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  • July 22nd, 2008

    Auction 24th July 2008

     

     Auction being held this Thursday 24th July starting at 6.00 pm.

     

    Make sure you check out the catalogue below

     

    Some very interesting collectables on offer this week.  Please make sure you check out the catalogue thoroughly.

     

    Items include 1950’s dolls including black Pedigree, flirty eyes, walking dolls, Roddy, Peerless wetting composition, a pretty Edwardian round wicker sewing basket on stand, Satsuma china, Royal Doulton and Royal Albert china, boomerang, Football stuff including 1957 Essendon membership, Collingwood banner, record, Snow White and Hansel & Gretel 50’s pop-up books in fab condition, Noddles Wibbly Wobbly book, 1905 scrap album from South Africa referencing fires, dip pens, green Carnival glass bowl, copy Stradivarius violin, vintage postcards, 1930’s radios such as AWA, Radiola, Stromberg Carlson, HMV, Peter Pan consol, Tablegram, Hindoo brand and Ensign tea tins, Sterling silver candle holder, oak church hymn board, brass fire screen and coal scuttles, Kosta Boda Vallien plate, Stereoscope views, heaps of records including 78 rpms, LP’s, heavy metal, Juda Priest, DIO, Goons Show, Edna, jazz, bigbands, Creedance, car brochures, kitchen scales, Limoges, 60’s bear, 50’s Meccano magazines, 1965 & 1972 Olympics souvenirs, Gerbruder Bing Art Nouveau copper and brass spirit kettle, 50’s Darling mail order catalogues, motor race game, dolls bride dress, 30’s Bonzo fountain pen, petrol, oil tins, tobacco and cigarette tins such as Pioneer Brand, Galle style glass, costume jewellery, Victorian writing box, tools, Victorian sterling silver brooch, weaving loom, Demascene bracelet, kitchenalia, vintage clothing, mens suits,70’s safari suit, shoes, waiters jacket, lingerie, girdles, bras, dresses, 60’s wool coat, convex glass frame, motor repair manuals, gem rock samples, coins, button hooks, 4 pink Priscilla the musical ping pong balls, dolls house, vintage bottles, brown Bakelite pick up truck, Fischer Technik, diecast toys include Franklin Mint Rolls Royce, fighter plane, Matchbox MOY’s, Corgi, Lledo, boxed c/work dog in a basket, boxed Mettoy tin typewriter, boxed Charlie Weaver, model balsa wood plane kit, Star Wars collectables, battery operated chimp xylophone player, tin clockwork turtle, books, WW2 history set, Peg Maltby, Bridgette Bardot, Songsters, Disney Bongo and Wonder, art, cookery, Maurice Walsh, John Masters, Sci-Fi. 

     

    Oz pottery by Juckert, Gunda, Dyson, Alan Lowe, Florenz, Charles Wilton, Nell McCredie, Newtone, Remued, Diana, Melrose, Ray Cook, etc.

     

    Oil paintings by Adrianne Strampp, watercolours by J.W. Roach and George Mansell and two 18th century hand coloured Dutch engravings.

     

    Vanessa Crew

    The Collector

     

     

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    Selection of items being sold this Thursday 24th July starting at 6.00 pm

                             

          

        

         

       

         

          

                 

                

                 

     

     

     

    July 17th, 2008

    Recent auction Highlights

    The Australiana auction held recently by The Collector was well attended and high prices were paid across the board for the large range of interesting collectable items.

    A collection of vintage tins sold very well, along with postcards featuring Aborigines, a Boer War photo album with photos of Australian officers and soldiers and a great collection of Australian pottery. 

     

    An interesting  exhibition catalogue of Rex Batterby and John A. Gardners painting trip to Central Australia in 1933 sold for $144.   This excursion was where Albert Namatjira and other Hermansburg artists discovered the art of Western style landscape painting. 

     

    The next special sale on the 3rd July will featuring Books, tools & military items to be followed by Sport on the 7th August.

    Entries and enquiries are welcome.

     

     

    2 x Vintage BAKELITE TELEPHONES - Black and Cream

    $119

    Early Chrome HOLDEN LION CAR BONNET MASCOT

    $54

    WWII US NAVY Sterling Silver SWEETHEART BADGE with diamante encrusted anchor and “USN”

    $54

    Fab WWII Trench Art Graduated Australian COIN BRACELET, inscribed - To Helen from John SWPA (South West Pacific Area) 1944

    $77

    Large Vintage ‘ELVIS’ hot water flask with pourer - features image of Elvis singing

    $42

    Fab 19th C. T&C CLARK Cast Iron and Brass COFFEE GRINDER

    $107

    Fab Vintage STETHESCOPE - Cloth Coated Tube with Bakelite Ends - one end for the ear, trumpet for the patient’s chest

    $89

    1975 Hanna Barbera - Boxed Flintstones Big Sounder phonograph

    $117

    Shadow boxed framed collage - “THE FOOTY SHOW” -  Greatest Hits of the first decade - inc. multi platinum DVD SIGNED by SAM NEWMAN, 3 sculptured 3D figures of NEWMAN, McGUIRE & MARMALADE presented by Sony Music 2004.

    $293

    H/cover Vintage Kid’s Vol. - JACK PUMPKINHEAD OF OZ - by Ruth Plumly Thompson

    $70

    H/cover Vol. - AUSTRALIA REMEMBERS - In Grateful Memory of L/Stkr Arnold H Kirby, HMAS Perth, incl. Photos

    $82

    Large Vintage BUSHELLS BLUE LABEL TEA TIN featuring ladies picking tea leaves, approx 6lb

    $152

    Fab. English Square Art Deco ceramic LAMP BASE, Marked Waite and Son, Handpainted in Orange, Brown and Yellow Wave Pattern, H.15.5cm

    $94

    Booklet “By silver Streams and Fairy Dells” featuring scenic views of Lorne, Tangil River, Grampians, Fitzroy Gardens, etc. c1900

    $41

    Lovely French Julien Art Deco Style VASELINE GLASS BOWL with Grape Vine Decoration, d.30cm

    $117

    Fab. Vintage Australian CENTENARY TIN - FANCY BISCUIT CUTTERS Melbourne 1834 - 1934, complete with cutters - heart, spade, diamond, club and 2 x map of Australia shapes

    $47

    Vintage RUSSIAN Religious ICON - Handpainted Portrait of Saint surrounded by ornate pressed brass, timber backed, Russian text to lower section, 37 x 32cm

    $624

    Large Carved Wooden Tribal PNG SEPIK RIVER FIGURE - Male Ancestor with Very Long Beard, Natural Fibre and Ochre Decoration, Cowry Shell Eyes, H.101cm

    $94

    1950’s Gerry Gee Junior with painted eyes wearing check shirt & yellow trousers, etc.

    $180

    Vintage Rubber KOALA shaped Nursery LAMP - made by Netta Australia - working

    $48

    Remarkable vintage Photo album with approx 25 photos of soldiers in the BOER WAR - featuring camps, horseman, cannons, cooking etc

    $840

    Vintage Photograph of the Township of WARATAH - tin mine in Tasmania featuring houses, sheds, felled trees etc inscribed in pencil lower margin “Township of Waratah Feb 23/78

    $156

    Fantastic HAPPY THOUGHTS Tobacco TIN, minor surface rust & scuff marks but in excellent cond for age.

    $84

    Fab Turn of the century group photograph of the Ebenezer Aboriginal mission “Girl’s House” all wearing Edwardian dress - possibly North West Victoria

    $228

    Original Framed Hand Drawn Poster From  WESTSCOTT’S THEATRETTE - Official film of the 1956 OLYMPIC GAMES - Oct 12th & 13th. Kindly loaned by OLYMPIC TYRES - In fantastic Condition - 50×54.5cm

    $84

    Large ABORIGINAL Dot Painting on Canvas - Untitled - No details verso - 70×61.5cm

    $54

    Framed ALAN WARREN (1919-1991)  Oil Painting - MOUNTAIN SCAPE - Signed & dated ‘84, lower right, further details verso - 30×25cm

    $240

    Large vintage ETA POTATO CRISPS TIN - “Snap happy snacks” some rust & scuffing but overall good cond.

    $192

    Harold HUGHAN Oz pottery PLATE - speckled beige ground with floral centre on brown ground - 28cms D - impressed mark to  base

    $336

    Fab. Vintage POKERWORK Doyley PRESS featuring handpainted KOOKABURRA, leaves etc. - good cond.

    $36

    Pair of Vintage Ceramic ABORIGINAL MALE ELDER BOOKENDS, both bearded, one with red headband, sgd but difficult to read, H.20cm

    $144

    Small vintage wooden haberdashery CHEST OF DRAWERS, 12 x upper drawers & 4 knobs, & 1 lower drawer 43.5cm L

    $114

    TAXIDERMY DUCK in fair condition.

    $60

    1940s-50s AUSTRALIAN Homemade WOODEN TOY CAR with metal mesh windscreen, wooden wheels, original paint, 48cm l.

    $72

    John GILBERT Oz pottery tapered VASE - avocado green & black speckled glaze - 19.5 cms H

    $204

    Lovely Cedar APPRENTICE 3 Drawer CHEST - Large round Brass Knobs, c.1900 - Fab Cond.

    $384

    Fab. Vintage Large round Melbourne TEA TIN - EDWARDS ‘ENSIGN’  - yellow/navy/gold - 10 lbs. Net - g. cond.

    $156

    2 x vintage Oz TINS - Francis’ & Co. Melb. VOCO JUBES & Foster-McClellan, Syd. DOAN’S OINTMENT - pictorial tins - c1900 - g.c.

    $42

    Handpainted MARTIN BOYD OZ POTTERY plate “Ballerina” on purple ground signed to base “Martin Boyd 1950, 19cm dia.

    $84

    Heavy chromed dish in the shape of map of Australia with attached SPITFIRE

    $144

    Fab Blue OZ POTTERY Electric JUG with Melrose-Like Mottled Blue Glaze, H.22cm

    $132

    Gus McLAREN Oz pottery Tudor style GOBLET - wide base unglazed, top brown speckled glaze with applied motifs - H. 13.5 cms - sgd to base

    $72

    Eric BRYCE CARTER Oz pottery GUM LEAF with two applied gum  nuts - mottled yellow/brown/green glaze - 15 cms L - signed to base

    $90

    GOLDEN FLEECE water pump grease TIN, in exceptional condition no rust or scuff marks to body, minor rust to base.

    $102

    Vintage WEMBLEY WARE OZ POTTERY Lustre ASHTRAY with Aboriginal Stockman

    $162

    Fab Vintage Green Bakelite AWA MANTLE VALVE RADIO, Model 800M, crack to underside of case

    $792

    1933 Exhibition CATALOGUE - Central AUSTRALIAN PAINTINGS - held by Rex. ABTTARBEE and John A. GARDNER at the Athenaeum Gallery, Collins St., Melbourne, - exc. Cond.

    $144

    Vintage ABORIGINAL Cloth DOLL on Mulga Wood Stand - “The MOOPIL Doll” - Original Souvenir from the 1936 Film UNCIVILISED, directed by Charles Chauval, with Body Paint, feather hair piece, natural fibre loin cover and boomerang, original label, H.38cm

    $264

    REMUED OZ POTTERY VASE, Green/Brown/Yellow Drip Glaze, Ribbed to top and bottom, pinched centre, sgd to base, H.13.5cm

    $204

    MERRIC BOYD Oz pottery squat shaped VASE with a thick green drip glaze - incised BOYD to base & dated 1922 - 6cms H x 9.5 cms D

    $132

    CASTLE HARRIS Oz pottery Wall VASE - pink mottled glaze with applied BANKSIA pods & leaves - sgd. To base - 18cms L (chip to top)

    $204

    McHUGH OZ pottery  Alsatian DOG FIGURE on Base, Dog in Lying/Sitting Position, Green Base, Brown Dog, H.21cm L.33cm

    $1620

     

    Vanessa Crew