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26 oz., stoneware stout or porter bottle with wire wrap top (corked top would have been secured with wire and a lead seal wrapper). Single tone, vitreous cream salt glaze or Bristol glaze (using zinc-oxide feldspathic glaze).No identifying marks.

Small, copper alloy, sew-through four-eye button with dished centre and raised rim, stamped with the words:'PIKE BROS. BRISBANE'

Watch key winder for a pocket watch, engraved:'F. RIECHELMANN OF MACKAY / WATCH MAKER'.

Survey of Sections Nos. 3 + 4 (Lots 301-320, & 401-420), Town of Smithfield, County of Nares, Land Administration District of Cairns, District of Cook, Cat. S199.2.Signed and dated 'Arthur L. Chamberlin, 77/4, March 8th 1877'.

16-page surveyor's field book showing survey transects, theodolite angles, chained distances, marked trees and field observations.Title page reads:'S199.2, Survey of Sections 3 + 4, Town of Smithfield, County of Nares, District of Cook, Arthur L.…

Small, copper alloy, sew-through four-eye button with dished centre and raised rim, stamped with the words: 'LION MOLES'

Two-page extract of the Land Sales Register, a large hard-backed register book showing sales of Crown Lands in the Colony of Queensland. This particular register is Volume 4 which contained the 1877 sales for towns beginning with the letters C-H…

Bronze Chinese coin.The coin is corroded, in poor condition, and has no visible diagnostic markings. It was most probably minted during the Qing Dynasty and would have had embossed Manchu script.

Danish 4 Rigsbankskilling (1¼ Schilling). Obverse side shows Christian VIII (1839-1848), bare head facing to the right, with the legend 'CHRISTIANVS VIII' 'D: G: DANIÆ V: G: REX' '18??'Reverse shows crown over crossed sword and scepter, with the…

Hand coloured lithograph titled:'Plan of Cairns Harbour Trinity Bay Surveyed by Navg. Liet. E.R.Connor. R.N.'Also titled:'Australia - East Coast, Queensland : plan of Cairns Harbour, Trinity Bay, 1878' A hydrographic chart giving soundings in feet,…