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Crown Land Sales Register, Smithfield, February 1877

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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…

Crown Land Sales Register, Smithfield, May 1877

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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…

Dark Brown Stoneware Stout/Porter Bottle

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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 dark brown salt glaze or Bristol glaze (using zinc-oxide…

Decorative Two-hole Button

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Two piece copper alloy button with iron back and two, sew-through eyes set in an oval-shaped centre.Button had embossed words or a decorative marley, which is now corroded and illegible.No diagnostic markings.

Escutcheon

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Brass escutcheon / keyhole cover / keyhole plate.No diagnostic markings.

Escutcheon

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Brass escutcheon / keyhole cover / keyhole plate.No diagnostic markings.

Finney, Isles & Co. Button

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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'

Grave Marker, cast iron

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Decorative cast-iron grave marker (a tablet or stele) which contains the embossed inscription: "In Affectionate Remembrance of". There are no further details or identifying marks to determine whose grave it was erected over.

Grave Marker, wrought iron

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Marked grave at Smithfield Cemetery, consisting of a badly damaged wrought-iron fence surrounding a rudimentary iron grave marker. There are no identifying marks to determine whose grave it is. Mulgrave Shire Council built a timber picket fence…

Indian ¼ Rupee [coin]

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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…