• Title
  Item 20: Riding whip of Lachlan Macquarie the Younger, 1838
• Call number
  LR 44
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1838
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  430604
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 whip, black woven exterior, slightly tapering from the base with carved metal ferrule at the base and a smaller carved metal ferrule approx. 23 cm. above the base, finishing with a frayed rope tip - 98 cm. long - leather tie around the shaft between the 2 ferrules
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright
• General note
  
  The whip at one time had on the top a small golden statue of a horse. It is the replica of a famous trophy called "The Whip" which is still competed for in Irish horse racing. Source: Library Officer, Sept. 1962
  Digital order no:Album ID : 866885
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "This whip given by Lord Mulgrave to be run for at the Garrison Races, June 1838. Won by Captn. Macquarie's bay horse Magpie beating 13 others" -- engraved on base ferrule
  "Thorn [?] Crowther & Co. 185 Regent Street" -- engraved on base ferrule
• Name
  Macquarie, Lachlan, 1814-1845
  
• Topic
  sports equipment
  whips
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 - State Library of New South Wales (5 July - 10 October, 2010)

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