Page: 20 Website: www.prestigephilately.com Feb 17, 2012 Ex Lot 64 - Paquebot Covers Ex Lot 65 - More Paquebot Covers Ex Lot 75 - Old & Rare Tram Tickets Ex Lot 82 - PNCs x46 Ex Lot 66 - Philatelic Terms Illustrated Lot 79 - Rare PNC Forerunner Ex Lot 85 - Military Ephemera
Feb 17, 2012 <strong>Prestige</strong> <strong>Philately</strong> - <strong>Auction</strong> <strong>No</strong> <strong>171</strong> Page: 21 Lot Type Grading Description Est $A COINS & BANKNOTES 77 78 $ Asian banknotes with China 1920s-40s including Kee Kwan Motor Road Co 5c 10c 20c & 50c, Central Reserve Bank of China 1943 500y, Farmers Bank of China 20c & 100y, Mengchiang Bank (puppet bank) 1940 1 chiao, plus others fom the Bank of China, provincial bank private issue not listed in Pick & 1920s-50s share scrip; plus Cambodia 1968 & 1972 500rl etc; condition is good to very fine uncirculated. (100s) $ AUSTRALIA: Halfpennies 1914-1964 largely complete circulated run - no 1923 - with many years duplicated, also Pennies 1952, 1963 & 1964 heavily duplicated, plus a few earlier coins, mostly good to fine. (100s) 79 $C A - 1969 50c "specimen" embedded in Nuphil #27 "PNC" serviced at Yarralumla with registration label <strong>No</strong> 0137, sealed in cellophane as usual. [1130 covers were produced but we expect the survival rate was poor with many of the scarce coins being removed and the covers discarded. <strong>No</strong> 285 sold for $760 on ebay in March 2010.{Page 20.6} 80 $ A - Uncirculated banknotes comprising $1 Johnston/Stone (13), $2 Johnston/Fraser (10, sequential), $10 Fraser/Higgins (6, sequential) and $10 Fraser/Cole (2). (31) 81 $ A - 1992 $5 Fraser/Cole R#214 consecutive run of 20 "AA14 866281/300" plus 6 more to "310" Unc. (26) 300 82 C$ A - 1995-2011 PNCs including 1999 Older Persons, 2000 For Valour, 2001 Army, 2002 QEII Accession 2008 World Youth Day, plus numerous modern issues including 2007 Howzat! Australia Wins the Ashes, both Olympic Games and 2010 Ashes. {Page 20.5} (46) DOCUMENTS & EPHEMERA 83 84 85 C Album of military photographs including Boer War 200x150mm x8 (faults), Australian Light Horsemen, Boer War & WWI stereocards, WWII RAAF official training photos x3 & Box Brownie group, etc, generally fine to very fine.{Page 22.1} (87 items) ? AUSTRALIA: WWII military metal insignia comprising Lewis Gun (15), Machine Gunner (25), Buglers (15); collar badges for Engineers (50), Corps of Signals (10) & Chaplains (10); also Service Corps hat badge & collars and Australian Artillery Buttons (14), plus Cambodia "Faithful Service Order" & "Medal of Labour" medals, and Thai-Vietnam conflict medal. (100+) L - Large album including 1913 HMAS "Melbourne" programme, AMF 'PLATOON OR SECTION ROLL BOOK' (superb unused) & 'ARMY DRIVING LICENCE', Australian Comforts Fund illustrated notepaper folder, 1919 AIF 'MILITARY PASS' with 'FAMILY SHIP - INDEFINITE LEAVE' h/s, 1919 4th Australian Divisional Artillery Armistice souvenir, ration cards in various states of completeness, Victorian State Emergency Council 1939 'AIR RAID/ PRECAUTIONS/Manual of General/Training', 1941-43 soldier's 300pp+ diary (Palestine, Sydney, New Guinea), etc, condition variable. Fascinating lot.{Page 20.7} (56 items) 86 C A+ - 1920 complete set of miniature official war photographs (68x42mm) with details to order enlargements from the Australian War Museum Exhibition Buildings Melbourne on the reverse. Superb! [Also leaflet - a couple of faults - re the same project but giving the Museum's address as 122 King Street]{Page 22.2} (72 + leaflet) 87 C A/B - ditto, official war photographs reproduced from Rose Sterograph photos on Magpie cigarette cards with ordering details from the Australian War Museum on the reverse, 60 of the set of 72 (?), generally fine to very fine; also a Magpie Cigarettes packet.{Page 22.3} (60 + packet) 88 L A- - 1956 Olympics "Football Final & Closing Ceremony" programme with all results except the Russia v Yugoslavia soccer (the Russian team entered in pen). 89 L A- 90 C A 91 AUSTRALIA - NEW SOUTH WALES: 1840s Johnstone & Johnston "Colony of New South Wales & Australia Felix" map (660x540mm) from the "National Atlas", partly tinted, minor faults in the upper margin. Ideal for framing. AUSTRALIA - TASMANIA: Bank of Van Diemen's Land, three cheques all-different printings including two drawn in Spanish dollars and one in pounds, minor faults, rare. [Between 1822 & 1826 Van Diemen's Land used both pounds sterling and Spanish dollars because of the then shortage of British currency in the Colony. A similar lot realised $950 in our sale on 2/10/10]{Page 22.4} (3) AUSTRALIA - VICTORIA: 1855 London Chartered Bank of Australia (Melbourne) large bound chequebook (260x375mm) with about 100 pages of cheques (four per page), the earlier forms removed & with various interesting entries on the remaining stubs including regarding purchase of hay and provisions along the Bendigo Road to the goldfields, endorsed "Cobb & Co" on the face. Damp-spotting affects the stubs and the first few remaining pages of cheques but the majority of the forms are remarkably fine. 92 C B - 1859 Melbourne & Suburban Railway Company share certificate with illustration of a train crossing the Yarra River & a map of the proposed route to Cremorne (Richmond), Windsor & Prahran, 'Sands & Kenny Stationers' imprint at the base, impressive embossed seal that also features the train, minor blemishes. [The company commenced operations in 1859 & was taken over by another company in 1865] 93 94 O - Miner's Rights 1860s £1 (2) & 1892 5/- headed 'COLONY OF VICTORIA', 1908 2/6d, and 1934 2/6d, usual condition factors owing to the fact that these documents had to be carried at all times. Also includes 1951 vehicle registration. (6) C GREAT BRITAIN: Cigarette cards including complete sets "Cycling 1839-1939" set of 50 & "Uniforms of the Territorial Army" set of 50 both stuck in John Player albums; Gallaher "Army Badges" set of 48 & "The Navy" set of 48" generally very fine; and various part-sets in another album. 150 200 500 180 400 300 200 300 300 250 Offer 75 750 750 200 150 200 Our Cross-Reference Index on pages 8 to 10 is designed to help you find items that you might otherwise overlook.
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