Mt Victoria Historical Society

Silent Auction Catalogue

Item Description Reserve

Queen Victoria Jubilee crown piece, 1890

These are valued by collectors and regularly fetch around $100 at auction.

$60

Victorian child’s enamel plate

White with blue alphabet around the rim and a clock in the centre. Circumference 200mm

Book-ends, adjustable

Wooden with brass and ivory (?) decoration. Two ends, which can be extended from 300mm to 580mm. A very unusual object.

Book. Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life among the Lowly, Ward Lock & Co, London. Late

19thC.

Good condition. Front inside cover has a certificate saying it was awarded to Opal Duncan as first prize for elocution in 1898 by Brougham Hill School, Wellington.

Book. The Young Ladies Treasure Book: A Complete Cyclopedia of Occupations and Amusements Suitable to Ladies, Ward Lock & Co, London. Late 19thC.

Heavily illustrated. Broken spine and some introductory pages missing, but more than made up for by the worthy advice for respectable ladies.

Three books. Robert Browning, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1897? The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Miscellaneous poems, 1896. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Childe Harolde, Don Juan, 1896. All published by Walter Scott Ltd, London.

Good condition. One has Charles Brasch’s name as owner on frontspiece; the other two have his mother’s name, Helene Fels. This trio of books seem to have, therefore, been part of the library of Brasch, NZ literary pioneer and founder of Landfall

magazine.

Book. John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets, Smith Elder & Co, London 1873.

Worn leather cover, reasonable condition.

Three books. Selected Essays of De Quincey, Walter Scott Ltd, London 1895 Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller Chapman and Hall, London, 1895. (illustrated) The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Gall and Inglis London c1880

Engraved illustrations. Fair condition.

Book. Stories for the Household by Hans Christian Anderson, George Routledge, London.

290 illustrations. Badly damaged spine. (No date)

Two books and a leaflet on New Zealand photography: Hardwicke Knight, Photography in New Zealand: A Social and Technical History William Main, Wellington Through a Victorian Lens Views of Wellington

Two important early illustrated studies of local photographic history, packaged with Views of Wellington, a fold-out pocket-size string of 12 illustrations of prominent Wellington places and buildings, ca 1900. Two illustrations in bad condition with parts missing

Book. Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776-1876. Penguin 1977.

A classic work, fully illustrated

Book. Captain Cook’s Voyages 1768-1779, Selected and Introduced by Glyndwyr Williams, Folio Society, London, 1997

Beautiful condition, in a presentation slip-case.

Victorian picture, Mary Queen of Scots and her Forbidden Love. Chromolithograph.

Depicting Mary’s first encounter with a sleeping David Rizzio. Framed and mounted with some surface damage. Frame 930mm x 630mm

Victorian picture, The Story of Persephone.

Frame 530mm x 440mm; Image 280mm x 210mm

Framed picture. James Cook. Engraving?

Based on the much-reproduced late 18thC portrait of Cook by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland. Possibly late Victorian or early 20thC reproduction. Frame 510mm x 410mm; image 250mm x175mm

Antique earrings and ring

Antique turquoise, pearl and gold earrings and gold ring

$60

Paraffin lamp

Chemist's bottle, Ol. Oregani, nineteenth century

Clear glass with stopper $20

Lightning preserving jar, 19th C

Clear glass with stopper, wire handles. Old label attached saying "Lightning preserving jar brought out from Sydney in 1900"

NZ stamps commemorating nineteenth century events, 1940-76

51 mint and used stamps commemorating NZ anniversaries, from 1840 ("Centennial of New Zealand") to the 1876 establishment of the City of New Plymouth

$20

Bristol Glass wine glass, 1800/1810

Green, (with original purchase invoice including details).

$80

DVD of Mrs Brown, the 1997 British drama starring Judi Dench, Billy Connolly and Geoffrey Palmer.

The story of a bereaved Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and her relationship with Scottish servant, John Brown (Billy Connolly), and the subsequent uproar it provoked. Produced by the BBC and Ecosse Films. Fabulous movie!