• Title
  Three policemen's rattles, ca. 1810
• Creator
  New South Wales. Police Department
  Tasmania. Police Department
• Call number
  DR 54/Item a
  DR 54/Item b
  DR 54/Item c
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1810
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  890686
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  3 rattles - wood - 20 x 18.5 cm, 19.4 x 19 cm, 20 x 18 cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
• General note
  
  Note written in Sir William Dixson's hand: 'Two policemen's rattles from Tas.'
  Digital order no:Album ID : 976982
• Date note
  
  Dated from the year the rattles were first used by the police force in New South Wales [The Australian Police Forces / G.M. O'Brien. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1960. p. 17]
• Topic
  police
  emergency & security equipment
  alarms
  communication devices
  
• Place
  New South Wales
  Tasmania
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Macquarie the Governor, 1810 to 1821 - Macquarie Bank (7 May, 2012 - 5 May, 2013). Applies to: DR 54/Item a
  Artefact or Fiction: Curriculum highlights, 20 April to 22 October 2018 - State Library of New South Wales (April 2018 - October 2018). Applies to: Item b
  Artefact or Fiction: Curriculum highlights, 22 October 2018 to 19 April 2019 - State Library of New South Wales (October 2018 - April 2019). Applies to: Item c
  Artefact or Fiction: Curriculum highlights, 18 April 2019 to 20 April 2020 - State Library of New South Wales (April 2019 - April 2020). Applies to: Item c
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE257478

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