W Stephens operated a foundry in south Melbourne around 1900 the company made many cast iron architectural and domestic items that were decorative in design and used in the building industry of the time. Stephens Excelsior Foundry specialised in making decorative cast iron balustrades and brackets with intricate lacework used on verandas in the late Victorian period found in Australian homes. The company also made many other items of cast iron including fire grates down to wheel barrow wheels as their 1901 and 1908 catalogues describe. A domestic item made by one of Melbourne's early foundries that specialised in making decorative architectural cast iron items of all types that can be seen in many building still in use today throughout Australia.Fire grate cast iron with four legs and back support. Embossed "W.STEPHENS REGISTERED" on the back.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, fire grate

washboard wooden rectangular with ribbed glass grid and 2 legs.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village

Small portrait photograph of a male seated with crossed legs and a beard.Album S Portraitphotograph, portrait, male

Rectangular pine dining table. Four turned wood legs amess house, churchill island, table

Traditional wooden Spinning Wheel---wooden with Bobbin, tripod legs Nonespinning wheel, wool

Black dress trousers with red stripe down each leg.W. P.B. 81 3268 RAEME

Decorative domestic objects of this type where gathered by the regiment for use in formal occasions such as dinners, afternoon teas and suppers where guests were entertained. Often these were gifts from regimental officers as their time in the regiment ended.Representative of the type of object in regimental officers' messes. It is in excellent condition.Silver sugar bowl with four legs, two handles and a lid.sugar bowl, entertainment, formal ocasions, mess, officers

Table wooden with 4 wooden legs with two levels, supported by four columns. Dark varnish finish, some scratching of legs near floor level. Table has noticeable wobble.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village

Bag Holder for bags being filled with wheat or other grains. It has three sharp hooks for gripping the edge of the bag. Three legs splayed out at the bottom-one leg is movable.rural industry, agriculture

Clothing. Light blue nylon woman's panties with gusset and straight legs with 3 cm hem. Printed on lower leg on LHS, ''Sunday'' with heart shape and figure of Cupid. Ribbed elastic waistband.Tag on inside seam. ''Patolaine Lingerie Guanteed Quality Pbl'', ''Made from Ceylanese Yarn '' ''Trade Mark'' '' SW''.costume, female underwear, cream coloured nylon panties

black and white photo: whim , wooden wheel and frame; poppet legs at right, poppet legs at left centre distance. And at right of whim centre distance. Picket fence across front. 'Central Red White and Blue Whim' printed on bottom left corner. Written on back Eadies Whim & Central Blue - poppet legsorganization, business, central red, white and blue mine

Small stove used for cooking when camping; used kerosene for fuel.Small metal camp stove with 4 legs and integrated container for fuel.stoves, camping equipment

Wash stand wooden varnished dark. Shelf under & turned legs.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village

This wooden table is a classic, simple design seen in kitchens in the 19th and 20th centuryThe table is representative of furniture of the 19th and 20th centuryTable; wooden with four wooden turned legs, varnished, and unvarnished top. flagstaff hill, warrnambool, maritime museum, maritime village, flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, furniture, table, kitchen table, dining

The origins of the pen rack probably began when quill pens were being replaced by steel nib pens that were held at oblique angles for writing this method of writing started to gain popularity around 1820-1860. To understand the development of display racks to hold pens on a desk we need to understand the development of the pen itself. Before the early 19th-century steel pens were almost universally all barrel pens affixed to a holder pretty permanently. Pens were also not disposable. There were even steel pen repair services, just like the same services around at the time to repair you're fine quills. Individual slip nib pens which fit into a holder were originally pieces of a quill which came in a box of nibs and fit into a holder. These were disposable and meant to obviate the need to mend your quills. By 1831 you start to see more what they called “slip nib pens” or “portable pens” (easier to carry than a long barrel pen), but the idea of holding the nib at an oblique angle in the holder was an idea new enough that it warranted a patent. In 1831, an enterprising and very successful stationer and inventor, Sampson Mordan (inventor of the silver mechanical pencil) combined with one William Brockedon to patent the first oblique pen and oblique holder. In the patent application, they mention as the benefits that this would allow the writer to hold the pen more comfortably as well as it should allow the pen to last longer since both tines will be moving across the paper evenly. It appears at the time the idea of holding a pen obliquely was new. As a result of the popularity of the oblique pen many different designs of pen desk holders were being made, to keep pens suspended on a rack alleviated the possibility that the expensive new steel nibs with their holder could be damaged if left in a desk draw with other items.Double sided Pen Rack, decorative metal with four metal legsflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village

Negative print. Poppet Legs. Trolley rail,shed,mullock heep.cottage, miners, poppet legs., poppet legs.

Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photograph collection dating from the nineteenth century. Photograph of a man holding the rear right leg of a horse in order to shoe it.Catalogue number written on reverse in pencil churchill island, photograph

Slide. Bendigo Easter Fair. Daddy long legs - man on stilts.slide, bendigo, bendigo easter fair., bendigo easter fair.

Gasoline field stove with moveable legs and extendable arms for larger dixiesRogers Akron, Ohio 1951stove, field stove

Leggings were known to be worn by the Australian Light Horse and other units such as ArtilleryDark brown leather curved to leg shape, with leather straps and buckles.Pitt 1940light horse, leggings, uniform, wwii, world war 2

Leggings were known to be worn by the Australian Light Horse and other units such as ArtilleryDark brown leather curved to leg shape, with leather straps and buckles.2CLVDTlight horse, leggings, world war 1, uniform

This table is a reproduction of the Robin Boyd designed table (item F036) from the 2017 Boyd Collection by furniture makers K5.Victorian oak timber, (untitled) cork top, 4 tapered legs.walsh st furnishings, robin boyd