Show & Tell

1 Wool bale stencil Wool bale stencil: S570 with map of Australia 20 x17.5 cm This synthetic fabric stencil used to provide an identity mark on wool bales was acquired...

1 Whale Ivory Glass  Made by Crestfurn Albany WA. Height 20cm. As the manufacturer is in Albany WA, we assume the glass manufacturing process uses byproducts of the whaling industry....

1 The Jockey Club Silver Cup, 1857  Maker: George Angell, London, 1856. Height 20cm, weight 484 g Inscription: “Jockey Club won by Cardinal Wiseman, the Property of Ben Jnr Warby...

1 The Royal Humane Society of Australasia Pupil Award Medal Bronze medal for proficiency in swimming with reference to saving life. The Royal Humane Society of Australasia (RHSA) was established...

1 Leslie Wilkie’s artist’s palette 1908  Cedar, width 495 mm, height 330 mm An artist’s palette is a thin, flat board that has a hole for the thumb at one...

1 Henry Miles’ Death of the Wild Horse  Oil on canvas, c 1875 – 1885. 50.5 cm x 63.5 cm Englishman Henry Miles (1813–1900) was the Pound Keeper at North...

1 Influenza Emergency Worker Breast Badge Badge in white metal, pin-backed, reverse usually plain but some examples have ‘Angus & Coote’, 1919. Size 2.5 x 3.8 cm. Photo courtesy Noble...

1 Something Lost Something Found  Watercolour near The Glebe Sydney James Coutts Crawford, Size 260 x180 cm In the August 2020 Australiana we [Robert and Peter] wrote an article about...