shepherd’s crook

Wooden staff made from a sapling branch with forged metal hook screwed on one end. Timber has been hand trimmed / whittled. […]

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magic lantern

‘Exhibition’ lantern (projector) and set of 24 glass slides in a timber box. The slides have wooden frames, and illustrate nursery tales, riddles, ‘changing comics and views.’ There is a paper copy of ‘Whittington and His Cat’ in the box which is a numbered set of slides showing Whittington’s story.   Lantern: 28.5 cm (w) […]

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Nettleton postal seal

Metal postal seal inscribed with a crown and the words, NETTLETON, F.B., N.S.W. with wooden handle (remade from needlewood, Hakea) […]

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James Hardie 1000 perpetual trophy

Trophy with double pointed steel shape mounted on black painted wooden base of three tiers. Moulded medallions bearing the names of the James Hardie 1000 race winners between 1981 and 1987 on the upper tier, an EPNS plate with engraved lettering on the middle tier and medallions marking the annual ‘Hardie-Ferodo’ races, from 1970 to […]

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concertina

Two-row hexagonal concertina with dark brown wooden ends with fretwork, leather hand straps, ivory buttons with felt bushing, cardboard and leather bellows. […]

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