Sport
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# 42514
San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc.
[GAY GAMES]. Gay Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 10, August 1982
San Francisco : San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc., 1982. Newsletter, pp. [4], folded sheet, illustrated in black and white, stamped and mailed as issued, with the word ‘Olympic’ redacted at multiple points. The inaugural Gay Olympic Games was held in San Francisco in August 1982, with Tina Turner performing at the Opening Ceremony. Three …
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# 42773
WIGRAM, R.H.
Trout and fly in Tasmania
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1938. Octavo, green cloth boards, pp 94; edges foxed, previous owner’s name to endpaper, illustrated with seven photographic plates. Scarce. Richard Henry Wigram emigrated to Tasmania in 1924, and was a keen angler at an early age. He was known for his innovative fly designs as well as authoring a wide …
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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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 35601
NUCOLORVUE
Kosciusko Road in summer, Snowy Mountains.
Moorabbin, Vic. : Nucolorvue, [circa 1970]. Paper wallet, 113 x 153 mm, with colour photographic front; containing an accordion-style foldout with 10 colour photographic views; intended for mailing, but unused; in excellent condition.
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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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# 35842
[NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU]; ASHTON, Will (artist)
[SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Hotel Kosciusko, 5000 ft. : Mount Kosciusko, 7305 ft. : the home of winter sport in Australia
[s.l. : s.n., circa 1930]. Folding card, 205 x 150 mm, colour pictorial front depicting skiers outside the Hotel (from a painting by Will Ashton), annotated by the original owner, who spent her winter holiday at the hotel in the year 1930, ‘25.5.30 – 31.5.30‘, and with her ownership wet stamp ‘Mrs G.C.E. Single, “Brunch”, …