Coins / Medals / Objects

ALPHABET SET.
Set of letter blocks.
England, circa 1800- 1850.

Alphabet set of 179 pieces of bone, each approx. 15 x 18 mm., letters incised and filled in with black ink by hand;...

A fine, early alphabet set, consisting of rectangular bone letter tiles in a well made wooden box; used in education...

Australian: $2850 (Approx. US $1825, Euro €1458) Quote ref.

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[BURKE AND WILLS] STOKES, Thomas.
Burke & Wills. In Commemoration of Australia being first crossed..
Melbourne, Thomas Stokes, 1861.

Medal in white metal (38mm), small countermarks and a little marred, but an uncommonly fine copy; in the original case...

A particularly good Burke & Wills medal, notorious for wear and flat spots, in the original case of issue. The medal,...

Australian: $3850 (Approx. US $2465, Euro €1970) Quote ref.

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[CHILDREN] ALPHABET BLOCKS.
Set of Children's Blocks.
France, circa, 1880.

24 timber blocks, chromolithgraphed with five3 paper guides, some a little creased; original box.

French children's alphabet blocks with a Kangourou. A remarkably complete set for such an early and obviously well-used...

Australian: $1450 (Approx. US $928, Euro €742) Quote ref.

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[COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION] HAGELBERG, W.
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year: Souvenir of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition.
Berlin, W. Hagelberg, 1886.

Colour printed card, 115 x 166 mm., with pull-out tab which opens a booklet of eight black & white scenes with...

Very scarce Christmas souvenir of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1866, depicting scenes from the Empire...

Australian: $1100 (Approx. US $704, Euro €563) Quote ref.

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[COOK] PINGO, Lewis.
The Royal Society Medal, in commemoration of Captain Cook....
London, Royal Society, 1784.

Silver medal, 43 mm. diameter; traces of lacquer and a few short scratches to the exposed surfaces, but a clean...

The Royal Society's formal memorial to the great navigator: one of 322 silver specimens. Fellows of the Royal Society...

Beddie, 2790 etc; Brown, British Historical Medals, 258; Marquess of Milford Haven, British and Foreign Naval Medals, 734; Nan Kivell and Spence, p. 72.

Australian: $8300 (Approx. US $5314, Euro €4246) Quote ref.

GILKS, Edward.
Prize for Lithography at the Melbourne Exhibition, 1854.
London, Joseph S. Wyon, 1854.

Bronze medal, 64 mm., edge impressed 'Prize Medal 239 E Gilks Lithography', good extremely fine; with tan morocco case...

A beautiful rarity: the 1854 prize medal for lithography at the first Melbourne Exhibition, awarded to the important...

Australian: $6500 (Approx. US $4161, Euro €3325) Quote ref.

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JAMES WATT STEAMSHIP.
Memorial tobacco case...
Birmingham, Thomas Shaw, 1835- 1837.

Silver tobacco case, 85 x 58 x 22 mm.; both lid and base hallmarked, fine; inscribed: "Presented to Mr. John Taggart,...

A rare memento of the earliest days of Australian steam travel. This fine silver tobacco case was presented by the...

Australian: $8000 (Approx. US $5122, Euro €4093) Quote ref.

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[KANGAROO LANTERN SLIDE].
Australia. Kangaroo Hunt.
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83 x 83 mm., numbered in the plate at top left, partially obscured by more recent label neatly applied along top edge;...

A rare magic lantern slide of a kangaroo hunt. Nineteenth-century magic lantern slides are uncommon anyway, partly on...

Australian: $435 (Approx. US $278, Euro €223) Quote ref.

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