pressed shamrock

Blue cardboard box containing a pressed shamrock and poem. Top of the box has a white paper label with green design around the border, with the words ‘Shamrock from Ireland / From J. B. Alexander, 1900 ‘ written in blue ink. Black postmark stamped in the right corner addressed to Miss Hickey, Iluka, Clarence River. […]

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Henry Steiner silver dressing table necessaire

silver dressing table necessaire surmounted with a kangaroo finial, incorporating a hinged gilt lined emu egg, with flanking cornucopia handle elements, perched on a tree fern stem rising from a base featuring Aboriginal figures and an emu, the central egg enclosing two ornamented perfume bottles made of beans from a Queensland tree […]

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Crown Bugalaa

sculptural head-dress/crown made with lomandra, lomandra seeds, wattle seeds, possum skins, local parrot feathers, banksia flower and echidna quills, with paper label on sting […]

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