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Domestic object - Ashtray, Kookaburra ashtray
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Booklet, Master of Mosaics
non-fiction
mosaics, world war i, aif, ballarat, arthur pickford
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Book, Eureka and Beyond: Monty Miller his own story
non-fiction
eureka stockade, ballarat, monty miller
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Newspaper, Eureka 150: 22 November - 5 December 2004
eureka 150, ballarat, courier
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Newspaper, Recorder
eureka stockade, ballarat, labour history
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Souvenir, Eureka Official Souvenir
non-fiction
ballarat, eureka stockade, eureka centenary, peter lalor, 1954
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - book, Eureka Stockade Centenary December 3: 1854 -1954
The book of Thomas Kennedy’s March from Creswick’s Creek by Harry.H. Pearce was published in a limited edition of 300 for the centenary of Eureka in 1954.non-fiction
The book of Thomas Kennedy’s March from Creswick’s Creek by Harry.H. Pearce was published in a limited edition of 300 for the centenary of Eureka in 1954.
creswick, eureka stockade, ballarat, kennedy, rams skull press
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Souvenir booklet, Eureka Official Souvenir
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Photograph
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Souvenir programme, Carboni
10 page programme and synopsis of the musical Carboni.
eureka, carboni
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Print folder, Eureka 1854 -1954
eureka, prints, eureka centenary, ballarat, art
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - pamphlet, Boosey and Co.'s Brass Instruments
non-fiction
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Domestic object - candlesticks, glass candlesticks
Always kept in front bedroom and used on bedside table and dining table, also for accompanying priest from front door to sick bed.
2 x glass candlestick holders, with a broad square base and a square column leading to the top square area which holds the candles. There are diamond and star-shaped patterns in the base and the column.
glass, candlesticks, light
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Furniture - Bookcase, Secretaire bookcase
This bookcase was from Fintona private school Camberwell Melbourne. Fintona was a Presbyterian school for girls founded by Annie Hughston in 1896 and was originally in Camberwell and now Balwyn, Melbourne. The daughters of Pompey Elliot attended the school and the bookcase contains one of their several awards.
Colonial Australian cedar secretaire bookcase c.1880 with a piano lid action to the desk lid instead of the more common drop down type.
Two door cabinet base with two deep shelves, desk slope inset with gilt tooled leather. desk has rear drawers and one secret compartment and lid. Top section is simple two door glazed cabinet with three moveable cedar shelves topped with a simple pediment.
secretaire, fintona, bookcase, violet elliot, pompey elliot
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - pamphlet, Boosey & Co's Compliments
non-fiction
music, musical instruments, brass bands,
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Instrument - Cornet, Boosey Cornet
In 1920 Michael Taffe was awarded Junior Cornet Solo Champion at Ballarat's South St competitions, The Grand National Eisteddfod of Australasia. This competition was the premier band contest in Australia with musicians from every state and New Zealand taking part. This Boosey & Co cornet was on display in the window of Allan's Music store Melbourne when the building was severely damaged by fire but these items were saved.
Part of a large family collection of local & family history items at Hymettus Cottage, home to the same Ballarat family for the past 125. This cornet has a well documented provenance and a known owner and has been at Hymettus for over a century. Boosey & Co joined with Hawkes in 1930 to become Boosey & Hawkes. This cornet forms part of a significant and representative historical collection that reflects Ballarat's local history from a family perspective. It contributes to our understanding of social and family life in Ballarat from the 19th to the 21st century and provides interpretative capacity for family, local, and social history themes.
Heavily decorated and inscribed.
cornet, music, michael taffe, south street competitions, ballarat, boosey & co
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Sketch, Villers Brettoneaux
villers bretonneux, great war, sketch, art
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Newspaper, Weekly Times
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Book, The Gardener's Warning
A small book of 47 pages printed at The Specialty Press Melbourne. Covers in poor condition due to wear and water but content pages fair although cover now detached.
fiction
edna walling, gardeners, poetry
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Domestic object - Chamber stick, candle holder
stamped underneath.
candle, chamber
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Domestic object - candle holders, crystal candle holders
donald, candle holders, crystal, wedding present
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Functional object - candle holders
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.'
denmark, stainless, ballarat, 1970s, wedding present
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Domestic object - can opener
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.
can opener,
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Book, Brande's Dictionary of Science and Literature
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Book, Belgium in a Picturesque Tour
john pascoe fawkner, melbourne, belgium
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Catalogue, George Smith's Catalogue: Forest and Fruit Trees and Ornamental Shrubs
non-fiction
nursery catalogue, ballarat, horticulture
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Work on paper - Book, Memoirs of the Family of Taaffe
ireland, austria, taaffe, vienna
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Decorative object - Fabric Horseshoe, Wedding Horseshoe
horseshoe, ornament, luck, tradition, ballarat
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Functional object - Fan, Ladies hand fan
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.
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Souvenir - Medal, Australian Championship Regatta 96
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
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Souvenir - Medal, 29th Eucharistic Congress Sydney Sept 1928
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,