Physical description
Round, tank-shaped tobacco bowl with wooden stem and narrow metal mouthpiece. Unpolished.
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Round, tank-shaped tobacco bowl with wooden stem and narrow metal mouthpiece. Unpolished.
Porcelain bowl with blue circular line around rim. The centre of the bowl is decorated with a blue and brown motif of 2 children playing.
porcelain bowl, georgie ah ling, donald, market gardener.
Porcelain bowl with blue circular line around rim. The centre of the bowl is decorated with a blue and brown motif of 2 children playing
Base stamped "Made in Japan"
porcelain bowl, georgie ah ling, donald, market gardener, food bowl
Georgie's food bowl
Porcelain bowk with blue circular line around rim. The centre of the bowl is decorated with a blue and brown motif of 2 children playing.
Base stamped "Made in Japan".
porcelain bowl, georgie ah ling, donald, market gardener, food bowl
Round wooden pipe bowl with semi-circular curved stem and black mouth piece.
"K. & P. PETERSON" written on middle of silver piece joining stem and bowl. "PETERSON'S SYSTEM STANDARD" written on wooden bowl.
wooden pipe bowl, georgie ah ling, donald, market gardener.
Hand-made by Georgie Ah Ling from the root of a tree
Long, wooden pipe handle with wider mouth piece. Tobacco bowl juts from end of pipe shaft at a 45 degree angle. Hole in bowl for tobacco to be lit.
smoking pipe, georgie ah ling, donald, market gardener.
Round metal Tobacco Tin with green and black decoration. The central motif is of a man in a suit, smoking a pipe. Tobacco still in tin.
tobacco tin, georgie ah ling, donald, market gardener.
Rectangular wooden frame with 13 spindles, 2 rounded counting buttons on each spindle on the top section and 5 on each of the bottom section. Wooden frame slots into place with grooves cut out of the corners for joining together.
wooden counting frame, abacus, georgie ah ling, donald, market gardener.
Used for weighing produce for sale.
Metal Spring weighing scales.
"Salters Spring Balance 50 lb. by 1/4 lb. BRITISH MADE PATENT"
weighing scales, georgie ah ling, donald, market gardener, salters scales.
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