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Lot 621
A Japanese ivory okimono,Meiji period (1868-1912), of a merchant selling tsujiura, his left hand raised by his mouth, carrying a lantern and holding a note book in his right hand, both with the writing of 'Tsujiura', 'G.S. Motter Shead Collection 109',19cm highProvenance: From a private collection in Scotland.Tsujiura are notes used in Japan in conjunction with rice crackers called senbei in a similar way to fortune cookies in the United States of America. Several publications make the claim that fortune cookies are derived from tsujiura senbei.
Lot 186
Four various circa 1900 hand-painted lantern slides, one depicting biblical scene, two with Native American scenes, and the other with whalerman off Antarctica, each in unpolished mahogany mounts, each dia approx 7.5cm; together with five boxed Alice in Wonderland coloured lantern slides from the Junior Lecturers Series
Lot 10
A remarkable collection of magic lantern slides of 1930s Western Australian Aboriginal subject matter. 72 slides, all 8.2 x 8.2cm, housed in a wooden case. Two cracked.24 slides dated 1930, 1931 and 1933 and annotated by hand 'W.H.M' with details and names of the subject. 15 with hand colouring. These particular slides mostly relate to the Badjaling & Yoting aboriginal community and Badjaling Mission, 111 miles east of Perth.Subjects include:Bob Mead, Richard & Vera, Badjaling 1931Uncle Lionel, Badjaling May 1931Sing-song Badjaling 1930Miss Belshaw Miss McRidge 18.8.1930 (The Badjaling Mission founders)Frankie Stack (baby) Badjaling May 1931Bough Shed (church) Badjaling Feb 1931School children at drill Badjaling Feb 1931Two of the school boys at Yoting with an 8ft carpet snake 18.8.1930Miss Belshaw with her first class at Yoting June 1930.W.H.Mathews was the registrar in Perth, Western Australia. He was also a keen naturalist and president of the Perth Naturalists Club. His son Arthur G Mathews was a United Aborigines Mission missionary at Ooldea in S.A. and at Mount Margaret, Warburton and Gnowangerup in W.A. A larger collection of 209 slides by the Mathews' is held at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).5 x slides labelled: T.W.Cameron, Slide Specialist, 430 Bourke Street, Melbourne.The remainder of the slides have virtually no other annotation or signature. The subjects are nearly all aboriginal, white men feature in a few images. There are many posed aboriginal groups, some tribal in nature, most in Western attire. We can probably assume most were taken around the Badjaling Mission or possibly the Mount Margaret Mission at Morgans where Mathews' son was a missionary, although there are several coloured slides showing boats, a beach view and two of a sea-going vessel under sail which must be coastal. Also uncoloured slides of groups of aboriginal men and boys in water and on a vessel holding captured turtles. One of a man mending a sail but his ethnicity is unclear. Another of a man on a sailing boat annotated 'Stumpagee'. One slide is a map of Western Australia with locations marked in red. These possibly correspond to Badjaling and other missions, King Sound is also marked which could be the location of the coastal images.
Lot 255
A collection of 63 annotated photographic magic lantern slides, most depicting military scenes from the 1912-1913 Balkan War, 5 x South African slides (native rising 1907, Umvoti Mounted Rifles, Michael House School cadets) other mixed slides: military training and military statistics slides, 'German Landing Manoeuvres' Lord Roberts V.C, King George V studio pose in Naval uniform annotated 'Delhi Durbar'. Also 3 x slides annotated 'Compulsory training in New Zealand & Australia (Sydney Cadets). Most slides bearing the white makers label of Newton & Co, 37 King St, Covent Garden in the top left hand corner. 11 x slides with a 'W T' motif makers mark.All slides 8.2 x 8.2cm, housed in a wooden case with leather strap.The Balkan War slides would appear to be from separate sets. The Newton & Co sets numbered and annotated with 'N.S.L. Balkan War' and 'APG' with a description of the subject.Subjects include:Turkish artillery caught by shrapnel, drivers and horses killed.Looters and Rabble being brought into Chorlu.Fugitives with teams of Oxen passing through Chorlu.A train derailed between Seidler and Chorlu.Panic stricken troops crowding over the Karisdiran Bridge, etc.The non-Newton & Co slides are mostly medical war-time subjects, titles include: Removing a Dead Turk, Field cooking at Beicos, Red Cross Dressing Station Turkey, A Wounded Officer, British Red Cross Hospital Uskub Shewing (sic) Operating Room, etc.Generally good condition, two cracked, one missing a sheet of glass. Fascinating and detailed historical images depicting the field of war and it's aftereffects from 105 years ago.
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