Set of six Australian sterling silver wildflower tea spoons mark of Harris & Son, Perth, WA together with an Australian sterling silver letter opener by Harris & Son, and a set of six Australian sterling silver demi-tasse spoons by Zygmunt Libucha, all mar
An Australian gold sovereign dated 1900, 22ct yellow gold, made as a single full sovereign, dated 1900 with Perth mint marks, only, 1886,089 were produced.
A 9ct yellow gold Victorian necklet by Levinson of Perth, circa 1896-1961. Marked Levinson Perth 9ct complete with monogramed pendant, T bar and black pleated material.
Set of six Linton rare cake forks by Jamie Linton Perth WA. Showing gumnut, JAL and St. Silver stamps. Featuring Australian flora designs. Weight 97.0 grams.
Large silver serving spoon by Jamie Linton Perth. Stamped with gumnut, JAL and St. Silver. With kangaroo paw design and in the Arts & Crafts manner weight 103.6 grams.
Rare cocktail pins set in sterling silver Jamie Linton Perth. Stamped JAL, gumnut & St. Silver. Fine example of Jamie Linton's work, using Australian flora and fauna designs. Weight 41.4 grams.
Moore Park Estate, City of Perth, Western Australia land sale newspaper advert the town and country Journal, Feb 23, 1889 shows subdivisions bounded along ivy Street, Mabel Street, bounded by Barker Road and Bagot Road, 27 x 19.5 cm
Australia, South Africa, Britain: A small collection of 1960s posters including the '3rd Adelaide Festival of Arts 1964' and 2 other Adelaide images, Perth 'Australia's Sunniest Capital', Qantas to South Africa (featuring a lion), etc. (8 items). Mixed con
Edwin Flack: Collection including transcripts of 1896 letters from Edwin Flack to his father; invitations (2) re 1914 Olympic Congress in Paris; 1914 letters to Flack from British Olympic Association & Gordon Inglis (head of the Australian delegation); ran
Three silver coin & medallion sets comprising of The Matthew Flinders Collection, The Perth Mint Australian Fauna Series (5x $1) and 2002 Tuvalu Dinosaurs coin series
Australian gold sovereign and 9ct gold pendant the coin is Perth 1913 and the yellow gold setting marked 375. Approx diameter 27 mm, weight 10.36 grams
A 9ct rose gold bracelet inset with a 22ct yellow gold half sovereign, Perth mint, 1911 panel style links with box clasp, inset with a sovereign coin, length 18.5 cm Wt 10.5 grams
Paperweight, oil filled Cable, 33,000 Volts, Sydney country Council, Contract no. 628, Pirelli - General Cable works, England. Diameter 8.5 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
Quantity sterling silver items. Sugar bowl & sugar spoon; pepper pot; salt container; mustard pot with blue glass liner & silver spoon; two spoons; & a small circular calling card tray. Wt. 7 15g (total). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
Fid (conical tool), 19th century, Albany WA. Used in the days of sailing ships to open up the strands of a rope before splicing. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
Petrified wood, Kennedy range, 150km E of Carnarvon, WA. the white areas 'Peanut Wood' are where damage from the marine wood-boring bivalve shellfish Teredo has been replaced with agate. 23 x 16 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
12 various Elvis Presley records. Complete from Elvis the Legend 1954-1961 as new, & the following records: Glenn Miller (1985); the Beatles, a hard Days night (1964); this is Benny Goodman (1971); the best of Les brown (1975); & Frank Sinatra, Songs for S
Books (3), history of Australian Army uniforms. 'Australian Military Uniforms (1800-1982),' Monty Wedd (1982), kangaroo press; 'The Australian Army Slouch Hat and Rising Sun Badge,' Rick Grebert (2002), NSW military historical Society Inc; & 'Military Badg
Books (10), Pre-Columbian Art. 'Robert Woods Bliss. Collection of Pre-Columbian Art,' text by S K Lothrop, W F Foshag & Joy Mahler (1957), Phaidon press, London (in a slip case); 'The Art of Ancient Peru,' Heinrich U Doering (1952), a. Zwemmer Ltd, London;
Quantity Mummy Bandages & Shroud material. Small piece of bone stained with pitch together with the pitch used for its mummification, & fragments of pottery, glass & alabaster. Purchased in London from the estate of a British soldier who had been in Egypt
Two cigarette card albums. One late 19th/early 20th century from NSW & one dated 21/12/1900 from Britain, the British album including. Many Boer war & some Chinese cards. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
NSW doctor's car badge, British medical Association member. Last issued in 1962 when the Bma branches became the Ama, usage continued into the 1970s when it ceased because the badges drew the attention of drug addicts to doctors' cars. Including horn handl
Archive - World War I Australian soldier of the 48th Battalion, AIF. Including trench art cigarette ashtray with German belt buckle, other German belt buckles, Australian & German jacket buttons, Australian insignia, German metal soap (Seife) container wit
Boer war & World War I medals for private Louis J. Palmer, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, no 3926 (Boer war) & no D/2 0987 (World War I). the Queen's South African medal with 5 clasps (diamond hill, relief of Kimberley, Drienfontein, Paadeberg & Johannesburg)
Two 1939-1945 World War II Prisoner of war zinc Identity tags. One for Stalag Viiic (adjacent to the famous Stalag Luft III) near Sagan, Germany, now Zagan, Poland, built in September 1939, after the fall of Tobruk in December 1941, it housed Australian &
World war I trench art by soldiers of the 52nd Battalion, AIF, communion set. with crucifix & two candle stick holders with a plaque, one marked Ypres and 52 & the other Menin gate Memorial Menin gate in Ypres, Western Flanders, Belgium was the gateway of
Photograph c1880, Kaawirn Kuunawarn (Hissing swan), Chief of the Kirrae Wuurong (blood tip tribe). Old ink inscription verso dated April 1881, mounted. Original photograph (15 x 10 cm). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
Six items. After Jean Piron, 'Femme Du Cap De Diemen.' plate 6 form 'Atlas Du Voyage a La Recherche De La Perouse,' pub. Paris 1800 etching (44 x 31 cm). Also, 5 wood engravings depicting aboriginal subjects including. King Billy & Truganini. Collection Dr
Ceremonial stone, Dani people of Irian Jaya. Perforated at one end, decorated on one side, plain on the other. These stones have a variety of names including. Display-exchange stone, sacred stone & symbolic stone. the stone is a type of slate. Pigments inc
Magic staff, Batak people, Lake Toba, Sumatra. Bamboo carving with feathers & cotton thread, dark patina, 19th century.from the collection of Dr P Elliot (1927- 2014). Height 77 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
Ancestor figures, a female sitting on the shoulders of a male. Batak people, Lake Toba, Sumatra, wooden carving, good patina, 19th century. From the collection of Dr P Elliot (1927-2014). Height 32.5 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
Fijian engraved presentation sperm whale tooth (tabua). with a plaited fibre sennit neck band, highly significant object in traditional Fijian society, said to be the greatest of all Fijian valuables, 19th century. Lot 313 McKenzies Auctioneers 6/12/2011.
South African knobkerrie club. with its head reinforced by military boot nails, brought back to Australia by an Australian Boer war soldier; used in Southern & Eastern Africa, mainly by Zulus,19th century. Length 75 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
Kodja Aboriginal stone axe. the unique axe of south west Australia, now very rare, with two pieces of stone, one pointed & one blunt, embedded in grass tree resin together with a pointed stick handle, collected in 1877, previously owned by Lord McAlpine of
Hafted Aboriginal stone axe. with an ancient uniface pecked & polished stone & more modern 100-150 years old hafting, from Central Australia, previously owned by Lord McAlpine of West Green (1942-2014). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. 37 x 21.5 cm
Three framed Aboriginal King plates, purchased in Sydney 1985, in the Lawson's catalogue of 22/7/85, they were described as being issued between 1857 & 1861, NSW red cedar frame, the King plates are unique in that one was for a man, one for a woman, & one
Australian Army World War II 303 bayonet, frog & scabbard. the blade is marked Oa (orange Arsenal) & 44 & the frog is dated 1945. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 58 cm
World War I trench warfare club. Austro Hungarian of the type used on the Italian front & on the Western front in 1917-1918. Length 58 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
World War I trench warfare club (against humans and rats). Australian/British, lead core loaded, retained by match headed batten nails, augmented by boot studs, carved handle. Length 45 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
Two wooden message sticks. One flat from central Queensland and the other round from Western Central Australia, both from the Perrott. Collection (R.I.Perrott 1822-1895). Length 19 cm (longest). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
Paper bark wrappings & native string. with four Kimberley spear points. Three of greenish glass & one of insulator porcelain, finely made, from the Kimberley, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.