Sport

# 47168

[Photographer unknown.]

Frederick Bennion’s racing yacht “Hinemoa” in the Swan River, Perth, Western Australia, late 1880s.

Albumen print photograph, 185 x 240 mm, laid down recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf of thick card, the mount inscribed in pencil by the album’s compiler ‘Bennion’s yacht “Hinemoa”‘; no photographer’s imprint; a strong print in good condition with some very light scattered foxing; verso with an inferior example of the same print, heavily …

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# 24237

MICHELL, H. (ed)

[HORSE RACING] Victoria’s greatest races.

With full descriptions of the Melbourne Cup 1921, Caulfield Cup 1922-3, Melbourne Cup 1922-3. Biographical sketches of owners – trainers – jockeys. Fully illustrated. [Cover title : The Melbourne Cup]. Melbourne : The British and Australasian Publishing Service, [ca. 1924]. Quarto, gilt-lettered full crushed morocco, spine in compartments with gilt-tooling, edges lightly rubbed, all edges …

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# 46361

[Photographer unknown]

Kuala Lumpur v. Special Service Squadron. [16 February, 1924].

[Title from caption on mount]. Large format gelatin silver print photograph, 230 x 280 mm; on original board mount, 355 x 460 mm, captioned in ink across the upper margin ‘KUALA LUMPUR v. SPECIAL SERVICE SQUADRON’; a strong print with excellent clarity, in very good condition; the mount is clean and stable (verso blank). In …

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# 45072

[POULTON, S. E., attributed]

[ROWING] The Radley and Eton crews, Henley, 26 June 1858.

Two albumen print photographs with hand tinting, in uniform arch-top format, dimensions 75 x 62 mm; mounted side-by-side on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf, with a fully contemporary pencilled caption between the pair reading ‘Radley and Eton crews, Henley, June 26, 1858’; beneath each print (in pencil, in the same hand as the …

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# 44664

[Photographer unknown]

A game of croquet in progress. Geelong, Victoria, circa 1875.

Albumen print photograph, 140 x 200 mm, on its original card mount with printed red border; the print has some fading at the right-hand edge but is otherwise in very good condition; the mount is clean and stable. This photograph was sourced as part of a group of albumen prints taken in the mid 1870s …

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# 45622

RIISFELDT, Emil

Studio portrait of a young boy holding a cricket bat. Sydney, c.1882.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Palace Photographic. E. Riisfeldt, Artist Photographer. 488 (late 490) George Street, opposite Central Police Court, Sydney. First Prize, Melbourne International Exhibition’; the print has a bent top corner, but is otherwise in very good condition, as is the …

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# 44548

[SCHROEDER & CIE.]

[MOUNTAINEERING] Glacier des Bossons.

[Zürich : Schroeder & Cie., 1885]. Large format albumen print, 220 x 275 mm, captioned in the negative ‘399.Glacier des Bossons’; mounted recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf; in very good condition, the mount annotated with the word ‘Switzerland’ (in error) in blue fountain pen at lower left; the verso with another albumen print in …

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# 42245

FOSTER & MARTIN

[KELLY GANG; CRICKET] Signed studio portrait of Francis Augustus Hare, Superintendent of the Victorian Mounted Police, inscribed by Hare for Ivo Bligh, captain of the visiting English cricket team. “Rupertswood”, Sunbury, Christmas 1882.

Melbourne : Foster & Martin, [1882]. Albumen print photograph in cabinet card format, 165 x 110 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Foster & Martin, Artists & Photographers, 29 & 31 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and a presentation inscription in ink by the sitter: Francis Hare, for The Honbl. Ivo Blyth [sic – *see note below]; …

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# 44084

BLAND, C. V.

Lawn bowls team. Geelong, circa 1925.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 165 x 215 mm, laid down on its original board mount with the handwritten details of the photographer on the mount l.r. ‘C. V. Bland Photo Geelong’; verso with fully contemporary inscription in pencil identifying the four gentlemen as ‘McIntyre, Prowse, Batty, Hall’; in excellent condition. Mr. C. V. Bland was …

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# 43225

TEBBUTT, R. E. & HILL, L. G. (eds.)

The Falcon : magazine of the North Sydney Boys’ High School. Vol. 4, no. 2. June, 1918.

Crows Nest, NSW : Charles Dunn, printer (for NSBHS), 1918. Octavo, decorative wrappers in the school colours, lower wrapper with advertisement for Miller Street furnishing firm Gourlay Bros. (light crease to lower wrapper and last couple of leaves); pp. 36, photographically illustrated; includes staff list, editorial, obituaries, class reports, student poetry and articles, debating and …

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# 43144

'BULLWORKER"

Muscles make a man

Middlesex, NJ : Margrave Corporation, circa 1970. Mail order catalogue, quarto, pp. [12] with order card, illustrated in colour. Illustrated catalogued for the ‘Bullworker’ isometric exercise device. ‘Burst out of your shell and be a REAL man’. ‘5 minutes a day must get you in MANSHAPE’. ‘Bullworker is a product and fitness company that specializes …

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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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# 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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