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  • Original 19thC Watercolour – Australian Squadron, HMS Opal off the New Hebrides [Vanuatu] 1886 – D. F. Gillett

    Original 19thC Watercolour – Australian Squadron, HMS Opal off the New Hebrides [Vanuatu] 1886 – D. F. Gillett

    D.F. Gillett was an active British naïve marine artist in the late 19th early 20th Century. This painting is of an event in 1888, and we take that to be the year of the painting.

    A nice size, 38cm by 22cm in frame 65cm by 88cm. the wooden frame of unusual and pleasing design. The painting in very good condition, strong colours no fading or foxing.

    HMS Opal was an Emerald Class Corvette. Despite having steam power, she was fully rigged Barque. Built in Sunderland, England in 1875 she made her way to the Australian fleet and served between 1885-1890, mainly in the Pacific.

    Price $890.00 framed as in image

    A rare subject, HMS Opal in the Pacific off the New Hebrides [Vanuatu].

    $890.00

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  • Stylish Deco Lady with Fawn and Borzoi – Designed by Peter Manfredi – Made by Pompeian Bronze, New York – 1920’s.

    Stylish Deco Lady with Fawn and Borzoi – Designed by Peter Manfredi – Made by Pompeian Bronze, New York – 1920’s.

    Simply the most stunning set of original bookends we have had. Exceedingly rare – not included in the key reference by Kuritsky and De Costa.

    Based in Brooklyn New York the business registered thirty copyrights for bookends – the last in 1930. Peter Manfredi was their top designer.

    Most bookends pairs are either identical or a reflection; rare as with this set to have a different subject for each. Clearly a pair because of the consistent and striking colouring and uniform patina. Original felt and label to one, replacement felt to the other. Very intricate designs hard to give them justice in the images. Some sings of age but overall in super condition circa 100 years old.

    Large by usual standards – 23cmhigh – circa 25cm in length, hefty 2.7kg the pair. Dependent on location there will likely be a postage supplement as they pack big for safety.

    Extremely Rare design by Peter Manfredi – 1920’s

    $840.00

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  • The Ballad of Reading Gaol – Oscar Wilde [John Vassos Illustrated Edition] – 1930

    Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895 and spent two years in Reading jail in England. He was released in May 1897 and went into self exile in Berneval-le-Grand, France where he wrote this work the Ballad of Reading Gaol.

    It was first published in 1898 and re-issued many times and still in print today. This edition is something special.

    Published by Dutton, New York, 1930, a first of type. Quarto, 124 pages, with 16 striking monochrome plates by John Vassos (1898-1985). Vassos had designed promotional material for the Oscar Wild play “Salome” and had been spotted by Dutton who brought him in to add his special touch to the Ballad.

    Black over blue papered boards, scarce dust jacket in black and gold. A very good copy.

    Oscar Wilde – Ballad of Reading Gaol – Striking Presentation.

    $240.00

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  • Triassic Conifer Fossil – Nymboida New South Wales

    Triassic Conifer Fossil – Nymboida New South Wales

    A nice example of a longitudinal foliar stem section – Coniferales [Risskia Media – Tenison Woods, 1883].

    From the middle Triassic period [circa 1225 million year] which represented the period of the “greening” of the planet and the land that is generally referred to as Gondwana.

    This sample was found in the Basin Creek Formation of the Nymboida coal measures. They can be accessed from Coffs Harbour – about 50 kms north-west.

    Size 12cm weighing circa 200 gm.

    Nice fossil from the greening of Gondwana

    ON HOLD FOR G

    $40.00

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  • Botryoidal Goethite – Yaraka Queensland

    Botryoidal Goethite – Yaraka Queensland

    The mineral Goethite or iron oxy-hydroxide here in a nice botryoidal (resembling grapes) crystal form.

    Found in the Yaraka Boulder Opal Field 100km east of Blackhall, Queensland. Last count remote Yaraka had an official population of 20 – they all get along.

    Small fist sized weighing 350 gm.

    Good lustre to the botryoidal form

    $50.00

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  • Modern Cottage Architecture [By Various Architects] – Maurice Adams – First Edition 1904.

    Modern Cottage Architecture [By Various Architects] – Maurice Adams – First Edition 1904.

    Published by Batsford, London in 1904, First Edition. Quarto, 29 pages after preliminaries followed by 50 full page plates of external views and floor layouts. Printed on thick heavy paper which makes the plates more manageable and has kept them in fine condition despite handling.

    Editor Maurice Adams provides an introductory essay on “Cottage Building and Notes on the Subjects”. He was author of “Artists Homes” [nice idea] and “Old English Homes”

    Not the book for a modernist or “Block” follower but a super book for those that salivate over unique English country home. Cottage not to be confused with a tiny house – some of these clearly in the Mansion category.

    [Not so] Modern Cottage Architecture – wish we had one

    $120.00

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