1131 A. WINTER group of three antique albumen photographs laid down on card, captioned: I.) Hobart Town, Tasmania, II.) Launceston, Tasmania, III.) Near Launceston, Tasmania, the largest sheet size 14 x 19.5cm, attractively framed 35 x 38cm each overall. (3) $120–200 ❖ 1132 [GRASYFORT FAMILY - MELBOURNE] CARTES-DE-VISITE: An album (dilapidated) containing 130 CDVs, a daguerrotype and several cabinet-card images, featuring many relatives, friends, and associates of a Spanish-Australian immigrant family of early Melbourne. The cartes-de-visite accordingly hail from studios located in many different cities (many Melbourne, Welshpool and Sydney, but also Cape Town, Barcelona, and others). Note: Pedro Grasyfort arrived in Melbourne in 1853. This lot is accompanied with some fascinating typed research documentation. $400–600 ❖ 1133 [GRASYFORT FAMILY - MELBOURNE] CABINET CARDS: An album of mainly Victorian portraits, by such photographers as J.H. Anderson (Welshpool), Bartlett Bros. (Sandhurst), Yeoman Co. (Melbourne), Tuttle & Co. (Melbourne), and Stewart & Co. (Melbourne). (32 items; some loosely inserted). From the same Spanish-Australian family as Lot 1172. $200–300 ❖ 1134 Several stereoview cards by various photographers, including “Leura Falls” (Kerry), “The St. George Falls, Lorne” (Rose), “Hobart” (Underwood), Melbourne (Underwood), plus a couple of cabinet-card portraits, etc. circa 1870s-90s. (9 items). $200–250 ❖ 1135 [TASMANIAN INTEREST] A 29 x 23cm album (dilapidated) containing twenty-five good-condition albumen prints, of which thirteen c.1880 views of Tasmania (Kingston, Government House, St Luke’s Anglican Church in Campbell Town, King River, St Mary’s Pass, the Derwent in flood, and others). $200–300 ❖ 1136 A hand-coloured carte-de-viste by C. Nettleton of 1 Madeline Street, North Melbourne (NB rare as this address has not been noted in The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841–1900), with note in ink on reverse “With Babs love to Miss Ellen Bayles”. $100–200 ❖ 1137 [MELBOURNE] large albumen photograph, signed J. P. LIND lower left, circa 1880s. An intriguing and possibly unique image, showing what is perhaps a significant occasional outside an ecclesiastical residence, with a lady driving a trap and a liveried driver on a horse-drawn coach behind. Sheet size 25 x 29cm. $200–300 ❖ 1138 [MARITIME] group of eight large format albumen photographs by John Paine, documenting the Naval Review and Sham Fight Staged in Sydney Harbour, 12th April, 1881, on original mounts, sheet size 22.5 x 28cm. $1,000–1,500 ❖ 1139 HEIDELBERG, MELBOURNE: Large format albumen photograph with view of paddock and buildings, inscribed lower right on the mount “Heidelberg, May 1879”. Mounted on original card, the image is somewhat faded but possibly unique. Sheet size 21.5 x 30cm. $200–300 ❖ 1140 [MELBOURNE] Group of 25 photographs of Melbourne buildings and street, mostly albumen prints, 19th century. Views taken by LINDT, NETTLETON etc., including two fine shots of Bourke Street, 1870s-1890s. Varying sizes. Inspection will reward. (25) $250–350 ❖ 1141 JOHN WILLIAM LINDT (1845 - 1926), Twenty-three original albumen paper prints depicting mainly views of Melbourne and Victoria; mostly titled in the plate and some annotated verso. Various sizes, mostly 15 x 20cm approx. (23). $1,200–2,000 ❖ 1142 PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, TURNER & HENDERSON BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS SYDNEY gilt titled leather concertina album showing a variety of albumen paper views around Sydney, circa 1880s, 14 images in total, all 7.5 x 7.5cm $400–600 ❖ 1143 Four cabinet card size photographs, circa 1880s: “Rocky River, South Australia” image by G.F. Jenkinson depicting the “Agamemnon” ferry at Laura; a view of Launceston; a studio portrait of a naval officer (by Boyd’s New Palace of Art, Sydney) and a female portrait by Creelman & Co of Sydney Arcade). (4 items). $150–250 ❖ 1144 Ornate leather case with gilt-embossed titles: “Views of Beechworth Scenery, Presented to Lady Loch by Mrs. John Fletcher, Wife of the President of the Shire of Beechworth. December 30th 1885.” Comprising of 17 albumen photographs mounted on thick card with printed “JAS. E. BRAY, Photo” and “BEECHWORTH” below each image; the titles in neat mss centred below each. Mainly 15.5 x 21cm. Henry Brougham LOCH was Governor of Victoria from 1884 to 1889. $400–600 ❖ 136
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