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Auction this Thursday 2^nd July  2009 starting at 6.00pm

Dates for upcoming special feature sales are listed below -                 

6th Aug.             Pubanalia & advertising                      

3rd Sept.            Sport

1st Oct.             Vintage clothing & accessories                              

5th Nov.             Decorative Arts

3rd Dec.            Toys

Our Australiana feature sale this week has a large range of Oz pottery as well as interesting ephemera some of which came from the Berry and Norm DePomeroy collections. Items include a printed handkerchief, supplement to the Ballarat Courier in 1899 advertising R.L. Nicholl’s sale and featuring a picture of the Exhibition Buildings Centennial exhibition, Melbourne, a 1950’s Phantom stick pin, dance hall cards from the Berry Collection, paintings by Australian artists Violet Teague, John Summers, May Butler George, J. Claire colonial paintings, original Eric Jollife cartoons, Ellis Rowan framed prints, 1970’s Healing Golden Voice stereo in teak unit, Art Deco boomerang featuring a woman, postcards, Bonzo, advertising blotters, glass kookaburra jelly mould, Victorian blue Vaseline glass epergne, large Clipper honey jar, Wade cottages, 1956 Olympic bricks, Sydenham’s ice cream signs, Victorian gas light, large cloth flags, printed cloth advertising banners, Planet lamp, female mannequin torsos, battery operated singing bird in cage, WW1 certificate, didgeridoos, pokerwork, tokens, E.J. Coles, coins, medallions, Footrot Flat’s comics, 60’s beauty case, Strida folding bike, Depression glass eye baths, automotive gear, Peter Brock poster, motoring mags., anodised canisters, Footy records, Bunnykins lamp, Robur teapot, dome clock, wicker sewing basket, powder compacts, perfume bottles, beaded bags, records 78 & LP’s, J.O.K., Hopalong Cassidy, jazz, Bill Haley, sgd. and framed 2005 boxing poster, sheets music including Ida Outhwaite Rentoul, WW1, Aboriginal songs, Royal Worcester, Albert, Doulton, Coalport china, Orrefors, Keen’s Mustard booklet, vintage packaging, etc.

Australian pottery includes pieces by Slyvia Halpern, Maude Poynter, Allan Lowe, John Gilbert “Ëngobe” bowl, H. McHugh, Gus McLaren, John Dermer, Wembley, Boyd/Perceval, Greg Daly, Una Deerbon, John Campbell, Guy Boyd, S. Gilbert, Martin Boyd, PPP, Regal Mashman, Ellis, Violet Mace, Remued, Regal Art Ware, AM Boyd, Reg Preston, Trudy Fry, Melrose, Newtone, Nykel, Melrose, Yvonne Boyd, Maisey Murphy, Greenway, Diana etc.

Books such as 1880’s Gum boughs & wattle bloom, Wild nature, Wonders of Great barrier reef, Almost Human, Centenary gift book, 6 vol. Story of Australian in pen & picture, 1896 bound vol. Town & Country, Folklore, Grand Prix, Australian birds, Carnival glass, 1931 Hum of the Forest, art & antique reference, Namatjira, Ellis Rowan, etc.

Vanessa Crew  

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Auction catalogue 2nd July 2009    word

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 Auction this Thursday 25th June 2009 starting at 6.00pm

Dates for upcoming special feature sales are listed below -                 

 2nd July             Australiana

Auction this Thursday 18th June 2009 starting at 6.00pm

6th Aug.             Pubanalia & advertising                      

3rd Sept.            Sport

1st Oct.             Vintage clothing & accessories                              

5th Nov.            Decorative Arts

3rd Dec.            Toys

Enquiries and entries invited. Please call Vanessa Crew or Adam Truscott on
03 9568 7811.

We have some very unusual items for sale this week and among them is a collection of insect specimens which include scorpions, 5 horned Rhinoceros beetle and other weird looking things.  Other items for sale include a vintage wicker ”Continental  tea basket” with all accessories, kettle, stove, sandwich tin etc.  You could imagine it on a vintage car. 

A religious icon, a large framed oil c1890  by John Sommers, a National Gallery school student, a brass pocket compass by Stanley of London,  a heavily gilded Bayreuther coffee set, an unused 1920’s wooden and canvas Ezi-Pak stretcher, dressmaker dummy on wooden stand, vintage brass fishing reel, signed Collingwood Football Club football, boxed Sokkisha stereoscope, Carltonware including Spider web and Windswept, 1950’s enamelled military tumblers, vintage Malvern Star racing bike, signed art glass, oil tins including Castrol, Redex, Bushells tea tin, Herend dishes, Hungarian Kalosca doyleys, Ivorine manicure box, Deco dining table, 50’s Semax vitamiser, heaps of records, Stones, Beatles, Elvis, Oz, jazz, Joplin, record player, Paris Art, orange Bakelite comport, Deco china, Victorian velvet photo frame, WW2 military gun holster, Cyclops pedal car, ink bottles, coins, badges, Deco carved marble book ends, linen, hand painted cross cut saw, tools, sculptured metal  Oz theme chess set, harmonica, drums, guitar, Minolta camera, confectionery tins, Stenotype machine, Pacific island tribal stuff, retro furniture, dolls such as Cherub, Pedigree, Okay, Roddy,  boxed Chinese tin toys, boxed diecasts, cigarette lighters, celluloid toys, Mickey, Donald, carved ivory napkin ring, 30’s glass light shades, Meccano set, cereal toys, etc.

Footy cards, finals football records, framed Marilyn print, swapcards, 1940’s military log book for motor bike, sgd. Photo of Ron Blaskett & Gerry Gee, vintage photo album, postcards, swapcards, cricket cards, horse racing, air craft magazines, 60’s men magazines, comics, pocket novels mainly Western, car workshop manuals for Holden, Falcon, Toyota among others, books on Dali, Magic and Prediction, Carter’s 2009 Price Guide to Antiques in Australia, Needlework, Golf, Ethel Turner, Lawson Woods, Fairy tree, Gentle Arts, signed Jeff Fenech, signed cricket book, etc.

Oz pottery by G. Evelyn Davies, Ian Smith, Viola, Martin Boyd, Toniola, Charles Wilton, Greenway, Picton Hopkins, AM Boyd, Sylha among others.

Auction catalogue 18th June 2009  word

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