• Title
  N.S.Wales Industrial Home for Blind Women presented to Mrs Sydney Burdekin, Mayoress of Sydney ... on her laying the second memorial stone of the new building, Albert Rd, Strathfield, 24th March 1891 [silver trowel / made by Samuel Hardy, Hardy Brothers, London]
• Creator
  Hardy Brothers
• Call number
  R 865/5
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 2, Shelf 40
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1888-1889 (dated from hallmark), presented 1891
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  123518
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 30 x 10 cm. - 1 silver presentation trowel (with turned wooden handle)
  
• Scope and Content
  Inscription surrounded by engraved decorative border in a leaf design
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Titled from inscription on front
  Mrs Sydney Burdekin was also the President of the institution -- information from inscription
  This item has been preserved and digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2005.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874412
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "S.H" (maker) with 4 marks (lion passant, leopard's head, queen's head, date letter N) on reverse
  "Hardy Bros., Sydney" stamped on reverse
• Name
  Burdekin, Mrs Sydney
  Industrial Home for Blind Women
  
• Topic
  monuments & memorials
  presentation pieces
  trowels
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE975310

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