• Title
  [Silver trowel] presented to Sir Henry Parkes KCMG on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the Town Hall, Broken Hill, April 1890. Thomas Coombe, Mayor.
• Creator
  J. Hilliard & J. Thomason
• Call number
  R 779
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 1, Shelf 17
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1873
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  446636
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 shaped triangular silver trowel. The inscription is surrounded by a decorative band of leaf and strapwork. The haft rises from an octofoil base to a handle section which is plain followed by an octofoil section decorated with strapwork, topped by a cast foliate ring and a bulbous fineal engraved with leaf work. - 32.5 x 9.4 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In the 1880s silver mining in Australia was booming with huge finds at Broken Hill. By 1891 Broken Hill was the third largest city in New South Wales.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Made in Birmingham (U.K.) by Hilliard & Thomason in 1873. Marks: H&T, queen's head, lion passant guardant, anchor, date letter 'y'. Retailed by J. M. Wendt of 70 Rundle Street, Adelaide.
  Reference: 'Stories in Silver' exhibition (curated by Brian Eggleton), State Library of New South Wales, 1996.
  This item has been preserved and digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2005.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823532
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled from inscription
• Subject
  Parkes, Henry, Sir, 1815-1896
  
• Topic
  politicians
  presentation pieces
  town halls
  trowels
  
• Place
  Broken Hill (N.S.W.)
  Broken Hill Town Hall (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Stories in silver - State Library of New South Wales
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (July-Dec 2006)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3325459

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