Physical description

Poster - featuring a photo of a cable tram in Elizabeth St at Pelham St, 12 small cable tram tickets and four bell punch tickets, along with a leather button ticket pin holder and four safety pins. Items placed on a large sheet of cardboard with a green overlay. The photo, pin holder and four small tickets and the bell punch strip tickets glued onto a off white sheet with brass folded pins securing the items to the green card. The rest of the tickets glued to the green card. Underneath is a small sign with the words in blue and red colours "Cable Tram Conductor's Ticket Pins".



Photo - grip car - well loaded showing destination of Brunswick and a sign on the side "Direct to Football". Behind the Gripman is a conductor. Bogie cable trailer 480. In the background is the building on the corner of Elizabeth St and Pelham St (still there in 2018) and in the background is Evan Evans the flag makers building. 192H x 248W - has silver fish damage along top edge, lifting in the top left hand corner from the backing sheet and minor edge damage. Dirt marks



Small Tickets from Top left hand to Bottom right hand. Tickets 1, 4 to 8 - torn from a strip - pre-purchased? Tickets 9 to 12, torn from a block.



Each Ticket has been separately imaged.



T1 - 1 1/2d City Tram ticket - Trip Slip -MTO-Co - pink card with purple ink - faded, punched - 27H x 59W

T2 - Transfer, MMTB, from Carlton and Prahran lines to other lines as indicated by punch marks with times by the quarter hour - green print on off white card - 31H x 71W - faded.

T3 - as above - but not so faded, part town in bottom left hand corner.

T4 - 1 1/2d - cable tram section ticket - MMTB - brown print on yellow card - not punched - 24H x 58W

T5 - as for 1 - but MMTB - green print on yellow card - heavily creased - 26H x 57W

T6 - similar to 5, smaller dimensions and not heavily creased.

T7 - 1 1/2d general ticket - detailing lines or section - red ink on pink card - 26H x 56W

T8 - 2d - MTCo - Adult or two children under 12, single, black ink on blue card - 24H x 58W

T9 - Prahran and Toorak cable tramways check ticket - transfer - conditions on ticket - has 114 in top right hand corner, orange paper, black ink, MMTB - 36H x 67W.

T10 - Carlton and Prahran - as for 9, with 17 in top right hand corner, grey paper with black printing - 38H x 65W.

T11 - Carlton, N. Carlton, Prahran, St Kilda - as above - 105, brown paper, black ink - 38H x 65W

T12 - as for 9, but with 74 in top right hand corner - 35H x 71W



Strip tickets - left to right



S1 - 1 1/2D, bell punch type - 15 fares - purple card black printing - Up ticket - 182H x 39W

S2 - ditto - down direction, no conductor details - 182H x 37W

S3 - ditto - 3d, Up direction, orange card, black print - 182H x 39W - has some dirt marks

S4 - ditto - 3d down direction - 138H x 38W - has some dirt marks.



Leather buckle - cut leather with a strip to secure the pins - button hole on the base with four safety pins placed into it. Pins have rust marks and general deterioration. Leather - 90H x 45W, pins - 3 about 90H x 25W and one 55H x 16W. See Reg Item 1923 for the use of the pins and leather buckle.