Hecla electric jug, owned by Colvin family of GreensboroughCeramic electric jug, 24o volt, pale yellow cream, skirted design, with sliding Bakelite lid and double elementHecla Australia (on lid), [Model] J9, NPA Ps90hecla, electric jugs

The Speedie electric jug is a classic piece of Australian domestic appliance history, known for its distinctive ceramic body and early electric heating design. This is rare piece as it is in new condition including electrical cord and box. A primrose color electric jug with box and electrical cord. A page of the Hearld Sun dated 21st January 1968 is inside the jug.Speedie Electric Jug J1 Colour Primrose Cat No J1 Volts 240 Watts 1600electric jug, jug, sunshine potteries

Spare electric elements for electric jugs were available from many stores to replace burnt out ones. This type of element was typically used by Sunshine Potteries in their range of electric jugsSunshine Potteries Electric Jug Element and PackagingComplete Ready To Fit Jug Assembly Best Quality Fits All Makes Of Electric Jugs 230 - 250 Volts 1600 Watts Made in Australia exclusive to G. J. Coles & Coy Limitedpottery, drayton, potteries

This electric jug was donated by Joseph "Joe" Wlodarczyk, from his personal collection.A cream-coloured HECLA electric jug. It has a small square label indicating the words in upper case printed letters HECLA. It has a chocolate brown coloured flip lid. The jug also has signs of sticky residue on the bottom, along with gray wear marks from the jug being dragged along. The electrical cord is also missing.HECLA HECLA AUSTRALIAhecla electric jug, electric jug, jug, joseph 'joe' wlodarczyk

Electric kettles were invented by the English to speed up tea preparation. In Australia fancy ceramic electric jugs quickly became a status symbol. During the Great Depression era anyone who could offer you a cuppa from a beautiful Electric Kookaburra Jug was considered to be doing well. Made by Nilsen Porcelain Australia in the 193Os, these kettles were unique for their charming art deco bird shape. Nilsen Electric Kookaburra Jugs are now regarded as a classic Australian icon prized by collectors. Oliver John Nilsen was born in Collingwood, Victoria in 1894. In 1916 he began his own electrical business, Oliver J. Nilsen & Co. (later Oliver J. Nilsen (Australia) Ltd). Nilsen's manufactured goods included such diverse products as transformers, bearings, battery chargers, bells, buzzers and gongs, porcelain ware, fuses, insulators and neon signs. Nilsen Porcelain Australia was a smaller company within the Nilsen group. Nilsen still operates as an electro-technology company operating throughout AustraliaThis jug is an excellent example of art deco ceramic appliances of the 1930s to 1950s on both a local and national level. It is also representative of products developed by a major Australian manufacturer. Earthernware ceramic jug, moulded in art deco style to represent an Australian kookaburra.vintage electric kettles, kitchen appliances, nilsen australia

The Sunshine Sunray electric jug is an example of an Australian ceramic appliance design, produced in the mid-20th century by Sunshine Pottery, Sunshine, Cream coloured porcelain electric jug, featuring the rays of the sun, a frog's mouth with two holes on top, seven circular ribs around jug, high glaze, and two labels with on the side and the other on the bottomSide - Sunshine Electric Bottom - Sunshine Electrix Sunshine Vicelectric jug, jug, sunshine pottery

A colored photograph deplicting a ceramic Sunshine Electric Jug and long with appears to be a ceramic water basket with a metal handledrayton, sunshine potteries, potteries, pottery

This electric jug was donated by Joseph "Joe" Wlodarczyk, from his personal collection. The J9 electric jug is a vintage Australian ceramic appliance, most commonly associated with HECLA, a well-known manufacturer of domestic electrical goods. Sunshine Pottery on contract made many of these HECLA jugs. Glazed ceramic body, typically in pale cream with cream swivel lid. The electrical cord is missing.Bottom - J9hecla electric jug, electric jug, jug, joseph 'joe' wlodarczyk

The Speedie electric jug is a classic piece of Australian domestic appliance history, known for its distinctive ceramic body and early electric heating design. This item came from Joseph 'Joe' Wlodarczyk electric jug collection Glazed Pale blue porcelain jug with art deco design features with black hinged lid. Electrical cord is missing.Lid - Speedie Bottom - Trademark symbolelectric jug, jug, joseph 'joe' wlodarczyk

The Wynyard electric jug is a distinctive example of Australian domestic innovation, especially popular from the 1920s through the 1970s. Cream and brown spotted porcelain body with a brown bakelite swivel lid. Electrical lead is missing.electric jug, jug, wynard jug

The Wynyard electric jug is a distinctive example of Australian domestic innovation, especially popular from the 1920s through the 1970s. Cream and tan spotted porcelain body with a black bakelite swivel lid. Electrical lead is missing.electric jug, jug, wynard jug

Speedie electric jug, green earthenware.Speedie for AC only Wattage 1600 Voltage 230 V/AC/J1domestic equipment, food preparation, kitchen

1950s. Keeps boiling and doesn't turn off automatically.Used by a resident of the Kiewa Valley Yellowish cream ceramic body of jug with black bakelite hinged lid. One end is a spout and the other the plug and handle. The cord is brown and white and of medium length. It has a thermostat.Printed on the Base: 240V - 1650W / Model No EEJ I-AC only / App. No. N550 / Jug Body by / Fowler Ware.electric jug, fowlers ware

Cream Ceramic electric jug with brown bakelite lid. Element attached inside. Does not have electric cord.Hecla on lid appears to have patent mark on base f jug.

This bowl is a classic piece of Australian domestic appliance history, known for its distinctive ceramic body and colors.The electric jug has a green molted feature, the lid is slighter darker than the jug body, a clean glazed makes it shine in appearance. The jug features a person's face, eyes, nose, Mouth & ears.A label on the bottom of the jug is ineligible to readsunshine pottery

Mottled earthenware jug with black plastic lid and black and white fabric cordTemuka Wag. Vitrifieddomestic items, appliances

White Ceramic Electric Jug - Used in the Wilson family, D'Alton Streetstawell

Les Noble worked for many years at the Drayton Pottery (Sunshine Pottery)sunshine pottery, pottery, potteries, draytons, noble

Melchoir Bajada's photographs of the S&DHS Society 50th Anniversary activities3215.01 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.02 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.03 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.04 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.05 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.06 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.07 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.08 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.09 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.10 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.11 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.12 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.13 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.14 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.15 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.16 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.17 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.18 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.19 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.20 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setup 3215.21 - Sunshine and District Historial Society 50th Anniversary Photographs - Room Setupsunshine & district historial society

8375a: The Victorian soldier settlement scheme created in 1917 to lease farming land to soldiers and nurses returning from WW1. The Scheme was heavily criticised. Some reasons for this were the settlers' lack of capital, the size of the land allocated, and the prices of agricultural products both purchased and sold by the farmers. In the wake of WW2, the soldier settlement scheme was refined and, under the supervision of the Soldier Settlement Commission, was re-established. The Yarraberb Settlement was one of the settlements established in 1948. 8375b: Archibald Edmund "Archie" Robertson was born in Eaglehawk in 1884 to Martin Robertson and Anna Margaretha/Hannah Marguerita (nee. Weseloh/Wesloah). Robertson was a commissioned officer during WW1 and contributed to the welfare and advancement of the California Gully community. Following his death in 1922, following a fall from his bike, the community honoured Robertson with a memorial seat in 1923. Bendigo Easter Fair Charity Carnival 1964 - raffle ticket (ticket No 3604) costing one shilling, in support of Miss Merilyn Payne (in aid of the Bendigo Hospital and Bendigo Hospital and Home for the Aged). The raffle offers seven prizes ranging from 1st - electric floor polisher to 7th - electric jug. Printed by Cambridge Press, Bendigo.bendigo easter fair 1964, raffle ticket

These photographs are of various porcelain objects held in the Sunshine and District Historical Society Collection. The actual objects have been catalogued separately. The electric jugs were made at the Sunshine Pottery Works. The insulators have been made at either the Sunshine Pottery Works or the Maribyrnong Permacite & Clay Pottery Works.5810.01 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.02 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.03 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.04 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.05 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.06 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.07 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.08 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.09 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.10 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.11 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.12 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.13 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.14 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.15 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.16 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.17 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.18 - Porcelain Products - Electric Jug.jpg 5810.19 - Porcelain Products - Insulator.jpg 5810.20 - Porcelain Products - Insulator.jpg 5810.21 - Porcelain Products - Insulator.jpg 5810.22 - Porcelain Products - Insulator.jpg 5810.23 - Porcelain Products - Insulator.jpg 5810.24 - Porcelain Products - Insulator.jpg 5810.25 - Porcelain Products - Insulator.jpg 5810.26 - Porcelain Products - Insulator.jpg 5810.27 - Porcelain Products - Insulator.jpg 5810.28 - Porcelain Products - Insulator.jpg sunshine potteries, maribyrnong potteries

This bowl is a classic piece of Australian domestic appliance history, known for its distinctive ceramic body and colors. The Sunshine Porcelain Potteries made many of items including electric jugs, toasters, lamps, bowls & electrical insulators. Many of these bowls were a jug prior to the top section being cut off.A round shaped bowl cream in colour with matted green patten design with ten grooved lines running from top to the base. The bowl is very smooth and has a clear proof glazed to shine.Sticker with number 8 on bottom could possibly be a previously collector's ID mark or sales marker.sunshine pottery

This electric kettle/Jug is shaped in the style of the Art Deco period 1930's to 1950's (in Australia). It was at the beginning of the wave of creative kitchen ware to stimulate and impress visitors and uplift what used to be a boring kitchen environment.This "art deco" electric kettle is very significant to the Kiewa Valley because it highlight that rural families and areas where in step (fashion wise) to their city "cousins". In the mid 1900's "the fashion" in Australia was (on the whole) always some years behind that of England and Europe. The years after World war II reduced the time lag between the "advanced fashion" of Europe and England and came in step with the emerging modern American fashion. American "film stars" started have their fashion projected onto the silver screens.This electric Fowler ware is a ceramic hot water jug. Its shape is in the "Art Deco" style of the early 1920's.On base "240V - 1650W" below this "AC ONLY" below this "MODEL No. EEJ" "APP. No. N550" below this "JUG BODY BY" under this and in script style "FOWLER WARE" below this "1583"kitchen appliances, tea/coffee preparation, light refreshments, hospitality offerings, art deco styles in appliances

Hecla produced a wide range of appliances for domestic use, beginning with heaters and later branching out to a wider range of kitchen appliances Hecla was established by Clarence William Marriott, a young Melbourne metal worker. He began manufacturing Australia's first carbon filament electric radiators in 1899. He originally worked for his father James Marriott who commenced business in Melbourne as an art metal worker in 1872 and was, in 1907, appointed as the official art metal worker to the Victorian Government producing items including the ornate iron gates and gas lamp standards outside Melbourne's Parliament House. With the invention of nickel chromium wire after 1900, C.W. Marriott began making more efficient heating elements using this new material in 1916. After being influenced by the eruption of Mount Hekla in Iceland, on 19 December 1918, Clarence registered the brand name "HECLA" with an erupting volcano as its logo. The company Hecla Electrics Pty Ltd was officially registered in 1922. In 1928 the company adopted the advertising slogan, 'By Hecla, it's Good'. The Hecla range rapidly expanded to include electric heaters and radiators, electric foot warmers, electric kettles, ceramic & metal electric jugs, immersion hot water elements, electric fans, electric coffee percolators, electric toasters, electric grillers and stoves, electric irons and electric frypans, clocks and curling wands. Electric blankets were introduced shortly after WWII.In 1930, a controlling interest in Hecla Electrics Pty Ltd was acquired by General Electric Corporation. Clarence William Marriott died in June 1967 in Melbourne, Victoria.This item is representative of a common domestic appliance used throughout Australia. It was manufactured by a pioneering Australian company.A small chrome steel toaster manufactured by Hecla Australia. It has a door on either side which flips down to insert or remove a slice of bread on each side, Each door has two black Bakelite knobs. The electric element is placed down the centre of the cavity. A detachable electric cord is included.240 Volts, 600 Watts. Cat. No. T4 Submitted to Electrical Approval Board Ref Application A1/AD01 SECV 240 Volt 600 Watt MANFED. IN AUSTRALIA SOLID BRASSelectrical appliances, hecla corporation australia, clarence william marriott, domestic appliances

Double-sided A5 size advertisement for public auction under instructions from the owner on Monday, September 23, 1935 on the property - seven room brick residence with frontage 456 feet by approximately 280 feet and contentents of dwelling fully listed over 4 pages. Agent - J.B. McAlpin, Ringwood, opp. station. Phone Ringwood 7; after houres 236. Auctioneer - ED. Haughton & Co., 379 Collins Street, Melbourne. Phone Central 4101.Contents of Dwelling List - includes: DINING ROOM - Dining Room Suite - 6 pieces; Oval Blackwood Dining Table; Blackwood Sideboard; Axminster Carpet, Occasional Table hand carved; Oak Trays; Seascape, Landscape and other Pictures; 2 Marble Vases; Marble Monkey and 3 other Small Ornaments; Ash Tray and Poker; One Pair Stencilled Curtains. Two Large Vases, 1 with floral design; Salad Bowl and Servers; One Dozen Dessert Knives; Nine Stainless Teaspoons (new); Plated Vases; Plated Jam Dishes; Plated Cream Bowl; Silver Plated Cake Dish; One Pair Plated Shell Butter Dishes; Lino Border. LOUNGE ROOM - 2 Pictures and 1 pair with Circular Frames; Floral Jardinere and Pot Plant; Cabinet Gramophone "Singola"; Records; Player Piano "Cable"; Piano Stool; 31 Rolls; Roll Cabinet; Quantity of Music; Music Case, Leather; Portable Gramophone "Decca"; Floral Design Jardinere; Wicker Occasional Table; 2 Wicker Chairs; Cane Lounge Settee; Blackwood Bookcase; 9 Volumes Universal Encyclopedia; 10 Vols Children's Encyclopedia; Floral Vase; Black and Gold Vase; One pair Plated Vases; Ash Pan; Lino Border (Lounge Room); One Carpet, green 13.6 x 10.6; One Cushion; Hall Stand; Pedestal; Floral Design Jardinere; Painting on Canvas (Landscape); Hall Runner Carpet 25 feet; Hall Lino 29ft 5 in.; Five Door Mats (small). FIRST BEDROOM - Arm Chair (Leather); English Oak Dressing Table; English Oak Wash Stand Marble Top; Toilet Set (Four pieces); Silk Fire Screen; Blackwood Occasional Table; Black and Gold Vase; Pair China Vases; Pair Glass Vases; Single Glass Vase; One Kewpie Lavender Bag; Bedroom Lino 15.6 x 13.6. SECOND BEDROOM - Arm Chair (Leather); Dressing Table; Wash Stand; 3 Piece Toilet Set; One Vase (Pink Cameo Design); Two Ornaments (one round); Bedroom Lino 13.5 x 12.10; 3 Pictures; 2 Pairs Curtains (applique, stenc'ld); Pair Curtain Poles. THIRD BEDROOM - Lino approx 14ft x 10ft; Two Green Mohair Mats; Pair Pictures (White frames); One Picture ("The Mourners"); Picture ("The Wanderer Found"); Small Picture; Wicker Chair. FOURTH BEDROOM - Duchess Chest 5 drawers; Corner Wardrobe and Curtains; One Single Bed & Wire Mattress; Single Bedding; Lino on floor 14ft x 6ft 6in.; Occasional Table; 3 Pictures; Two Door Mats; Hall Runner (Carpet) 21ft. BREAKFAST ROOM - Two Wicker Chairs; Cushion; Brown Cushion; Four Vienna Chairs; Jardinere; Kerb (Wooden). 3 Pictures; Oil Painting (Canvas); 2 Pictures; Lino 14ft x 14ft; Brown Table Cover; Fruit Set; Robur Tea Pot; Plaque; China Biscuit Barrel; Glass Fruit Bowl; Pair Pickle Jars and Stand; Wooden Inkstand; Pair Ash Trays; Two Marble Vases; Glass Vase; Electric Jug and Electric Toaster (practically new); Picture; Cushion; Pair Lace Curtains; Curtain Rod; Three Lace Curtains; Brass Curtain Rods (3); Lino in Vestibule 10ft x 8 ft; Lino in Kitchen 12.6 x8.6; Coal Scuttle; Two Small Tables (1 Baize Cover). STORE ROOM - Briquette Grate; Three Coir Mats (one new); Three Small Door Mats (new); Glass Fire Screen; 2 Alm Pot Stands; Steel Pot Stand; Lady's Bicycle; 2 Electric Radiators (one large); White Cabinet; Stretcher Bed; Large Cot with Wire Mattress; Kerb; Fender and Irons; Lino on floor 12ft x 12ft; Lino in Storeroom 6ft x 6ft; Three Large Window Blinds; Clothes Horse; Dressmaker's Fitting Stand; Dressmaker's Bust; Window Display Bust; Blouse Stand; Small Display Stand; Meat Cover (Metal); Leather Portmantau; Leather Kit Bag; Four Large Wooden Drawers; Picnic Basket; Mattress, Bolster and Pillow; Cot Quilt; One Long-handled Feather Duster; Feather Duster; Wicker Lounge; Cane Soiled Linen Basket; One New Washing Tub; Copper Preserving Pan; Lino in Laundry 8 x 6 approx; Carpet Sweeper; Small Jardinere; 2 Shopping Baskets; Kitchen Safe; Kitchen Table; Three Buckets; 1 Horse Rub patent (prac new); Wooden Pot Plant Stand; Bird Cage and Stand; Pair Steps; Pair Small Steps; Metal Meat Safe; Wooden Safe; Hand worked Table Cover; Pair Poplin Silk Curtains (new); Leather Table Centre. VERANDAH - 12ft Shelving with doors; 35ft Shelving; Wooden Stand; Axe Stand (wooden); Nine feet Wooden Shop Fittings; Small Filing Cabinet; Three Window Frames & Glass; 38 Pot Plants Fernery; 9 Hanging Baskets Fernery; Electric Shop Sgn Storeroom; 2 Small Electric Shop Signs Storeroom; 2 Garden Sprays; Doll's Pram and Doll; Two Boxes Paint and Slate; Crystal Radio Set; New Canvas Blind & Roller 6ft.; Electric Light Reflectors (two); Two pieces of Painted Baize; Small Vice; Sprinkler; One Gallon Tin of Spray Oil; 2 Packets of "Aresto"; Two Hurricane Lamps; One Pair Spring Balance Scales; Small Pair Spring Balance Scales. WASH HOUSE - Pair Heavy Tracers (2); Pair Reins; Back Band; One Tug; Pair Hames; One Pair Neck Bands (2); Four Manger Balls; Pair Knee Pads; Kicking Strap complete; Leather Head Stall; Collar Pad; Knife Board and Tin Polish; Fork Cleaner; Foot Spray Pump. TOOL SHED - One Stewart Horse Clipper; Approx 120ft Ribbed Hose; 100ft ½in Hose; Child's Scooter; Tin Box; Ferret Box; One Tool Box; Tomato Hoe; Sprinkler; Two Large Augers; Large Watering Can; Medium Watering Can; Small Watering Can; Wooden Tool Chest; Rope, Tackle and two Pulleys; Six pieces of Lino; Three Small Canvas Blinds; Lawn Mower 14in.; Lawn Mower 12in.; Grass Catcher; 8 Pieces Garden Tools; Barrow; Quantity of Timber; Quantity of Flower Pots; Quantity of Wire; 4 Egg & 1 Fowl Crates Feed Room; 1 Gallon Demijohn Feed Room; Quantity of Shelving Feed Room; Quantity of Cement, Lime; Six Small Doors; Roll of Perforated Cardboard; Boot Rack; Coat Rack; 3 Automatic Sanitary Disinfectant; Pair Neck Straps and Rope; One Chimney Top & 3 Vent Bks.; Desk; Large Pump; Large Safe; Pair Sliding Door Rollers & Fittings; Two Wooden Doors; Box Sundries; Wooden Frame and Glass; 2 Vienna Chairs; Delivery Cart; Five Boxes Tiles; Quantity Agricultural Pipes; Wooden Bench; Wood Horse; Earthenware Drain Pipe; Wooden Tool Box; New Brass Spray "Rego"; Two Wood Planes. YARD - Pair Hedge Clippers; Box Containing 2 prs Secateurs & Punch; Box Tools seven pieces; Box Sundries; Lawn Weeder and Seed Sower; Box Tools 6 pieces; Two Saws; Bundle Files; Three Braces; Box of 13 pieces Gimlets etc.; Five Spanners; Box Tools 4 pieces; Four Coal Chisels; Box 7 pieces of Tools; Box of 5 pieces of Tools; Box of Docket Books; One Printing set; Large Figure Printing Set; Small Figure Printing set; Price Ticket Box; Air Brush Writing Set Complete; Six Shelves & Brackets, one Hat Rack, in store room; Box of Three Hammers; Two Boot Lasts; Tin of Polishing Oil; Box of Gardening Sundries; 2 Bicycle Pumps Saddle & Clips; One Covered Baking Dish; 200 c.p. Globe (Vestibule); Two "Dimolite" Fittings; Set of Five Canisters; Earthernware Jar; Two shopping Cases; Dinner Set 11 pieces; Box of Sundry Tins; Alm Fish Pan and Drainer; Two Ventilators; Knife Board & 3 Bread Saws; Soap Box and Jewel Case; Three Glass Articles. OFFICE FURNITURE - Steel Safe (Office Safe); Office Table five drawers; Cabinet 8 drawers; Cupboard three shelves; Selves 2ft3in x 1ft6in; Cheque Protector; Remington Typewriter; Typewriter Adjustable Table; Burroughs Bookkeeping Machine and Stand Complete; Small Office Table; Glass Show Case3ft9 x 2ft.; Four Sheets M. Glass; Five Sheets P. Glass; Gent's Overcoat new; Boy's Pullover New; Small Show Case; Duplicator (complete); Webster's Dictionary; Family doctor's Book. Two Dictionaries; Bundle of Three Books; Art Decorating Book; Bundle of Three Books; Bundle of Three Books; Two Books (Children's); (Multiple) Bundles each containing Three Books; Leather Riding Whip; Tort-shell Inkstand & Calendar; Tort-shell Folding Letter Rack; Water Filter; Thermos Flask and Case; Two Waste Paper Baskets.

Vase & Jug made from shells brought home by Gunner Harold Salmon VX32173, enlisted 18.06.1940, discharged 17.09.1945.1 Jug, made from shell casing and silver or chrome plated. Handle is made of rifle cartridges soldered on. .2 Brass casing for "shotgun" type starting system for English Electric engine..1 Stamped on side "Syria", base has "75 DE C ATL 953 18C" .2 On base "Cart Elec Eng Start ME 79/2 87 ME 7/80", stamped in black ink "N010 Mk2"arms-ammunition, metalcraft-brassware, epns, trench art

Blacksmiths started forging simple flat irons in the late Middle Ages. Plain metal irons were heated by a fire or on a stove. Some were made of stone. Earthenware and terracotta were also used, from the Middle East to France and the Netherlands. Flat irons were also called sad irons or smoothing irons. Metal handles had to be gripped in a pad or thick rag. Some irons had cool wooden handles and in 1870 a detachable handle was patented in the US. This stayed cool while the metal bases were heated and the idea was widely imitated. Cool handles stayed even cooler in "asbestos sad irons". The sad in sad iron (or sadiron) is an old word for solid, and in some contexts this name suggests something bigger and heavier than a flat iron. Goose or tailor's goose was another iron name, and this came from the goose-neck curve in some handles. In Scotland people spoke of gusing (goosing) irons. At least two irons were needed on the go together for an effective system, one would be in use, and the other re-heating. Large households with servants had a special ironing-stove for this purpose. Some were fitted with slots for several irons, and a water-jug on top.An early domestic object that gives an insight into how the ironing of clothes was done before the electric type irons we use and take for granted today. Flat iron cast iron with stand None item too badly corrodedflagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff hill maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, iron, flat iron, laundry, clothes ironing, sad iron, tailors goose