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Small, copper alloy, sew-through four-eye button with dished centre and raised rim, stamped with the words: 'FINNEY & ISLES' / 'BRISBANE'

Survey of Sections Nos. 1 + 2 (Lots 1-20, & 201-220), Town of Smithfield, County of Nares, Land Administration District of Cairns, District of Cook, Cat. S199.1.Signed and dated 'F.H. Warner, 76/1, 1st Decr 1876'.

Plan showing approximate positions of the township of Cairns and Smithfield by F.H. Warner, Licensed Surveyor, dated 10 January 1877.Map shows Cairns, Dickson Inlet, False Cape, Barron River, Casuarina Pt (which was the mouth of the Barron River in…

Survey of Cemetery [5 acres], Parish of Smithfield, County of Nares, District of Cook, Cat. No. C8.88. Signed and dated 'F.H. Warner L.S., 78.1173 P.L., 12 March 1878.

Stoneware stout or porter bottle with wired cork top (the cork would have been secured in the bottle top with a wire wrap and then covered with a lead seal wrapper).Single tone, vitreous cream salt glaze or Bristol glaze (using zinc-oxide feldspathic…

The Cairns Advertiser & Smithfield Observer was the region's first newspaper. It was a four-page publication, printed weekly every Saturday from 21 April 1877, by proprietors Hill, P.W. Byrne and Edward Engelbreckt August Marius Rhode. A "short…

Pot lid, 60mm in diameter, printed in black ink with the words:Josephson's Australian Ointment / For / All Sores, / Old Wounds Burns / Sunburns Chafing, / Chapped Hands, / &c., &c. / (Grey Star of David with a J in the middle) / - Sydney, N.…

Two-page extract of the Land Sales Register, a large hard-backed register book showing sales of Crown Lands in the Colony of Queensland. This particular register is Volume 4 which contained the 1877 sales for towns beginning with the letters C-H…

Aqua glass (clear green glass) stopper for sauce bottle, with the following embossed legend:'LEA & PERRINS'The stopper would originally have had a cork collar.

Obverse side designed by shows the head of Queen Victoria facing left, divided legend in English, with legend 'VICTORIA QUEEN'.The reverse side shows coins value within wreath in English and Urdu (Chaar aana), English legend and date below outside…