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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Historical
• Sale Date:
  28 Nov 2020 ~ 11am (AEDT) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 617
  29 Nov 2020 ~ 11am (AEDT) - Session 2: Lots 618 - 1216
• Lot #:
  1131
• Lot Description:
  WILLIAM H. OGILVIE (1869 – 1963): manuscript copy (in ink) of a tribute to Adam Lindsay Gordon
  titled “From ‘Hearts of Gold’ by Will H. Ogilvie” with five stanzas followed at base by the signature “Will H. Ogilvie”. Mounted & framed together with a photograph of Ogilvie in later life. Overall 57.5 x 29cm.
• Notes:
  Ogilvie was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover. He was part of the early 20th century trio of Australian bush poets, with Banjo Paterson (1864–1941) and Henry Lawson (1867–1922). His “Fair girls and gray horses” (1896) was considered second only to Banjo Paterson’s “Man from Snowy River” (1895). A reader ballot in 1914 saw him placed seventh among Australia’s twelve most favourite poets. Under the byline of ‘Universally acclaimed in Australia as a bush balladist of the “Outback”’, Ogilvie wrote over 860 poems, including “A Scotch night”, “The Australian” and “Summer Country”. Hand-written examples of his work are rarely seen.
• Estimate:
  A$900 - 1,200
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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