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890361
  • Title
    Head of Ricketty Dick, King of the Woolloomooloo tribe made from a plaster cast of the original which was carved out of a solid piece of Broken Hill silver by a man named Quist
  • Creator
  • Call number
    R 233/Item a
    Status: Unavailable
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    No date
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    890361
  • Physical Description
    1 plaster cast
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Description source

    Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
  • General note

    Quist was employed at Evan Jones jewellers, Hunter Street, Sydney.

    The original was presented to King George V when he was in Australia as a midshipman in H.M.S. Bacchante. The mount was fitted with a myall stick.

    Includes explanatory note by donor, A. H. Pettifer located at R233/Item b.
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