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Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:504
Sale Title:Australian & Colonial HistoryLots with images:504
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:340
Date:17-Oct-2016
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A British officer's Bicorn in original metal case by Gould of Devonport with brass name plate to J.C.M Boyle Royal Navy, inscribed on hat band 'Boyle Cumberland', together with sales receipt for photography from H.Yeo of Plymouth, circa 1904
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A scrimshaw powder horn engraved 'Advance Australia, William M. Martin Esq. Beechalparroo River', signed and dated 'Louis M.F. Gauvin, Maker, Goollahdy, 1868, Parroo River', superbly decorated with tallship and Coat of Arms, 30 cm
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Gibraltar group including framed antique etchings, panoramic view, framed vintage postcards, prints and book
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A Tasmanian timber jewel box, huon pine, fiddleback blackwood, beefwood, she oak and burr totara (New Zealand), circa 1900, with accompanying letter and Albert fob chain, high, 18 cm wide, 18 cm deep
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An early tea caddy, casuarina with pine and cedar secondary timbers, early 19th century, 17 cm high, 31 cm wide, 15 cm deep
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William Norrie jewel box fitted with two lift out velvet lined trays, New Zealand specimen timbers, two original maker's labels with hand written pencil key on reverse, circa 1890, 16 cm high, 34 cm wide, 20 cm deep
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William Norrie Inlaid New Zealand timber box, mottled kauri, burr totara, rewa rewa, mottled kauri and puriri circa 1890, 9 cm high, 27.5 cm wide, 19 cm deep
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A ladies traveling box, walnut, cedar and musk with fitted interior, 19th century, 11 cm high, 23 cm wide, 21 cm deep
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A taxidermy and mounted New Zealand speckled trout, inscribed verso Clark's Taxidermist, 50 Birch Street, Taupo, 64 cm wide, the mount board 80 cm wide
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M.B.E (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), medal & miniature in original presentation case, awarded to Mrs Olive Grant Burn for Services to the theatre in Hobart, by the Queen on 22 Feb.1954.
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