A wonderful catalogue featuring a further selection from the Rodney Pemberton Collection of Australian Colonial furniture, a superb side-table created for display at the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition, a remarkable range of early Australian newspapers and Australian articles in English papers, Colonial era gold jewellery, Australian pottery, artworks including a Gould portrait, a lively Sawrey bushranger scene and a John Olsen gouache. The sale is rounded out with a fine collection of scientific and optical instruments, advertising posters, and some large-scale model aeroplanes.
Contents
001-017 Scrimshaw & Maritime
018-072 General 073-130 Scientific Instruments & Natural History 131-135 Aviation 138-156 Aboriginal Art & Tribal Artefacts 157-214 Australian Pottery 215-276 Books & Historical Documents 277-364 Furniture 365-374 Goldfields 376-386 Silver 387-396 Maps & Military 397-410 Photographs 411-419 Posters 420-424 Railways 425-489 Paintings & Other Artworks 490-493 Sport 494-521 Jewellery
Featured Lots
Lot 1
A Scrimshaw pan bone plaque depicting English tallships, 19th century