Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1800s
About this object: This small cannon barrel was made by pouring molten metal into a mold. It may be a cast version of a model used to test the shape and proportions of a full-size cannon. Objects like this show how...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1900s
About this object: This boxed marking set was used to permanently label clothing and household linens. It contains black indelible ink and simple tools for marking fabric by hand or with a stamp. Before modern fabr...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1900s-1950
About this object: This metal clip is designed to hold sheet music on a music stand or piano. The spring mechanism keeps the music in place while allowing it to be easily removed or adjusted.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1900s-1950
About this object: This metal box once contained 1/2" stencils, likely used for marking, labeling, or decorative work. The box also holds a sponge, a black block, and the stencils themselves. A fingerprint on the u...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1880-1910
About this object: These metal buttons were made for the Military Forces NSW. Each features a crown, a cross enclosing a lion, and stars around the edges. The back of each button has a sewing ring and the maker’s...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1870-1920s
About this object: This hand-held, two-part metal tool with a hinge and multiple holes was used for reloading cartridges. The short right-angle extension helped manipulate cases or bullets during the process. Tools...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1850s-1920s
About this object: This metal powder measure, with a wooden handle and adjustable numbered mechanism, was used to measure precise amounts of black powder for loading bullets. Tools like this were essential for safe...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1800s
About this object: Metal hand-held tool, two part, hinged. Used as a bullet mould for lead bullets.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1950s
About this object: This is a metal first aid cabinet manufactured by A. De St Dalmas & Co. Ltd., Leicester, designed to store and organise waterproof first aid dressings. The box is coated in shades of brown with r...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1880s-1920s
About this object: Signal lanterns were used as signal, warning or boundary lamps before electric lights were available.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1990s
About this object: Metal implement with sturdy base and handle extending upwards.
Used as an embossing stamp, "La Perouse Museum" is impressed into any paper or cardboard that is inserted between the two circular ...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1902-1961
About this object: A destination roll from an R-class or R1-class Sydney tram, showing routes from the Eastern Suburbs to La Perouse before the closure of the tram network in 1961.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: March 2003
About this object: This plaque commemorates the visit of the French patrol vessel La Glorieuse to Sydney from 21 to 25 March 2003. The visit marked the bicentenary of the Baudin expedition’s stay in Sydney in 180...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 28th June 2008
About this object: This plaque honours Capitaine de Vaisseau Bruno Juet, who served as Commander of the French Navy in New Caledonia and of the maritime zone of New Caledonia.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1990s
About this object: This plaque commemorates visits of the French cable-laying ship Vercors to Port Botany in 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1998. It was issued by France Telecom and references Delmas Australia Pty Ltd SDV, ...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 23rd February 1988
About this object: This plaque commemorates the visit of the French helicopter carrier Jeanne d’Arc to Botany Bay on 23 February 1988, marking the bicentenary of European settlement in Australia. The design inclu...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 23rd February 1993
About this object: This plaque represents La Glorieuse, a French Navy patrol boat whose long‑standing service embodied France’s maritime presence in the Pacific. La Glorieuse was a P400‑class patrol vessel of...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1990s
About this object: This plaque commemorates the F 732 Nivôse vessel, a Floréal‑class frigate of the French Navy, commissioned in 1992. Its name refers to Nivôse, the fourth month of the French Republican Cal...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1950s-1970s
About this object: This circular plaque commemorates the French naval air base at Lann-Bihoué near Lorient, Brittany.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: May 1988
About this object: The plaque commemorates La Boussole, the hydrographic and exploration vessel of the Lapérouse expedition (1785-1788), which undertook scientific exploration and coastal mapping in the Pacific.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1965-2020
About this object: A heraldic ship’s plaque from the vessel Aleno, featuring a copper shield on a wooden base. The design includes a medieval-style helmet with flowing decorative relief above a central white shie...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: November 1994
About this object: Presentation plaque gifted by Général de l’Armée Monchal, Chief of Staff of the French Army, during his visit to Australia from 20–23 November 1994.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1940s-1960s
About this object: A yellow-painted timber bus stop marker with the words “BUS STOP Signal Driver” in black, mounted on a metal stand.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1960
About this object: A circular painted metal sign announcing that Coogee trams had been replaced by buses. Such signs were displayed when tram services to Coogee ceased in 1960, marking the transition from Sydney’...
