February Auction

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Our February Auction is now live on Invaluable.

Sourced from almost 100 local vendors, we have an exciting sale for you to browse.

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Moorabool’s February auction includes 661 lots drawn from multiple collections, covering ground from ancient Rome to 1960s pop culture and the Space Race, with a great deal of fascinating history in between. There is something here for virtually every collecting discipline, and a number of standout individual lots that will attract buyers well beyond our regular audience.

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This classic Art Deco extension table with 4 matching chairs in burr birchwood is said to be ex- Victorian Railways, quite probably made in Melbourne for them in the 1930’s. There’a a matching sideboard behind.

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The ‘Kimberly – Mayor’s Siege’ medal, 1900

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The Militaria material is the catalogue’s strongest single theme. Napoleon and Wellington were the interest of one ex-forces Scotsman, with a passion for miniatures and scale models. The Boer War section is exceptional by any standard, collected by another local, including the rare Kimberley Siege Medal, a signed Lord Roberts letter, complete reference libraries, patriotic ephemera, commemorative ceramics, and Queen Victoria’s 1900 Christmas chocolate tin, sent to the troops in South Africa -with original contents!

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The WWI & II material is equally compelling, headlined by a unique signed Will Dyson Gallipoli lithograph from 1927 — a genuinely rare piece from Australia’s first official war artist — and a remarkable personal archive of ANZAC soldier A.B. Jones, sold across multiple lots with diaries, sketches, and sweetheart pieces intact.
At right is an illustration from his remarkable ‘notebook’, created while at the Tidwoth training camp.

Fine art collectors will enjoy the Kenneth Jack material, which has come directly from the artist’s studio and spans watercolours of Geelong from the 1940s through to unique etchings, linocuts, and annotated working prints. It is an unusually coherent group for a single auction, and early Jack works with this kind of provenance are only to be found at Moorabool Auctions. From his studio also are a fine selection of mid-century Melbourne printmakers, including Verdon Morcom, John Stringer, Tate Adams and Dorothy Cameron.

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Kenneth Jack linocut ‘The Shops on The Hill, Drysdale’ 1959

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John Edward ‘Cosmic Symbol’ 1972

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John Stringer Christmas card – to Kenneth Jack 1959

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Dorothy Cameron ‘Landscape’ c. 1955

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Allen David ‘Woman in a Japanese Garden’ 1953

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The selection of Jewellery and Watches offer considerable variety.

This beautiful natural nugget is a ‘Goldfields” gem, made during the exciting times of mid- 19th century Victorian Gold fever. And now, we’re witnessing another episode of the same.

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The watch section runs from a WWII Jaeger-LeCoultre military piece to an 18ct gold Humbert-Ramuz pocket watch estimated at $5,000–$6,000, with Omega, Cartier, and a solid 15ct Soviet ladies’ watch along the way. Australian colonial Goldfields Jewellery is a quiet strength of this sale — nugget brooches, Victorian 9ct gold flower sprays, and goldfields stick pins that connect directly to the great era of Australian gold. With the price of ‘scrap’, these have been diverted from the melting pot as they have great historical & artistic beauty…..

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The coins are equally wide-ranging, from a bronze of Antoninus Pius to a rare Italian silver estimated at $10,000–$15,000, with strong Australian silver throughout.

Furniture spans Charles II to late Victorian, with some Georgian mahogany, a William IV chiffonier, an imposing Victorian Gothic library table, and a large French carved walnut armoire with mirrored doors.

Decorative arts include Meissen, Royal Doulton, Carltonware, Chinese jade and cloisonné, and Japanese Shibayama work. Pacific ethnographica — Fijian clubs, Solomon Islands weapons, Sepik carvings — all collected pre-1950 and carrying proper provenance — adds an ethnographic dimension not often seen at this depth.

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Sale Inspection at 16-18 Ryrie Street, Geelong:

Thursday 26th February 10am-5pm;

Friday 27th February 10am-5pm.

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