Oval plaster mould of a pear shape design depicting two embracing nudes.Nonematcham skipper, mould, jewellery, nude

Seven biscuit cutters of various sizes and shapes. All are metal and have handles.domestic items, food preparation

Said to have been brought home by Private Sweatman 22nd Battalion AIF. WWI German uniform belt buckle, rectangle shape made from alloy GOTT MIT UNS with crown

Brooch in shape of a racquet and ball. Stamped 'STERLING' on obverse. Materials: Silver/Metaltennis

Brooch in shape of a racquet and ball. Stamped 'STERLING' on obverse. Materials: Silver/Metaltennis

Black brooch in shape of two crossed racquets. Materials: Jet (Lignite), Metaltennis

This electric heater was used by Foley's Bus Line Office, Cnr. Hunter Street and Barkes Avenue, Lakes Entrance. Foley's Motor Service operated between Lakes Entrance and Bairnsdale and conducted tourist trips to Buchan and Lake Tyers between 1926-1947. The business was sold to Ansett and later became Eastern Transport.Electric heater round shape with wire cover over central heating elementtourism, businesses, transport

Sculpture from Shenzhen Polytechnic. [Resin?] Sculpture round in shape, multicolored and gold.Shenzhen Polytechnicresin, sculpture, shenzhen polytechnic, multicolored, round

Item in the collection re Allan Frederick Goodall DFC, refer Cat No 543.2 for his service details.Badge metal gold colour leaf shape with the letters "NZ" on, pin on rear.badges, nz, dfc

Items given out to service personal by the Society.Cigarette lighter, brass, cylinder shape, two piece, has stamped details onOn the top section, “Australian Red Cross Society”metalcraft, cigarette lighters, red cross

In the collection belonging to H.J.B.Burrell BEM MM, VX 59659. Refer Cat No 298.4 for his service details.Colour Patch, 38th Battalion AIF, oval shape. blue over red.uniforms - military, colour patch badges, 38th bn

Item souvenired by Mathew Redwood from an Iraqi T 34 tank. Refer Cat No 3891 for his service details.Rectangular shape, metallic, bolt holes in corners, silver printed on a black background.labels, iraqi, tank

The scrap book is made of photocopies of letters and cards sent and received by Alf Ferris Terrick Terrick Victoria. Ferris collection, refer cat No 4183.3PBook, rectangular shape, cotton bound blue hard covers, 28 pages.Titled, “Stories from the tin trunk”scrapbook, photo copies, ww1

Item issued to Peter BALL 3796117. Refer Cat No 4704Foot powder tin, rectangular shape, gold colour with sliding lid on top.Foot Powder D [up arrow] - remainder ineligible Written: Peter BALLcontainers, medicine - chriropody, military history - kit

Item relates to Gilbert Turner MM, No 1410 45th Batt AIF. Refer Cat No 1038 for his service details."AUSTRALIA" shoulder badge, curved shape, blackened brass with two lugs on rear.numismatics-badges-military, shoulder uniform, turner, australia

Belt keepers used to secure belt to pants so when puled stays secured. Items part of the collection re "Craig Triffett". Refer Cat No. 5997.5Brass metallic clips in the shape of a "T" then curved around it attached to the belt as a clip.uniform, belt cliops, craig triffett

Shoulder patch is 2/4th Australian light anti-aircraft regimentArmy great coat, khaki wool, has metal shoulder badges reading “Australia”. Shoulder flashes T shaped, red centre T with triangular wedge shape greyish colour, white outline around shape.uniforms - army, costume - male uniform, great

The letters are from Alf Ferris to his family members in Terrick Terrick. Refer Cat no 4183.3P.1).2) Letter, two pages, rectangular shape, “YMCA with the AIF” letterhead, ruled lines, print in red and black, hand written in black pencil, dated. .3) Letter, rectangular shape, off white colour, hand written in black pencil, dated. .4) Letter, rectangular shape, off white colour, hand written in black pencil, dated..1) “France near Belgium 3rd Aug 1917, Dear ones at home”. .3) “Somewhere in France near Belgium 1st Sept 1917” .4) “Somewhere in France 7th Sept 1917”letters, ymca, aif,

This uniform belonged to 036319 F/Lt A S Cutting who served in the RAAF During WW2.This uniform was made in 1945 and was owned by F/Lt A S Cutting.Service Dress Blue Jacket and Trousers with buckle belt, RAAF Buttons, badges of Rank on both sleeves and Ribbons of three Decorations above the left pocket.Inside the jacket a small tag - A F (the I in the shape of the 'broad arrow', used to indicate military use (Navy, Army, Air Force) 1945, M. TX, Size 22.raaf, 036319 a s cutting 1945

A timber plane , or jack plane (or fore plane) is a carpenters or cabinet makers tool that is used for dressing timber down to the correct size in preparation for truing and/or edge jointing.A significant tool from the mid to late 19th century that is still in use today. It gives context of how furniture and other finishes were created on timber by the use of cutting edged hand tools. Tools that were themselves handmade shows the craftsmanship of the era but also highlights craftsmanship needed to produce a even finish.Carpenters Plane also referred to a Joiner or Jack Plane. Long rectangular shaped timber block with carved timber grip handle, timber block support and blade. Square shaped opening Infront of block and blade, tapers to a small slot to the bottom to allow for the timber shaving to fall through. Stamp mark on metal plane blade: MITCHLL A........(Unable to distinguish further writing) Stamp is in a horse shoe shape with the Mitchll curving around the stop and the word starting with 'A' along the bottom.capenter, wood work, construction, box plane, cabinet maker

These bottles were common in the late 1800's and 1900's. Bottle Nos 1 and 2 were made by Angus & Co, a Sydney company producing ink and gums (glue and clag) from about 1880 to 1920. Their products were sold in stoneware and glass containers in varying sizes. 1. Small pottery bottle referred to as a "Penny Ink" bottle, made by Angus & Co. The small bottle got its name because of the price of 1d. = 1 penny. This bottle is missing. Nos. 3 and 4 The two tall thin Erven Lucas bottles with handles at the top were usually referred to as "Dutch Gins". In fact they actually contained "'Seltzer Spa water' or a form of Quinine Tonic, both supposed to be health drinks. These types of bottles first arrived in Australia with the Gold-seekers from Europe. Early samples are somewhat crudely made. The potter would have formed the bottle with a young apprentice applying the handle, name stamp and the glaze prior to being fired in the kiln. There is evidence of fingerprints from these processes on both samples.A collection of five handmade rare stoneware bottles with a salt glaze: 1. Small pottery bottle referred to as a "Penny Ink" bottle, made by Angus & Co. The small bottle got its name because of the price of 1d. = 1 penny. This is missing. 2. Medium glazed brown pottery bottle with a pouring spout (Angus & Co Ink Commercial). 3. Medium glazed brown pottery bottle with a pouring spout (Bourne Denby). 4. Large glazed brown pottery bottle with a pouring spout (Bourne Denby). Sample is from England probably sold for 2/- or 2/6d. Two shillings or two shillings & sixpence. 5. and 6. Two tall thin brown pottery bottles, one with a broken cork stopper and one without a stopper with Erven Lucas Bols - Het Lootsje Amsterdam stamped at the top of both. They were usually referred to as "Dutch Gins". 6. Green/black bottle is a traditional Dutch Gin with tapering sides, which made it easy to remove from the mold after being blown by hand and the cork top was applied by an apprentice. This sample dates from approximately 1900. Earlier samples are very crude with later samples being machine made with embossing.(This bottle is missing, 13.10.2022). 2. 'Angus & Co Ink Commercial' 3 and 4. 'Bourne Denby' stamped inside an oval lined shape. 5. and 6.Erven Lucas Bols - Het Lootsje Amsterdambeverage bottles, bottles, storage containers, stoneware bottles

These vintage tins contained medicinal products to help relieve illness symptoms for the family at home in the 1900's. Two were manufactured in Australia and the two Ayrton's products were made in England.Three vintage medicinal tins and cardboard container. 1. Small Ayrton's heart shape Bismuth Indigestion Tablets tin with the Manufacturer details printed at the bottom of the lift up lid. It has a large red heart shape on a white background. Approx. 2ozs. It has a gold base with information for use and recommended dosages. 2. A small badly rusted and worn tin Ayrton's Sulphur and Yeast Tablets with seven red dots showing usage features of these tablets. Manufacturer details are listed at the bottom of the front lift up lid and the back of the tin has further information. 3. A cylindrical green Robinson's Patent Barley tin with a patterned rusted lid. The manufacturer details and usage information are indecipherable due to wear and rust. 4. A cylindrical lidded De Witt's Antacid Powder cardboard container with a rusted tin lid. Manufacturer details and usage are printed on a paper wrapper glued to the cylinder.1. 'Ayrton's Heart Shape Bismuth Indigestion Tablets Ayrton Saunders & Co Ltd Liverpool. England.' 2. 'Ayrton's Sulphur and Yeast Tablets Ayrton, Saunders & Co. Ltd. Liverpool. Eng.' 3. Robinson's Patent Barley' (indecipherable details) On the bottom of the tin Robinson's "Patent" Barley Letters Patent Granted 1923 Now expired Packed March 1951. 4.De Witt's Trademark Antacid Powder 2/6 for Indigestion. Contents 4ozs. Approx. Lasting Action' Inside the Ayrton's Sulphur and Yeast Tablets tin is a sticker with 'M Burgi' handwritten on it in biro.medicinal containers, tins, medication, containers

These spoons are from the wreck of the Loch Ard, which sailed from Gravesend, London 1878. The manifest listed an array of manufactured goods being exported to the Colony of Victoria. Included in the cargo manifest was a large number of hardware & cutlery items. The spoons are representative of similar items of silver electro-plated cutlery salvaged from the Loch Ard wreck site, comprising nickel silver electroplated spoons and forks of various sizes but all sharing the same general shape and design. Some of the pieces display their makers’ mark of William Page & Co Birmingham UK. Within the Flagstaff Hills cutlery collection donated from the Loch Ard, maker’s marks are often obscured by sedimentary accretion or verdigris after a century of submersion in the ocean. However sufficient detail has survived to indicate that the collection of samples of electroplated cutlery probably originated from the same cargo consignment from the Loch Ard and were made by William Page & Co. Of Birmingham England. William Page was born in 1811 and died in 1885. He was active as a manufacturer of cutlery from 1829 with premises at 74 Belmont Rd, Dales End as a "close plater" (someone who works sheet metal), and he began electroplating in 1855. William Page & Co was also active from 1880 at Cranemore St, Cattle’s Grove also 55 Albion St, Birmingham, and in 1936 the firm became an Ltd company. The firm used the trademarks "Asrista, Bolivian Silver, Silverite, Roman Silver, Romanian Silver, and Trevor Plate. In 1938 William Page was a supplier to the British Government, marking its products with the broad arrow symbol and was also present at Sheffield. Electroplated silver objects are made of a base metal (like copper, nickel or brass) coated with a microscopic layer of silver using an electrical current. If objects like these spoons are submerged for long periods in sea water or air, the surface may become tarnished with different colours - purple tarnish is a natural early-stage of oxidation when the copper alloy reacts with sulfur in the air and is often a precursor to black tarnish, green patina occurs when copper or brass is exposed to air and water over long periods and is generally harmless and acts as a shield against further decay and brown tarnish occurs when copper combines with oxygen. The ship Loch Ard was built on the River Clyde in Scotland in 1873 for the prestigious Loch Line of colonial clipper ships, designed for the Australian run. It sailed from England on 1st March 1878 carrying 37 crew, 17 passengers and a load of cargo. The general cargo reflected the affluence of Melbourne at the time. On board were straw hats, umbrellas, perfumes, clay pipes, pianos, clocks, confectionary, linen and candles, as well as a heavier load of railway irons, cement, lead and copper. There were items included that were intended for display in the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880 - a diverse general cargo ranging from luxury items to bulk railway iron. On 1 June 1878, emerging from fog and hearing too late the sound of breakers against the tall limestone cliffs, the vessel struck the southern foot of Mutton Bird Island and sank in 23 metres of water. Of the fifty-four people on board only two survived, one young male crewman, Tom Pearce, and one young female passenger, Eva Carmichael. Ten days after the Loch Ard tragedy, salvage rights to the wreck were sold at auction for £2,120. Cargo valued at £3,000 was salvaged and placed on the beach, but most washed back into the sea when another storm developed. The wreck of Loch Ard still lies at the base of Mutton Bird Island. Much of the cargo has now been salvaged and some was washed up into what is now known as Loch Ard Gorge. Cargo and artefacts have also been illegally salvaged over many years before protective legislation was introduced in 1976. One of the most unlikely pieces of cargo to have survived the shipwreck was a Minton porcelain peacock - one of only seven in the world. The peacock was destined for the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880. It had been well packed, which gave it adequate protection during the violent storm. Today, the Minton peacock can be seen at the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum in Warrnambool. From Australia's most dramatic shipwreck it has now become Australia's most valuable shipwreck artefact and is one of very few 'objects' on the Victorian State Heritage Register. Flagstaff Hill’s collection of artefacts from LOCH ARD is significant for being one of the largest collections of artefacts from this shipwreck in Victoria. It is significant for its association with the shipwreck, which is on the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR S417). The collection is significant because of the relationship between the objects, as together they have a high potential to interpret the story of the LOCH ARD. The LOCH ARD collection is archaeologically significant as the remains of a large international passenger and cargo ship. The LOCH ARD collection is historically significant for representing aspects of Victoria’s shipping history and its potential to interpret sub-theme 1.5 of Victoria’s Framework of Historical Themes (living with natural processes). The collection is also historically significant for its association with the LOCH ARD, which was one of the worst and best known shipwrecks in Victoria’s history.This is a collection of six spoons recovered from the wreck of the Loch Ard which sank in 1878. Spoon 8722.1 (a tablespoon) is the largest of the spoons. It has an elongated rounded handle and is extensively covered with green verdigris. Spoon 8722.2 (a teaspoon) is the smallest of the spoons. It also has an elongated rounded handle and has black and green tarnish. There is evidence of markings on the handle but they are difficult to decipher. Spoons 8722.3 - 8722.6 are of similar size and design. They are dessert spoons with a fiddle back handle. Spoon 8722.3 is badly corroded and encrusted with sea debris but there is evidence (which is difficult to read) of markings on the handle. Spoon 8722.4 is also heavily tarnished with green verdigris and the metal is beginning to flake on the handle. It has remnants of masking tape on the inner bowl. Spoon 8722.5 has an extensive covering of vertigris and the metal is very thin and fragile with several tiny holes and a larger hole in the bowl. Spoon 8722.6 has extensive brown (and some green) oxidation and a full set of hall marks on the handle - including the maker's mark for William Page and Co Birmingham - A WP stamp within a square diamond, a letter "B" and three more hallmarks.Makers’ mark “W” & “P” placed within a raised diamond outline, which is in turn contained within a sunken crown shape identifying the manufacturer as William Page & Co of Birmingham plus a "B" and three other unidentified marks.flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, loch ard, wreck of the loch ard, loch ard artefacts, loch ard salvage, william page and company, william page and co birmingham, spoons, domestic spoons, silver plated spoons, electroplated spoons, electroplated cutlery

This walking stick or club is of a heavy quality and could be classified as an Irish shillelagh, although it lacks the heavy curved knob at the top that characterizes the shillelagh. It does not seem typical of the walking sticks used in Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries although it appears to date from those times. It may have come from an overseas country.This walking stick has no known local provenance but it is an interesting item and is kept as a curio from the past.This is a piece of black wood (blackthorn?) shaped from a gnarled and knotted piece of wood to make a rough, curved shape. The shaft is rounded at the top and tapering to a smaller round shape at the bottom. The top has a brass-coloured metal band.walking sticks, household items, warrnambool

Shield prepared to recognise winners of a Geelong West Cycling Club road race in memory of Russell Wright.This perpetual trophy spans 3 decades on road racing with the GWCC.Wooden shield with small shield shapes in plated silver placed around the shield. These small plaques are inscribed with winners of this event. The shield also has a plated silver banner with inscriptions on it, plus the shape of a cyclist in a medallion at the bottom of the shield."Geelong West Cycling Club/Russell Wright Memorial Shield/ Donated by his Loving Wife/1967 R Dillon 68m59sec/1968 J Elsworthy 54mins 55secs/ 1969 T Ryan 70mins 3secs/ 1970 R Edwards 53mins26secs/1971 Geo O'Dwyer 82mins 17secs/1972 K Bunting 51min 50 secs/1973 W Mahoney 54min 20secs/ 1974 W Crookshanks 83min 28secs/ D Ferguson 83 mins 47 secs/ 1976 S Jennings/ 1977 R Bunting 51mins 50 secs/ 1978 - /1979 Don Wilson/1980 Rodney Baker/ 1981 David Carnegie/ 1982 -/ 1983 Neville Williams/ 1984 Tony Pickles/ 1988 Ian Hendry"geelong west cycling club; gwcc; russell wright memorial shield; 1967; r dillon; 1968; j elsworthy; 1969; t ryan; 1970; r edwards; 1971; george o'dwyer; 1972; k bunting; 1973; w mahoney; 1974; w crookshanks; d ferguson; 1976; s jennings; 1977; r bunting; 1978; 1979; don wilson; 1980; rodney baker; 1981; david carnegie; 1982; 1983; neville williams; 1984; tony pickles; 1988; ian hendry;