Auction Results

Penny Black leads Australian stamp auction result

A bit like Australia’s 1930 Penny which was never meant to be placed in circulation, most people have heard of Great Britain’s 1840 Penny Black stamp.

So, it was no surprise when examples of each fetched the top results at Melbourne-based Abacus Auctions February sale – featuring Australian and overseas stamps, coins and banknotes, postal history and picture postcards, militaria, sporting memorabilia and other collectables – resulting in a hammer price of $1,304,226...

Gold ingots and clocks set the pace at Melbourne decorative arts auction

Gold ingots and clocks were the order of the day at Melbourne-based Leski Auctions February decorative arts sale with examples of each bringing the top result of $20,000.

This price was paid for four 24-carat gold ingots (lot 216a) and a circa 1775 London-based Henry Kemp clock with a fine scarlet lacquered bell top and spring table (lot 586).

While the ingots were right on catalogue estimate, the clock easily beat its $12,000-$15,000 figure.

A vintage...

Rare Australian stamp tops final 2023 Melbourne auction

 

An extremely rare Australian One Pound chestnut and bright blue Kangaroo stamp (lot 644) was the top selling item at Melbourne-based Leski Auctions Stamps, Coins & Banknotes auction on December 18 and 19, bringing $52,500 – comfortably within its catalogue estimate.

The sale, the company’s last for 2023, was notable for several valuable postal history items, which proved extremely popular with collectors.  

A 1919 Ross Smith flight...

Postal history proves popular at Australian auction

Postal history relating to significant places or events both in Australia and overseas is always popular among collectors.

So it proved for memorabilia relating to the former Australian penal colony of Norfolk Island and Pitcairn Island, home to survivors of the infamous 1789 mutiny on the British ship HMAV Bounty and their descendants, that went under the hammer during Melbourne-based Abacus Auctions three-day sale of stamps, coins, banknotes, postal history, medals...

Australian museum camera collection auction a colossal success

Camera buffs flocked to Part II of Melbourne’s Michael camera museum collection sale on December 12 to snap up all 652 items offered by Leski Auctions at 727-729 High Street, Armadale.

There is no doubt the collection’s historical significance played an important part in the result.

Michaels Cameras, which had started trading more than 100 years ago as a pawnbroker and gunsmith business before morphing into a chemist shop that sold photographic equipment, was a...

Auction records galore for Menzies 100th sale

Auction records are always nice to achieve – and five on one night was a great way for Menzies to round out their final 2023 Australian & International Art sale in Sydney on November 29 with a $5.5 million (including buyers’ premiums) result.

Two of these were for Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) prints – (The Orange) Fruit Dove in Clark Park, 1980 (lot 63), which sold for $24,545 including buyer’s premium, and the large diptych entitled The Divided Unity...

John Brack's window display work an excellent auction result

When he was alive, John Brack (1920-1999) certainly used his time while head of the Melbourne’s National Gallery School, now the site of the State Library Victoria, to great effect.

Lunchtimes were often spent walking around the city observing commercial shopfront displays of various businesses.

One of the results of these endeavours was the painting entitled Wig Shop Window, 1974 (lot 14) which sold on November 22 at Deutscher and Hackett’s Sydney...

Whale tusk pokes giant hole in Australian auction estimate

A 19th century antique Narwhal tusk more than two metres long (lot 759) almost doubled its catalogue estimate to go under the hammer for $39,000 at Melbourne-based Leski Auctions Australian & Historical sale on November 18 and 19.

The Narwhal is a medium-sized toothed whale, characterised by a large tusk from a protruding canine tooth, that lives year-round in the Arctic waters off Greenland, Canada and Russia.

Although females also can grow...

Painting by knockabout Australian male artist tops the lot at Melbourne art auction

The painting Maroubra Olympic, 1968 (lot 3) by Peter Powditch (1942-2022) was knocked down for $65,000 – more than double its high catalogue estimate – at Deutscher and Hackett’s Melbourne timed online auction of Modern, Contemporary, Indigenous and Traditional art on October 10.

Powditch, who died last year aged 80, was a typical Australian male artist of the second half of the 20th century to whom early success came easily in nude, landscape and...

Bodyline series cricket memorabilia a winner with collectors

Three cricket stumps from the 1932-33 Ashes Bodyline series (lot 110) quadrupled their catalogue estimate to be knocked down for $20,000 at Melbourne-based Leski Auctions sporting memorabilia sale on September 22 and 23.

Souvenired by team members, the stumps are attractively displayed in a timber and glass custom-built presentation case.

Signed by members of the English team, the central stump bears a gold plaque engraved “M.C.C Tour 1932-33 souvenir of Second...

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