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Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)
Number of lots recorded:96
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*** Thunderbolt' Art Series Postcards (6 Cards in Packet) No.70: c1905 complete series titled 'Thunderbolt Series': 'Three Minutes to Live', 'The Wounded Companion', 'The Meeting', 'Hands Up', 'For Life & Liberty' & 'The Leap for Life', several with the… ***
*** Melbourne & Victoria: A collection of albumen photographs laid down on card or paper pages, images of various sizes including 'Elizabeth Street 1880', Bourke Street, Collins Street, Flinders Street, Church of England Grammar School, St Kilda 1880', The… ***
*** Stereographs Collection of cards including 'The American Fleet' (53), 'Duke of York Celebrations' (53), 'The Great War' (22), Boer War (12), New Zealand (39), Australian themes (40), total 219 cards ***
*** A collection of four leather bound books in bespoke stand, Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain, published for Harding and Lepard, Pall Mall East,1834, each volume 40 x 48 cm ***
*** 1899-1923 Australian Cigarette Cards in Album, noted 1900 Atc 'Beauties - Black background' [25]; 1900 Atc 'Songs D' [25]; 1903 Bat 'Beauties - Stippled background' [23/25]; 1903 Bat 'Beauties - Water Girls' [25]; 1903 Bat 'Beauties - Marine Girls'… ***
*** 1924 Hignett Bros. 'International Caps and Badges', complete set (25); plus 1928 Churchman 'Famous Cricket Colours' (25). G/VG ***
*** Don Bradman: 1995 Sanitarium (Weet-Bix) 'The Bradman collection', complete set [20], with all cards signed by Don Bradman ***
*** 1997 Futera 'Superstar Signature Card' [2] - Steve Waugh #56/100 & Jason Gillespie #26/200; 'Captain Signature Card' [2] - Ian Chappell #22/100 & Mark Taylor #37/100; 'Legend Signature Card' [2] - Neil Harvey #35/100 & Norm O'Neill #39/100 (each with… ***
*** 1931 Allens 'Bradman's Records' (2nd Series), part set [19/32]. Poor/G. Rare. ***
*** 1970-84 Scanlens 'Footballers', noted 1970 [60/66]; 1978 [15/156]; 1979 (120); 1980 (175); 1981 (87 + one mis-cut error); 1982 (192) & 1984 (5). Mainly Fair/VG. (Total 654) ***
*** 1908-09 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Football - Incidents in Play', complete set [16]. G/VG. [Includes the card overwritten as 'Geelong && Melbourne;does not include error card 'Carlton & Geelong'] ***
*** 1908-09 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers - Victorian League Players', Series D, complete set [60]. G/VG. ***
*** 1909-10 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers - Victorian League Players', Series E, complete set [60]. G/VG. ***
*** 1964 Scanlens 'Footballers' [20/33 + 1 spare] - Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 13, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 (2), 27, 29, 30, 31 & 32. Fair/VG ***
*** 1923 J.J.Schuh (Magpie Cigarettes) 'Portraits of our Leading Footballers', almost complete set [98/106], includes numbers 1-96 with both types of Nos.15 & 16. G/VG. ***
*** c1933-51 football cards, noted 1933 Carreras 'Bob Mirams Caricatures' [49/72 + 18 spares]; 1933 Carreras 'Personality Series - Footballers' [37/72]; 1933 Hoadleys 'Victorian Footballers' [37/50]; 1933 Wills 'Footballers 1933' (c200); 1934 Allens 'League… ***
*** 1908-09 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers - Victorian League Players', Series D, complete set [60]. G/VG ***
*** 1922 J.J.Schuh (Magpie Cigarettes) 'Australian Footballers' (half to full length portraits), complete set [60]. G/VG ***
*** Wheeler, Samuel, settler field of Mars (vendor) (indenture)., 12 December, 1794. ***
*** News Letter of Australiasia, A Narrative to Send to Friends 1862, Mount Alexander, From Near the Railway, Bark Canoes on the Murray River: 'Overland Corner, Sneaking the Emu, The Victorian Exhibition in Melbourne, for the 'World's Fair, Squatting Life,… ***
*** Jjoannes Van Keulen, Yrland, Schotland, hand coloured map, circa. 1681, 50 cm high, 58 cm wide ***
*** 1930 Plumridge's Confectionary 'Australian Cricketers' [15]. G/VG. {very scarce - the Deadman catalogue lists 11, Harris & Seymour list 4 more & some varieties}. ***
*** Tasmania: A collection of 1870s-90s albumen photographs laid down on pages or card, various sizes. Subjects mostly annotated in a contemprary hand and include 'Abandoned Penal Establishment, Salt Water River', Hobart Town Harbour 6th April 1880,… ***
*** Jones, John H. (1817-1872), Gold Digger's log hut (titled verso), circa 1861, Stereoscopic albumen print photograph (72 x 72 mm each image) on original pale yellow card mount. This very early Victorian goldfields photograph by John H. Jones was part of a… ***
*** A collection of documents and items relating to James Sprent, surveyor of Hobart town in 1841, comprising a sealed parchment manuscript (Sprent's degree certificate), a University of Glasgow cruise boarding pass dated 1822, another dated 1823, and another… ***
*** WILSON, Hardy 'Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania' [Sydney, 1924]. Hardcover. SIGNED Number 240 out of 1,000. Gilt lettering and decoration on front/ back cover and along spine. All plates and tissue guards present and intact. ***
*** Queensland: A collection of postcards produced by the Queensland Government for distribution during the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908 in London. The cards were intended to attract potential settlers, tourists and investors and were printed by G. A.… ***
*** 1911-38 cricket cards in album, noted 1926 Sweetacres (Minties) 'Cricketers', [19/36], 1911 Wills (Australia) 'Australian & English Cricketers' [59], 1928 Major Drapkin 'Australian and English Cricketers' [40], 1929 Wills (Australia) 'Cricket Season… ***
*** 1923 Lenten's Shamrock Store Bendigo 'Victorian Country Footballers - Rochester' (14/14 known). G/VG ***
*** General Erwin Rommel [1891-1941] 'The Desert Fox': An authority signed as Commander in Chief of the African Panzer Division, 2nd Oct.1941; shortly before the breaking of the Seige of Tobruk. The document confirms the awarding of Distinguished Service… ***
*** 1933 Giant Licorice (Licorice Larks) 'League & Association Footballers', complete set [108]. Fair/VG. Scarce - the first complete set we have offered ***
*** 1904-24 football cards, noted Sniders & Abrahams 1904 (4), 1905-06 (17), 1906-07 (21), 1907-08 (14), 1908-09 (9), 1909-10 (20), 1910-11 Rays (2), 1911 Pennant (3), 1912 Star (1), 1913 Shield (2), 1908-09 Incidents in Play (4); 1905 Wills 'Past & Present… ***
*** 1935 Hoadleys 'League Footballers', complete set [72]. Once again only five teams are included - South Melbourne, Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon & Footscray. Mainly G/VG. Scarce set ***
*** 1929 Griffiths (Black Crow) 'Football Series' (34/210). One damaged, others Fair/VG. ***
*** Ships: An attractive collection of postcard including a nice range of Japanese cards. (119 items) ***
*** 1972-89 Scanlens football cards, noted 1972 (7), 1973 (56), 1974 [111/132 + 56 spares], 1975 [120/132 + 36 spares], 1976 [95/132 + 6 spares], 1977 [124/132 + 10 spares], 1978 (103), 1987 (6), 1989 set [168], also 1975 Sunblest [4/28] & 1999 Pace Farms… ***
*** 1959 Kornies 'Footballer Swap Cards', part set (31/36). Fair/VG. Scarce. ***
*** 1921 McIntyre Bros. (Australia) 'Australian Champion Eleven, 1920-21', complete set [15], with tartan surround; plus packet from McIntyre's Eating chocolate. Mainly G/VG. ***
*** First Melbourne Cup: 'The Argus' newspapers (3) for Thursday Oct.31 1861, Friday Nov.1 1861 & Saturday Nov.2 1861, the first including the acceptances for the first Melbourne Cup, including 'Mr.De Mestre's b h Archer, 5 yrs, 9st. 7 lb.', and the full… ***
*** A folio of forty one photographs and lithographs inlcuding images of Honolulu, various harbour scenes and ships and portraiture, 8 x 23 cm (average size) ***
*** Soderberg, R. Studies of the birds in north west Australia. Results of Dr. E. Mjoberg's expeditions to Australia, 1910-1913, [Part] XVIII. Stockholm, 1918. Quarto, pp. 116, with 5 plates (one coloured) and text illustrations including a map, contemporary… ***
*** Picturesque Atlas of Australasia' by Hon. Andrew Garran [Syd, Melb. Lon. 1886], three volumes, original half morocco with gilt lettering ***
*** (La Peyrouse) Imaginary Voyage, Decouvertes dans la Mer du Sud. Nouvelles de M. de la Peyrouse, Jusqu'en 1794. Traces de son passage trouvees en diverses isles et terres de l'Ocean Pacifique, grande isle peuplee d'emigres français. (Paris, Chez Everat,… ***
*** Collection of vintage and antique postcards including real photograph street scenes of Rosebud and Dromana, Aboriginals, aviation, Roses Series, Olinda, Monbulk, country towns etc. Inspection will reward. (220+ cards) ***
*** HENDERSON, Alexander 'Henderson's Australian Families. A Genealogical and Biographical Record. Volume 1' [all published], 1st Edition [Melbourne, 1941]. 408 pp. with very many black and white illustrations (portraits, houses and family crests), orig. red… ***
*** Matthew Flinders' Narrative of His Voyage in the Schooner Francis: 1798. . Flinders, Matthew, Buckland Wright, John (engraver), Rawson, Geoffrey (preliminary text) [The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. London]. Limited to 750 numbered copies (this copy being… ***
*** 1993 Futera 'Allan Border The Master' signed card #34/50 with Redemption card & Certification card. VG ***
*** 1907-08 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers', Series D (head & shoulders), complete set (56). G/VG ***
*** 1995 Futera 'The Heritage Collection - A Collection of Great Australian Cricketers', complete set (60), with 58 of the cards signed, including Don Bradman, Ray Lindwall, Neil Harvey & Graham McKenzie. VG in special box of issue. Numbered '154/500'. ***
*** Aviation: Panorama with caption in photograph 'Sir Ross Smith & Party Arrived Melbourne Feb 25th 1920'. 99 x 23 cm ***
*** 1905-10 Wills 'Past & Present Champions', complete set [50]. Mainly G/VG ***
*** 1954 Argus 'Football Swap Cards', complete set [144]. Fair/VG. ***
*** 1907 Sniders & Abrahams 'West Australian Footballers', part set [22/56]. Fair/VG ***
*** 1966 Scanlens 'Footballers', complete set (72), including the 14 die-cut cards. Poor/G. Scarce set. ***
*** 1967 Scanlens 'Footballers', complete set (72). G/VG. ***
*** 1967-89 Scanlens 'Footballers', comprising 1967 (73); 1977 (8); 1979 (3); 1980 (20); 1981 (2); 1982 (16); 1988 (261); 1989 (155); plus unopened packets 1990 (5) & 1991 (4). Fair/VG ***
*** A pair of hand coloured maps of Radnor and Cardigan English 17th century 27 x 32.5 cm by Christopher Saxton ***
*** Amundsen, Roald. The South Pole. An account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Frame, 1910-1912. London, 1912. Two volumes thick octavo, numerous maps and plates, original cloth (flag ornament on spine of the first volume flaked, as often). A… ***
*** 1995 Futera 'The Heritage Collection - A Collection of Great Australian Cricketers', almost complete set [59/60] (missing No.11 Keith Miller), with 58 of the cards signed, including Don Bradman, Ray Lindwall, Neil Harvey & Graham McKenzie. VG in special… ***
*** 1954 Coles 'Victorian Footballers' (series 1) complete set [56]. G/VG. Superb condition ***
*** J.S. Frys & Sons: 1913 'With Captain Scott at the South Pole', complete set (25) Vf ***
*** ROBERTSON, E. Graeme & CRAIG, Edith N. 'Early Houses of Northern Tasmania - An Historical and Architectural Survey' [Georgian House, Melbourne, 1964] in 2 volumes. Limited edition [#198] signed by the authors and endorsed 'To Geoffrey Stilwell with many… ***
*** Hawthorn - Prahran circa 1887. Two canvas backed maps scale 400 feet to an inch, stone engraved by Clarence Woodhouse [printed by John Batton 79 Queen St], housed in original black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. ***
*** Eleven original silver gelatin photographs of Mount Morgan Open Cast Mine, Queensland pre-1908 (when the railway was built). 15 cm x 11 cm ***
*** 1938 Hoadleys Chocolates 'Test Cricketers', medium size, complete set [36], plus 1936 Hoadleys 'Test Cricketers', complete set [40]. G/VG ***
*** 1950 Anare Antartic Expedition: Archive from a member of the expedition to his mother, noted long letters (10), telegrams (4) & cables (6); plus copies of Press Releases & ephemera. Fascinating group. ***
*** New Zealand : good group including Maori, shipping, Napier, real photographs and 6 panoramic 'Wallet Cards'. (165 items) ***
*** Photograph: Federal Parliamentary Labor Party meeting in Canberra October 23rd, 1937; A group photograph of 42 of the 45 members of the House of Representatives, Senators and Senators-Elect with 30 original signatures including former Prime Minister James… ***
*** 1908-09 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Football - Incidents in Play', complete set (16). G/VG. ***
*** 1933 Allens 'League Footballers' (Striped Colours), complete set [144] plus error card No.120 (one reads 'S.Baker', other reads 'S.Barker'). Mainly G/VG ***
*** 1934 Allens 'League Footballers' (Pennants), complete set [72]. G/VG ***
*** 1932 Godfrey Phillips 'Victorian League and Association Footballers', complete set (50). Mainly G/VG. ***
*** 1954 Coles 'Victorian Footballers' (Series 1) almost complete set (54/56). G/VG. Superb condition. ***
*** Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868, Italian composer): 'Mozart - Don Giovanni - Partition 1' album of musical notation of the opera, with composers inscription and signature dated 1863. Note additional hand written text, 'This book was presented by Rossini to… ***
*** 1967 Scanlens 'Footballers', complete set [72]. Mainly G/VG. ***
*** Five wooden bound Chinese illustrated books, early 20th century, one depicting farming, two with festivals, one preparing tea, one silk and one, the pages gold tipped, 21 x 15 cm ***
*** 1967 Scanlens 'Footballers', part set [62/72]. Fair/G ***
*** 1909 Unknown 'South Australian Footballers' (4/56) - L.L.Hill, H.M.Miller, H.W.D.Stoddart & R.J.B.Townsend (all Norwood). Fair/G condition. Extremely rare. (Very little is known about this set. The fact that some of. the subjects are the same as the Sweet… ***
*** 1926 Craig & Hales 'Australian Sportsmen and Racehorses' (8/30 footballers) - G.Campbell, A.Dickens, C.Gambetta, J.Gill, J.Kelly, C.McDonald, A.Trevaskis & D.Walsh. One Fair, others G/VG. Rarity 8. ***
*** 1932 Hoadleys (3d Violet Nutty Bar) 'Victorian League Footballers', part set (31/108). Fair/VG. Rarity 8. The scarcest of the Hoadleys sets. ***
*** 1970 Scanlens 'Footballers', complete set (66). Poor/VG. ***
*** C1908-75 football cards in album, noted Sniders & Abrahams, Wills, J.J.Schuh, Hoadleys, Godfrey Phillips, Allens, giant Licorice, Kornies, Twisties, Atlantic, Sunblest 'V.F.L.Footy Cards' [25/28]. Poor/G. Inspection will reward. (172 items). ***
*** Charles Woolley (1834-1922), Queen Truganini - Last of the Tasmanians, King Billy, A pair of sepia prints, each inscribed on margin, 12.5 x 9 cm each ***
*** Mountford, Charles P. and Specht, R.L., editors. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. Melbourne, [1956-64]. Four volumes quarto, plates (some coloured), maps, and numerous illustrations, original cloth, all but the… ***
*** Conditional Pardon For Convict William Sweeney, 1849 (January 13) pardon, headed Van Diemen's Land, granted to William Sweeney of Ireland, on the condition that 'he shall not during the said period for which the said sentence was pronounced return to of… ***
*** Tulloch & Brown's Map of the Colony of Victoria Comprising part of New South Wales. Seaport and Inland Townships, the Gold Fields with the latest Discoveries, Roads, Tracks, &e. &c. 1857' (Tulloch & Brown, Melbourne, 1857) large map mounted on linen and… ***
*** First Fleet & Botany Bay: the London Chronicle, July 21-23, 1789: Features an 'Extract of a Letter from Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, county of Cumberland, New South Wales, to Mrs. Dinah Cable, at Laxfield.....dated November 17, 1788.' A rare letter from a… ***
*** 1904-14 Sniders & Abrahams football cards, noted 1904 with framelines [4/24] & without framelines [5/50], 1905-06 [7/76], 1906-07 [6/76], 1907-08 [19/56], 1908-09 [19/76], 1909-10 [14/60], 1910-11 Rays [9/60], 1911-12 pennant [13/60], 1912-13 star [17/60]… ***
*** 1954 Fyna Foods 'Victorian Footballer Caricatures', almost complete set [23/24] with club colours at base. Stuck down onto card, mainly G/VG. Rarity 8 ***
*** Ann Norman - A Female Convict in Van Diemen's Land, The record of her convictions, punishments, physical appearance, etc., recorded in manuscript on vellum. Ann arrived in Van Dieman's Land in August 1827 one of 60 female convicts aboard the 'Persian',… ***
*** Charles Bayliss - Photographer [1850-1897], A small group of albumen prints including 'Aborigines of New South Wales', 'Native Australians', 'Govett's Leap' and one other. (4 images). ***
*** Victoria: Hiscocks, F.E. & Co., publishers. 'F.E. Hiscocks & Co.'s New Victorian, Counties Atlas. Melbourne, 1874'. Folio, title, 5 leaves of letterpress and 22 lithographed maps, hand-coloured, original leather & cloth binding with the original gilt… ***
*** Monty Noble, display comprising signature on piece, window mounted with postcard & original drawing by Chris Meadows, framed & glazed, overall 54 x 44 cm. (Monty Noble played 42 Tests 1897-1909) ***
*** Album of vintage postcards including Aborigines, real photographs of Portland, advertising etc. Well worth inspection. ***
*** Map of the Province of South Australia 1862, printed by R. K. Burt London, lithograph, 76 x 66 cm ***
*** MEREDITH, Louisa Anne [1812-1895] 'Some of my Bush Friends in Tasmania. Native flowers, berries and insects drawn from life, illustrated in verse and briefly described' [Day & Son, London, 1860]. Folio. Orig. tooled cloth with bevelled boards. Ornamented… ***