Potts Point & Darling Point - Original Crown Grants & Historic Mansion - Read Before The Australian Historical Society 1906

 

Potts Point And Darling Point with The Orgiinal Crown Grants & Early Historic Mansions

To Illustrate A Paper Read Before The Australian Historical Society

By Mr Arthur Dowling on 25th September 1906

The Land Grants shown  in this map date back to  the earliest times of the settlement since they include that of the Commissary General John Palmer at Woolloomooloo received in 1793. 

The Map was compiled by Mr Normal Selfe, the well known engineer ( see Also 78156). It Illustrates a paper read before the Australian Historical Society in 1906 By Mr James Arthur Dowling, Grandson of  Sir James Dowling, Chief Justice, who received in 1831 the grant shown at the corner of William Street & Forbes Street

Mrs Dowlings Paper Can Be seen in the Australian historical Society Volume 2 With Supp inVolume 13

Kincoppal – Elizabeth Bay mansion + Rose Bay Sacred Heart – NSW

Kincoppal story – Elizabeth Bay mansion + Rose Bay Sacred Heart – NSW

Victorian Italianate harbour house (EB, standing in apartments) · Convent/school campuses · Amalgamated 1971 as Kincoppal-Rose Bay

No Kincoppal post exists yet on this blog — so this is a new scrapbook joining two Sacred Heart stories: John Hughes’s Elizabeth Bay villa that became a convent school, and the Rose Bay Convent of the Sacred Heart on the Claremont estate. The overlooked list’s “EB house demolished” line is corrected here: the sandstone mansion survives inside the Mirvac apartment complex.

At a glance

• Elizabeth Bay — Kincoppal house: Victorian Italianate two-storey sandstone villa + stables; built c.1869–1874 for John Hughes on ~2 acres subdivided from Alexander Macleay’s Elizabeth Bay House gardens (DoS / BresicWhitney); school 1909–1971; Mirvac apartments early 1980s retaining mansion, gatekeeper’s cottage (ex-stables) and related fabric (Mirvac)
• Rose Bay — Convent of the Sacred Heart: Society of the Sacred Heart arrives May 1882; Claremont (1851) occupied June; school opens 20 July 1882; main building opened Jan 1888; John Horbury Hunt chapel 1897–1900 (school / DoS)
• Name: Kincoppal — Gaelic association with “horse head” / seahorse rock on the Rushcutters Bay foreshore (sales histories)
• Amalgamation: 1971 — Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart (school / DoS)
• Heritage: EB mansion described as heritage-listed in sales/estate copy (confirm City of Sydney item before hard SHR claim — not treating as SHR without ID); Rose Bay chapel widely cited as Hunt masterpiece / heritage building (school / MHNSW tours)
• Fate: EB — standing within private apartments; Rose Bay — active school campus (Vaucluse Rd / New South Head Rd)

Site & setting

Elizabeth Bay: Gadigal Country; portion of Macleay’s 1835 botanic villa estate after 1869 subdivision hardship sales. Hughes’s two-acre harbour shelf looks over sandstone bluffs to open harbour and Rushcutters Bay; remnant figs, pines and palms read as Macleay-garden survivors in estate interpretation (BresicWhitney).

Rose Bay / Vaucluse ridge: Claremont estate above Rose Bay became the first Sacred Heart school in Australia (school). Jubilee Gates (1932/33) and harbour-facing Sacred Heart statue mark later ceremonial landscape (school).

Timeline

• 1835 ff. – Macleay Elizabeth Bay House gardens (context).
• 1869–74 – John Hughes builds Kincoppal villa and stables (DoS).
• 1882 – Hughes Knight of St Gregory (BresicWhitney); May five RSCJ nuns arrive; purchase/lease Claremont; school opens 20 July (school).
• 1885 – Hughes dies; Kincoppal to elder daughter Maria (later Mother Maria Hughes, first Australian Sacred Heart sister) (school / BresicWhitney).
• Jan 1888 – Cardinal Moran opens Rose Bay main building (school).
• 1897–1900 – Horbury Hunt gothic stone chapel; opened 21 Nov 1900; bell turret in memory of Mother Vercruysse (school / DoS / social posts citing school archives).
• 1909 – Nuns take possession of Kincoppal Elizabeth Bay; convent boarding school begins (school).
• 1917 – Noviceship at Rose Bay (school).
• 1932–33 – Golden Jubilee; Jubilee Gates and Sacred Heart statue (school).
• WWII – Kincoppal students evacuated (Bundanoon); Rose Bay juniors/seniors to Southern Highlands houses (school).
• 1952 / 1966 – Barat-Burn junior school chapters; new Barat-Burn buildings 1966 (school) — old Italian villa primary demolished for new junior school (archived school history).
• 1971 – Amalgamation → Kincoppal-Rose Bay; Elizabeth Bay site later sold for Mirvac apartments (school / Mirvac early 1980s).
• 1997 – Kincoppal Gates from Elizabeth Bay installed at Rose Bay entrance (school).
• Today – Rose Bay campus active school; Elizabeth Bay mansion adapted within Kincoppal Apartments.

Architecture & interiors

Elizabeth Bay villa: two-storey sandstone Victorian Italianate; stables later gatekeeper’s cottage; Mirvac retained mansion as central apartment / concierge fabric and cottage (later gym, since reworked as apartments per sales copy) (Mirvac / BresicWhitney). Prefer “retained and adapted” language — not demolition.

Rose Bay: Claremont core; 1888 five-level central facade; Hunt chapel with complex Gothic massing — foundation stone 28 Nov 1897, Cardinal Moran; rare Puget organ association noted on MHNSW tour copy (verify before hard claims). Secret tunnels / sandstone bridge appear on heritage-tour marketing — treat as campus interpretation, not undocumented archaeology.

People & anecdotes

John Hughes — Irish immigrant, property developer, Catholic benefactor. Mother Maria Hughes — daughter and first Australian Sacred Heart sister; bequest enables Elizabeth Bay school. Mother Febronie Vercruysse — Belgian superior of the 1882 founding group; Hunt chapel linked to her memory (school). Society of the Sacred Heart (St Madeleine Sophie Barat tradition) ties both campuses into an international teaching order (archived school philosophy pages).

Image gallery guidance

1. Elizabeth Bay sandstone villa elevations (historic school + apartment era)

2. Kincoppal rock / foreshore

3. Rose Bay 1888 main facade

4. Horbury Hunt chapel interior/exterior

5. Jubilee Gates / relocated Kincoppal Gates

6. Elizabeth Bay House context maps showing Macleay subdivision

What stands today

• Elizabeth Bay Kincoppal mansion — stands inside private Kincoppal Apartments (Mirvac, early 1980s). No school access; polite streetscape / foreshore views only.
• Rose Bay campus — stands as Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart. Campus heritage tours are occasionally offered (MHNSW / school) — check current arrangements; otherwise private school grounds.

Pair with Elizabeth Bay House, Boomera/Boomerang cluster, Fernleigh Castle / Rose Bay harbour posts, and Horbury Hunt works (Cloncorrick, etc.).

Sources & further reading

• Kincoppal-Rose Bay School — Our History: https://www.krb.nsw.edu.au/about-us/our-history/
• Dictionary of Sydney — Kincoppal; Convent of the Sacred Heart Rose Bay; Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart
• Mirvac — Our Legacy / past projects (Kincoppal, Elizabeth Bay, early 1980s)
• Museums of History NSW — Heritage and Architecture Tours of Kincoppal Rose Bay School (chapel / organ notes)
• BresicWhitney — Kincoppal apartments history (sales context; cross-check soft claims)
• Trove — search Kincoppal Elizabeth Bay; Sacred Heart Rose Bay; Claremont Rose Bay

Related on this blog

• Elizabeth Bay House
• Boomerang – Elizabeth Bay · Boomera caution (different house)
• Fernleigh Castle – Rose Bay
• Horbury Hunt / Darling Point Cloncorrick — search labels

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Tarmons – Rockwall Crescent / Macleay Street – Potts Point – NSW

Tarmons – Rockwall Crescent / Macleay Street – Potts Point – NSW

Built c.1830s · Verge alterations / possible Bibb · Demolished 1966 · Site now St Vincent’s College

On Woolloomooloo Hill — five acres peeled from John Busby’s grant and Hamilton Collins Sempill’s Rockwall estate — Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice O’Connell raised a sandstone house he named Tarmons, Irish for sanctuary, after the family’s home in County Kerry. Lady Mary, Bligh’s daughter, kept colonial society at the table; Godfrey Mundy ate wallaby-tail soup here in 1846. After O’Connell’s death the ballroom became Sir Charles Nicholson’s library; in 1856 the Sisters of Charity bought the mansion for convent, free hospital and school — the seed of St Vincent’s. The villa itself went in 1966. This is Tarmons, Potts Point — not neighbour Rockwall, and not the later Darlinghurst hospital campus alone.

At a glance

• Address / site: historic Macleay Street carriage approach, Potts Point / Woolloomooloo Hill; remembered under St Vincent’s College, Rockwall Crescent / Victoria Street; Sisters of Charity Heritage Centre at 1 Rockwall Crescent (Gadigal Country / Derawun)
• Land: about five acres from the Busby grant via Hamilton Collins Sempill of Rockwall — purchase window 1838–1839 (DoS 1838; Villas of Potts Point 1839)
• Built: Rockwall-estate Verge cottage from 1830 (standing by 1833); Verge 1836–1837 two-storey verandah alterations; later O’Connell-era addition possibly John Bibb after Verge’s 1838 retirement (Villas of Potts Point)
• Style: Sydney sandstone villa; Australian cedar panelling; 48-ft ballroom; elm-and-oak carriageway; harbour prospect (DoS)
• Original owner: Sir Maurice Charles Philip O’Connell (1768–1848) with Lady Mary O’Connell (née Bligh)
• Famous later chapter: Sir Charles Nicholson library; Sisters of Charity purchase 8 Feb 1856 → St Vincent’s convent / hospital / school
• Estate context: Rockwall neighbour; Potts Point dress-circle with Tusculum, Elizabeth Bay House, Springfield, Jenner
• Heritage status: villa demolished 1966; College campus and Heritage Centre carry the institutional story
• Fate: new convent (also named Tarmons) on the cleared site; later boarding use; original sandstone villa gone

Site & setting

Call the ridge Woolloomooloo Hill, Darlinghurst or Potts Point — Tarmons sat on about five acres cut from the Busby grant that also held Rockwall. Sempill sold that slice to O’Connell soon after the general’s December 1838 return as Commander of the Forces. Dictionary of Sydney puts the purchase in 1838; the Villas of Potts Point catalogue says 1839. Either way the house looked north and east across Port Jackson from a long tree-lined drive off Macleay Street.

Disambiguation, thrice. This is Tarmons the O’Connell–Nicholson–Sisters villa — not still-standing Rockwall next door (Verge for Busby / Sempill). It is not the mid-century convent building that reused the name after 1966. And the hospital story splits: the first St Vincent’s Hospital opened in this house in 1857; the familiar Darlinghurst campus begins when the hospital moved in 1870. The school stayed; the College still occupies the old Tarmons land.

Walk Rockwall Crescent today and you are inside that geography — College gates, Heritage Centre at No. 1, Victoria Street frontage where the Ladies’ College building rose in the 1880s. The sandstone mansion is gone; the sanctuary name and the Sisters’ mission are not.

Timeline

• 1768 – Maurice Charles Philip O’Connell born, County Kerry (ADB; DoS Tarmons branch of the clan).
• 8 May 1810 – Marries Mary Putland (née Bligh) at Government House, Sydney; first NSW tour as lieutenant-governor with the 73rd (ADB).
• 1828 – John Busby’s Woolloomooloo Hill grant (Rockwall / later Tarmons land origin) (Villas; Rockwall heritage tradition).
• 1830 – John Verge plans a cottage on the Rockwall estate allotment; cottage up by 1833, not meeting full villa conditions (Villas).
• 1836–1837 – Verge alters the cottage into a two-storeyed verandahed residence (Villas).
• 1838 – Verge retires to Williams River; possible John Bibb role in further addition (Villas). O’Connell returns Sydney December (Fairlie); DoS dates his Potts Point purchase 1838 (cf. Villas 1839).
• c.1838–1840s – House named Tarmons; sandstone mansion known to Sydney society (DoS).
• 1845 – George Edwards Peacock paints Tarmons, Woolloomooloo, residence of Sir Maurice O’Connell (SLNSW ML 148 / a140027).
• 29 Jun 1846 – Godfrey Mundy dines at Tarmons — wallaby-tail soup, schnapper, kangaroo (Mundy / DoS quote). O’Connell administers the colony between Gipps and FitzRoy (ADB).
• 25 May 1848 – O’Connell dies, Darlinghurst, aged 80 (ADB); funeral St James’s; procession from Tarmons (~150 carriages) (SMH / DoS).
• By c.1850 – Sir Charles Nicholson holds Tarmons (ADB); ballroom → library (DoS).
• 26 Nov 1855 – Public meeting to raise funds toward £10,000 purchase for Sisters / free hospital (SMH via SOC); Nicholson markets the house (DoS) and later donates £1,000.
• 8 Feb 1856 – Sisters of Charity purchase from Nicholson (St Vincent’s College history). DoS: Sisters move in March 1856 (Sisters of Charity walking-tour date 6 March 1857 also appears in some accounts).
• Jul–Aug 1857 – Convent and hospital blessed by Archbishop Polding; outpatients open (DoS); first outpatient 25 Aug 1857 (SOC); first in-patient received into the Women’s Ward, November 1857 (SOC walking tour).
• 1 May 1858 – St Vincent’s School / day-school opens on site (College; DoS 1858) — schoolroom at the rear of the hospital wards; weekly fees 1s–1s 6d, free for families who could not pay; fees helped fund hospital and convent repairs (SOC).
• 1863 – New school building (SOC walking tour).
• 1870 – Hospital transfers to Darlinghurst (College; SOC); school expands on Potts Point land.
• 1871 – St Vincent’s High School opens with the first ten girls taught in Tarmons (SOC).
• 1882 / 1884 / 1886 – Ladies’ College title; boarding; Victoria Street school building — thereafter Tarmons convent-only (DoS; SOC).
• 1939 – Foundation stone for replacement convent; war delays works (DoS).
• 1966 – Most of old Tarmons demolished; new convent named Tarmons (DoS; Villas; SOC).
• 1990s – Successor convent fabric repurposed for College boarding (SOC Strong Support).
• 6 Jun 2019 – Sisters of Charity Heritage Centre opens at 1 Rockwall Crescent (SOC).
• Today – No 1830s villa fabric. St Vincent’s College and Heritage Centre occupy the site story.

Architecture & interiors

Dictionary of Sydney and the image record carry what can be said safely.

The house was Sydney sandstone, cedar-panelled inside, with a reception hall, a large wooden stair to the upper floor, and a 48-foot ballroom to the right of the hall — later Nicholson’s library, then the Sisters’ chapel (DoS). A long carriageway of elms and oaks ran from Macleay Street to the front door; the front windows took Port Jackson and the north shore (DoS). Peacock’s 1845 oil shows the harbour-side villa in its O’Connell prime. An unfinished 1840s drawing-room watercolour (SLNSW scrap-album tradition) looks out through French doors to a verandah — crimson carpet, green seats, gilt-framed pictures, figures reading and sewing — complementary to Peacock’s exterior (SL Magazine reading).

Architect. The Villas of Potts Point is the careful account: Verge’s 1830 Rockwall-estate cottage; Verge’s own 1836–1837 enlargement to a two-storey verandahed house; then, because Verge left practice in 1838, a possible John Bibb hand in the addition that completed Tarmons for O’Connell. Some secondary notices simply say “Built by John Verge in 1838,” which compresses three phases into one name. This scrapbook keeps the Verge–Bibb question open rather than forcing a single architect label.

Safe detail rests on Dictionary of Sydney dimensions, Peacock’s view, and the drawing-room sketch rather than later romance.

People & anecdotes

Sir Maurice O’Connell is the founding private resident: Kerry-born soldier, cousin to Daniel O’Connell’s circle, lieutenant-governor under Macquarie, commander of the forces on his second Sydney tour, briefly Administrator in 1846 (ADB; DoS). He named the house for the Tarmons branch of his family — sanctuary in the Irish gloss the Dictionary and the Sisters still use. Lady Mary, Bligh’s daughter and Putland’s widow, brought the old factional heat of 1808 into the drawing-room politics of the 1810s and again after 1838; ADB tracks her Parramatta land fight with Gipps. At Tarmons the couple entertained at colonial full dress. Mundy’s 29 June 1846 dinner — London manners, then wallaby, schnapper and kangaroo — is the best eyewitness page we have (Mundy via DoS). When the general died in May 1848, Sydney turned out in a funeral the Herald said it had never matched; the procession wound from Tarmons to St James’s.

Sir Charles Nicholson bought the house into the colony’s bookish elite. Physician, Speaker of the Legislative Council, driver of the University of Sydney, collector of books and antiquities (ADB), he turned the ballroom into a library — the same room the Sisters would sanctify as a chapel. When he prepared to leave for England he asked £10,000; he still put £1,000 of his own into the Sisters’ appeal (DoS; SOC). Traces of that library story are pointed toward the Mitchell / University Nicholson collections in Sisters’ heritage writing — treat as legacy narrative, not a claim that every volume sat on a Tarmons shelf until 1966.

The Sisters of Charity — Australia’s first religious sisters, arrived 1838, Mary Aikenhead’s congregation — give the house its longest chapter. Multi-faith Sydney raised the purchase money; Protestant, Catholic and Jewish names appear in the 26 November 1855 St Mary’s Seminary appeal (SMH 28 Nov 1855 via SOC) — already “a moiety” of the £10,000 collected across denominations. From 1856–57 Tarmons was convent, hospital for the sick poor, and soon school. Outpatients 25 Aug 1857, first Women’s Ward in-patient Nov 1857, school 1858 (fees funding the works), hospital to Darlinghurst in 1870, High School’s first ten girls in the mansion 1871, Ladies’ College flowering through the 1880s, convent-only use of the old house after 1886 — then structural decline, a stalled 1939 replacement, and the 1966 clearance. The College that still teaches on Rockwall Crescent is the living descendant of the day-school in the rear of the hospital wards.

Images worth seeking

Peacock’s 1845 oil; the drawing-room watercolour; Sisters of Charity archival views; the Heritage Centre key and Nicholson library trail; any rare pre-1966 photographs of the sandstone villa before clearance.

What stands today

Tarmons the sandstone villa does not stand. Dictionary of Sydney, Villas of Potts Point and the Sisters’ own heritage writing agree on a 1966 demolition for a new convent (also called Tarmons). What you visit is the College campus, the Heritage Centre, and the neighbour villas that still explain the hill.

No public house museum of the 1830s rooms. The enrichment is Peacock’s view, Mundy’s menu, Nicholson’s library-ballroom, the Sisters’ multi-faith purchase, and a girls’ school that never left the ground.

• Walk Rockwall Crescent, Potts Point — St Vincent’s College street address; Sisters of Charity Heritage Centre at No. 1 (opened 2019) sits beside the remembered site / chapel locality — SOC notes the original key to Tarmons is preserved and displayed there.
• Trace Victoria Street for the later Ladies’ College building tradition and the hospital’s 1870 move toward the Darlinghurst campus (separate visit).
• Pair the walk with standing Rockwall (same Busby/Sempill grant story), Tusculum (AIA NSW Chapter, Manning Street), Elizabeth Bay House (museum), and Jenner.
• Do not expect original Tarmons fabric inside the College; do not treat No. 3 Rockwall Crescent as surviving Tarmons — SOC offers it only as a look-alike comparison.
• Do not confuse this Potts Point origin story with a claim that the present Darlinghurst hospital towers are Tarmons — they are the moved hospital’s descendants.

Sources & further reading

• Dictionary of Sydney — Tarmons (Samantha Frappell, 2012): https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/tarmons
• Dictionary of Sydney — O’Connell, Maurice: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/oconnell_maurice
• ADB — ‘O’Connell, Sir Maurice Charles (1768–1848)’: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/oconnell-sir-maurice-charles-2517
• ADB — ‘Nicholson, Sir Charles (1808–1903)’: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/nicholson-sir-charles-2508
• St Vincent’s College — History (deed 8 Feb 1856): https://www.stvincents.nsw.edu.au/why-st-vincents/history/
• Sisters of Charity Australia Heritage Centre — Walking Tour: https://www.socheritagecentre.org.au/walking-tour
• Sisters of Charity — ‘Strong support’: https://www.socheritagecentre.org.au/blog-1/strongsupport
• The Villas of Potts Point (Potts Point Preservation PDF): https://pottspointpreservation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Villas-of-Potts-Point.pdf
• Godfrey Mundy, Our Antipodes (London, 1852)
• Sydney Morning Herald, 30 May 1848 (funeral); 28 Nov 1855 (fundraising meeting report — via SOC Strong Support)
• SLNSW — Peacock, Tarmons…, 1845 (ML 148 / a140027); Villas of Darlinghurst / Potts Point exhibition materials
• MHNSW Cook & Curator — ‘I dined this day with relish’ (Mundy / Peacock note)
• James A. Dowling, ‘Potts Point, Darling Point and Neighbourhood’, JRAHS vol. 13 (1927) — DoS reference list
• ADB — ‘O’Connell, Sir Maurice Charles (1768–1848)’ death at Darlinghurst, 25 May 1848: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/oconnell-sir-maurice-charles-2517 (prefer ADB over SOC “died… at Tarmons” wording)

Related on this blog

• Rockwall – 7 Rockwall Crescent – Potts Point (neighbour villa — same Busby/Sempill grant story)
• Tusculum – Potts Point
• Elizabeth Bay House – Elizabeth Bay
• Jenner House – Potts Point
• Campbell Lodge – Potts Point
• Roslyn Hall – Potts Point
• Springfield House – Potts Point
• Orwell House – Potts Point
• Larbert Lodge – Potts Point
• Killountan – Potts Point
• John Verge – Colonial Architect
• St Vincent’s Hospital – Darlinghurst (hospital’s later campus — not the 1857 Tarmons wards)
• House of Mary Putland – Governor Bligh’s Daughter (Lady Mary O’Connell)
• Progress Of The Suburbs – Potts Point – SMH 1913
• Stately Homes Of Old Potts Point – Daily Telegraph 1933
• Original Villas of Darlinghurst
• Potts Point, Darling Point and Neighbourhood – J.A. Dowling

Tarana (Taranah) – 1A Wylde Street – Potts Point – NSW

Victorian Italianate marine villa · 1888–89 for Arthur F.H. McQuade · Standing — three apartments SHR #01400 (with Bomera)

At the tip of Potts Point the McQuades built twice: Bomera for the father in 1856, Tarana for the son a generation later. Where the Boomera post on this blog tells the elder house’s story, this one stays with Tarana — Buchanan’s Italianate neighbour, Sheerin & Hennessy’s 1907 third storey, boarding-house and Navy chapters, then three harbour apartments after Defence sold the precinct in 2001. Two generations, one headland, rare paired survival.

At a glance

• Address: 1A Wylde Street, Potts Point NSW 2011 (after 2003 subdivision of 1 Wylde St into 1 / 1A / 1B) (SHR)
• Other names: Taranah; precinct with Bomera / Boomera
• Traditional Custodians: Cadigal / Eora; Aboriginal name for Potts Point Derrawunn (SHR / City notes)
• Built: 10 Nov 1888 – 9 Dec 1889 for Arthur Frederick Hale McQuade (SHR)
• Architect / builder: Edward Harman Buchanan (probable); builder John Alexander Oag; Sheerin & Hennessy third storey 1907 (Wheelwright & Alderson builders for some works) (SHR)
• Style: Victorian Italianate marine villa (rendered brick; harbour-oriented verandahs; later three storeys)
• Heritage: NSW SHR #01400 — Bomera & Tarana (23 Jun 2000); National Trust; Sydney LEP
• Fate / current use: Standing — adaptively reused as three apartments after 2001 Defence sale; basement parking (SHR)

Site & setting

Judge-Advocate John Wylde’s 1822 eleven-acre tip-of-Point grant underlies Wylde Street. William McQuade Sr. bought here from June 1856 and stacked allotments along the street; Tarana rose on the eastern lot after his 1885 death divided the estate among sons — land east of Bomera to Arthur Frederick (SHR). Construction destroyed some Bomera sheds and glasshouses (SHR). Cowper Wharf Roadway (1911) and Wylde Street formalisation / Garden Island expansion (from 1941) severed waterfront recreation shared with Bomera (SHR). Tarana still pairs with Bomera as a harbour landmark when almost every other Point mansion is gone.

Timeline

• 1822 / 1856 – Wylde grant; William McQuade Sr. purchases; Bomera built (see Boomera draft).
• 1885 – McQuade Sr. dies; estate divided; Arthur Frederick Hale McQuade receives eastern land + funds for Tarana (SHR).
• 10 Nov 1888 – 9 Dec 1889 – Tarana built (Buchanan / Oag) (SHR).
• 1890/91–1894/95 – Ashford Ladies College occupies Tarana (SHR).
• c.1901–08 – After William Jr.’s death, Bryceson organ moved from Bomera’s ballroom to Tarana in time to entertain Great White Fleet officers 1908; later to St Brigid’s, Marrickville (HMAS Kuttabul notes on SHR).
• 1907 – Sheerin & Hennessy third storey; ballroom extension/portico and bathing/boathouse rebuilding may belong to this campaign (SHR).
• 1917 – Sydney Harbour Trust acquisition; subdivided into flats (SHR).
• Jun 1941 – Commonwealth / Naval Fleet Headquarters, Eastern Australian Command — with Bomera (SHR).
• Post-war–1980s – Continued naval administrative use; verandahs, billiards ceiling and some site elements lost in wartime changes (SHR).
• 2001 – Sold by Defence to Jorge & Monica Fernandez; Tarana converted to three apartments; Bomera restored as house (SHR / Boomera draft).
• 2003 – Subdivision to 1, 1A, 1B Wylde Street (SHR).
• Today – Private residential apartments on SHR precinct.

Architecture & interiors

Three-storey (after 1907) Victorian Italianate marine villa, main face to harbour rather than street (SHR). South façade: symmetrical three-storey wing with servant wings stepped east; 1907 ballroom wing projecting west (SHR). North façade: three-storey verandah (cast iron later replaced by timber detailing — SHR). Plan: central hall with off-centre stair; paired rooms opening to verandah arrangement intact with timber stair, fireplaces, vestibule arches among retained features (SHR). High significance attached to pre-1907 exterior and principal interior spaces including vestibule, stair, verandah rooms and ballroom (LEP/SHR management notes). Adaptive reuse as three units added parking and modern services — flag apartments, not an intact single household museum.

People & anecdotes

Arthur Frederick Hale McQuade — second-generation harbourside McQuade, Cambridge/organ-trained like his brothers, building beside father’s Bomera rather than replacing it. The Ashford Ladies College interlude is the genteel twist before Harbour Trust flats and Navy typewriters. The Great White Fleet organ night is Tarana’s best sound-bite — music borrowed from Bomera’s ballroom for American officers in 1908. Survival credit shared with Bomera: Defence occupation froze the pair while Grantham, Springfield and peers fell to the flat boom.

Image gallery guidance

1. Paired Bomera + Tarana from harbour — caption the pair.

2. Tarana north verandah elevation.

3. Wylde Street / stables entry context (Bomera stables dominate street).

4. Naval Headquarters era — Fleet HQ signage / HMAS Kuttabul open-day notes.

5. Interior principal rooms / stair from approved real-estate or conservation photography — credit as post-adaptation.

6. Cross-link Boomera draft gallery rather than duplicating ballroom shots.

What stands today

Tarana stands at 1A Wylde Street as private apartments within the SHR Bomera & Tarana precinct. Admire from Wylde Street and the harbour; no public entry. Pair this post with Boomera / Bomera – Potts Point and Jenner / Elizabeth Bay House.

Sources & further reading

• NSW SHR — Bomera & Tarana (#01400, DB 5000851): https://apps.apps.environment.nsw.gov.au/dpcheritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5000851
• Peter Freeman Pty Ltd, The Bomera and Tarana Precinct… Heritage Assessment (2000)
• Graham Brooks & Associates, Bomera & Tarana CMP / SOHI (2001)
• HMAS Kuttabul open-day notes (1986) organ / McQuade family colour cited on SHR
• Existing Boomera draft: /workspace/Boomera-Potts-Point-BLOGGER-DRAFT.md
• Live Boomera post: https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2026/06/boomera-potts-point.html

Related on this blog

• Boomera (Bomera) – Potts Point
• Jenner House Potts Point
• Elizabeth Bay House
• Grantham – Potts Point

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Boomerang – Billyard Avenue – Elizabeth Bay – NSW

Boomerang, Elizabeth Bay — Wikimedia Commons (Boomerang111.JPG); verify licence on Commons.

Boomerang – 42 Billyard Avenue – Elizabeth Bay – NSW

Inter-war Spanish Mission / Hollywood Spanish mansion + Max Shelley garden Neville Hampson for Frank Albert, 1926–1928 · Standing — private residence · SHR #00038

Billyard Avenue still does that rare Elizabeth Bay trick: Victorian and Inter-war piles staring at the same scrap of harbour while flat towers elbow in. Boomerang is the Spanish Mission knockout rough stucco, Cordoba tiles, barley-twist columns, a private cinema in the basement — built for music-publishing money on what used to be Macleay’s orangery.

At a glance

• Address: 42 Billyard Avenue, Elizabeth Bay NSW 2011 (alternate: 9–11 Ithaca Road listed on SHR); City of Sydney LGA
• Traditional Custodians: Cadigal / Wangal bands of the Eora Nation (SHR Aboriginal history notes for City of Sydney / Elizabeth Bay)
• Built: 1926–1928 for Frank Albert (sheet-music / harmonica publisher); on the site of an earlier Edwardian house also called Boomerang
• Architect / garden: Neville Hampson (house); M.R. (Max) Shelley (garden/grounds), possibly with Hampson and landscape gardener A.J. Doust
• Style: Inter-war Spanish Mission / Spanish Revival (Hollywood-derived pastiche palms, fountains, colonnades, grilles, loggias)
• Rooms (SHR): about 25 main rooms, six bathrooms, four kitchens; private basement cinema; garage/butler’s quarters (later guest quarters)
• Heritage: NSW State Heritage Register #00038 — listed 2 April 1999 (Permanent Conservation Order from 6 April 1981); also National Trust, RAIA register, former Register of the National Estate
• Site roots: former Alexander Macleay Elizabeth Bay estate kitchen garden / orchard / orangery; possible remnant mango and avocado near the street gate
• Fate / current use: Standing private residence; former tennis court land absorbed into Beare Park (public)

Site & setting

Elizabeth Bay — Gurrajin in Aboriginal place-names recorded for this shore — is Cadigal/Wangal Country. Governor Darling’s 1826 grant to Colonial Secretary Alexander Macleay produced the celebrated Elizabeth Bay estate garden. The Boomerang lot sat in the enclosed harbour-side kitchen garden / orangery before George Macleay’s mid-century leasehold subdivisions and Billyard Avenue’s formation. William John Macleay’s nearby Linnean Society hall (1885) and Macleayan Museum left tree remnants that the SHR still tracks on and beside the property.

Today the house faces Billyard Avenue with a herringbone-brick carriage loop and sunken ornamental pool to the street, then drops to lawns, sea wall and jetty toward the bay. Beare Park now occupies the former tennis-court strip to the east — still readable in perimeter walls and a grilled gate. Neighbours on this blog’s beat include Tiranna (same street), Elizabeth Bay House up the slope, and the Potts Point Verge cluster across the peninsula.

Timeline

• Pre-1826 – Cadigal / Wangal Country; Elizabeth Bay foreshore part of enduring Aboriginal harbour livelihood (SHR / Ingrey & Irish framing cited on sheet).
• 1826 – Governor Darling grants 54 acres at Elizabeth Bay to Alexander Macleay; subject land becomes part of the estate orangery / kitchen garden.
• 186582 George Macleay subdivides and sells leaseholds; Billyard Avenue formed.
• 1875 onward W.J. Macleay leaseholds at Ithaca / Billyard; Linnean Hall 1885; museum collections later to University of Sydney.
• c.1902 – Frank Albert builds an earlier two-storey brick house named Boomerang on this site (SHR); later demolished for the Spanish Mission mansion.

1926–1928 – Present Boomerang built for Frank Albert; architect Neville Hampson; garden by Max Shelley (featured with Harold Cazneaux photographs in The Home, 1 February 1929). Private cinema opens 1928 — contemporary film press called the fit-out extravagant / “best motion picture outfit” language quoted on SHR via Dawson 1980.

1929 – Albert acquires yacht Bona (Walter Reeks, 1903), renames it Boomerang; later presented to Sydney Heritage Fleet (1987 per SHR).

1962 – Frank Albert dies; house empty for years with caretaker/gardener only (SHR).

1978 – Sold to Tom & Ian Hayson; subdivision; part acquired for Beare Park extension; house + ~1 acre resold to Peter & Astrid Burnett — reported as Sydneys first million-dollar house sale (figures conflict across secondary reports; SHR cites $1.2m / Dawson $1.5m — flag).

1981–82 – Peter Fox purchase; after Fox’s death, bookmaker Mark Read buys (July 1982); installs swimming pool on northern lawn; relocates sundial to NE bed; Seafront rose garden removed.

1985 / 1993 Warren Anderson ownership chapter; Bank of New York possession / mortgagee drama (SHR); then Nati & Miki Stoliar.

Post-1996 – Duncan & Sally Mount (~$20.7m cited on SHR); garage/butler’s quarters converted to guest house; major works.

2002 / 2005 – John & Julie Schaeffer; then Lindsay Fox (daughter Katrinas name) for $20m (SHR).

2005–06 – Documented conservation / repair works (City Plan Heritage HIS summarised on SHR).

2 April 1999 – SHR listing #00038 (PCO from 1981).

Today – Private residence; garden more subtropical and shady than Shelley’s 1920s sun-loving scheme; jetty and much hardscape survive.

Architecture & interiors

The SHR significance statement (via Apperly, Irving & Reynolds) calls Boomerang one of the most opulently Spanish houses in Australia — an exemplary large-scale Spanish Mission / Hollywood Spanish mansion and garden, with rare intact Max Shelley landscape design and rare Hampson domestic work in Sydney.

Outside: three-level rendered masonry; Wunderlich multi-coloured glazed terracotta Cordoba roof tiles; perforated screens, colonnades, grilles, loggias, barley-twist columns; wrought-iron window grilles and gates; herringbone brick drives and terraces; ceramic-tiled ponds and fountains (including an entrance-lobby fountain with Aboriginal face motif noted on SHR — describe, do not invent meaning).

Inside (SHR fabric notes): limestone / travertine entry paving; high-quality timber parquetry (English oak with ebony / walnut borders in key rooms); marble-and-bronze main stair; elaborately tiled bathrooms (gold, iridescent blue, green, white); inbuilt bedroom joinery; lower-ground private cinema (burgundy velvet curtains and Cummings & Wilson projectors noted as surviving into 1980 when seats had already been removed).

Garden: Mediterranean / Hollywood / Islamic flavour — palms (Lord Howe, Cocos/Syagrus, Canary Island date, Chinese fan / Trachycarpus), Norfolk Island pine as harbour landmark, Bhutan cypresses replacing earlier Mediterranean cypresses, crazy paving, sundial (relocated), Moorish tile planters. Possible pre-1926 Macleay-era mango and avocado at the street wall. Northern swimming pool is a post-1982 insertion, not original Shelley.

People & anecdotes

Frank Albert — sheet-music and harmonica fortune; trademarked “Boomerang” on German mouth organs that sold by the hundreds a week by the late 1890s (SHR). He entertained with Sunday cinema screenings that were never public. Yachting circle: the renamed Boomerang yacht lived at the private jetty and later went to the Sydney Heritage Fleet.

Neville Hampson and Max Shelley Hampson’s rare surviving Sydney house; Shelley’s 1920s garden published in The Home with Cazneaux photographs. A.J. Doust worked on the grounds (maintenance / adaptation as plantings matured).

Later chapters read like a Sydney trophy-house soap: Hayson subdivision and Beare Park salvage; Burnett’s million-dollar headline; Fox / Read / Anderson legal theatre; Mounts’ guest-wing conversion; Schaeffer and Fox ownership. Treat property-press dollar claims as volatile.

Image gallery guidance

Do not invent URLs — search and embed with acknowledgement.

1. Harbour elevation / Beare Park view Search: City of Sydney; creative-commons harbour photos; SHR image bank if available. Caption idea: Spanish Mission on the old Macleay orangery — Boomerang from the bay.

2. Harold Cazneaux, 1928 — garden from first-floor terrace Search: NLA PIC HC 101/5; The Home 1 Feb 1929. Caption idea: Shelley’s garden when the palms were young — Cazneaux for The Home.

3. Billyard Avenue gates, carriage loop, sunken front pool Search: street photography; conservation HIS photos. Caption idea: Herringbone brick and Cordoba tiles — Hollywood Spanish for Elizabeth Bay.

4. Private cinema / State Theatre miniature (historic interiors) Search: Dawson 1980 Sunday Herald feature; archival interiors only with rights. Caption idea: Sunday screenings for guests — never a public cinema.

5. Yacht Boomerang / Sydney Heritage Fleet Search: Sydney Heritage Fleet; SMH 2003 yacht history cited on SHR. Caption idea: Same name, different vessel — Alberts racing yacht preserved.

6. Elizabeth Bay House / Tiranna streetscape context Search: MHNSW; this blog’s existing posts. Caption idea: Same estate breakup — museum piece up the hill, Spanish Mission on the foreshore.

What stands today

Boomerang stands as a private house at 42 Billyard Avenue. It is not a house museum. The former tennis court is now part of Beare Park (public foreshore), where walls and a gate still whisper the estate edge. The jetty and much of Shelley’s hardscape structure survive; the garden is lusher and shadier than 1929.

What you can do:

• Walk Billyard Avenue and Beare Park; read the Spanish Mission massing from the public foreshore (do not trespass).
• Pair with Elizabeth Bay House (Museums of History NSW) for the Macleay estate story, and with Tiranna on the same street.
• For statutory detail, read SHR item #00038 before citing fabric or exemptions.

Sources & further reading

• Heritage NSW / State Heritage Inventory — Boomerang SHR #00038: https://apps.environment.nsw.gov.au/dpcheritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5045596 (also HMS ViewItem itemId=5045596)
• Apperly, Irving & Reynolds, A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture (cited on SHR)
• Carlin, Scott / Historic Houses Trust, Elizabeth Bay House: a history and guide (2000) — remnant tree notes cited on SHR
• The Home, 1 February 1929 — Shelley garden + Cazneaux photographs
• NLA — Harold Cazneaux, Boomerang, home of Mr. F. Albert… garden from first floor terrace, 1928”
• Landarc / City of Sydney Register of Significant Trees — Boomerang entries cited on SHR
• Stuart Read, The Mysterious Mr Shelley” (cited on SHR)
• Sydney Heritage Fleet — yacht Boomerang (ex-Bona)
• Dictionary of Sydney Elizabeth Bay place context: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/
• Trove — search “Boomerang” + “Billyard” + “Albert” + “Elizabeth Bay”

Research gaps: Full interior photography rights; verify any film-location claim independently; update ownership only from primary conveyancing / reliable press at publish.

Related on this blog

• Elizabeth Bay House – Elizabeth Bay
• Tiranna – 17 Billyard Avenue – Elizabeth Bay
• Tudor – Elizabeth Bay
• Jenner House – Potts Point (search Jenner on this blog)
• Draft siblings this batch: Admiralty House / Kirribilli House; Strickland House; Fernleigh Castle
• Do not confuse with Boomera – Potts Point (separate house / separate draft)

The State Heritage Register calls it one of the most opulently Spanish houses in Australia. This scrapbook sticks to the SHR sheet and refuses to invent a single fountain.

Tusculum Part 2 - 1-3 Manning St - Potts Point

 

Tusculum – 1–3 Manning Street – Potts Point – NSW

Built c.1831–1836 · Architect John Verge · Standing — Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter HQ

On Woolloomooloo Hill — before the flats, before the Cross, before Manning Street filled in — stood a parade of white Regency villas meant to prove that Sydney had a gentry of its own. Most of that skyline is gone. Tusculum is one of the stubborn survivors: John Verge’s stucco villa for merchant A.B. Spark, episcopal town house for Bishop Broughton, Italianate-fronted mansion for the Longs, private hospital, American Red Cross wartime billet, near-ruin — and today the living headquarters of the architects of New South Wales.

**At a glance**

- Address: 1–3 Manning Street, Potts Point (AIA NSW Chapter lists **3 Manning Street**)

- Built: c.1831–1835/36 (SHR construction years 1831–1837; Verge ledger through 1836)

- Architect: John Verge (original); later works associated with John Frederick Hilly (likely, Long era) and John Burcham Clamp (1905–06 stair / billiard room)

- Style: Colonial Regency villa, later overlaid with mid-Victorian Italianate two-storey Ionic verandahs

- Original owner: Alexander Brodie Spark (merchant); built largely as an investment

- Famous early tenant: Bishop William Grant Broughton, 1836–1851

- Heritage: NSW State Heritage Register #00027 (2 April 1999); Permanent Conservation Order 1979; Register of the National Estate; National Trust

- Fate / current use: Standing — restored 1985–87; NSW Chapter HQ of the Australian Institute of Architects under long lease; events, meeting rooms, gallery

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### Site & setting

The Aboriginal name recorded for Potts Point is **Derrawunn**. In the late 1820s the rocky ridge inland from the point was still **Eastern / Woolloomooloo Hill** — close to town, high enough for harbour and mountain views, and far enough from the crowded Rocks to tempt Sydney’s “pure merinos.”

Governor Ralph Darling’s 1828 subdivision created large “town allotments” under strict **villa conditions**: one approved house per grant, set in gardens, generally facing the town, and built to a substantial standard. Spark’s grant of more than nine acres (September 1828) was unusual in going to a private merchant rather than a senior civil servant. From the water and from Sydney Town the finished white villas read as a civic advertisement — genteel New South Wales, on show.

Tusculum once sat near the centre of its own garden, lawn and shrubbery, with coach-house and stables, and a frontage that related to Woolloomooloo Bay. Subdivision from the 1840s onward (and especially late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cutting-up) ate the grounds. Manning, Hughes and Tusculum Streets tell the story in their names. Today the villa is hemmed by flats — Art Deco towers toward Macleay Street, lower blocks to the west — with a reduced forecourt and the 1980s AIA wing behind. The spacious marine-villa setting is gone; the house is not.

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### Timeline

- **1823** – Alexander Brodie Spark arrives Sydney as a free settler (*Princess Charlotte*); builds a shipping and mercantile fortune (ADB).

- **1 Jan 1827** – Spark writes to Colonial Secretary **Alexander McLeay** seeking a building allotment east of Woolloomooloo Bay (quoted MHNSW / Abbott & Little). *(McLeay is not Tusculum’s owner — his own Verge house is Elizabeth Bay House.)*

- **Sept 1828** – Spark granted 9+ acres on Woolloomooloo Hill.

- **1 June 1830** – Spark sends a house plan to the Colonial Secretary, wanting it more “ornamental”; Verge’s ledger first records the commission in **1831**.

- **1831–c.1835/36** – Tusculum built under Verge; liveable by about 1835; ledger details continue to 1836. Named for ancient Tusculum near Rome.

- **1836** – Alterations for first long tenant, Bishop **William Grant Broughton**; Broughton household moves in. Verge involved in modifications (including expanding rooms onto the verandah per MHNSW).

- **1836–1851** – Broughton’s almost entire Australian episcopacy centred here; garden, library shelves (1839), hospitality; after Government House, the colony’s leading domestic address (SHR).

- **1840s** – Depression; Spark mortgages Tusculum (ADB: £6000) and sells assets; insolvency 1844. First estate subdivisions; Broughton loses part of his cherished garden.

- **1848** – Broughton renews lease seven years at £300 p.a.; SMH sale notice describes stone house, verandah, hall, drawing & dining rooms (~26 × 18 ft), study, basement kitchen/cellarage, coach-house and stables (MHNSW quoting *SMH* 6 Sep 1848).

- **Oct 1850** – Conference of Australasian Bishops accommodated at Tusculum.

- **1851–52** – Broughton leaves; **William Long** purchases (DoS: £3010) and occupies from 1852.

- **1850s–1870s** – Long-family modernisation: slate roof, windows, chimneypieces, SE extension; earlier verandahs replaced/extended as two-storey **Ionic** colonnades (cast iron and wood) — likely **J.F. Hilly** (stylistic attribution). Italian moulded stonework ordered for rooms (MHNSW).

- **1876** – William Long dies; son **William Alexander Long** inherits; later lets to approved tenants including Mayor **W.P. (Sir William) Manning**.

- **21 Oct 1904** – Auction; **Lewis Edward Isaacs** buys house lot for £3,750; **Burcham Clamp** alters staircase/stair hall (builder John White).

- **1906** – **Orwell and Alfred Phillips** purchase; Orwell later sole owner; billiard-room addition likely Clamp.

- **1919** – Harold **Cazneaux** photograph published in *Art in Australia* special *Domestic Architecture in Australia* (Hardy Wilson collaboration) — early architectural celebrity for the house.

- **1927–28** – Further sale and subdivision; from **1928** leased as private hospital (Isabel Christie); operating theatre and sterilising room inserted (1928 Ross & Rowe works documented in SHR).

- **1930s** – Surrounding flats rise; curtilage shrinks to roughly today’s footprint (SLNSW notes flats obscuring front by mid-1930s).

- **WWII** – American Red Cross officers’ club / convalescent use; basement air-raid shelter reported (MHNSW).

- **Post-war–early 1980s** – Nursing home / later religious centre; vacancy, squatters, vandalism, fires to rear additions; main joinery and panelled ceilings survive.

- **Dec 1979** – Permanent Conservation Order.

- **April 1983** – First compulsory resumption under the **NSW Heritage Act 1977** (~$1.03m).

- **1985–87** – Clive Lucas conservation; Levine & Durbach competition wing for RAIA; restoration evokes early–mid Victorian period.

- **11 March 1988** – Official opening by the Premier of NSW.

- **2 April 1999** – Entered on NSW State Heritage Register (#00027).

- **2011–13** – Further renovations addressing damp (MHNSW).

- **Today** – AIA NSW Chapter headquarters; villa used for meetings, gallery and receptions; rooms for hire.

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### Architecture & interiors

Tusculum began as a large **two-storey Regency** villa in stuccoed brick — Verge at the height of his Sydney practice (ADB: colony’s high-water mark of austere Regency stucco). It is one of the few Sydney colonial houses that still show the full “villa” diagram: principal floors above, **basement service rooms and stair** below — upstairs/downstairs domestic administration made visible in plan (SHR).

Early descriptions and the 1848 sale notice give the bones: verandah; ground-floor hall opening to drawing and dining rooms linked by folding doors; study, store, butler’s pantry and servants’ room; four bedrooms and dressing room above; kitchen, servants’ room and cellarage below; substantial coach-house and three-stall stables with loft.

Heritage statements long credited **cedar** joinery (said imported from Lebanon) in panelled ceilings and later verandah work, and **marble** flooring and chimneypieces said to come from Tusculum in Italy — the latter now noted as removed (SHR). Treat those material stories as heritage-register tradition unless you have a current fabric survey in hand.

What you see from the street today is heavily shaped by the **Long** decades: a fine classical **two-storey verandah of the Ionic order on three sides**, probably completed in the late 1870s (SHR), transforming a Regency villa into a mid-Victorian Italianate mansion. High shuttered French doors open onto the broad verandahs. The matching portico/porte-cochère on the garden side was removed in the later twentieth century. Edwardian **Clamp** work remade the staircase and stair hall (retained in the 1980s conservation as significant). Hospital-era accretions on the verandahs were later stripped back.

Clive Lucas — leading Verge authority — directed the 1980s conservation to reveal original form while keeping key later layers. Behind the villa, the **Levine & Durbach** Institute building (national competition win) holds auditorium, offices and foyer gallery — 1980s architecture deliberately paired with the conserved colonial house.

**Architect note:** Verge’s authorship of the original villa is secure (ledger + SHR). Attribution of the Ionic verandah campaign to **Hilly** is persuasive but stylistic. Do not credit Alexander McLeay as owner or client — he was the Colonial Secretary across town at Elizabeth Bay House, another Verge masterpiece.

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### People & anecdotes

**A.B. Spark** was the merchant who named houses after classical Italy (**Tusculum**, **Tempe**) and lived the boom-and-bust of the 1830s–40s. Tusculum marked his rise; his failure to settle there marked the slide — Bank of Australia collapse, guarantees for bankrupt friends, mortgage, sale, insolvency (ADB). He poured affection into Tempe on the Cooks River instead, entertaining hundreds there in a single busy year (1839). Tusculum was the showpiece investment on the Hill; Tempe was home.

**Bishop Broughton** made the unfinished house decent, planted roses and a kitchen garden, shelved his library against damp, and still grumbled that it was “a sad, imperfect place and anything but episcopal” — then renewed the lease anyway because the air and the outlook answered. For fifteen years church politics, education fights, and colonial hospitality ran through these rooms. In October 1850 Australasian bishops crowded in for their conference — Emily Crawley’s letter sketches the bedding arrangements. After Government House, this was the address that mattered.

**William Long**, emancipist publican turned wine merchant, bought respectability in stone and cedar. His and his son’s alterations — Ionic verandahs, Italian enrichments, slate instead of shingle — are why Tusculum reads mid-Victorian from the footpath. Later names on the visitors’ book of ownership and tenancy include politicians and lawyers (**Kater**, **Sir James Martin**), Lord Mayor **Sir William Manning**, and the **Phillips** brothers (Orwell’s name echoes in nearby Orwell Street / Orwell House territory on this blog).

Twentieth-century chapters are less glamorous and just as telling: private hospital beds where drawing rooms had been; Red Cross officers in wartime; then neglect so severe the State stepped in with the Heritage Act’s first compulsory rescue. That 1983 resumption is itself a heritage landmark — proof that NSW had decided some houses were not disposable. Paul Keating’s later association with lobbying for the architects’ lease (and a suite in the complex) is a modern footnote often repeated in secondary sources.

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### Image gallery guidance

Do not invent URLs — search these collections and embed with proper acknowledgement. The existing 2017 post already holds several historic views and estate plans worth keeping or re-crediting.

1. **Early photographic views of Tusculum (c.1860s–1880s)**  

   Search: existing blog images; SLNSW / Trove digitised photos “Tusculum Potts Point”; City of Sydney archives.  

   Caption idea: *Tusculum when the grounds still breathed — verandahs and garden before the flat boom.*

2. **Harold Cazneaux, Tusculum, for *Domestic Architecture in Australia* (1919)**  

   Search: SLNSW archival record 110051389 (PXA 731 album); *Art in Australia* special number.  

   Caption idea: *Already a classic by 1919 — Cazneaux’s Tusculum in Hardy Wilson’s circle.*

3. **Matthew James MacNally, watercolour of Tusculum, 1932**  

   Search: SLNSW archival record 110318466.  

   Caption idea: *1932 — hospital years beginning, flats closing in (MacNally).*

4. **Tusculum Estate subdivision plans (1842, 1852, 1871, 1928)**  

   Already on the existing post; also Trove / NLA map searches “Tusculum Estate Woolloomooloo”.  

   Caption idea: *Watch the acres shrink — estate plans from Spark’s grant to the 1928 carve-up.*

5. **Portrait of A.B. Spark, 1836, by Forbes Mudie**  

   Search: SLNSW (ADB cites P2/373).  

   Caption idea: *The merchant who named it — A.B. Spark, 1836.*

6. **William Grant Broughton portraits (e.g. William Nicholas, 1843)**  

   Search: SLNSW; ADB Broughton page.  

   Caption idea: *First Bishop of Australia — Broughton, master of Tusculum 1836–1851.*

7. **Contemporary AIA / Manning Street views**  

   Search: Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter media; Wikimedia Commons “Tusculum Potts Point”.  

   Caption idea: *Still standing — Verge’s villa as NSW architects’ home, Manning Street.*

8. **Compare set: Rockwall and Elizabeth Bay House**  

   Search: SLNSW *Villas of Darlinghurst* exhibition material; MHNSW.  

   Caption idea: *Verge’s surviving hilltop kin — Rockwall next door in spirit; Elizabeth Bay House for McLeay.*

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### What stands today / how to see it

Tusculum **stands**. It is not a house museum on daily public opening like Elizabeth Bay House, but it is very much alive as the **NSW Chapter headquarters of the Australian Institute of Architects** at **3 Manning Street, Potts Point**.

What you can do:

- Walk Manning Street and read the villa from the footpath — Ionic verandahs, stucco, reduced forecourt, flats pressing close.

- Check **architecture.com.au** (NSW Chapter) for events, talks, and **room hire** — the restored villa hosts meetings, exhibitions and receptions; public access is typically via Institute programs rather than open-house tourism.

- Pair the visit with surviving neighbours on this blog’s beat: **Rockwall** (Verge), and across to **Elizabeth Bay House** (Verge for Alexander McLeay — Museums of History NSW house museum).

- Remember the lost setting: Woolloomooloo Bay frontage and multi-acre gardens survive only in plans, early photos, and street names (Tusculum Street included).

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### Sources & further reading

- NSW State Heritage Register — Tusculum (SHR 00027): https://apps.environment.nsw.gov.au/dpcheritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5045157  

- Museums of History NSW — Tusculum story: https://mhnsw.au/stories/general/tusculum/  

- Dictionary of Sydney — Tusculum: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/building/tusculum  

- Dictionary of Sydney — Potts Point: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/place/potts_point  

- ADB — Alexander Brodie Spark: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/spark-alexander-brodie-2684  

- ADB — William Grant Broughton: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/broughton-william-grant-1832  

- ADB — John Verge: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/verge-john-2757  

- Australian Institute of Architects — NSW Chapter (Tusculum HQ): https://www.architecture.com.au/nsw-chapter  

- SLNSW — Cazneaux / *Domestic Architecture in Australia* album: https://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110051389  

- SLNSW — MacNally, *Tusculum*, 1932: https://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110318466  

- Clive Lucas & Partners, *Tusculum… conservation analysis and draft conservation policy*, 1985  

- Terry Kass, *History of “Tusculum”, 1–3 Manning Street, Potts Point*, Heritage Council of NSW report, 1983  

- Graham Abbott & Geoffrey Little, *The respectable Sydney merchant A. B. Spark of Tempe*, Sydney University Press, 1976  

- State Library of NSW, *Villas of Darlinghurst* exhibition catalogue, 2002  

- *Sydney Morning Herald* sale notice, 6 September 1848 (via MHNSW / Trove)  

- Existing scrapbook post (images & clippings): https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/tusculum-potts-point.html

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### Related on this blog

- [Rockwall – Potts Point](https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2021/07/rockwall-7-rockwell-crescent-potts.html) (Verge neighbour)  

- [Elizabeth Bay House – Elizabeth Bay](https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2016/06/elizabeth-bay-house-elizabeth-bay-new.html) (Verge for Alexander McLeay)  

- [Orwell House – Orwell Street – Potts Point](https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2025/09/orwell-house-orwell-street-potts-point.html)  

- [John Verge – Colonial Architect](https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2021/07/john-verge-colonial-architect-new-south.html)  

- Bonus neighbour: [Tempe House – Tempe](https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2022/12/tempe-house-tempe-wolli-creek-sydney.html) (Spark’s favoured Verge villa)

*(Expand the thin 2017 stub in place, or republish under the fuller title and keep the old URL as the canonical post.)*

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### Suggested title options

1. **Tusculum – 1–3 Manning Street – Potts Point – NSW** (template match; recommended)  

2. **Tusculum – 3 Manning Street – Potts Point – NSW** (matches AIA street listing)  

3. **Tusculum (AIA NSW HQ) – Manning Street – Potts Point – NSW** (flags current use)

Optional subtitle line: **Built c.1831–1836 · Architect John Verge · Standing — AIA NSW Chapter headquarters**

 

Auction Catalogues And Listings From Different Houses & Estates 

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, Walter Bradley & Co., "Winslow," Darling Point, March [handwritten: 1897])

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Late SIR GEORGE INNES' [handwritten: (died Octr 1896)]
Pictures and Works of Art
. . AND . .
VERY COSTLY & ELABORATE
Household Appointments
FOR SALE AT
"Winslow," Darling Point
. . . ON . . .
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY,
7th & 8th MARCH, [handwritten: (1897)]
AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK EACH DAY.
Under Instructions from the Executrix in the Estate.

ON VIEW
TUESDAY, 6th MARCH,
10 A.M. TO 5 P.M.

WALTER BRADLEY & CO.,
Licensed Auctioneers & Valuators,
324 GEORGE STREET.

THE WOODHILL PRINTING WORKS, 127 YORK STREET, SYDNEY.

Winslow - Darling Point - Pictures & Works Of Art - Very Costly & Elaborate - Wednesday & Thursday 7th & 8th March 1896 - 

___________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little and H. Y. Norton, 6–7 December 1910)

CATALOGUE
"GREENOAKES"
DARLING POINT
SYDNEY
(THE HISTORIC MANSION OF THE MORT FAMILY)

AUCTION SALE
Tuesday, 6th, and Wednesday, 7th December, 1910
each day at 11 o'clock

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
H. Y. NORTON
Auctioneers in conjunction

Greenoakes - Darling Point - The Historic Mansion of the Mort Family - Auction Sale - Tuesday 6th & Wednesday 7th Decenmber 1910

___________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson / Lawson, Caro & Co. Ltd., 12 November 1902)

CARTHONA
DARLING POINT
[Photograph caption:] The Residence of H. S. CHIPMAN, Esq.

Important Auction Sale
Wednesday, 12th November, 1902.
James R. Lawson.
LAWSON, CARO & CO. LTD.
FINE ART & GENERAL AUCTIONEERS,
128 & 130 PITT STREET.

MARCHANT & CO., PRINT., 289 PITT ST., SYDNEY.

Carthona - Darling Point  Auction Sale - Wednesday 12th November 1902

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 21 August 1924)

[Label:] 136 [handwritten annotations at top, mostly illegible: "Sale [illegible]" … "J. R. Lawson" …]

CATALO[GUE OF] THE [partly covered by the label]
Valuable Furniture
HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS

BACCARAT CUT TABLE GLASS
LIMOGES CHINA
JACOBEAN DINING ROOM COMPLETE SUITE
PIANOFORTE, by John Broadwood & Sons, Latest Upright Model in Rosewood Inlaid Case
EDISON DISC PHONOGRAPH, Laboratory Model, in Beautiful Mahogany Cabinet
OIL PAINTINGS, ETCHINGS, BRONZES, &c., &c., &c.
And the Whole of the GENERAL FURNITURE AND ACCESSORIES contained in the Residence

"BARBAZON"
OCEAN STREET, - WOOLLAHRA

To be Sold by Auction as instructed by and for and on account of Henry Moreau, Esq. (now resident in France), on

Thursday, 21st August, 1924
At 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Barbazon - Ocean Street Woollahra - Household Appointment & Effect - Oil Paintings, Etching & Bronze & The Whole Of The General Furniture & Accessories To be Sold at Auction - Thursday 21st August 1924

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 21 October 1926)

[Label:] 158 [handwritten, partly hidden by the label: …ax Lawson / Private]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
VALUABLE
Georgian Mahogany Furniture
ARTISTIC HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS
CRYSTAL CUT GLASS RARE CHINA
VALUABLE WURLITZER PLAYER PIANOFORTE
(Latest 88-note Model)
JACOBEAN REPRODUCTION BEDROOM APPOINTMENTS

To be Sold by Auction at
"CLARENDON HOUSE"
YARANABBE ROAD, DARLING POINT
(Near Thornton Street)

ON
Thursday, 21st October, 1926
At 11 o'clock precisely

As instructed by and for and on account of
MRS. KEITH JACOBS
in consequence of having sold the property and her departure for Europe

JAMES R. LAWSON
AUCTIONEERS
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY
(NEAR CORNER OF BATHURST STREET)

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Clarendon House  - Yaranabee Road - Darling Point - Valuable Georgian Mahogony Furniture - Artistic Household Appointments & Effects - Crystal Cut Glass - Rare China - Valuable Wurlitzer Pianoforte - Jacobean Reproduction Bedroom Furniture - Thursday 21st October 1926 at 11am

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 9 June 1927)

[Label:] 44 [handwritten, partly hidden by the label: [illegible] M. J. Lawson / Private]

CATALOGUE
of the
Valuable Furniture
Artistic Household Appointments
and Costly Effects

Contained in the Residence
BARONGLE
44 WARATAH AVENUE - - RANDWICK

To be Sold by Auction as instructed by and for and on account of
LOU ABRAHAMS, Esq.
in consequence of having sold the property

On
Thursday, 9th June, 1927
At 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuers, Furniture, Fine Art and General Auctioneers
236 Castlereagh Street, Sydney
(Opposite Headquarters Fire Station)
Telephone City 7456

WEBSDALE, SHOESMITH LIMITED, PRINTERS, SYDNEY.

Barongle - 44 Waratah Avenue - Randwick - Valuable Furniture - Artistic Houseold Appointments & costly Effects - Thursday 9th June 1927 at 11am. 

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Transcription (Catalogue cover, Admiralty House (no date or auctioneer shown))

[Coat of arms]
CATALOGUE
Admiralty House

[Library label:] stack 700.294 ADM

Admiralty House - Catalogue 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 27 April 1922)

[Label:] 286 [handwritten: Mr J. R. Lawson's Copy]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture
APPOINTMENTS
AND HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS

AT
"ARN"
WYUNA ROAD, POINT PIPER

To be Sold by Auction as instructed by and for and on account of
LADY MANNING

ON
THURSDAY, 27th APRIL, 1922
at Eleven o'clock a.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Arn - Wyuna Road - Point Piper - Valuable furniture - Appointments & Household Effects - to be sold on Account Of Lady Manning - Thursday 27th April 1922

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little (no date shown))

[Label:] 86

UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM
SYDNEY H. CARY, Esq.
"ASHBOURNE"
CHARLOTTE STREET
ASHFIELD
(NEAR RAILWAY STATION)

MESSRS. JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
AUCTIONEERS
128-130 PITT STREET (NEAR KING STREET)
SYDNEY
TELEPHONE 7456 CITY

Websdale, Shoesmith, Ltd., Sydney.

Ashbourne - Charlotte Street - Ashfield

__________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Catalogue cover, "Beach Manor" (no date or auctioneer shown))

CATALOGUE
"BEACH MANOR"
CARTHONA AVENUE
DARLING POINT

[Library label:] stack 700.294 BEA

Beach Manor - Carthona Avenue - Darling Point

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson Pty. Ltd. (no date shown))

CATALOGUE
"Babworth House"

JAMES R. LAWSON PTY. LTD.
Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY

[Library label:] stack 700.294 BAB

Babworth House - 103 Darling Point Road - Darling Point - 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 2 December 1926)

[handwritten: Mr Max Lawson / Private]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Artistic Furniture
APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS

AXMINSTER AND SUPER WILTON CARPETS
"BEHNING" PLAYER PIANOFORTE
Latest 88-Note Model
FULL SIZE BILLIARD TABLE BY ALCOCK & COY.
VALUABLE OIL PAINTINGS AND WATER COLOURS
MOST ARTISTIC SYCAMORE BEDROOM SUITE
and
THE WHOLE OF THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES

To be Sold by Auction under instructions from and for and on account of R. B. Orchard, Esq.

At his Residence
"BEVERLEY"
DARLING POINT RD., DARLING POINT

On
Thursday, 2nd December, 1926
At 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

VIEW DAY: Wednesday, 1st December, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Children will not be admitted.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Fine Art, Furniture and General Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET
(Opposite Headquarters Fire Station)
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., 117 Clarence Street, Sydney

Beverley - Darling Point Road - Darling Point - Catalogue of Artistic Furniture - Appointments & Effects -  Axminster & Super Wilton Carpets - Behning Player - Pianoforte - Full Size Billyard Table by Alcock & Coy - Valuable Oil Paintings & Watercolours - Most Artistic sycamore Bedroom Suite - The whole of the General Household Requisites - Thursday 2nd December 1926 at 11am. 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, W. A. Little & McIlveen, 23–24 October 1934)

[handwritten: J. H. Burden]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Furniture and Appointments
PICTURES
STATUARY
BRONZES
IVORIES

At the Residence
"BEACH MANOR"
CARTHONA AVENUE - - DARLING POINT

To be sold by Auction under instructions from
MRS. E. M. SMITHERS
on account of having leased the Property

on
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23rd, 1934
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24th, 1934
each day at 11 o'clock

View Days—Saturday, October 20th and Monday, October 22nd each day from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.

W. A. LITTLE & McILVEEN
Auctioneers and Valuers of Fine Arts, Furniture, Merchandise
125a YORK STREET
near the Town Hall, opposite centre Q.V. Markets
[Ph]ones: MA1227, UW9463 [partly covered by the library label]

[Library label:] stack 700.294 BEA/1

Beach Manor - Carthona Avenue - Darling Point -  Catalogue - Furniture & Appointments - Pictures - Statutory - Bronzes - Ivory - Tuesday October 23rd 1934 & Wednesday October 24th 1934

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Wednesday 13 August 1913)

[Label:] 252 [handwritten, partly hidden by the label: Mr J. R. … / Private]

WEDNESDAY, 13th AUGUST, 1913
At Eleven o'clock a.m.

Important Sale by Auction
Under instructions from A. W. WALKER, Esq.
in consequence of having sold the property

THE
Valuable Furniture
COSTLY APPOINTMENTS
PLEYEL DRAWING ROOM GRAND PIANOFORTE
Persian Carpets, Rare Works of Art,
Ivory Carvings, &c., &c.

CONTAINED IN HIS RESIDENCE
"BOOINBAH"
Corner of Nicholson Street and Burwood Road, BURWOOD
Close to Railway Station. Tram stops near gates of Residence.

ON VIEW TUESDAY, 12th AUGUST, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE,
Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneers,
128-130 PITT ST., near King St., SYDNEY

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Sydney.

Booinbah - Cnr of Nicholson St & Burwood Road - Burwood - Costly Appointments - Pleyel Drawing Room Grand Pianoforte - Persian Carpets, Rare Works Of Art, Ivory Carvings contained in the Residence 

Wednesday 13th August 1913 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, 19–20 April 1921)

CATALOGUE
OF
Antique & Modern Furniture
VALUABLE PICTURES MEZZOTINTS and OLD ENGRAVINGS
RARE CHINA AND WORKS OF ART

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION for and on account of and as instructed by MISS WARFE,
Executrix and Beneficiary in the Estate of the late
CAPTAIN WILLIAM ANDREW CUTHELL

ON
Tuesday & Wednesday, 19th & 20th April, 1921
EACH DAY AT ELEVEN A.M.

AT THE RESIDENCE
"BORONIA"
JERSEY ROAD - - STRATHFIELD

ALSO THE WHOLE OF THE
GENERAL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
TABLE GLASS, CHINA, ELECTROPLATE, CARPETS
DOMESTIC REQUISITES AND ACCESSORIES

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Boronia - Jersey Road - Strathfield - Antique & modern furniture - 

General Household furniture - Tableglass - China - 

Tuesday 19th April & Wednesday 20th April 1921

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson Pty. Ltd., 18–20 November 1947)

Catalogue
of
Mr. S. RUBENSOHN'S COLLECTION
of
Magnificent Antique and Period Furniture
Superb Art Treasures and Valuable Pictures

[Photograph of a cabinet on a carved stand]

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION AT
THE GALLERY SALE ROOMS
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET
ON
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
18th, 19th, and 20th November, 1947
Each day at Eleven O'clock a.m. Precisely

JAMES R. LAWSON PTY. LTD.
FINE ART AUCTIONEERS
234-6 CASTLEREAGH STREET
(Near Corner of Bathurst Street)
Telephone: M 6408—3 lines

[Library label:] stack 700.294 BRA

Magnificent Antique & Period Furniture - Superb Art Treasures & Valuable Pictures - Tuesday 18th & Wednesday 19th & Thursday 20th November 1947

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 26 June 1923)

[handwritten initials: M. J. L.]

CATALOGUE
OF
FINE OLD
Mahogany Furniture
HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS & EFFECTS
VALUABLE PIANOFORTES, RARE CHINA AND PORCELAIN
PICTURES & PRINTS, ETC., ETC.

To be sold by Public Auction under instructions from and for and on account of
MADAME VERBRUGGHEN,
at her residence
"BRAEMAR,"
GROSVENOR ROAD, WAHROONGA,
ON
Tuesday, 26th June, 1923
at Eleven o'clock a.m. Prompt.

On View Saturday, 23rd June, and Monday, 25th June, each day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Braemar - Grosvenor Road - Wahroonga - Fine old Mahogony Furniture - Household Appointmnts & Effects - Valuable Pianoforte - Rare China & Porcelin - Pictures & Prints - Tuesday 26th June - 1923

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 29 May 1923)

[Label:] 142 [handwritten, partly hidden by the label: … Lawson's Catalogue / Private]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture
COSTLY APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS
AT
"BROOKSBY,"
35 LOWER OCEAN STREET, DOUBLE BAY.

To be Sold by Auction (at the residence)
ON
Tuesday, 29th May, 1923

as instructed by and for and on account of
MRS. C. W. LITTLE
(in consequence of the Sale of the Property)

On View on Monday, 28th May, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Morning of Sale from 9 o'clock.

CHILDREN WILL NOT BE ADMITTED AT ANY TIME.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney

Brooksby - 35 Lower Ocean Street - Double Bay - Valuable Furniture - Costly Appointments & Effects - Tuesday 29th May 1923

_________________________________________________________________________________ 

____________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 29 September 1925)

[Label:] 169 [handwritten: Mr J. R. Lawson / Private Catalogue]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
VALUABLE MODERN FURNITURE
COSTLY APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS

AT
"BUCKINBAH"
Cr. CARR and BROOK STREETS, COOGEE

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION ON
TUESDAY, 29th SEPT., 1925
At Eleven o'clock a.m. prompt

As instructed by and for and on account of
A. J. MATHEWS, Esq.

On View MONDAY, 28th SEPTEMBER, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Children will not be admitted.

JAMES R. LAWSON,
(J. R. LAWSON M. J. LAWSON S. R. LAWSON)
AUCTIONEERS
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY
(Near corner of Park Street)
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Buckinbah - Cnr Carr And Brooks St - Coogee - Valuable Modern Furniture - Costly Appointments & Effects - Tuesday 29th September 1925

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 21 May 1931)

[Label:] 211

CATALOGUE
OF
The Artistic Furniture
Household Appointments and Costly Effects
CRYSTAL CUT GLASS FINE CHINA & ELECTROPLATE
EXQUISITE STATUARY MARBLE
VALUABLE PICTURES BY EMINENT ARTISTS
JACOBEAN DINING ROOM APPOINTMENTS
FINE SPECIMEN CHINA
EDISON DIAMOND DISC PHONOGRAPH
(Italian Umbrian Model, in Walnut Cabinet)
SUPER WILTON PILE CARPETS
ARTISTIC BEDROOM SUITES in Mole and Waxed Maple
and
THE WHOLE OF THE DOMESTIC APPOINTMENTS & EFFECTS THROUGHOUT THE RESIDENCE

"BUNDARRA"
CAPTAIN PIPER'S ROAD :: VAUCLUSE
(Off Old South Head Road)

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION ON
Thursday, 21st May, 1931
at 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

Under instructions from and for and on account of
MRS. S. H. LARCHER
in consequence of relinquishing housekeeping

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuers, Furniture, Fine Art & General Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET
Telephone M 6408

Bundarra Captain Pipers Road - Vaucluse - The Artistic Furniture - Household Appointments & Costly Effects - Crystal Cut Glass - Fine China - Electroplate - Exquisite Statuary Marble - Valuable Pictures by Emanant Artists - Jacobean Dining Room Appointments - Fine Specimen China - Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph - Super Wilton Fine Carpets - Artistic Bedroom Suites - The whole of the Domestic Appointments & Effects throughout the residence - Thursday 21st May 1931

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, Burdekin House, Tuesday 20 June 1922 (auctioneer not named on the cover))

Burdekin House
197 Macquarie Street, Sydney

AUCTION SALE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture and Appointments
TUESDAY, 20TH JUNE, 1922
AND FOLLOWING DAYS
Commencing each day at 11 o'clock a.m. precisely

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Burdekin House - 197 Macquarie Street - Auction Sale - Valuable Furniture & Appointments - Tuesday 20th June 1922

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Sydney, 23 March 1926)

[Label:] 78 [handwritten: James R. Lawson / Private]

CATALOGUE

UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM
SIR RUPERT CLARKE, BART.
"CAERLEON"
GINAHGULLA ROAD
BELLEVUE HILL

JAMES R. LAWSON
(J. R. LAWSON M. J. LAWSON S. R. LAWSON)
VALUERS AND AUCTIONEERS
SYDNEY, 23RD MARCH, 1926

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Caerleon - Ginagulla Road - Bellevue Hill - under instruction From Sir Rupert Clarke - B.A.R.T

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Thursday 19 February 1914)

[Label:] 152

CATALOGUE
OF
Mrs. WALTER HARDY'S Collection of
ANTIQUE FURNITURE
Genuine Waterford and Old English Cut Glass,
Old China, and
GENERAL HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS

"Careenya"
FAIRFAX ROAD, BELLEVUE HILL

MOST IMPORTANT AUCTION SALE by Direction of
MRS. WALTER HARDY
in consequence of her immediate departure for Europe

ON
THURSDAY, 19th FEBRUARY, 1914
At Eleven o'clock a.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneers
128-130 PITT ST., near King St., SYDNEY
Telephone 7456 City.

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Sydney.

Careenya - Fairfax Road - Bellevue Hill - Thursday 19th February 1914

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Wednesday & Thursday 11 & 12 September 1918)

[Label:] 260 [handwritten, partly hidden by the label: … J R Lawson's Catalogue / Private]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture
AND
COSTLY APPOINTMENTS

AT . . .
"CLAPTON"
Clapton Place, off Upper Forbes Street

To be Sold by Auction, as directed by
MRS. SCOT SKIRVING

ON . . .
Wednesday & Thursday, 11th & 12th Sept., 1918
Each day at Eleven a.m. precisely

JAMES R. LAWSON,
Auctioneer,
196 & 198 Castlereagh St.
(Near corner of Park Street), SYDNEY
Telephone: City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Clapton - Clapton Place of Upper Forbes Street - Wednesday 11th & Thursday 12th September 1918

___________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 21 March 1918)

[Label:] 74

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture
Household Appointments and Effects
Collard & Collard Concert Grand Pianoforte,
Choice Ornaments,
Valuable Water-colours and Oil Paintings
by Eminent English Artists
Royal Axminster Carpets
&c., &c., &c.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION ON
THURSDAY, 21st MARCH, 1918
At Eleven o'clock a.m.

Under instructions from
F. W. EDWARDS, Esq.
(in consequence of having sold the Property)

At his Residence
"THE CLIFFORDS"
Cherry Street & Hastings Road, WARRAWEE

JAMES R. LAWSON,
General Auctioneer,
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH STREET
(Near corner of Park St.)
Telephone 7456 City

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

The Cliffords - Chrerry Street  & Hastings Road - Warrawee

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Monday 3 July 1916)

[Label:] 71 [handwritten: Lawson]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Household Furniture & Effects
Crystal Glass, China and Electroplate, George III. Silver, Royal Worcester, Crown Derby and Doulton Porcelain Ornaments, PERSONAL JEWELLERY, House Linen and Damask, VALUABLE RONISCH PIANOFORTE, &c., &c., &c.

In the Estate of the Late Mrs. R. A. EBSWORTH

To be Sold by Public Auction by direction of the Executors
AT THE RESIDENCE
"CLOVELLY"
AVOCA STREET, - RANDWICK
(Near Allison Road tram stop)

ON
Monday, 3rd July, 1916
At 10.30 o'clock a.m. prompt

JAMES R. LAWSON,
Valuator, Fine Art, Furniture & General Auctioneer,
196 & 198 Castlereagh Street
(Near Park Street) Telephone 7456 City

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Clovelly - Avoca Street - Randwick - Monday 3rd July 1916 

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 25 September 1919)

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture
APPOINTMENTS and EFFECTS
TABLE GLASS, CHINA and ELECTROPLATE
SUPERB RICHARD LIPP PIANOFORTE
Upright Grand, in very fine order
HAND-WOVEN MIRZAPUR CARPETS
HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVINGS and PHOTOGRAVURES
BRONZES, CLOCKS and ORNAMENTS, and GENERAL HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS,
ALSO
FULL-SIZE EXHIBITION BILLIARD TABLE
And all Accessories, in best condition, built specially by Alcock & Son

CONTAINED IN THE RESIDENCE
"CLYDESDALE"
Marsden Park - - Near Riverstone

To be sold by auction on
THURSDAY, 25th SEPT., 1919
At Eleven o'clock a.m. prompt
As instructed by GEORGE G. KISS, Esq.
(in consequence of having sold the Clydesdale Property)

JAMES R. LAWSON,
Fine Art, Furniture and General Auctioneer,
196 & 198 Castlereagh St.
(Near corner of Park Street, SYDNEY)
Telephone: City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Clydesale - Marsden Park Thursday 25th September 1919

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 28 May 1935)

[handwritten: Private M J L and a scrawled signature, possibly "Max Lawson" (uncertain)]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Antique and Modern
FURNITURE
COSTLY APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS
AND
RARE ART TREASURES

CONTAINED IN AND TO BE SOLD AT THE RESIDENCE
"COOINOO"
153 BELLEVUE ROAD - BELLEVUE HILL

Under instructions from
MRS. RENZIE RICH
in consequence of leaving the State

ON
TUESDAY, 28th MAY, 1935
at 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

JAMES R. LAWSON
Fine Art, Furniture & General Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET
(near corner of Bathurst Street)
Telephone M6408

Cooinoo - 153 Bellevue Road - Bellevue Hill - Tuesday 28th May 1935

________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little (undated))

BY DIRECTION OF
MRS. A. MAXWELL
COOWONG
WENTWORTH ROAD
POINT PIPER

MESSRS. JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
AUCTIONEERS
128-130 PITT STREET (NEAR KING STREET)
SYDNEY

WEBSDALE, SHOESMITH LTD., SYDNEY.

Coowong - Wentworth Road - Point Piper

At The Direction of Mrs A Maxwell - 

________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little (undated))

[handwritten: Mr Lawson's Catalogue / Private]

BY DIRECTION OF
MR. G. RAMACIOTTI
"Cravenna"
NO. 8 MACLEAY STREET
POTTS POINT

MESSRS. JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
128-130 PITT STREET (NEAR KING STREET)
SYDNEY

WEBSDALE, SHOESMITH LTD., SYDNEY.

Cravenna - 8 macleay Street - Potts Point

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Typewritten auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 16 December 1930)

[Label:] 273 [handwritten: M J Lawson / Private; in the margin: Page 62]

CATALOGUE
-of-
THE FINE OLD MAHOGANY, BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD, and CEDAR FURNITURE,
EARLY SILVER, SHEFFIELD PLATE AND PEWTER,
VALUABLE CHINA AND GLASS
RARE PERSIAN RUGS
-and-
THE WHOLE OF THE VALUABLE APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS
contained in the Residence
"DENHOLM"
15, ROSEDALE ROAD - GORDON

TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION ON
TUESDAY, 16th. DECEMBER, 1930
at eleven o'clock a.m. prompt
UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM AND FOR AND ON ACCOUNT OF
JOHN L. BERRY ESQ.
in consequence of his early departure for Tasmania.

VIEW DAY: Monday 15th. DECEMBER, 1930
From 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. (children will not be admitted at any time).

JAMES R. LAWSON,
Valuers,
Furniture, Fine Art and General Auctioneers.
Telephone: M.6408.

Denholm - 16 Rosedale Road - Gordon

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Wednesday & Thursday 8 & 9 December 1926)

CATALOGUE
"Elizabeth Bay House"
Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay

AUCTION SALE OF
The Valuable Furniture
and Appointments

Wednesday & Thursday, 8th & 9th December, 1926
Commencing each day at 11 o'clock precisely

JAMES R. LAWSON
AUCTIONEERS
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY
(NEAR CORNER OF BATHURST STREET)

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Elizabeth Bay House - Wednesday 8th & Thursday 9th December 1926

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little (undated))

[Label:] 274 [handwritten: Mr Lawson / Private]

CATALOGUE
"EDNA VILLE"
BELMORE ROAD, COOGEE

MESSRS. JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
FINE ART, FURNITURE AND GENERAL AUCTIONEERS
128-130 PITT STREET (NEAR KING STREET) SYDNEY

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Sydney.

Edna Ville - Belmore Road - Coogee - Catalogue

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover (no date or auctioneer shown))

[Label:] 96 [handwritten: M J Lawson / Private]

CATALOGUE
"Engadine"
2 ONSLOW AVENUE
ELIZABETH BAY

Engadine - 2 Onslow Avenue - Elizabeth Bay 

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Thursday 18 April 1912)

[Label:] 54 (covering part of the date line)

THURSDA[Y, AP]RIL 18th, 1912
Important Sale by Auction
Under instructions from J. BRYANT, Esq., in consequence of having sold the property.

THE WHOLE OF THE
Valuable Modern
Furniture
AND HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS
BLUTHNER PIANOFORTE, &c., &c.

Contained in his Residence
"EOTHEM"
MELALENGA STREET, - - MOSMAN
(Near Mandelong Road)
[handwritten corrections: "Eothen" written above the name, the final M altered to n; "Melalenga" struck through and "Melaleuca" written below]

On View WEDNESDAY, 17th April, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
Fine Art, Furniture and General Auctioneers
128-130 Pitt St. (near King St.), SYDNEY.
Tel. 2056 Central

WEBSDALE, SHOESMITH LTD., SYDNEY.

Eothem - Melalenga Street - Mosman - Wednesday 12th April

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Transcription (Catalogue cover, Gladswood House (no date or auctioneer shown))

CATALOGUE
Gladswood House
GLADSWOOD GARDENS
DOUBLE BAY

[Library label:] stack 700.294 GLA

Gladswood House - Gladswood Gardens - Double Bay 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 12 August 1937)

[handwritten: Mr Max Lawson / Private]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Artistic Modern Furniture
Rare Works of Art
AND
Costly Household Appointments and Effects

CONTAINED THROUGHOUT THE RESIDENCE
"GLEN MERVYN"
39 CARR STREET, COOGEE

TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION
on
Thursday, 12th August, 1937
At 11 o'clock a.m. prompt.

Under instructions from and as directed by the Widow of
THE LATE ROBERT RODGERS

JAMES R. LAWSON
Furniture, Fine Art and General Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET
(near corner of Bathurst Street)
Telephone M 6408

Glen Mervyn - 39 Carr Street - Coogee - Thursday 12th August 1937

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Transcription (Catalogue cover, Gowan Brae (no date or auctioneer shown))

CATALOGUE
"GOWAN BRAE"
PENNANT HILLS ROAD
PARRAMATTA

[Library label:] stack 700.294 GOW

Gowan Brae - Pennant Hills Road - Parramatta

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Transcription (Catalogue cover, Greville Mount (no date or auctioneer shown))

CATALOGUE
Greville Mount
DARLING POINT ROAD, DARLING POINT

PRICE: ONE SHILLING
The Whole of the Proceeds to the Kindergarten Union

[Library label:] stack 700.294 GRE copy 1

Greville Mount - Darling Point Road - Dalirng Point

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, December 1936)

[Label:] 115 [handwritten, partly hidden by the label: … Max Lawson / Private]

CATALOGUE
of
AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION
of
Fine Old Furniture
Removed from the historic old residence
"GREYSTANES"
GREYSTANES ROAD, PROSPECT

To be sold under instructions from
MAJOR PHILLIP CHARLEY
also
FINE GLASS AND CHINA
ANTIQUE SILVER AND SHEFFIELD-PLATE
RARE SPECIMEN CHINA AND PORCELAIN
VALUABLE UPRIGHT PIANOFORTE
Mediaeval Model, by the great maker, C. Bechstein
VALUABLE SPORTING GUNS
MAGNIFICENT DIAMOND JEWELLERY
and
RARE OBJECTS OF ART

TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION
AT THE GALLERY SALE ROOMS
on
TUESDAY, 15th DECEMBER, 1936
[the printed "TUESDAY, 15th" is struck through and "WEDNESDAY 16th" handwritten above]
at 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

JAMES R. LAWSON
Furniture, Fine Art & General Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET
(near corner of Bathurst Street)
Telephone M 6408

Greystanes - Greystanes Road - Prospect - 

To Be Sold Under the Instruction of Major Phillip Charley - Fine Glass & China - Antique Silver & Sheffield Plate - Rare Specimen China & Porcelin - valuable Upright Pianoforte - Valuable Sporting Guns - Magnificent Diamond Jewellery & Rare Objects of Art 

 Wednesday 16th December 1936

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday & Wednesday 30 & 31 May 1939)

[Label:] 237 [handwritten: Mr MAX LAWSON / PRIVATE]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Fine Old Furniture
Costly Household Appointments
Rare Old English China
and
Valuable Art Effects

AS CONTAINED IN
"Heath"
43 CROSS STREET, DOUBLE BAY

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION WITHOUT RESERVE
ON
Tuesday 30th and Wednesday 31st May, 1939
each day at 11 o'clock a.m.

Under instructions from
MRS. ALEXANDER SCOTT-MUIR

JAMES R. LAWSON
Fine Art Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET
(near corner of Bathurst Street)
Telephone M 6408

Heath - 43 Cross St - Double Bay - Catalogue - Fine Old Furniture - Costly Household Appointments - rare old English China & Valuable Art Effects

Tuesday 30th & Wednesday 31st May 1939

_________________________________________________________________

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Thursday 31 August 1911)

THURSDAY, 31ST AUGUST, 1911
AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK A.M.

HIGHLY IMPORTANT SALE BY AUCTION
AT
"HILL VIEW"
CHELTENHAM
(Close to Station), on the Main Northern Line, between Strathfield and Hornsby

By order of the Trustees Estate of the Late
H. M. GRAHAM, Esq.

THE WHOLE OF THE
VALUABLE FURNITURE
And HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS
Ronisch Pianoforte, &c., &c.

On View WEDNESDAY, 30th AUGUST, from 10 o'clock a.m. till 5 p.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneers.
128-130 Pitt St., near King St., SYDNEY
TELEPHONE 2056 CENTRAL.

WEBSDALE, SHOESMITH LTD., SYDNEY.

Hillview - Cheltenham - Close To Station on the Main Northern Line, between Strathfield And Hornsby - 

- Valuable Furniture & Household Appointments - Ronisch Pianoforte - 

Thursday 31st August 1911

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Transcription (Catalogue cover, Hopewood House (no date or auctioneer shown))

[faint handwriting at top right, illegible]

Hopewood House
Darling Point

Hopewood House - 13 - 15 Thornton Street - Darling Point 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 18 May 1920)

[Label:] 139 [handwritten: Mr J. R. Lawson's / Private Copy]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Household Furniture
Appointments and Effects

AT
"INVERNESS"
47 Church St., RANDWICK

The Property of and to be Sold by Auction
as instructed by
JOE LEMON, Esq.

ON
Tuesday, 18th May, 1920
At 10.30 o'clock a.m. prompt

JAMES R. LAWSON
AUCTIONEER
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Inverness - 47 Church Street - Randwick

Valuable Household Furniture - Appointments & Effects 

- Tuesday 18th May 1920 

 

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 25 November 1924)

[Label:] 267 [handwritten, two overlapping inscriptions partly hidden by the label: Private … R. Lawson; … R Lawson's Catalogue / Private]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
VALUABLE
Household Furniture
ARTISTIC APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS

AT
"INVERNESS"
47 CHURCH STREET, RANDWICK

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION ON
Tuesday, 25th November, 1924
At 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

As instructed by and for and on account of
MRS. JOHN SAMUEL
in consequence of the sale of the property and relinquishing housekeeping

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuers, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneers
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Inverness - 47 Church Street - Randwick

Catalogue Valuable Household Furniture - Artistic Appointments & Effects 

Tuesday 25th November 1924

 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 13 August 1931)

[Label:] 131 [handwritten: Page 62; M J Lawson]

CATALOGUE
OF
VALUABLE FURNITURE
Valuable Pictures
RARE CHINA and WORKS OF ART
Baby Grand Player Pianoforte
by
Hardman, New York
Electromophone Talking Machine
and
The Costly Appointments and Effects

AT
"KAMILAROI"
Darling Point Road - - - Darling Point

To be Sold by Auction on
THURSDAY, 13th AUGUST, 1931
at 11 o'clock a.m.

Under instructions from and as directed by
PERPETUAL TRUSTEE CO. LTD.
Administrators of the Estate of
The Late MRS. WILL MOSES

ON VIEW WEDNESDAY, 12th AUGUST, from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Fine Art, Furniture & General Auctioneers
236 Castlereagh Street, Sydney
Telephone M 6408

Kamilaroi - Darling Point Road - Darling Point

Catalogue - Valuable Furniture - Valuable Pictures - Rare China & Works Of Art - Baby Grand Player pianoforte - ElectromophoneTalking Machine & Costly Appointments & Effects

Thursday 13th August 1931

_______________________________________

______________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Tuesday 12 December 1905)

Tuesday, 12th December, 1905,
AT 11 O'CLOCK A.M.

Attractive Sale by Auction
. . AT . .
"Kenrich," No. 22 PARK ROAD, MOORE PARK
[the second letter of the name is partly covered by a stain]

.. UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM ..
BEN JONAS, Esq.,
In Consequence of Relinquishing Housekeeping.
THE WHOLE OF HIS
HANDSOME
Modern Furniture
AND HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS.
Valuable Holstein Pianoforte,
&c., &c., &c.

On View Monday, 11th December, from 10 o'clock a.m. to 5 o'clock p.m., and on Morning of Sale.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE,
Fine Art and General Auctioneers,
128-130 Pitt Street (near King Street), Sydney
Telephone 2056

Websdale, Shoesmith & Co., Printers, Sydney.

Kenrich - 22 Park Road - Moore Park 

- Handsome Modern Furniture - & Household Effects - Valuable Holstein Pinaoforte

Tuesday 12th December 1905

+________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 19 September 1922)

[handwritten: Mr J R Lawson's Catalogue / Private]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Antique and Modern
FURNITURE
COSTLY APPOINTMENTS AND HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS
ROYAL WORCESTER & WEDGWOOD CHINA DINNER and DESSERT SERVICES
VALUABLE OLD ENGRAVINGS WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS
GRANDFATHER CLOCK in Mahogany Case
FINE OLD MAHOGANY CHIPPENDALE WARDROBE
VALUABLE COLLARD & COLLARD PIANOFORTE, Upright Model, in beautiful order
CARVED HALL TABLE AND LARGE ARM CHAIRS
&c., &c.
And the whole of the GENERAL FURNITURE and DOMESTIC ACCESSORIES

Contained in the Residence
"KOOROOGAMA"
CORNER WENTWORTH RD. & LIVERPOOL RD., BURWOOD

To be Sold by Auction as instructed by and for and on account of
A. G. RALSTON, K.C.
(in consequence of having sold the property)

On
Tuesday, 19th September, 1922
At Eleven o'clock a.m. promptly

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney

Kooroogama - Corner Wentworth Road & Liverpool Rd - Burwood

Catalogue - Valuable Antique & modern Furniture - Costly Appointments & Household Effects - Royal Worcester & Wedgewood China Dinner & Dessert Services - Valuable Old Engravings, Waterclour Drawings - Grandfather Clock in Mahogony Case - Fine Old Mahogony Chippendale Wardrobe - Valuable Collard & Collard Pianoforte Upright Model - Carved Hall Table & Large Arm Chairs - & The whole of The General Furniture & Domestic Accessories

Tuesday 19th September 1922

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Wednesday & Thursday 17 & 18 November 1909)

[Label:] 67

CATALOGUE
Dispersal of
Mr. J. T. BROWN'S
Collections of
Valuable Paintings, Engravings and Miniatures
BUHL and ORMOLU and OLD OAK FURNITURE
RARE CHINA, OLD SILVER—ENGLISH and DUTCH
FINE BRONZES, RARE IVORY CARVINGS
Dinner and Tea Services and
OTHER TABLE APPOINTMENTS.
FULL-SIZED BILLIARD TABLE, by Thomas Alcock & Co.
35 H.P. CLEMENT TALBOT CAR
with specially built Limousine and Touring bodies, easily interchangeable, and all accessories.
&c., &c., &c.

To be Sold by Auction on
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY,
17th and 18th NOVEMBER, 1909,
each day at 11 o'clock a.m. prompt.
AT
"Langlee,"
Dickson Street, Waverley.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE,
Auctioneers,
128-130 PITT STREET, Near King St., SYDNEY.

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Langlee - Dickson Street - Waverley - Catalogue - Valuable Paintings engravings & Miniatures - Buhl & Ormolu & Old Oak Furniture - Rare China - Old Silver - English & Dutch Fine Bronzes - Rare Ivory Carvings - Dinner & Tea Services & Other Table Appointments - Full Size Billiard Table by Thomas Alcock & Co - HP Clement Talbot Car with Speciallly Built Limosuine And Touring Bodies

Wednesday 17th & Thursday 18th November 1909 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Wednesday & Thursday 20 & 21 January 1943)

[Label:] 216 [handwritten: … Lawson / Private]

CATALOGUE
OF
The Rare Works of Art
GLASS CHINA ELECTROPLATE
HALL-MARKED SILVER
EXQUISITE ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL PORCELAINS
RARE ENGLISH AND LIMOGES ENAMELS
FINE MINIATURES ON IVORY
A COLLECTION OF VALUABLE PICTURES
RARE ORIENTAL ART EFFECTS
and
THE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS

contained throughout the residence
"LAURISTON"
45 THE BOULEVARDE - - STRATHFIELD

TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION ON
Wednesday & Thursday, 20th & 21st January, 1943
each day at 11 o'clock

Under instructions from
The Executors of the Estate of the
Late MISS A. A. VICKERY

On View: TUESDAY, 19th JANUARY, from 10 a.m. till 4.30 p.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Licensed Fine Art and Furniture Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET
TELEPHONE: M 6408.

Lauriston - 425 The Boulevard - Strathfield - Catalogue - The Rare Works Of Art - Glass - China - Electroplate - Hall Marked Silver - Exquisite English & continental Porcelain - Rare English & Limoges Enamels - Fine Miniatures Of Ivory - Collection Of Valuable Pitctures - Rare Oriental Art Effects - & The Household furniture Appointments & Effects

Wednesday 20th & Thursday 21st January 1943

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 6 July 1920)

[Label:] 196 [handwritten: Mr J R Lawson / Private Copy]

CATALOGUE
OF VALUABLE
Household Furniture
APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS
Including
GLASS, CHINA, ELECTROPLATE, STERLING SILVER, VALUABLE PICTURES
AXMINSTER CARPETS AND RUNNERS
FULL-SIZE BILLIARD TABLE
Duchess Model, made by Alcock & Co., with all accessories, in capital order
AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD PROPERTIES

In the Estate of the late MRS. MARK MITCHELL

AND TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION ON
Tuesday, 6th July, 1920
At 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

AT THE RESIDENCE
"LEITELINNA"
FAIRLIGHT STREET = MANLY
(A few minutes' walk from the Manly Ferry Wharf)

JAMES R. LAWSON
AUCTIONEER
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Leitelinna - Fairlight Street - Manly 

_________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 12 May 1931)

[Label:] 84 [handwritten signature, illegible]

CATALOGUE
"LEITH LINKS"
No. 1 ITHACA ROAD, ELIZABETH BAY

The Artistic Furniture
Costly Appointments and Effects

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION ON
TUESDAY, 12th MAY, 1931
At 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

Under instructions from and for and on account of
Mrs. Vera Chaseling
in consequence of relinquishing housekeeping

View Day—Monday, 11th May, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Furniture, Fine Art & General Auctioneers
236 Castlereagh Street, Sydney
Telephone M 6408

Leith links - 1 Ithaca Road - Elizabeth Bay 

Catalogue - The Artistic Furniture & Costly Appointments & Effects 

Tuesday 12th May 1931

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson (no date shown))

[Library label:] stack 700.294 LIN

CATALOGUE
"Linton"
Yass . . . N.S.W.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Licensed Fine Art, Furniture and General Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY

Linton - Yass - NSW

________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 5 December 1922)

[Label:] 279 [handwritten: J R Lawson / Private]

CATALOGUE
OF
Valuable Furniture
AND EFFECTS
COSTLY HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS
CHINA PICTURES RARE ETCHINGS AND WORKS OF ART
SUPERB BECHSTEIN PIANOFORTE
FINE OLD GRANDFATHER CLOCK
&c., &c.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION AS INSTRUCTED BY THE OWNER
(A well-known Collector of Pictures and Works of Art)

At the Residence
"LYPIATT"
No. 22 WOLSELEY ROAD, POINT PIPER
(Woollahra Point)

On
Tuesday, 5th December, 1922
At 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

[pointing hand] On View MONDAY, 4th DECEMBER, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Children will not be admitted

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney

Lypiatt - 22 Wolseley Road - Point Piper

catalogue - Valuable Furniture & Effects - Costly Household Appointments - China - Pictures - Rare Etchings & Works Of Art - Super Bechstein Pianoforte - Fine Old Grandfather Clock

Tuesday 5th December 1922

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover (no date or auctioneer shown))

[Library label:] stack 700.294 MAH

CATALOGUE
"MAHRATTA"
LANE COVE ROAD
WARRAWEE

Mahrata - Lane Cove Road - Warrawee

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Tuesday 8 July 1913)

TUESDAY, 8th JULY, 1913

Important Sale by Auction
Under instructions from
M. BARRINGTON, Esq.

THE
Artistic Modern Furniture
And COSTLY APPOINTMENTS
SUPERB BROADWOOD PIANOFORTE
And General Household Effects

CONTAINED IN HIS RESIDENCE
"MENDARIBBA"
MONA ROAD, - DARLING POINT

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
Fine Art, Furniture and General Auctioneers
128-130 Pitt St. (near King St.), SYDNEY
Telephone 7456 City.

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Sydney

Mendaribba - Mona Road - Darling Point

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Tuesday 10 March 1914)

TUESDAY, 10th MARCH, 1914

Important Auction Sale
Under instructions from
P. A. RABETT, Esq.

THE
Highly . . Superior .
Furniture
AND
THE APPOINTMENTS AND REQUISITES

OF HIS RESIDENCE
"MEON STOKE"
FULLERTON STREET, WOOLLAHRA
(Off Ocean Street)

On View MONDAY, 9th MARCH, from 10 o'clock a.m. to 5 p.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneers
128-130 PITT ST., near King St., SYDNEY
Telephone 7456 City.

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Sydney.

Meon Stoke - Fullerton Strett - Woolahra

Tuesday 10th March 1914

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover (no date or auctioneer shown))

[Library label:] stack 700.294 MER

Catalogue

[Illustration caption:]
"The Broken Fence," oil, by Elioth Gruner.
Dated 1915. 20in. x 16½in.
Lot No. 409. [handwritten: 350 g[illegible]]

"Merioola"
Rosemont Avenue - - - Woollahra

[handwritten at foot: Lot 679 Oil Painting [illegible] Ferry]

Merioola - Rosemont Avenue - Woolahra

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson and Reg. Robberds & Co., Thursday 13 October 1927)

[Label:] 77 [handwritten: M J Lawson]

CATALOGUE
of
The Artistic Furniture
Household Appointments and Costly Effects
Crystal Cut Glass Fine China and Electroplate Exquisite Statuary
Rare Chinese and Indian Brass Valuable Pictures
Jacobean Lounge and Dining Room Appointments
EDISON DIAMOND DISC PHONOGRAPH
(Italian Umbrian Model in Walnut Cabinet)
EXHIBITION SILVER SYCAMORE BEDROOM FURNITURE
and
THE WHOLE OF THE HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES

Contained in the Residence
"MILROY"
84 BERESFORD ROAD, ROSE BAY

To be Sold by Auction on
Thursday, 13th October, 1927
At 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

Under instructions from and for and on account of
G. W. CARR, Esq.
in consequence of having sold the property

JAMES R. LAWSON
236 Castlereagh St. and 241 Elizabeth St.
and
REG. ROBBERDS & CO.
160 Castlereagh Street
Auctioneers in conjunction

Websdale, Shoesmith Limited, Printers, Sydney.

Milroy - 84 Beresford Road - Rosebay

Catalogue - The Artistic Furniture - Household Appointments & costly Effects - Crystal Cut Glass - Fine China & Electroplate - Exquisite Stuatuary - Rare Chinese & Indian Brass - Jacobean Lounge & Dining Room Appointments - Valuable Pictures - Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph - Exhibition Silver Sycamore Bedroom Furniture & The whole of The Household Requisites  

Thursday 13th October 1927

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover (no date or auctioneer shown))

[Label:] 203 [handwritten: MAXWELL J. LAWS[ON] (edge cut off) / PRIVATE]

Minimbah
Whittingham - - Singleton
N.S.W.

Minimbah - Whiuttingham - Singleton 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little (no date shown))

"MORNINGTON LODGE"
PENKIVIL STREET
BONDI

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneers
128-130 PITT STREET (NEAR KING STREET), SYDNEY

Websdale Shoesmith Ltd.

Mornington Lodge - Penkivil Street - Bondi 

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Wednesday 29 September 1909)

[handwritten: From H. J. Norton (reading uncertain)]

IMPORTANT SALE
By AUCTION
ON
Wednesday, September 29, 1909,
AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK A.M.

Under Instructions from
Mr. JOHN MURRAY,

THE
Furniture and Appointments
First Quality English Electroplate,
Fine China and Table Glass,
Valuable Broadwood Pianoforte,
Axminster and Brussels Carpets, and
General Household Requisites,

At the Residence
"MORVEN," GORE HILL,
Close to Gore Hill Town Hall.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE,
Fine Art, Furniture and General Auctioneers,
128-130 PITT STREET,
Near King Street, SYDNEY
Telephone 2056.

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Morven - Gore Hill - Close to Gore Hill Town Hall

Furniture & Appointments - First Quality Electroplate, Fine China & Table Glass, Valuable Broadwood Pianoforte - Axminster & Brussels Carpets & General Household Requisites. 

Wednesday September 29th 1909 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 2 May 1916)

[Label:] 149 [handwritten: … Lawson]

Highly Attr[covered by label]le by Auction
ON
TUESDAY, 2nd MAY, 1916
AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK A.M.

Under instructions from PHILLIP HART, Esq.,
in consequence of the Sale of the Property

THE WHOLE OF HIS
VALUABLE FURNITURE
AND EFFECTS
Royal Axminster Carpets, Sterling Silver, Glass, China & Electroplate
SUPERB RONISCH PIANOFORTE
&c., &c.

AT HIS RESIDENCE
"MOUNT VIEW"
GROSVENOR ROAD, WAHROONGA
(North Shore Railway Line)

[pointing hand] THE MAGNIFICENT RESIDENCE will be offered at auction prior to the Sale of the Furniture

JAMES R. LAWSON,
Fine Art, Furniture & General Auctioneer,
196 & 198 Castlereagh Street
(Near Park Street) Telephone 7456 City

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Mount View - grosvenor Road - Wahroonga

Tuesday 2nd May 1916

________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 28 September 1933)

[Label:] 18 [handwritten: Max Lawson / Private]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture & Effects
COSTLY CURTAINS AND DRAPES
FINEST QUALITY ENGLISH AXMINSTER AND WILTON PILE CARPETS AND RUNNERS
MAGNIFICENT KIRMAN SILK HAND-WOVEN RUGS
CUT GLASS FINE CHINA
VALUABLE PICTURES
RONISCH CLAVIOLA PLAYER PIANOFORTE
FULL-SIZE BILLIARD TABLE AND ACCESSORIES
by Thurston & Sons
LUXURIOUS LOUNGE AND SMOKE ROOM CHESTERFIELDS AND SETTEES
and
THE WHOLE OF THE VALUABLE FURNITURE
HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS

CONTAINED IN THE RESIDENCE
"MURRULLA"
MARTIN ROAD - - CENTENNIAL PARK

TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION ON
Thursday, 28th September, 1933
at 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

Under instructions from and for and on account of
MRS. J. L. ARTHUR
in consequence of having leased the property

On View Wednesday, 27th September, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
CHILDREN WILL NOT BE ADMITTED

JAMES R. LAWSON
Furniture, Fine Art and General Auctioneers
236 Castlereagh Street, Sydney
(near corner of Bathurst Street)

Murrulla - Martin zRoad - Centennial Park 

Catalogue - Valuable Furniture & Effects - Costly Curtains & Drapes - Finest Quality Axminster & Wilton Pile Carpets & Runners - Magnificent Kirman Silk Hand Woven Rugs - Cut Glass - Fine China - Valuable Pictures - Ronisch Claviola Player Pianoforte - Full Size Billiard Table & Accessories - Luxurious Lounge & Smoke Room Chesterfields & Settees 7 the Whole of The Valuable furniture - Household Appointments & Effects 

Thursday 28th September 1933

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson (no date shown))

[Label:] 283 [handwritten: Mr M J Lawson]

Catalogue
"MURTLE"
46 FITZWILLIAM ROAD
VAUCLUSE

JAMES R. LAWSON
FINE ART, FURNITURE AND GENERAL AUCTIONEERS,
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY.

Murtle - 46 Fitzwilliam Road - Vauclue

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little (no date shown))

[Label:] 154 [handwritten: Mr Lawson]

UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM
MR. A. JEROME
NITCHEVO
WUNULLA ROAD
WOOLLAHRA POINT

MESSRS. JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
AUCTIONEERS
128-130 PITT STREET (NEAR KING STREET), SYDNEY

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Sydney.

Nitchevo - Wunulla Road - Woolahra Point

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once upon A Time - 115a Kurraba Road, Nuetral Bay 

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2 onslow House - Onslow Court - Elizabeth Bay 

Antique & Period Furniture - Rare Art Effects - Costly Household Appointments Contained Throughout the residence

Wednesday 28th February & Thursday 1st March 1962

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, Jas. R. Lawson & Little, Tuesday 14 August 1906)

TUESDAY, 14th AUGUST, 1906.
AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK A.M.

IMPORTANT
SALE BY AUCTION
AT
ORUBA
Corner of PAUL and DALLEY STREETS, WAVERLEY
(Behind the Waverley Council Chambers.)

UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM
W. T. BALL, Esq.,
Artistic Modern Furniture
And Household Appointments.
Superb Wehage Pianoforte. Royal Piano Player, &c.

[pointing hand] On View MONDAY, 13th AUGUST, from 10 o'clock a.m., to 5 o'clock p.m.

JAS. R. LAWSON & LITTLE,
FINE ART & GENERAL AUCTIONEERS,
128-130 PITT STREET,
Near KING STREET.
Telephone 2056.

F. Cunninghame & Co., Printers, Sydney.

Oruba - Cnr Of Paul And Dalley St - Waverley 

Tuesday 14th August 1906

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Wednesday & Thursday 20 & 21 October 1920)

[Label:] 197 [handwritten: Sale 716 (reading uncertain) / Mr J R Lawson's Private Sales Catalogue]

CATALOGUE
"ORWELL"
Orwell Street, off Macleay Street, Potts Point

AUCTION SALE OF
The Valuable Furniture
AND APPOINTMENTS

Wednesday & Thursday, 20th & 21st Oct., 1920
At 11 o'clock a.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON
AUCTIONEER
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Orwell - Cnr Orwell St & Macleay St - Potts Point

Wednesday 20th & Thursday 21st October 1920 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Wednesday 9 August 1922)

[Label:] 57 [handwritten: Mr J R Lawson]

CATALOGUE
Important Auction Sale
As instructed by and for and on account of
R. BROMLEY, Esq.
in consequence of the Sale of the Property

To be held at his Residence
"ST. OSYTH"
No. 3 PRINCE ALBERT STREET, MOSMAN
(Near Taronga Park)

Wednesday, 9th August, 1922
At Eleven o'clock a.m. prompt

Valuable Furniture
COSTLY APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS
Bronzes Marble Statuary Pictures
SUPERB BOUDOIR GRAND PIANOFORTE, in Burr Walnut Case
By H. WOLFFRAMM (Exhibition Gold Medal)
Hand-woven Mirzapore Carpets and General Household Requisites

[pointing hand] On View TUESDAY, 8th AUGUST, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Children will not be admitted.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney

St Osyth - 3 Prince Albert Street - Mosman

Catalogue - Valuable Furniture - Costly  Appointments & Effects - Bronzes - Marble Statuary - pictures

Wednesday 9th August 1922

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday & Friday 9 & 10 February 1922)

[Label:] 192 [handwritten, two overlapping inscriptions: Mr Lawson's Catalogue Private …; Mr J R Lawson / Private Copy]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture
APPOINTMENTS
AND HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS

AT
"PORTHAMEL"
EASTBOURNE AVENUE - DARLING POINT

To be Sold by Auction as instructed by and for and on account of
MRS. EDWARD NOYES

ON
Thursday & Friday, 9th & 10th February, 1922
Commencing each day at 11 o'clock a.m. precisely

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

porthamel - Eastbourne Avenue - Darling Point

Catalogue - Valuable furniture Appointments & Effects

thursday 9th & Friday 10th Febrary 1922

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson and Little, Tuesday & Wednesday 19 & 20 January [1909])

[handwritten: 1909]

Catalogue
Of the Valuable . .
FURNITURE
and Appointments

AT
"Quambi," Albert Street, Woollahra,
To be sold by
AUCTION on
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY,
19th and 20th January,
Commencing each Day at 11 o'clock a.m.

UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM . . .
The Right Honorable
Sir Frederick Darley, P.C., G.C.M.G.
CHIEF JUSTICE,
In consequence of his departure for Europe.

James R. Lawson and Little,
Fine Art and Furniture Auctioneers,
128-130 Pitt Street, near King St. Telephone 2056.

Websdale, Shoesmith Limited, Printers, Sydney.

Quambi - Albert Street - Woolahra

Tuesday 19th & Wednesday 20th january 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Tuesday & Wednesday 21 & 22 September 1915)

[handwritten: Mr Lawson's Catalogue / Private]

CATALOGUE
IMPORTANT AUCTION SALE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture & Effects

AT
"QUIRAING"
TRELAWNEY STREET, - WOOLLAHRA
(The Mansion Residence of the Late Mrs. JOHN FRAZER)

TO BE HELD ON
Tuesday & Wednesday, 21st & 22nd SEPT., 1915
AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK A.M.

Under instructions from the Attorney of DR. EWAN FRAZER

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
AUCTIONEERS
196-198 CASTLEREAGH ST., SYDNEY

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Quiraing - Trelawney Street - Woolahra

Tuesday 21st & Wednesday 22nd September 1915

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Friday 7 October 1921)

[Label:] 56 [handwritten: J R Lawson / Private]

CATALOGUE
OF
Valuable Furniture
AND EFFECTS
Costly Household Appointments Very Beautiful Carpets
Rare Bronzes and Brasses
Cantonese Carved Tables and Chairs
Sheraton (Reproduction) Suites
BECHSTEIN SMALL BOUDOIR GRAND PIANOFORTE
&c., &c.
PAIGE TOURING MOTOR CAR
The property of and to be sold by auction under instructions from
MRS. E. BLOOM

At her Residence
"RAINWORTH"
VICTORIA ROAD - BELLEVUE HILL
(Opposite "Kambala")

On
Friday, 7th October, 1921
At 10.30 o'clock a.m. prompt

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney

Rainworth - Victoria Road - Bellevue Hill

Friday 7th October 1921

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 14 June 1917)

[handwritten: Mr J R Lawson's Catalogue / Private; also "At Sale" (reading uncertain)]

CATALOGUE
OF THE …
Valuable Furniture
and Costly Appointments

AT
RANCLIFF
Ocean Street, Woollahra

To be Sold by Auction
as directed by
Mr. THEO. MARKS

On
Thursday, 14th June, 1917
at 11 o'clock a.m. precisely

JAMES R. LAWSON
AUCTIONEER
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(NEAR CORNER OF PARK STREET)
SYDNEY
TELEPHONE CITY 7456

[Websdale,] Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney

Rancliff - Ocean street - woolahra

Thursday 14th June 1917

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 30 November 1926)

[Label:] 143 [handwritten: Corrected Catalogue; M J Lawson's / Private]

CATALOGUE
Artistic [partly covered by label]
Modern Furniture
HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS
VALUABLE AXMINSTER CARPETS
"BRAMBACH" UPRIGHT GRAND PIANOFORTE
CHOICE WATER COLOUR DRAWINGS
MODERN BEDROOM APPOINTMENTS
and
THE WHOLE OF THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES
contained in the Residence
"Rathven"
61 ST. MARK'S ROAD - RANDWICK

To be Sold by Auction under instructions for and on account of
A. M. Loewenthal, Esq.
in consequence of having sold the Residence to the Trustees of the Sydney Grammar School and his departure for Europe.

On
Tuesday, 30th November, 1926
At 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

VIEW DAY: Monday, 29th November, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Children will not be admitted at any time

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuers, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(opposite Headquarters Fire Stn.) Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Limited, Printers, Sydney.

Rathven - 61 St Marks Road - Randwick 

Tuesday 30th November 1926

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson Pty. Ltd., Wednesday 15 August 1951)

CATALOGUE
of the
French, Italian and English Furniture
Rare Works of Art
Costly Carpets, Curtains, and Drapes
Valuable Pictures
Boudoir Grand Pianoforte
by Rich Lipp and Sons
and
General Household Appointments
contained throughout the Residence,
"Rippon Grange," 35 Water Street, Wahroonga
TO BE SOLD ON THE PREMISES
on
WEDNESDAY, 15th AUGUST, 1951
at 11 o'clock a.m.

Under instructions from E. R. WILLIAMS, ESQ.
in consequence of the gift of the property to the State Government

JAMES R. LAWSON PTY. LTD.
Licensed Fine Art and Furniture Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY
Telephone: M 6408

CATALOGUE - - - PRICE 2/-
To augment the funds of the N.S.W. Deaf, Dumb and Blind Children's School at Wahroonga.

Rippon Grange - 35 Water Street - Wahroonga 

Catalogue - Of The French, Italian & English Furniuture - Rare Works Of Art - Costly Carpets, curtains & Drapes - Valuable Pictures - Boudior Grand Pianoforte & General Household Appointments

Wednesday 15th August 1951

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 24 March 1938)

[Label:] 119 [handwritten: Office; Private / M J L]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Artistic Modern Furniture
VALUABLE CARPETS AND RUGS
RARE GLASS AND CHINA
FINE OLD GEORGIAN SILVER
SHEFFIELD AND ENGLISH ELECTROPLATE
EXQUISITE WORCESTER AND SWANSEA TEA SERVICES
EXHIBITION DINING ROOM, LOUNGE AND BEDROOM SUITES
and
THE WHOLE OF THE HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS

CONTAINED IN THE RESIDENCE
"ROWALLAN"
DALLEY STREET [printed "STREET" struck out, "AVENUE" written in by hand] - VAUCLUSE

TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION ON
Thursday, 24th March, 1938
at 11 a.m.

Under instructions from and for and on account of
M. C. CORBETT, Esq.
in consequence of having sold the property

View Day: WEDNESDAY, 23rd MARCH
from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

CHILDREN WILL NOT BE ADMITTED

JAMES R. LAWSON
Furniture, Fine Art and General Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET
(near corner of Bathurst Street)
Telephone M 6408

Rowallan - Dalley Avenue - Vaucluse

Thursday 24th March 1938 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Wednesday 22 May 1912)

[Label:] 321

CATALOGUE

RUPERRA
DARLING POINT ROAD
DARLING POINT

AUCTION SALE
Wednesday, 22nd May, 1912

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
Auctioneers
128-130 Pitt Street, SYDNEY

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Ruperra - Dalring Point Road - Darling Point 

Wednesday 22nd May 1912

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 15 May 1919)

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture
And COSTLY APPOINTMENTS
Table Glass, China and Electroplate Royal Axminster Carpets
SUPERB MELVILLE CLARK COMBINATION PIANO-PLAYER and RECORDS
And the Artistic Effects throughout the Residence

"SAN REMO"
PENKIVIL STREET - - BONDI

To be sold by auction as directed by
MRS. P. A. KENNEDY
(in consequence of her early departure for Europe)

ON
THURSDAY, 15th MAY, 1919
At Eleven o'clock a.m. precisely

On View Wednesday, 14th May, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Children will not be admitted.

JAMES R. LAWSON,
Auctioneer,
196 & 198 Castlereagh St.
(Near corner of Park Street), SYDNEY
Telephone: City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

San Remo - Penkivil Street - Bondi

Thursday 15th May 1919 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Wednesday 25 June 1913)

[Label:] 121 [handwritten, pencil: "Ma[illegible]" (top, partly covered by label); "For Mrs Frazer" (left); "Approximate Values" (right)]

[covered by label]ON OF
MRS. JOHN FRAZER

SILVA-PLANA
SPRINGWOOD - BLUE MOUNTAINS

AUCTION SALE
WEDNESDAY, 25TH JUNE, 1913
At Eleven o'clock a.m.

Valuable Furniture and Effects
Pictures, Glass, China, &c., &c. Vehicles, Cows, Sundry Lots

MESSRS. JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
AUCTIONEERS
128-130 PITT STREET (NEAR KING STREET), SYDNEY

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Sydney.

Silva Plana - Springwood - Blue Mountains

Valuable Furniture & Effects 

Wednesday 25th June 1913

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday & Wednesday 5-6 July 1921)

[Library label:] stack 700.294 SPR

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture
AND COSTLY APPOINTMENTS
AND
Collection of Art Treasures

AT
"SPRINGFORT"
REDMYRE ROAD - STRATHFIELD
The Residence of the late
ARTHUR ROYCE LYSAGHT, Esq.

To be Sold by Auction as instructed by and for and on account of
MRS. B. LYSAGHT

on
Tuesday & Wednesday, 5th & 6th July, 1921
Each day at Eleven o'clock a.m. prompt.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
[Telephone:] City 7456 [partly covered by the library label]

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Springfort - Redmyre Road - Strathfield

Tuesday 5th & Wednesday 6th July 1921

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson (undated))

[handwritten: "Sale JRL Corrected Catg" (partly covered by a white patch); "Mr J. R. Lawson / Private"]

CATALOGUE

THE RESIDENCE OF
CHARLES E. WATERS, Esq.

"ST. MERVYNS"
NEW SOUTH HEAD ROAD
DOUBLE BAY
(NEARLY OPPOSITE CRANBROOK SCHOOL)

JAMES R. LAWSON
AUCTIONEER
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST., SYDNEY

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

St Mervyns - New South head Road - Double Bay 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little (undated))

UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM
E. A. SHEIL, ESQ.

ST. ALBANS
ALLISON ROAD
RANDWICK

MESSRS. JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
AUCTIONEERS
128-130 PITT STREET (NEAR KING STREET)
SYDNEY

WEBSDALE, SHOESMITH LTD., SYDNEY.

St Albans - Alison Road - randwick 

_________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday & Wednesday 2-3 March 1920)

CATALOGUE
The Valuable Furniture & Effects
IMPORTANT PICTURES RARE IVORY MINIATURES
STERLING SILVER SHEFFIELD AND ELECTROPLATE
OLD BRONZES CRYSTAL-CUT GLASS
FINE CHINA & PORCELAIN COSTLY CARPETS & HANGINGS
Works of Art and Antiques

And the GENERAL APPOINTMENTS of
"STRATHADEN"
4 Elizabeth Bay Road - ELIZABETH BAY

To be Sold by Auction on
Tuesday & Wednesday, 2nd & 3rd March, 1920
Commencing each day at 11 a.m. prompt

As instructed by
LAURENCE E. MOSS, ESQ.
in consequence of his early departure for Europe

JAMES R. LAWSON
General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH STREET
(Near Corner of Park Street), SYDNEY
Tel. City 7456

Strathaden - 4 Elizabeth Bay Road - Elizabeth bay 

The Valuable Furniture & Effects

Tuesday 2nd & Wednesday 3rd March 1920

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Thursday 26 November 1914)

CATALOGUE
OF THE VALUABLE
Modern Furniture
And COSTLY HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS
Old Silver, Electroplate, Glass and Fine China, Royal Axminster Carpets, Exquisite Doulton Ornaments,
SUPERB RONISCH PIANOFORTE
&c., &c., &c.

Contained in the Residence of
R. W. GIBBS, Esq.

"STRATHROY"
CABARITA ROAD, CABARITA

To be Sold by Public Auction, Without Reserve, on
THURSDAY, 26th NOVEMBER, 1914
At Eleven o'clock a.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
Fine Art, Furniture and General Auctioneers
196-198 Castlereagh St. (near Park St.),
SYDNEY

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Strathroy  Cabarita Road - Cabarita

Thursday 26th november 1914

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Friday 20 December 1918)

CATALOGUE

"SUNNYSIDE"
Allison Road, RANDWICK

AUCTION SALE
Friday, 20th December, 1918
At Eleven o'clock a.m. prompt

VIEW DAY—Thursday, 19th December
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON,
Auctioneer

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Sunnyside - alison Road - Randwick 

Catalogue

Friday 20th December 1918

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 26 November 1925)

[Label:] 183 [handwritten: "Mr J R Lawson's / [partly covered by label]ate Catalogue"]

CATALOGU[E – partly covered by label]
Valuable Furniture
APPOINTMENTS AND HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS
RONISCH BABY GRAND PIANOFORTE
IN ITALIAN BURR WALNUT CASE
AXMINSTER CARPETS
And the whole of the GENERAL DOMESTIC ACCESSORIES

AT
"STRUAN LODGE"
BILLYARD AVENUE, ELIZABETH BAY

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION ON
Thursday, 26th November, 1925
At 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

As instructed by and for and on account of
D. J. O'BRIEN ESQ.
in consequence of having sold the property and his projected departure for Europe

On View WEDNESDAY, 25th NOV., from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Children will not be admitted at any time

JAMES R. LAWSON
Fine Art, Furniture and General Auctioneers
No. 236 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY
(Near corner of Bathurst Street, opp. Headquarters Fire Station)
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Straun lodge  -  Bilyard Avenue - elizabeth bay

Thursday 26th November 1925

 

___________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 31 October 1922)

[Label:] 60 [handwritten: J. R. Lawson]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
VALUABLE MODERN FURNITURE
COSTLY APPOINTMENTS & HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS
TABLE SILVER AND ENGLISH CUT GLASS
ITALIAN MARBLE STATUARY PICTURES AND OBJECTS OF ART
RARE HAND-WOVEN CHINESE AND HARIBAL CARPETS
WEBER PIANO PLAYER
(88-note, in Rich Walnut Case)
AND THE GENERAL FURNITURE AND EFFECTS THROUGHOUT THE RESIDENCE

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION ON
Tuesday, 31st October, 1922
At Eleven o'clock a.m. prompt

At the Residence
"TASMA"
No. 312 BONDI ROAD - BONDI

AS INSTRUCTED BY AND FOR AND ON ACCOUNT OF
GEORGE BARNETT, Esq.

On View MONDAY, 30th OCTOBER, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney

Tasma - 312 Bondi Road - bondi 

Tuesday 31st October 1922

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 17 October 1922)

[Label:] 226 [handwritten, faint pencil (top left): "Leslie Bown" (uncertain); ink (right): "Mr J. R. Lawson / Private"]

CATALOGUE
OF
Valuable Furniture
AND EFFECTS
WORKS OF ART
BRONZES OLD ENGLISH CUT GLASS
RARE ETCHINGS by Norman Lindsay ORIGINAL WATER-COLOURS by J. J. Hilder
ORIGINAL DRAWING by George W. Lambert GALLERY OIL PAINTINGS
&c., &c.
SUPERB BROADWOOD PIANOFORTE
AND THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS

At the Residence
"TEMPLETON"
No. 9 WOLSELEY ROAD, POINT PIPER

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION ON
Tuesday, 17th October, 1922
At Eleven o'clock a.m. prompt

On View MONDAY, 16th OCTOBER, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney

Templeton - 9 Wolseley Road - Point Piper

Tuesday 17th October 1922

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Wednesday 25 June 1919)

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture
And COSTLY APPOINTMENTS
Table Crystal, China and Electroplate, Royal Axminster Carpets.
Superb Trayser Upright Pianoforte
(Practically new.)
Jacobean Dining Room, Library and Smoke Room Furniture. Collection of Rare old Chinese Manchurian and Javanese
Porcelain and Brasses
(Many Antique and Unique Examples.)
And the Artistic Effects throughout the Residence,
AT
"TORRINGTON,"
Darling Point Road, - - Darling Point

To be sold by auction as directed by
W. M. ETTY, Esq.,
(in consequence of his early departure for Europe)

ON
WEDNESDAY, 25th JUNE, 1919
At Eleven o'clock a.m. precisely

On View Tuesday, 24th June, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Children will not be admitted.

JAMES R. LAWSON,
Auctioneer,
196 & 198 Castlereagh St.
(Near corner of Park Street), SYDNEY
Telephone: City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Torrington - Darling Point Road - Darling Point

Wednesday 25th june 1919 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Wednesday 19 December 1906)

Catalogue
THE VALUABLE
Furniture and Appointments
—AT—
"TUSCULUM,"
The Residence of L. E. ISAACS, Esq.
Macleay Street, Potts Point.

Important Auction Sale
Wednesday, 19th December, 1906.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE,
Fine Art and General Auctioneers,
128 & 130 PITT ST. (Near King St.), SYDNEY. Telephone 2056.

WEBSDALE, SHOESMITH AND CO., Printers, Sydney.

tusculum - Manning Street - Potts Point

Wednesday 19th December 1906

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 9 October 1924)

[Label:] 130 [handwritten: "Mr J R Lawson's / [partly covered by label] Catalogue / Private"]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture
AND EFFECTS
CUT AND ENGRAVED TABLE GLASS
COSTLY CARPETS AND FLOOR RUGS
PICTURES AND WORKS OF ART
SUPERB BOUDOIR GRAND PIANOFORTE
(Steck-Gotha, in Walnut Case)
EIGHTY-EIGHT NOTE PLAYER PIANO
(Duo-Concerto Grand, Gulbransen)
SUPERIOR APPOINTMENTS AND ACCESSORIES

Contained in the Residence
"VARNA"
DALLEY AVENUE - VAUCLUSE

To be Sold by Auction under instructions from and for and on account of
MRS. NORTON-CULHANE
(in consequence of her departure for Europe)

Thursday, 9th October, 1924
At 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneers
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Varna - Dalley Avenue - Vaucluse 

Thursday 9th October 1924

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Tuesday 29 July 1913)

[Label:] 213 [handwritten: "Mr J R Lawson's / Catalogue / Private" (partly covered by label)]

CATALO[GUE – covered by label]
OF
The Artistic Furniture
Persian Carpets and Rugs, Plantaganet [sic] Armour,
Persian and Indian Armour and Arms,
Rare Eastern Hangings,
Ancient Lacquered Sacred Shrine, Rare Ornaments,
Divans [uncertain – print obscured by the cloth texture], Luxurious Chairs,
and the General Appointments.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION ON
TUESDAY, 29TH JULY, 1913
AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK A.M.

Under Instructions from
MRS. E. LE VITUS
(In consequence of her departure for America),
At her Residence
"VENICE"
FRENCHMAN'S ROAD - RANDWICK.

Also Match Pair English Hackneys, bred by Major Phillip Charley,
Brass Mounted English Harness, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Pig Skin Saddles (practically new),
Several Sets of Livery, &c., &c.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE.
General Auctioneers,
128-130 Pitt Street (near King St.), Sydney.

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Venice - Frenchmans Road - randwick

Tuesday 29th July 1913 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover (pasted label; auctioneer not named), 7 April 1914)

[Label:] 228 [handwritten: "Mr J R Lawson's Catalogue"; "Private" (left)]

[Pasted label:]
"VILLA ROSA"
MIDDLE HEAD ROAD
MOSMAN

AUCTION SALE, APRIL 7, 1914, at 11 a.m.

Villa Rosa - Middle Head Road - mosman

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Thursday 13 July 1922)

[Label:] 221 [handwritten: "Mr J R Lawson's / Catalogue / Private" (partly covered by label)]

CATALOGU[E – partly covered by label]
Valuable Furniture
AND EFFECTS
Sheraton Period Reproduction Suites
Victoria Axminster Carpets Hand-woven Rugs
Edison Re-creation Latest Disc Phonograph, in Chippendale Mahogany Cabinet
Fine Chesterfields and Easy Chairs
And the General Appointments and Accessories throughout the Residence

The Properties of and to be Sold by Auction as instructed by
CHARLES TODMAN, ESQ.

At his Residence
"VIRGINIA"
WOLSELEY ROAD - POINT PIPER

ON
Thursday, 13th July, 1922
At Eleven o'clock a.m. precisely

On View WEDNESDAY, 12th JULY, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Children will not be admitted.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Valuer, Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneer
196 & 198 CASTLEREAGH ST.
(Near corner of Park St.), Sydney
Telephone City 7456

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney

Virginia - Wolseley Road - Point Piper

Thursday 13th July 1922

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Tuesday 19 May 1914)

CATALOGUE

"WALMER"
WENTWORTH STREET, POINT PIPER
WOOLLAHRA

IMPORTANT AUCTION SALE
Under instructions from
A. R. G. SASSE, Esq.

Tuesday, 19th May, 1914
At Eleven o'clock a.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
AUCTIONEERS
196-198 Castlereagh Street
Near Park St., SYDNEY

Websdale, Shoesmith, Ltd., Sydney

Walmer  - Wentworth Street - Point Piper - Woolahra

Tuesday 19th May 1914

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday 21 May 1918)

[Label:] 76

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture
And Costly Appointments

AT
"WANDEEN"
John and McIntosh Streets, Gordon
Milson's Point Railway Line. (Quite close to Railway Station)

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION
as directed by
A. B. CAHILL, ESQ.

ON
Tuesday, 21st May, 1918
At Eleven o'clock a.m. precisely.

JAMES R. LAWSON,
Auctioneer,
196 & 198 Castlereagh St.
(Near corner of Park Street), SYDNEY
Telephone 7456 City

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Printers, Sydney.

Wandeen - John & Mcintosh Streets - gordon

Tuesday 21st May 1918 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little, Tuesday 18 March 1913)

[Label:] 111 [handwritten: M. Lawson]

TUESDAY, MARCH 18th, 1913
Important Sale by Auction
Under instructions from C. E. GRAHAM, Esq.

THE
VALUABLE FURNITURE
AND EFFECTS
Superb Bechstein Pianoforte
—and—
General Household Appointments

Contained in his Residence,
"WARWICK,"
BELMORE ROAD, - RANDWICK
(Quite close to Allison Road Tram Stop).

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE,
Fine Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneers,
128-130 PITT STREET, near King St., SYDNEY.

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Sydney

 Warwick - Belmore Road - Randwick 

Tuesday March 18th 1913

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday & Wednesday 22-23 June 1937)

[Label:] 171 [handwritten: "Mr Max Lawson / Private"]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Reproduction and Modern Furniture
AND
Artistic Appointments and Effects
CONTAINED THROUGHOUT THE RESIDENCE

"WASHTENAW"
8 KINGSLAND ROAD, STRATHFIELD

TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION
on
Tuesday and Wednesday, 22nd and 23rd June, 1937
Each day at 11 o'clock a.m.

Under instructions from and as directed by
PERPETUAL TRUSTEE CO. LTD.
Executor of the Will of
THE LATE F. A. B. PETERS

JAMES R. LAWSON
Furniture, Fine Art and General Auctioneers
236 CASTLEREAGH STREET
(near corner of Bathurst Street)
Telephone M 6408

Washtenaw - 8 Kingsland Rd - Strathfield

Tuesday 22nd & Wednesday 23rd June 1937 

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little and Walter Bradley & Co., Wednesday & Thursday 14-15 November 1906)

CATALOGUE.

THE COSTLY
Furniture and Appointments,
VEHICLES,
WELL BRED BAY HORSE,
JERSEY CATTLE,
&c., &c., &c.,
AT
"WEEMALA,"
Ryde, Parramatta River.
The Residence of the Hon. Henry Moses, M.L.C.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY,
14th & 15th NOVEMBER, 1906,
EACH DAY AT 11 O'CLOCK A.M.

JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE,
WALTER BRADLEY & CO.,
AUCTIONEERS IN CONJUNCTION.

Websdale, Shoesmith and Co., Printers, Sydney.

Weemala - Ryde - Parramatta River

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, W. A. Little & McIlveen, Tuesday 15 November 1927)

[Library label:] stack 700.294 WOO

CATALOGUE
of the
Old English Furniture
Japanese Art Treasures Household Appointments
Billiard Table Motor Cars

Contained in the Residence
"WOOLLAHRA HOUSE"
WOOLLAHRA POINT

[Photograph of the house]

To be Sold by Public Auction, at the Residence, on
Tuesday, November 15th, 1927
and succeeding days, commencing at 11 o'clock

Under instructions from the Executors in the Estate
THOMAS LONGWORTH, deceased

W. A. LITTLE & McILVEEN
Auctioneers and Valuers
165-167 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY
[Tele]phone MA 1227 [partly covered by the library label]

Woolahra House - Woolahra Point

Tuesday November 15th 1927

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson, Tuesday & Wednesday 24-25 July 1934)

[Label:] 81 [handwritten: M J L]

CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Furniture & Effects
VICTORIA AXMINSTER AND SUPER WILTON PILE CARPETS
TIEN TSIN HAND-WOVEN CARPETS AND RUGS
COSTLY CURTAINS AND DRAPES
THE GULBRANSEN BABY GRAND PIANOFORTE
DUO CONCERTO GULBRANSEN PLAYER PIANOFORTE
"SONORA" COMBINATION WIRELESS SET
VALUABLE CHINESE PORCELAIN
STATUARY MARBLE IMPORTANT PICTURES
"COPELAND" AND "ELECTROLUX" ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS
and the whole of the
HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS AND EFFECTS
as contained in and to be sold at the residence
"WILGA"
WYLDE STREET POTTS POINT

ON
Tuesday, 24th & Wednesday, 25th July, 1934
each day at 11 o'clock a.m. prompt

under instructions from and as directed by
MRS. H. STEWART DAWSON
owing to her departure for abroad

VIEW DAY—MONDAY, 23rd JULY, from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

JAMES R. LAWSON
Furniture, Fine Art & General Auctioneers
236 Castlereagh Street, Sydney
(near corner of Bathurst Street)
Telephone M 6408

Wilga - Wylde Street - Potts Point 

Tuesday 24th & Wednesday 25th July 1934

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover (no date or auctioneer shown))

[Label:] 82 [handwritten: M J Lawson]

CATALOGU[E – partly covered by label]
"WINBAH"
341 EDGECLIFF ROAD
EDGECLIFF

Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson & Little (undated))

[Label:] 251 [handwritten: "Mr J R Lawson's / Catalogue / Private" (partly covered by label)]

BY DIRECTION OF
MISS DUCKER

"WINBAH"
EDGECLIFF ROAD
WOOLLAHRA

MESSRS. JAMES R. LAWSON & LITTLE
128-130 PITT STREET (NEAR KING STREET),
SYDNEY
TELEPHONE 7456 CITY

Websdale, Shoesmith Ltd., Sydney.

Winbah - 341 Edgecliff Road - Edgecliff

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, James R. Lawson Pty. Ltd. (no date shown))

[handwritten: M. J. L. Private]

Catalogue
of the
MAGNIFICENT ART TREASURES
and
VALUABLE FURNISHINGS
contained throughout the residence
"WONGALA"
27 Boomerang Street, Turramurra

JAMES R. LAWSON PTY. LTD.
AUCTIONEERS

Wongala - 27 Boomerang Street - Turramurra

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover, Tuesday 13 August 1935 (auctioneer not named on the cover))

[Library label:] stack 700.294 WYL

CATALOGUE
OF
THE MAGNIFICENT ART TREASURES
AND
VALUABLE FURNISHINGS
AT

[Photograph of the house]

"WYLDEFEL"
POTTS POINT - - - SYDNEY

To be Sold by Auction
COMMENCING ON
TUESDAY, 13th AUGUST, 1935
at 11 a.m.

Wyldefel - Potts Point 

Tuesday 15th August 1935

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Transcription (Auction catalogue cover (no date or auctioneer shown))

[Library label:] stack 700.294 YAR

Catalogue
YARALLA
Concord

Yaralla - concord 

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