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Australian, Maritime & Natural History, Part II — Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers

Auction House:Gibson's Auctioneers & ValuersNumber of lots recorded:152
Sale Title:Australian, Maritime & Natural History, Part IILots with images:150
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:117
Date:29-Aug-2022
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A large silver plated Savage club 'Ten-to-Two' beaker, with applied medallion and inscribed names of members, 15 cm high
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An Art Deco timber cased valve Stg radio, 1935, the floor radio with contrasting walnut and blonde wood veneers to the case, having a skyscraper style speaker grille to the lower body, 96 cm high, 56.5 cm wide, 28 cm deep
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A vintage Repatriation Hospital comedy 8 mm film with canister, an original Kodak 8 mm film described to label as as a comedy featuring the Repatriation Hospital (Heidelberg, Melbourne) housed in the original metal canister
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A pair of antique leather clown shoes, Australian, late 19th century, wooden soled duck bill toe shoes of exaggerated length, 41 cm long
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The Australasian album, two vintage children's books together with six sunshine harvester instruction booklets, the Australasian album for photographs with a gilt tooled leather bound cover, pierced cardboard photograph pages and flower and bird chromolithographs, two children's books: Pegmen Tales by Ella McFadyen, 1946, and rainbow Dreams by Agnes Littlejohn, 1919, together with instruction booklets for sunshine harvester machinery
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Two hand made vintage wooden and metal trams, crafted from wood and metal in the style of old Melbourne trams and painted in traditional green and deep cream colours
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An Australian colonial cedar four post tester bed, circa 1860, the full tester bed with four turned posts, united by a top frame, side rails and a panelled headboard, 210 cm high, 200 cm wide. Provenance: formerly in the the Sheriff's Residence, 1 camp crescent, Castlemaine, circa 1854
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A cedar extension dining table, Australian, 19th century, the bullnose rectangular top above a band frieze, raised on turned and faceted legs with toupie feet and brass casters, one leaf, 73 cm high, 173 cm wide (without leaf), 135 cm deep. Provenance: formerly in the the Sheriff's Residence, 1 camp crescent, Castlemaine, circa 1854
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A serpentine front cedar hall table, Australian, late 19th century, the conforming top above a band frieze, raised on turned legs and toupie feet, 70 cm high, 109 cm wide, 70 cm dee. Provenance: formerly in the the Sheriff's Residence, 1 camp crescent, Castlemaine, circa 1854
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A circular cedar occasional table, Australian, 19th century, with a bullnose edge above a cusped and barbed frieze, raised on a faceted pedestal above three outswept legs, 74 cm high, 65 cm diameter. Provenance: formerly in the the Sheriff's Residence, 1 camp crescent, Castlemaine, circa 1854
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A single drawer cedar side table, Australian, 19th century, the rectangular top with a chamfered edge above a single frieze drawer and raised on turned legs 75 cm high, 92 cm wide, 42.5 cm deep
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An Australian cedar single-ended chaise, late 19th century, with a serpentine show frame and roll over short end, raised on bulbous waisted feet and casters. Provenance: Formerly in the Sheriff's Residence, 1 Camp Crescent, Castlemaine, circa 1854
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Three Australian spindle back kitchen chairs, made by the Melbourne chair Company, late 19th/early 20th century, impressed with a kangaroo design to the cresting rail. Provenance: Formerly in the Sheriff's Residence, 1 Camp Crescent, Castlemaine, circa 1854
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An Australian colonial cedar framed armchair, circa 1850, with scrolling arms and raised on turned legs, upholstered in striped ruby velvet. Provenance: Formerly in the Sheriff's Residence, 1 Camp Crescent, Castlemaine, circa 1854
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A cased brass mounted microscope, late 19th-early 20th century, incomplete with some additional eyepieces
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An Australian blackwood cricket table, late 19th century, the circular table raised on a crossed and angle braced tripod base. Provenance: Formerly in the Sheriff's Residence, 1 Camp Crescent, Castlemaine, circa 1854.
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An ebonised hall stand, early 20th century, in the Arts & Crafts manner with an extended cornice above a slat back with mirror, hooks to the supports, with hinged seat and box base flanked by side rails, 190 cm high, 114 cm wide, and 45 cm deep
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A pine hall table, later 19th century, with turned legs and raised on toupie feet, 75 cm high, 91 cm long and 42 cm deep
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A cedar side table, Australian, late 19th century, the serpentine top above a band frieze and raised on slender turned legs and toupie feet, 72 cm high, 87 cm wide, 48 cm deep
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An Australian cedar writing slope, together with a mahogany box, 19th century, a complete interior to the cedar box with a selection of bottles and a later leatherette writing slope, 15 cm high, 45 cm wide, 25 cm deep, and smaller
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An antique cast brass dolphin door knocker, with fittings
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A Tasmanian oak refectory dining table and twelve matched chairs, 20th century, an impressive plank top table with striking inflections raised on a square framed trestle base, with slat back chairs with stuffover leather seats
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A Ballarat Regatta presentation set of fish knives and forks, awarded to H. H Storrer maiden Eights, Barwon Rowing club 1914, the cased set with engraved silver plate blades and tines and ivorine handles, history: Captain H.H. Storrer (Henry, known as 'Harry'), sportsman and champion rower with the Barwon Rowing club joined the Australian flying Corps in 1916 and saw service in the first Australian Fying unit on the Western front as flight Commander of 69 squadron. He perished in a crash over Flanders in…
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A pair of vintage wood oars with cast iron oarlocks, early 20th century
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John Gould, Cacatua Leadbeateri, colour reproduction, with printed text in image, 52 x 34.5 cm
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Three Sotheby's London hard back auction catalogues, comprising the Visser collection of fine, rare and important arms, part I, 3 July 1990 and part II, 3 June 1991; and the Hever Castle Collection of Arms and Armour, 5 May 1983
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Artist unknown, Government house Melbourne - architectural study for 'Entrance Gates', colour lithograph, 45.5 x 63 cm
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Artist unknown, Government house Melbourne - architectural study 'Stables grooms Quarters', colour lithograph, 46 x 60 cm
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An Australian ebonised oak fire screen, 1900, the Arts & Crafts style screen featuring a bird on a branch carved in low relief within a gold painted shield
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Vincenzio Scotti Di Livorno, 'Angelo Guillichini', a colour copper plate engraving, with text to lower margin, and housed in a maple frame, 72 cm x 100 cm leaf size
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An antique ship in a bottle, 19th to early 20th century, the four masted ship in wood and cotton thread in a corked bottle
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A sterling silver launch gift model of the QE2 liner, AD, 1969 London, the model was reputedly presented to attendees of the launch of the Cunard liner; it was launched in Southampton on 20 September 1967 by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 10 cm long, silver weight: 30gms
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A sterling silver cast model of a kangaroo, apparently unmarked, but bearing a series of lightly engraved numerals and letters to the tail, X2564 Om/M 353x6, 7.5 cm high, silver weight: 85gms
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A sterling silver cast model of an emu, .Ba (partial maker's mark) London 1910, hallmarked to neck, 5 cm high, silver weight: 45gms
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An Australian silver plate mounted and painted emu egg, late 19th to early 20th century, with an oval cartouche painted with exotic species flowers and a songbird, surmounted by a cast emu and supported in a cast foliar base
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The 1983 America's cup silver miniature, B-L, Birmingham 1984, one of a limited edition of 3000 issued by the Royal Perth yacht club following Australia II's victory in 1983, boxed with certificate of authenticity, issued by the Australian Collectors Treasury, 19 cm high, total weight: 140gms
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H Peckwell after T F Gilfillen, Captain cook Proclaiming New South Wales a British Possession, Botany bay 1770, colour engraving, with printed text on margin, 15 x 25.5 cm
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After Sydney Parkinson, view of Endeavour River, on the coast of New Holland, Where Captain cook had the ship laid on Shore, in order to Repair the damage which she Received on the rock 1770, engraving, with printed text on margin, 16 x 26.5 cm
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Janes's fighting ships 1973-74 and Jane's fighting ships 1976-1977, hardcover editions both edited by Captain John E. Moore, RN, Frgs
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Remued Pottery, Melrose Ware, Martin Boyd 1930's-1950's, a collection of Australian ceramics, a Melrose float bowl with moulded gum leaf and gum nut designs, factory stamp to base; a small Remued drip glazed pinched vase; slip glazed salt and pepper shakers with dancing figures, incised marks of Martin Boyd to bases, with matching mustard pot A/F, the bowl 23 cm diameter, the largest vase 8 cm high
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A World War II Palestine campaign souvenir, flowers from the holy land, olive wood bevelled covers with a painted scene of the Citadel enclosing a series of chromolithographs with views of Israel and 12 sheets of pressed flowers with tissue guards, descriptions in English, French and Hebrew, produced by Emanuel Friedman & Co, Jerusalem
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Six vintage Australian childrens' books, Kookanoo and kangaroo, Mary and Elizabeth Durack, Rigby limited, Adelaide,1963;, five True Australian series books, photographs and stories by Bruce and Jane MacPherson including: the lost koala, 1962; the sea Urchin, 1963; the magic boomerang, 1963; the blue opal, n.d; the white Wallaby, n.d. Published by young Australian books
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An Australian cedar chest of drawers, 19th century, with an ogee profile frieze drawer above four small drawers and three long pine lined drawers of graduated depth, flanked by twist turned pilasters on toupie feet, 147 cm high, 121.5 cm wide, 60 cm deep
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An illuminating model replica of a Spanish galleon, circa 1960, 62 cm high, 66 cm wide, 15 cm deep
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A pair of decorative model sailing yachts in red and white colour ways, 42 cm high, 25 cm wide
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12 vintage electronic adding machine calculators, Olivetti and others, comprising the following makes: 6 x Olivetti Divisumma 18 models, Canon, radio Shack, Canon P3220-Dl (pure green display), Bohn Contex 30, Contex 55, Olivetti Divisumma 28, plus a box of Olivetti Divisumma spare parts
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5 vintage manual adding machine calculators, Brunsviga and other, comprising 4 Brunsviga 10 models (including a Nova model) and a Resulta P.9
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4 vintage manual adding machine calculators, comprising the following makes: Summira S, Brunsviga, Resulta P.9, Facit model Lx (1949)
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5 vintage manual adding machine calculators, comprising the following makes: 2 x Summira S8, Brunsviga, Monroe model LA7-200 (1953), Facit model Esa-0 (1950)
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4 mid century gold metal electronic clocks, German, comprising the following makes: Kieninger & Obergfell (Seth Thomas mark to glass cover), Kundo Electron, Lchatz, Remembrance Electron together with a small carriage clock, 21 cm high and smaller
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3 vintage 400 day dome clocks, German, of varying sizes, one marked Kieninger & Obergfell, 30 cm high and smaller
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4 vintage radios, 1950's-60's, includes the following: Philips 'All Transistor', and three valve radios: AWA Radiola, Pam (with wooden case), Kriesler, Pam: 25 cm high, 41 cm wide, 17.5 cm deep, other models smaller
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