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19 European trade cards on aborigines of Australia and Tasmania. Confectioners include Toffees Trefin, Browne’s Tea, Senez-Sturbelle, Cavanders, Rich’s Kaffee, Ogden’s Cigarettes, Player’s Cigarettes, Max Hohlfeld, Lavazza, Chocolat Klaus, Liebig Extract, Chocolate Pi, Liqueur Sester.

Price: $400.00

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A collection of 59 different European chromo trade cards on Pacific Islands. All are described and/or advertised on back. B

Price: $990.00

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A collection of four photographic images of Samoa from UK cigarette maker Cavanders. The series was called Peeps Into Many Lands and issued in 1928. B

Price: $20.00

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Group of 29 color photos from someone attending an FLNKS local meeting in New Caledonia. Families are in attendance, presentation featuring picture of slain leader Eloi Machoro, banners of various labor union organizations, factory scene, etc. This picnic was held in the late 1980's. No descriptions. B

NOTE: The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (Front de libération nationale kanak et socialiste, FLNKS) is a pro-independence alliance of political parties in New Caledonia. It was founded in 1984 at a congress of various political parties. Its supporters are mostly from the Kanak indigenous population but also include supporters from other ethnic communities.

In April 1988, Alphonse Dianou and other FLNKS members attacked the gendarmerie on the island of Ouvéa, killing 4 and taking 27 as hostage, precipitating the Ouvéa cave hostage taking crisis. The French refused to negotiate and instead sent in the GIGN and other special forces, who rescued all hostages but lost two men and killed 19 hostage-takers. 3 were later alleged to have been captured alive but shot execution-style afterwards, while Dianou was allegedly beaten up and intentionally left to bleed to death from a shot wound to the knee.

Later the same year, the Matignon Agreements were signed by FLNKS leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou, with France agreeing to a series of institutional and economical provisions for the Kanaks, New Caledonians agreeing not to raise the issue of independence for 10 years, and both sides agreeing to an amnesty of the events in Ouvéa. This was viewed as traitorous by extremist elements in the FLNKS, who assassinated Tjibaou and his deputy Yeiwéné Yeiwéné on 4 May 1989.

Price: $200.00