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Parks Victoria - Days Mill and Farm
Container - Barrel top
PART OF BARREL TOP. 3 x planks making part of circle. Printed with red and black. Barrel contained cement."BEST LONDON PORTLAND CEMENT../... ESSEX LONDON" -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Spirit Level, circa 1880
In 1792 John Manners had set up a workshop making woodworking planes at 14 Saracens Lane Glasgow. He also had employed an apprentice Alexander Mathieson (1773-1851). But in the following year at Saracen's Lane, the 1841 census describes Alexander Mathieson as a master plane-maker now at 38 Saracen Lane with his son Thomas Adam working with him as a journeyman plane-maker. Presumably, Alexander must have taken over the premises and business of John Manners. Now that the business had Thomas Adam Mathieson working with his father it gradually grew and became more diversified, and it is recorded at the time by the Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory that by 1847/8 Alexander Mathieson was a "plane, brace, bit, auger & edge-tool maker". In 1849 the firm of James & William Stewart at 65 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh was taken over and Thomas was put in charge of the business, trading under the name Thomas A. Mathieson & Co. as plane and edge-tool makers. Thomas's company went on to acquire the Edinburgh edge-tool makers “Charles & Hugh McPherson” and took over their premises in Gilmore Street. In the Edinburgh directory of 1856/7, the business is recorded as being Alexander Mathieson & Son, plane and edge-tool makers at 48 Nicolson Street and Paul's Work, Gilmore Street Edinburgh. The 1851 census Alexander is recorded as working as a tool and plane-maker employing eight men. Later that year Alexander died and his son Thomas took over the business. Under the heading of an edge-tool maker in the 1852/3 Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory the firm is now listed as Alexander Mathieson & Son, with further entries as "turning-lathe and vice manufacturers". By the early 1850s, the business had moved to 24 Saracen Lane. The directory for 1857/8 records that the firm had moved again only a few years later to East Campbell Street, off the Gallowgate area, and that through further diversification was also manufacturing coopers' and tinmen's tools. The ten-yearly censuses report the firm's growth in 1861 stating that Thomas was a tool manufacturer employing 95 men and 30 boys; in 1871 he had 200 men working for him and in 1881 300 men. By 1899 the firm had been incorporated as Alexander Mathieson & Sons Ltd, even though only Alexander's son Thomas appears ever to have joined the firm so the company was still in his fathers' name. In September 1868 Thomas Mathieson put a notice in the newspapers of the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent and the Sheffield Daily Telegraph stating that his firm had used the trade-mark of a crescent and star "for some time" and that "using or imitating the Mark would be proceeded against for infringement". The firm had acquired its interest in the crescent-and-star mark from the heirs of Charles Pickslay, the Sheffield cutler who had registered it with the Cutlers' Company in 1833 and had died in 1852. The year 1868 seems also to be the one in which the name Saracen Tool Works was first adopted; not only does it figure at the foot of the notice in the Sheffield press, it also makes its first appearance in the firm's entry in the Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory in the 1868/9 edition. As Thomas Mathieson's business grew, so too did his involvement in local public life and philanthropy. One of the representatives of the third ward on the town council of Glasgow, he became a river bailie in 1868, a magistrate in 1870 and a preceptor of Hutcheson's Hospital in 1878. He had a passion for books and was an "ardent Ruskinian". He served on the committee handling the bequest for the setting up of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. When he died at Coulter Maynes near Biggar in 1899, he left an estate worth £142,764. Company's later years: Both Thomas's sons, James Harper and Thomas Ogilvie were involved in the continuing life of the firm. James followed in his father's footsteps in becoming a local public figure. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow and was made a deacon of the Incorporation of the Hammermen of Glasgow in 1919. His brother Thomas Ogilvie was recorded as tool manufacturer and employer in the 1911 census. Thomas Ogilvie's son Thomas Alastair Sutherland Ogilvie Mathieson was born in 1908 took a rather different approach to engineering, however, by becoming a racing driver. In 1947 he wed the French film actress Mila Parély. The firm had won many awards at world fairs for their goods. At the Great Exhibition, London, 1851. Prize medal for joiners' tools in the class of Cutlery & Edge Tools, Great London Exposition, 1862. Prize medal honoris causa. International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1880. Gold medal International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art, Edinburgh, 1886. Prize medalThe firm of Alexander Mathieson & Sons was one of the leading makers of hand tools in Scotland. Its success went hand in hand with the growth of the shipbuilding industries on the Firth of Clyde in the nineteenth century and the emergence of Glasgow as the "second city of the Empire". It also reflected the firm's skill in responding to an unprecedented demand for quality tools by shipyards, cooperage's and other industries, both locally and far and wide.Spirit level, brass in ebony wooden casing.Has "18C Warranted" stamped on barrel.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, spirit level, level, mathieson of glasgow, builders level, spirit level, alexander mathieson & sons, tool maker, wood working plane, john manners, thomas adam mathieson, james & william stewart, james harper, thomas ogilvie, machine manufacturer -
Dutch Australian Heritage Centre Victoria
Money Collecting Dish (Geldbakje)
Used to collect coins from those listening to street musicians, particularly the barrel organ grinder. It was customary to rattle the coins in an attempt to attract further donations.This is a copper, oval-shaped dish with low (about 2cm) sides, part covered in brass, with brass handle and about 15cm in length. Cover displays barrel organ in relief.street musicians; copper -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Model - Diorama, M-107 Self propelled artillery
Self propelled gun with blade to dig its own bund. Crew of seven. At rest, one soldier is with a map, one soldier is looking at a magazine, while another soldier is unpacking ammunition.Word PACHELBEL? appears on the gun barrelpachelbel, m-107, self propelled artillery, diorama -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Weapon - Harpoon Gun and Harpoon, n.d
Part of the Kurtze Collection purchased by the City of Portland in 1990s from Brendan Kurtze. Theo Frederics said his grandfather used this gun to shoot porpoise. He was a fisherman - Frederickson? Changed name when migrated to Australia from Sweden. Further research with Theo and other family personal conversation with Theo Frederics (Gordon Stokes 1997)Wooden stock, bronze breech, steel barrel. Barrel painted high gloss black, polished bronze sights and name plate running length of barrel. Gun has pivot mount. Harpoon, steel, with hinged flukes.Front: On bronze name plate. 'CHASE OSBORNE & CO WHITEHALL PLACE LONDON WORK BIRMINGHAM GOLD MEDAL AWARDED INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1883'. Back: -harpoon, whaling, maritime -
Frankston RSL Sub Branch
Leather spare barrel Carrier
Leather tube for carrying spare barrel. -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Berry mixer
Large Barrel with machinery attached to it for mixingReliance 24QTS made in Sweden HUSQARNA -
HMAS Cerberus Museum
Gun barrel (H.M.C.S Victoria)
Honi. soit. qui. mal.v. dense. nordenfelt 6pr n5219.Gun barrel from the H.M.C.S.S Nelson. -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Slide, Ian McCann, Wine Barrels, 1984
a row of large wine barrels in a shed.winery -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Slide, Ian McCann, Wine Barrels, 1984
A row of wine large barrels in a shed.winery -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Postcard - ACC LOCK COLLECTION: GERMAN GUN CAPTURED BY AUSTRALIANS, POSTCARD, 1914-1918
Postcard, WW1, B&W image of the remains of a German large bore gun. Barrel facing the camera.Two soldiers standing on left of barrel and two on the right. Another soldier leaning over the barrel and another standing on structure at the rear. Copy A2postcard, postcard, ww1, france, german gun, australians -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - barrels being loaded onto ship, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)port of portland archives, loading barrels, portland harbour, cranes -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Tool - Shermuly Pistol Rocket Appratus Lifeboat model MarkII, The Shermuly Pistol Rocket Apperatus Ltd
Used is Lifeboat "Queenscliffe" from 1926 to 1976Early example of life saving line throwing mechanism used up to the 1970s.Metal firing mechanism and barrel with bakelite handleShermuly, Patent No. 503324, SPRA,1031 lifeboat, shermuly, rescue -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Image, Gerhard Grave, 1920s (Approximate)
Black and white photo of building with wine barrelsOn Building front "Orange Grove Wine Cellars | Est. 1997 | E.G. Hoffman" On bottom of mount: "Gerhard Graves | Tanunda S.A."wineries, ernst gottlieb hoffmann -
Mont De Lancey
Knife Cleaner, Circa 1910
Hand cranked, cast iron knife cleaner. Cast iron circular barrel, with iron and wood handle. Cork/chamois ?, within barrel for cleaning knives."Beatrice Knife Cleaner" on the front. "Rd. No 686261" on the back.knife cleaners -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia
2 Windlass Barrels and handles & One Spare Handlestawell, mining -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Photograph - Photograph of a horse and barrel standing outside Rogers Cottage
Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photograph collection dating from the nineteenth century. Photograph of a horse and barrel standing outside Rogers CottageCatalogue number written on reverse in pencil churchill island, photograph -
Clunes Museum
Domestic object - GLASS BISCUIT BARRELL
Painting of a girl holding a white bird on the outside of the barrelNilbiscuit barrel, glass jar -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Image, Richard Humphries Photography, c1985
Black and white photograph of a tall stack of wine barrels.wineries, north east victoria, wine industry -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Brass Bung
Cask or keg bung (spigot) used for tapping the barrel.Reid Bros./Melbournefood technology, brewing -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Model - Diorama
Centurion tank 169007 set on a revolving wooden base, flanked by a pair of tank shell casings & 2 pairs of 50 cal. rounds & 2 pairs x 30 cal. rounds.Tank: 169007 24A. Buku Boom Boom on barrel.centurion tank, shell casings -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Cigar box
Good example of crested gift ware distributed by schoolWooden barrel with lid at the top; metal Ballarat College crest fixed to the lid, metal hinges; four screws to attach resting base to barrel; fragment of label fixed to baseLabel: No 217 /Containing / 50 Teofani Virgina Cig... / CORK TIPPED -
Cheese World Museum
Binoculars
The Uebergang family lived at Tooram Park, Allansford from 1912 to 1992. The binoculars were given into the care of Cheese World Museum as part of the collection of items relating to rural living.Binoculars have brass collapsible barrels with a central winding mechanism to adjust focus. The underneath and the end of the barrels are painted black. Screw-in magnifiers are attached on a separate plate to the winding mechanism.Uebergang No. H139; 939optical instruments, allansford, uebergang, binoculars -
Friends of Westgarthtown
Stand, pot plant
wooden pot plant holder on four legs. Barrel-shaped with two metal belts at top and bottom, attached by nails. Legs curved, running up the barrel sides for support.furniture, domestic, wood, stand, decoration -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Fountain pen
From the collection of Betty McPheeBlack bakelite pen of two parts, barrel and lid. Barrel has gold nib attached and clear ink gauge. Lid has metal clip and two metal bandsdomestic items, writing equipment -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Henry Bests Vineyard, early 1900's
Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo 3 Men on a horse drawn cart loaded with barrels of grapes and a man in the left winching the barrels up - at Henry Best's Concongella vineyard, Great Western winery, wine making -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Photograph - Photograph of a part of a barn
Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photographic collection dating from the nineteenth century. This series of photographs was probably taken at a Farm in Kyneton and shows a similar historic farm to Churchill IslandPhotograph of a section of a barn with an upright wooden barrel and a shingled roof.Catalogue number written on reverse in pencil.churchill island, photograph, kyneton -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Photograph - Photograph of horse hitched to the Furphy cart
Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photograph collection dating from the nineteenth century. Photograph of horse hitched to the Furphy cart with a man sitting on the barrel.Catalogue number written on reverse in pencil churchill island, photograph -
Arapiles Historical Society
Wooden Container
House hold item,barrel shape with lift up lid -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Slide, Ian McCann, 2 Slides at winery 1984, 1984
2 Colour slides of large wine barrels in a shed. 1984winery