Large rectangular trunk lined with green and cream material. On each side is a mesh dome which opens with a clasp (to protect certain items?) including top and bottom. Brass clasp with locking mechanism, who smaller latches on either side. Leather handle, leather re-enforcements on each corner, attached with tacks. Exterior made of flaxite fiberBrass plaque on left hand side, 'Warranted Flaxite fiber rec trade mark featherweight' with feather in the centre. Sticker saying 'luggage Melbourne (sp.-st.) Cootamundra (NSW) Victorian Railways' on right hand side.personal effects, travel goods, trunk, travel, lock, storage, flaxite, featherweight

A Donnay 'Graphite Fiber' racquet with no net. Materials: Metal composite, Plastic, Adhesive tape, Leathertennis

A Spalding Big Bow ' model fiber-laminate racquet. Materials: Composite Materials, Plastic, Nylon, Adhesive tape, Leathertennis

Used for spinning, twisting fibers such as wool, flax, hemp, cotton into yarn.Wooden spindle with metal tip. Ridges along spout.

A Dura-Fiber prototype tennis racquet, featuring open throat, handle grip wrapped in leather and plastic butt cap. No net. Materials: Wood, Metal, Lacquer, Glue, Paint, Leather, Adhesive tapetennis

8426.1 - Coiled length of white 'cable' tied with more modern orange plastic fiber. Two end reveal a core of black powder with fibre wrap surrounded by waterproofing further wrapped with white cotton fibre.

An Awl is used to make indentations in wood or other materials in order to ease the insertion of a nail or screw. The blade is placed across the fibers of the wood, cutting them when pressure is applied. The Awl is then twisted through 90 degrees which displaces the fibers creating a hole. This then gives a start to the nail or screw being inserted into the work piece. There is a difference between an Awl and a Bradawl, the Awl is a small hand-held tool with a sharpened point and a Bradawl is similar but is flattened at its tip to produce a sharp chisel edge.An everyday tool used in carpentry, the subject item at this time cannot be associated with an historical event, person or place, provenance is unknown, item assessed as believed to have been produced during the 20th century.Awl with wooden handle with brass ferrule & steel pointed shaftStamped on handle J McArthur (owner)flagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, awl, j mcarthur, carpenders tools, woodworking tools, nail starter

A Dura-Fiber XT tennis racquet, featuring black frame with open throat, handle grip wrapped in leather and plastic butt cap printed with manufacturer's logo. Vinyl strings with clips at string intersections in sweet spot area. Materials: Wood, Metal, Fibre, Leather, Adhesive tape, Vinyl, Plastic, Inktennis

A Dura-Fiber prototype tennis racquet, featuring open throat, handle grip wrapped in brown leather and plastic butt cap. Vinyl strings, blue spraypainted logo in centre of net. No other labelling. White shaft/shoulders. Materials: Wood, Metal, Lacquer, Glue, Paint, Leather, Adhesive tape, Vinyl, Plastictennis

A Dura-Fiber XT-Boron tennis racquet, featuring IPC core, open throat, handle grip wrapped in brown leather and plastic butt cap. Manufacturer's logo on shaft and butt cap. Plastic strips around head as anchor for strings. Materials: Wood, Metal, Fibre, Leather, Adhesive tape, Vinyl, Plastic, Inktennis

A Dura-Fiber Lite tennis racquet, featuring IPC core, orange frame with open throat, handle grip wrapped in brown leather and plastic butt cap. Manufacturer's logo on shaft and butt cap. Plastic strips around head as anchor for strings. Materials: Wood, Metal, Fibre, Leather, Adhesive tape, Vinyl, Plastic, Inktennis

A Spalding tennis racquet, with string whipping around shoulders. Handle grip wrapped in perforated leather and plastic butt cap featuring manufacturer's name/logo. On side of shaft: 'FIBER REINFORCED THROAT AND BOW'. Manufacturer's name appears on throat. Materials: Wood, Glue, Metal, Lacquer, Nylon, Leather, Ink, Plastic, Fibre, Paint, Stringtennis

North Vietnamese NVA Pith Helmet worn by 'the communist Viet Minh and later the People's Army of Vietnam of the North' (sourced from Wikipedia 10.02.2020 Representative of NVA uniform designated during the Vietnam War.Green pith helmet, fiber mould with cloth adhered to exterior and painted interior. Band and trimming on exterior in same green and button at top. Features NVA insignia at front, and has four ventolation holes on sides. Interior has intact suspension straps in grey blue and chin/helmet strap in brown with silver coloured buckle.NVA insigniahelmet, uniform

A Spalding ' Big Bow' fiber laminate tennis racquet with open throat, plastic butt cap and handle wrapped with suede leather. Manufacturer's name on base of head on reverse and model name on base of head on obverse. Manufacturer's 'S' logo features on lower section of throat and on butt cap. Materials: Adhesive tape, Leather, Ink, Vinyl, Fibreglass, Plastictennis

A Dura-Fiber XR-Graphite tennis racquet, featuring IPC core, brown frame with open throat, handle grip wrapped in tan leather printed with manufacturer name. Plastic butt cap. Manufacturer's logo on shaft and butt cap. Plastic strips around head as anchor for strings. Materials: Wood, Metal, Fibre, Leather, Adhesive tape, Vinyl, Plastic, Inktennis

A Dura-Fiber tennis racquet, featuring black frame with open throat, hand grip wrapped in (non-original) leather printed with Dunlop name. Paper butt cover printed with manufacturer's name. Manufacturer's name also along shaft. Logo sprayed onto net strings. Materials: Wood, Metal, Fibre, Leather, Adhesive tape, Vinyl, Plastic, Inktennis

A wooden racquet with orange and white painted surface and decal illustration of Ted Williams on the throat. Inscription across both sides of the racquet, from crown to stem: LAMINATED CONSTRUCTION/FOR CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY/CERTIFIED AND APPROVED BY/TED WILLIAMS/FOR ACTIVE AMERICANS/FIBER/FACE/SEARS/ROEBUCK AND CO. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Ribbon, Fibreglass, Leather, Plastic, Adhesive tape, Ink, Glue, Lacquertennis

Lack model metallic tongue depressor. General deterioration over its surface with presence of scratches, worn surfaces mostly at the edges of the piece, oxidation spots and resin plasters around the handle base with dust and fabric fibers glued to it. It has a serrated surface bellow the blade to facilitate tongue adherence. It has an adult medium size. No inscriptions or further details are present to determine manufacturer or owner.tongue depressor, lack's tongue depressor

Pair of child's leather boots. Fawn leather on upper, brushed cotton lined, wool rubber sole and heel. Decorative tan leather and stitching around upper. Silver coloured zip on arch with decorative stitching to toe. Stiff toe puffs and heel supportsOn sole ink stamped 'LEATHER UPPER COTTON LINED FIBER INNER SOLE WOOL RUBBER SOLE' Under decorative tan leather on upper Ink stamped '2 585 SIZE 9' On inner sole Ink stamped 'WRAY'S NATURAL FORM FOOTWEAR MADE IN ENGLAND"

Two-part object. (1) A Dura-Fiber XT tennis racquet, featuring black frame with open throat, hand grip wrapped in leather. Plastic butt cap printed with manufacturer's name. Manufacturer and model name also along shaft. (2) Brown & black vinyl head cover with zip. Printed with manufacturer and model name and words: 'TOTAL FIBREGLASS/MADE IN USA'. Materials: Wood, Metal, Fibreglass, Leather, Adhesive tape, Vinyl, Plastic, Inktennis

Two part object. (1) A Dura-Fiber XR-Graphite tennis racquet, featuring IPC core, brown frame with open throat, handle grip wrapped in tan leather printed with manufacturer name. Plastic butt cap. Manufacturer's logo on shaft and butt cap. Plastic strips around head as anchor for strings. (2) Original vinyl head cover with zip, featuring manufacturer name and logo and model name. Materials: Wood, Metal, Fibre, Leather, Adhesive tape, Vinyl, Plastic, Inktennis

Beautiful black silk top hat, lined with a 6cm wide band of leather, cream silk, and cream fiber board, with the markings - Wallworth 270 Bourke Street, Melbourne. First Class Award Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888-9. A signature on the headband reads Jn H Sargood. A small silk ribbon bow, possibly used to tighten the headband. Two air vents in top of crown - 0ne is external, with an eyelet in the centre of the crown. Sargood Family Notes in Clothing Box 157.Wallworth, 270 Bourke Street, Melbourne. First Class Award. Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne 1888-89. A printed royal coat of arms… MON DROIT. Also in black ink signature: Jn H Sargood 16/87.costume, male, silk top hat

Angus & Co. was a large ink, gum, and paste manufacturing company established in Melbourne in 1896 by Joseph Armstrong Angus (1860-1936.) The company's premises included a bottle works to supply bottles for its many products. The company supplied various inks, gums, and paste too many business and domestic customers. Mucilage is a thick, gluey substance produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms. These micro-organisms include protists who use it for their locomotion. The direction of their movement is always opposite to that of the secretion of mucilage. It is a polar glycoprotein and an exopolysaccharide. The mucilage in plants plays a role in the storage of water and food, seed germination, and thickening membranes. Cacti (and other succulents) and flax seeds are especially rich sources of mucilage. Mucilage is edible. It is used in medicine as it relieves irritation of mucous membranes by forming a protective film. It is known to act as a soluble, or viscous, dietary fiber that thickens the faecal mass, an example being the consumption of fiber supplements containing Psyllium seed husks. Traditionally, marshmallows were made from the extract of the mucilaginous root of the marshmallow plant (Althaea Officinalis). The inner bark of the slippery elm (Ulmus rubra), a North American tree species, has long been used as a demulcent and cough medicine and is still produced commercially for that purpose. Mucilage mixed with water has been used as a glue, especially for bonding paper items such as labels, postage stamps, and envelope flaps. Differing types and varying strengths of mucilage can also be used for other adhesive applications, including gluing labels to metal cans, wood to china, and leather to pasteboard. An early item from the late 1920s for office use as a glue by a well-known Melbourne manufacturer of office supplies of inks, glues, rubber stamps, and mucilage gums, etc.Bottle of Mucilage. Manufactured by Angus & Co Ltd Aust. Contents 20 Ozflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village

A Spalding 'Challenge Cup Oversize Bow' wood tennis racquet. Model name printed across throat on obverse and reverse. Manufacturer's logo features along shaft on both sides of shaft. On left side of shaft is printed: HANDCRAFTED NORTH AMERICAN/ASH AND HARDWOODS and OVERSIZE BOW FOR GREATER HITTING AREA. On other side of shaft is printed: FIBER REINFORCED/THROAT, BOW, AND SHAFT. Grip wrapped with leather printed with manufacturer name. White plastic butt cap features maker logo. Materials: Wood, Metal, Lacquer, Glue, Ink, Nylon, Paint, Plastic, Leathertennis

The harsh summer temperatures and the isolated rural environment(of the 1890's) provided the inventor of the "Coolgardie safe" (Arthur Patrick McCormick) with an idea to cool perishable foods by using water soaked "hessian" cloth to provide the "coolant" for the evaporation process to cool the inside temperature of the "safe". Items such as meat,cream/milk/butter and cool "drinks" are a few perishables that need cool environments , especially in isolated "ice free" locations. Cities during this time period had large "ice works" which delivered block ice to all areas that required a form of refrigeration. These ice blocks where held in early refrigerators to keep perishables cool to cold. This "Coolardie" safe was the next best thing for isolated rural households and travellers/campers/stockmen to provide a cooler environment for foodstuff affected by heat. Ice filled "esky" coolers and ice boxes are a modern day off shoot to the original Coogardie safe however they still rely on ice or frozen coolant bricks for cooling.This "Coogardie" safe is very significant to the Kiewa Valley and the Bogong High Plains because it represents not only the initiative thinking of the early settlers and communities but also the "primitive" solution to an everyday (1800s to 1930s) problem (before gas and electric run refrigerators) of keeping "perishables" at a low temperature and thereby prolonging their "shelf" life. This was before electricity and gas was available to the inhabitants of the Kiewa Valley and Bogong High Plains. Another cooling method for food was to have "water tight" containers dipped into the very cold streams running from the "cooler" alpine mountains and the Bogong High Plains. This however could not be carried out in all situations eg. fast flowing currents and locations away from streams. This "Coolgardie safe" is made from a medium grade steel enclosure and its appearance is of a perforated box with a wire handle and one side (long side) being a hinged "door" with a clasp securing "lock". There are air holes grouped into a small "boxed" pattern. Each "box" is divided by a crossed pattern, dividing the "holed" sections(4) into a diamond configuration of 49 small holes each. There are four sides (long) which have the perforations except for the base which does not. The base has an indentation with a loose "catch" tray to catch water spills. When in use the "box" is covered with a water "soaked" cloth. The wet cloth is used as "coolant" ie. fibers in the cloth hold the water droplets seep out evaporating the area and thereby (in mass) cooling the air inside the container.domestic refrigeration cabinets, coolgardie "safe", insect and vermin proof food containers, electric and gas free cold storage containers

In 1893 Harry Crowther Slingsby founded the company the family firm was at first wholesale bottlers and had established themselves in Bradford, England, later they had a branch in London. Harry Crowther Slingsby began to look into the invention of labor-saving devices for the company. He had recognised that working practices in the local factories relied heavily on manual hauling and gravity for the movement of raw materials and products from floor to floor. However, this did not solve the problem of moving items horizontally around large buildings. Slingsby then set about creating robust trucks and trolleys to move heavy loads with relative ease. Different designs were created for different purposes sack trolleys for moving large sacks of flour, sugar and dried fruit around grocery stores; high wheeled flat carts towed by one or two people; trucks fitted with wicker baskets carried fibers around textile mills and railway platform trolley to move luggage. The company is still in existence today manufacturing many different types of products.An item from the early to mid 20th century connected with railway memorabilia and a company that had humble beginnings to become today a leading UK manufacture. Railway platform luggage trolley large metal frame & wood top with 4 black metal cast iron wheels & metal structure at front with holes to put rope/harness through. Front 2 wheels swivel. Trolley painted red. Wheels are marked Bradford & Londonflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village

File sizes Review ideal file sizes for photos http://www.tennishistory.com.au/equipment/vintage-racquets/racquet-retailing.html Extract - Born in Bendigo in 1905, Albert Brewer came to Melbourne in 1920 to commence work as a furniture factory machinist at Rojos Pty.Ltd. in Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catgut Catgut is a type of cord[1] that is prepared from the natural fiber in the walls of animal intestines.[2] Usually sheep or goat intestines are used, but it is occasionally made from the intestines of a hog, horse, mule, pig or donkey. The name neither implies nor derives from any association with cats. The word catgut may have been an abbreviation of the word "cattlegut". Alternatively, it may have derived by folk etymology from kitgut or kitstring -- the word kit, meaning fiddle, having at some point been confused with the word kit for little cat. According to legend, string makers of the 17th century deliberately misled people to believe that the strings were made of cat intestines in order to protect their industry, as any association with cats was superstitiously believed to be extremely bad luck, and to be avoided at all costRacket or Racqet. A teardrop shaped wooden frame with tight interlaced network of strings. The strings are made of Cat-gut, several are broken. See narrative on Cat gut.The racket is branded Colt at the base of the tear drop and Designed for Young Players. Made by Brewer Australia. Maker of the Worlds famous style,is printed on the handle on both sides. The frame is made of laminated wood. The paint is in poor condition.The racket has a leather grip, the grip is is worn and stained. .Powerhouse Museum Collection Thesaurus Light bats consisting of a network of cord or nylon stretched in an elliptical frame, used chiefly in playing ball games like tennis, badminton, etc.Colt. Made by Brewers Australia. Maker of the Worlds Famous style leader. Designed for young playersball, sport, leather, game, racquet, racket, colt, cat gut, strings, young players, brewer, handle, grip