b'116744JAMES ROBBIE MATHERS J.P. (councillor) archive including a very attractive gilt leather-bound hand-painted certificate signed by the councillors of the City of Kew, Victoria with accompanying letters, documentation and assorted certificates (5)$300500 745AUSTRALIA IN ART June 1931. The entire issue is devoted to the political caricatures of George Edmond Finey (1895-1987). Finey was an early to mid-20th century Auckland and Sydney left-wing caricaturist, cartoonist, painter, sculptor and collage artist. Infamous for his bohemian lifestyle, Finey worked for the Labor Daily for three months in 1932, before being dropped for his antagonism towards Jack Langone of Fineys major targets.$60100 746Large sepia photographic print titled Opening of the Parliament of Victoria by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday 25th February 1954, framed & glazed, overall 94 x 119cm.$100200 743 747ROBERT MENZIES Bendigo Pottery character jug in original 743 box, limited edition, designed by Melbourne Herald cartoonist STANLEY MELBOURNE BRUCE, (8th Prime Minister,John Frith in 1973,1925-28) porcelain character jug designed by Percy Metcalfeoval factory stamp with title to base,for Ashtead Pottery, limited edition 53/500, 17.5cm highfactory mark, signature an inscription on the base. $100200 18.5cm high.Stanley Bruce (1883-1967) was Prime Minister from 1923748to 1929. Australian-born, English-educated Bruce was aROBERT MENZIES: bold signature on 8th February 1960 Nationalist who governed in coalition with the newly-formedCommonwealth of Australia, Canberra, A.C.T. letterhead, Country party. He encouraged families to emigrate fromprinted Prime Minister seal, with original envelope.Britain and settle on the land, while he secured loans from$100140 London financiers to fund infrastructure development. In turn, the British market opened up to Australian wool, wheat and other goods. After struggling with industrial relations issues,749Bruce became the only Prime Minister to lose his own seat atJOHN McEWAN pottery charcter jug by EWAN McDonald, an election.circa 1967.The Ashtead Pottery operated in the English village of Ashtead,McEwan was Prime Minister for only 22 days being appointed Surrey, between 1923 and 1935. Set up to offer employmentafter the disappearance of Harold Holt.for disabled ex-servicemen, at the peak of its productionIncised Ewan McDonlald,it employed forty men to produce a broad array of wares,15cm highincluding commemoratives and household crockery. Percy$200300 Metcalf was one of several designers who worked for Ashtead. This jug is one of a series of four modelled by Metcalf and produced between 1925 and 1928. The other jugs depicted British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, British Attorney General Lord Hailsham, and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The jugs were issued in numbered limited editions - 1000 each for the British Prime Ministers and 500 each for Hailsham and Bruce. In January 1929 Australian statesman Richard Casey, in London, wrote to the Australian prime minister, Stanley Bruce: I see that you have agreed to the Bruce Toby Jug being sold to the public. I inquired of the potters about it and got two of them. I think they have turned out very well indeed. If you want any I can get them and send them out. The National Portrait Gallerys Bruce jug was spotted by the Director and Historian on a speculative autumn afternoons visit to a multi-vendor antique market at Exhibition Park in Canberra. As it happens, it is number 1 of the rare Bruce jugs. Its provenance is unknown, but the possibility of a Casey connection is particularly tantalizing to curators.$400600 752'