Historical information
The cash box was used at the Williamstown Customs House.
Significance
Cash box in use by the Port Phillip Sea Pilot Service for many years.
Physical description
a tin cash box inscribed with Port Phillip Sea Pilots on front side
Inscriptions & markings
Chubb's Patent: Makers to her Majesty: 1456475: 28 Queen Victoria St: London. Port Phillip Sea Pilots on the outside.
Subjects
References
- Counter - Customs House, Williamstown, circa 1871 The Williamstown and Flinders Street Custom Houses were completed in the first half of the 1870s, and designed by the same government architect, Peter Kerr, so it is possible that similar fittings were used in both buildings.
