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Lot 2106 Session 8 (2:30pm Wednesday) Miscellaneous
Estimate $70
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AUSTRALIA, Passing Sydney Harbour Bridge match box holder, c1937, in cupro nickel with oval plastic covered section on one side containing coloured photo of a T.S.S. Awatea passenger ship passing Harbour Bridge; Harbour Bridge & Luna Park, Sydney, 11, cigarette case and matching cigarette lighter in copper, gilt and enamel, c1960s, with both featuring a coloured enamel scene of the Harbour Bridge on one side and kangaroos in the outback on the other side. Fine - very fine. (3)
TSS Awatea, 'the fastest ship in the antipodes', was an express ocean liner operating between Australia and New Zealand from 1937-1940 at which time she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for troop transport duties during WWII.
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