Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace insertion

Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace border

Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingNeedle lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingMachine lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingNeedle lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingKnitted lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingDarned lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingCrochet lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingTatted lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingCrochet lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic: Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

This purse or coin bag is in pristine condition. It has been handmade from soft brown leather. A strong leather loop has bee added to the top side edge, perhaps for attaching a tie or hook. The ring is used as a closure by folding the edges of the opening together and sliding the loop over the top. It is believed to be a handmade one-off item for domestic use. This purse or money bag is representative of an everyday item similar to those used through the centuries for the convenience of carrying coins and other small, personal effects. Similar items were used by both men and women. The leather fabric is a readily available, strong and long lasting material.Coin purse or bag; brown leather, rectangular shape, with metal ring closure and leather loop near the top. Part of the Chamberlain Dale Less collection.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, purse, leather, money bag, coin purse, pouch, money, change purse

Typical of the mass produced small items manufactured in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century for domestic use along with clothes irons, boot scrapers and griddle irons, these beetle-style boot jacks were usually located in the vestibule near the door to wedge the booted foot into and pull, removing the boot before stepping into the house with any detritus on the boot.

Circa early 1900s. Flour was a staple ingredient of bread, as well as being used for general cooking. This 7lb bag of flour would have been purchased for domestic use by a housewife living in the Moorabbin district. Used bags were often made into shade blinds, underwear, sleepwear, aprons by the industrious early settlers who could not afford to waste any material.This flour bag is typical of the type that would have been found in every housewives' kitchen in the Moorabbin district. It recalls the fact that flour was being made in Melbourne. Unbleached, cotton bag., with faded black lettering. Bag held 7lbs of flour.A.F.BROCKOFFS / 7 LBS / coat of arms – spread eagle with flags - /Trade mark / SELF FLOURS/ RAISING/ FACTORIES / MELBOURNE / SYDNEY AND FREMANTLE flour, cooking, kitchen, moorabbin, housewife, housewives.

Use: Domestic. Probably home madeCrochet edged rectangular mat.

Six copies of an eight page brochure titled 'Scalebuoys'. Printed by Cambridge Press, Bendigo. Items mentioned are: Scientific Treatise of Scalebuoy - Process of Water Treatment, How Scalebuoys Function, Not a 'Water-Softener', Special Features, First Cost is the Last Cost. Scalebuoy Units for Domestic Household Tanks, Hydraulic-Nozzle Tank Unit, Scalebuoy Tap Unit, Practical Applications of Scalebuoy for Domestic Uses, Scalebuoy Hand Unit, Vest Pocket Unit, Large Hydraulic-Nozzle Agitation Tank Unit, Motorised Tank Unit. Also A Few of the Many Industrial & Processing Applications, Motor Car Unit. On the back page is a list of where Scalebuoy Units have been installed.sciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, frank a stevenson, r h s abbott, jnr, bendigo electronic coy of australia, civic square bendigo, cambridge press

Pokerwork was a popular home craft in the 1930s. This small domestic piece using plywood is typical of objects made at home or school in that period.One of two matching circular pieces of ply, Incised, painted and lacquered with holes top and bottom for ties with image of Kookaburra and leaves. Incised to lower centre of cover 'd'oyleys'.painted and lacquered with image of Kookaburra and leaves and Incised to lower centre of cover 'd'oyleys'.mary burke, donald, taffe, ballarat, pokerwork, craft