Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1931
About this object: A carved wooden object in the shape of a knife with a ribbed handle.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1800s
About this object: This small wooden cannon barrel was carefully shaped using a lathe. It may have been made as a practice piece or as a model to help plan the production of a full-size cannon. Objects like this gi...
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 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: Ship Plake left blank, including a heraldic shield representing a white horse on a blue background.
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: c 1920s-1960s
About this object: A painted wooden sign bearing the name C.A.M. Fisher & Sons, the noted boat-building family of La Perouse. Charles Alexander Meredith (C.A.M.) Fisher relocated his boatyard to La Perouse in 1922,...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1943
About this object: "1943" painted wood sign
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1912-1920s
About this object: This painted wooden sign advertised the daily motor boat service run by Charles Alexander Meredith (C.A.M.) Fisher and his sons at La Perouse. Fisher, a pioneering boat builder who arrived in Syd...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1912-1920s
About this object: This painted wooden sign advertised the summer timetable of the ferry service run by Charles Alexander Meredith (C.A.M.) Fisher and his sons at La Perouse. Fisher, a pioneering boat builder who a...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1900s-1961
About this object: Wooden panel with attached metal sign produced by The Clyde Engineering Co Ltd, Granville & Sydney, a major manufacturer of trams and tram components. The sign warns passengers not to spit inside...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1940s
About this object: Set of 20 wooden clothes pegs, some with with metal components and in various styles, likely used during the time the Cable Station served as a Salvation Army refuge. 3 of them have not been found.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1940s
About this object: Set of two rectangular shaped toy building blocks, one side painted with orange bricks, likely played by the children at the Salvation Army refuge housed within the Cable Station.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1940s
About this object: Set of wooden H-shaped and U-shaped toy building blocks, likely played by the children at the Salvation Army refuge housed within the Cable Station.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: [nd]
About this object: Club made of light-coloured wood, decorated with black and brown printed sections and detailed burnt-in designs. One side depicts kangaroos, while the other shows emus with hills in the background.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: [nd]
About this object: A wooden hunting boomerang made by Aboriginal craftsman Harold Blackhall, featuring traditional burnt-in designs of a platypus on one side and a kangaroo on the other.
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1930s
About this object: A Slazenger Vigoro bat, used for playing Vigoro, a bat-and-ball sport similar to cricket, popular in Australia, particularly among women in the 20th century. Vigoro was often played in schools an...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1930s
About this object: A Slazenger Vigoro bat, used for playing Vigoro, a bat-and-ball sport similar to cricket, popular in Australia, particularly among women in the 20th century. Vigoro was often played in schools an...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: [nd]
About this object: Fishing float
