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Scandinavian design in furniture and accessories was very popular in the 1960s - 70s as represented by these two minor decorative candle holders of the period.
A small example of the very popular designs reflecting Scandinavian influences of the period.
In the modern Danish style of 1970s.
etched underneath each holder 'Stelton stainless 18/Denmark.'
WMF
donald, candle holders, crystal, wedding present
combination bottle and can opener with corkscrew.
"Buckle proof blue blade" and "Made by Henry Squire and Sons" etched into opposite sides of the handle.
john pascoe fawkner, melbourne, belgium
non-fiction
nursery catalogue, ballarat, horticulture
ireland, austria, taaffe, vienna
horseshoe, ornament, luck, tradition, ballarat
Handmade fan for social evenings made by and for Theresa (Tess) Taafe c. 1930s.
Small fan made of bakelite, lacework with sequins all hand sewn to netting backing.
Nil
fan, lady's fan, evening wear, tess lazarus, patrick taafe, redesdale.
This medallion was issued to all competitors at the 1996 Australian Rowing Championships to commemorate the official opening of the Sydney International Regatta Centre at Penrith , March 1996 in which Marion Taffe was rowing.
The Sydney International Regatta Centre at Penrith was opened in March 1996 as the new venue for the Sydney Olympic Games 2000. The national regatta 1996 was the first regatta held at the centre and used as a trial for its suitability for the Olympic rowing and canoeing events and the regatta was sponsored by ABN Amro.
rowing, regatta, sydney
The Catholic Church held an International Congress at Sydney in 1928. This was the first such gathering in the Southern Hemisphere and special trains were run from other states to convey visitors to the event. A range of souvenir items were purchased by Catholic families and a collection of these souvenirs including Congress rail tickets were collected and remain in the Taffe family Hymettus collection.
This, the 29th Congress was the first ever held outside Europe or the USA. It was first great public demonstration of faith celebrated by Catholics in Australia this event attracted a crowd of half a million, the largest religious spectacle ever seen in Australia to that time.
sydney, eucharistic congress, pope pius xi, medal,
australian bi-centenary, , ballarat community bi-centenary committee, ballarat
medal, horticulture, royal horticultural society victoria, ballarat horticultural society, michael taffe
arawata, holmes family, centenary, bookmark, souvenir, family history
wedding, donald
fiction
construction of floral motifs with symbolic shoes, clasped hands and other symbols of marriage and Australia all under glass dome.
burke, mckew, donald, starnaud, wedding, cake decoration, wedding ephemera
avenues of honour, war, war memorials
fiction
book, juvenilia
non-fiction
rowing, ballarat
Victorian photo album bound in leather stamped in naturalistic motifs of flowers and insects with heavy board pages and inserted frames for photos. Covers held with metal clasp.
non-fiction
wedding gift, taffe, photgraph album
non-fiction
gre gre, marnoo, 1908, rabbit clubs, st arnaud, donald
non-fiction
thesis, great war, ballarat, avenue of honour, michael taffe, war memorials, memory, landscape
non-fiction
Portrait photograph with artistic brushwork by Ballarat photographer Thornton c.1917. Thornton & Richards were one of Ballarat's major photographic studios and their work and historic records of schools, sporting and civic events remain a major record of social and family life in Ballarat region over a century.
Thornton & Richards were one of Ballarat's major photographic studios and this is an exceptional demonstration of their portraiture.
portrait
Pressed tin buttons were produced in large numbers between 1900 and the Second World War and being ephemeral have rarely survived. This button was produced for fundraising for local charities at Ballarat on Button Day in October 1925.
Historically and socially significant artefact, revealing much about the attitudes and values of the period in which they were produced. Button days were a popular way of fundraising and commemoration that developed through Wattle Days and the First World War retaining their popularity into the early 1950s.
Small tin badge with stylised rising sun motif in red with forget-me-nots in blue beneath a banner and on beneath the nosegay the words forget not. in blue.
ballarat, charities, fund raising, button day, 1925, badges
ceiling paper, wallpaper, ballarat, hymettus,
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.
