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Australian Wood Chopping World Championship -1938

An original press photo of the 1938 World Wood Chopping Championship held at Sydney.

The caption on the back reads … “Mighty Axemen – Brawny men of the Australian lumber lands stage the world championship tree-felling contest at the Royal Agricultural Show, Sydney. It’s tough going to chop through an Australian tree, because most of the lumber produced is hardwood” … mmmh

A sizeable image 27cm x 20cm taken 28th August 1938

Iconic Aussie Image away from the beach

$20.00

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Polar Exploration Cards – John Player – First Series Complete -1916

A complete set of 25 cards of the sought after First Series of Polar Exploration cards issued by John Player & Sons of Nottingham, England. Good condition front and back.

Includes – Lieut. Sir E.H. Shackleton C.V.O.; The Northern Party at the South Magnetic Pole; The Aurora Borealis; The Aurora Australis; The British Antarctic Expedition 1910; Dr Fridjof Nansen; The “Nimrod” Picking up the Northern Party; A Remarkable Fumarole in the Old Crater of Mount Erebus etc

First series Complete and getting scarce

$120.00

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Polar Exploration Cards – Players Series 2

A complete set of 25 cards in very good condition of the 2nd series of Polar Exploration cigarette cards by John Player. Elusive complete.

The Terra Nova Expedition – Scott, Evans, Oates, Wilson (Uncle Bill) and the victorious Norwegian Expedition including “Amundsen at the South Pole”

$120.00

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Peril on Mars – Patrick Moore

Published by Burke, London a second edition 1961. Octavo, 158 pages. Missing its front free endpaper and with a gift inscription on the title. Dust jacket a little tatty at the top but really quite scarce and a sought after book.

Patrick Moore, Astronomical Hero had the longest ever running television series “The Sky at Night” – he saw it all – In the late 1950’s he turned his hand to science fiction writing and here we are on his favourite planet Mars.

Continues the story of Maurice Gray and Bruce Talbot told in “The Voices of Mars” … ten years later the Mars colony has grown from their earlier journey to rescue Dr York. Now on the lonely Mars satellite, Deimos, they receive an unexpected visitor and a desperate SOS from the Lowell Dome … it all gets very interesting and Martian!

Patrick Moore Rarity

$40.00

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Australian Mineral Specimen – Black Tourmaline – Yinnietharra

A large and weighty example of Black Tourmaline a semi-precious crystalline boron silicate mineral.

This fine example from the Yinnietharra deposit in Western Australia lovely crystal form at termination.

Total weight xx gms

Very good and sizeable example

$40.00

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Graf Zeppelin Stamp Set – Paraguay 1935

A three stamp set 4.50, 9.00 and 13.50 Pesos over-stamped 1935. Originally issued on 6th May 1933 and designed by Rodolfo.

Unused with slight evidence of light hinging on gum side (LH).

Zeppelin stamp collecting is popular worldwide. Specialised catalogues exits on the subject.

Price $60.00 the set … postage will be reduced to cost based on your location. Securely packed.

We have a number of scarce Zeppelin stamps … we are happy to do a deal on multiple purchases.

Graf Zeppelin celebrated in Paraguay.

$50.00

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