Sport
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# 41553
TUTTLE & CO.
Photographic portrait of Australian professional rower William “Bill” Beach, unbeaten as World Sculling Champion 1884-87. Sydney, circa 1884.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘Tuttle & Co., Corner of George & Market Sts., Sydney’; verso with advertisement for the New York Tailoring Company, 667 George Street, Haymarket; print with pale foxing, mount a little darkened from handling otherwise very good. William Beach …
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![[NEW ZEALAND] Cricket team from Pukeuri, north of Oamaru, Otago, circa 1900.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_DSFB_5795-300x300.jpg)
# 41392
Photographer unknown.
[NEW ZEALAND] Cricket team from Pukeuri, north of Oamaru, Otago, circa 1900.
Sepia-toned gelatin silver print photograph, 150 x 200 mm; laid down on its original board mount with decorative lithographic border; verso with an inscription in fountain pen in a later hand headed ‘Pukeuri Cricket Team’ and identifying the XI by name (plus two others); the print has beautiful tones and excellent clarity, and is in …
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![[ADELAIDE] Federal Hall, Grote Street. Friday, August 14, 1903. A Grand Concert & Dance will be held in aid of Funds to erect a Memorial for the late Mr. C. Pryor, late member of the Cornwall Football Club,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_DSFB_5310-300x300.jpg)
# 41279
[ADELAIDE] Federal Hall, Grote Street. Friday, August 14, 1903. A Grand Concert & Dance will be held in aid of Funds to erect a Memorial for the late Mr. C. Pryor, late member of the Cornwall Football Club,
and for many years in the employment of Messrs A. Simpson and Son. Adelaide : A. H. Kruss, Pirie Street, 1903. Folding broadsheet, 295 x 450 mm (fully opened), 295 x 225 mm (folded), lithographically printed on [4] sides; with programme of the evening’s entertainments, headlined by Will Raymond, Alf Bushby, Miss Mary Lawler, Bert …
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![[ADELAIDE] Victoria Ramblers Football Club. Second Annual Concert in the Goodwood Institute, on Monday, July 8th [1901].](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_DSFB_5314-300x300.jpg)
# 41277
[ADELAIDE] Victoria Ramblers Football Club. Second Annual Concert in the Goodwood Institute, on Monday, July 8th [1901].
[Adelaide : A. & E. Lewis, printers, 1901]. Broadsheet, 295 x 225 mm, lithographically printed on both sides; recto with programme of the evening’s entertainments, plus advertisements for 12 Adelaide businesses; verso with full-page advertisement for J. Henry & Co.; printed on very cheap paper but well preserved; quite possibly a unique survivor.
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# 41030
MOFFATT, Tracey et alia
Visionaire 30 : the game. Australia edition
[New York] : Visionaire Publishing, 1999. Limited to 6000 numbered copies. A fine example. Issue 30 of the avant garde photography magazine, presented in the form of a game, featuring photographs by Australian artists and sitting in a box designed by Louis Vuitton. “30 GAME is not only a collection of art but also a …
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![[ROWING; OXFORD UNIVERSITY] The Queen's "Torpid", 1879.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2023/02/08121009/2023_DSFB_0577-300x300.jpg)
# 38841
Photographer unknown.
[ROWING; OXFORD UNIVERSITY] The Queen’s “Torpid”, 1879.
Albumen print photograph, in very large format 210 x 267 mm, unmounted; verso with period inscription in pencil: ‘Queens Torpid / 1879’ and negative number ‘30,739’; the print has excellent clarity and tonal range, and apart from some fading around the edges is in fine condition. A significantly early – and quite possibly unique – …
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![[BOARD GAME] A Journey by Air](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/11/30122017/2022_DSFB_7670.jpg)
# 37845
SPEAR'S
[BOARD GAME] A Journey by Air
Brimsdown, U.K. : Spear’s Games, [1939]. Folding game board of thin card, 210 x 310 mm, in excellent condition; in the original box, 250 x 180 x 25 mm (lid with child owner’s name and some pen marks, some minor edge and corner wear); the underside of the box lid has the printed rules; lacking …
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# 37616
ROBERTS, J. H.
Tinted studio portrait of a champion athlete with his prizes. Ballarat, Victoria, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of ‘J. H. Roberts, Photographer, Sturt St., Ballarat’ surmounted by the royal coat of arms and ‘By Appointment’; print and mount are in superb condition. A strikingly tinted studio portrait of a competitive athlete posing …
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# 37504
FALK STUDIO
Studio portrait of New Zealand-Australian boxer Otto Cribb. Sydney, circa 1901.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘FALK / 496 George Street, Sydney’; verso with wet stamp of Melbourne print, postcard and photograph seller W. H. Cooper, Royal Arcade; the albumen print is in good condition; the mount is chipped at two corners, but is …
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# 37810
BLACKADDER, Hebert (1877-1937)
Members of the Crookwell Rifle Club during a “shoot”. Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, circa 1907.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 86 x 137 mm, printed on postcard stock; handwritten caption in the negative: ‘Crookwell Rifle Club / Blackadder’; no message to verso; in excellent condition. According to Barrie (Australians behind the camera), Herbert Blackadder was a professional photographer working from premises in Goulburn Street, Crookwell, in 1905-07. He later worked as …
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![[CRICKET] Silhouette portrait of Bert Oldfield, Australia and New South Wales. Dated 22 February 1934.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/10/19123324/2022_DSFB_6511.jpg)
# 37396
Maker unknown
[CRICKET] Silhouette portrait of Bert Oldfield, Australia and New South Wales. Dated 22 February 1934.
Black card on white paper, 110 x 80 mm (image), 275 x 190 mm (sheet); captioned and dated in brown ink by the artist at lower left: ‘W. A. Oldfield / 22nd February 1934’; very well preserved. William Albert Stanley “Bert” Oldfield MBE (1894-1976) played representative cricket for New South Wales and Australia as a wicket-keeper. His Test career spanned almost 17 …
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# 36864
HERBERTE, H. A.
A group of young men relaxing at Tocumwal in the New South Wales southern Riverina, circa 1910.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso wet-stamped ‘H. A. Herberte, Photo., Tocumwal’; a few marks to the margins, but the image itself is hardly affected. These likely lads were probably part of a sporting team or church social group out for a picnic in the fresh air at …
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![[SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Three photographs of scenes around Mount Kosciusko, with their original Hotel Kosciusko envelope. Early 1920s.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/05/27141252/2022_DSFB_3333-300x300.jpg)
# 35585
[NEW SOUTH WALES TOURST BUREAU?]
[SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Three photographs of scenes around Mount Kosciusko, with their original Hotel Kosciusko envelope. Early 1920s.
Three gelatin silver print photographs on medium stock, in uniform format 115 x 160 mm, each wet stamped on the verso ‘Mount Kosciusko, N.S.W.’; all in good condition; purchased by a holidaymaker from the Hotel Kosciusko around 1920-25, the photos are accompanied by the original Hotel Kosciusko manila envelope, which is in pristine condition. …
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# 32103
ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)
Spring Racing Carnival Edition Prints (complete set)
[Melbourne : Spring Racing Carnival, circa 1994]. Complete set of four limited edition edition posters, each featuring a photographic image by Rennie Ellis taken at the Spring Racing Carnival, blind embossed with fine detail of the racefield along the lower margin. Each poster hand signed by Rennie Ellis below the image. Limited to 250 copies, …
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# 34192
CAMERON, A.R. and SHARP, Bruce (editors)
The science of wrestling : complete course 130 illustrations
Sydney : Scotow Press, for Withrow Physical Culture School, [c.1930]. Small quarto, original pictorial wrappers (water stained), staple bound, pp 64, illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates and line drawings in the text.
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# 33207
ZIEGLER, Oswald L. (publisher); HURLEY, Frank (photographer)
Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler’s publications for the Sesquicentenary)
Sydney, N.S.W. : Simmons Limited, 1938. “Produced by Oswald L. Ziegler under the authority of Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council and in collaboration with its publicity committee.” (title page). Elephant folio (440 x 310 mm), publisher’s tan leather over boards (lightly rubbed and marked), upper board with black leather panel lettered in gilt 150 Years; all …