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Antique Auction — Gowans Auctions

Auction House:Gowans AuctionsNumber of lots recorded:286
Sale Title:Antique AuctionLots with images:286
Auction Location:HobartPrices available:206
Date:7-Oct-2017
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Leather bound limited edition 236/275 William Gould, Convict Artist of VDL
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Victorian rosewood card table with facetted pedestal on lion paw feet
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19th century mahogany gents chair with shaped back
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Pine travel trunk, carved inscription Reads: Doct Bland Sidney (Sic) NSW Surgeons Inst from Everill & Co. Doctor William Bland Was a medical Practitioner and Politician Sent to Hobart Town as a Prisoner in 1814, 115 cm long, 54 cm deep 48.5 cm high
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19th century mahogany gents chair
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K. Kawai baby grand piano (no. 600) Serial no. 359985
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Colonial Tasmanian Land Grant on vellum dated 1868 and signed by Governor Colonel Gore Browne with wax seal
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Colonial Land document dated 1839 for Land near Launceston on vellum to J. Redman Bateman (Magistrate 1846-47) & Matthew Curling friend (Prominent early Settler) & John Thethewie (convict)
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Colonial Tasmanian Land Grant on vellum dated 1836 and signed by Governor George Arthur with wax seal
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Van Diemens Land Supreme court document
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19th century mahogany inlaid gentlemans press with 2 door top and 3 drawer base on turned legs
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19th century 4 door glass top teak bookcase on paw feet with mother of pearl escutcheons & recessed brass handles
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19th century cedar 2 door wardrobe on 3 drawer base
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19th century cedar 2 door wardrobe fitted with drawers
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Slate fire surround & Mantlepiece flanked by half columns
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19th century cedar 3 door 3 drawer sideboard
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1861 bound Hobart Town Gazettes
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Colonial Tasmanian Land document on vellum dated 1839 to John Badock (early Pioneer Longford
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Contemporary Review, 2 Vols (1876 & 1893)
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19th century rosewood inlaid mirror back sideboard with upper shelves supported by turned posts
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Forged garden roller
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Leather bound limited edition, history of the VDL Co by Jorgenson
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Leather bound limited edition Jorgenson & the Aborigines
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Ornate pewter lidded urn with cherub & grape decoration
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Leather bound limited edition 'Tasmanian Almanac 1826'
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Leather bound limited edition 'voyage to NSW & VDL 1820'
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Victorian English oak mirror back sideboard
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Victorian mahogany chest of drawers with cantilever top
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Book, Mammals of Australia by John Gould, volume 1 (British Museum natural history)
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Blackwood stool attributed to George Peddle
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Half model boat hull, 101 cm (back board)
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Three piece Burmese teak set, 2 single & double seats
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19th century octagonal top table inlaid with Australian timbers on blackwood tripod pedestal base
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Blackwood & pine Victorian miners couch with rolling pin ends
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Victorian rosewood fold over tea table on quadraform base
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Strong box with convict style arrow & crown
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Seal skin jacket
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Victorian mahogany glass top bookcase with drawer
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Officers red coat from Port Arthur with W.D and broad arrow printed into sleeve lining
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Large Victorian overmantle with bevelled mirrors
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19th century cedar chiffonier with shelf & full columns
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Leather Firemans pail dated 1783
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Pair of Victorian walnut ladies & gents chairs
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Mid Victorian pine Nautical chest with 2 internal & 1 external drawer
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Van Diemens Land map, J. Arrowsmith
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Scandalli Super VI piano accordion in case
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Victorian mahogany marble top washstand
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The leisure Hour 1858-61, 4 Vols
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Whaling harpoon, 111 cm
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Whaling tool, skull cracker, 85.5 cm
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Forged blubber spade with grip handle, 92.5 cm
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Small harpoon, 51.5 cm
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Brass miners lamp
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Whaling tool, blubber knife, 88 cm
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Whale blubber spikes, 3 tyne
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An Austrian Baroque oak crucifix, 17th century
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Kangaroo skin rug/bedspread (Queen size)
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Colonial Victorian land purchase document on vellum dated 1861. Signed by Governor Sir Henry Barkly with wax seal
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Van Diemens Land map, J. Arrowsmith
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Massive room size rare treasure design hand woven Persian Kashmar rug 355 x 250 cm
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Full room size semi antique Royal classic hand woven Persian Mashad rug 300 x 200 cm
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Victorian oval walnut pedestal dining table
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Brass fire fender
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19th century cedar 2 door display cabinet on barley twist
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Victorian papier mache mother of pearl inlaid pedestal games table
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Victorian mahogany dressing table
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19th century Korean wedding chest on chest
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19th century mahogany glass top bookcase with 4 drawer base on bracket feet
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19th century cedar glass top bookcase
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Hobart Town convict brick
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Sandstone trough, carved with 'Est. 1876', 90 cm long, 31 cm wide, 29 cm high
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Sandstone sundial column, 104 cm high
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Sandstone trough, 100 cm long, 36 cm wide, 28 cm high
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Two volumes Captain Cooks First second Third & Last Voyages, printed for Alex Hogg (some pages missing)
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Book, Haughton Forrest by George Brown
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Pair of small framed oil paintings on tin
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French 19th century brass firedogs
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Convict ball
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Whaling Flitching hook
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Black powder whale harpoon
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Pair of leg Irons
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Leather Colonial Coachman's money pouch engraved with the name Montrose in plaque
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Pair iron entrance gates, 144 cm, each
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Iron Blubber pot
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Sandstone coach steps (1 metre high approx)
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Python skin
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