The John Lancaster Collection of Australian Trade Exhibitions (#121MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-100 of 574. Previous|123456|Next Lot 1 TICKETS & SOUVENIRS: Season Ticket of Admission for the Exhibition signed by Jane Milner; a lithographed lettersheet with illustration of Interior of the Crystal Palace (Rock & Co.) and another showing The Building in Hyde Park (Newman & Co.) (3 items). SymbolD View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 2 GREETING CARD: Paper lace folded card with gold illustration of "Grand Exhibition 1851" in centre. Fragile with some paper cracking. SymbolD View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 3 ILLUSTRATED ENVELOPES: 1851 'BRITANNIA ENCOURAGES THE INDUSTRY OF THE GLOBE' (Britannia & various Industries) with 'Designed & Engraved by J Valentine, Dundee' on the flap, very minor blemishes, unused. SymbolC View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 4 ILLUSTRATED ENVELOPES: 1851 'BRITANNIA ENCOURAGES THE INDUSTRY OF THE GLOBE' (Britannia & various Industries) with 'Designed & Engraved by J Valentine, Dundee' on the flap with 1d Stars tied by poor numeral of 'BROMSGROVE/MR12/1851' (b/s) to James Valentine in Dundee (poor b/s), minor soiling & small repaired tear at the base. This is State 1, with imprints of Johnstone & Hunter and Ackermann & Co on the flap. [With the enclosed letter headed "Bromsgrove Licky Worcestershire" & signed... View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 5 ILUSTRATED ENVELOPES: 'McGEE'S REGISTERED EXHIBITION ENVELOPE 1851' (Crystal Palace, Lion & Unicorn) & fancy imprint 'John G McGee & Co/Merchant Clothiers & Hatters/...Belfast' in blue on the flap, stained - not toning - on both sides & the flap is stuck, unused. Stated that only three examples have been recorded. SymbolC View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 6 EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS: 1852 stampless entire headed "London Jany 27 1852" & signed "Herman Wrede" endorsed "Bill of Lading pr Waratah", placed into the mails on arrival at Melbourne with light 'PAID/[crown]/MELBOURNE' d/s in red, redirected to Sydney with 'SHIP LETTER/[crown]/JY*13/1852/SYDNEY" arrival b/s, a little aged. [The lengthy letter states: "...I only went once to the Exhibition..." Symbolc View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 7 SAMPLE ENVELOPES: plain envelope with 'MACHINE-FOLDED AND GUMMED BY THOMAS DE LA RUE & CO/AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851' & tress printed in pale blue on the flap, pencil notations "I saw this made" & "So did I", soiling mostly on the front, unused. SymbolC View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 8 EXHIBITION ENVELOPE and LETTERHEAD: 1849 (Dec.12) use of envelope (side flaps removed) with 'Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry/of all Nations - 1851' imprint at lower-left, used within London with a message written within; together with Exhibition letterhead dated "23 April 1850" signed by the Committee Secretary "M.Digby Wyatt", faults but a scarce document. SymbolC D View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 9 ROYAL COMMISSIONERS COVER: 1851 cover with 'EXHIBITION OF 1851/[Arms]/ROYAL COMMISSIONERS' embossing in red on the flap, very fine Imperf 2d pair [NG-NH] with close to large margins just tied by '11'-in-bars cancellation, London b/s of 16JA16/1851' & 'GRAVESEND' arrival b/s in blue. SymbolCL View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 10 EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS: 1851 stampless entire signed "Avison Terry" to Van Diemen's Land with 'HULL/DE18/1851' cds in blue & 'SHIP-LETTER/[crown]/DE19/1851/=LONDON=' cds in red, Tasmanian boxed 'SHIPLETTER/21MA21/1852' transit b/s & boxed postmaster's handstamp 'CAMP TOWN/23.Mar 52' arrival d/s on the face, very fine.The lengthy letter states: "...The Great Exhibition...gave us the opportunity of seeing many of your productions...it was an altogether most interesting affair, it went off unco... SymbolC View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 11 MEDALLIONS: Bronze (77mm) by Leonard C. Wyon, Conjoined busts of Victoria and Albert, trident and two dolphins below, reverse Brittannia seated crowning industry with laurel, Europe, Asia, Africa and America attending, edge (6mm) inscribed 'PRIZE MEDAL OF THE EXHIBITION. A.M. MILLIGAN. CLASS III.' EF. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 12 BOOKS: "The Art Journal, Illustrated Catalogue, The Industry of All Nations 1851" [George Virtue, London, 1851] xxvi, 328pp, xxii; half-leather & green morocco binding, marbled end papers. Also, "1851 and the Crystal Palace" by Hobhouse [John Murray, London, 1937] hardcover with dust jacket. (2 items).The final essay in The Art Journal catalogue is titled "The Exhibition as a Lesson in Taste" by Ralph Nicholson Wornum. He was Keeper and Secretary of the National Gallery of London from 1855... View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 13 Coloured lithographic print (280x215mm) by D. James of the First Melbourne Exhibition of 1854. From an original drawing by E.Thomas and published by F. Varley. This was the first major exhibition organised in Melbourne in the 19th Century. It was organised to bring together goods suitable for exhibition at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1855. The Melbourne Exhibition opened on 17 October 1854 and ran until 12 December 1854. SymbolD View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 14 COVER: 1854 (Dec.22) envelope to "Battersea/Surry" with fine Imperforate 1/- Octagonal tied by Barred Oval '1' and oval 'MELBOURNE/[crown]/DC22 E/VICTORIA' d/s, poor London arrival b/s & fine 'd6' h/s for the shipletter rate due on delivery, a bit soiled.With the letter headed "Keilor Station/December 5 1854" & signed "James Dixon" who states "...there is a Crystal Palace here which is very well worth seeing...". Ex Rod Moreton. [Dixon was a policeman. He also states "...You have to go thr... SymbolC/L View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 15 MEDALS: contemporary lithographic proofs mounted on thick card (120x170mm) of the medal design (obverse & reverse) for the Melbourne Exhibition. With mss notation "Medal of Exhibition 1854 at Melbourne." SymbolD View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 16 MEDALLIONS: Bronze (64mm) by J.S. Wyon, 'MELBOURNE EXHIBITION / VICTORIA 1854' 5mm edge impressed 'PRIZE MEDAL- 259 * C. MASON & CO. * LITHOGRAPHY' in original case, EF. View details Estimate$600 - $750Price Realized$450StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 17 MEDALLIONS: White metal (38mm) 'MELBOURNE EXHIBITION / STRUCK IN THE BUILDING', C#1854/3, gVF. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 18 "Gathering Together for the good of Work & Learning; A Lecture on the Occasion of Opening the Exhibition Building, in Melbourne, October 1854" by George W.Rusden [George Robertson, Melbourne, 1857], 24 pp; original paper wrappers. [Ferguson 15,208]. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 19 ENTRY CARD & PHOTOGRAPHS: Entree card for the Opening Ceremony by Emperor Napoleon III, admitting the bearer to the Central Pavilion; together with 3 carte de visite photographs of the Emperor, Empress and Prince Imperial as a group, Empress Eugenie alone and the Prince Imperial alone. (4 items).The Australian Colonial exhibits came from New South Wales, with 251 exhibitors, Tasmania 11, Victoria 36, plus 10 from New Zealand. SymbolD View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot 20 ENTIRE LETTER: 1855 lengthy entire headed "Milton near Brisbane/Moreton Bay/...May 5th 1855" & signed "Ambrose Eldridge", Symbolc View details Estimate$350 - $450StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 21 BRITISH COURT OFFICIAL ENVELOPE: 1855 (June 1) OHMS envelope with 'Paris Universal/Exhibition of 1855' imprint SymbolC View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$250StatusSold Lot 22 PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS: 1858 report to the NSW Legislative Assembly giving a final financial accounting for the Sydney Commission at the 1855 Paris Exposition; also, 1867 report to the Victorian Legislative Assembly from the Victorian Commission to the Paris Exhibition regarding the "Ceremony of distributing the prizes and medals." (2 items). SymbolD View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 23 EXHIBITION ENVELOPE: 1861 cover with imprints 'VICTORIAN EXHIBITION/1861' above 'LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION/1862' at the top & 'JOHN MACADAM MD/Honorary Secretary to the Commission' at lower-left, to "Geo Tolhurst/St Kilda" with Beaded Oval 4d tied by Melbourne duplex of OC10/61, very fine small oval 'ST KILDA/OC-11/1861' arrival b/s, soiling. Rare. [George Tolhurst was a music educator]Provenance: Rodney A. Perry, July 1988 SymbolC View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 23A TASMANIAN COMMITTEE NOTICE: 1861 (May 8) OPSO Printed Notice posted Free from Hobart to Launceston (faults) containing details of the Tasmanian Committee of the International Exhibition Commission together with printed documents relating to the Working Committees. SymbolC View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 24 "Catalogue of the Victorian Exhibition, 1861:With Prefatory Essays Indicating The Progress, Resources And Physical Characteristics Of The Colony..." [John Ferres, Melbourne, 1861], 300 pp; bound together with the Jurors' "Report on Class III. Indigenous Vegetable Substances." [John Ferres, Melbourne, 1862] 61 pp. With ownership signature of C.J.Latrobe on title page. [Ferguson 17,908].Charles Latrobe had been Lieutenant Governor of Victoria in the early 1850s, during the height of the Gold... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 25 AWARD CERTIFICATE, "Victorian Exhibition, London International Exhibition of Works of Industry and Art, 1862", a First Class Certificate awarded to Mr.Charles Martin for Gold & Silver Military Embroidery, "Exhibited in Melbourne in 1861", signed by Redmond Barry (the judge who later presided over the final trial of Ned Kelly), as President of the Royal Commission.; window mounted, overall 48x61cm.Only one other example recorded.Provenance: Australian Book Auctions, September 2007, The Be... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$3,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 26 PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS: April 1861 First Report of the Exhibition Commissioners to both Houses of the Victorian Parliament on the Victorian Exhibition of 1861 together with a report on the forthcoming London International Exhibition of 1862. SymbolD View details Estimate$75 - $100StatusUnsold Lot 28 EXHIBITION CANCELLATION: 1862 large-part entire to "Mageburg/Prussia" with very fine wing-margin 6d tied by two very fine strikes of the 'INTERNATIONAL/ X /MY3/62/ EXHIBITION W - IE/W' duplex, 'AUS ENGLAND PER AACHEN/FRANCO' transit cds in red & 'AUSG' b/s.This was the first time a special exhibition cancellation was used anywhere in the world. SymbolC View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$250StatusSold Lot 29 EXHIBITION CANCELLATION: 1862 cover to Paris with 4d vermilion x2 tied by two large-part to very fine strikes of the 'INTERNATIONAL/ X /OC3/62/ EXHIBITION W - IE/W' duplex, 'PD'-in-oval h/s in red, View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$125StatusSold Lot 30 "The International Exhibition of 1862. The Illustrated catalogue of the Industrial Department" in four volumes [London, 1862]. Maroon cloth, blind-stamped, gilt. vol. 1-2. British division; vol. 3. Colonial and foreign division; vol. 4. Foreign Division. Bindings in poor condition; contents fine. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 31 "The Australasian Colonies at the International Exhibition, London, 1862. Extracts from the Reports of the Jurors" by J.G.Knight [John Ferres, Melbourne, 1865], 101 pp; original green paper wrappers. [Ferguson 11,229]. SymbolB View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 32 PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS: July-Sept. 1862 Reports to both Houses of the Victorian Parliament from the Commissioners appointed to represent Victoria at the London International Exhibition of 1862. Includes extensive details of medals and other awards, the floor space occupied by the Australian Colonies and New Zealand and a wealth of statistical information. SymbolD View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 33 "An Account of The Colony of South Australia, prepared for distribution at the International Exhibition of 1862 together with a Catalogue of all The Products of South Australia..." by Frederick Sinnett [Robert K. Burt, London, 1862], 96 pp + 4; rebound preserving original paper wrappers, and with large folding map. [Ferg.10796a]The English edition. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 34 BOOKS: "Cassell's Illustrated Exhibitor; containing about three hundred illustrations, with letter-press descriptions of All the Principal Objects in The International Exhibition of 1862" [Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, 1862] 272 pp + adverts. rebound preserving most of the original cloth with gilt decoration to spine and front cover;also "The Australasian Colonies at the International Exhibition, London, 1862" by J.G.Knight John Ferres, [Melbourne, 1865] 101 pp bound in leather preserv... View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 35 MEDALLIONS: Bronze (76mm) Britannia seated above crouching lion surrounded by six women representing Industry, Agriculture and the Arts, reverse '1862 / LONDINI / HONARIS / CAUSA' within wreath, 'L.C. WYON. FEC' at base, edge (7mm) inscribed 'C & J DENNYS. CLASS III', in original case, Unc. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 36 1866 (May 16) mss letter on "INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION" letterhead (which also lists the Commissioners) addressed to the Mayor of Richmond from the Secretary of the Royal Commission, expressing "the hope that the Richmond Town Council, on further consideration of the Municipal Act, may deem its provisions of more extended application than they apparently do at the present." [The Commissioners inclded Ferdinand von Mueller, Redmond Barry & William Degraves]. SymbolD P View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 37 COVER FROM FERDINAND VON MUELLER: 1865 cover signed "fervMueller" at lower-left, to Germany at the 11d rate with Laureates 1d 2d & 4d pair tied by Melbourne duplex of JA26/65, London transit cds of MR23/65 & 'PD'-in circ le h/s both in red, 'HAMBURG'-in-oval arrival b/s, attractive. Not listed in Ben Palmer's Census. German Baron Ferdinand von Mueller was appointed Government Botanist in 1853. In that role he regularly corresponded with & exchanged seeds with botanic gardens around th... SymbolC View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 38 COVER FROM FERDINAND VON MUELLER: 1866 double 11d rate cover signed "fervMueller" at lower-left, SymbolC View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 39 DIE PROOF: Australia 1948 von Mueller 2½d die proof in the issued colour recessed in presentation mount ACSC #273DP(1) with boxed CBA Note Printing Branch h/s on the reverse endorsed " 89 /5.10.48", stained on the reverse of the mount but the proof itself is pristine, Cat $3500. [The ACSC states that 8 die proofs were produced, one of which is in the Royal Collection. Number 89 was presented to the Governor-General Sir William McKell] SymbolP View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 40 "Catalogue of the Contributions Made By Tasmania, to the Intercolonial Exhibition of Australia at Melbourne in 1866" [James Barnard, Hobart Town, 1866] 24 pp; original tan wrappers. [Ferguson 10787a] View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 41 PERIODICAL: "The Australian Journal - A weekly Record of Literature, Science and the Arts - Printed in the Intercolonial Exhibition.", issues #62-79 - Vol.II (Nov.3 1866 - Mar.2 1867) bound together in one volume. Published by Clarson & Massina.[The Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia ran from 24th October 1866 to 23rd February 1867] View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 42 Large bronze medal (220mm diameter) in circular wooden frame, "Medal Awarded To/ Law, Somner & Co/ Intercolonial Exhibition Victoria 1866-7", designed by sculptor Charles Summers, engraved by William Calvert.Accompanied by 3 Law Somner & Co catalogues dated 1883-84, 1916 and 1921. View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot 43 CERTIFICATE, "Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Held at Melbourne 1866 & 7", Honourable Mention awarded to James Henley of Wangaratta for Manufactured Tobacco, window mounted, overall 50x62cm.A highly decorative lithographic print, in gold, olve, cream and red by De Gruchy & Co. Around the border of the certificate are banners with the names of participating Colonies and Nations. The Chinese first introduced tobacco growing to North-East Victoria during the Ovens gold rush. Duri... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 44 CORPORATE LETTERHEADS & EXHIBITION AWARDS: A group of decorative invoices or letterheads, for J.B.Scott, Neatsfoot Oil & Tallow Merchants; Mason, Firth & Co Steam Printing and Bookbinding Works; and The Austalasian Advertising Company: each illustrating medals they have been awarded at International Exhibitions in London or Melbourne. (3 items). SymbolD View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 45 Carte de visit by Henry H Bailey, photographer of Hobart Town, producer of album portraits with photograph on reverse. His card states that he won a medal at the Melbourne InterColonial Exhibition [in Class 5, Group 1 Section 16a; verified in the Official Record.].Accompanied by an original albumen print of the Melbourne Public Library (attributed to Nicholas Caire) and a real photo postcard of the same building, originally erected for the 1866-67 Intercolonial Exhibition. (... SymbolD View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 46 Full page engraving from 'The Illustrated London News' for March 2, 1867, titled "The Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia", hand-coloured, window mounted, overall 50x34cm. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 47 "Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Melbourne, 1866-67. Official Record, containing Introduction, Catalogues, Reports and Awards of the Jurors, and Essays and Statistics..." [Blundell & Co., Melbourne, 1867], with essays bound into one volume, 1006 pp. + maps & charts. Green cloth boards, short title in gilt lettering on front cover and spine. [Ferguson 10787d].Presentation copy: With printed note tipped in at front to Samuel Ramsden, Esq. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 48 "Report on the Vegetable Products exhibited in the Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866-67" by Dr Ferd. Mueller [Blundell & Co., Melbourne, 1867], 48 pp; original yellow wrappers. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 49 "Exposition Intercoloniale, 1866. Progres De Victoria, Depuis 1835, Jusqu'a 1866" by William H. Archer [Masterman, Melbourne, 1866], 149pp; rebound in leather, preserving original yellow front wrapper. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 50 "Intercolonial Exhibition Essays, 1866. The Progress of Victoria: A Statistical Essay" by William Henry Archer [Blundell & Co., Melbourne, 1867] 100 pp, original yellow wrappers. [Ferguson 6085]. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 51 1868 printed Victorian Legislative Assembly statement relating to the transfer of the new Exhibiton Building used for the 1866 Exhibiton to the Trustees of the Public Library. SymbolD View details Estimate$75 - $100StatusUnsold Lot 52 COVER FROM THE EXHIBITION: 1867 cover to Scotland with French perforated 40c orange - corner fault - tied by 'EU'-in-lozenge of dots & largely very fine 'EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE/6e 26/OCT/57POSTES' cds alongside small boxed 'PD' h/s in red, superb London transit cds on the face, 'PITLOCHRY' transit & 'RANNOCH' arrival b/s, very attractive. SymbolC View details Estimate$300 - $350Price Realized$125StatusSold Lot 53 COVER TO THE EXHIBITION: 1867 cover with embossed Fairlie & Co (Engineers) on the flap, to their representative at "No 17 Casse 63/L'Exposition/Paris" with GB 1d Plate 81 strip of 4 tied by London duplex of MY25/67, 'ANGL/AMB CALAIS D' TPO transit on the face, two fine to largely very fine 'EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE/3e 26/MAI/57POSTES' arrival b/s , minor blemishes. With the enclosure re the Exhibition closing: "...take care of all your Cases and get the goods well packed...If they are l... SymbolC/L View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot 54 Full page from 'The Illustrated London News' for June 8, 1867, headed "The Paris Inernational Exhibition" with two engravings - "Entrance to the Australian Section" & "The Queensland Department". Also another example of "Entrance to the Australian Section". View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 55 "Kirkland's Guide to Paris, and its Exhibition, 1867" [London, 1867] View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 56 Gilt tie pin 'EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1867 A PARIS' surrounding Coat of Arms, 'SAVARD' at base, in original case. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$40StatusSold Lot 57 Full page engraving from 'The Illustrated Australian News' for 10 Sept. 1870, titled "Intercolonial Exhibition Building, Alfred Square, Sydney 1870", hand-coloured, window mounted, overall 50x33cm. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 58 Engraving from 'The Illustrated London News' of Nov.26. 1870, titled "New South Wales and Victoria Exhibition Building, Alfred Square, Sydney". View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 59 RE-USE OF 1851 ENVELOPE: 1871 usage of long cover with imprints in blue & in red for the 1851 Exhibition overprinted in blue at the top 'ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS/THE FIRST OF THE SERIES TO BE HELD IN 1871', London cds of 3JU71 in red & 'AYLESBURYJU4/71' arrival b/s. SymbolC View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 60 Entrance Card No.14 "International Exhibition of 1871. Admit the bearer..."; plus a steel engraving view card titled "International Exhibition" by J.T.Wood, 278 & 279 Strand. (2 items). View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 61 NSW DIE PROOF: 1871 6d QV die proof in blue on glazed card (92mm by 61mm), minor blemishes. [Similar die proofs in colour were exhibited by De La Rue at the 1867 Paris and 1871 South Kensington Exhibitions.] SymbolP View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 62 NSW DIE PROOF: 1871 (SG.37) 6d QV die proof in green on glazed card (92mm by 61mm) SymbolP View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 63 NSW DIE PROOF: 1871 6d QV die proof in violet on glazed card (92mm by 61mm). Superb! SymbolP View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 64 NSW DIE PROOF: 1871 10d QV die proof in violet on glazed card (92mm by 61mm).Provenance: Slade, White and Baillie. SymbolP View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 65 PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS: 1871 Papers presented to both Queensland Houses of Parliament relating to that Colony's representation at the London International Exhibition of 1871; also, Mr.R.Daintree's report on Queensland Annexe at London Exhibition, 1872. SymbolD View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 66 "Victorian Exhibition, 1872. International Exhibition, 1873. Mining & Mineral Statistics; with notes on the Rock Formations of Victoria..." by R. Brough Smyth [Mason, Firth & M'Cutcheon, Melbourne, 1872]. 119 pp. (lacks map and wrappers). [Ferg. 15881b]. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 67 "The London International Exhibition, 1872-3. The Victorian Exhibition. Official Catalogue of Exhibits" [Melbourne, c1872], 223 pp rebound in leather (without original wrappers) together with "The London International Exhibition of 1873. THE VICTORIAN EXHIBITION - Official Catalogue of Exhibits." [Francis A. Masterman, Melbourne, 1873] 44 pp.The Victorian Exhibition (Nov.1872-Jan.1873) was planned as a preview exhibition in preperation for the London International Exhibition (April - Oct.1... View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 68 Wm.J.Lambert & Co. display, comprising a printed advertisement for "Wm.J.Lambert & Co., Australian Rubber Stamp Manufacturers"; another card headed "Melbourne and London Exhibition, 1872-73"; also, an original pen drawing of cryer advertising (rubber) stamps for sale. (3 items). SymbolC D View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 69 MEDALLIONS: White metal (47mm) Stokes & Martin commemorative medallion, reverse female figure representing Victoria holding wreath, surrounding symbols of trade, industry and agriculture, Carlisle 1872/3, couple of rim dents, VF. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 70 MEDALLIONS: White metal (47mm) Stokes & Martin commemorative medallion, reverse 'AWARDED TO' within wreath, not inscribed, Carlisle 1872/3 variety, rim dents, VF. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 71 OHMS ENVELOPE: 1872 Victorian standard & long envelopes both with 'OFFICES OF THE LONDON/International Exhibition of 1873/MELBOURNE' at lower-left, Chief Secretary frank h/s in black & Melbourne duplex cancels. With two different 8vo printed advices with similar headers. SymbolC/L View details Estimate$600 - $750Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 72 OHMS ENVELOPE: 1872 Victorian envelope with 'OFFICES OF THE LONDON / International Exhibition of 1873 / MELBOURNE' at lower-left, Chief Secretary frank h/s in black & Melbourne duplex cancel. Ex Hans Karman. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 73 PARLIAMENTARY REPORT, etc.: July & August 1872 covering letters to the Mayor of Richmond from the Melbourne Offices of the London International Exhibition of 1873 soliciting support; together with the printed 1873 Report to the NSW Houses of Parliament setting out the Objectives and Regualtions for the proposed 1874 London Annual International Exhibition. (3 items). SymbolD View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 74 AUSTRALIA AT THE EXHIBITION: "The Vienna Universal Exhibition of 1873. Victoria, Australia. Official Catalogue of Exhibits" [Melbourne, c1873], 31 pp; rebound (without original wrappers). Plus engraving from 'The Illustrated Australian News' of Oct.1874 titled "The Victorian Court, Vienna Exhibition". (2 items). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 75 Engraving from 'The Illustrated London News' 4 Oct.1873, titled "The Vienna Exhibition: The Victorian Court".The Colony of Victoria sent 441 entries. The Public Works Department sent photographs of the General Post Office and Royal Mint, the Commissioners sent sovereigns and half sovereigns from the mint. Other entries included plaster facsimiles of fruit, wines, metallic ore samples, gold, wool, textile and wood samples. New South Wales and Queensland also participated. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 76 A printed prospectus from the Royal Commissioners for Victoria regarding the planned Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition of 1875 as a preliminary event prior to the Philadelphia International Exhibition of 1876; also, an invitation to contribute from the Offices of the Commissioners for Victoria for the Philadelphia Exhibition & 1877 Queensland General Report on that Exhibition, together with "Mr.Mackay's report..." (4 items). SymbolD View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 77 "Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition 1875. Preparatory to the Philadelphia Exhibition 1876. Official catalogue of Exhibits" [M'Carron, Bird & Co., Melbourne, 1875] 314pp + 84pp of aadvertisements. Contemprary leather (front cover detached); Dedicated and signed by Redmond Barry to Rev J.I. Bleasdale DD (of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne), Chairman of Jurors Dept No.4 (Wine). [Ferguson 17,920]. A Melbourne binding by Detmold. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 78 ENGRAVING: Front page of 'The Illustrated Australian News' for October 6, 1875, with image titled "The Opening Ceremony of the Intercolonial Exhibition", window mounted, overall 33x51cm. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 79 Albumen photograph with printed title on mount, "Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1875. C.Nettleton Photo", showing farming implements & tools on display, overall 46x39cm. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 80 MEDALLIONS: Bronze (70mm) Stokes & Martin, 1875 Melbourne / 1876 Philadelphia, Rising Sun above explorers beside globe, reverse wreath surounding 'INGENS / PATEAT TELLVS / NEC SIT TERRIS / VLTIMA / THVLE', edge (5mm) inscribed 'MESSrs BRIGHT BROTHERS & CO', EF. Scarce. View details Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 81 January 1875 printed letter with heading "Offices of the Commissioners for Victoria for the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876", that accompanied the prospectus for the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876, and the Intercolonial Exhibition to be held in Melbourne. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 82 INWARDS COVER: 1876 cover with 'THE TREASURY/[Arms]/SYDNEY NS WALES' embossed in grey on the flap endorsed "Per RMS City of New York" View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 83 NEW SOUTH WALES COMMISSION: 1876 standard (repaired opening faults at top) & long (2, vertical folds) envelopes with imprints 'New South Wales Commission' at top & 'Main Exhibition Building/PHILADELPHIA' at lower-left, to Augustus Morris (2) or his daughter in Sydney with 6c Lincoln pair - straight-edge at left - tied by Philadelphia cds, or 2c Washington + 10c Jefferson or 5c taylor + 10c Jefferson x2 (overpaid 1c) tied by New York duplex, all addressed by the Colony's agent RW Cameron.Au... SymbolC/CL View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 84 NEW SOUTH WALES COMMISSION: 1876 long envelope with imprints 'New South Wales Commission' at top & 'Main Exhibition Building/PHILADELPHIA' at lower-left, to Herbert Morris in Sydney with 5c Taylor + 10c Jefferson x2 (all with corner faults, overpaid 1c) tied by New York duplex. SymbolCL View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 85 NEW SOUTH WALES COMMISSION: 1876 long envelope with imprints 'New South Wales Commission' at top & 'Main Exhibition Building/PHILADELPHIA' at lower-left View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 86 INWARDS COVER: 1876 cover to "Augustus Morris/New So Wales Commissr/Main Exhibition Building/Philadelphia" with 3c green Washington tied by New York duplex, poor Philadelphia arrival b/s, repaired flap faults. Symbolc View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 87 COMMEMORATIVE EMBOSSED ENVELOPES: American 3c red unused & used at Chicago, and 3c green unused & used with superb 'ALEXANDRIA/VA' cds (minor repair at upper-left). (4 items). SymbolPS View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 88 "Philadelphia International Exhibition 1876. Catalogue of the British Section Part I" [George Eyre & William Spottiswoode, London, 1876]; 418pp, decorative card binding (detached but present). Incorporating sections on the exhibits from New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania & Victoria (as well as other Britsh Colonies) and with a map of Queensland between p.338-39. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 89 "Burley's United States Centennial Gazetteer and Guide. 1876" Edited by C.H. Kidder [S.W. Burley, Philadelphia, 1876] 892pp including nearly 200 pages of advertisements; green buckram binding with black and gilt titles to front and spine. SymbolB View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 90 "INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AT PHILADELPHIA, 1876. REPORT of THE COMMISSIONERS FOR VICTORIA to His Excellency the Governor." [John Ferres, Melbourne, 1877] 279 pp + Appendix of 64 illustrated plates and folding plate frontis piece. Provenance: John Chapman Collection, Peter Arnold Auction, Feb.2004 SymbolB View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 91 SYDNEY EXHIBITION OF 1876: The 1877 Victorian Government report of the "Victorian Commissioners to the Sydney Exhibition". This was a significantly expanded annual Metropolitan Show of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales. Exhibits from Tasmania and Queensland and Victoria were joined by exhibits from Japan, Hawaii, Canada and the United States. "Under these circumstances the present Exhibition assumes the character of an intercolonial, if not of an international display..." View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 92 PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS & RELATED DOCUMENTS: group of printed reports & despatches relating to the 1878 Paris International Exhibition comprising 1877 prospectus listing the Victorian Commissioners and giving details for prospective exhibitors; 1877 Despatch respecting the space applied for by Victoria; 1877 Victorian Despatches, Regulations, Correspondence, etc.; 1877 Victorian Royal Commission - First Report; 1877 Queensland Despatches respecting the Paris Universal Exhibition;and 1877 Vic... SymbolD View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 93 August 1877 letter to The Mayor of Richmond, on "Paris International Exhibition of 1878 - Royal Commissioners for Victoria" letterhead; together with a printed Exhibitor's Form of Application and an August 1877 printed letter regarding arrangements being made for Exhibits to be forwarded to London, after the Paris Exhibition ends. (3 items). SymbolD C View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 94 ENTREE PASSES & AN ADVERTISING COVER: Lady's & Gentleman's Entree passes for the Paris Exhibition (from the Estate of the NSW Agent-General, Sir Daniel Cooper), also 1882 (Sept.28) advertising cover from England to Tasmania bearing QV 1d lilacs (4 - with firm's perfins) endorsed 'Sample Post' and advertising the Five Medals awarded to Suttons Seeds at the Paris Exhibition. (3 items) SymbolD C View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 95 KING EDWARD VII: 1878 (May 14) holograph letter signed Albert Edward P.(future Edward VII), then at the Hotel Bristol in Paris; in his capacity as President of the Royal Commission for the British Court at the Paris Exhibition; with the crest of the Commission in red. The letter relates to the appointment of Jurors as a 'sense of public duty' and is signed "Edward Albert P." SymbolD View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot 96 ENGRAVING, front page "Paris Exhibition, Supplement to the Illustrated London News" for May 11, 1878, showing "Marshall Macmahon Opening the Exhibition from the Great Tribune in front of the Trocadero Bilding", window mounted, overall 34x51cm. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 97 MEDALLIONS: Silver (68mm) with chain loop, bust of France facing left, reverse Victory flying above grounds with trumpet and wreath, awarded to 'HON. P. RUSSELL' carried above winged figure, EF. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 98 MEDALLIONS: Bronze (68mm), bust of France facing left, reverse Victory flying above grounds with trumpet and wreath, awarded to 'BRIGHT BROTHERS' carried above winged figure, VF. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 99 PUBLICATIONS: "Exposition Universelle de Paris 1878. Essai sur La Colonie de Victoria (Australie)" [A.Chaix, Paris, 1878] 144 pp, rebound in leather preserving front wrapper [Ferguson13,744]; "Queensland, (Australia). The Exhibits and Exhibitors, and Description of the Colony" [James C.Beal, Brisbane, 1878] 78 pp plus "International Exhibition at Paris 1878.Report of the Commissioners for Victoria" [John Ferres, Melbourne, 1879] 557 pp + folding plates.[Ferguson13,753]. (3 items) Mixed... View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot 100 GOVERNMENT PAPERS: 1877-78 report to both houses of Victorian Parliament regarding the Ballarat Juvenile Industrial Exhibition and a further despatch regarding the Exhibition; plus engraving "His Excellency the Governor Opening the Ballarat Exhinition". SymbolD View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|123456|Next Previous 123456 Next Previous 123456 Next