'Presented to Mr. Edward honey by the committee and members of the band of hope and Sunday school teachers of the Congregational church, Ramsgate on the occasion of his retirement......' hand painted illuminated certificate, dated April 1909; housed in a…
Thomas Ardern. Esq. Manager Australian joint stock bank Ltd. Attractive hand painted illuminated certificate of appreciation from some of the residents of Botany, dated 13th November 1897, decorated with waratah and flannel flowers and adorned with…
1899 Australian Federal Referendum certificate: lithographed coloured certificate, decorated with Parliament house and state Premiers, 50 x 65 cm overall
Ephemera, Journals, booklets, maps, etc. Fascinating group including World War I military map 'The Margaret river gold mining Syndicate' share certificate, historical booklets, etc. Inspection will reward.
Australasian Federal Referendum, July 1899, certificate, decorated with Parliament house and state Premiers, lithograph in colours, framed & glazed, 47 x 62 cm overall
A hand-written invitation to dinner from President George Washington, 23rd February 1799 one-page invitation in Washington's distinctive hand, accompanied by the outer wrapper addressed to 'Mr and Mrs Ramsay &c in Alexandra' who were the recipients of the…
Collection remainder comprising a framed copper engraving of 'Venus', a framed share certificate for The Western Canada Land Company (1918) and copy of 'Australian Memories' by Mary Buckle, (3 items).
Certificates of Appreciation: comprising 1899 hand drawn & coloured on behalf of residents of Wamboota and surrounding districts (NSW), to Rev. Alfred Rogers for religious service; 1923 illustrated letter of appreciation from citizens of Hamilton (NZ) to…
The Sketchbook of Lord Inverurie, Ian Douglas Montagu Keith-Falconer (1877 - 1897), son of Lord Kintore, Governor of South Australia from 1889 - 1895. Titled 'Ian's Early Sketches', the bound volume bears a tipped-in certificate on the inside front cover,…
1899 Australian Federal Referendum Certificate: lithographed coloured certificate, decorated with Parliament House and State Premiers, framed & glazed, overall 45 x 60 cm.
New South Wales Police Department Certificate of Service: December 1870 document printed [Form 22] on vellum (in 1867) completed in manuscript, for Arthur Harris, who had served in the NSW Police for two years from March 1868 to October 1870, 'having…
A collection of five framed Australian documents, 19th century and later, comprising a Victorian gold license, 1853, Victorian miner's right, 1913, Victorian ticket of leave, 1844, a New South Wales certificate of service, 1870 and a New South Wales…
Queensland At The 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Illuminated presentation certificate, hand-illustrated and with calligraphy by H.W. Fox, the recipient being Angus Mackay, who was the Commissioner for Queensland at the exhibition, which took…
Gold Mining:1881 10/- Share Certificate (#849) for United Ajax Gold Mining Co operating out of Campbell's Creek; also 1926 consecutive run of four share certificates (#5783-86) for the South Lucknow Gold Mining Company, each certificate for 100 shares at…
Australian Natives Association National Fete, Melbourne 1903, presentation certificate to Elsie berry, published Troedel & Co, photo lithograph, 50.5 x 32.5 cm
French Revolution - 'Certificat de Civisme': good conduct certificate in manuscript headed 'Liberte', 'Egalite', 'Fraternite' and 'Ou La Mort', presented to Lieutenant-Adjoint 'Tremery' by the 2nd Battalion of Tirailleurs (skirmishers), dated 1794; framed…
Accumulation in 4 cartons including Singleton World War I certificate (tear at base); 1913 'Laying the Foundation Stones... at the Federal Capital City, Programme' (poor condition); 1918-40s masonic ephemera (33 items); letter signed Sir William McKell…
1879 Sydney International Exhibition Certificate of Award, 'J. Partridge, Sydney, New South Wales, Ovens and Japanned Ware. Highly Commended', signed by P.A. Jennings Executive Commissioner and 2 others, 73 cm x 62 cm approx frame, some staining, small…
An 1820 press framed vellum certificate of free pardon for Philip Lewis, by his Honor George Arthur, Esq, Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land, frame size 37 x 29.5 cm
1879 Sydney International Exhibition Certificate of Award, 'J. Partridge, Sydney, New South Wales, Ovens and Japanned Ware. Highly Commended', signed by P.A. Jennings, Executive Commissioner and two others, 73 cm x 62 cm frame, some staining, small holes…
The Lascelles family of Geelong & Melbourne, an archive including a blank share certificate for Dennys, Lascelles Ltd, an 1893 letter to Mr Lascelles from Lord Hopetoun, a 1911 letter and signed photograph from Mary Gibson-Carmichael (wife of the…
Emerald hill band of Hope' chromolithograph temperance movement membership certificate to George Thomas Schollick (no. 1481), June 4th, 1877. Emerald hill is now goes by the name South Melbourne. 15 x 16.5 cm
Military: 'Town of Kew' World War I Roll of Honour certificate - very colourful and attractive; plus 1893 watercolour of a house in Kew by R Clark, signed lower left. (Qty 2)
Military: 1868 commission in the NSW Volunteer Rifles signed by the Governor 'Belmore', central fold otherwise very fine; 1902 programme for Boer War Memorial at Stratford (Vic), quite fine; 1902 Bendigo Gunpowder Magazine invoices for storage of powder…
Alfred Hospital certificate 'Alfred Hospital, Founded 1867, Melbourne, 30th January, 1929, The Managers Have Elected George Frederick Wilcox Esq. An Honorary Life Governor Of The Hospital', three colour lithograph with attractive elevated view of the…
C1919 lithographic certificate, A Tribute from the Citizens of Dunolly, to 'Pte. J.H. Fishlock, No.7805, 5th Battalion, A.I.F. printed by Atlas Press Pty Ltd, and completed in manuscript. With images including Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli. Attractively framed &…
Henry Telfer Sergeant A.I.F. discharge papers (4 years 134 days), together with Telfer's original New South Wales birth certificate, circa 1884. Both framed and glazed, 25 x 21 cm and 19 x 43 cm
1917 colour lithographic certificate, City of South Melbourne, For Liberty For Justice Anzacs, The Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens, of the City of South South Melbourne, Hereby place on record their Thanks, and Appreciation for the conduct of, William L.…
1915 colour lithographic certificate, Presented to, Pte. W.A. Dartnell, by the Mayor, Councillors and Citizens, of the City of St. Kilda, as a Record of and in Appreciation of his, Patriotic Response to the call of Empire. Dated August 1915. Attractively…
A Convict Marriage At Windsor, August 1835. A certificate recording the marriage of Edward Mitchell (aged 35?) to Elizabeth Coverly (aged 20) at the Presbyterian Church at Portland Head in New South Wales. The document has been completed by the the…
Private D.J. Griffen 4th Field Artillery Battery A.I.F. (11845, Dvr), framed certificate from the City Of Brunswick; together with three of Private Griffen's World War I service medals. Attractive period frame and mounting, 61 x 66 cm overall
Northern Territory Land Company Ltd 1882-1980s archive of documents including 1882 bank & legal correspondence with C.J. Sanders (company secretary) relating to the March 1882 incorparation of the company, plus Bank of Australasia opening account books,…
Passenger ship safety certificate for SS Arcadia for the period 12th March 1978 to 15th February 1979, being the final such certificate for the cruise ship when in service prior to being scrapped, presented in a frame 44 cm x 57 cm
Municipal: 'Certificate of Competency/Municipal Clerks' (1949), Fellowship of the Insitute of Municipal Administration (1954) & 'Commission of the Peace Certificate of Assignment' as a Justice of the Peace (1963), all framed. No Reserve.
New South Wales Contingent (to the Sudan), printed Parchment certificate of Discharge completed in manuscript. Private Robert William (family name is not clear; it could be Holt). Contingent disbanded. Service Abroad 112 days. Sydney July 3rd, 1885.
Three various Colonial documents. Marriage certificate Presbyterian church Windsor, 1835. Certificate for the marriage of Edward Mitchell (1799-1879) to Elizabeth Coverly. Edward was an ex-convict who had received a seven year sentence in 1819. Signed in…
Two NSW Colonial Legal documents. Indenture on vellum Hawkesbury, 1818 Richard Hayman & Thomas Johnson; & Supreme court of civil Judicature Sydney, 1824 administration certificate on vellum. Document related to Solomon Josephs dying without a will and…
William Charles Wentworth (1797-1872), photographs, documents & letters. Document: abstract of the title of the Trustees of the Will of the late W.C. Wentworth, deceased, to land at Vaucluse near Sydney, 1902. W. M. Barker.Typed on five sheets of lawyers…
The Parliament of the Commonwealth invitation Request to the Hon. A.T. Kerr M.L.C and Lady for the Opening of Parliament 9th May 1901 in Melbourne by Edmund Barton; together with a leaving certificate from Sydney Boys high 1955 2
August 25th, 1852 Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company share certificate issued to Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Mitchell and signed by the company secretary, Robert Marshall., The first regular steamship service between the United Kingdom and…
St Kilda & Brighton Railway Company, share certificate issued to Henry Austin, dated September 1859 and with the seal of the company. Printed by Sands & Kenny., The St Kilda & Brighton Railway Company opened a line from St Kilda in Melbourne, to Bay…
The Melbourne & Suburban Railway Company, share certificate issued to David Scallan of Melbourne, November 1859. Very attractive and scarce with a cartouche depicting the railway bridge over the Yarra and a map showing the proposed route of the service.…
A scarce New Zealand Wars associated document and battle plan, - an admission certificate for Corporal Samuel Bright 65th Regiment of Foot (served New Zealand 1846 to 1865) as Out-Pensioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea 24.5 cm x 18.5 cm, and 'Plan of…
A framed antique Russian Railway Scrip certificate and a 19th century, botanical print, a 1903 bond for the Riazan -Ouralsk railway, in Russian, French and Dutch, and a chromolithograph of the phases of development of an acorn, height 68.5 cm, width 61 cm…
Sir George Morris O'Rorke's hand-written Royal Presentation Knight Bachelor Certificate with associated Queen's seal, dated 20.7.80 (1880) and detailing O'Rorke Esq. as 'Speaker of the House of Representatives of Our Colony of N.Z, the Degree, Title…
The Wentworth Diggings - A Marriage Certificate A Gold Miner's Marriage Certificate signed by John Dunmore Lang [1799 - 1878] Letterpress, signed, inscribed and dated 'Twelfth day of April, 1864' 30 x 25 cm. Text includes '(Copy of) Certificate of…
Early Ballarat Gold Mine: Australian Freehold Gold Mine, certificate for 5 shares, £1 paid, 1852, no.924, scrollwork left, black with heavy blue underprint, fine and scarce. Early Gold Miner: The Australian Freehold Gold Mine, certificate for 5 shares, £1…
A Ticket-of-Leave For Myles Keenan: December 1844 ticket-of-leave issued to Miles [Myles] Keenan, permitting him to travel from Fingal Police Station to Campbell Town Police Station, a distance of approximately 60kms. Keenan's physical description is…
The Alarming History of Abraham Crabtree - Van Diemen's Land & Norfolk Island Crabtree arrived in Van Diemen's Land in July 1832, one of the 221 convicts aboard 'Katherine Stewart Forbes', following his trial at York, West Riding Quarter Sessions, where…
Jean Moffatt - Transported for 14 years: Between 1824 and 1837 the convict ship, Sir Charles Forbes, made 4 voyages to Australia to deliver convicts to Van Diemen's Land (3 voyages) and Botany Bay. Her second voyage, departing in August 1826 arrived at…
1896 YMCA Sydney Illuminated certificate of Appreciation. Issued to Mr and Mrs H S Thompson upon their retirement to Newcastle. Lithography by John Sands, Sydney, including original photograph, presumably of the YMCA building, 43 x 33 cm
A World War I Australian Imperial Forces discharge certificate, to James Hill 11/3/17, together with assorted military badges, buttons and lapels, certificate 36 x 41 cm
(Van Diemen's Land) Certificate of Freedom for Richard Edwards, Signed by the Acting Comptroller General for Convicts, March, 1856, Richard Edwards had been tried in March 1845 at Warwick Assizes and sentenced to ten years. He departed for Vdl with 298…
Australian Natives Association' Ex-President's Certificate, early 20th century, presented to Edwin Josiah Amos, chromolithograph, printed by Sands and McDougall, Melbourne, 63.5 x 51 cm
Framed certificate Order of the Bath. Conferring Grant of the Dignity of a Companion (military division) of the Order of the bathto Major-General Geoffrey Chicheley Kemp. M C, 11th June 1942. Facsimile signature George VI; hand signed by Prince Henry,…
Sydney Harbour Bridge: Certificate from the Executive Committee for the Sydney Harbour Bridge Celebrations signed by the Chairman of the Committee and the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Samuel Walder, dated 19 March 1932, 31.5 x 21.5 cm. (faults, but no losses)
An unknown World War II Dutch certificate (framed) to the 8th Regiment for what appears to be Loyalty to the Fatherland with original signature in bottom corner 37 x 26 cm
1826 van Diemens Land & Company Share certificate of 5 Shares Issued to Henry Digby of Harley Street in the County of Middlesex & signed by George salt Tucker Clerk to the Van Dieman's Landc (with century Ansell 1825 watermark & paper seal). Admiral Sir…
Victorian framed engineers Membership certificate. Amalgamated Society of engineers, Machinists, Millwrights, Smiths and pattern Makers, dated16th December 1867. Lithograph. 55 x 40 cm
The Tankard Malting Company Limited, 3 share certificates to Ephrain L. Zox of Melbourne, dated 1886; plus 'Montgomerie's Brewery Company Limited, West Melbourne', share certificate to James Warne of Melbourne dated 1888.
Illuminated retirement certificate, leather bound, 'To Samuel Summons Esq, Ma Llb, from the Teachers of Metropolitan District No.4, and former Districts. Melbourne, April 8th, 1908'.
1899 Australasian Federal Referendum certificate, decorated with Parliament House and State Premiers, lithograph in colours, framed and glazed, overall 60 x 43 cm.
1899 Australasian Federal Referendum certificate, decorated with Parliament House and State Premiers, lithograph in colours, framed & glazed, overall 76 x 61 cm.
Henry Hughes & Son 'Husun' sextant labelled inside 'Henry Hughes & Son Ltd' with a certificate of accuracy signed & dated by D.H. Perkins, with original case. Condition good to fair, some missing pieces, slight losses. Dimensions of case 28 x 27 x 14.5 cm
i) 1840 West Australian Colonial autographed document a rare West Australian colonial settlement, extract of Marriage certificate, 'Henry Robert Strickland of Perth, Bachelor & Mary Anne Hokin of Perth, Spinster, were married at Perth..24th December 1840…
Certificate of Freedom. Printed document completed in manuscript, dated Hobart Town, January 1856, on both sides of a quarto leaf, signed by the Acting Comptroller-General of the Convict Department. Granting liberty to one Joseph Taylor, who had been…
A Deed to the Grant of the Exclusive right of Burial in the Districts of Wallsend, Willinton Quay & Willington, Northumberland, 1896 + two other certificates: the Meadowbank Manufacturing Co. Cerificate of completion of Apprenticeship, 1919 + a…
1931 Australian Natives Association, chromo-lithographed Ex-President's Certificate (Footscray Branch No.65), window mounted, framed & glazed in original carved wooden frame, multicoloured and attractive, overall 70 x 90 cm