Items from Williamstown, Australia

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  Medal - Williamstown Rifle Range, Australia, 1879

  Silver Prize Medal Made from a military medal of Queen Victoria with the reverse erased Other Details: Silver medal commissioned by the Williamstown Rifle Range in 1879. It was present ...

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  Token - 1 Penny, Mason & Culley, General Stores, Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, circa ...

  Copper One Penny Token, mint unknown. Issued by Mason & Culley, General Stores, Williamstown, Victoria, circa 1855. Sharples notes that 'This token type is a pattern for an issue which ...

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  Painting - Williamstown Observatory, 1862

  Watercolour painting of the Williamstown Observatory, August 1862, by "A.H.B.". Shows shows the transit telescope building, time ball tower, domed telescope building and associated buil ...

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  Sailing Ship Model - Top Sail Schooner

  Schooner model with topsail rig. Made by Wemyss Thomson of Williamstown. Scale unknown. Probably represents the general type of vessel rather than a particular vessel. This is an exampl ...

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  Staircase Model - Working Men's College, circa 1910

  Model of a section of spiral staircase, constructed from Australian Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon). Made by a student at the Working Men's College, Melbourne, between October 1887, when ...

  From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 3
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  Model - Staircase, Albert Trapp, Wood, Victoria, circa 1879

  This is a model of a curved staircase with balustrades. It is housed in an ornamental wooden case with glass sides and a wooden floor and ceiling. The floor has an ornamental inlaid des ...

  From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 5
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  Sextant - Hoppe, London, circa 1810

  Sextant in wooden case, made by Hoppe London, circa 1810. Probably one of the two 'indifferent sextants' used by astronomer Robert Ellery when he established Williamstown Observatiry ...

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  Sextant - Potter, London, circa 1853

  Sextant by J. D. Potter, London, in wooden case. This is probably the sextant that was in use at Williamstown Observatory from February 1854. The Victorian Government had ordered a nu ...

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  Artificial Horizon - Troughton & Simms, London, circa 1850s

  Artificial horizon, made by Troughton & Simms, London. Used at both Williamstown Observatory and Melbourne Observatory, and for Geodetic Survey of Victoria. The artificial horizon was ...

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  Marine Chronometer - Molyneux & Sons, London, No. 1438, circa 1830s

  Marine chronometer by Molyneux & Sons, London, no. 1438, circa 1830s. This is one of the first two chronometers used by Government Astronomer Robert Ellery at the Williamstown Observat ...

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