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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Historical
• Sale Date:
  27 Nov 2021 ~ 11am (AEDT) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 680
  28 Nov 2021 ~ 11am (AEDT) - Session 2: Lots 681 - 1332
• Lot #:
  789
• Lot Description:
  AUGUSTINE E. DYER – BRITISH NEW GUINEA - Fifteen original albumen photographs
  taken during the Expedition of the Australian Squadron to south-east New Guinea, October - December 1884.
  (15) all approx. 23 x 29cm
• Provenance:
  Thomas H. Knott, fleet surgeon, H.M.S. Nelson; Melbourne. (Launched in 1876 and completed in 1881. She sailed for the Australia Station after commissioning and became the flagship there in 1885. Knott joined the Nelson in June 1881.
• Notes:
  Dyer was the Australian Government Printing Office photographer who went to British New Guinea with John Paine (a studio photographer), for the purpose of recording the British annexation of the territory. He travelled more extensively with Paine in 1884 through PNG visiting Port Moresby, Motu-Motu, Kerepunu, South Cape, Dinner Island and Teste Island. Other images taken by the photographers Dyer and Paine can be found in the book “Narrative of the Expedition of the Australian Squadron to the south-east coast of New Guinea, October to December 1884” by Commodore James E. Erskine. [Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885].
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 10,000
• Realised Price:
  $0.00
• Category:
  Memorabilia

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