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General Memorabilia — Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:471
Sale Title:General MemorabiliaLots with images:162
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:283
Date:12-Feb-2008
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Assorted Cameras, c1900-1970 including Kodak six-20 folding brownie including original box and directions, Contessa Nettel, Konica Pearllette, Vioightlander Color-skopar, etc. Interesting assortment, and all in good condition. (12)
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Assorted Camera Accessories, c1970 including Micro-data card (specimens preserved in plastic), special effects filters, Olympus close-up lens, Video Telephoto lens, Wide Angle lens & many others. All in good condition. (c100)
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Assorted Metal Camera Tripods, c1970 including Saga, Tripon and many others. Assorted condit. (10)
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Assorted Wood & Brass Cameras and Tripod, c1900 including field camera and tripod 140 cm tall, also wood and brass shutter and box. Not in working condition. Great decorator item
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Assorted Wooden Tripods & Double Dark Slide Holders c1900, comprising: tripods of assorted sizes, most are complete (8), wooden slide holders, complete and in good condition(5). (13)
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Photographic Grab 'Box' c1900-1980 an interesting box of bits and pieces including, close-up adaptor, Yashica camera and case, Flexmeter lens, a tourist map of India, Kodak Orthochrome plates (very colourful box), Lumimeter etc. A surprise a minute. (30+)
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Photographic Ephemera, c1920-1960 including service manuals, repair directions, parts forms etc. Yashica, Elmo, Bell and Howell, Harringtons catalogue of 1925, etc. If it exists and it's not here it doesn't exist. Must view. (c500)
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Engravings/lithographs: c1739-1928 group, noted 1808 hand-coloured engraving from Baudin's 'Voyage De Decouvertes Aux Terres Australes', titled 'Timor. Naba-Leba Roi De L'Ile Solor' (window mounted, 27 x 33 cm), ; c1855 lithographs (5), of safety lamps & mining equipment; c1890 etching 'A Sun Dried Mill in Flanders' by C.M.Pott (British, 1862-1930), signed & titled in margin (window mounted, 51 x 45 cm), ; hand-coloured lithographs from Mathew's 'Birds of Australia' (2), ; c1936 album with c300 postcards,…
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Antarctic engravings: 'A View in Possession Bay, in the Island of South Georgia' from Cook's Voyages (London, 1784); 'A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land, with the Manner of Killing Penguins, a Representation of a Seal, & C' from Cook's Voyages (London, 1784); 'Scenes Connected with Sir Ernest Shackleton's Great Adventure and His Death in 1922' (the Australasian, 1922); 'L'astrolabe'; all framed, various sizes. Fair/good condition. (4 items)
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Engravings: hand-coloured engravings - 'An Offering Before Captain Cook in the Sandwich Islands' (London, 1820s); 'Melbourne' (William Collins, Sons & Co, London, 1860s); 'Natives of Carpentaria' (London, 1874); 'Afia-Too-Ca, a Burying Place in the Isle of Amsterdam' (Tonga, from Cook's Voyages), (London, 1777); the first 3 framed. (4 items)
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Lady's Scrap Album, c1820s-70s, noted large range of clipped engravings & pictures (c200); drawings (10); watercolours (4); early Christmas cards (5); carte-de-visite photograph of Arcachon, France
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Scrapbook Album: 1883-84 Album containing manuscript poems illustrated with early Christmas & Greeting cards. Fair/Good condition
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Mantle clock: Ansonia (New York) mantle clock with oak case and brass dial, c1895 (1882 Patent date stamped on back plate). 35 cm high
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William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody's vest from the Australian tour of his famous Wild West Show in 1903, framed in a perspex display case together with a penny shot out of the hand of a volunteer during his sharp shooting act. Barry Spring's grandfather went to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show during its Australian tour in 1903. He volunteered to let 'Buffalo Bill' shoot a penny out of his hand. Afterwards Buffalo Bill gave him the vest and the coin because he had been 'The Only One Game Enough to Put Up Your Hand'.…
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Collectables: 1964 A & B.C. Gum 'Beatles' cards [17/60]; Phillips Planisphere & book 'An Easy Guide to Southern Stars' by Orr [Edinburgh, c1915]; 'Picturesque Australia' [c1933 & 1934 editions]; 'Picturesque South Australia' [1936]; magazines (4); c1909-10 fold-out pictures of Melbourne Show (3). (c29 items)
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19th century Chinese rosewood toilet mirror, with a drawer in the base; red lacquer finish. 73 x 39 cm
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Mantle Clock: Marble-cased mantle clock, c1910. Neoclassical styling, probably German. 23 cm high
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Mantle Clock: c1910 brass mantle clock with enamel face in glazed dome; German, 29 cm high
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Articulated Croquet Player, c1920 shop display, 141 cm tall. Articulated man swinging mallet
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Radio city music hall, Rockefeller Center New York: original sepia tone photographs of Radio city music hall stage, most with images of the Rockettes (the most famous dance troupe in the world) on stage and in costume (approx. 200); including 26 photographs of the interior of the music hall and its remarkable decor. All contained in four albums which also contain publicity department releases explaining the decor in detail. Also, 23 glossy descriptions of the exhibits at the century of Progress at the 1933…
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