alice Elizabeth, Beatrice Ellen Stilwell, and others, 1898/1913 including Sorrento, Amalfi, Istanbul, Rio and other, and a small note book with watercolour vistas by Alice Elizabeth Stilwell of Tasmania, the Blue Mountains and Europe
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A collection of various linen and lace work table cloths, place mats and serviettes
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A tour album of souvenirs from Europe kept by Rosemary Anne Stilwell, 1955/7, including a New Theatre program of the London premiere of Ray Lawler's 'Summer of the Seventeenth Doll' 30th April 1957
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A collection of various linen
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A collection of various needlework and lace
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A collection of various needlework and lace
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Two lace bonnets and various lace shawls and pieces of lace
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Two Georgian brooches, one set with 4 citrines in cannetille gold scrolls and a panel of woven hair, the other with garnets, both mounted in gold
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A Victorian ruby, seed pearl and glass locket circular brooch, yellow gold
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A Victorian red guilloche enamel and seed pearl 'pansy' brooch, yellow gold
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A Victorian diamond, blue enamel and seed pearl square brooch, gold mounted
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A Victorian gold, enamel and human hair mourning bow brooch with two tassels drops
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A collection of bead necklaces comprising sodalite, turquoise, coral, malachite, tigerseye, quartz and millefiori glass
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An Edwardian aquamarine and seed pearl bar brooch, and a seed pearl 'wishbone' brooch, 9 carat yellow gold
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An Arts and Crafts guilloche lilac enamel and silver brooch by Arthur Johnson Smith, Chester 1909, and an oval citrine and silver brooch
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A Victorian turquoise and seed pearl star brooch and a similar bar brooch, 9 carat yellow gold
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A collection of stick pins and bar brooches comprisings a kangaroo, enamel lady bug, a horseshoe, a lizard, a pearl cluster and an axe
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Eight necklaces of malachite beads, a turtle, a dish and an egg
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A Victorian Scottish agate and hard stone gold kilt pin, circa 1880
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A Victorian sterling silver quaich with large pierced handle by Joseph Padgett London 1891, 17 cm long
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A Victorian sterling silver two handled embossed quaich by Carrington & Co, London 1892, 21 cm wide
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A Victorian sterling silver beaded mustard drum by John Wilmin Figg, London 1865, with blue glass liner and a with a George III mustard spoon, London 1812, the pot 6 cm high
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A Victorian sterling silver floral tea pot by Joseph & Albert Savory, London 1849, with flower finial, 16 cm high
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A silver book vesta case (for wax matches), circa 1880
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An Edward VII sterling silver mesh coin purse, London 1903
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A collection of sterling silver items, comprising an enameled topped scent bottle, a miniature scent bottle, 2 silver propelling pencils and 6 dressing table items
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An Australian silver butter knife and a William IV sterling silver butter knife with carved mother of pearl handle, Birmingham 1827
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A pair of sterling silver wish-bone sugar tongs, another pair of tongs, a pair of ship shaped salts and various tea spoons and salt spoons
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A Continental silver spoon with a figure of Columbus, a Russian silver spoon and a twisted handled spoon
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A Victorian set of sterling silver fish knives and forks for 6 by William Hutton & Sons Ltd, London 1901.
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