1013 AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL GATHERINGS: A fascinating collection composed entirely of c.1910s and 1920s real photo postcards, featuring Australian Rules football, tennis, rowing, and social club group portraits, equestrian events, families on picnic, horses and buggies, early motorcars, etc.; many Kodak Austral and Empire cards, locations indicated on reverse include South Melbourne, Sorrento, Canterbury, and Launceston. (80+ items) $100–150 ❖ 1014 VICTORIA: A collection of early 20th century postcards, including many early RP examples, featuring views from all around Victoria, such as the Mornington Peninsula, Phillip Island, Torquay, Bendigo, Ballarat, the Dandenongs, Warrnambool, Geelong, and many others. (170+ items) $250–300 ❖ 1015 MELBOURNE: A collection of early postcards (many RPs), mainly featuring the CBD, but also some suburbs (St Kilda, Sandringham, Fitzroy); noted a series on Melbourne University (13) and a 1920s view of Flinders Street Station emblazoned with clearly legible banner that reads “Cross Crossings Cautiously - Do Your Thinking On The Road And Not In The Hospital”; publishers include Rose, Valentine’s, E.W. Cole, Australian Enamellers, R.E.M., Marlborough, Robbins, Robert Jolley, Lindt, Troedel, and others. (100+ items) $200–250 1016 NEW SOUTH WALES: A collection of postcards (some RPs among them), mainly featuring views of Sydney and surrounds, from publishers such as Ward Lock & Co., Samuel Wood, Valentine & Sons, J. Beagles & Co., and many others. (100 items) $150–200 ❖ 1017 Assorted antique and vintage postcards in a large blue album, themes include Melbourne, St.Kilda, Mordialloc, Williamstown and many others, (qty). $120–200 ❖ 1018 An old time red oblong album of antique and vintage postcards, mostly Western Australian themes including some interesting flood scenes. $120–200 ❖ Ex 1012 Ex 1015 117
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