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Timber Log
Reg. No: SH 912315
- Summary:
- Timber log, found in the workshop of the woodturning business of Adolph Bruhn & Son, South Melbourne, 1970-1990, and previously in Little Collins Street, Melbourne. The business made a wide range of wooden products, including tables and architectural mouldings, and undertook specialist turning tasks. Part of a collection of nearly 900 items, including a lathe, cutting tools, hand tools, products, workshop fittings, office equipment, portraits, and an accounts ledger.
- Description:
- Long narrow tree trunk of undetermined species. Evidence along log of scars of smaller branches. Perhaps used as an alternative to saw-milled timber for grain and knots.
Fouund in Area E4 of workshop.
| Discipline: | History |
| Dimensions: | 163.00 cm (Height), 30.00 cm (Length) |
More information
| Tagged with: | german communities, german immigration, handcrafts, woodturning industry |
| Themes this item is part of: | Bruhn Collection, Working Life & Trades Collection |
| Primary Classification: | TRADES |
| Secondary Classification: | Woodturning |
| Tertiary Classification: | materials |
| User: | Adolph Bruhn & Son, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1970-1990 |
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