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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Functional object - Dance Program Board, 1900s
Used in Port Melbourne Town HallBoards identifying next dance, to be inserted in stand at .01. All boards are yellow background with black capital letters .02 "Tangoette"; .03 "Charmaine"; .04 Foxtrot ; .05 "Parma -Waltz"; .06 "Gypsy Tap"; .07 "Slow Foxtrot"; .08 "Barn Dance"; .09 "Twilight Waltz"; .10 "Evening -3-step" ; .11 "Pride of Erin"; .12 "Swing Waltz"; .13 "Monte Carlo"; .14 "Quick Step"; .15 "Modern Waltz" ; .16 "Carousel"; .17 "Merrilyn"; .18 "Tracy Lee"; .19 "Joyette"; .20 "Barkly Blues"; .21 "Melba Blues" arts and entertainment, social activities, port melbourne town hall -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Functional object - Tramcar component, Boselli Italy, Luminator Texas, Set of six destination indicator equipment that was fitted to Z, Z3 and B class trams, c1975 - 1990's?
Set of six destination indicator equipment that was fitted to Z, Z3 and B class trams. .1 - dot matrix type destination sign fitted to the side of a B class tram - set at Preston Depot - serial number 232636 - Luminator type, back cover loose, 180H x 1300W x 100D. See images 3704i1a to e. .2 - dot matrix type route number fitted to the front of a tram, type fitted to B2 class tram, set at 86D, serial number 273644 - Luminator type, marked "163 No", 240H x 350W x 135D. See images 3704i2a to d. .3 - flipper type, side destination type, marked "ex 53" (Z class tram), made in Italy by Boselli has yellow label 37/702S, serial number 40A1603, set to St Kilda Beach and stamped 136 on one flange. 120H x 330W x 165D. See images 3704i3a to c .4 - flipper type, destination box, with markings "B'Wick Flaps", with labels "New" "Universal A flaps" made in Italy by Boselli, serial number 40A6623, set to St Kilda Junc". 210H x 1000W x 1900. See images 3704i4a to d. .5 - flap from an above type box, half of "Richmond" and "South Melb Depot", 970W x 80H. See images 3704i5a to b .6 - controller box, marked "No. 105" on rear, serial number 202311 Luminator, numeric pad, illuminated display and five control buttons made by gulton Luminator division fitted to a B2 tram. See images 3704i6a to b .7 - dot matrix destination sign fitted to the front of a B2 class tram, set to "Not in Service", Serial number 502626 Luminator, 220H x 1300W x 165D, See images 3704i7a to e. Source of items 3 and 4 name based on drawings held by the Museum for the destination signs fitted to Z class trams. Refer to drawing R11-982 as an example. Luminator made by Luminator Technology Group Texas - see https://www.ltgglobal.com/ access 12/7/2019. Imagetrams, tramways, destination indicators, z3 class, transport equipment, z class, b class -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Tool - Bullet Mould, From 1600s to early 19th century
Musket balls are the ammunition used in muskets the weapons used during the English and American Civil Wars. The balls could be made from any metal alloy, but many were made from lead. Lead can be melted at reasonably low temperatures and so lead musket balls could be made over a camp fire. Lead could be readily sourced from such places like church roofs or even coffins, and recast from old musket balls, so it was an easy material to work with while preparing for battle. The soldier would carry a crucible in which to melt the lead, he would put the material into it and place it over the fire until it had formed into a liquid. Musket ball moulds like the subject item, had a small hole above one of the domes where the liquid could be poured into once the two domes were closed together. The soldier would wait until it cooled then opened the mould to reveal a solid lead ball inside. Because these were cast in halves even though pressed together, there would always be a small amount of liquid lead leakage which would form a thin crust around the ball. These needed to be filed off before being used inside a musket, so some soldiers would pop a few in their mouths and roll them around, chewing off the excess until the ball was smooth. The obvious downside to this method is that lead is poisonous. A tool used to make ammunition for black powder firearms either muskets or pistols from the early part of the 18th to mid 19th century. After this time enclosed brass cartridges that held the propellent powder and bullet were starting to come into wide spread use, negating the need for a firearm to first have black powder placed in a barrel then the ball rammed on top and finally the firearm primed with powder or a percussion cap.Musket rifle/ pistol bullet mold. Makes .50 -caliber- round balls with a sprew cutter to cut off excess lead.Marked 50flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, shot pliers, lead shot, shot, armoury, firearms, bullet, cast bullet, lead ball, lead shot, scissor mould -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Functional object - tape measure case
Tape measure cases were designed to house a tape measure to enable the measuring of distances, usually for a building project. This case would have been produced after 1877 when John Rabone and Sons were registered. This case probably had a cloth tape measure with inches marked on one side and sometimes they had poles marked on the other (1pole measured 198 inches, or 500cm). The tape was usually pulled out to measure and then wound back into the case Leather and brass circular case. No measuring tape inside. Stitched case.JOHN RABONE & SONS BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND. "Cemetary" scratched on back.tape measure, building, churchill island -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Functional object - Material sample, Siemens, brown vinyl material used in Original Z and Z3 tramcars, mid to late 1970's
Sample of brown vinyl material used in Original Z and Z3 tramcars with a large brass eyelet placed in the sample. Manufacturer unknown, used by MMTB at Preston Workshops. Has written on the rear in black pen "Original Z / Z3 Seat Fabric"Has written on the rear in black pen "Original Z / Z3 Seat Fabric"trams, tramways, preston workshops, z class, z3 class, tramcar construction, tram acquisition, tramcar manufacture -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Functional object - Bottle
Green Glass Champagne Bottlestawell -
Mont De Lancey
Functional object - Firescreen, Unknown
A brass firescreen with an irregular raised design on the front, a handle on the top and a footed base. It has studs around the front edges.firescreens, fireplace accessories -
Clunes Museum
Functional object - MATCHBOX
SMALL CONTAINER MADE USING THE AUSTRALIAN BURRA NUT - FOR MATCHES, HINGED SILVER METAL LID AND METAL BASE BASE FOR STRIKING MATCHlocal history, personal effects, smoking accessories -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Tool - shovel
World War One individual trenching shovel probably issued by German Army. Small shovel with wooden handle. Blade is worn.1915world war one, wwi, german army -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Bale Hook
Used by farmers and truckies to lift and stow heavy bags and wool bales.Large steel hook with wooden handlerural industry, agriculture -
Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Functional object - door, Cottage external door Hymettus cottage
This simple rear cottage door at Hymettus built 1900-1901 has been the back door since the early 1900s. Photos in the family collection however, reveal that it was originally the return front verandah door to the dining-room and the transition seems to have occurred about 1910 when a new door was installed for the front verandah to complement the art-nouveau lead light transom and surrounds to the main front entrance. A similar simple glass and two panel cottage door closes off the passage from main passageway to the kitchen and service end of the home so that the home presents as more simple in the service area fittings with more decorative features to the more important front rooms of the home reflecting the progression of style as the family had more money to spend on the home. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Functional object - Fishing Lure, c. 1970
Fishing lure. Natural coloured horsehair covering shank of hook. Lead 'head' painted brown, 2 white and black painted 'eyes'. -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Functional object - Shopping Bag, Bay Street Traders Association, 2001
Produced by and for the Bay Street Traders Association . Note that the 2001 scene is a computer generated image of what Bay Street may look like in the future, not as actually was in 2001. similarly, the scene portrayed for 1800 does not reflect any reality as Liardet only landed at Sandridge in 1839. It may be an 1890s view.Black on clear plastic promotional bag produced by the Bay Street Traders Association, purporting to show scenes of Bay Street in 1800 (sic) and 2001. Bears the Association logo.advertising, business and traders, bay street traders association, advertising promotion -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Tool - Sickle
A Sickle is an agricultural hand tool used for harvesting or reaping grain crops using the sharp blade in a swinging or hacking motion. It was also used for cutting back forage and other plant growth. They have been used since early Iron Age times and many examples have been found in the Middle East dating back 18,000 to 8,000 BC. This is a bagging hook – a type of larger and heavier sickle used mainly for harvesting of grain. It continued to be used after industrialisation and the implementation of the mechanical reaper. Designed by British manufacturing firm, Brades & Co, and made to be used by the left hand, its age is unknown. Left handed sickle. Blade painted black; handle varnished. Metal ferrule on handle. Hook on blade at handle endB?RADE? BRADER OZ?sickle, harvesting, churchill island heritage farm -
Mont De Lancey
Tool - Pick, Unknown
Used in the 19th century.A forged steel pick with points at both ends mounted on a handmade wooden handle with a number 5 stamped on the head. It was used for loosening and breaking up compacted soil in the 19th or early 20th century.5picks, prying tools, agricultural tools, gardening tools -
Parks Victoria - Andersons Mill
Tool - Pattern, wooden
It is unknown what this item was a pattern for.One flat piece of rectangular wood with a hole on the top - center and two nails, one at the top left corner, one at the bottom - RH corner. A second piece of wood is attached on top of the first; it is smaller in width and split exactly in two. There is a design cut out of second piece in shape of a pear. Bulbous part of design is centered around a hole in the first piece of wood. Three nails protrude from the second piece of wood. Three nails in the second piece of wood are located; one in each section of the more bulbous end of cut-out, & third on one section of the smaller end of cut-out. Hole on bottom of wood does not go all of the way through. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Functional object - Glass Bottle, n.d
Small round, clear glass bottle, possibly pharmaceuticalbottle, chemist, pharmacists -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Duirs & Warrell promotional Bottle Opener
This promotional item is associated with the long standing Warrnambool spirit merchant and grocery business of Duirs & Warrell. Duirs & Warrell's business was established in Warrnambool in 1857 by the first mayor of Warrnambool, W. W. Jamieson, who was succeeded as proprietor by J.C.A. Kruger. The business was later taken over by Mr J. Duirs who changed the name to Duirs & Warrell and ran it until 1923 when Mr. H Lord became the proprietor. The business ceased trading in May 1971 Metal promotional bottle opener in design of a vintage carDuirs & Warrell Grocer & Wine & Spirit Mchts. Liebig St. Phone 84 Warrnamboolduirs & warrell, liebig street, warrnambool, grocers, spirts and wines, promotional items -
Vision Australia
Functional object - Object, Reinecker Reha-Technik Videomatic H
This portable reading device provided the ability for people to scan printed items and see the enlarged result on a television screen. Weighing almost 9 kilos (with batteries) and able to be used for up to 2.5 hours each time the battery was charged, it was hailed as "particularly robust at low weight". Pictures in the accompanying brochure demonstrate it's use to read a newspaper, in the classroom and on the beach.Electronic reading aid inside black vinyl case, with two brochures and a manual'Dr Krause & Associates, 9 Collins Parade, Hackham, SA, 5163' has been stamped on the brochures and is on a type written label inside the lid.assistive devices, screen magnifiers -
Clunes Museum
Tool - FENCING AUGER
Metal, tip coated with mudNilauger, hand tool -
Clunes Museum
Tool - SHEARING HAND PIECE
NARROW COMB VERSION REPLACED HAND SHEARS THAT WERE FIRST USED TO SHEAR SHEEP. THE NARROW COMB WAS LATER SUPERCEEDED BY "WIDE COMB" IN THE LATE 1970'SSUNBEAM EB SPECIAL SHEARING HAND PIECE NARROW COMBshearing hand piece, narrow comb -
Trafalgar Holden Museum
Tool - Fabric shears
Cloth cutting shears as used in dress making during the late 1800's and early 1900'sObject holds significance in the tailoring industry as retailed by Holden and FrostSteel dress makers cloth cutting shearsdress making shears, steel -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Functional object - Bottle
Household Items - Strychnine, with Antidote Stickerstawell -
J. Ward Museum Complex
Functional object - Cutter - Tobacco, 1900 - 1950
Tobacco cutters were important tools for pipe smokers until self-made or manufactured cigarettes began to dominate the tobacco sales market from the 1920s. This item is a link to a previously common means of consuming tobacco.Tobacco cutters were used at both J Ward and the Aradale complex in Ararat. They were used to cut tobacco, which was then apportioned out to patients for their consumption.Metal tobacco cutter (guillotine style), mounted on wooden base, with wooden striker plate.A. McMILLAN inscribed on striker plate.tobacco, cutter -
Mont De Lancey
Tool - Axe Head, Whitehouse and Sons, Unknown
Used in the 19th century.A forged steel unusual long winged axe head blade without a handle - it has a hole for the handle. Originally it was "Japanned" finished' with black baked enamel which is now peeling off. There is a indented small zigzag pattern on the head where it would meet the handle. It was used in the 19th century possibly as a trimming axe.Whitehouse and Sons Cannock Warrantedwoodworking tools, steel, froes, cleaving axes, axes, cutting tools, hand axes, broadaxes, felling axes, hewing axes, axe heads, tool components -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Bottom swage, c1920
Bottom swage used with top swage to round up rods etc.rural industry, farm machinery, trades, blacksmithing -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Functional object, Umbrella, 1983-1996
Large umbrella with the VCAH Logo printed on two sides. Wide green and white stripes. Logo in darker green. Wooden handle.VCAH Burnleyadvertising, vcah, umbrella -
Trafalgar Holden Museum
Functional object - Equestrian Lead chain, Lead Chain
Lead chain imported and sold by Holden and FrostChain used as equine accessory circa 1900 and imported by Holden and FrostLead chain with swivel lock on one end and snap lock on otherequine, chain -
Clunes Museum
Tool - MINERS PICK
HAND MADE MINERS PICK METAL HEAD - LONG HAMMER HEAD ON ONE END AND PICK HEAS ON THE OTHER END WOODEN HANDLE, THE ANDLE IS SPLIT, HELD TOGETHER WITH LEAHTER AND WIRE LEATHER STRIP WOUND AROUND AND NAILED ONpick, miners pick, miners tool, gold -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Functional object - Plastic bag
The Mathews family have been in continuous ownership of 395 Howe Parade (was 8 Howe Parade until 1964 when addresses re-assigned), Port Melbourne from 1938 to the present (Sept 2019)Six folders of assorted documents relating to the life of Alan Mathews and his family. Employment documents. Folder 4 has Motor car purchases, Registration, Licences & RACV Small plastic bag containing chrome letter H, 2 parts tags and empty plastic parts bagstransport - motor vehicles, alan mathews, commonwealth aircraft corporation, cac