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Owned then donated by Isabel Pinnuck. Isabel was a local lady who Nursed at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and Cobram Hospital
White Nurse uniform, button front, pocket on right front.
Lystav
A total fabric
Tebilized
Wash as silk
Commercial Ledger donated by Vern Wyatt who with his father, George and uncle Les Wyatt operated Cobram’s main motor repair and service garage on the east side of Station Street ( Opposite the now Car wash).
Stamp holder Circa 1930
Wooden rubber stamp - commercial
Cobram Yarroweyah Trust
Medium size brown suit case. Single brown leatherette handle. Double latch closures with 2 keys attached. Metal protectors on each corner of case. Interior lined with dark green fabric. Interior of lid with pocket section.
Sodden and brass commercial stamp, insignia Yarroweyah
Yarroweyah
Wooden and brass commercial stamp
Unclaimed at Yarroweyah
Woodwork wooden router,
Wooden Handled commercial stamp used.
For Victoria Railways Commission
Round large stamping pad, used at local post office for multiple stamps.
Post office 14, 15,16, 17.
Victorian Railway uniform, Navy with silver front fastening buttons. Black silk lined.
V R
Drill bit with changable drill tip
Victorian British Army Officers Insignia Crown Pips - Rank of Major. Navy military uniform, silk lined, hook and eye fastening with false duffle buttons to front fastening.
Belonged to to Mrs Wm. Roy Denson. In Dairies she kept from 1916-1920, then Freda Sylvia Dorothy Burke, She related activities involved in with her sister Cpl. Marie Burke. At that time Freda lived at Hampton with hairdresser father, Robert O’Hara Burke.
VWAAC UNIFORM, (volunteer Women’s Australian Army Corps) Belonged to Mrs Wm. Roy Denison. Front fastening buttons made from brass.
Buttons have inscribed VWAAC
Three panelled food grater. All panels joined and movable.
WILLOW
Round wooden breadboard, some restoration work to centre of board.
Wooden framed, glass tube thermometer.
Inscribed with increments of numbers 1 to 170.
Bread knife, Sheffield steal, Green wooden handle.
Made in SHEFFIELD ENGLAND
Wood plane complete with mortice cutting to fit cutting blade and wooden wedge for grooving timber, Brass plate held firmly by 9 screws on top of mortice cutting guide. Steel plate guide on base is held firmly by 16 screws
Woodwork wooden router,
Commercial tin. Colours of green, dark blue, red and white.
Front of tin reads GDG Co FOR FOOD DAVIS SPARKLING GRANULATED GELATINE 8oz NET MANUFACTURED BY DAVIS GELATINE (Australia) PTY LTD Sydney Australia This food contains Not more than seven grains of sulphur dioxide to the pound
Blue and silver Petrol Iron. All British Pumpless Iron Manufactured by Handi Works Brisbane Shellite Circa 1920
Timber wood plane with steel blade with half moon cutting edge for tongue manufacture on timber surface, steel .blade is held firm by a tapered wooden wedge in a mortice cutting in plane block
Silver and black electric Iron, with matching electric cord. Hotpoint Inscriptions top back Hotpoint Inscription, rear back underside, CAT No 6266 G7 Made in Australia.
Hotpoint Inscriptions top back Hotpoint Inscription, rear back underside, CAT No 6266 G7 Made in Australia.
Brown leather single strap school bag. Front buckle and 2 strap closure.
“Lynette Ratcliffe” hand written in ink on inside of bag opening.
Wooden frame with morticed center with brass framed plate attached by 9 screws on top, steel frame plate on bottom is attached by 16 screws,cutting blade and wooden wedge for mortice center are missing
Rectangle boxed set of icing tools.Tala Icing set, box contains five metal pipping nozzles that attach to leather piping bag, three plastic piping nozzles, one acrylic piping bag, one leather piping bag one. Box is predominately Blue and Yellow with graphic of a person holding a piping bag..
blue and Red graphic writing, Tala, Icing Set. no 1703. Printed in England.
Oval shaped metal clothes iron with detachable wooden handle.
Gibson Tool Aust
Green depression Uranium egg mixer beater Crown Crystal Glass. Circa 1930
Crown crystal glass Sydney Made in England REG
wooden frame with handles morticed into cutting frame and held firmly by wooden wedges to set where plane blade to cut, cutting blade is morticed in main wooden frame and held firmly by tapered wooden wedge
Pair of cricket bat shaped butter bats, wooden, with corrugated cuts on inside of bats.
5/- (five pound a pair) M Bellhause 30 cm x 7cm
Victorian Collections acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.
