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Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1968
A wooden racquet featuring a decal image on both sides of the throat, of a gold shield featuring the Olympic symbol in the centre. Inscription from head to stem, on both sides: OLYMPIC/FIBRE/WELDED/THROAT/SLAZENGER. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Metal, Glue, Lacquer, Leather, Ink, Ribbon, Plastic, Paint, Stringtennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1930
A wooden racquet with orange and black whipping, and black plastic collar. Decal along throat on obverse: PREMIER. Inscription along throat on reverse: WILSON. Inscriptiona along left side of stem: DUCO PERMANENT/HIGH POLISH FINISH. Materials: Wood, Gut, Metal, Ink, Lacquer, Glue, String, Plastictennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1942
A Wilson, English Type Squire racquet, with Wilson patented leather handle grip, and slender, rounded stem. Inscription along right side of stem: PRIDE OF CRAFTSMANSHIP AND FINEST/MATERIALS CREATED THIS SUPERB RACKET. Materials: Wood, Gut, Ink, Leather, Metal, Glue, Lacquer, Paint, Plastic, Adhesive tapetennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1894
An Ajax 'Calumet' late transitional flat-top tennis racquet, with solid convex throat, and cork handle. Model name features across crown on obverse. Manufacturer's name, with floral design, features across throat on obverse. Materials: Wood, Lacquer, Glue, Metal, Gut, Ink, String, Cork, Painttennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1881
A tilt-top tennis racquet with: solid convex throat; rare double strung net; whipping around uncharacteristically short shaft; and, a fine-grooved, rounded handle. Impressed inscription across throat on obverse: P.T.A.S./+WORTHING+/-1881-/X. Materials: Wood, Lacquer, Glue, Metal, Gut, Leather, Inktennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1895
A wooden racquet with a convex throat and grooved handle. The throat of obverse features the inscription: ARDSLEY. Below inscription is the Horsman 'centaur' trademark in black and gold. Inscription across right side of stem: MANUFACTURED BY/E.I. HORSMAN CO. NEW YORK. Materials: Wood, Gut, Metal, Lacquer, Glue, Ink, Painttennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1960
A collection of three identical Spalding 'Viscount' tennis racquets (.1-.3), with: Wilson 'Champioship' nylon netting; black with gold, perforated leather handle grips; and ribbon whipping around shoulders and shafts. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Adhesive tape, Leather, Paint, Ink, Ribbon, Vinyl, Lacquer, Glue, Metaltennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1965
A collection of 34 identical Tennis Craft 'Speedflex Deluxe Model' tennis racquets, with clear/black nylon netting, and tan & brown Kinghorn 'Original' tacky perforated handle grips. Materials: Wood, Fibre, Paint, Ribbon, Adhesive tape, Leather, Cloth, Paper, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Nylontennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1965
A collection of 6 identical Tennis Craft 'Speedflex Deluxe Model' tennis racquets, with clear/black nylon netting, and tan & black Kinghorn 'Original' tacky perforated handle grips. Materials: Wood, Fibre, Paint, Ribbon, Adhesive tape, Leather, Cloth, Paper, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Nylontennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1965
A Masterbuilt Challenger 440 tennis racquet, painted from shoulder to shaft, with whipping on shoulders, and featuring leather handle grip with arrow-like perforations. Throat features model name. Masterbuilt logo features along shaft. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Plastic, Paint, Ink, Leather, Glue, Lacquer, Metaltennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1957
A MacGregor Winton tennis racquet, with plastic whipping around shoulders, and plain vinyl handle grip. MacGregor logo features on base of head. Model name, incorporated within shield device, features on throat. Materials: Wood, Vinyl, Nylon, Plastic, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Adhesive tape, Leathertennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1905
A Tryon Eclipse tennis racquet with a solid, convex throat, and fine-grooved handle. Details feature on obverse. Model name ECLIPSE features across crown. Inscription across throat: EDW. K. TRYON CO./PHILADELPHIA,/PA. Materials: Wood, Gut, Ink, Leather, Cloth, Glue, Lacquer, Metaltennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1910
A Tryon Eclipse tennis racquet with a laminated convex throat, and fine-grooved handle. Details feature on obverse. Model name ECLIPSE features across crown. Inscription across throat: EDW. K. TRYON CO./PHILADELPHIA,/PA. Materials: Wood, Gut, Ink, Leather, Cloth, Glue, Lacquer, Metaltennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1905
A wooden tennis racquet with solid, convex throat, cloth whipping around shoulders, and fine grooved handle grip. Model name across crown on obverse is worn and unintelligible. Inscription along throat on obverse: T.H. PROSSER + SONS. Materials: Wood, Gut, Ink, Leather, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Clothtennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1914
A wooden tennis racquet with concave throat, cloth whipping around shoulders, and medium grooved handle with fish-tail butt. Model name across crown on obverse reads PLUTO. Inscription along throat on obverse: T.H. PROSSER + SONS. Materials: Wood, Gut, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Clothtennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1935
An unstrung WGS tennis racquet, with raised lower shoulders, string whipping around shoulders and shaft, and, a leather handle grip with patterned perforations. On throat is a decal comprising of a shield device mounted by crest and helm, featuring initials: WGS. Materials: Wood, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, String, Leather, Cloth, Inktennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1935
A wooden Spalding Jack Purcell Tournament/Personal badminton racquet, with plastic ribbon whipping around shoulders, along with string whipping around shaft, and leather handle grip with patterned perforations. Materials: Wood, Lacquer, String, Ink, Adhesive tape, Metal, Paint, Leather, Gut, Glue, Cloth, Plastictennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1920
A 'Club' wooden squash racquet with string whipping over cloth tape reinforced shoulders, and a leather handle grip, wrapped over cotton padding. Inscription across butt cover: MADE IN/BRITISH/INDIA. Materials: Wood, Gut, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Leather, String, Ink, Cotton, Cloth tapetennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1970
A Scott Daniels Signature tennis racquet, with string whipping around shoulders and shaft, and leather handle grip with X-formation perforations. Manufactured to mimic the Wilson models of the late 1960's- early 1970's. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Leather, Enamel, Plastic, Stringtennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1955
A Wilson Famous Player Series, Frank Sedgman Southern Cross tennis racquet. Base of head features Wilson logo. Angular shaft features decal of head and neck photo image of Sedgman. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Leather, Adhesive tape, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Cloth, String, Ribbontennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1975
A Regent Junior Pro tennis racquet. Regent logo features across base of head, and on butt cap. Silhouette image of a male youth playing tennis features on the throat. Model name features along the shaft. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Ribbon, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Ink, Paint, Vinyl, Plastictennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1925
A wooden racquet, with green and white plastic shoulder and shaft reinforcements, and fine-grooved handle. Inscription along throat on obverse: LENOX. Inscription across throat on reverse: DAVEGA/SPORTS, with red white and blue banner device. Materials: Wood, Gut, String, Plastic, Ink, Leather, Glue, Lacquer, Metaltennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1929
A wooden racquet, with an open throat, green and white whipping, and a cork handle. Inscription across base of head on obverse: PRESIDENT. Inscription across base of head on reverse: DAVEGA/UNITED SPORTS SHOPS/NEW YORK. Materials: Wood, Nylon, String, Cork, Ink, Leather, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Clothtennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1926
A Dayton Junior Pilot tennis racquet, with a wholly steel frame. Racquet strings made from piano wire. Racquet head stringing continues through into the fully opened throat. Decal of model features on left side of shaft. Materials: Metal, Glue, Lacquer, Paint, Leather, Ink, Cord, Stringtennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1915
An Andersons Match wooden tennis racquet, with concave throat, cloth tape reinforcements around shoulders, and a fish-tailed handle butt. Impressed model name across throat on obverse. Decal of manufacturers trademark across throat on reverse. Materials: Wood, Lacquer, Glue, Metal, Gut, Ink, Cloth tapetennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1910
An Horace Partridge Co. tennis racquet, with laminated convex throat, and fine-grooved handle. Decal of manufacturer's name, accompanied by an illustration of an upright sceptre, features across throat on obverse. Illegible model name features across crown on obverse. Materials: Wood, Lacquer, Glue, Metal, Ink, Leather, Guttennis -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1905
A Sykes National Special tennis racquet, with solid convex throat, string shoulder and crown whipping, and fine-grooved handle. Model and manufacturer's details feature across crown and throat on obverse. Manufacturer's details also on butt cover. Materials: Wood, Lacquer, Glue, Metal, Ink, Leather, String, Guttennis -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Instrument - Barometer, Early 20th century
A barometer is an instrument used for measuring atmosphere pressure thus determining weather changes.The first apparatus generally accepted as a barometer was that set up in Florence in 1644 by Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), a mathematician and physicist. Torricelli filled a glass tube with mercury, sealed it at one end, and inverted it with its open end in a dish of mercury. The level always fell a short way down the tube, then settled at a height of about thirty inches. He concluded correctly that the mercury column was sustained by the weight of the air pressing on the open surface of mercury, and further experiments convinced him that the space above the mercury in the tube was a vacuum. He noted that the level rose and fell with changing temperature, but he was unable to use his apparatus to measure variations in the weight of the atmosphere because he had not foreseen that temperature would affect the level of the mercury. News of this experiment circulated quickly among European scientists, who hastened to replicate the experiment. Torricelli's conclusions were not universally accepted because some disputed whether the air had weight, while both Aristotle and the Catholic Church denied the possibility of a vacuum. In France, the philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) seems to have been the first person, probably in 1647, to attach a graduated scale to the tube so that he could record any changes attributable to the weather. At around this time Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany organized the first short-lived meteorological network among scientists in other Italian cities, gathering observations of pressure, temperature, humidity, wind direction, and state of the sky.Theis barometer is an example of a household item from the early 20th century, used to determine the day's weather. The barometer is significant as an aid to human social, material and scientific development.Barometer, round, brass housing inset into carved wooden casing (lacquer mostly worn off). Decorative lettering for weather conditions "Stormy, Rain, Change, Fair, Very Dry". Workings are visible through opening in centre of dial. Indicator needle and another adjustable needle . Hook screwed into back of case.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, barometer, scientific instrument, weather forcasting instrument, weather gauge -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Functional object - Fishing Float, n.d
Handmade fishing float. Top and bottom narrow sections - wood, central wider section - cork. Top section painted orange with black and white bands; bottom section dark green, narrow red band at junction of wood and cork. Cork section lacquered. Small wire ring bottom end. -
Tennis Australia
Racquet, Circa 1895
A wooden, transitional flat-top Horsman 'Eclipse Special' tennis racquet, with oriental gut (silk) strings, solid convex throat, and, cross-hatched slender octagonal handle. Inscription across obverse, from crown to throat: SPECIAL/E.I. HORSMAN/ECLIPSE. Materials: Wood, Metal, Lacquer, Ink, Glue, Silktennis