EditorialMagazine Cutting - Dam of Phar Lap Sold for 1500 Guineas, 1932, This magazine cutting was amongst a large number of sympathy letters sent to his trainer and part owner Harry Telford after Phar Lap died in April, 1932. The Telford family retained the le...
EditorialOrder Form - Artist's Proof, Charles Nuttall's 'The Opening of the Federal Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia', Commonwealth Publishing Company, 1902, An unused Commonwealth Publishing Company order form for a limited run of 65 Artist Proof co...
EditorialDrawing - Les Mason, Phar Lap Winning the 1929 Rosehill Guineas, 1932, This drawing was of Phar Lap winning the Rosehill Guineas in Sydney in 1929 was done by Les Mason. He attended the race, and drew this from memory three years later in 1932, after P...
EditorialA sailor cheated out of his share of the prize money by his navy. Unable to pay six guineas, Jack Tar dies of grief in the lobspound (prison). Copperplate engraving by Thomas Sanders after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (John Collier) from ...
EditorialExtraordinary exploit'. 'On Tuesday the 17th of January 1826, Mr Henry Hunt Junior for a bet of 100 guineas ... drove his father's Matchless Blacking Van, with four blood horses, upon the ice over the Serpentine at the broadest part... The plate repres...
EditorialExtraordinary exploit'. 'On Tuesday the 17th of January 1826, Mr Henry Hunt Junior for a bet of 100 guineas ... drove his father's Matchless Blacking Van, with four blood horses, upon the ice over the Serpentine at the broadest part... The plate repres...
EditorialThe sale of tea, coffee and chocolate. Five hundred and fifty guineas to be gained by the purchasers of tea, coffee, or chocolate, at the Grashopper Tea Warehouse, No.9, Bishopsgate Street within, near Cornhill, London. [London : s.n., 1777?]. Source: ...
EditorialTwo guineas coin of William and Mary, 1694, British, Gold, Diam. 1 1/4 in. (32 mm.), Coins, Medalist: Norbert Roettier (Flemish, Antwerp ca. 1666?1727 Choisy-le-Roi).
EditorialA sailor cheated out of his share of the prize money by his navy. Unable to pay six guineas, Jack Tar dies of grief in the lobspound (prison). Copperplate engraving by Thomas Sanders after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (John Collier) from ...
EditorialTHE SALE BY AUCTION OF MYERS' "GREAT AMERICAN CIRCUS AND HIPPODROME": 1. Dragging the Lions into the Arena; 2. The Feeding of the Lions; 3. "Any Advance upon 1000 Guineas for the Four Gentlemen?; 4. Knocking Down "Blind Bill.".
EditorialThe Anisson-Duperon printing press which printed the First French Republic's first promissory notes. Benjamin Franklin's son bought the press for 8 Guineas.