• Title
  [Silver trowel and mallet] presented to Sir Henry Parkes on the occasion of his laying the foundation stone of the Waratah School of Arts, Dec 15th 1888...
• Call number
  R 88
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1887-1888
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  446630
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : R 88
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  Objects - 8 x 30.4 cm (trowel) ; ca. 20 diam x 10 cm. (mallet) - Silver trowel with ivory handle, and black enamelled & turned wooden mallet, housed in a black morocco case lined in scarlet satin and velvet.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Sir Henry Parkes acquired many silver trowels during his long period of office in the NSW Parliament. This one for the Waratah [near Newcastle, NSW] School of Arts came complete with a mallet for tapping the stone into place. Reference: 'Stories in Silver' exhibition, State Library of New South Wales, 1996.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Probably made by Atkin Brothers, Sheffield (U.K.) in 1887. Marks: HA, crown, lion passant guardant, date letter U, queen's head.
  This item has been preserved and digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2005.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823529
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled from inscription
  Inscription continues: "...John Scholey, President. Rupert Cross, Hon. Sec."
  "E. J. Hollingdale & Son, 93 King Street, Sydney" -- gold stamped on case lining.
• Subject
  Parkes, Henry, Sir, 1815-1896
  
• Topic
  presentation pieces
  schools of arts
  trowels
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Stories in silver
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3314515

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