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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…

16-page surveyor's field book showing survey transects, theodolite angles, chained distances, marked trees and field observations.Title page reads:'S199.2, Survey of Sections 3 + 4, Town of Smithfield, County of Nares, District of Cook, Arthur L.…

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…

Green glass schnapps bottle. Square in section, with stopper seal. Embossed on three sides with the words: 'UDOLPHO WOLFE's' / 'AROMATIC SCHNAPPS' / 'SCHIEDAM'

26 oz., olive glass, case gin bottle. Square with short neck and wrap-top, inwards taper at the base. Free-blown construction using a dip-mould. No other identifying marks, but a typical bottle found in the colony of Queensland in the 1870s.

26 oz., olive glass spirit bottle. Three-piece mould blown, wired cork stopper. Number "3" on base of bottle. (Manufactuers used to number their bottle moulds, so that they could be identified and replaced when they were worn or defective). No other…

26 oz., light green glass spirit bottle (cognac or brandy) with ring seal top.No identifying marks.

26 oz., stoneware stout or porter bottle with wire wrap top (corked top would have been secured with wire and a lead seal wrapper). Single tone, vitreous cream salt glaze or Bristol glaze (using zinc-oxide feldspathic glaze).No identifying marks.

26 oz., black glass (dark olive green) ale, porter, stout or beer bottle. Mould-blown in three-pieces, with a flat, key-moulded base, and a ring-sealed top. Squat shape with rounded shoulders. No identifying marks.

A small stone memorial cairn on the southern side of Lake Placid Road at Lake Placid, near the Barron River, which commemorates the opening of the Smith and Douglas Tracks. Transcript of the inscription on Tom Volkman’s monument, Lake Placid…