Michael Treloar: The Paul Lucas Collection of Australian Military History - Part III, 103021, Adelaide SA

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 30, 2021 - October 30, 2021

Page Size: 199 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2		[Boer War] A cabinet card portrait photograph of one Bert McVeigh, in uniform in South Africa.			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
3		[Boer War] A cabinet card portrait photograph of an unknown Australian officer in South Africa.			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
4		[Boer War] 'A Christmas Despatch' [a vintage Christmas card].	London	[circa 1900].	AUD 40.00 - 60.00	AUD 72.00
5	[Boer War] TORRANCE, Joan	Christmas Tide [a war poem].	[Melbourne]	[circa 1900]	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 72.00
6		[Boer War] Veteran's Association of Army, Navy & Auxiliary Forces (Incorporated). Commemoration of the Men who gave their Lives for the Empire in the South African War, 1899-1902. Christchurch Cathedral, 2.30 p.m. Sunday, May 29th, 1938 [drop title].			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
7	BUFTON, John	Tasmanians in the Transvaal War.	Hobart	1905	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
8		[Melbourne University Regiment] Two original group photographs depicting members of (possibly) the Melbourne University Regiment prior to the First World War.			AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 72.00
9	GURWOOD, Lieutenant John	An important autograph letter by Lieutenant John Gurwood, 52nd Regiment, written in Lisbon where he was recovering from wounds received in the Peninsular War.			AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 900.00
10		[Victorian Navy] A cabinet card portrait photograph of an unknown sailor.			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 84.00
11		[1st Australian Pioneer Battalion] Christmas 1917. 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion AIF.			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 96.00
12		[2nd Australian Signal Squadron] A group photograph of the 'Second Signal Squadron at Zapata [Zgharta], near Tripoli, Syria'.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
13		[2nd Cavalry Division, 1934] An original panoramic photograph of the '2nd Cavalry Division, Centenary Camp, Broadmeadows, 1934'.	Melbourne	1934	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 180.00
14		[2nd Divisional Ammunition Column] A group photograph of 27 Australian soldiers from the 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column at Geelong Military Camp in September 1915.			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 48.00
15		[3rd Field Ambulance] 'Their Name Liveth for Evermore'. A framed and glazed memorial card for 179 Sergeant Thomas Pollock, 3rd Field Ambulance, with an enamelled brass Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia badge mounted at the centre.			AUD 40.00 - 60.00	AUD 36.00
16		[4th Australian Divisional Artillery] 4th Australian Divisional Artillery [cover title of a post-Armistice souvenir].	Anthee, Belgium	early 1919].	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 108.00
17	MANN, Arthur	An original photograph of 858 Arthur Mann on horseback.			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 72.00
18		[5th Division Engineers] A '1st Kicking Football' medallion awarded in Bancourt, France in 1917 to Lance Corporal W.H. Taylor, 5th Division Engineers.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 264.00
19		[6th Battalion] A temporary officer's commission for 887 Frederick Alfred Galagher, Second Lieutenant, 6th Australian Infantry Battalion (Victoria), killed in action at Gallipoli, 8 May 1915.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 108.00
20	[7th Battalion] AUSTIN, Ronald James	Our Dear Old Battalion. The Story of the 7th Battalion AIF, 1914-1919.	McCrae	2004	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 48.00
21	[7th Battalion] STEWART, 2901 Private Ernest	[Souvenir of] Cairo. 24 Detachable Phototype Post Cards. Serie N. 5 [cover title].			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
22	[7th Field Artillery Brigade] ROHU, Bombardier Sil and Gunner Eric HARDING (editors)	The 7th Field Artillery Brigade Yandoo.... whilst in Camp at Various Artillery Training Centres in the South of England, principally at Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.... Volume II. December 1916. [Together with] The 7th Field Artillery Brigade Yandoo.... whil	London and [Sydney	1916, 1920	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
23	[8th Battalion] AUSTIN, Ronald James	Cobbers in Khaki. The History of the 8th Battalion, 1914-1919.	McCrae	1997	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 48.00
24		[8th Battalion] An original group portrait photograph of the 4th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion.			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 84.00
25		[8th Battalion] An original panoramic group photograph of the '8th Battalion, Ballarat, c.1930'.	[Melbourne]	[circa 1930].	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 96.00
26	[10th Battalion] LOCK, Cecil Bert Lovell	The Fighting 10th. A South Australian Centenary Souvenir of the 10th Battalion AIF, 1914-19.	Adelaide	1936	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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