Seal; powder flask; two serviette rings; and one pair sugar tongs belonging to Charles Harpur, ca. 1813-1868

R 2087

fonds

ca. 1813-1868

Graphic Materials, Objects

906379

2 serviette rings - silver - 4 cm (diameter)
1 sugar tongs - silver - 11.8 x 6 cm
1 seal - ivory handle & metal base: - 8.5 x 3 cm
1 powder flask - brass: - 18 x 8.4 cm

Charles Harpur was born at Windsor, NSW in 1813, the son of emancipated convicts. By 1833 he had moved to Sydney, where he began contributing poems to local newspapers and periodicals. For the rest of his life Harpur remained a prolific contributor of poetry, journalism, and criticism to the colonial press. His work was much admired by literary men of the day including John Le Gay Brereton, D. H. Deniehy and Henry Kendall. From 1859 to 1866 he worked as assistant gold commissioner at the goldfields in southern New South Wales. He died in 1868.

Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol, 1, 1966

R 2087
Item 1. Seal consists of a metal base with detachable ivory handle.
Item 2. Powder flask, has a shell design on lower section and embossed design around neck. Face of seal engraved with a plain pattern.
Item 3. Sugar tongs have leaf design on handle and tongs.
Item 4. Serviette rings have embossed leaf design around edges.

Information transferred from pictures accessions register as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Pic.Acc. Update Project - Information transferred from pictures accessions register as part of the eRecords Project, 2012-2013

Serviette rings & sugar tongs inscribed with silversmith's mark.

No date. Dated from Charles Harpur's lifetime.

Good Condition; powder monkey dented at lower with smaller indentation on other side