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

Auction House:Gibson's Auctioneers & ValuersNumber of lots recorded:199
Sale Title:Australian, Maritime & Exploration, Part IILots with images:198
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:140
Date:10-Jul-2023
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An Australian pottery vase, in tones of blue and orange decorated with stylised trees, inscribed to base, 15 cm high
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Arthur Merric Boyd (1920 - 1999), a small earthenware dish hand painted with a desert scene, inscribed to base: 'Amb', 12 cm diameter
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John Castle-Harris (1893-1967), A glazed earthenware basket, of fluted form in rose and mint colours with a blue rope twist handle and an applied bird in colours to the body, incised Castle Harris to base, 10 cm high, Provenance: Property from the Collection of Andree Harkness
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John Castle-Harris (1893-1967), a waisted earthenware vase with a wavy rim encrusted with applied grapes and vine leaves in transparent blue, mauve and pale teal glazes over a cream ground, inscribed Castle Harris with faint numerals underside, 18 cm high
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Greg Daly (B.1954), A shallow landscape studio pottery ceramic bowl, with rich glaze effect on a black ground, 18 cm diameter
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Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (1920 - 1999), A green glazed slip ware jug, with yellow glazed interior, incised signature to base 'Arthur Merric Boyd', 34 cm high
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William Ricketts (1899-1993), Out of the rocks they come, spirit from the eternal sun, ceramic sculpture, incised to base: Wm Ricketts / 'out of the rocks they come, spirit from the eternal sun', 9 cm high
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A pair of ceramic sauce boats, marked E.B, 1930's, shaped as leaves with twig form handles, in green and brown slip glazes, inscribed E.B to the base of one, faint marks to other, 6 cm high, 14 cm wide, 5 cm deep
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Ola Cohn (1892-1964), A pair of painted ceramic book ends, featuring a pair of seated literary figures on integral plinth bases, 27 cm high, 13 x 15 cm base. Other Notes: Made by Ola Cohn for the vendor's grandfather
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A large ceramic wall plate by Martin Boyd (1923-1988), depicting three male corroboree figures with totem poles in the background, in brown and ochre slip colours, incised in script verso, 'Martin Boyd/Australia', 35 cm diameter
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European Flags, American, Asiatic & African Flags, Flags of America, Hawaii and Samoa, Flags of Europe, Africa and Asia, four colour engravings, with printed text on margins, 37.5 x 24.5 cm (two) 27 x 20.5 cm (each, two framed together)
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Airlines of Australia Limited, Winged Messengers of Commerce and Industry, colour lithograph (advertising poster), produced Charles Smith Co., Sydney, 48.5 x 37.5 cm
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Colonial School, Colonial Life, carved timber map of Australia with native floral decoration, inset with two engravings, 9 x 6.5 cm (each engraving), 34 x 38 cm (timber map), together with two Art Nouveau-style timber frames with kookaburra and kangaroo design, inset with two engravings - Prahran Town Hall and Toorak from Old Parliament House, 28 x 19 cm (each)
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An Australian wombat sculpture, a naturalistic earthenware figure of wombat asleep on a piece of gnarled wood, 41 cm long
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The Illustrated London News circa 1880, Wine Growing in Australia - St Hubert's Vineyard, Victoria, colour engraving, with printed text on margin, 20 x 22.5 cm
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A collection of three Antarctic lithographs, Jan Senbergs (Born 1939), Unloading at Mawson Voyage Fix 1987, lithograph, signed, dated, titled and editioned on margin: Jan Senbergs 1987 Unloading at Mawson Voyage Fix 5/80, 21.5 x 26.5 cm, John Caldwell (Born 1942), Heard Island Headland 1987, lithograph, signed, dated, titled and editioned on margin: John Caldwell '87 'Heard Island Headland' 5/80, 21.5 x 26.5 cm, Beatrice (Bea) Maddock (1934-2016), Big Burgh with Antarctic Petrels, lithograph, signed and…
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Two carved and lacquered Balinese temple panels, one depicting a courtly parade, the other a demonic scene, the largest 123 x 36 cm
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A piece of Latrobe Valley brown coal mounted to commemorate Princess Margaret's visit to the Yallourn Power station, 1975, the acrylic casing 6 x 10 cm
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A collection of four wooden walking sticks in various timbers, the largest 89.5 cm long
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A fine antique volume of pressed fern species, 19th century, the cushioned leather bound volume with decoratively arranged pressed specimen foliage, with handwritten binomial nomenclature for each specimen, including many New Zealand ferns and rarities, 37.5 x 27.5 cm
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A Chesty Bonds shop display model, 70 cm high
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A collection of 20 Australian & International postcards, late 19th to early 20th century, comprising two cards of maritime interest and three hand coloured postcards of Victorian aboriginals including at Coranderrk, other
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Jane'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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Luminous: Celebrating 50 Years of The Australian Ballet, with slip cover
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A collection of German Auktionen Dr. Crott catalogues together with a Sotheby's watch catalogue, 1996 and later
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A large collection of copies of Art & Australia
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A collection of share certificates for mining, vineyards and oil, 1928 and later, comprising nine pieces, 20 x 23 cm and smaller
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Victoria the Golden, Scenes, Sketches and Jottings from Nature by William Strutt, Melbourne 1850-1862, facsimile edition with a narrative by Marjorie Tipping, published the Library Committee, Parliament of Victoria 1980
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A folio and two Australian themed books, Fifty Masterpieces of Photography by Dr Julian Smith (1873-1947), reproduced in facsimile by McLaren & Co Pty Ltd, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, 1948, The Australasian Sketcher, 1880, facsimile edition, Heritage Publications, Melbourne, 1970, in slip cover, Fairyland by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, limited edition 918/1000, Ramsay Publishing, Melbourne, 1926
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A Collection of Australian Wildflower Illustrations by Patricia Weare, bound in maroon cloth
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Pigeons and Doves of Australia by Frank Morris, 1976, the volume bound in gilt tooled calf leather, the front cover 52 x 37 cm
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Four limited edition reproductions of Australian Rosellas, by N.W Cayley, together with Australian Impressionist & Realist Artists, 210 works by 70 living Australian artists, by Roberts, Tom (compiler) & Gaylard, Geoff (ed.)
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A remnant of an envelope bearing a New Zealand stamp and Royal wax seal, 1864, Royal wax sealed, with Victorian postmarks, inscribed 'Dandenong', the frame 23 x 23 cm
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Tom Roberts 1856-1931: A Catalogue Raisonne, by Helen Topliss, 2 Volumes, published by Oxford University Press, 1985
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Lloyd's Register of Yachts 1922, No 767, Nigel Lindsay, Esq,. and Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1901, No 1641, J.B Robinson, Esq, 2 volumes
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Four bound volumes, The Argus, 1867-1875, with marbled hard covers, gilt tooled leather spines
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Eugene von Guerard's Australian Landscapes, by Margaret Tipping, 1975, numbered 206 from a limited edition of 1000, signed Margaret Tipping, in slipcover, Lansdowne Press 1975
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The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Volume 2, 1886, edited by Andrew Garran, Ll.D, M.L.C; artist Frederic N.Schell, Sydney, New South Wales, with a gilt tooled hard cover
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Three Australian themed books, comprising Australia: A Camera Study by Frank Hurley, 1961; The Uncommon Garden by Joan Law-Smith, signed and numbered limited edition, 50/195, National Trust of Australia, and; Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 1951-1953: a photographic record, signed 'Frank Thring' in pencil to front page
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Trollope, Anthony, Australia and New Zealand, in two volumes, published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1873, with later leather binding
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A vintage Minolta Xl-400 super 8 film camera, Japanese, together with a Eumig 607d Super 8 silent film projector, Austrian, circa 1970s, each with original vinyl carry case and manuals, 17 cm high
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A Yashima optical Microscope, circa 1960s, with original box and lenses
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Two vintage large sheet metal and brass tropical rain gauges, both of typical form with a collecting funnel and stabilising splayed base, one stamped Cbm 465, the all copper model, marked Cbm 195, the largest 87 cm high
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A mahogany cased stick barometer by L. Casella London, circa 1850s, with a paper scale, 87 cm high
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An oak cased clock barometer in the shape of an anchor, English, reputedly from Penola Station, 57 cm long
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A carved oak barometer/thermometer, early 20th century, with mark of Otto Boettger, Adelaide, to dial, 73 cm long
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Two antique barometer/thermometers, 19th century, a wall hung barometer with calibrated measures housed in a wood frame, the other, an 'improved pocket barometer', by J. Cooke of York, housed in a hinged carry case, 60 cm high, wall barometer
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An Australian oak mounted steel stick barometer, circa 1960, manufactured by R.W Skoglund Instrument Service, Northcote, Melbourne, 102 cm high
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A cased brass carriage clock by Ingram Bros, made in Paris, retailed in Melbourne, circa 1900, having an enamel dial with Arabic numerals and a subsidiary dial, with visible escapement, marked Ingram Bros, Paris, Melbourne, with a hard carry case and associated key, 11.5 cm high, 7.5 cm wide, 6.5 cm deep
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A prismatic compass by Troughton & Simms made for Gaunt & Co., Melbourne, mid 20th century, the folding instrument stamped Pmg, with leather case stamped Pmg, the case 13 cm long
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A portable brass compass and sundial, by J.H. Steward, Strand London, housed in a leather box, 12 cm diameter
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A vintage portable aneroid barometer, Antarctic Division instrument, and an anemometer, the cased aneroid barometer, type M.1991/A, with operating instructions to the inside lid and label marked Dept of Science Antarctic Division, made by Mechanism Ltd, Croydon, and; a calibrated steel and brass anemometer, for measuring wind speed and pressure, stamped Ernesto Allemano - Torino, the case 17 cm high, 16.5 wide, 19.5 cm deep, the anemometer 29 x 41 cm
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A London & Bourne brass mantel barometer, retailed through T. Gaunt & Co, late 19th century, with an open escapement instrument face and blue steel hand, housed in a reticulated and carved oak cradle stand, the face 20 cm diameter, the cradle 45 cm wide
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A commemorative Arctic and Antarctica expeditions Adie Tendency barometer thermometer, The James Clark Ross (1800-1862) Antarctica Expedition 1839, with historical notes, produced by Nauticalia, 44 cm high, 14 cm wide
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An antique cased brass chrondrometer or corn balance, W.R Dell & Son, 26 Mark Lane, London, 19th century, a portable instrument complete with instructions for the weighing of categories of grain, housed in a hardwood case that serves as the base plate for the assembled instrument, the case 8 cm high, 31 cm wide, 15 cm deep
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A leather cased surveyor's instrument, A. G. Barker & Associates, Melbourne, circa 1940, marked 'Surveyor's Aneroid Compensated', made in England, retailer A.G. Barker; leather case stamped Timbers 1940, the instrument face 8 cm diameter
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A group of three vintage barographs, circa 1940-1980, a bakelite cased barograph and two metal cased instruments, various makers including Thies Germany, retailed by Selby, and; Weathertronic, retailed by Dobbie Instruments, the bakelite model marked with trademark, the largest 21 cm high, 31 cm wide, 14 cm deep
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A vintage brass telescope, the telescope mounted on a tripod base, the tube 95 cm, the stand 145 cm high
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A wooden cased barograph, by Richard Freres, 20th century, with a brass drum, eight bellows and recording arm, with key, stamped Rf to base plate, the case 15.5 cm high, 28 cm wide, 13.5 cm deep
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A marine microbarograph, 20th century, for use at sea level, in painted metal with a brass coloured hinged and glazed cover, chrome components to the interior, manufactured by The Instruments Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland, 23.5 cm high, 30.5 cm wide, 14.5 cm deep
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A group of four antique scientific instruments, late 19th/early 20th century, a pocket forecaster by Negretti & Zambra, London; an Airy's altitude meter by Short & Mason Ltd; a instrument by Lizar's opticians, Glasgow, and; an improved surveying aneroid barometer, compensated, made in England for J.H Seward, Melbourne, 8 cm diameter, largest instrument
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A collection of desk and travelling clock barometer/thermometers, 1930's-1950's, comprising a leather cased travelling barometer/thermometer by Negretti & Zambra of London, a German made chrome desk clock retailed through T. Gaunt & Co, Melbourne, and a German gilt metal clock barometer/thermometer, the chrome desk piece 12 x 15 cm
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A small and rare antique cased brass hair hygrometer, 19th century, a folding instrument for the reading of humidity in a velvet lined hard case, 27 cm wide, case
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A vintage microscope by Spencer, Buffalo USA and a binocular microscope by W. Watson & Sons, London, early 20th century, of black finish with brass trims, the Spencer microscope on a horseshoe base, with a tubular pillar and mirror on a swinging bar, with various other eye pieces by Spencer and Wetlar, and; a tripod base Watson & Sons microscope with twin barrels and various eyepieces also by Watson & Sons, both housed in timber carry cases, 32.5 cm high
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A set of brass travelling gold scales, 19th century, with eight weights and housed in the original hard case, the stand 22 cm high when assembled
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A collection of photographs and film relating to the exploration and industrialisation of British Columbia from 1908-1912
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A polished wood fold-out specimen box, 19th century, fitted with twelve trays for glass microscope slides, the prepared slides including some specimens from 1865, of the John Dancer type and some from the university of Bristol, 9.5 cm high, 20.5 cm wide, 10.5 cm deep
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Three fiddleback blackwood walking sticks, one with a horn handle, the tallest 93 cm high
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Two Mount Hagen stone axes, New Guinea, 20th century, both secured with decorative woven two colour rattan binding with similarly shaped and bound axe head shaped counterweights at the opposing end and affixed to tapering wood handles, the largest 65 cm long
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Two large Victorian writing slopes, 19th century, a rosewood box with a shaped brass cartouche to the lid and escutcheon, and a brass bound and strapped walnut box, the largest 16 cm high, 50 cm wide, 27 cm deep
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An antique Smith Premier 50 typewriter, 1920's, 36 cm high
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A framed set of Hamer Hall badges marking the re-opening of the hall, 26th July 2013, one each of all 4 badges handed to VIPs with colours denoting the level of Vip and their access rights within the building
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A shaped piece of wood from the Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, a gift from the Melbourne Recital Centre Executive to a former Victorian Arts Minister, 90 cm long
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A model of an RAAF F-111 Jun 1973 - Dec 2010, from a limited edition, 463/999 to commemorate the end of Australia's purchasing of the aircraft, made from cast metal, 31 cm long from vertical stabiliser to tip
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A horn hooked shepherd's crook together with a cane crook, the largest crook 140 cm long
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A collection of domestic worked ivory implements and tools, late 19th century, including an etui and a brass pinned folding rule, the etui 8 cm long
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A flag commemorating the Queen's Silver jubilee, 1977, with applied stars and royal emblem, 110 x 225 cm
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Y, A framed Hawksbill turtle shell, 44 x 40 cm
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A porcupine quill box, 4.5 cm high, 17.5 cm wide, 10 cm deep
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An interesting mixed group of buttonhooks, early 19th to early 20th century, comprising a Georgian bone handle hook engraved with initials and dated 1809, a silver mounted deer hoof boot hook, and hooks with handles in various materials including antler, ivory, cellulose, faux tortoiseshell, guilloche enamel, together with an ivory shoehorn, the hoof boot hook 29 cm long
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A commemorative Coronation glove buttonhook, 1902, in gilt brass and depicting portraits of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in low relief and surmounted by a crown enclosing a glass orb, 11 cm long
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A mixed group of buttonhooks, a shoehorn and glove stretcher, early 20th century, in various colours and shapes, in bakelite, lucite, faux shagreen and tortoiseshell, and simulated pique, 20 cm and smaller
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A large conch shell, 20.5 cm high
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A plate commemorating the 150th anniversary of Sydney New South Wales, Wood & Sons Ltd, Burslem, England, circa 1938, in blue and white and depicting each of the governors of New South Wales from 1788 to 1938, black factory mark and list of governors underside, 27 cm diameter
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A taxidermied Shingleback Lizard, Australia, 32 cm long
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A cased gold weighing set, the case 3 cm high, 24.5 cm wide, 13.5 cm deep.
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A commemorative ship model produced for Thos. & Jno Brocklebank Ltd., 1935, the model in painted metal stamped in relief underneath, 'Brocklebanks 1770 onwards', 17.5 cm long, Note, One of the oldest firms in merchant shipping, Thos. & Jno Brocklebank Ltd., was founded in 1801 by the sons of Captain Daniel Brocklebank, shipbuilder and master mariner who commenced his enterprise near Portland Maine, North America, in 1770. The business moved to Whitehaven five years later and then to Liverpool remaining…
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An Australian gold football medallion, stylised with scroll detail with an image of a football player, set in 9ct gold and inscribed verso "Best and Fairest Newmerella Football Club 1929", 7.80gms.
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A complimentary ship model produced, R.M.S 'Orion' produced for Orient Lines, mid 20th century, enamel painted galvanised metal in presentation box, with ship particulars and marking the passage between England and Australia, the model 16.5 cm long, Note, The Orient Steam Navigation Company launched the ocean liner 'R.M.S Orion' in 1934, a landmark vessel noted for its modern, uncluttered and airy interiors in chrome and bakelite designed to provide greater comfort for passengers during tropical ocean…
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A vintage oak box reputedly crafted from wood panelling from the officer's wardrooms, Cerberus 1869-1924, the box with copper plaque for Cerberus to lid, copper image of the vessel to inside lid, 7 cm high, 13 cm wide, 8 cm deep
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A pair of carved maple wall panels, early 20th century, 30.5 x 20 cm
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An Australian colonial blackwood and cedar bed, 19th century, with turned supports and rails with finials, and shaped cedar head and foot boards, 120 x 133 cm
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A Victorian mahogany table top toilette mirror, 19th century, raised on wrythen supports with ball finials upon a shaped base, 80 cm high, 70 cm wide, 25 cm deep
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A coopered barrel rocking stool by Timbits, Yandoit, Victoria, with brass maker's plaque
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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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A hardwood rocking chair, the square back rocker with a shaped crest and and scrolling arms, upholstered in a floral print
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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 the Sheriff's Residence, 1 Camp Crescent, Castlemaine, circa 1854
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A colonial cedar dressing table mirror, late 19th century, with an arched mirror with original plate between turned supports and raised on a tiered and shaped base with squashed bun feet
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Two stained glass panels, one panel featuring yellow roses and the companion with red roses, both panes 105 cm high x 44.5 cm wide, larger frame 124 x 53 cm
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A late Victorian mahogany extension dining table, 19th century, with two leaves and raised on turned legs with brass casters, the table 74 cm high, 196 cm wide (with leaves), 105 cm deep, Provenance, Drake House, Australian Catholic University (Acu)
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