A Revelation Mercury tennis racquet, with an open throat/split shaft, ribbon whipping around shoulders, and a leather handle grip with X-formation perforations. Model name features across base of head. Revelation logo features along lower shaft, accompanied by trademark comprising of geometric shapes. 'F' trademark features on plastic butt cap. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Leather, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Ribbon, Paint, Adhesive tape, Plastictennis

A Wright and Ditson 'Melbourne Cup' tennis racquet, with: 'Shockproof' split shaft; string whipping around shoulders and shaft; and, leather handle grip with patterned perforations. Wright & Ditson coat-of-arms trademark features on throat on both faces; model name across base of head on obverse; Wright & Ditson cursive logo across base of head on reverse. Materials: Wood, Lacquer, Glue, Metal, Ink, Leather, String, Gut, Adhesive tapetennis

A Spalding 'La Vitesse' tennis racquet, with: a split lower shaft; whipping around shoulders; fibre reinforced bow and head; leather handle grip; and, plastic butt cap. Model name features across lower right of head. Manufacturer's name features across throat, handle grip, and butt cap. Materials: Wood, Glue, Metal, Lacquer, Nylon, Leather, Ink, Plastic, Adhesive tape, Plastic, Fibre, Painttennis

A Spalding 'La Vitesse' tennis racquet (.1), with: a split lower shaft; whipping around shoulders; fibre reinforced bow and head; leather handle grip; and, plastic butt cap. Model name features across lower right of head. Manufacturer's name features across throat, handle grip, and butt cap. Racquet is accompanied by a vinyl racquet head cover (.2), originally unrelated to it. Materials: Wood, Glue, Metal, Lacquer, Nylon, Leather, Ink, Plastic, Adhesive tape, Plastic, Fibre, Paint, Polyvinyl Chloridetennis

A Franklin CFT-880 tennis racquet, with fibre-reinforced open throat and split shaft, and leather handle grip with patterned perforations. Materials: Wood, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Fibre, Leather, Plastic, Adhesive tape, Nylontennis

Nicholas Caire was born on Guernsey in the Channel Islands in 1837. He arrived in Adelaide with his parents in about 1860. In 1867, following photographic journeys in Gippsland, he opened a studio in Adelaide. From 1870 to 1876 he lived and worked in Talbot in Central Victoria. In 1876 he purchased T. F. Chuck's studios in the Royal Arcade Melbourne. In 1885, following the introduction of dry plate photography, he began a series of landscape series, which were commercially successful. As a photographer, he travelled extensively through Victoria, photographing places few of his contemporaries had previously seen. He died in 1918. Reference: Jack Cato, 'Caire, Nicholas John (1837–1918)', Australian Dictionary of Biography.An original, rare photograph from the series 'Views of Victoria: General Series' by the photographer, Nicholas Caire (1837-1918). The series of 60 photographs that comprise the series was issued c. 1876 and reinforced a neo-Romantic view of the Australian landscape to which a growing nationalist movement would respond. Nicholas Caire was active as a photographer in Australia from 1858 until his death in 1918. His vision of the Australian bush and pioneer life had a counterpart in the works of Henry Lawson and other nationalist poets, authors and painters.Views of Victoria (General Series) No.28 / ‘Scene near Dandenong, Moon’s Range’ / Albumen silver photograph mounted on boardOn Reverse: 'Moon’s Range is situated to the right of the portion of the Dandenong Range of Mountains called “Fern Tree Gully.” This Range is notable for its almost impenetrable forest of trees, the majority of them being of gigantic growth. Numerous splitters and wood-cutters obtain lucrative employment in the production of laths and firewood. Near the summit of the range are several summer residences belonging to Melbourne merchants.’nicholas caire (1837-1918), australia - landscape photography

Axe with long wooden handle and solid iron wedge-shaped head.No visible markingsrural industry, agriculture, axe, farm, iron, wood, chop/split

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.

Used in the 19th CenturyA large handmade wooden barrel shaped headed maul with two steel bands at each end. The handle is a metal pipe. It has a worn piece of a leather flap near the flanged join of the handle where it meets the head. A solid steel rectangular wedge which was used to split logs is displayed with the maul. It was used in the 19th Century.mauls, striking tools, long handled heavy wooden mallet, steel, wood, tools, wedge, splitting tools, splitting wedges, woodworking tools

Used in the 19th CenturyA large handmade wooden barrel shaped headed maul with two steel bands at each end and a wooden handle. It was used to split logs or timber particularly hardwoods using a wedge as shown in the media photo. The rectangular steel wedge has a pointed end which is damaged. It was used in the late 19th Century. mauls, striking tools, steel, wood, tools, splitting wedges, wooden mallet, woodworking tools

Used in the late 19th century.A steel bladed wooden curved handled Shingle Splitter sometimes called a Paling Knife used for splitting or cleaving timber. It has two crossed hammer shape symbols stamped at the beginning and end of the inscription - Wolpin Wedge Mills. It was used in the late 19th century.Wolpin Wedge Millssteel, wood, froes, cleaving axes, axes, cutting tools, hand axes, woodworking tools

Used in the 19th century.A solid steel rectangular wedge fluted three quarters of the way down on both faces, used with a maul to split logs and timber, particularly hardwoods. It was used in the 19th Century.splitting wedges, steel, wood splitting wedges, woodworking tools

Built in the 1920s on Tom Fowler's farm at Willow Grove. Used as a shed.A large square-shaped shed with walls of split timber. It has a gabled roof of corrugated iron, while the floor is made up of wooden cobbles. The roofs of the side extensions are made of wood. The floor is Red Gum blocksagriculture, old gippstown, west gippsland, gippsland, gippsland heritage park, city of latrobe council, goldfields, coal mine, victorian era, moe, historical village, baw baw shire, willow grove, latrobe valley, old gippstown heritage park, horse drawn vehicles, butchers cart, baker's cart, tanjil valley