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Numurkah & District Historical Society
Oil / Kerosene Lamp
Silver-coated tin kerosene burning lampHas small round base with cut-outs, extending to a heavily decorated rounded bowl lamp, kerosene, table -
Numurkah & District Historical Society
Decorative object - Decoration
Has round tiered base with ornate filigree pattern, screw-like device which threads through round glass knob -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - PHOTOGRAPH, c.WWII
British Lancaster Bomber releasing bombs over a target. EAW is marked on the side of the bomber . Item re Frederick Gardner DAVEY DFC No 410533 RAAF. Refer Reg No 3536P for his service details.Black / white aerial photo of a British aircraft flying over land partly covered by cloud. A stick of bombs released by the aircraft is visible.On back - Handwritten in blue ink: Stick of bombs going down Stamped: Crown copyright reservedphotography, lancaster, raaf -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Postcard - Sepia, C 1931
Knight's Tea House on the Wannon River was run by Gus (Augustus) and Ellen Knight Tea rooms were known as Coonara Tea - House The Knights previously ran a Tea House at the failed Henham estatePost card shows Knight's Tea Rooms at the Wannon CrossingTea Rooms monument will go where this was Post Card correspondence, address only Kodak, Australi buildings, shops, people, knight -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Medal - Medallion, USA RAN
Memorial Medal Veitnam 1967 - 1972. In the centre of the medalion there is a eagle with the words USA Man, EmuGet the bloody job done. Names at the going down of the sund and in the morning we will remember themmedallon, usa, cerberus collection -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Postcard - Image, J.H. Kilgour, 1908 (Exact)
Message to Mrs Evelyn Hicks, Aunt of Jasper, Brian of Rutherglen. Consols mine on Rutherglen / Springhurst RoadPhoto of Northern Extended Consols Mine 1908 with group of workers. Made into postcard. Message from "Edie" on backOn back of postcard "Waiting to go down Northern Extended Consols Mine" "J.H. Kilgour, Rutherglen"on back of postcard "waiting to go down northern extended consols mine" "j.h. kilgour, rutherglen", northern extended consols mine, j h kilgour, evelyn hicks -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Print, J O'D, Mar. 1985
Yields information about the appearance of BTPS tram 33 in 1985.Colour print of BTM / BTPS tram 33 in Wendouree Parade, March 1985. Appears to have John Phillips driving. Has a Sovereign Hill roof advert. Printed on Kodak paper.On rear in ink "Tourist Tram going around Lake Ballarat March 1985. J O'D"trams, tramways, btps, tram 33 -
Ararat Gallery TAMA
Functional object, Tagane, c. 1900s
‘The Art of the Japanese Package’ was an exhibition that toured to 10 Australian and 11 New Zealand public galleries in 1979 and 1980. The touring exhibition comprised 221 objects of traditional Japanese packaging which extended from ceramics, wood and paper to woven fibre containers. At the conclusion of the tour, The Japan Foundation and the Crafts Board of the Australia Council donated the vast majority of the exhibition to the Ararat Gallery for its permanent collection. Combining the natural qualities of bamboo, paper and straw with delicate craftsmanship, these unique objects express Japanese aesthetics as applied through fibre crafts. In Japan, the qualities and traits of natural materials are exploited rather than hidden. The texture of straw, the septa of bamboo are not concealed but lovingly incorporated into the whole. In 1979 Hideyuki Oka, curator of ‘The Art of the Japanese Package’ wrote: “In no way self-conscious or assertive, these wrappings have an artless and obedient air that greatly moves the modern viewer. They are whispered evidence of the Japanese ability to create beauty from the simplest products of nature. They also teach us that wisdom and feeling are especially important in packaging because these qualities, or the lack of them, are almost immediately apparent. What is the use of a package if it shows no feeling?” The descriptions of the featured objects were written by Hideyuki Oka, curator of ‘The Art of the Japanese Package’, 1979.Gift of the Japan-Australia Foundation and the Crafts Board of the Australia Council, 1981The sembei (rice crackers) in this sturdy bag of handmade paper come from the town of Kuwana in Mie Prefecture and go by the trade name of Tagane, which derives from the name of the rice crackers offered to the Shinto gods. In fact, these sembei have a long tradition that goes back to ancient times. The silk drawstring of the bag gives it a particularly distinguished look. - Professor Hideyuki Oka, curator.japanese art, japanese packaging, tsutsumi, gift giving -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Postcard, Railmac, SW5 781 turning from Brunswick St into Victoria Parade, 1995
Postcard - full colour - of tram SW5 781 turning from Brunswick St into Victoria Parade, 26/11/1990 going to St Kilda Beach. Has adverts for been (its going to be a long hot summer) and Christmas Cards on recycled paper. Has details of the tram type on the rear. Photo by Steve McNicol. Divided back, published by Railmac number S059 RMtrams, tramways, sw5 class, victoria parade, tram 781 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Souvenir - POSTCARDS, (.1) 13.10.1916
Both letters are to “Lena” from Tom WATT, Regt No 3670 5th DAC. Refer Cat No 3996P re “Lena” and other cards. Cat No 3999.2P for other letters re “Tom” and his details.(.1) Post card, silk, colour showing 2 buildings, a tree and a bird with “Merry Christmas” at the bottom. On the rear a letter written in black pen addressed to “Lena”. (.2) Post card, colour with 2 scenes of “Malta” with scroll arrangement behind. On rear a brief note in purple addressed “From Tom to Lena”.souvenir, postcards -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LYDIA CHANCELLOR COLLECTION; BENDIGO BUGLE. (APEX)
A light blue paper leaflet, with the APEX stamp on it, titled, 'Bendigo Bugle!' (newsletter). Christmas 1962. Xmas Dinner & ladies night. Tooranie House. Friday Dec. 22nd. Merry Xmas! Editor Ben Hammond. Inside the leaflet is an outline of the evening's programme. Also includes important information on proposed Christmas activities.clubs and associations, sport, apex clubs, lydia chancellor, collection, apex, bendigo apex club, service clubs, organisations, program, programme, ephemera -
Orbost & District Historical Society
basket
Small round handwoven basket with handle. handcrafts basket -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Galvanised Jug
The beginning of standardised weights and measures began In Victoria when the Melbourne Observatory received sets of standard weights and measures, which had been tested in Britain against the then British Imperial standards. These included the primary standard yard and pound for the Colony of Victoria. Other standards of weights and measure held by shires and the administrative body's within the colony could then be compared to these primary standards. A Weights and Measures Act was passed in Victoria in 1862, establishing local inspectors throughout the colony. By the 1870s each local council and shire in Victoria held a set of standards that were used to test scales, weights and dry measures used by wholesalers, factories and shops. Every ten years the councils’ standards would themselves need to be rechecked against the Victorian Standards. The checking was done by the Victorian Customs Department in the 19th century, but with the transfer of responsibility for customs to the Federal Government in 1901, weights and measures function was retained by the Victorian Government and was shifted to the Melbourne Observatory. In 1904, a new building was erected at the south end of the Great Melbourne Telescope House, where the standard weights and measures and testing equipment was installed. This room had a large whirling apparatus for testing air meters and became known as the Whirling Room. When the Melbourne Observatory closed in 1944, the Weights and Measures Branch was formed to continue and this branch remained at the Observatory site unit until 1995. An example of a galvanised measuring jug made specifically to maintain government standard liquid measurements that were sold to the public. The probability is that this artifact was made around the first quarter of the 20th century and gives us today a snapshot of how imperial weights and measures were used before decimalisation and how a standard of measurement for merchants was developed in Australian based on the Imperial British measurement system. The container has social significance as an item used in Victoria as a legal standard measure to ensure that goods sold in Victoria were correct given the item is galvanised it was probability used for kerosene or petrol etc not for liquids used for human consumption. Galvanised Iron jug with rounded top, Inscription on handle at back. 2 gallon GV.35flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village -
Waverley RSL Sub Branch
Cloth Badges Vietnam
Set of 2 round cloth badgesOperational Support Unit RAAF VietNam Australian Vietnam Forces 1962-1973 vietnam badges, operational support unit r.a.a.f. vietnam, -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Shield
School magazine The Minervan records the following: Thirty keen cricketers returned for a cricket clinic over the weekend of their holidays which was climaxed with a practice match against Launceston Grammar School at College. the visitors batted 15 and scored 198 and College batted 12 and scored 165, with Guy Daggett scoring 63 not out. (The Minervan Dec 1970 p.18)Large round Tasmanian blackwood platterPlaque on centre of platter face: BALLARAT COLLEGE INTER-HOUSE / CRICKET SHIELD / PRESENTED BY / LAUNCESTON CHURCH GRAMMAR SCHOOL / AFTER 1ST VISIT/ IN FEBRUARY 1970cricket, launceston church grammar school -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Tool - Moulding wood Plane, Late 19th to Early 20th century
A moulding plane is a specialised plane used for making the complex shapes found in wooden mouldings that are used to decorate furniture or other wooden objects. Traditionally, moulding planes were blocks of wear-resistant hardwood, often beech or maple, which were worked to the shape of the intended moulding. The blade or iron was likewise formed to the intended moulding profile and secured in the body of the plane with a wooden wedge. A traditional cabinetmakers shop might have many, perhaps hundreds, of moulding planes for the full range of work to be performed. Large crown mouldings required planes of six or more inches in width, which demanded great strength to push and often had additional peg handles on the sides, allowing the craftsman's apprentice or other workers to pull the plane ahead of the master who guided it. Company History: The 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 regarded 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. The year 1792 was deemed by the firm to be that of its foundation it was in all likelihood the year in which John Manners had set up his plane-making workshop on Saracen Lane off the Gallowgate in the heart of Glasgow, not far from the Saracen's Head Inn, where Dr Johnson and James Boswell had stayed on their tour of Scotland in 1773. Alexander Mathieson (1797–1851) is recorded in 1822 as a plane-maker at 25 Gallowgate, but in the following year at 14 Saracen's Lane, presumably having taken over the premises of John Manners. The 1841 national census described Alexander Mathieson as a master plane-maker at 38 Saracen Lane with his son Thomas Adam working as a journeyman plane-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 acquired the Edinburgh edge-tool makers Charles & Hugh McPherson and took over their premises in Gilmore Street. 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. The 1851 census records indicate that Alexander was 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. 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, also off the Gallowgate, and that through further diversification was also manufacturing coopers' and tinmen's tools. The ten-yearly censuses log the firm's growth and in 1861 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. A vintage tool made by a well-known firm made for other firms and individuals that worked in wood. The tool was used before routers and spindle moulders came into use after World War ll, a time when to produce a decorative moulding for a piece of furniture or other items this had to be accomplished by hand using one of these types of planes. A significant item from the mid to late 19th century that today is quite rare and sought after by collectors. It gives us a snapshot of how furniture was made predominately by hand and with tools that were themselves hand made shows the craftsmanship used to make such a unique item. Round Moulding plane size 12 Alex Mathieson & Son Glasgow makerflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village -
Koroit & District Historical Society
WWI school peace memorial Triumph of Liberty and Justice 1919, Front of Medallion, 1919
Silvered brass, shaped round with a loop.This medal is inscribed with Liberty and Justice1919, school, peace, medallion, ww1, world war one, wwi -
Koroit & District Historical Society
WWI school peace memorial Triumph of Liberty and Justice 1919, Back of Medal, 1919
Schools victory medal awarded to school children( 0-14 years of age) of the Commonwealth of Australia. This was a commemorative medal to mark the end of world war 1. Victorian children received their medals on Friday 14th July and on "Peace Day" on Saturday 19th July.Round with loop, made of silvered bronze1919, peace, medal, school, wwi -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Domestic object - Collar Box, n.d
Round leather box for holding collars.collar box, accessories, costume, grooming, 1800s -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Tool - Wood moulding plane, Bewley Leeds, 1785 -1847
A moulding plane is a specialised plane used for making the complex shapes found in wooden mouldings that are used to decorate furniture or other wooden object. Traditionally, moulding planes were blocks of wear resistant hardwood, often beech or maple, which were worked to the shape of the intended moulding. The blade, or iron was likewise formed to the intended moulding profile and secured in the body of the plane with a wooden wedge. A traditional cabinetmakers shop might have many, perhaps hundreds, of moulding planes for the full range of work to be performed. Large crown mouldings required planes of six or more inches in width, which demanded great strength to push and often had additional peg handles on the sides, allowing the craftsman's apprentice or other worker to pull the plane ahead of the master who guided it. All we known about Robert Bewley and his successors is that they made planes in Leeds, England, from about 1785 to 1847. There are many of his tools including decorative moulding planes of all sizes and designs for sale around the world and that his moulding planes are well sought after by collectors of vintage tools.A vintage tool made by a known maker, this item was made commercially for firms and individuals who worked in wood and needed a tool that could produce a ornamental finish to timber. These profiled planes came in various shapes and sizes to achieve a decorative finish. This item is a significant tool from the mid to late 19th century that today is quite rare and sought after by collectors. It gives us a snapshot of how furniture and other decorative finishes were created on timber by the use of hand tools. Round Moulding plane number 8 Stamped Bewley Leeds (maker)flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Container
Container cardboard round of boracic powderflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village -
Federation University Historical Collection
Scientific Instrument, Valve mounted on timber
Valve sitting on a round timber platform."Minniwall" Made in USA 7Lvalve, scientific instrument, miniwall -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Bullets
.303 bullets in five round chargerammunition, ww2, army -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Bullets
.303 bullets in five round chargerammunition, ww2, army -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Bullets
.303 bullets in five round chargerammunition, ww2, army -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Bullets
50 cal Armourers Proof Roundammunition, ww2, army -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Domestic Object - ROUND TOP (FOR TOILETRY BOWL)
Round top (for toiletry bowl) - celluloiddomestic equipment, containers, lid -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Bottle, glass
Round thick clear glass bottlenil -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Turbocharger, General ElectricModel B-22, Circa 1940s
General Electric turbocharger model B-22 was fitted externally to a Pratt & Whitney R1930 14 cylinder twin wasp radial air-cooled engine for the supply of air at an increased pressure to the carburetor intake. This enabled the B-24 Liberator to maintain a maximum 1300HP at takeoff from sea level to 30,000 ft. ceiling and at high altitude.Round metal supercharger with inlet and outlet.General Electric turbo super charger. GE Ser. No. 872144 FW, A Setting 6, Assembly OD WW 8456556, Model 75-B22-A6 AF Contract or Purchase Order W33-038AC-1699, Spec. H-285022-22 Schenectady Made in US -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Medal, A Bryce
1939-45 Australian Service Medal belonging to A BRYCE 56793Round silver coloured metal medalAustralian Service Medal 1939-45 56793 A Bryceservice medal, ww2, a bryce