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Paint box in Derby Fila tin and contents

 File — Box: PCLTRE 775 Box 2
Identifier(s): H2018.469/1-25

Scope and contents

Includes 25 items originally inside a tin box. Tin box printed on lid: 'Derby Fila' with horse motif on left and 'Derby' printed below and profile of man's face on right with 'Fila' printed below image (H2018.469/1). Items include: bone carving, possibly of breasts (H2018.469/2); New Zealand Maori 'Pounamu' Greenstone breast pendant 'Hei-Tiki' (H2018.469/3); dog tooth used to burnish paper (H2018.469/4); artist's brush 'Proline superfine' (H2018.469/5); 2 mother of pearl shells (H2018.469/6, H2018.469/8); carved turtle brooch (H2018.469/7); 3 small graphite pencils (H2018.469/9-11); bone carving of skull (H2018.469/12); 2 safety pins (H2018.469/13, H2018.469/17); 1 1919 Great Britain silver threepence coin George V (H2018.469/14); 2 pen nibs (H2018.469/15-16); 1 gold locket with portrait of Madonna inside (H2018.469/18); 3 Maria SS Dell Arco pendants or brooches (H2018.469/19, H2018.469/24-25); 2 packets of fragments of dried watercolour pieces in emerald green and purple (H2018.469/20-21); small rubbers in balls and pieces (H2018.469/22-23). The tin measures 18 x 5 x .07 cm.

Extent

25 pieces of realia ; 18 x 5 cm

  • Box: PCLTRE 775 Box 2 (Realia)

Repository details

Part of the Pictures Collection, State Library Victoria Repository

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