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AUSTRALASIA’S ONLY BI-MONTHLY ANTIQUES AND COLLECTABLES MAGAZINE
9 771445 816006
ISSN 1445-8160
Aust $9.95 NZ $13.95
T R A D E R
91ST EDITION
Holiday EditionMore to read. More to collect
Collecting inQueenslandPlaces to see, collectables to buy
Ancient CraftsUsed in modern arts
A New Take on SilverYoung artisans - experimental,exciting and great to collect
Collectables Trader 3
feature articles
ancient arts updated6 Roman Glass: Combining history with art
Melody Amsel-Arieli20 Chinoiserie: European notions
of the Orient Matthew Martin
28 Contemporary UK silver Amanda Stücklin
58 Centuries of enamelling: Popular forms and functionsPaul Rosenberg
80 Biblical blue dyeing techniquesrediscovered Melody Amsel-Arieli
Queensland heritagefeature16 Fish scale embroidery from the
Embroiderers Guild QueenslandCollection Margaret Young
24 EH Mears Photographic Collection: RuralQueensland 1920s – 1950s Bernie and Gayle Carroll
38 Queensland geniuses on show: theSouthern Cross Museum Jody Ashford and Christine Ingram
64 Toowoomba Grammar School Museum:19th century boys’ schoolingJohn K Winn
military memorabilia32 Yeppoon RSL Military Museum
Michelle Edgar36 Do’s and don’ts for collectors of military
memorabilia Michelle Edgar
68 Military fashions and accessories: Historyto collect Matt Holmes
collectables10 Canine dog tags from WA goldfields
Peter Lane42 Rare coins: prices rising 51 An apothecary box 54 The Workshop Hagenauer Wien: the first
40 years 1898 – 1938Ronald Hagenauer
72 Majolica (not to be confused withmaiolica) explained
74 Oil and kerosene lamps and lanterns:private viewing of a collection Rob Ditessa
holiday feature62 Deck your halls: Collectables as festive
decorations
travel to collect 78 A collectable at every port on the
Brisbane River
94 out & about
regular features47 Conundrum49 Collectables fairs84 Bulletin Board87 Collectors’ bookshelf88 Trader93 Advertising rates96 How to subscribe96 Advertisers’ index
WINconundrumenter our prize draw
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T R A D E R
CollectablescoverB&W photograph of school cricket team coutesyToowoomba Grammar School
Fred Noller’s Friesian group (dairy cattle) at theKingaroy Show, 11 April 1935 by Harold Mears,courtesy Kumbia & District Historical Society Inc.
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Romanglass
Melody Amsel-Arieli
DEFINITION
Glass is shiny, hard and yetfragile, able to shatter in an
instant or survive for thousands ofyears. Natural glass (obsidian) isproduced by volcanic activity.Hand-made glass was created byaccident according to Romanhistorian Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79).He wrote that when Phoenicianseafaring merchants came ashore,they propped their cookingcauldrons on lumps of natron, anatural occurring salt taken fromtheir vessel. As the natron heated,it melted into the surrounding sand,forming a transparent liquid thatflowed in streams. When cooledthe liquid hardened into glass.
Whether truth or legend, by about2000 BCE, Phoenician vessels wereplying the Mediterranean ports withcargoes of core-formed glass flasksand juglets.
In core-form work, a techniquedeveloped in ancient Egypt,craftsmen either trailed liquid glassover clay cores attached to metalrods or dipped rods repeatedly intomolten glass to build up depth.After cooling, the clay was scrapedout and they added features suchas handles.
Decorations such as trails ofcontrasting strands of molten glassin colourful coiling or zigzagpatterns were sometimes added.Called unguentaria, these opaquevials had bell bottoms, thick walls
and tall slender necks that protectedcontents such as expensiveunguents or oils from evaporation.
In another early technique,glassworkers poured colouredmolten glass into single orinterlocking moulds. After coolingthe rough creations were groundand polished smooth, then handles,rims and bases were added. Sinceboth core-form and mouldtechniques were time consumingand laborious, ancient glass wasrare and costly.
The Romans adopted thematerial and contributed greatly toits development. The mostsignificant event was the discoveryof glassblowing, probably circa 50 BCE along a part of the Syrian-Palestine coast, then part of theRoman Empire. This discoveryopened the way for the eventualmass production of glass.
Emperor Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE)brought to Rome Judean, Syrianand Egyptian slave glassworkerswho passed on the technique ofglassblowing, along withtraditional glass making practices
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Glass has been made for more than 35 centuries and as
such is a record of civilisation; a time capsule reflecting its
maker, the techniques, practices and styles for which it
was made. Today we take it for granted but in the ancient
world it was a luxury and highly prized
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Canine dog tags
AUSTRALIANA COLLECTABLE
FROM THE WESTERNAUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS
Peter Lane
Dog tags of the canine varietyrarely attract the attention of
collectors; however they are a trueAustraliana collectable. The tagsoften have an armorial design orState emblem on them, the localityand license number details. At arecent Perth Numismatic Societycoin fair a dealer had seven dogtags dating from the Edwardian erato the Great Depression from theMurchison goldfields, which is a few
hundred kilometres north ofKalgoorlie. The dog tags weresnapped up.
The first Dog Act of WesternAustralia was introduced in 1841, alittle over a decade after formalEuropean settlement in Perth. TheAct was passed so annoying dogscould be removed. Owners wereonly required to register them attheir local municipalities. The Actwas amended on a number ofoccasions, but it was not until 1903that dogs had to wear tags.
Registration tags had to be madeof metal, be a prescribed shape(changed yearly), and record thedistrict, year and registration number.The reason the shape changedannually was so that the poundkeepers could easily see if a dogwas currently registered withouthaving to get too close to the animal.
DOG POPULATION
WA dog numbers have not beencentrally recorded so it is difficult tosay how many dogs were in the
Even 150 years ago dog control was
high on the political agenda and
each state introduced legislation that
addressed this issue. Moreover, the
laws relating to responsible
ownership were very similar to
concerns of today. Dog tags came to
play an important role in civilising
remote Western Australian goldfields
and form part of Australia’s cultural
history and are worthy of collecting.1 Mt. Magnet dog tag, 1907. Registration No. 21
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EMBROIDERY
Margaret Young
DEFINITION
Fish scale embroidery is a floraldesign consisting of fish scales
cut in the shape of flower petals.Many of the scales are fairly largeand roughly cut. The embroidery isminimal with the design dependenton the placement of the fishscales. Fish scale embroidery wasvery popular in the late 1800s andearly 1900s.
It is mentioned in Barbara JMorris’ book Victorian Embroiderywhere she gives a brief descriptionof how the scales were prepared:
‘The fish scales had to beprepared before use and theiridescent scales of the carp, perch,or goldfish were considered themost suitable. They were scrapedfrom the fish with a knife andsteeped in cold water until soft and
pliable, and two small holes werepieced with a needle near the baseof each scale. The scales were thencoloured by a mixture of varnishand powdered colour after whichthey were ready to be sewn to theground by silk thread, and werearrange in overlapping patterns torepresent the petals of flowers,such as roses, or the shape ofbirds and butterflies. Stems, veins,tendrils and other fine details wereworked in chenille thread, goldthread of filoselle. The centres offlowers were filled in with Frenchknots worked in silk or with pearls,glass beads or spangles.’
TOWNSVILLE EMBROIDERY
The work is constructed on afoundation of black satin. Thethread used to represent the centreof the flowers is perle thread(lemon) worked as French knots.
Loosely worked stem stitch (fawnperle thread) is used for the stemsand leaves. The item is very fragile.
PROVENANCE
The embroidery had been a framedpicture hanging in Meryl Herbert’sfamily home in Townsville. In theaftermath of Cyclone Althea in theearly 1970s, the embroidery wasplaced in storage in the garage andforgotten. Over the years Merylspoke many times of this unusualembroidery, remembering thebrilliance and freshness of the piece.
About the embroidery, Merylwrote: ‘This piece of fish scaleembroidery was in my great-grandmother’s home in CrawfordStreet, West End, Townsville, for aslong as I can remember. I alwaysadmired it and was told it was madeof fish scales, but nothing else. Ithas to be more than 70 years old.’
Continuing our series on the gentle
arts, from Queensland come two
remarkable embroideries, an art
form that can be traced back to the
2nd millennium BCE.
Fish scale
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