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Bottle fragments

Bottle fragments

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1970s About this object: Fragments of a bottle
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Urn-shaped Medical Instrument

Urn-shaped Medical Instrument

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1900s-1950s About this object: This glass, urn-shaped instrument, tapering to a metal tip with a spring mechanism inside, was probably recovered from the former Nurses’ Home at La Perouse. The object reflects the long histor...
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Brass sextant with accessories in oak box

Brass sextant with accessories in oak box

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1825-1850 About this object: Housed in a fitted oak case, this brass sextant was made by the Parisian instrument maker Edmond Lorieux and sold through Raillard, an optical instrument retailer in Brest. The custom-made housin...
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Bottle Fragment from La Perouse voyage in Botany Bay

Bottle Fragment from La Perouse voyage in Botany Bay

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1780 About this object: A circular glass fragment embossed with a French vintner’s stamp, Balguerie & Cie Bordeaux, showing a bunch of grapes and vine leaves. The fragment, recovered from an Aboriginal shell midden at...
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Green Glass Bottle

Green Glass Bottle

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1920s-1930s About this object: This bottle was used for Wolfe’s Aromatic Schnapps, a Dutch spirit imported into Australia.
M. Moss & Co, a Sydney-based wine and liquor merchant established around 1858, acted as the Australi...
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Pecks Paste Jar

Pecks Paste Jar

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1950s-1960s About this object: This clear glass jar once held Peck’s Paste, a popular fish and meat spread first advertised in Australia in 1906. Originally produced by Harry Peck & Co in London, the brand became widely used...
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Pecks Paste Jar

Pecks Paste Jar

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1950s-1960s About this object: This clear glass jar once held Peck’s Paste, a popular fish and meat spread first advertised in Australia in 1906. Originally produced by Harry Peck & Co in London, the brand became widely used...
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Ink well

Ink well

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1880s-1920s About this object: Ink well with pressed-glass design, likely from early Art Nouveau period.
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Set of 5 green marbles

Set of 5 green marbles

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1930s About this object: Set of 5 green marbles, likely used by the children in Happy Valley camps.
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Set of 5 coloured marbles

Set of 5 coloured marbles

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1930s About this object: Set of 5 coloured marbles, likely used by the children in Happy Valley camps.
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Hexagonal Glass jar

Hexagonal Glass jar

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: [nd] About this object: Hexagonal glass jar
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Baby Bottle

Baby Bottle

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1930-1960 About this object: Baby Bottle made of glass with measures in ounces.
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NSW Bottle Company Limited Brown Glass Bottle

NSW Bottle Company Limited Brown Glass Bottle

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1959 About this object: NSW Bottle Company Limited Brown Glass Bottle, found on Bare Island, possibly used by the War Veterans
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NSW Bottle Company Limited Green Glass Bottle

NSW Bottle Company Limited Green Glass Bottle

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1919 About this object: NSW Bottle Company Limited Green Glass Bottle
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Cambridge Fluxmeter, No. C543768

Cambridge Fluxmeter, No. C543768

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1940s-1950s About this object: This precision instrument was designed to measure changes in magnetic flux, i.e. the variation of a magnetic field passing through a coil or given area. Functioning as a ballistic galvanometer, i...
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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1940s About this object: A decorated kaleidoscope, relic from the Salvation Army Women’s and Children’s Home once housed in the La Pérouse Cable Station.
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Glass figurine

Glass figurine

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1940s About this object: Glass doll figurine with a screw end at the feet. Traces of red paint remain on the shoes and lips, and black paint traces are visible on the eyes and eyebrows. A relic of the Salvation Army Wome...
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Glass rigurine

Glass rigurine

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1940s About this object: Glass doll figurine with a flat base and screw top on the head. Red chequed details on the clothing and traces of green paint remain on the right shoe and tie. A relic of the Salvation Army Women...
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18th century French Barometer

18th century French Barometer

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1792-1834 About this object: This barometer is an example of a scientific instrument by the French maker Jecker, who established his workshop in Paris after training in England; during a period when most scientific instrumen... Provenance : Donated by Secretariat D'Etat au Pacifique Sud, a French government department in Noumea in New Caledonia
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Brass and green leather Telescope with dragon's wings design

Brass and green leather Telescope with dragon's wings design

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1700-1799 About this object: This small hand brass telescope comes with four extendable sections. It comes with a particular green leather parchment and design patterns ressembling flowers and dragon wings.
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Butterfield sundial

Butterfield sundial

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1680-1724 About this object: This sundial is an example of a popular type of sundials at the end of the 17th century. Its maker, Michael Butterfield, was a British clock maker who settled in Paris and became engineer to the ...
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Gregorian telescope

Gregorian telescope

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1733-1755 About this object: This reflecting telescope follows the design proposed by Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory in his 1663 treatise Optica Promota. It features two concave mirrors: a primary parabo...
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Borda circle with oak box

Borda circle with oak box

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1900s About this object: Known as a Borda circle, this navigational instrument is a type of reflecting circle used primarily in celestial navigation. It allows mariners to measure the angular distance between a celestial...
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Dieppe sundial

Dieppe sundial

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1600s About this object: This pocket-size sundial is a fine example of ivory diptych sundials manufactured in Dieppe, France in the second half of the 17th century. Combining sundial, lunar volvelle, compass and a perpet... Provenance : late 17th c. - produced in Dieppe, France;
1988 - donated to La Perouse Museum by the Laperouse Association for the Australian Bicentenary